skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I 've spent 3.5/4 years eating nothing except on the weekends (my undergrad). So I would go for 2-5 days at a time without food. Not because of fasting fads or anything, I didn't even know what fasting was. I was just from a very poor family and if I wanted to go for vacations with my friends or party in the weekend or buy a computer I had to save every penny I could. (that's how I bought my first laptop etc). I would eat properly during holidays and the summer only at my parent's home.

I was very skinny, but somehow still had fat. Sometimes I bought pants from the women's section or I would take pants to my mom to sew the waist tighter, because I was so thin I couldn't find clothes that fit me (I have some pictures of me wearing my 108lb girlfriend's pants stashed somewhere). I exercised a bit but seeing me without a shirt you could tell I had manboobs and a tiny-lil bit of a potbelly and no abs at all, not even the skinny ones.

At some point I developed fainting on sight of blood. I would brush my teeth, and if I scratched my gum and blood came out -- I had to run to the bed asap before passing out. To this day I don't know if I was just afraid of blood (blood doesn't affect me anymore), or I had gotten so weak I was actually nearing total collapse. Blood tests were surprisingly fine I just had low iron.

Looking at that period back, I 'm trying to see if the advertised benefits applied to me. I didn't get sick much, but I don't get sick in general. Aging... well what can you say to an 18-22 year old about aging. My libido was low which makes sense I guess. Energy, regular levels. I don't know, I was just a very thin dude, fasting or not, no major epiphanies or amazement. I suppose it's amazing that one can survive fine, no suffering, going for so long without food, but it wasn't better than eating.

I am very surprised at how people swear by it. Maybe life is much worse when you eat 3 meals per day? I don't know, nowadays (early 30s) I eat 2 meals and exercise a lot and I 'm pretty content. I think for me, exercise did the trick that elevated both my mood and my energy levels.

Would I do the crazy 5-day 4 year fast again? If I was young and "hungry" sure, but it's definitely miserable. Food can be a great social thing to do with friends, and a cool experience especially when trying new dishes and restaurants. The huge food diversity in SF spoiled me.

Edit: back then I was very ashamed of my fasting and try to hide it from friends etc. A few weeks ago I was shocked when a coworker told me he was doing a 7 day water-only fast. We 've come a long way!
So? He's better for it since he exercized his brain and the resulting educated guess is correct.
He calls it a "relative operating characteristic curve", then links to a Wikipedia article for the properly named "receiver operating characteristic curve". Maybe I'm wrong but I've never heard the former term used.
No, I eat mostly how I've eaten for many years, just on an intermittent schedule. But, I've always eaten pretty healthy; I've been vegetarian for 24 years and relatively conscious of what I eat. I tend to a eat a lot, so if I don't eat good stuff, I get fat. I eat probably more fat than average, and I don't avoid fat, but my diet isn't "high fat", I don't think, and it's certainly not low carb, though I do avoid sugars and many kinds of processed foods, and I never eat fast food. I eat bread, rice, and/or tortillas, regularly, at least once a day, and I tend to eat a pretty sizeable serving. Fruit and vegetables probably make up the majority of the volume/mass I'm consuming most days, but a significant portion of calories come from carbs.

My health has always been, thankfully, very good. I'm not doing intermittent fasting to address any specific problem. Losing weight was a goal, because my pants (the same size I've been wearing since college) weren't fitting comfortably anymore...it worked for that, and all my pants fit again. But, I wasn't trying to reboot my eating in some dramatic way. I did try a low carb high fat/protein thing for a while before beginning intermittent fasting, as a way to lose weight, but it didn't work for me. The restrictions just took the fun out of meals. I love food, I love cooking it, love eating it with friends/family, etc. It's pretty hard to have normal meals on a very restrictive diet. I couldn't imagine living out the rest of my days without bread or rice, and any diet change has to be sustainable for decades or it's going to be part of a cycle of weight gain and loss. Intermittent fasting has been sustainable for me. I don't even think about it most days.
Ask HN: Is this a good way to fund open-source?
The "Deploy to Heroku" button makes it easy for anyone to deploy source code from GitHub to Heroku (no manual steps).

Screenshots here: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1035748931534127106

One thing I'd like to see: if an indie developer or open source project uses the "Deploy to Heroku" button, they should get a commission from Heroku anytime it results in a new subscription.

What do you think? Could this be a good way to fund open-source projects?
Damn :(

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Decreases in Psychological Well-Being Among American
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There is a very bizarre story behind Neo4j Inc's behavior and what lead to them adding the commons clause to the enterprise AGPL license.

They seem to be ready to go closed source, which they should have just done in the first place instead of behaving like they did. Adding the commons clause is just the tip of the iceberg - there is a very entertaining story behind everything that is happening. A single person, not a huge corporation, is behind this.

I will write a blog post about what happened/is happening in the upcoming months - complete with supporting documents such as FOIA requests, etc.
> They don’t need a union, they just need to quit and go work somewhere else.

Not easy if you live paycheck-to-paycheck, which most such people do. Can't afford the time it takes to find a better-paying job, or more likely, retrain before searching for such a job.
I don't know about FAANG but definitely needed for small startups where exploitation is very real. For example, your manager should not be allowed to contact you in the middle of the night to discuss work. You should not have to come in over the weekend because you are afraid to get fired. You also should be able to negotiate better conditions in lieu of the "startup haircut" pay.

Of course this doesn't apply to well run startups with good leaders, but the truth is in my experience, they are rare and few.

The whole industry could benefit, much like the men who worked under American tycoons of the 18th century in steel mills, oil fields and other shitty conditions, software engineering is engineering period.

Just because you can't hold and physically touch the output from software engineers doesn't mean that it's somehow less demanding or not deserving of the same unionization that other laborers/engineers have access to.
How Two Thieves Stole Thousands of Prints from University Libraries
Personal anecdata: every company I've worked at would have been worse off (and worse to work at) if the developers had been unionized.

I've also avoided working anywhere that thinks you can only be professional if you're wearing a button down shirt and / or a tie, so I don't doubt that some places might benefit.

Edit: to be clear, I've never advocated for a union, and I doubt I ever will so long as I am fortunate enough to choose my employer, rather than the other way around. This is why, I am guessing, so many tech workers don't bother attempting to unionize.
Based on my (arguably hazy, at this point) childhood memories, maybe what's making teens unhappy isn't so much smartphone use, but better networking with other teens.
This is a bizarre comment, although certainly familiar. A British publication writing about a crime in England, and you're faulting it for not offering context comparing it to the American situation. As an Australian, should I expect the international press to compare every issue to my own nation's laws? Of course not. And yet the entitlement that all of the internet should cater to the American audience is alarmingly popular.
As with other situations such as the insistence on face-time rather than embracing remote work, "unions are bad" is a truism in the tech industry, and a weird selective attitude towards disruption. Can't we build a better union? Why can't traditional labor dynamics be disrupted, in a way that benefits workers? The rise of the sharing economy proves that the opposite is possible.
I completely agree. It bothered me as well.
I take it you have never worked in retail because the difference would be immediately obvious.

Why work at large Bay Area tech:
- Free catered breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Free gourmet coffee
- Free snacks
- Free drinks
- Free company merch: t-shirts, backpacks, jackets, tickets to events, etc.
- Nice offices
- Nice bathrooms

Added value per day = $75+

Why work at Target:
- $3 more per hour

Added value per day = $24 (assuming 8 hour shift)
The author has a point, and Sql is good when it is a human interacting with the database (that's what it was designed for after all).
But when it comes to software/library interacting with the DB it is simply terrible.

Some times you just want to say say hey, give me this specific data and in that case Sql is the easiest solution.
But if you have more complex model and you have a bunch of parameters and you need to build one or more queries based on these parameters then you are better off with ORM. I think that's actually how the first ORMs got started, people got tired building queries with strings.
The universe of people trying to deceive journalists keeps expanding
> The tipping point came in January, when management offered additional stock to a handful of high-level male engineers, including Westergard. Employees suspected Lanetix planned to fire lower-level female engineers, many of whom graduated from Hackbright, an all women’s coding boot camp, as did the female engineer fired in November.

What's the full story here?

Layoffs typically happen when a company has cashflow issues preventing it from meeting payroll. "Low level" (read: low paid) employees of any kind are _not_ the first on the chopping block, but on the contrary, the higher paid employees who each cost x3-4 times or more.

Moreover, why would they get rid of most/all female engineers like that? Among other problems, that would expose them to an open-and-shut discrimination case, since sex is a protected class.

This, in conjunction with the fact they decided to pay the senior engineers even more, tells me there's something more to this story.
The public transit system used to be privately owned and operated. Then the cities took over and kicked out the private sector. Now we have terrible public transit.

Yes, even the subways in NYC were built and operated by private companies (there were two, and they competed).
Doom is the only game where I still remember all of the cheats. I actually struggle to exactly remember the Contra code, but IDSPISPOPD sticks in my brain for a quarter of a century.
Nobody is stating there is a single factor. But it appears to be the largest that we can plausibly put a finger on. When you see the same correlations across different countries, states, and local jurisdictions that did not have identical drug policies, immigration/migration patterns, policing strategies etc. etc. etc, it becomes convincing. The three studies in this article provide even more evidence, using clever experimental designs to control for as many of these other variables as they can. Did you read the article? Do you have specific comments on how those studies are or are not contributing to our knowledge?
Congratulations to Rappi, it’s crazy dificult to raise money in Latin America. I’ve seen so many good teams/products/services fade away due to inability to raise capital.
I wanted to read the story but the pop-up subscribe box took forever to dismiss. Didn’t bother continuing. FAIL.
I'd be surprised if any of the big tech cos have not deployed U2F.
Ok, so I'm not disputing that peope born in the 60s had more lead in their blood than people born in the 80s/90s. Additonally, I'm not disputing that lead causes behavioral and physical problems. It definitely does.

However, I would like to see the specific data that says the following (because I'm not seeing it when I read the article):

"Regardless of the crack epidemic in the 1980s, regardless of the decline in public housing in the 1980s, regardless of the rise of police surveillance technology, we have indisputable evidence that lead in the blood causes an increase in crime locally and nationwide by XMeaningfulPercent".

I'd be surprised if one could ever make such a statement.

The data we currently have shows that someone born in 1960 and committing a crime in 1985 has been exposed to lead, but they also might have been exposed to crack. Additionally, declining government project housing provided strong protection for criminals to hide from police, and the police surveillance technology in 1985 was pitiful compared to the massive levels of surveillance now.

None of these factors exist anymore in 2018. Crime is much lower. How can we say which variable contributed in which amount?
I can't rate Bose vs Sennheiser, but I can tell you that my $300 Bose QC35 II is far, far more effective than either my $100 Creative HN-900 or my SO's $100 Audiotechnica QuietPoint ATH-ANC7. I have a friend with both the Bose QC35 II and the $300 Sony WH-1000xM2 and he rates them about on par for noise cancelling, but puts the audio quality on the Sonys a little higher.

The two cheaper models are garbage by comparison, to the point that I'd say to just skip the noise cancelling altogether if it's only as good as the cheaper ones.
Most of those that you mentioned are considered professions that require some sort of specialized training and/or board certification with some sort of oversight body. While they don't engage in collective bargaining, they do serve to control who is allowed to practice a given profession, thereby limiting the pool of qualified individuals.
While different from a union, these professional bodies serve some of the same functions in the end (raising wages, establishing standards, etc.)

As far as why software engineers haven't unionized, I think this answer at the top about sums it up https://www.quora.com/Should-Silicon-Valley-software-enginee...
Based on your description here, you might consider getting screened for ADD.
Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Yet. Going from Side Project to All-In on Your Idea
Apple could buy a fab but doesn't, so vertical integration isn't a religion for them. Nobody said it was, but I like pointing out their restraint. Maybe when the semiconductor that replaces silicon, say diamond, is close to viable, they'll splurge, not wait for it. They were worried they wouldn't be able to differentiate the iPhone, that's why they bothered with the A series chips. Forward thinking led them to see other phones improving beyond "good enough" or whatever. Maybe VR was on their horizon, too, or something else unknown.

I like to imagine the satisfaction felt by whoever got the board of directors to approve going the direction of designing chips, not that they couldn't afford an R&D folly. Everybody likes to tell Apple how to spend its money, but almost everyone is wrong. Whoever championed ARM acquisitions must feel extra smart, since they were proved right. But will Apple ever make a super inexpensive notebook or PC powered by an A series chip? Probably not, because of stupid economics. They could, but they won't.
> In the USA, people have the right against self-incrimination, aka the 5th Amendment ("Pleading the Fifth").

I'd say it's more like "had the right". Ask the guy who's still in jail in Philadelphia, because he "forgot" his FDE password. But hey, we won't know for sure until the Supreme Court has its say.
Just discovering these tutorials now! I definitely want to try "build a blog in Nova."

I might even livestream it on https://twitch.tv/megajustin ;)
And thank you for the feedback too!

I should probably plan for adding many tests in the project's future, per your feedback.

Also, regarding the issue of other implementations existing, one reason this project was started was for learning and training purposes. Also, the main benefit that I envision for this library to provide to users is that of being simple and easy to use in a project that involves micro-controllers. I just looked up OpenBLAS and it seems to not be conducive to this project's goals.
Yes, but then again, the whole selling point of Github is that it's social media attached to git repositories. That's the reason it's the open source code dumping ground.
Wait, you must kill John Romero, or John Romero must kill you? Commas are awesome!
In Alberta, Canada, professional engineers are barred from joining unions. While not universal, it is quite common for provincial engineering associations to bar their members from joining unions. Engineers are also exempt from many labour law protections (overtime, minimum wage, vacation time, etc.). Needless to say, I am not exactly happy with the current state of affairs.
This article is as valid and good today as it was in 2013 when it was created.

Thanks for reminding us of our recent history!
I did indeed read the article and replied to a different commenter below. I don't dispute that lead is a contributing factor.

I think it's impossible to say how much any factor contributes in a quantitative manner. "36% of crimes were committed in high lead areas, whereas 23% of crimes were committed in high crack consumption neighborhoods"?

I think it's all a mish mash of variables and it's best not to pick apart too many strands of data.

One thing we can say for certain is that murders are down 50% since 1980 despite population in the USA doubling. That is an amazing achievement and I highly, highly doubt it was chiefly due to our generation not having lead in their blood.
with all the engineering hours spend in porting, can we have a consistent driver interface.

May be Linux devs can take lead and define the specs for the hardware people.
This would be a good time to remind everyone to read the book Masters of Doom. Such a great story of how these games came to be.
Ahh yes, lets forget the fact that the US went into what were at the time actually Stable countries, and blame lead.
Seems like performance will suffer without tiling.
If traffic gets heavy, drivers should wait at the yield until it is safe or until the light turns as the sibling poster suggests.
Assuming road noise is nowadays mostly low frequency noise - BOSE's car suspension [0] might do the trick: "It does for motion what noise-cancelling does for noise" [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/3KPYIaks1UY

[1] https://www.clearmotion.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WO5kJChg3w&feature=youtu.be...

He doesn't sound sorry =p

But if he really did "choose" the other guys, then maybe calling him the founder isn't so wrong.
The AMA isn't a union.
>The game can still be jump-scary

Isnt it amazing how some of these old games with relatively small budgets, teams, and difficult dev tools still seemed to capture great design characteristics, artwork and creativity?
Yes, Boeing engineers have a union.

Why wouldn't you want a contract with your employer? Top executives have contracts and professional athletes have contracts. My contract is I can be fired at any time for any reason, or no reason.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our request to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hmmmm I don't think it was FF. It was on SNES. Trying to find the name.

Edit: mate said "Most likely FF Mystic Quest. Heal 2 different bone skeletons to kill."
Quite right. Japan has excellent rail systems and they’re all owned by private corporations, albeit with government oversight. However, public trans can be done right, such as the case in mainland China which is state owned.

All comes down to priorities and fairness. Majority of governments and companies don’t have either
Where I struggle most with procrastination is when making talks or writing academic papers. I rarely or never procrastinate on coding. I think the key difference is emotional: if I’m writing something for a computer it just had to work. If I’m writing something for a human it has to be judged interesting or worthwhile according to some nebulous criteria that exists in the minds of the readers.
Apple owns a fab.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/14/apple-buys-former...
It’s bad enough that people have border security, job applications, etc. all depend on access to social media accounts. Yet fake accounts are clearly a thing (I’ve seen two versions of “friends” on Facebook and LinkedIn), and some people have never created accounts on even popular services. What do you do when a guard is screaming at you to unlock an account that isn’t even you? And if you lie and say you don’t have a Facebook account, I bet they aren’t aware of the possibility of fake accounts and simply assume it’s impossible (so what, you miss your flight if you never even had an account, because some scammer made one for you?).
compare the size of the bitcoin blockchain and the ethereum blockchain.

Now see when Bitcoin was launched and see when Ethereum was launched.

Facts speak for themselves.
Secrets of Mana, and Chronos Trigger, are my favourites.

As well as Shinning Force, Breath of Fire, Phantasy Star, and Illusion of Gaia.
And I know from that quote, that he is taking great liberty with statistical power...

Seriously, that quote could easily have included a single number to build confidence. :(
Can you please not post rants to HN? The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"or the exponential effect in general"

Uh huh. No progress, no innovation.

So this is irrelevant too:

Metcalfe's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law

"costs cut in half"

Uh huh. We'll never have carbon taxes either.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi

Wiki says PPC. First chip was the PA6T. PPC.
It’s about inventing a future we want to inhabit — not just selling phones.
I don’t think either Sun or DEC started out as very open, at least in hardware, and probably in software either. Much of their openness comes at the end of their reigns. At any rate, I don’t think this had very much to do with their downfalls.
Adam Smith strongly supported the rights of workers to organize against their employers. His reasoning is interesting.
It's possible that the "newest" ones use photo sensors as they now also double as standard desktop scanners, but I'm not sure they would be marketed as OMR. I suspect Scantron and Pearson NCS won't be around much longer as standard scanners are much cheaper, can accomplish the same goals (minus printing results on the form, without a special attachment on expensive scanners), and embedded processing continues to grow.
> The implication I'm getting out of it is that you feel the React team is deliberately reinventing things to force the web dev ecosystem to keep up with them (specifically per the sentence "The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features.").

Judging by the first link, GP isn't really trying to accuse React project of trying to block other JS frameworks with suppressive fire. I think the point is, it's yet another encounter with the ever accelerating, already significant-fraction-of-lightspeed fast steam roller of modern/fashionable programming stacks.
Shorting still isn’t allowed in the Chinese stock market, I think. Anyways, it isn’t a very patriotic thing to do.
Why do you assume he was addressing you?
I am assuming you have flown on a modern airliner? Anytime you land in instrument conditions, you are trusting programmers.