skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for automated time tracking, I've found that "Timing 2" is a bit better at giving a better overview since it also tracks the things you did "around" coding such as research and whatnot. Tasks not inside IDEs.
> Personally, I wouldn't mind sacrificing some of my convenience to support people protesting an issue that is important.

Even at the height of the civil rights movement, the vast majority of the country was apathetic to hostile. That is simply the nature of fighting for these things.

Popular positions don't need protests.
But transporting heavy glass, sorting it, and everything else makes the ratio for recycling much much worse.

As evidence: In general no one actually remelts recycled glass. Recycled glass is crushed and spread on top of landfills each night to prevent rodents from being active, and to reduce dust and pollution.

That's still considered "recycled". And this is after transporting and sorting! And yet they still don't bother remelting it.
Sure! A few of them:

1. Dropbox Paper for easy note-sharing. We've got a ton of docs we share, update, and constantly reference to

2. Appear.in - https://appear.in/ - probably the best team conference software we've used. We compared it to Slack, Skype, Hangouts (which is horrible), and a few others. Appear.in always won out, plus we can use it with contractors/clients without the need of an account. Works really well from the phone, too.

3. Org Mode - a recent addition, we've been using org mode to plan out dev sprints and story out features before putting them into PM software

4. Slack - self-explanatory
Doesn't he have a tech advisor of a sort who could possibly explain him the thing so he won't make comments this funny?
Can science answer what happens after death?
Monero (XMR)
> The universe is not obligated to function in a manner comprehensible to human intelligence

True, except it's exceedingly unlikely to be so. The SKI calculus, that can represent any effectively enumerable function, no matter how complex, is itself incredibly simple.

Complexity trivially emerges from simplicity, so the odds that most of the complexity we see around us is irreducible seems very low.
When that person is endangering lives by holding several helpless people in lethal conditions.
There are no used-car sales folks in India? The father of Mac, Jef Raskin, had this to say about Jobs:

"While Mr. Jobs's stated positions on management techniques are all quite noble and worthy, in practice he is a dreadful manager ... He is a prime example of a manager who takes the credit for his optimistic schedules and then blames the workers when deadlines are not met," he wrote, adding that Steve "misses appointments ... does not give credit ... has favorites ... and doesn't keep promises."

I think Jobs was incredibly lucky that he was always surrounded by smart, humble people, such as Woz. Raskin was less tolerant. You say confidence; some say arrogance. Some admired him for that; others just didn't care; it seems.
How is Dropbox Paper better than Google Docs?
It doesnt seem as poorly documented as it is made out to be. Perhaps if you compare it with other history in general but when it comes to errasing a people this event is wel documented. We are kinda clueless howmany times we did one of these? If you take basic population growth the numer of dieoffs must be horrific.
I initially loved Dropbox Paper.

However, being so easy to manipulate it has become a place of braindumping. I begged my boss to separate his personal notes vs. company documents. It has gone out of hand. Tons of unattended documents that people have forgotten about.

Creating new documents and editing them has become so cheap (congrats to paper devs for managing that) that its backfiring in our case.

As for team conferencing, we used many many different tools. Recently we started using zoom.us and the quality is amazing. Much higher framerate and resolution with a better CPU usage.
For anyone looking for shared terminal sessions, I recommend wemux
I also have criticism that I often level at "unhindered Capitalism"

But don't you have to admit China is quite socialist / communist and already "hinders" quite a bit? And yet they still rape the environment. Look at what they did with Lake Baikal in a few years. The Gobi desert is expanding. The smog and pollution is worse than LA in the 80s, and so on.

So, what is the answer? "Hindering" capitalism is too vague.
This is the biggest problem with the website: shodan.io. They're always there to report the slightest gap in a system.

To me it's like someone with a camera attached to their shoe to look up ladies skirts. It's creepy and should be illegal.
(Of course, they put in under the label: it's publicly available information... but anyone with privacy concerns will realise that it's not true)

Whenever you have a 'smart' device, there'll always be someone banging away looking for holes in it, especially with shodan.io.

To me, it seems to be the biggest perpetrator in enabling privacy loss.

Edit: typo.
Many of the tools that I use have already been mentioned, so I'll only mention that VPNs make me feel much better about working from coffee shops. I use EncryptMe, but most any VPN will do
I agree with you completely: legality definitely is not absolute. But if your protest is illegal for no valid or higher moral reason, then I don't think it's worth the risk.

Going back to the "mistakes are good in college" argument, college students should be smart and mature enough to know which mistakes are actually worth the jail time.
1. Huge changes that affect the API's of multiple sub-packages.

2. Having no friction to change anything makes you far more productive and ambitious.

3. Scripting at a org-level means you can automate things more easily and more in depth.

We run an entirely node stack so Lerna enables this in the first place. Given that, I'd never move to more than one repo if possible. It's almost all downside: more overhead/fragmentation, less control, more wasted time/mental overhead moving between things, API friction that reduces ambitious change.

Only downside of monorepo is Github not supporting them well. If you want to release some sub-packages as OSS, or want to use GH to track issues you're stuck using one big repo to handle everything. I'd bet Github fixes this within the next year or so though.
> For example, we can't construct computer models to predict the properties of all the elements in the periodic table just from knowledge of the underlying laws of electrons, protons, and neutrons

Yet. And the upper bounds on available computing are not actually known. Well, not strictly true, as arguments like the Bekenstein Bound suggest that information density that gets too high will collapse into a black hole.

But typically, computing properties with precision involves exploiting symmetries and other properties to eliminate impossible cases from consideration and enjoy a shortcut to the answer.
"To facilitate this without breaking the block's hash,
transactions are hashed in a Merkle Tree [7][2][5], with only the root included in the block's hash." - totally approachable to the layman

I could go on about the summations and other advanced math symbolics in this paper but you seem very out of touch with the knowledge base of most people so I'm not sure it matters.
I live in Hong Kong. I’ve actually caught and released jumping spiders into my 6-yo daughter’s room, to clear the booklice on the ceiling. My daughter doesn’t mind the spiders. I have taught her enough about insects and spiders that she’s not afraid of them. We even raised silkworms and kept a huntsman spider as pet.
That was iOS 11 and 11.1; 11.2 is actually back to normal.
You know it's called shorting for a reason. You can't just short a stock for as long as you want before covering at some arbitrary point in the distant future.
Wow, this is bad. If the author is reading this, is there any chance this is a regression in recent OSes? I remember a WWDC video from quite a few years ago showing exactly why it’s important to use CVDisplayLink which is linked to when your display needs new frames, showing a similar illustration to the one shown above about how otherwise you lose frames.
I thought Texans love FREEDOM and SF was considered the epitome of environmental regulation -- but it seems in some areas the shoe is on the other foot!
> Popular positions don't need protests.

As someone who has lived in dictatorships for most of my life, I strongly disagree with this statement. I guess it's the kind of thing that only someone who lives and breathes democracy would say.

On a related note, I'm always amused by people who are strongly against weapons research and manufacturing, especially in the US. It's easy to say "we don't need weapons research" when you are living in a country that possesses the most advanced weapons tech in the world, or even in a country that is a member of the EU or NATO.

When your country can't even manufacture an assault rifle and has to rely on potential future enemies to supply it with arms, that's when weapons research becomes necessary.
I do agree that a lot of Uber’s impact is positive on both riders and drivers. Every time an Uber scandal rolls by I’ve heard the same two quotes from friends and family; ”Really? All I know about Uber is that when I used them in a completely foreign country it was still the best taxi experience I’ve ever had” or ”My son drives for them to get money on the side in college”. People are amazed about these two sides; management not really caring about who or what is in the way and the employees such as yourself delivering such great value.

I’m not going to pretend my employer is Jesus or something, they’ve done their fair share of bad stuff that puts their name in the paper too, but I personally feel like there is a line. When you witness so many cases of the management prioritizing profit over being decent, doesn’t that bother you? I could pull up five serious cases of abuse of trust Uber is directly responsible for that happened just this year, is there a number of infractions on the magnitude this poor woman has suffered that would make you leave?
Well, the article has a photo of the field where it came from, so presumably something more or less like that has already happened...
And yet they put more staff and space for communities , not for support.
Is Cloudflare Argo worth it?
Tencent investor Naspers has outgrown the South African market
Detection and recovery of NSA’s covered up tracks
Much less mental stress; ~90% of the issues that used to bother me don't any more. Specifically, notice that emotions/thoughts tend have a physical component which you can observe without judgment (tightness, heat, tingling, etc.).

Breaking the loop of "negative" physical sensation -> negative emotion/thought is freeing. Feeling tightness in your chest does not require you to become afraid, it just means you are feeling tightness in your chest. But typically we have years of stimulus/response conditioning so we jump to the negative thought / emotion once the sensation arises.

I meditate 10-30 minutes ~5x a week, usually breath counting or doing the above. I found Noah Elkrief's videos helpful.
This is their rainy day.
When I first start I though there was so MUCH syntax, (->), (<*>), (<$>), (>>=), (.), ($), etc

I realized pretty early on all these were just functions, that was cool experience for me. Even the types are sort of functions.
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Is Elon Musk even allowed to send his car to deep space?
There are a bunch build into the language, I think a lot of libraries take their queue from there. Still, after you get over the initial hurdle of like <$> == fmap. It's not so bad.
How do intelligent people cope with the thought that we can die at any time and afterwards all existence as you know it comes to an end?

It makes things seem pretty meaningless. Even the top accomplishments that I aspire to do will, at the end of the day, be just a temporary thing.

Add to this the prospect that in 50-100 years everything we do now and build now will be as quaint as people who stiched clothes by hand. It will all be automated so even the jobs we do today are like playing with children's toys.

So what's the point of it all? As I got older, I started feeling all the social experiences and all the rooftop bars and so on are just more of the same. A bit like hearing similar jokes over and over. I still enjoy experiences but in the back of my mind I don't really see the point anymore.

I still really enjoy my work and making progress on it. But that dread is often there, especially during late nights. Especially after I finish a video game and the ending of that game world makes me think of being one level up.

Anyone feel this way? How did you deal with it?
> We "need" YouTube because 1) people generally don't want to host anything

No, because it is expensive to host things, as mentioned in the comment you are replying to.
> Except that there is no emergent property of code. It is the sum of its logical parts, no more, no less

Why do you think emergent properties are not the sum of their parts?

If I may simplify, there are generally two classes of emergence, metaphysical and epistemic. The former claims that systems are more than the sum of their parts, that some magic happens when some combination of things are brought together. Few people in science or philosophy takes this position seriously.

Epistemic emergence is more about what approach to use to learn about a system. Science is typically reductionist, and it's very successful. However, some properties would be difficult to discover this way because they are only observed in complex interactions between multiple entwined subsystems.

For a simplistic example, consider a scenario where you know nothing about physics, but are given unlimited time and unlimited tools to separately test the properties of oxygen molecules, and hydrogen molecules. But, you can never test them together, only separately.

Given these constraints, it seems virtually impossible to infer the property that H2O is transparent to visual light. But this property is easy to see when studying them together.

Epistemic emergence would hold that we maybe couldn't learn everything about hydrogen and oxygen by studying them separately, or at the very least, doing so isn't always the most effective means to learn about them. But ultimately, the properties revealed of H and O belong to them, and aren't metaphysical.
I made the switch. I want to say its glorious, but there are definitely some pain points. Not with Firefox itself, mind you (it's seriously amazing), but with 3rd party apps. Things that I use every day _suck_ on Firefox. Top of the list right now is Lastpass, which while completely seemless on Chrome, doesn't even have the ability to copy a username or password on Firefox (what??) (anyone have a two-factor auth alternative?).

Still, they really nailed it with quantum. The dev tools are excellent (finally!). I can deal with the second rate extensions if it means compartmentalizing just a small slice of my life from Google.
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Well yes, I agree with you. China, India and don't forget about Africa (most countries in Africa now have average age around 20-25 years old and are multiplying populations very quickly).

Not sure what can be done about it. I guess mother nature will sort that out once we run out of resources. It will be like a defensive reaction of an organism, human race might just get purged from the Earth.
A commenter on /r/haskell[0] noted that there is actually a library that mimics Go Channels a bit closer, called GoChan[1]. That said, I think `async` is the idiomatic choice, so it probably makes more sense to keep it.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/7ilhb9/a_tour_of_g...

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gochan-0.0.2/docs/Contro...
You can also map this to dollars by figuring out what that time is worth for each individual based on assumed utilization and compensation. A VP's time is typically worth more than the junior people that report to them.
How many passes a conventional compiler does?

I don't know, but in my system I have, let's see: 1) read sources, 2) select the subset I want to publish, 3-4) resolve references (two steps), 5-6) assign XHTML IDs to references (two steps), 7) transform to XHTML, 8) update files. I don't see how I can make it smaller, that is, maybe I can cram everything into a single pass, but this will be much more complex than small steps in the pipeline.

And this is the minimum; it's pretty easy to add more passes for various extras.
Even the 'identical twins' are not 100% genetically identical[0] and they can't 'fuse' with each other like these fungi are and can. Humans also can't asexually produce more of their own clones to cooperate with while these fungi apparently can do both asexual and sexual reproduction with asexual one being more common. Even if we could then our clones have their own central nervous system and aren't enslaved by their genes to do the same as us and 'fuse' and cooperate with us.

On the other hand, common bananas are sterile clones[1] but they are more 'separate' from each other and not 'fused' in any way (I guess? I have no idea) then these bunches of fungus... But we are all over the Biological Kingdoms (Animalia, Fungi, Plantae), methods of reproduction, human intervention, 'fusing' and so on by now.

I'm not a biologist but I had very high level biology class with a really good (and demanding..) retired biologist as the teacher and I still remember how WTF this all gets (the entire Protista Kingdom which is just a bag of stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere and varies a lot internally, the pseudo-life of viruses, the scyphozoan jellyfish life cycle, concept of biological immortality, etc.). Pluto planet debacle is nothing and a 100% clear cut case with 0 controversy in comparison to this.

[0] - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/identical-twins-g...

[1] - https://piecubed.co.uk/bananas-facts/
> As for IPFS, I’d love to see them succeed, but as long as you have to know about merkle trees, hashing, etc for it

You have to know about this stuff to use ipfs like you have to know about low level packet routing to use the internet.
> not sure why you think Apple would be any different.

I don't and my comment doesn't suggest that. What I suggest is that phones with non-user-replaceable batteries should be designed with capacity large enough so that life is still acceptable after two years of normal wear without throttling the CPU.

As for how "simple" replacing the battery is, I don't consider a $79 repair that requires an appointment and driving to an Apple Store and wasting an hour of my day "simple".
I'm a little bit disappointed as the story just looks for new ways to get rid of the plastic problem. Why not produce and use less plastic? In the EU some countries ban plastic bags, others introduced or increased prices for bags. On the other hand more paper bags are available and prices for them dropped, too, resulting in more people using paper bags or starting to use cotton-bags.
> We used recipients’ race, gender, and education levels to estimate incomes using Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2015.

I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that all pictures of the $1000 winners have women.
> (6th UPDATE)

Initially, they reported without verification that ISIS was responsible. Isn't that fearmongering? Does that not qualify as fake news?

> traditional journalists are held to a standard in factual reporting

Who checks them? They're not infallible just like the bloggers. Don't get me wrong, I'm for free speech and not for censorship. What seems to be happening now is that "journalists" label bloggers in Facebook as trolls to silence them and still label Pres. Duterte as dictator. Who's the dictator in that case?

> bloggers (like RJ Nieto in the Senate hearing regarding fake news) would often just hide behind the excuse "I am entitled to my opinion"

The same RJ Nieto who is one of the people to be the first to raise the issue about Dengvaxia, an unproven vaccine against Dengue administered by the previous administration to about 700,000 children. Dengvaxia is reported to worsen the condition for those who do not have a previous case of Dengue. I think RJ Nieto peddles his opinion quite well to make people accountable. Why do "journalists" label him as troll? Is it because he does not conform to their narrative?

> The previous administration basically did the bulk of the legislative footwork necessary to pass a bill. Almost all that's left for Duterte to do is to sign the bill.

Pres. Duterte issued an executive order. Please don't try to frame it as if he is credit grabbing. Even so, why didn't the previous administration just signed and implemented it? By making it as a priority when Pres. Duterte took office, I think he deserves a kudos.

> But that is as much freedom as you can get from bureaucracy, I guess.

Yeah, the government must improve.
GotToMeeting for group meetings/calls

Skype For Business for one-on-one company calls & PSTN calls

Skype for VoiP with external parties

Yammer for company latent awareness/news sharing

TasksInaBox for collaboration planning and task followup

Doodle for meeting scheduling

Sharepoint for document repository
> To take an extreme example, you could answer any physical question about a universe that's made up of a single particle traveling in a straight line, even though doing so requires a mathematical system complex enough for Gödel's results to apply...

...using current models. It's not clear them at such models are ultimately needed.
I have a 6s plus and had the exact same thing. Phone was totally unusable. But I did a full backup and reinstall and it’s gone back to normal speed. Feels like a new phone. Give it a try.
Socialists have a particular hate for voluntary leftist organizations that allow choice, and then have the workers choose individualization, mostly because that's exactly what open communes keep doing, and it destroys them.

For a good example, see the evolution of the Kibbutzim system in Israel and what sort of image Israel has today in leftist circles (and the image and reputation Kibbutzim have in Israel's own considerable leftist parties). You will see that leftists cannot deal with individual choices and, also, that allowing individualized choices will destroy any leftist society. Therefore, they cannot be voluntary.
Agree. A lot of this has to do with habits. If you know that plastic bags are 10 cents each then suddenly you quickly learn to always bring 10 reusable bags with you to save the money.
The key phrase is “compared to reuse” - of course it’s better to reuse things be recycle - what case is there where that wouldn’t be true?
WebEx always works really well. I wish it had better Linux support.
If your income is $18k/year like you said, it is low enough that you should qualify for a healthcare subsidy. I just checked.

If you won't get insurance, apply for financial aid in the healthcare system you use. They'll cover most or all of the cost based on hardship if your situation is that bad. Once you're received financial aid, it will probably apply for most of your medical expenses for several months to a year. Call various healthcare systems in your area to see what charity/financial aid programs they offer.

If you don't want to do that, at least call for quotes. $3-4k is possible to pay, but too high. It's worth driving a bit to save a few thousand dollars. Yes, you can get a quote for a colonoscopy; it's a standard procedure. Here is an example of a nationwide program that will do it for around $1,100 and that has several options in CA. It is not the only one. https://www.colonoscopyassist.com/After_Colonoscopy.html

For the sake of your health, please don't assume you have fully researched your options yet.
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