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Do you mean formal documentation, or all documentation (including sources like stackoverflow, blog posts, etc)?

I haven't used Java in a while, but my experience lately with Python docs (both formal and informal) has been fantastic. This applies not just to the core language and libraries, but also various third party libraries and frameworks.
As it should? If so, they probably ought not be operating: they are giving consumers a liability they couldn't afford to pay, and profiting from this liability by selling the information to third parties.

If the profits from this sale aren't enough to cover the liabilities, then their business model is fundamentally flawed.
> The wheels spinning will behave as stabilizers, making it easier to stay on the bike.

Bicycle wheels do not have enough mass to impact handling through gyroscopic inertia. They do not act as stabilizers.

Motorcycle wheels do, and consequently they require more effort to lean at higher speeds as well as require additional lean when accelerating into a curve.
Or it could be both what their marketing department wants you to think, and also reasonable.
> What I wonder is if those sleep-deprived individuals are experiencing a semi-manic state.

Yes, of course–in a certain way. It's not even much of a secret. While mania is itself a serious condition and should be avoided, it is fundamentally the same dimension as depression, only opposite. That's why you cannot be manic and depressed at the same time (Manic Depression, or Bipolar Disorder, is alternating between these states).

So it is really that simple: Depression + "semi-mania" = something approaching normalcy, for a limited time, with some cognitive impairment and just a bit too much nervousness.
"This is thought to be entirely secure against the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which require speculative execution on branch instructions."
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I had a similar thought recently, only I thought MS-DOS. Same difference.
That wasn't a platitude. That was a suggestion that the smart place to end the conversation was there. If you'd like to continue it, we can, it's just not easy over text.
> Cost of housing going up also increases the wealth of homeowners in the area. This is not purely bad.

The local government represents the current residents, not future ones. Raising house prices could be a windfall for current homeowners, but it could negative for the broader group of local residents, which will likely have a lot of renters.

Heavily inflated house prices could also be bad for the current homeowners, who may get stuck in their current home because they could no longer afford the price difference for a needed upgrade. Their kids may be forced to move away because they can't find homes.
> Basically, if ~~the FCC~~ Verizon and Comcast loose in court

You mean, if the win the challenge to the FCC repeal action and lose the effort to have that repeal preempt state neutrality laws. Win/win and Lose/moot are also possibilities.
The distinction I am trying to make is that brain chemistry can apparently be wonky and resistant to change in the absence of triggering life events.
It is convention, on HN, to mention the year that articles were written (if not the current year), whether or not the subject matter is changing rapidly.
In someone with bipolar (I or II) sleep deprivation can indeed trigger a manic or hypomanic state. It will definitely raise your energy level but it may or may not make you happier. Additionally, there are tons of risks involved with going into those states intentionally. Mania ("full-blown bipolar") is particularly troublesome. Hypomanic states are much less extreme and are not necessarily a "problematic" part of ordinary life, if properly managed. However, both come along with things like increased risk taking and hypersexuality that can do things like screw up your finances and budgeting, destroy your relationships, or put you at greater risk of STDs or unintended pregnancies. On top of that there's a risk of developing a psychotic break, especially in conjunction with stress, which will typically result in hospitalization and being placed on psychiatric hold (if you're lucky).

And, as you note, periods of hypomania aren't long-term sustainable. Ultimately you need to learn how to cope with all of your moods and states.
I wonder if this will be the impetus that makes Jack become a full time CEO of twitter.

Anthony was one of those COO's who was fully capable of being the CEO, and had the experience to prove it. Just like Bill Gates had John Shirley, and Steve Jobs had Tim Cook, Jack had Noto.

Without such an experience and capable person to run the day to day, I've got to imagine that Jack's job at twitter just got alot harder.
Hi. Read this article a few hours ago, and went down a rabbit hole of agony. I am a victim of the equifax breach apparently. I checked my credit report (on creditkarma.com) for equifax, and realized that there were two hard inquiries which pounded my score down about 40 points. One from Verizon (never have I ever done business with them); one from Paypal Credit (same). I ended up contacting both companies and placing disputes to remove the inquiries from my records. I also placed a dispute for the verizon credit inquiry through equifax, but it wouldn't let me dispute the paypal credit because I couldn't "verify" myself. It asked me for the address of somewhere I lived 10 years ago, and I had a digit off and so it blocked me. Either way, I talked to Verizon and they said someone had applied to get a Verizon account and they were denied. Then they suggested I place a fraud alert (it was free, it's not right that I have to pay $10 to freeze my credit) on my equifax; which I did. By the way, these unauthorized hard inquiries were performed on the 19th, and 22nd (yesterday) of this month, respectably.

Either way, thanks for the article, because even though it's been many months since the breach, the effects are still being felt; I'm sure by more than just myself.
> A large fraction of cyclist deaths occur late at night with a drunk cyclist

In single accident deaths at night with only a cyclist this is actually the most common case (70%-90%). In deadly accidents between car and bicycle it's not very common for the cyclist to be drunk about the same as always.
Poor people seem perfectly capable of buying car insurance as evidenced by the fact that millions of poor people have car insurance. What makes you think that purchasing disability insurance is so much more difficult?
Gold at least has some unique purposes besides a store of value. Over half of it is used for jewelry and commercial reasons, so at worst it can be considered an over-speculated commodity. Bitcoin literally has nothing going for it besides being the current market leader.
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I've done this before with gorilla glue (which is easy to find) on the spine, works fairly well.
Probably, but only because crypto doesn't scan for fraud and abuse among other things. Monero is happy to let someone completely empty your life savings.

Cc processors on the other hand are on the hook for fraud, so they are checking every transaction to make sure it doesn't match certain hueristics that could indicate theft or fraud.
I'd use a search engine that removes any result that includes an affiliate link. Some shopping sectors are so crowded with affiliate links that it's impossible to figure out what is real or not
5% not relapsing is actually more than I would have expected, and an astonishingly high success rate for an intervention as easy as sleep deprivation.

There's also the hope of a sort of "learning effect": Chronically depressed people sometimes don't even know/remember the experience of normal or positive mood. Even short-lived fixes could allow them to find a way to better cope with the disease.
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>> US cities are legally parts of states, not standalone entities.

A city is a municipality.
R.I.P She is one of the authors whose books have always made a long lasting impact on me.
Perhaps then, my use of "clinical" is in error. I should say something more like, "treatment resistant".

For god sakes, if you smoke a pack a day, don't have a job, and haven't left the house for 2 weeks... I'd sure bet you qualify as being "depressed" in the literal sense. I'm more interested in the individual who fixes those things, and yet, still wants to die.
> Large breweries ignored burgeoning niches, Watson said, particularly hoppy India Pale Ales, or IPAs, which constitute a large share of the craft-beer market.

He's reversing cause-and-effect.

IPAs are incredibly popular among microbrewers, because it is incredibly hard to brew consistently tasting batches of beer. Smothering all of a beer's other flavours, by dumping buckets after buckets of hops into it is much easier. It's why eight out of every ten craft beers are incredibly bitter IPAs.

I like craft beer as much as the next hipster, but I can't stand this trend.
it's not useful for speculating on the price of bitcoin so few people will use it
That is not at all what I meant. What I meant was that there is no reason whatsoever to presuppose that every existing phenotypical quality is adaptive.
>We ended up offering free shipping to a bunch of disgruntled customers.

There are actually bitcoin users out there who aren't up-to-date on how long it takes to process a transaction?
That story always makes me question what decision I will make if in a similar situation.
In the Mexico case, they aren't comparing actual consumption; they made a model of where they think consumption would have been without the tax.

They also showed no increase in consumption of untaxed items.

If their projections are accurate, that means that all those calories simply vanished from public consumption, not that people shifted to healthier, untaxed foods.

So, if these numbers are legitimate, we should see corresponding weight loss among the population.
I'm doing the reverse... scanning or buying books or manuals into pdf form.

I realized I accumulated way too many books. They take up a lot of space, I don't read many of the often but would hate to lose the information. Thus I've slowly converted over the years. Also many pdf format books are cheaper than paper copy these days. I still keep the important books as paper copy but a bulk of the rest now fits is a harddrive available on my home network.
Exactly. As a Ruby developer, Crystal makes me itch. It jettisons exactly what Ruby is valuable to me for: quickly and dynamically building fluent-feeling libraries and tools. It's fast, but I don't need fast--if I don't need Ruby's metaprogramming, I have other, better, established languages to use for those tasks. (Kotlin, C#, Rust, whatever.)

Elixir is kind-of in the same boat for me. I think it's neat and has its place, and BEAM is really cool, but it doesn't scratch the Ruby itch for me. I just don't care about it looking vaguely like Ruby if it's not actually gonna be Ruby.
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That doesn't explain why large breweries neglected to make IPAs themselves.
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The fixed correspondence between leaning and turning is easy to derive on your own:

Draw a picture of a leaning bike from behind. Add a horizontal line for the ground. Assume the entire bike/human system is leaning an equal amount, so put the center-of-mass somewhere in the leaning line.

If the bicycle is maintaining a constant amount of lean, then the extended line of the force applied by the ground to the bike must pass through the center of mass (i.e. in this case the angle of the force vector is the same as the angle of lean).

Now decompose the force vector into vertical and horizontal components. The vertical portion when riding on the ground (i.e. not jumping the bike), neglecting aerodynamic effects, is fixed to be the gravitational force, so it will be constant regardless of the direction of lean.

This means that the horizontal portion of the force will be equal to the the gravitational force times the tangent of the lean-angle. This also means that when the tangent of the lean-angle exceeds the coefficient of friction between the tires and pavement, you will crash.

The turn-radius can then be calculated by treating the horizontal force as the centripetal acceleration, and is indeed related to speed (faster speeds mean a larger turn radius).
Cool, you wrote your own NES emulator for this? This is off-topic, but I've been meaning to write an emulator for ARM Cortex-M platforms as an introduction to the idea, but haven't had much luck finding good beginner-friendly resources.

So...thanks for writing up and collating so much information about the NES in one place!
Value as a currency.
The "gig economy" being discussed isn't highly paid software developers. It's dudes working uber / lyft / postmates. These people have no negotiating power.... you take the gig or you leave it.

It is amazing how out of touch people in the software echo chamber are....
It is, the moderators even regularly edit the titles to add this where it is missing. random example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16128592
I loved that book. I read it once and never forgot it. I immediately remembered what part of the book that quote was from even though it's been 20 years since I read it.
They are certainly capable of buying it (at least, when regulation means that it is something you often are compelled and assisted to do before taking a newly-purchased car home, and reminded you must do under penalty of law when registering a car, and actually cited for if you fail to do it and are pulled over driving a car—which is a whole lot of pressure taken together), and many do; whether they are capable of making good decisions and weighing alternatives in that process is...unsupported by the evidence you've cited, as is the question of how this is germane to disability insurance absent a similar regulatory environment.
Even with a nice silent tablet, reading PDFs feels different than reading a book.

Very weird
Didn't know that actually. Interesting. I knew the flavoring on the base fries was some sort of peanut oil (which is genius, not to mention delicious).
> It's why eight out of every ten craft beers are incredibly bitter IPAs.

Is that really true anymore? If I roll by one of the local breweries, they'll have an IPA of course, but sours and saisons seem to be in a bit of renaissance right now. Hell, half the IPAs I see now are New England IPAs that barely budge the bitterness scale.
Nearly six-in-ten countries are now democracies
This is interesting but the constant reference to NATS is more than a little irritating. It's one player among many in the space, and it's decisions aren't particularly notable. I would have loved to read something that was honestly "from first principles" rather than a pivot from the NATS architecture or whatever.
If Amazon doesn’t pick Denver, “there will be a sense of relief”
Please read the full context of the conversation. This is not a discussion about whether a specific poor person might have enough dollars in their pocket to buy disability insurance. This is a discussion about whether or not poor people have the cognitive ability to purchase disability insurance. The OP suggested that by the very nature of being poor a person should not be expected to be able to attain the "expertise" required to purchase disability insurance.

My contention is that this is a disgustingly classist view against poor people. Poor people, by and large, seem perfectly capable of purchasing car insurance, and disability insurance is generally less complicated.
The article is simply asking, essentially, "Since depression is so common, what if it is adaptive? What if there are circumstances under which depression actually improves your odds of survival, even though that seems counter-intuitive?"
Do you have a link to the benchmarking discussion? I'd be interested to see what the objections were.

I raised the topic today in a team meeting and I'll probably get to tinker over the next few weeks. I'm interested in exploring a few different axes of stress. RPS is one, but also things like "how does it behave with ten thousand functions installed?", "how does it behave with traffic yo-yoing?" etc.
ICAO, the U.N.agency for flights, is regulatory captured by the airlines, manufacturers and fuel providers, wrt the huge environmental impact of aviation. It wouldn't surprise me if the same were true for IMO.

Meaning, changes in the market/technology have got the industry 95% of the way to the target, and they have added the target and will do the last 5% for the PR and to keep the rest of the UN environmental stuff (including the next COP meetings) off their backs.
I wonder if marijuana will also be able to avoid being crushed and consolidated by monopolies. I don't think the cigarette industry was able to avoid it but I am not well versed on tobacco industry regulations.

My gut tells me that since at the end of the day marijuana is an agricultural commodity large players will come to dominate the market. But on the other hand there is a decent variety in strain types and flavors and with time you could see interesting strains being developed that have a uniqueness similar to craft beers.
Did Satoshi say this directly?

Try to find a quote and paste it. It's a useful exercise, because it forces you to constrain your thinking. Either from the whitepaper or from http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/

I don't think Satoshi said this, but I'll be happy to admit to being wrong.

In fact, here is Satoshi's clear and complete vision from the very beginning:

http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/16/

Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins. It'll be distributed
to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half
every 4 years.

first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins
next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins
next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins
next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins
etc...

When that runs out, the system can support transaction fees if
needed. It's based on open market competition, and there will
probably always be nodes willing to process transactions for free.

Satoshi Nakamoto
> On the other hand, Trademe has never managed to penetrate markets outside New Zealand with any of its products, which limits its value.

I don't understand why that is necessarily a bad thing. If someone is looking to make a shit ton of money, have a chance to monopolize or dominate the international market, then yes, that makes sense. But if you're happy and content serving nationally, and so are your customers, I really don't see why someone would want to expand internationally.
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>it is incredibly hard to brew consistently tasting batches of beer.

While I don't really like Bud, Coors, or any other macro brew, I have to give them respect for churning out a consistent product time after time. I buy a Bud in New Jersey, and I know it'll taste the same as the Bud I bought in New Mexico.
People aren't buying craft IPAs because they want to drink bitter water. They are buying craft IPAs, because they want to drink craft beer. Miller-Coors producing and marketing an IPA wouldn't be getting them all the sales that are going to microbrewers.

Our alcohol consumption is 60% ritual, 60% social signaling, and 30% personal preference.
Uses movfuscator, one of the most painful tools when you're faced with reverse engineering. Also one of the most fun, from the other side of the aisle.
Agreed. The world is saturated with wannabe empires. Stop trying to take over the world!
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Elixir is, in my view, an even-more-awesome Erlang with an unfortunate and distracting cosmetic resemblance to Ruby.

Ruby is awesome, as is Elixir, but very different awesome.
But they don't really have that much liability. Very few will sue and win.
>It is in the interest of their employees to see that population fall, therefore it also ought to be in Amazon's interest.

Amazon is not a humanitarian organization. They are only concerned about the interests of their employees to the degree that the law requires, and their only interest, otherwise is in increasing shareholder value. Amazon doesn't care about the homeless... except maybe as a potential source of cheap labor.
> For another, this is a big risk for people with bipolar, many of whom are unaware of that fact and may think they only have depression.

Imho this is the biggest issue with this whole complex of psychology. I've struggled with mental issues for pretty much my whole life, in my teens, it was considered "clinical depression", a couple of years later it was supposedly something along the lines of ADHS or maybe I'm somewhere on the spectrum, another couple of years later it's either borderline or bipolar, depending what doctor you ask.

It's just a frustrating situation to be in because it feels like the diagnoses wholly depend on what doctor you ask, what mood they are in, how well you vibe with them on a personal level, or what literature they've read recently. In the end, it all feels like "professionals" who are mostly just wild-guessing around and on the basis of said wild-guess start suggesting some pretty drastic medication.

At this point, I've pretty much given up on getting a "solid diagnosis", it all just feels way too arbitrary which is not at all helpful to my self-perception and my trust in medical institutions.
That is really interesting, thank you for that information! Apparently, I've been able to control that muscle my entire life and occasionally wondered what is causing that noise. It's been difficult to describe to people who (now I know) may not be able to do it voluntarily.
Wow! Still?

As one of the primary maintainers of Mason for many years I enjoyed telling non-technical friends that they used my work every time they went to Amazon. But I'd kind of assumed that was no longer the case these days. Apparently I can keep telling them the same thing!
All search interfaces should support "Don't show me this again". All of them.

Imagine having a roommate who doesn't remember you want to avoid sugar and are allergic to nuts, yet keeps making PBJ sandwiches when it's his turn to make dinner. That and you're getting effin PBJ for dinner.

Web search: Don't show me anything from this domain again.

Google: You are so keen to remember things about me that I don't want you to remember. But you don't bother to remember what I reject? Of course, because I am the product, not the customer. This feature might run afoul of your relationship with advertisers, yeah?

Yelp search: You've suggested this place before, I spent the time to read the details and reviews and rejected it, but you keep showing it to me on future searches, and because as a human I can't remember all the stuff you've showed me before, I waste time considering it all over again. You even show me places I rated 1 star. STOP!

Maybe DuckDuckGo could add this feature? Please? Pretty Please?