skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it really depends on the type of side project.

Trying to start a small business in your free time? Probably a lot of hours. I wouldn't be surprised to see people spending 20+ on the weekend for this.

Trying to beef up your resume for an imminent job search? Less than the start your own business guys, but a good amount. Maybe 10 hours on the weekend.

Do you just really, really like programming? No limit here then. As much time as you can while still eating, sleeping, and keeping your spouse happy.

Is it just like any other hobby to you? Probably <10 hours in most cases. It's not like you have any reason to finish in a timely manner and you probably have other hobbies to get to.

Have a 9-5 tech job that you plan on staying in for a while? Most people in this situation are probably at 0 hours. For most people it's just a job. No need to bring it home. Also, once you have kids and other responsibilities side projects will be one of the first things to go.

Anyways, my point here is that unless you're trying to monetize it somehow, either by starting a business or getting a future job, just do it however much you feel like. 0 hours, 10 hours, 20 hours, it doesn't really matter. It's supposed to be fun. There's nothing wrong with sitting in front of the TV all weekend, or camping all weekend without any technology, or doing anything else you want on the weekend.

A lot of people on this website have drunk the productivity kool-aid, some for good reasons, but it tends to be a little extreme in my opinion. There are better things in life to be than productive.
I wonder if it would have made it any more obvious to explicitly define it as:

f(x) = 0*x + 6

EDIT: Or even, if multiplication is a problem, f(x) = (x - x) + 6
As far as I can tell, they're right. I don't see how adopting these habits is harmful and I can see plenty of benefits.
It already exists, MS Excel
Yep, Erlang's use of = operator's pattern matching / assignment allows for some very elegant solutions, in addition to function guards, deconstruction, and other use-cases.

It basically uses pattern matching as a fundamental/primitive part of the language design, rather than some useful add-on or tertiary feature.
Vigilance control. But even these fail with more experienced users, similar to how alarm clocks fail some people (they wake up just enough to get up and turn the alarm off, then continue sleeping).
There's a researcher at the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania who researches this topic:

https://neuroethics.upenn.edu/portfolio-items/childhood-pove...
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> electricity generation also has significant environmental impact

Hydropower? The primary materials used are concrete and steel, and dams last for centuries with minimal upkeep. As long as appropriate measures (such as fish ladders) are taken, the local and global environmental impact is negligible.
I wouldn't say that it's on par with with a spot mini. Walking and movement seems pretty slow and rough. It's really too bad that advancements in actuator technology haven't made it into consumer robots.
My understanding is that European royalty generally thought of their positions as being granted by divine providence. I guess it's slightly different because they didn't attain their position (they were born into it) but I think there's little question they generally considered themselves inherently morally superior to the poor.

Really, it seems like the mechanism may have changed; "I am successful because God has chosen me in my inherent superiority to be successful" vs "I am successful because of the inherent superiority of the moral code I follow", but they're really just different applications of the just-world fallacy. Which, in turn, is a natural product of the way our brains are wired.
I agree with almost everything you’re saying, but it is worth pointing out that Rees-Mogg is just a despicable person, not Calvinist or anything else. In fact he’s a devout Catholic. What he is above all is comically privelaged and lacking empathy, religion aside.
> In few decades we will be catapulted into space from London without engines on "the Moon elevator" and then pull back with Earth gravity, slowed down by huge magnets and safely land in New York in less than 19 minutes, door to door.

I’d like to see the trajectory that takes you from NY to London in 19 minutes without squashing you and/or causing insane amount of heating. Bonus points if the only source of thrust is a fancy air brake.
If you have to join all the the jobs at the same time (which is pretty inflexible), how is the ordering of the results determined? My exposure to this model was in the perl threads module (and the forks module which offers the same api with os forking instead), where you join on a specific thread id, so you can easily enforce ordering by first joining a, and then joining b; I assumed a join with no parameters would join a thread that's ready and/or wait for the first to become ready, because that seems like the most useful/basic interface, and anything more specific (like join all the threads, or join the threads in some order) could be added as needed in the context where it's needed.
But these facts mean we are already more meritocratic than aristocratic. The relative importance of these factors define where we are in that spectrum. Being meritocratic is what we want I think. Sure, we are still a bit wealth biased, but that might actually be due to intelligence being hereditary not wealth being causal.
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The republican party platform combines the roughly orthogonal financial interests of the wealthy and moral interests of white evangelicals. Some of the key demands of poor whites are addressed within that latter category.
It's a clock, why does it need config? If you need to adjust the time and light, give it a poti or button for manual adjustment. Might even give it a radio to grab time of the air. Even a sim card to get NTP of the WAN would be simpler than having to connect to it.

I know, I know, you wanna configure the light to flicker as signal for ... failed log in attempts. :)

PS: at least something was realized. I never finished my alarm clock design because LEDs do draw energy, more than would be feasible for battery operation, I thought. Quick check: 2000mAh at 1.5V in an AA cell, 20mA at 1.4V per LED. So, with 100 LEDs like here, I would be swapping Batteries by the hour; And a single LED pulsed at 1/100 s might run for (barely) a year.
None. I went part-time in my day job and now spend thu/fri working on my side project. It’s good to have the weekend back.
You just compared fleet average in one time period to an extreme outlier in another time period.

In reality, fleet average fuel economy has been nearly flat for four decades, with the biggest periods of movement being driven by brief excursions in the price of crude oil. Those efficiency excursions were in turn driven not by technological improvement, but by changes in the makeup of the vehicle fleets themselves (lighter cars, smaller engines).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
And it is endlessly entertaining to see just how quickly their minds can wrap around a subject you would think is too advanced for them. Its a matter of establishing a common language. Seeing that light go on in their eyes is unbelievably satisfying.
Twisty little maze of cabbages, all alike. Sorry, OT, couldn't resist.
On top of that, in many American households the dog serves as a substitute for a child (as is made obvious by language such as "fur baby", "dog mom" etc.). And the cost of rearing a child is another order of magnitude higher. So, if you replace the child with a dog, and then replace the dog with an Aibo, you're looking at a cost that's two orders of magnitude lower. That's a bargain.
Uber's ultimately at fault because it was their car. But the woman driving should be arrested for vehicular manslaughter. Uber knew its cars weren't autonomous, that's why they had a driver to take over when the car screws up. But she was texting while she should've been ready to take control of the vehicle and hit a pedestrian any driver that was paying attention would've easily avoided.
> You're arguing facts not in evidence.

I don't understand what that sentence means.

> The 787 can operate out of many airports the A380 cannot.

Yes? I said batteries would have to be a lot lighter and kerosene a lot more expensive before they are a practical replacement. I think we agree, but I think you think we disagree?
Internet friendships can be very rewarding because you can easily find people with compatible interests, hobbies, etc. If only they weren't as superficial, otherwise loneliness would be a solved problem by now.
Yeah, debugging possible outcomes of undefined behavior in C/C++ is pretty much exactly a mystery language exercise.

With older compilers, the usual question is "Will `-2 >> 1` perform sign extension or not?"
With modern compilers, the usual question is "What arbitrary constant can the compiler choose for `-2 >> 1` to maximize the number of provably dead code paths?"
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Since all the good suggestions are taken, I want to mention a couple of diversions:

fortune: prints something silly or thought-provoking. You can get extra fortune cookie files or add your own.

cowsay: prints an ascii-art cow (or other creature) with a speech-bubble filled with the text of your choice. You can pipe fortune into cowsay for extra fun.

$ fortune | cowsay
______________________________________
/ Publishing a volume of verse is like \
| dropping a rose petal down the Grand |
\ Canyon and waiting for the echo. /
--------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
I've grokked programming only after being exposed to Lisp. Before Lisp, learning how to programme seemed like a never ending exercise. After, I realised I already know everything I need to know - data in, data out…
when a bank lends out money, that money ends up (for most part nowadays) in another person's ... bank account.
From snooping around at KubeCon NA last December, my impression is that Apple is doing something involving GPU computing on top of Kubernetes. My guess would be machine learning, but they were characteristically hush-hush about it.
On the other hand, growing upon Pennsylvania decades ago, both ourselves and our dogs would get covered by (dog) ticks whoever we went out in the woods or meadows around the house. Tick-borne diseases were much less of an issue though.
I had a somewhat similar encounter with a 4 year old (!), who blew me away with his ability to solve arithmetic puzzles:

http://heinrichhartmann.com/blog/2016/06/12/Box-Counting-Ari...

It's a great joy to work with such gifted young minds.
>what's wrong with a function that multiplies by 0?

Obviously the fact that it doesn't seem to have any visible effect on the input -- and people expect the input to be affected.
After a quick search it looks like the mainstream explanation is that people were just getting sick for "unknown reasons" before being able to test cheaply enough for e coli:

>"The sudden debut of E. coli O157:H7 in the 1980s made many people wonder how it had come to be. Was it the monstrous product of the modern food industry? Tarr and his colleagues analyzed the genome of the bacteria to estimate its time of origin. “These organisms have been around for 7,000 years,” says Tarr. It’s possible that E. coli O157:H7 and other pathogenic strains caused outbreaks for centuries before microbiologists could identify them as the cause."

http://www.newsweek.com/e-coli-rise-superbacteria-67931
Cool game; used to do something like that with kids, but more in context of sequence patterns. still, the game is limited to functions that are specified intensionally. Extensionally specified functions with no readily identifiable intension (like a function whose pairs are the result of a random pairing) are not really guessable. Oh well those are boring anyway...
Not a criticism but I honestly can’t understand reacting like that. Use permethrin, do tick checks, and take other precautions.
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I thought it's where you drop the shot glass with Jägermeister entirely into a mug of beer (hence the name).
omg is that kid gonna be a hacker.
and because fuel dump is only allowed above 4000ft/1300m.
I wish someone would explain all of Category Theory like this to me.
There would probably be instances that I would fit into better, but discoverability is also a problem. I also had a hard time figuring out how to make multiple instances visible at once in a single interface, either on mobile or desktop; I'm not sure if that's even supposed to be possible.

As far as why I care, it's because these interesting people very understandably want to talk about their lifestyle choices, and I don't really want to hear about it. (Just like how I'm okay with people smoking in their homes, but I find their smoke distasteful.) It made the signal-to-noise ratio for me a little too low for pleasure.
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Time to pay the volunteers! :)
Oh that's very true as well. Although it's possible that he was influenced by those ideas regardless as to what his actual religion is.
> Church is every week

Every day, in many cases, though perhaps considered obligatory only slightly more than once a week.
I actually really like the look of that. One of my friends is learning to program (in Python) and has recently taken an interest in FP. Planning to show this to her.
College admissions is overwhelmingly biased towards the "class enemies" you're describing. The problem is there are not enough underrepresented minorities who are qualified for universities in proportion to their presence in the general population. Consequently, Asian and Jewish students are discriminated against in college admissions, partly because their cultures buy into the upper class ideals that are denigrated in this article.
If I have to convince my webhost to install PHP 7...

It's a very long time since I used any sort of shared hosting, but do companies that use a single instance of PHP for multiple accounts still exist? I though they'd all moved to virtual servers with separate configs per account. Upgrading is a matter of changing a variable in cpanel somewhere.
I did infrastructure work on OpenShift for the majority of last year, and I can tell you that my team's experience was absolutely horrendous. OpenShift, to me, suffers from "too early syndrome", and since it was building features on top of k8s before the underlying platform was mature, has ended up in a very weird state in relation to k8s.

Frankly, it was a supremely painful platform to work on. They obfuscated just enough of the k8s API to make it simultaneously completely unintuitive for less "orchestration minded" team members, yet severely underpowered for me and my fellow platform workers. It struck an unhappy medium for our team that no-one wanted or needed.

All my looks at OpenShift suggest that not enough has been peeled back to make it a useful platform-on-a-platform, but since they probably paved the way for certain features, those features have predominantly been implemented (and more tightly integrated) into k8s. RedHat is going to need to come up with a new value proposition for OpenShift for it to ever be a truly viable alternative to "raw" Kuberenetes, and given their buy-in to the technology, I'm not convinced they'll want to throw away the work they've done so far. Good money after bad, or something.
Genuinely curious: how does the lack of IPv6 cause 40ms of latency?
Or when there's a random tire or mattress lying in your lane. I see that kind of stuff on the interstates all the time.
Last I checked, he's working on Azure's Kubernetes solution.
Nope. There's a current mismatch between automotive hardware life cycles and consumer software life cycles.

This Volvo hardware is going to be a minimum of 3 years old before it ships and will have to function for 10 years+.

How good is your 10 year old phone? How does it match up to the average consumer experience today? How's the speakers, camera, audio, OTA software, and display compare to what's available today?

Not owning the software ecosystem is a good first step but will be severely hampered by not aligning hardware development cycle expectations.
It's not like those are mutually exclusive, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwashing_in_Judaism
Language note: What's with the use of "plurality" to indicate merely multiple or many?

That's usage I largely see in obfuscated patent filings, and which should be avoided even there.
This is one of those cases where you have to remind yourself about Google's casual overuse of the term "beta". Because one generally does not associate a "beta" with being "ready for production".
Note kid asked "dad what are you doing", not "what is functional programming". That's a simple call for attention, and it was equally suitable to close the book and play frisbee with him.
and thus the space time continuum was born

I find percussions to be highly abstract and mathematical, also probably related to our sense of balance
Until they become a monopoly and all that good customer service dissolves down the drain. It's already happening in the US.
The name also succinctly states the strongest objection to the idea (noise pollution).
Take their word with a grain of salt. Some philosophers have said reality doesn't exist, or that you can't arrive anywhere because there is an infinite number of distances to traverse.
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Absolutely. The teacher was clearly speaking in a very particular context. It's, "If I am not allowed to work, I refuse to eat."

Even in the same book, there are plenty of other stories that make different but complimentary points. E.g., "The Stingy Artist": http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/47thestingyartist.html

Or the one about the Zen master and a thief who tries to rob him: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/44thethiefwhobecameadiscip...
The gardens are interconnected, for the most part. That's the point.

And you can either join one or run your own.
Ah yeah that's a good distinction that I should have made.

I think I read somewhere that it's used by the Canadian Forces as well, but not made available to civilians.
Almost anything in the End User Development research field.
I personally think that managing Chromebooks is at least a little easier than other computers, but I see your point that Windows isn't that much worse.

There's something to be said for Chromebook specs, though. I still have a Samsung Chromebook with a Samsung ARM processor from 2012 and 2GB ram. Using Windows on that machine would be painful. ChromeOS ain't gonna break any speed records but it's actually quite usable still.

Also, they should be using G Suite for education which doesn't serve ads and don't use user data for ad profiles.

The privacy notice says that they collect:

- device information, such as the hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number of the user

- log information, including details of how a user used our service, device event information, and the user's Internet protocol (IP) address

- location information, as determined by various technologies including IP address, GPS, and other sensors

- unique application numbers, such as application version number

- cookies or similar technologies which are used to collect and store information about a browser or device, such as preferred language and other settings

None of that seems egregious to me.

Plus, Office collects information about you too.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/compat/data-th...

https://gsuite.google.com/terms/education_privacy.html
I thought Amazon was beating Flipkart, coupled with the Prime membership Flipkart would lose out eventually. Not sure Walmart is making the right investment here.
>But to the degree we can think through those potential outcomes and devise ways to test for them, we should.

What are some of those ways to test it that you suggest? This study isn't focused on your particular concern of inflation.
People don't want more highway patrol, red light cameras, and traffic enforcement and tend to see it as a waste of resources. It also disproportionately screws lower income people and breeds contempt for police - people feel they are being persecuted when there are non-victimless crimes happening every day.

I can't find a source for this, but I imagine they are not ever making net profit on tickets when a trooper makes 75k per year minimum not including overtime or benefits[1] plus 60k+ for a new cruiser[2] plus all other training and administrative overhead (dispatcher etc).

[1] https://www.criminaljusticedegreeschools.com/state-trooper-r...

[2]http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-cop-cars-2015...
IMO, the most important thing is that religion places your life in a grand narrative.
> "Both lines of thinking assert that the lower classes cannot control themselves, so they deserve exactly what they have and nothing more. No need, then, for higher wages or subsidized health care. After all, the poor will just waste it on cigarettes and cheeseburgers."

Unfortunately for the author's argument, very few people at SoulCycle hold this view.
Namespaces are more like a mitigation than a solution.

The problem is tight-coupling. Until that is addressed, plugins will always be little fail-bombs.
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Is it possible that cause and effect are reversed?
If someone can't afford a computer they won't be as experienced as someone who can its all about what you can afford and what you are given that helps you grow to your full potential you need to help the poor afford the means to learn if you want them to become more experienced that is basic knowledge.
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I made a snarky top-level comment earlier but in all seriousness, small simple rituals can be really effective. I'm just skeptical that something as deep as a ritual can be designed and commodified like furniture.

Sometimes when I discover a new song I'll listen to it on repeat. One day, I discovered 2 new songs and fell in love with them. Later that same day my father died, and the next day was spent traveling home to his funeral. I listened to those songs on repeat while traveling home.

Now they are so intertwined with the memory of my fathers death that they are sacred to me. I do not, under any circumstances, listen to them. I only listen to them once a year, on the anniversary of his death. It's become my personal ritual.

It's possible that this company can create something that has meaning, but I doubt it will satisfy what people are looking for.
Presumably, if you get a book out of the library about numeric systems, it would have a detailed section on the origin of our current system. And keep in mind that all of history is what someone "wanted you to think" to some degree.
If everyone could hit nails that accurately we wouldn't have nail guns.
> In few decades we will be catapulted into space from London without engines on "the Moon elevator"

I used to imagine the same thing when I was a kid, that by the turn of the millenium we'll be piloting flying cars. But here we are in 2018 sitting in traffic jams in the same old boring four wherlers. Yes they're more efficient and reliable but still a chariot on wheels.

Nowadays I'd rather imagine supersonic flight is possible from an economic standpoint and wish Boom the best of luck with their enterprise.
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Guitar pedant: Shouldn't the up/down on the tuning keys be opposite directions on opposite sides of the headstock?
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