skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a rather modest expansion: five minutes over 35+ years. Not that commute time isn't a drag, but I don't really see this being a significant factor. Particularly if you consider that the mode of commuting, the conditions, and outlier commutes are likely to have far larger impacts. Consider:

Mode: If you're commuting by train or bus point-to-point and the ride takes five minutes longer, you're not going to be much bothered. If you have to transfer or connect between multiple modes along the route, the journey is far more stressful. Similarly, highway driving with radio or audio material (or a phone) is relatively productive time, vs. stop-and-go city traffic.

Conditions: Having space to work (say on a commuter bus or rail) vs. being sardined into a city bus or urban subway makes a difference not captured in time alone.

Outliers: One pattern that likely has emerged are "marathon commuters" -- people with exceptionally long commutes. You'd need to compare the mean and median commute times to see what this trend is. It might well be that most people have the same time, but a small number have much longer commutes.

How to lie with statistics and all that.
The dedication for A Scanner Darkly is probably the only thing anyone needs to read to understand drug use and abuse. It’s beautiful and heart breaking.
I love my short visits to the snow cap at china peak but the heck with living in that mess.
That's far more a sign of a toxic work environment than anything else.

You survived it. You didn't do yourself any particular favours, beyond survival by the experience.
Interesting, upon 'ps aux', There's a 'sleep infinity' process running.
Two distinct opcode extensions for SAL/SHL

How those came about is pretty straightforward:

SHR - shift right with zero-fill
SAR - shift right with sign-fill
SHL - shift left with zero-fill
SAL - shift left with sign-fill

Of course, the sign-fill hardware is useless for left shift, so we effectively have two opcodes doing the same thing. The Z80 has a similar instruction, except that it, more oddly, always inserts a 1 in the LSB.
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The plot was pants, but the experience of watching he movie unfold was brilliant. Just the cinematography and the music alone was worth spending that time and money on.
The term “dehousing “ (used by the British to describe their bombers targeting the houses of German workers) is one of the most chilling and inhumane words I know. The official story is they were just trying to deny shelter to German civilians in order to reduce their morale.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehousing
I bet a young female wrote this, checks yep a young female wrote this.
The issue, IIRC, for JWST is that it's IR optics need to be cryogenically cooled, and even in the vacuum of space that coolant will gradually boil away. Hence why JWST will have a shorter lifetime than Hubble (L2 orbit, station keeping, and serviceability notwithstanding).
$530M in XEM Stolen from Coincheck Can Be Traced, NEM Team Confirms
I'm not sure either, shows how shot my memory is.

It sounds almost exactly like it though and I have read quite a bit of Hanselman's stuff. Bloody good find. Thank you :)
The "Families of bots" chart was so incredibly cool it floored me.
I don't think Tim Ferriss is the issue, nor is the 4 Hour Work Week. I think Tim Ferris chose the title for marketing purposes. I do however, agree that a lot of his followers are looking for too many shortcuts.
Which is great for the city. Amazon's big perk is that they're in the city and since they don't feed the staff there are tons of restaurants to walk to.
Tether Confirms Its Relationship with Auditor Has 'Dissolved'
> Leisure is actually quite important. Grinding away constantly can lead to burnout, poor health, frayed relationships, etc.

It's a shame that leisure time itself has to be framed around work.

As we move forward we need to move past this concept of "work" and "productivity" as the main drivers of what it means to be human.
This looks infinitely better than the Facebook industrial-esque spaces, but then this is for a tiny portion of the company's employees.
Of all the spider holes in Australia he happened to be photographing this one at the right moment, astounding.
No, actually, my complaint is that mid 20th century a bunch of people introduced a new definition for it, so clearly not everyone agrees :) Before that, however, the situation was much more clear cut. And even still, 'reality' is mostly just used in the traditional way. For instance, the American Heritage dictionary's entry:

n. The quality or state of being actual or true.
n. One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is
actual: "the weight of history and political realities” (
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.)
n. The totality of all things possessing actuality,
existence, or essence.
n. That which exists objectively and in fact: Your
observations do not seem to be about reality.
idiom in reality In fact; actually.

Now, if we jump to something like Wiktionary:

n. The state of being actual or real.
n. A real entity, event or other fact.
n. The entirety of all that is real.
n. An individual observer's own subjective perception of
that which is real.

—we can at least find one entry which match's the article's usage (the last one there). My problem with it is that redefining 'reality' to mean nearly the opposite of what it traditionally has meant is an underhanded way of pushing the philosophical viewpoint that no objective reality exists (which was held by the people who introduced this usage of the word).
You can create a new work subject to copyright incorporating other works. Any movie with music is an example, and so is “sampling” in music, or translations of books.

At issue here is wether the changes to the song were significant enough for it to be considered a creative work.

This is no different than the test for a de novo work:

Echo „hello world“

Is not enough to trigger copyright protection. Yet the MacOS source code is. Somewhere between the two, there is a line of demarcation. Where exactly that line is was the subject of this lawsuit.
How does this work? Given that its PID1 is not a "real" init process but a bash running the script `/google/scripts/onrun.sh` and its / being type `aufs`, I guess this is a Debian Docker instance?
I created the site last weekend and launched it on Tuesday.

It's mainly for catering 2 of my habits:

1. Frequently refreshing tech news sites like TechCrunch and HN;
2. Browse through text quickly but pause at each image.

So far I found it useful so I shared it here. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
ez peasy
Hydan: Hiding Information in Program Binaries by Equivalent Instructions (2004) [pdf]
It's not bigoted. Men have oppressed women -- basically since there have been women. Hell if someone did that to me I'd want to kill them too. Merely recognizing the sex of your oppressor isn't bigoted.
I think people, including the author, vastly underestimate what will happen when things get cheaper. I think smart speakers are still a case of transcription/understanding being cheap enough that we can do it for trivial things like turning on the lights.

But I think ML is even more powerful, in situations where we learn from real world data rather than some human/programmatic data labeling, we can exceed the abilities of people. Google's recent ML for health stuff comes to mind where it's much better at humans at certain tasks.
more in depth: its safe to assume that things will get more and more human-friendly, not the opposite.
Create an account on https://www.faasafety.gov/, and then set up your subscriptions from there.
I tried to switch to Firefox recently but couldn't do it. Here are my main issues with Firefox:

- not all settings get synced across devices
- All extensions are enabled in private mode without any way to turn it off. I like to sign in to another account in private mode without having my password manager auto-fill my accounts information.
What you're referring to here are boring old commerical loans. Of course you're never going to get a bank to lend you money unless they can be sure you will repay the principal.

If you're throwing money at risky ventures where you may lose your investment entirely it seems reasonable to expect a large amount of upside.
Sarah Kessler attacks Steve Yegge over so-called privilege
Blue ocean = unicorn business.

It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't think that's quite right. A market can be a "blue ocean" but be too small to support a billion dollar business. And you can certainly build a billion dollar business in a red ocean, if you just execute better than everybody else.

Now if one was to say "assuming sufficient size, it's easier to make a billion dollar company in a blue ocean market" then I think that would absolutely be true.
(I'm a co-founder at Overleaf.com, which does collaborative 'LaTeX in the browser' in a different sense.)

I like the idea of a 'sane' subset of LaTeX that is easy to publish to the web. There are tools like LaTeXML and TeX4ht that try to convert general LaTeX documents to (X)HTML, but it's a very hard problem.

Some difficulties arise from the fact that TeX is just very hard to parse in general. Even the first stage of parsing TeX is Turing complete [1]. This makes it hard to write tooling e.g. for linting (though tools exist, e.g. chktex) or creating a WYSIWYG editor backed by LaTeX [2]. (edit: or creating a good LaTeX auto-complete [4])

Others arise from TeX's extensibility --- there are many thousands of packages that define their own commands and environments for different types of documents and different disciplines. This extensibility is on the one hand one of the main reasons that TeX and LaTeX are still actively used some 40 years after TeX's initial release, but on the other hand a major challenge for conversion to HTML. The LaTeXML project has many custom bindings [3] for these packages, but it's far from complete.

I guess the main question is whether we can find the right subset, and this project looks like a great start.

[1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4201/is-there-a-bnf-...

[2] https://www.overleaf.com/blog/81 --- my first attempt at rich text on Overleaf, many years ago

[3] http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/manual/customization/customizat...

[4] https://www.overleaf.com/blog/523-a-data-driven-approach-to-...
This is a common, and dangerous, form of selection bias that we often see when old successful people give their wise advice to 'live life to the fullest'. Sure, it's easy to wax lyrical about taking chances when you already know that you made it to the end of your natural life in reasonable shape and with a nice amount of material wealth.

The people who did live that way and suffered a career-ending injury, or were killed in some dodgy third world country, or simply died a pauper - nobody cares about their advice.
They're like tree houses for office workers --neat. Remind me a bit of the tropical Sphere inside the California Academy of Sciences.
Yes, I'm not too happy with Airtable's layout. Will be building this out as a stand-alone web app.
the integrated editor was meh

Cloud Shell has Vim 8 installed, which you can use instead.
> ... using an IDE/Notebook.

I was with you until the end. The important part is that a script is clear and commented, and can be written to fail informatively. These are benefits of using a scripting language.

Who cares if an IDE was used rather than a traditional editor?

Dynamic notebooks and the JSON mess they generate are a personal peeve of mine, and IME, the enemy of reproducibility.

If it’s for a one-off analysis, but processing is complicated enough that scripts don’t make dependencies between processing steps clear, use GNU Make.

If it’s a data product that’s running in the background, consider something like Airflow.

Still, I find coreutils and friends incredibly useful for interactively sizing up text data.
There is a Terraforming github project which exports existing Amazon EC2 infrastructure and creates Terraform infrastructure tf code and tfstate. Terraforming github repo does not seem to be related to 1password.

Terraforming github repo
https://github.com/dtan4/terraforming
http://terraforming.dtan4.net/
AMIs in general are a pain in the ass in AWS, though. If you're using custom-built encrypted AMIs in multiple accounts, the easiest way is to build the AMI once in each account, which then leaves you with a different AMI ID in each account. So now your template with hardcoded ID that works in one account won't work in another.

See: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/4772

Since you're probably also rebuilding AMIs on a regular basis to keep up with upstream updates/patches, your best bet is to use the latest version of an AMI in your template and be sure that you're also pruning old/incompatible AMIs from accounts regularly.
Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (2002) [pdf]
And yet, so many successful companies were started by more than one person.

Caution is advisable, but simply working by yourself isn't for most people. It's quite possible to start working with someone tentatively, and get to know them and trust them as time goes on, as well as to protect yourself and your project legally once it gets further along.
Half of my quote is from that, the other half is from the article. I'm not a fan of either's usage, but I take no issue with PKD's because he's just sharing his ideas and fiction; the article has set itself up in way like it's going to objectively present information on some things and people in the world. Using 'reality' to mean what has traditionally meant 'not-reality', in that context, is distasteful, imo.
> actually their rocket science was far ahead of the amateur German efforts

That's not really what happened. At the end of the war, Germany had the absolute lead in the rocket development, except maybe the rocket artillery. Ever heard of V-2 rocket? It was the most advanced thing at the time. It's true though that USSR didn't use the German talent as much as Americans did, immediately after the war, but I think it's mostly due to the security concerns and ideological reasons. Why have Germans building rockets when you can use brilliant Korolev instead.
> I loved Cloud Shell but the inability to let me pay for a bigger backing instance or more storage is a real limitation.

Except Cloud Shell has Boost Mode:

https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/features#boost_mode

> Whoever first integrates Atom, though (all of these seem to use Ace), I think will be the real winner.

Google's is based on Orion, not Ace.
Is the Nobel Prize Award Subject to Income Taxation?
So does Microsoft.

Amazon doesn't have free soda though
Electronic bureaucracy has been developed to replace 1 or 2 brains plus paper records. However, put simply, it doesn't work.

(e.g. I had to give my address three times to the same outfit last month just to get a flu jab.)

But we can't go back to paper records so we'll try building a giant brain (AI) to try to decipher and manage millions of electronic records. Trouble is that that brain still won't have written the records or talked with the people they're about. So I doubt it will work.
If wonder if when our civilisation digs (deep holes), do we test for radioactivity?
The origin is this book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Construction_of_R...

It's probably fair to say that PKD would have found ideas like "consensus reality" (Charles Tart) or "reality tunnels" (Timothy Leary) to be, at least, relevant to his work.

I found this article helpful in sketching the developments that you seem to be objecting to: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-ame...
I think maybe we have a mismatch of cultural expectations. When I traveled in America I saw a lot of those junkie hotels - they're simply not really even thought of as viable hotels in my country. When you drive America you see America is poor.

An actual example from two of the categories I've actually stayed in.

ANA Crowne Plaza Okayama - $116AU a night. Not shockingly cheap, but cheap nonetheless.

PRINCE something something, in Osaka. 6000JPY a night on a public holiday.

No matter your definition of cheap, they're not 'expensive' hotels.
I have yet to hear how businesses with network effects, high barrier to entry, and control of rare resources don't inevitably become monopolies. Everything you're citing is just one form of those. Look at Facebook or Google, did government regs really help them become so huge?
Have any substance to add?

You're wrong, by the way; I actually refuted the previous poster, who was trying to use an example from 150 years ago to prove a point.
Looks like this story has already triggered an investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman!

"New York attorney general launches investigation into bot factory after Times exposé.
Louise Linton, Randy Bryce, and Clay Aiken all bought fake Twitter followers from a company called Devumi."

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/27/16940426/e...

Eric Schneiderman
@AGSchneiderman
Retweeted The New York Times

Impersonation and deception are illegal under New York law. We’re opening an investigation into Devumi and its apparent sale of bots using stolen identities.

https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/957289783490957312...
The workspaces in Amazon buildings are pretty standard (open plans subsectioned off for specific teams, etc) and look pretty similar to the Facebook buildings I've been to at the HQ.
I feel like this is illegal... not sure specifically for what though. maybe racketeering?
If it will break, the advantage is cheaper engineering and manufacturing. The price of electronics generally approaches zero anyway, so all problems people have with the industry evaporate as the phones get cheaper, cheaper, and cheaper.
Perl was first released in '87, so it kinda fits.
Sorry but I disagree. I’ve worked with all types and have no issue pushing folks I think are talented regardless of background. I’ve hired all kinds of people. If you don’t think what I’m referring to is an issue then you either haven’t been around very long or you are ignoring the obvious.
Yeah, I'm really surprised it's not mentioned here.

It also causes much less page-reflowing than MathJax, and is much more lightweight.
Miele Demonstrates 2-Stage Detergent System at KBIS 2018
Delay for spinning up new instances?
Yes, that’s my point. Event organisers cry incessantly about scalpers and all their purported anti-scalping rules. “Oh no, scalpers! They make it so expensive for the fans to get our reasonably priced, accessible tickets! Which we totally priced that way because we want you to have cheap access—not because we want to exchange potential profits for the guarantee of selling out!” /s.

Print a name on the ticket, check ID at entry. Zero scalpers, “problem” solved. They know that. Yet here we are. Why oh why?

Edit: to clarify, I’m trying to say that an event organiser has value from the concept of “selling out” beyond simply ticket revenue. It looks good, it’s a label that evokes exclusivity and popularity in audiences , which is important for future events. Big festivals are in the news every year with a new “sell out record time! Five femtoseconds omg! We are electrolytes, you are plants! Crave us!” Conveniently glossing over the fact that scalpers now own half the tickets. When pressed, “oh no, we hate scalpers! Boo. If we catch you, ho boy! We’ll give you a heck of a diddly talking to! Bad scalpers.” — “will you do anything to stop them?” — “yes, we all spend five minutes each day farting in their general direction.”

Give me a break.
As someone who has taken more than their share of risks in life I have to say most of them were worth it! Even if I ended up broke and divorced :-)

And without trying will you ever know?
Disgusting development and a horrible example of how destructive technology can be.

This reinforces my belief that engineers and scientist need to go through mandatory ethics classes throughout their education.
When any new social network arises, is it worth building up a network of fake accounts on it?
I worked at a place that started featuring Glassdoor reviews on pages about companies (stock ticker pages). Shortly thereafter, they became one of Glassdoor’s top places to work! Wow! Probably a coincidence.
Something to consider about many scientific programming domains - they don't do much in the way of conditionals. Glance at the code for FFT - https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform (especially FORTRAN for the engineer and MATLAB for the data scientist). This is the domain that many work in. Throw a problem at people who haven't gone outside the implementation of mathematical formulas that requires using conditionals as part of the design and there may be a bit more difficulty. This could account for the "worst candidates" that you've experienced.
Who gets to determine what is considered ethical?
Malevolence as would be described by the CONSUMER (low quality and/or high prices). Something like Comcast, a successful business whose customers typically hate it, and which is deeply entrenched as a 'utility' due to its foothold in local municipalities.

> If the incumbent has all the patents

Is that not a form of government licensing?

> sue them unfairly and bleed them dry (as Creative did to Audigy)

Is that not exploiting flaws in the governing system? Wouldn't the best solution be to fix the flaws, rather than create a workaround to attempt to fix abuses of more fundamental problems?

> you neglect the fact of regulatory capture - once a company gets to a certain size, it can often buy its way into an unfair advantage

I don't neglect that at all -- that is the problem to solve. Obviously, humans are not perfect so no government will ever be, but we should strive to solve more fundamental problems than to layer our legal system in thousands of pages of bandaids, which have done nothing to solve the Comcasts of the world.

Do you disagree?
Personally, I think of Apps Script as being more like the cloud-based equivalent of VBA.
Yep, my understanding is also that Berger and Luckmann is the source of the phrase.

That looks like an interesting article—I'll check it out.

Here's another (shorter) one that deals with the issue: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/11/post-truth-spawn... (There's a very brief summary in the section "The truth about post-truth")
Wingsuits aren't inherently dangerous, but they're only fun if you're flying close to things, and flying close to solid objects in an impromptu aircraft with terrible aerodynamics and highly questionable control scheme is dangerous.

So yes, wingsuits when used in the way that wingsuits are almost always used are inherently dangerous.
Here's your big reveal, the choice between uprooting oneself from where you've lived all your life versus sticking it out in the hope that things would get better existed through all generations, including your grandparents and mine... Irrespective of where they were. The US simply had one extra generation of a buffer where Americans didn't have to really think hard and long about these matters... But trust me, the risk assessment you allude to, that was real and hard for every immigrant, irrespective of the country of origin.
Any thoughts as to why that you can share? Thanks :-)
In 2018, Amazon Own Brand Products will come out of the shadows

Amazon has discreetly developed more than forty own brands. 29 of them belong to the textile world, an area where Amazon excels. According to industry experts, Amazon is expected to accentuate this private label strategy in 2018. A way for the e-commerce giant to offer exclusive products while optimizing its costs. more details here

https://www.mjobrr.com/2018-amazon-brand-products-will-come-...