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This might be the most beautiful comment I've ever read on HN. Thank you.
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tl;dr: The author was seeing some network issues. Switching the HTTP client library fixed them.
good list!

links for Raymond Hettinger ones

* https://gist.github.com/JeffPaine/6213790

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go
This is a notion that sounds great at first, but it's entirely shallow.

- There are tons of information pieces that functionally need to be private, for example passwords, and tons of information pieces that better just should be kept private for your own benefit, like medical records.

- You're not helping us customers. If every company knows everything about us, then every company can exploit our mental vulnerabilities to get us to buy more things we don't need.

- Privacy is a basic human need. Lack of privacy can lead to severe mental issues, as illustrated by Panopticons.
If by internal structure gp means the number or structure of the layers, then no, it’s not feasible to deduce this.

If they write regular blog posts or publish the architecture in a journal however, and the api gives you probabilities, you could maybe recreate it with a process similar to distillation?
The last day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times (1978 documentary)
That's how I write in Julia. Start with an algorithm with no types and eventually introduce type contraints everywhere, and even adding new types.
> in the long term governments lose money due to chronic diseases caused by tobacco

I don't follow how governments lose money in the long. Could you elaborate?
That sounds like a good way to get very inefficient routing.

Supposed I have keypair A at a friend and keypair B for me, how is cjdns going to find the fastest route between me and my friend?
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Memoization includes writing to disk such as a materialized view.
Condescension?

This article is all kinds of horrifying. ... "We are just going through the motions cuz we gotta. Kind of like plunging the toilet."?

Maybe you should go read a book like "Lovers in marriage" before you go trying to write anymore marriage advice.

Or, you know, you can make time for each other because this is the most important person in your life. Instead of making excuses.

I could go on.

I did not set the tone, here, and I stand by my comment.
all glory to the Hypnomedusa https://www.bitdegree.org/en/token/assets/bg.mp4?v=217
But what does it take to fool the human visual system? I'm guessing it's generally more than a few pixels.
This is an issue with nearly every conference I've been to. Most attendees seem ok with higher level talks, though whenever there is a deeply technical and interesting topic the room is always overflowing.

If there are multiple tracks on the same day, maybe consider a high and low level track?

The only conference I've been to that felt targeted to me was Django Under The Hood, which is billed as very technical talks about the innards of a framework.
Just like physicists know that an apple dropping from a tree will not perfectly follow Newton's laws, economists know, and have always known, that these models are idealised, and incomplete.

That's why they keep handing out Nobel prizes to people finding better frameworks approximating actual human behaviour. (i. e. Kannemann 2002, and this year's)
I was just reading this today:

"Investigators reported that smoking weed caused a “complete remission” of Crohn’s Disease in five of the 11 subjects. Another five of the eleven test subjects saw their Crohn’s Disease symptoms cut in half. Furthermore, “subjects receiving cannabis reported improved appetite and sleep, with no significant side effects.”

http://bloomsmag.com/smoking-marijuana-causes-complete-remis...
> are money-making machines

And they are valued as money making machines.

Amazon's profit margin is now just 0.59%. When economy hits downturn, it will hit Amazons profits and valuation.

It took eight years for Amazon to return back to its 2000 valuations after crash.
Tech fatigue
Free Electrons CC-Licensed Docs (kernel/real-time/Android/embedded Linux)
Social sciences may produce a lot of "garbage", but they do have at some point failed to avoid learning the most banal ideas about statistical thinking, which do include selection bias.
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Advantages of Tcl over Lisp (2005)
Hello HN users,

GeekJobs.io is an aggregator of all geek jobs (software/programming/development etc jobs). It also displays jobs on a map for easy navigation.

I am working on this site from last many months. It is still in very early stage. Few of the functionality still need some work. I am posting now to get some feedback.

Note: Map currently does not display properly on a mobile browser.
Smoking tobacco kills taxpayers. Illnesses caused by smoking are expensive to treat.
"You might find this astonishing, but: other marriages are not like yours" does seem pretty condescending. If you're going to comment here, please be more civil than that.
Unlike houses, software has a very organic nature to it. Requirements are constantly shifting.
See, you don’t even understand what I’m saying.

The fact that your code doesn’t break in production doesn’t mean it’s behavior is correct.

- messenger.com is a subpar experience compared to mobile

- there are multiple behavior issues:

— it fails to reconnect when connection is lost

— it randomly fails to unfurl urls which display correctly on mobile

- it may unfurl a url in one chat and not unfurl the same url in another chat

- it may lose connection and not even notify about it (mobile chat updates, web chat doesn’t, reloading helps)

- try searching. good luck discovering where “load previous” is hidden

- it may get stuck in a scroll position displaying an old message at the bottom of the chat

Shall I continue? I use messenger.com exclusively throughout the day. Your pride in “not receiving bug reports” for the Reason code doesn’t amuse me.
Time is your most scarce resource, and everything is competing for it.

In that light, it makes sense to purposefully pare down your environment to better align what you want to spend your time on, and what the objects around you tempt you to actually spend your time on.

I replaced having a laptop on my desk at home with a typewriter. Now when I sit at my desk, instead of spending an hour mindlessly browsing reddit like I used to, I write. My friends make fun of me, but I have written 10x more in the past month than any of them have.

I have used this approach with great success for other things I wished to prioritize more. For instance, I am purposefully not replacing my broken-screened-taped-up iPhone because I want to constantly be reminded that I probably shouldn’t be looking at it.

Remove everything from your environment (TV, video games, social media feeds, junk food, etc), and only add things back in deliberately. In the attention economy, being deliberate with your attention is the best thing you can do for yourself.
Which you can, for years now... lots of services provide debit cards tied to your bitcoin wallet. Instant purchases. Some examples: https://www.weusecoins.com/bitcoin-debit-cards/
I'm doing exactly this. Making a consistent income from a fairly hands-off fintech startup, but wanted to leverage my time so am working full-time in a related area.

Made full disclosure on all my interests and activities with my employers before I joined a couple of months ago. To my surprise they didn't see a problem. It's understood I cannot take part in anything that might lead to a conflict of interest.

Long story short: it can work fine with good will on both sides. But do be completely open about what you are doing. I got a statement, in writing, that my outside interests would not cause a problem and suggest you do too.
It's not the best title, but it fits. The initial symptom that kicked off the investigation was a slowdown talking to SQS.
I thought I was smart in the run-up to 2000 by not investing in dotcom companies with no business plan, but in companies with real profits and real businesses, like Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, AOL, etc. I got hammered anyway as these got caught in the secondary die-off, because a big chunk of their sales were to dotcoms, and those sales disappeared.
Inference and Regeneration of Programs That Manipulate Relational Databases [pdf]
Seems like the Airdog has the functionality, by following a beacon worn on the subject. I just read a good and thorough review about it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airdog/introducing-the-...

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/07/airdog-adii-2nd-gen-spor...
HN right?
160kμSv? Why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRL7o2kPqw0

Without the combustion and rads is nicotine interesting on it's own?
I want a dumbphone with a great camera.
Ah, so when I see a sign saying "淡水/Tamsui", the first one is in Mandarin and the second one is romanized Hokkien. I assumed they were both from the same language.

Though it seems like hokkien-with-characters is a thing (from what you say, and also from what I've seen with 4-bopomofo ruby and Wiktionary), just less prevalent. Or perhaps one can look at hanzi at the same level as romanization for Hokkien (except romanization is more prevalent), i.e. "someone else's script that kinda works for us so we use it sometimes"

I'm surprised the extended bopomofo (I assume it's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Phonetic_Symbols which actually till now was the thing I thought was bopomofo) is used more as a writing system for Taiwanese.
Yes, I see some differences and added complexity. I don't see a nearly 100x difference. Sure, it's arrogant to question them with little inside knowledge. But I have been in business long enough to know that big, public companies do really, really stupid things sometimes.

I'm guessing you would have called people arrogant for questioning Equifax's security practices. After all, it's an enormous company with thousands of skilled employees (interestingly, only about 2x as many employees as Twitter and an arguably much more complex tech stack) and security experts checking and consulting. How could they possibly be wrong!?!
Sounds pretty cool. Is there a website/forum/place to start?
That's _not_ what the book concluded. One of Phaedrus' realizations was that quality is neither subjective (depending on the judge) nor objective (an objective fact, like the mass of a book in kilograms).
I would love to dump feeds, get off Twitter and nuke my Facebook, but the sad thing is I can't. They are legitimately tools (moreso Twitter in my case) for networking and connecting with people. Twitter is used daily for talking to friends and reaching out to people, and Facebook is pretty much required so I can talk to colleagues because apparently texting is antequated. I'd like to move everything off social networks and rely on Telegram or SMS, but it's not possible. If anyone has suggestions how to get around this I'm more than willing to try something else out.
I'm not sure what privacy has to do with any of this? You're right that nothing is a given and the tide could turn against China however there is a given precedence for stagnation due to inability to make decisions quickly or at all (as is happening in the US with the hyper-polarization of politics). This was one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire.
I believe this has been debunked.

See https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/22/alcohol-...

Admission: I never got the chance to look at the research so I don’t know how reliable it is.
There is no cycle. It's a chaotic system, which is why "technical analysis" is a farce for fools. (A cycle implies a predictable periodicity, and there is none.)
If you're on a phone, here's a responsive HTML version of the paper: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1710.08864/
Does Twitter's business have 100x more abstractions? Because they have about 100x more employees.
How effective is media censorship in China?
Stack Bounds Protection with Low Fat Pointers [pdf]
Show HN: Blockchain for everyday life
Mobile phones and cars are used in public and many people associate their personal identity with them. Here are the key values I believe are provided by each of your example:

iPhone: signifier of good taste, ease of use (relative to Android), being well-off (in developing countries)

Xiaomi: middle class or upper-middle class status (in China), good value for money

I agree that current iPhones and Xiaomi phones do not provide much better features relative to their competition (no-name Android phones in the case of Xiaomi). Their values lie elsewhere.

Tesla Roadster: cutting-edge, environmental sensibility

In fact, by sales volume, Roadster itself was not a success. Tesla only sold 2,450 of them in 30 countries [1]. Model S provides much better value for cost and correspondingly achieved much stronger success.

Luxury products in general tend to be associated with social exposure. Maybe luxury mobs or floor cleaning liquid exist but either they do provide some special features for a niche or their sales volumes are relatively tiny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
Fair point, I've edited the comment to clean it up.
As I noted in another comment, that's _not_ the conclusion of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In fact, it's one he ruled out.
Check out what LowGlow is talking about below. Their site is at Synapse.AI
US antitrust law is written to protect availability of consumer choice, not necessarily businesses from each other.

As someone who enjoys Google Cards and Amazon Basic (Facebook I will give you), I would not be happy if the government deemed the product I enjoy to be illegal under the basis of protecting my available choices.
As someone having gone through that exact transition:

It is possible, you just have to do it. The “I can’t” is all in your mind, unless your job is directly dependent on it (ie recruiter).

Tell your messenger friends that you are closing your account and now reachable by phone call/email/sms/paper mail only, close your twitter, Facebook, etc, just do it.

Does it come at the cost of losing “networking” and similar intangibles, and having fewer people asking you to hang out (because let’s be real, there will be parties that people organize solely via Facebook that you might not hear about)? Yes it does. You will miss on opportunities, and you might lose friends.

Is what you get in return worth it? Many people do feel that it is, but that’s really for you to decide.

But if you believe it’s worth it for you, you just gotta rip off the bandaid.
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For what it's worth, in financial circles it is also known as "this time it's different". Now I don't have detailed statistics with me to do a comparison.

But, when you have stocks like SNAP with no revenue getting away with selling non-voting raises 3.5 billion at 20 billion market cap, there is something wrong. It's not the strongest names which need to drag down the market, it's the weakest ones.

Then you have Softbank raising tons of money to invest in tech:
https://www.recode.net/2017/10/19/16506218/softbank-new-inve...

Though I agree this time the bubble might not be the tech IPO rather the cheap capital around the world. That doesn't mean tech stocks will be insulated. Tech stocks might see a large hit, something comparable to the 2000 bust days.
So the reasons she might use it are:

* you install it on her computer

* it has a simple user interface

* it has a non-technical sounding name

Is that correct?

What if you reinterpret "my mother" to be "average internet user, in a country with average internet freedoms, who doesn't read HN etc"?
Van Gogh was a great artist, but he sold almost none of his paintings.

One source: https://www.thoughtco.com/van-gogh-sold-only-one-painting-40...
They are signs that a huge chunk of the population is discontent with our political system

Had that system delivered their preferred candidate they would have been perfectly satisfied with it, and we all know it.

We see it here in the UK, the LibDems are forever trying to monkey with the system in ways that, by pure coincidence, would favour them. We had a referendum on PR which they lost. Had they won it, in the 2015 election UKIP with their 4 million votes would have been a decisive force in Parliament. Then suddenly all the PR freaks went very, very quiet...
> Recently, I've added Twitter, HN, and a few other sites to my hosts file to block them

And yet here you are :-)

The worse thing about being technically literate is knowing how to get around all the blocks you put in place to stop wasting time.
Disable wifi, don't get a data plan.
I think these estimates from the CDC are pretty conservative. In the US, EVERY YEAR:

"Smoking-related illness in the United States costs more than $300 billion each year. Nearly $170 billion for direct medical care for adults
More than $156 billion in lost productivity, including $5.6 billion in lost productivity due to secondhand smoke exposure"

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/econ...

OFF-TOPIC

A major way (the only way?) to curb tobacco usage is to simply increase taxes on tobacco usage, but politicians/bureaucracy prefers the short-term tobacco tax revenue.

Cool article about Chinese tobacco tax rev: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-12/the-chine...
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Well, apart from the US in most western countries you have a strong social safety net so you don't have to marry because of financial worries.

Actually it's sometimes shocking when you see some being better off unemployed while working people can't find an affordable place. But that's another story...
A Dozen Business Lessons from Waffle House
Err, you are proving my point. You protect the availability of consumer choice by protecting business from actors who are leveraging their marketshare and engaging in uncompetitive practices. In this case, other businesses (i.e. Google, Facebook, et all)

I am with you. You should have choice. That is exactly what antitrust law is written for.
This works for one Go or Rust executable but any real system is a mix of technologies e.g A Go service talking to a Java application server proxied with a C webserver that was configured with a bash script.

Once you have a mix of different technologies its easier to just say "everything in Docker".

The ship container analogy on the old Docker website was a great illustration of this. Its a shame the new website is not so clear about the benefits and is full empty phrases such as "accelerating innovation".
Me too. It's an instinctive response for the physical symptoms of depression. The moment my hands are idle the feeling starts creeping back in until I'm having intrusive thoughts of suicide.

I understand well the existential problems that exacerbate my depression, like the sense of disconnection from society or that of loneliness, both temporarily relieved by scrolling through feeds and forums for various reasons.

It's an interesting phenomenon to be sure. When I am in my manic phase, I may go for weeks without talking to anyone online or rabidly consuming news or keeping a close eye on politics, but while phasing back into depression I will feel the compulsive urge to read news and talk about stuff online grow stronger and stronger. Like some sort of tic.

I deleted Facebook at the beginning of the year and it's helped my mood tremendously. I still get frightful bouts of loneliness and almost painful urges to talk to people when I'm feeling especially down, but I'm no longer self-medicating with the opiate that is social media and thus these feelings are compact and brief. I don't feel strung out on self-administered dopamine all day.

tl;dr delete facebook
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I developed stowage.org to get a closer binary-like experience with Docker. What is great is being able to use containers like a generic any-language fat binary compiler.

However, there is a bunch more stuff in Docker (or equivalent runtimes) that this article doesn't touch on. It's similar in some ways, for some use cases. It could be interesting to see what a fat binary orchestration tool would look like, but I would bet you end up reinventing 99% of what Docker already does.
> if you want to be effective, and I want you to be, please tone it down

I really have no idea what you're talking about. LVTfan's answer certainly displayed enthusiasm, but to me it stopped well short of fanaticism.
This Simple Tool Saved Me 5000$
A few weeks ago I came across a very nice browser plugin - LinkRev. It warns you and displays notifications when you come across an ad that other people commented. On Thursday last week I got interested in a used car for 5000$. Yeah... it was crashed a few months earlier. I wouldn't know if LinkRev didn't notify me about it.
This looks awesome! I would love to see the country the jobs are from, on the remote jobs tho. Taxes, pension and stuff make this more relevant than it seems :)
Upcall (YC W17) Is Hiring a Front End Developer
It's not about the partner's loyalty. Loyalty has very little to do with emotions and works at a higher level. If someone spends a lot of quality time with an individual whilst their home life is stressful (kids etc) then they will almost inevitably develop an attraction to them (or to the idealized version that one has of someone one doesn't have to live with). Meanwhile at home feelings of being in-love have faded to loving and the day-to-day realities are there and obvious. Then it is game over and loyalty is fairly unlikely to prevent things happening.

Better to spend quality time with your spouse and re-enforce the bond the two of you have for each other.
A token seems to solve the supply side (relay and exit nodes) but what about the demand side? Why would anyone who doesn't care about subverting censorship or surveillance pay for this?
I don't think so. Many of my friends thought I was trolling them when I told them "the actual color" of "the dress" [1].

When we do know that there is an optical illusion, it is because of the context we have that the machines don't, like, we can read the title of the article ("These 11 optical illusions will blow your mind").

[1]: https://www.google.de/search?q=the+dress