skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Multi-tasking is insidious because there are plenty of people who can sustain productivity whilst spending a significant amount of time on Slack; their acceptable level of production blinds them to just how much further ahead they could get without Slack(and other distractions), and it can cause others to feel ashamed for their lack of performance. I keep a presence on Slack and do some of the usual fun stuff, but have taken the steps I outlined after I continued to discover just how much of a penalty gets imposed on the brain when it has to frequently switch contexts.

> Also, there is a bit of a technological bias here. If you were to ask someone what is the worst possible kind of work meeting, they would tell you that it's the meeting that has no clear agenda, no one seems to be in charge, everyone is piping in with whatever's on their mind, and there is no well-defined stop period so the meeting goes on until no one has anything left to chime in about. Basically, Slack.

What you said here is a very astute observation. I'm tempted to print it out and post it on my wall.

To be fair, people hate those sorts of physical meetings because they usually don't serve to bolster the social proof of most of the individuals involved. Even when Slack is a distraction, there is a perceived redeeming value to the lack of productivity because posting a meme or a poignant joke can make one appear to be more funny in general. True, a person's Slack persona can affect how others perceive that person in real life, but then you have to wonder just what you're getting for impressing these particular people. TLDR; people actually hate formality.

As I stated before, coworkers are not your friends. I say this as someone who works with an unusually friendly team. We pay Mario Kart after work every few weeks, and we sometimes hang on Saturdays to chill and play Civ V. In fantasy land, these people are my friends. In reality, that friendship would sublimate instantly if I ever left the company. I've never experienced otherwise. It's friendship in the most superficial sense, which isn't a bad thing, but people with similarly friendly coworkers shouldn't sacrifice energy they'd be devoting to their craft for the sake of cultivating fake friendships.
Pfft, I think it’s cute, not embarrassing. (But to be clear for anyone reading, the first paragraph you quoted is the article author’s opinion, not a quote from Judge Alsup.)
There is some statistic showing that every dollar invested in our small children saves multiple dollars down the line for things like the prison system.

Any feminism that cannot honor, respect and support the importance of full time parenting is an ideology I want no part of. To my mind, the only good feminism is one that insists that full time parenting should be an equally legitimate choice for either parent, not just the mother.
It's frustrating but normal not to release code.

It makes it easier to release further papers, with less work. Limited application means, "this is our work, all rewards should go to us", preventing others from doing any further research, so no one can "beat them to the punch", so to speak.

However, on the other side, it does also prevent checking results accurately.
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The local school board members cannot invade other countries, or lower taxes without paying for them (essentially raising taxes on my children).

If local elections really "mattered", I'm sure the two party system would have found a way for the people of Florida and or Ohio to "elect" them for me.

Local election seem to matter to RWA/"conservative" types who want to include intelligent design, anti climate change in their school books or put 10 Commandments monuments in public spaces.

(Insert an observation about Alabama here)
Fuuuck. So sorry time. A few years ago I had an iPhone. I liked the iPhone. One day in the middle of the night the iPhone started flashing its screen at me. I woke up and tried restarting it. It didn’t work. The iPhone was in a loop of some kind and restarting it sent it back into the same state. Being as it was my only alarm clock, I tried to do what I could to fix the iPhone. Restoring it to factory settings via iTunes helped, by restoring from backup brought the issue back until it suddenly stopped a few hours later. This happened with some regularity every few months. Then my ex’s iPhone started doing that too. Then her iPad. Than our upgraded phones. Apple support had never seen it. And nobody else had either. Eventually I filed a bug with Apple and also reported it on StackOverflow. The issue was that one of my calendars was an Exchange calendar and it has some weirdness about representing events that repeat forever. iOS did not handle that situation well and it sent the kernel into some sort of panic state. After I actually talked to a support developer at Apple, they released an update that ended about a year of misery for me.

Oh and some of you may remember the time that non-recurring alarms just stopped working one day on all iOS devices.

I still have an iPhone for reasons. But damn, I’d like to have one version of iOS that doesn’t have quite so many bugs.
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It doesn't work for privacy-protected whois (obviously), but it also doesn't work for .id domains (try http://every.id, http://awesome.id or http://player.id).
This is a fascinating thoughtsploration. Tourism on the moon will be a real version of the Jurassic Park narrative concept:

Enterprising, wealthy, and somewhat eccentric genius opens space theme park, pushing the boundaries of the possible whilst simultaneously exposing your crew and visitors to near infinite risks because it has never been done before and is almost the definition of unnatural.
If by "good" you mean improved genetic fitness (likelihood of reproduction), then there is not going to be enough data to support such a claim, since this would require tracking and comparing the reproductive outcomes of hundreds of individuals both cuddled and not.
That's not true. Tax authorities in France already fined Apple a 400 million adjustment last year for tax avoidance in FY 2011 and 2013. After 2013 Apple changed their practices to be more obfuscated.

http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/11/24/le-fisc-fr...
Off-topic, but I'm curious how you, as a psychiatrist, came to browse HN. I don't think I know anyone that browses HN that isn't in technology.
I believe you mean hatchbacks or wagons (for some generations of the Impreza), not crossovers.
God please no.
The transactions are tied: grad students have other (often much better) options for employment; they choose to work for a grad school because they value the free tuition.
Not sure the full story behind the microchip but landing men on the moon took a bit of government money.
The cost of this mission is 93 million dollars. If you can come up with a plan to provide basic supply with fresh water for the entire country for 93 million dollars I'm sure the Indian government will be greatly interested in your services. Heck you may even be offered a billion dollars to solve this problem. Maybe then you'll realise the logistical nightmare of getting supply of fresh water to 1.25 billion people.

If you do not understand the dynamics of how developing countries function it's best you not comment. The same "poor people" for whom you feel sad for (in another comment you posted below) sport a smartphone in their pockets. This is the irony of living in a developing country. Technology advances faster and ends up becoming cheaper than building last mile connectivity and basic services. Infrastructure building is always slower and more expensive than tech adoption.
We'll add .id to the wish list. Tricky because they don't make the zone file avail, but we'll figure something out. Thanks for the note.
From my limited experience, the Model S has about the same interior quality as a $40k car (entry-level luxury or well-optioned standard). There's definitely a large price premium for choosing electric.
Red states pay lower state taxes because they don't want the government to do all the things blue states do. Why should red states subsidize all the things blue states pay for?

The fairest system is to charge everyone the same federal tax rates.

The usual objection is that blue states subsidize red states. Two problems with that. First, it isn't an accurate description of reality - some blue states are net recipients of federal funds, some red states are net payers. Second, most of those funds go to Democratic programs (entitlements) - so even if it were true, Democrats chose to do that.
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You make some very good points.

I think people use the term "free" in the same way that the term "free" tricks people into spending more than they would have otherwise. Calling it "free" let's you mentally sidestep the details.
What's even more surprising is the position of Coinbase:

"Given how useful it is for criminals to have financial accounts that are
seemingly unconnected to them, I view this feature of the legislation as an important next step
in the fight against global money laundering."

Ms. Kathryn Haun Rodriguez of Coinbase
You say fun, but in the era of swatting and doxxing, private registrations are often the first line of defense for those who don't have a USPS or ups mail address if they don't have a physical office/address. I would be very careful about how you responsibly disclose any such bugs.
I mean, at that point you may as well say "what if the government just decides to ban bitcoin".

But they aren't doing THAT.

Blacklisting certain addresses is arguably 'harder' for the government to do than a simple straight up ban.

Blacklisting address is difficult, as the coins can quickly and easily be transferred to an unexpecting, innocent party. And now all of a sudden ALL coins are tainted.

What, is the average person going to track which coins are on the secret government blacklist and which aren't? If they don't do that then their coins are at risk of being tainted, and now THEY are on the ever expanding blacklist as well.

The government has only 1 option, a blanket ban on all cryptocurrencies. Anything else is just this impossible game of wakamole that will hurt innocents way more than the bad guys.

If they don't do the blanket ban, then the cat is out of the bag.
a) what everyone else said, it's impossible to draw the line between what ordinary people do in all tax paying nations, i.e. look with a keen eye at all the possible deductions and tax incentives available to them in order to minimize how much they pay, and what huge corporations like Apple do which is essentially the same but with a multitude more laws and lawyers.

b) even if you could draw the line and somehow say Apple was doing something "more evil" than normal tax avoidance, what's the point in petitioning the corporation to stop doing that? A corporation is sort of a money-hungry optimization machine without a soul and the outcome you get with it depends on the environment it exists in, as a matter of mechanical logic. Would you hold a counter protest to bees because they sting people? No, that would be silly, it's just in their nature to sting people. Would you picket the Borg for trying to take over your star system? No, it's pointless to try and guilt the Borg and even more so to try to force them to change by such appeals.
Can you give a gist of your findings?

I'll take a guess : customers are given unique whois protected email addresses allowing you to find all the domains owned by the person. Eg- If I own abc.com and xyz.com, both have the same public email address. The problem with such bugs is that there's no way to undo the damage since historical whois records are archived.
Hah. I can't help but wonder if Apple has started mindlessly implementing contemporary "software engineering best practices" (yuck):

- Everything must be Scrum or a similar sprint system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836734
- Move to an open office layout to foster collaboration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14962663
- Kick out high-performing "heroes" like Scott Forstall
- Instead, build teams of mediocre (but probably nicer) engineers. They can then lift each other up through positivity and pair programming.

This is of course a lot of speculation (and wishful thinking) on my part, and honestly it's likely that any process would be doomed to failure under Apple's self-imposed deadlines. But I almost want to get a job at Apple only to see what it's like on the inside.
White labeling is when you take your product and slap a label for another company on it, and the company sells it as their own. So I could buy 40,000 Bluetooth speakers from BlamCo in China and get them labeled as “BLEATS PILL” and sell them as if they were my own. My company is in the process of selling some white label stuff which means we can charge more (in our case at least) than if we retain our labeling on the hardware.
Just for reference, the biggest (med-high, annually recurring) expenditures of Westernized Democracies tend to be social welfare (penchants and such), agrarian supply chain, healthcare, and security/defense. Water figures heavily depending on geography. The unifying factor is the need for continuing, consistent investment just to maintain, non inclusive of repair, renovation, or improvement. This is why these things are so expensive.

The European Bloc has benefitted from defense/security being bolstered by US equipment/investment since the Marshall Plan. I believe this is what the other poster was referencing.
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> Man, sometimes I feel like the Kennedys are America's most hypocritical family.

I don't know what this means. Are you referring to actions taken by other Kennedy family members? If so, why should the actions of one's relatives fall exactly in line with one's own legacy, lest their family be deemed hypocritical? That seems like an awfully high bar that presupposes the family is a single moral and ethical unit.
Waymo: Code written by professionals. A system using models trained on vast amounts of data. Written slowly, meticulously, exhaustively, heavily reviewed, and intended to be reliable.

Cruise: Amateur hour, written FAST. Better yet, let's just use this code we found on the net! Can we make it look like it works most of the time?
Its amazing how you mention "progressive" causes (did you read his humorous statement fully, he mentions taco tuesday etc??), But I don't see you mention gerrymandering by the GOP and all the other good stuff they like to do. THOSE are issues to whinge about. This is not. Are you on Gab by any chance?

Progress is what made America great. Not backwards thinking.
I've worked on a handful of large to very-large Rails apps, and I find that after a certain level of size, you're dealing with a Ruby code base that happens to have Rails as the way it is presented. Rails' implicit functions are either obvious because you use them often, or just not relevant, since you're deep in plain Ruby objects implementing your business logic.
> That's surprising to me

I'm surprised you're surprised. Have you seen the size of the breaking changes documented with each release notes? We typically hit about 10 of these changes per release, sprinkled all over our code.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/1.10/#backwar...

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/1.9/#backward...

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/1.8/#backward...

And those are just the intentional breaks. We find a lot of unintentional breakage too, and sometimes we accidentally use undocumented stuff which of course also isn't documented when it breaks. Each Django release has added an average of 32 commits per release for the past four releases just to deal with the version upgrade.
Cover the top with sheet asbestos, or preferably asbestos board, and at the back provide a rack for holding your stock of glass tubing in various sizes.
I am genuinely curious what is unlawfully preventing someone from voting?
> Or are you always blaming yourself

This is called personal responsibility and is a good thing. Accept fault and move on. It's possible to try and ask for help for honest mistakes but you definitely don't blame them for it.
hah ok. i’m not a coder nor a hacker, so i can’t say i’ve tried much.
some of us really never grow out of our smart-mouthed phase. i especially find a lot of babies in places like reddit, stack exchange, and a few more.
I don't feel like what happened in the 1960s is the most salient thing to consider when you take into account that the effort to suppress the vote has been overwhelmingly Republican in the past few decades and has picked up with the Supreme Court striking down parts of the Voting Rights Acts.
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Where are yellow colored (level III) countries?
I am genuinely curious why you are unable to google what is preventing people from voting? Are you on Gab?
I think the big misconception here is that statecharts _have_ to be framework-y. They don't, and their biggest benefit (in my opinion) is how they shift the mental model of creating UIs from "bottom-up" to "top-down", so that even if you're not explicitly using finite state machines or statecharts, your UI benefits from better maintainability.

Here's the thing. As developers, we write implicit state machines in our UIs all the time, in the form of boolean flags, or enums if we're feeling disciplined, or peppered if-else statements everywhere. Arguably, most (if not all) UIs can be represented as explicitly classifiable states, and actions that can occur that can transition those states into other states.

So I'd argue that having _some_ sort of declarative formalism for describing your app's states and transitions is much more beneficial than having an ad-hoc way of imperatively changing states, which most of us developers are wont to do, since it's "easier" to implement.

Since statecharts are hierarchical graphs, there's also the possibility for automatically analyzing, optimizing, and generating full integration tests for user flows given a statechart spec.

I agree that trying to use statecharts everywhere is fitting a round peg into a square hole, but thinking about the UI in terms of states, and actions in terms of something that is simply emitted instead of something where application logic is stuffed into, will greatly improve how UIs are developed in the future.

Relevant must-read: https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-User-Interface-Statechar...
Imagine predicting pedestrian behavior with if/else and numeric thresholds (distance to curb less than 1.25 meters?) instead of a principled model trained on data.

Waymo uses sophisticated predictive models trained on vast amounts of data. Cruise slaps together piles of guesses and (frankly) bullshit.
Perhaps I misunderstood:

"Using mixed storage engines is not recommended in production because it is not really transactional, ..."

http://myrocks.io/docs/getting-started/#migrating-from-innod...
> Zika-related public service advert on the NY subway

Virus is advertising itself as public service on the NY subway?!

Wow!
What I fancy.

Charcoal-coloured tailor-made suit in super 100s or 120s wool, is nice. Silk tie, blue or pink shirt.

To grey sweat-pants and black wool jumper.

(It can be a little cold where I am.)

I like to keep some clothes at work and change there when desired.

Quite like shirts (long sleeve), can wear them with anything, I find cotton comfortable.
I think from most previous threads you have someone saying they've got higher standards, that we have a tendency to remember only the good things in the past & that these things are statistical anomalies & aberrations. Apple's best days are behind them if you ask me, at least in terms of quality.
Sure, like Samsung was burnt at the stake for exploding phones. Clearly this is way worse.
A university degree costs much more to provide than one pays for it, so she is throwing a commons resource down the drain. I don't think it's implementable, but I'd support a fine for dropping out of the workforce that makes stay-at-home moms and dads with advanced education have to pay back the full cost of their education.
Then why were there special stores for Soviet leadership where they could buy products the rest of the population couldn’t?

Is that not privilege? Why could a government official get a car while a normal person would have to wait years?

Children of government officials got preference at the best universities and jobs. Is that not aristocracy?

Communism is all about privilege — everyone is equal but some people are more equal than others.
Sure, but I don't think any insurance should ever pay for this.
Good point. Poor word choice on my end. Thanks for the note. The stuff we found is not quite that abrasive but very interesting. How would you recommend disclosing?
Probably would work better if the visualization is automatically derived from the code, so that it's a guide but it doesn't get in the way.
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>Sixteen different options, and I honestly don't know anybody in my circle of friends who couldn't pull off at least three of them.

Not everybody is so lucky unfortunately.
but the alternative of dealing with unattractive warts in a language until eternity is also not very attractive.

The problem is that the only significant wart that got fixed was Unicode. We still have the GIL, a very slow runtime, convoluted packaging, barely-usable lambdas, and limited typing. That's a pretty lousy payoff for 10 years and probably millions of engineer-hours.
My wife is a CNA. If you're flexible about suddenly hopping on a plane for a few weeks or months and living in a rented room, there's some good money in it (several times her usual pay rate and housing paid for). But at least in that case, the wages are pretty good. Amazon's are pretty low, and they don't pay to house the workers.
It worked exactly as I hoped. I couldn't figure out why some domains I were expecting to show up weren't, but searching by email reminded me that I need up update some of my whois info due to a name change.
I mean "unresolvable" in the same sense that two nearby point sources through a diffraction-limited lens are unresolvable. If you watch the video, it appears as if there is only one wavefunction for the BEC of many particles (presuming that is what the video is depicting). Is that in any way an accurate depiction of what's going on?
Camera-equipped glasses that automagically capture the most AI-determined artful stills from your vision as photographs
See the ROS2 real-time proposal link above for a discussion of ROS's shortcomings. ROS is ok for school projects and loose systems but you can't use it to pilot a passenger aircraft or car.
I'm developer and CTO in Iran companies
these days software industry grow fast in Iran, maybe because of dollar rate or progress of removing sanctions

Many investor and global companies try to come to Iran and i think every day software industry going bigger
never said it was the "most salient thing to consider." It's an interesting historical anecdote.
awesome! any feedback or ideas are appreciated, thanks for trying it out.
Then don't give your data to anyone. Perfect security doesn't exist, no matter how hard you try or how much money you throw at the problem. Breaches happen, end of story.

So the real issue should be: When and how will a new secure form of identity be created, used, and made available. Social security numbers were never intended to be used in the manner in which they are.