skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for this it looks promising. Just a couple minor constructive criticism points that are personally keeping me on minihack.

1: I need the ability to swipe back from anywhere on the screen, i’m unable to reach all the way to the left edge most of the time.

2: The ability to up the density of posts/comments on the page. I really like seeing as much content as possible without a ton of dead space and scrolling.
New York Taxi Driver wrote about how the Gig Economy drove him to suicide
Cochrane Collaboration is a network of independent scientists. They analyzed the evidence and said that Tamiflu is no more effective than Paracetamol: http://www.cochrane.org/news/tamiflu-and-relenza-getting-ful...
They were nominated for a Pulitzer not long ago, so maybe check your ego.
You know I think you may be onto something here.

The human heart gets into trouble above 200-220 bpm. So a four minute mile is 1000 ‘paces’ in 800-880 beats. And for 4 minutes perhaps (for a marathon, definitely) you have to stay below your aerobic threshold which is probably below 160 bpm if you are good.
That’s probably closer to 1.5 or two strides per heartbeat.

To run so fast a cheetah pumps its lungs in time with its gait. If the human leg has to, at the limits of endurance, synchronize with the diastolic pressure of circulatory system, I don’t think we would be too surprised.

In fact runners and cyclists already know that cadence matters and most amateurs start with a very low one.
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> If the arctic melts that doesn't mean the mercury is going to suddenly migrate into the rest of the world. It will probably be taken up in arctic plants and wildlife in the same proportions it exists everywhere else.

I am curious if you are an expert in this field and know this to be true, or if you are making a quick assumption from a layman's understanding.

Reading the full text: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL075571/full
Where there is more context to the quote about their measurements being consistent with non permafrost sites, and the discussion about active layer vs permafrost layers and mercury cycles, it is not clear to me that you take is correct.

It would be wonderful if someone knowledgeable could chime in.
Not going to lie, Java app servers basically had me predisposed to see the appeal of Elixir. When I was spending a lot of time with Ruby I got really into Torquebox (Ruby-ized JBoss) specifically for the clustering aspects, ability to spread workers and clustered cache with Infinispan.

Elixir has a lot in common, but it takes it to another level. You can call functions from those other applications on the server with nothing more than a Module.function(arguments). You can call a function on another node in the cluster by just sending the node + module, function and arguments.

Because of immutability and message passing, this just works everywhere. With Java, a similar implementation would have to guard against memory references and mutex locks that wouldn't behave the same way on different nodes.
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Imagine seeing 6 boosters land simultaneously. Just nuts.
Linux the kernel does something similar. I'm not sure about e.g. layout of what various /proc files produce (though it wouldn't surprise me if that were cast in stone as well), but syscalls in particular are compatible waaay back.

glibc and a handful other libraries are also careful not to break binary compatibility, providing versioned symbols for old binaries.

Beyond that it tends to suck, with some libraries not even bothering with sonames.
And by great you mean, meh.

It's not even funny how boring those jobs are. I'd take an outsourcing job in eastern Europe anytime, rather than spend one more hour in the German automotive industry.
C# is actually "Unity script" and compiles to C++. It even bundles its own C++ garbage collector.

It's terrible. Not being able to write native code is a tremendous weakness of the engine. Not to mention that since you're writing a "fake" C#, you don't get the full runtime (can't use reflection, can't use coalescing null features, etc).
It does not make any sense during winter, but because of inertia, they keep the same schedule as the rest of the year.
There is a large ereader by onyx that you can use as an external screen:

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/onyx-boox-ma...

Otherwise, most other ereaders also have webbrowsers, but you would want to get the ReMarkable for the pen experience (the large one linked above also has a wacom pen, but more latency)
It has a very striking design: http://nationalinterest.org/files/styles/main_image_on_posts...

but:

> Given the sheer expense of the DDG-1000 class and its lack of certain ballistic missile defense capabilities—not to mention a number of outmoded technologies onboard—the Navy opted not to continue building the Zumwalt class. The three-ship class has cost the Navy $23 billion, with each ship coming in at roughly $4.25 billion per vessel when research and development is not factored in.

> In the medium term, the future of the Navy’s surface fleet lies with the new Flight III Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyer—which BIW will start building starting with DDG-126 and DDG-127.

Flight III Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer#...

Naval shipbuilding needs a SpaceX.
Well... the ban on using nuclear weapons has worked so far. The ban (to the extent it exists) on using unwarranted digital data dragnets in civilian policing has at least limited its use some.

Not that I disagree with the larger points, it's an uphill fight.
What are the things people can actually do - realistically the only way to fix this is a carbon tax that includes the environmental costs of burning carbon. Becoming vegetarian on an individual level will basically be a drop in the ocean, there are not enough people going to change.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKCuDxpccYM
That's a really silly response.

They're paying 4% above average (and that's the 2016 average - prices may be higher in 2018). The average likely includes a range far greater than 4% depending on the properties involved.

Google is clearly not paying anything remotely describable as "shockingly high".
> And honestly, if the purpose is for there to be more lighter hours during the evening, why not just adjust time so our current 14:00 is 12:00? And stick with that all year round?

Because that's aesthetically ugly. Can't we just change work hours to be 7:00-15:00 instead?
Yeah. They're adapting the projectile developed by the railgun project to conventional powder guns. It'll end up being a much more affordable and practical approach.

As far as whether they'll end up on the Zumwalts? Who knows. The lack of a missile defense system on the Zumwalts has more or less made them pointless beyond research/development testbeds. We're just going to build more Burkes and upgrade existing ones instead, which is more cost effective on the whole.
Hmm, looks like this got killed. It's the top post on http://hckrnews.com/ but it's no where to be found on the main site, but there are no flags or anything.
Thoughts on "thinking long term".

I always translate monthly expenses as 2055 dollars, because that is my target retirement date.

If something in 2018 costs $100/month that means it costs $1,200/yr. You can expect to see about 8% returns in the stock market over the long term. By saving $100/month for a year instead of spending it I will have ~$20,000 in 2055 money. If I continue to save the $100/month instead of spend it I will have ~$275,000 in 2055 money.

Edit: Translating to your target retirement date dollars also works for one time purchases.
Are you referring to the initial ACA website? The USDS and 18F came about as a result of resolving that particular debacle.
A little more info:

"Tamiflu (the antiviral drug oseltamivir) shortens symptoms of influenza by half a day, but there is no good evidence to support claims that it reduces admissions to hospital or complications of influenza."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140411091937.h...

Or the complete review: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD008965...
Which could definitely be an issue since the Zumwalts are tiny and low prestige so they might not get the top shelf Skippers.
Its not if you focus on searchability and group chatting (Stripe, Discord, WeChat) so literally the biggest 3 players if you ignore the Facebook stack (And Facebook hasnt mastered encryption either, plus took very long to even try).
Suprised to see a generic post like this becoming so popular.

It is like somebody watched a Warren Buffet documentary and used his personality traits as universally appliable rules.

I bet if someone took the time to collect anecdotes of some flashy yachting billionairs, one would draw just the opposite take aways.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RoastMe/
10/10 for the landing page. your landing page to appstore conversion rate would be to the roof I guess. As other folks were asking, commenting and posting would complete the experience.
Of course, living on 10% of your income is just impossible when you're earning 1000-2000 a month.

I would also add: read the terms and conditions before you spend money on something, and go as far as you reasonably can to get your money back when you deserve it (legally speaking). Just in the past month

I agree that working smarter, not harder is something that really pays off. Unfortunately, this mentality has not really landed in a lot of places. At the consulting company I work, most people work 5 * 8 hours and commute 3+ hours, which leaves very little opportunity to get a second income. The company characterizes this as 'work hard, play hard'. Indeed, I see consultants working hard and managers playing hard.
Superficially you could say that, but the design of Julia is such that it is much easier for you to grasp what is going on at the lower levels and the performance implications of the code you write.

Python is much more of a black box, performance wise.

Also something like Cython is radically different from Julia. Cython is compiled to C code. Julia is based on JIT so while you have an interactive session in the REPL, functions are continously compiled as you make them.
A good while controversial start is Ian Balina @diaryofamademan (ICO heavy content) and then just follow founders from various cryptos (Vitalik from Ethereum, Jed from Stellar). Then just add all the people mentioned people retweet.
They're orthogonal because you can change one without changing the other: 24-hour vs 12-hour clock is about how we label the passage of time throughout the day locally, roughly mapping the local position of the sun to an hour table. Time zones are a method of being able to use the same labels locally and translating between them. We can change to a 25 hour day, partitioning that into 5-hour segments we label α, β, γ, δ, and ε and still use time zones to know that 2β (because we can also choose this arbitrarily with varying measures of utility) is approximately the time when the sun is highest in the sky.

Another example: we could use 0 as noon and label hours + or - relative to noon, so 11 a.m. would be -1 and 1 would be 1 p.m. That would have the utility that you would know, roughly, relative darkness based on the absolute value of the hour. And again, you can change this independently of the choice whether to use time zones. This arguably makes more sense with respect to sun position: while the a.m. and p.m. label periods leading up to and after midday, the number used as part of that label is still arbitrary.

This makes it even more clear that we do fine some kind of measure of relative position of the sun in the sky useful. We want to be able to understand relative to the location of a point on the earth. Hours set locally do this. Using UTC everywhere does not. Yes, you can find situations where this isn't as important, but they're generally outside of the everyday human domain.

I encourage you to carry your ideas further than a one sentence description of disagreement: How do they apply across cultures? How are they practical? How would they be used in every day life? What are the implications? What are other reasonable alternatives? Please note I'm not saying they're not, but it's really hard to figure out exactly what you're getting at. My goal is not to construct a straw man to argue against, but any model that I may make to explore the issue further may be inaccurate because you've provided so little to base it on. In particular, I'd like to hear about your ideas on computing the difference in solar altitudes.
> Does an 'exagram' mean anything to you?

You just need the density of permafrost and then you can compute the volume from the exagram value, and depending on how thick you make it you get back either the surface of northern Canada and Siberia or you get a really really tall tower of permafrost that reaches into low earth orbit :-).

> I wonder how they have any confidence in the error range.

It is my understanding that there are many many core samples at various locations in the permafrost to understand its nature and make up. My guess would be that they derive the error ranges using the change in concentrations between all of the sample points leading them to a median and mean difference in concentration samples as their base set.
Well, it’s definitely at least as much an option as passing a law forcing people to change their conception of time for.... people with 9-5 jobs? Since when do we value those people more than others?
Have you accounted for inflation and the fact that your assumption about stock market returns may very well be completely false since past results do not imply future returns?

The best way to get rich is to generate a large amount of value for a lot of people as fast as possible in a way that you will directly benefit on the upside (imho.) Not pinch pennies and put your fate in the hands of returns on a specific asset class.
1. I guess? I'm not a native speaker either. I maybe just made up a new abbreviation for "synchronised"?

2. Not currently. I'm planning on adding this in the next few weeks

Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad you like it!
They're bad for browsing, I agree. I do a lot of file management and reorganization across network drives, and it would benefit me by immediately exposing one or two directory levels above a file location for drag and drop simplicity. Multiple windows or tiling tabs in Windows explorer could accomplish this as well, of course.
Because of a recent "Software Engineering Daily" episode about modern warfare, I just finished reading "Ghost Fleet", a fictional book from a few years ago which features this Zumwalt-class destroyer in a war between the US and a joint China-Russia alliance. It was a fun read.
'...brain and body are fundamentally intertwined, and to understand what defines your limits under any particular set of circumstances, you have to consider them both together'.

The 'considering' is at the foundations of many mystical and meditative traditions going back thousands of years.

Separately, for years when I ran I would time myself and stress about going faster over the same route, and enter races for the medal, t shirt and ranking amongst finishers. I realized that was not a useful way to get the most out of running and that I should try to make it a far more meditative, relaxing experience, and was surprised to find (when I did time myself one day out of curiosity) that I was running at the higher end of the elapsed times I had stressed about previously
That is a solid solution. As long as everyone in the ecosystem is on JVM, more power to you. If, for example, one needs to interface with some cutting edge DL modules written in Python, one needs something else. The transitive closure over "something else" is called "containerization".

PS. Maybe "EAR" also supports Python. But then I'd argue "EAR" is a "container".
Flag it and move on.
Though China can be criticized on many fronts, I'm a little envious over the pragmatic strong arming of Roche with a "produce it or we will" approach in order to secure a supply.

There are serious things wrong with our system when the best allocation of capital is to acquire and park IP. "Non practicing" IP should have strong incentives to make it accessible. What are possible policies for that: taxation incentive, compulsory licensing, or others?
I'm guessing the whole "you can't get a radar lock on me to shoot in the first place" didn't work out for ballistic missile defense?
Overall, I think this is great article, but I have two quibbles:

1. Start a business if you want to get rich: you can also start a business if you want to lose a lot of money. I lost nearly $100k that would have otherwise gone into my retirement trying to start a business. Most businesses fail. So think starting a business should be seen as a high-risk investment.

2. You can't get rich on a salary: My wife and I have never made six-figure salaries. We are in our mid-40s and we will be breaking $1 million in retirement savings this year if the economy stays stable. We did this by maxing out our 401k contributions since our 20s.

Becoming a millionaire is a lot of hard work, but if the recommendations in this article are too extreme I've always appreciated Elizabeth Warren's advice of 50/30/20: 50% of spending on necessities, 30% on fun, and 20% on savings. Using this a guide, I've been able to tell when I need to downsize my spending and I've been able to spend on fun without feeling guilty.
using gallons as a unit - that's ri-di-cu-lous
Open workspaces seem to be designed for managers, not makers
I would guess taxpayers. But keep in mind the military has a huge budget for training exercises. I would guess they just cancel one of those and go blow this up instead.

I doubt it's costing us anything 'extra'. Also I'm not super enthusiastic about corporations being able to purchase airstrikes, or really any kind of military operation.

If someone's complaint is the military budget is too big, i'd agree. But this specific thing seems like it's in everyone's best interest, and a good use for resources we'd spend anyway.
Discussed on HN 2 days ago, 76 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307725
There seems to be several spelling errors. I glanced over the page and also found these:

formated - formatted
loose - lose (in the bottom images)
One aspect the article doesn't seem to cover is how hard it is for the current team to recruit anyone to join. Think about it. They all joined during Obama, and presumably supporting him and Dem principles in place. Now that Trump is the supreme ruler, the current team is slowly leaving, as the article has pointed out. Imagine trying to hire someone to replace you, when you can't tell them with a straight face that if given a choice, you would stay for a second term because you can't wait to leave. Thus lack of hiring.
Financial companies often require two week vacations to keep fraud down - if you're not there to cover your tracks then it will be exposed.

The FDIC recommendation: https://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/1995/fil9552.html
"hundreds of thousands" is a bit of a stretch, but SWE w/security clearance at a small outfit will net you significantly more. Lots of tiny PO Box'd contractors around DC.
One of the pieces of advice I did not heed from my Dad was to try and save/invest 30% of your salary. This one is hard to understand until you are in your 40s and realise you are probably going to continue to work well into your 50s.

I love my job, but I'm now involved a lot more in the political arena, knowing I can make a difference there, but being held back. 'Having' to hold down a job is getting in the way.

I'm at peace with the choices I made but I also recognise I could not be working now if I'd been a bit more prudent.
Maybe -- but we've already conceded so much to the notion that time moves at a constant rate that changing this one thing seems reasonable. The Romans had a twelve-hour day from sunup to sundown, regardless of the "length" of the day, but we've judged that to not be useful, especially once we have non-solar time-keeping devices.

I think we've reached the time when having a mostly-monotonic clock outweighs the benefits of adapting the clock to match human behavior.

On the other hand, the ubiquity of cell phones as timekeeping devices has made the transition a lot less noticeable, so maybe you have a point.
Can you please remove the word unsexy from the title? That would make it sound less click baity.
Is it a stand in? My understanding is that there are vastly more workers in the gig economy than the “disrupted” industries previously employed. Seems like a classic case of concentrated downside, diffuse upside, similar to free trade.

The existence of the gig economy shouldn’t prevent someone from choosing to be fully welfare dependent for i.e. retraining, if welfare is good enough.
My must-follow for cryptocurrency insight is @tqbf.
I first heard about this deal around Thanksgiving. I am curious how everyone kept the real estate brokers' mouths shut for this long. For New York City, this might be a record.
Claiming that this is survivorship bias is off the mark. That is not a criticism that you can level at any long-term study just because you heard it on the internet. If the intent of the study is to evaluate what terms lead to survivorship, then of course your study is going to be full of survivors - as this one is.

While the assessment undoubtedly suffers from some bias, that is also the intent, to some degree. It does not seek to say that these are the only reasons people became millionaires, but instead that these were common, correlated behaviors, and that the logical conclusion you might draw from them is that they are also causative.
I'm referring to the legal system that enforces constitutional rights, which is a far-cry from the government imposing restrictions on voluntary transactions among private citizens. Laws that enforce your inalienable human rights to not be physically harmed or robbed, to be left alone, are always a good thing.

The free market provides us with legal professionals (though the must be credentialed) who may be hired to fight a case with the best-interests of their client at heart. Depending on your jurisdiction, it may also allow for collective funding of individual legal cases.

I am of the opinion that pursuing real-life cases of legitimate criminal discrimination, and allowing virtuous ideas to win a marketplace of ideas, is the superior path to fairness and freedom for us all. This is direct opposition to the intersectional-collectivism that focusses on the aggregate-experience of an entire population and suggest solutions that are framed in this false paradigm.
https://paste.ubuntu.com/26542161/
If they did, I really hope there's video.
So NYC aside, what is your answer for cities?

How does a city improve itself without bringing in new jobs and tax revenue?

Should a city just let buildings sit there and rot instead of selling them to a company that wants to create hundreds or thousands of jobs?
Since Clang 3.8 at least, it has __builtin_cpu_supports() too.
SpaceX probably did not request an air strike. This might be a case of weird rules for dealing with range safety. That is making sure the area around the rocket range is safe. As this was a military launch, the US Air Force Space Command was in charge of range safety[0]. Since the Air Force was responsible for range safety, they were also probably responsible for dealing with the navigation hazard the rocket presented.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_safety