skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am highly skeptical that consistent frame rates will be possible with this architecture; IIRC byuu considered and rejected such an architecture for bsnes for performance reasons. Granted hardware has advanced since then, but single-threaded performance hasn't advanced a whole lot in that time, and that's what you're going to run into a bottleneck with this.
How much of this food is part of the long tail? How energy efficient is it pursuing this dispersed food? Would that energy be better spent elsewhere?
For some reason they have the following comment towards the bottom of the homepage:

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How exactly do you help kids tell their story? I get your other points, pretty cool. Hope you can develop some good traction.
Up until recently I worked at a large mobile publisher and we spent out-of-this-world sums of money to advertise games once the LTV was modeled and we had a high confidence level they would be profitable.

Ironically, App Store distribution is becoming nearly as difficult and cost prohibitive as pre-internet game retailing. Everyone is competing for the same limited shelf space and end caps. Once a network of games is built cross promotion is helpful, but entering the market is extremely expensive. You either need to win the featuring lottery, have something that is organically viral, or know your LTV and spend tons on marketing.

Unfortunately it seems the most surefire way to build a top 100 mobile game nowadays is to partner with a big publisher in order to leverage their marketing dollars and cross promo network. Hopefully some of the early indie link sharing cross promo networks will do some good to change that.
Marianne just totally cockblocked me by mentioning that incident! It was a single isolated incident, mind you. Someone I've been talking to on OKCupid reads HN and found this post, which has now led to a heated argument about whether I'm a human capable of love or a Siri-like chat bot optimized for professional networking.
Coma? Narcolepsy?

It seems like you're pulling out all the stops to avoid the uncomfortable point: the vast, vast majority of us are normal and don't have a convenient excuse for our poor sleep habits.

>If you wake up having hit a snooze button that you didn't consciously push, is that your fault?

Absolutely. 1000%. Move your alarm. Hide it. Make it not turn off until you do math problems. Have a friend call you. Set your computer to set off such an unholy alarm that your neighbors will hear. Buy one of those alarm helicopters that flies around the room until you catch it. Do what you have to do.

It is your responsibility and yours alone to wake up early enough to meet the obligations that you made for yourself.

Period.
" "I'm unlikely to have an idea as good as this ever again." That was probably the quote that changed my opinion of him from arrogant douchebag who got lucky to someone who just might have his head screwed on. It displays an interesting level of humility that's largely missing from his public persona."

You know, Zuck actually seems like a nice guy. Someone I'd love to grab a beer with. He's obviously smart, incredibly humble, (supposedly) easy to work with and doesn't really fit the existing molds of a wunderkind CEO like Jobs or Gates.
Were the downvotes for building a strawman argument and using it troll?
Let's do it the other way: I've used MacPorts since 2006 without a single issue, what problems will I be able to fix by switching to Homebrew?
Then you must really hate that it's written in the style of the raging rant of a League of Legends player who's just lost a game.
If you're in the 0.15% of the population who have DSPD, it's not your fault. The people reading these articles, in all likelihood, do not have DSPD.
Nest acquires MyEnergy (formerly Earth Aid), moves deeper into utility data
I would expect the direct financial impact of this launch to be quite small for us. The goal here isn't upselling customers, it's making it easier for our developers to have a strong web presence. This is only the first step, and we have some follow-on projects in this area that should be interesting even to "non-beholders".
Those of you with an interest in economics and a programming background might find this amusing:

https://github.com/juanre/econopy

It's a python implementation of a bunch of classical economics models I wrote as a way to avoid actually doing the exercises in Caltech's Economics for Scientists at Coursera. I think having the models as functional code does indeed provide an interesting perspective and understanding, and it simplifies exploration. Haven't had time to publish the docs, though.
Just a quibble: I think Englishman Alan Turing deserves a lot of credit for inventing computing. The US has done a lot with innovating it.

Otherwise a good rant.

edit: credit also to Babbage and Lovelace (also English)
Light therapy. Or, you know, modafinil works too. The answer isn't always 'man up', neither is it 'I am a victim'. Just treat it and move on with your life. You're not a hero for getting to work on time, but neither are you a villain for being late.
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That is definitely a forgotten debug point
If hard work in excess happens to be one of the reasons you find it hard to get up in the morning, you may confidently disregard this post. It is not meant for you; if it actually is meant for those sorts (I am not the author), it shouldn't be.
If there any upgrade pathes between the plans? Let say that I buy the starter plan, like the content and want to buy the plan with the videos. Should I pay the full price?
Good points. Depending on how far along you are in the development process, you can have potential users testing a barbones mockup in real time. This could even help the performance of the Kickstarter.

As far as pivoting: you are absolutely right. If later on, you find out that you are not building the right product, you still need to fulfill your promises to your Kickstarter backers. That said, if your KS is a success, it's probably a good indication that your business model, at the very least, is viable.

It comes downs to planning and determining what your end goals are, and then tailoring the KS campaign as best you can to meet those goals.
Your way of living is not a happy one.
To waste someone's time is to deprive them of a little bit of life.
I never imagined that the nerd-flame-war that would cause me to take a HN break was over waking up in the morning, and not about bashing some poor database or microbenchmark.
You make an excellent point. Though I think that the 'responsibility of an engineer' that is discussed in regards to the Iron Ring relates to it. It's up to the engineer to ensure that his design is sound regardless of any other factors.
Maybe we have a different definition of hacking. I'm not particularly good at molding myself to cater to other people's whims, which is part of the reason I have always avoided normal jobs. However, that doesn't mean I can't still be mindful of how others perceive me.

Sure. And based on that, I'd say we probably don't disagree much, if at all. I'm just saying that there's a risk in worrying too much about how others perceive you, since you won't (usually?) know - in advance - what it is they want to see.

I do agree with "put your best self forward", I just worry if it goes beyond that.

Of course, my own biases are probably showing here, since I tend to prefer outsider / renegade / iconoclast types anyway. :-)
Delayed sleep phase disorder is a recognized disorder that can be difficult or impossible to control: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder

That isn't an excuse to stop trying—there are things you can do that often help: a combination of correctly timed melatonin and light therapy can shift your circadian rhythm back towards normal. Nonetheless, it's an actual medical condition.

To everyone else: if you think you have this problem, do something about it. There's a healthy chance you can fix it.
>It is your responsibility and yours alone to wake up early enough to meet the obligations that you made for yourself.

For myself? Sure. But why should I feel beholden to other people's schedules like the article says?
I didn't like the tone of this article at all. I'll spare us all and put aside the causality vs. free will debate, but saying all of our actions are controllable is ridiculous.

If trying like hell not to have to wake up early in the morning makes someone a sissy, then I'm the king of sissies.

This reminds me of a quote from Crowfoot, once a chief of the Blackfoot tribe:

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Life's short. Enjoy it. If that means not waking up at a certain time, then don't. But, also, don't complain when you have to deal with the consequences.
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It was handled clumsily because the Windows team had to move fast and break things. Windows 8 has a lot of pretty important under the hood changes. And it's no trivial feat to try and develop and implement a future-proof new UI style that can be layered over the old system. Anyway, this comparison is apples to oranges: Microsoft's top level long-term strategic vision compared to the Windows' team's short-term execution.

You might argue that the Windows team dropped the ball and didn't get enough right with this release. I would agree that they didn't get everything right, but long term I see the specific success of Windows 8 being of little consequence to the company - simply because future releases will continue to build on every aspect of Windows 8, as, out of the current Cambrian soup of a halfway OS, confused consumers and eclectic OEM devices, a new consensus about how computers should work is forged.
Go fuck yourself, Joe Conway.

Wait, maybe I should make this reply a blog post instead.
Photographer/photojournalist here as well,

Lets forget for a moment about you unfortunate adjectives and appreciations (I don't care if this guys is a "coffee enthusiast" and nor should you for the purposes of this article. The whole "insecure baldhead attention whores" its even worse, makes me think the insecurity is placed in the wrong person in this situation)

Now here's the thing,

> but he's also being narrow-minded and only looking to one context

Yeah, of course. Its his opinion on a very specific situation and he's not trying to say otherwise. There are kit lenses that are more or less ok but most of them are bad compared to good zoom lenses. Marco's advice in this case is pretty sensible: If you are not going to care about using a very good lens, a cheaper compact camera might give you sharper images.

Compact cameras these days come with a lot of features that will suffice to teach you the basics of photography (aperture priority, shutter speed, manual focus...) and if you later want a better system, its a good backup.

Of course you can create awesome images with a kit lens, and of course sharpness is not the only factor that goes into determining the quality of a picture. But it could be in the context he's mentioning -journalist that take a picture to go with their articles- and journalist in those cases will be better served by a smaller and lighter camera.

Do you want to do art with your images? Go nuts, make a pinhole camera out of a Pringles can, use a 50 year old soviet camera or a kit lens or a compact Chinese 50 dollar digital camera with 8 MB of onboard memory. This is not the people this advice is given to. Artist find their way of expressing themselves with the medium they prefer, without regards -or sometimes thanks to- their limitations.

In this case, by trying to point out the snobbery you think you saw in the advice, you've actually out-snobbered it.
That was an excellent explanation, thank you. Also regarding ojciec, I found this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ojciec#Etymology The changing over time following rules was the missing part for me.
The author of this post comes across as a raging jackass. I'd never heard of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome until I read the other post, but it perfectly describes my life. I've never really known how to describe just how difficult it is to get up in the morning, but it is really, truly difficult.

Joe Conway, you said in your post that "every single one of your actions is controllable". If you truly believe this, you should demonstrate it by controlling your impulse to be an asshole.
Looking at it from a bigger picture, we live in a society where it is now okay to translate your own personal issues into someone else's life.
As one goes higher up the hierarchy, one's primary responsibility is to see a bigger and bigger picture, while delegating an ever larger portion of the problems to the right people.

Under pressure and suffering uncertainty, the Can Do attitude of a good engineer encourages falling back into the comfort zone of doing engineering. It is understandable. But whether manager, director, VP, or CEO, the urge must be resisted approximately always.

It is probably forgiveable at the manager level. But this is still what I call a "Good Skill, Bad Habit", even for managers.
"We used to value hard work. It was the cornerstone of our society..."

And I welcome this change with open arms. Hard work in itself is not a goal and shouldn't be treated as such.
> No one likes waking up in the morning.

Nope! I regularly spring out of bed feeling wide awake, well rested and ready to start the day a good hour or two before I need to get up to get to work on time, and that time immediately after waking up in the morning is often my favorite part of the day.

Of course, the flipside of this is that I'm often ready to pass out by 9 PM.
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I'm a morning person. I get up between 6-7 am, even on weekends, and I go to bed around 9:30 pm. The day just feels done for me by then.

There is some truth to what you say. I do feel people who "can't" get up in the morning are slackers. But, those same people are full of energy and ready to party (or whatever) when I'm slinking off to bed, so they regard me as boring, lame and no fun.

These are two solitudes, I'm afraid.
In both NY and SF, if you keep going further out (beyond the base mass transit system) incomes start to rise again. There's basically the rich central city, the poorer surrounding "urban" neighborhoods, and then the rich suburbs. Chicago too.
While I do appreciate the overall goal of the message, I must say that I completely disagree with his statement:

No one likes waking up in the morning.

I for one actually do like waking up early in the morning and have been like that as long as I can remember. I also have some friends who think like this as well, so be careful when making generalizations :)
I am so tired of the Goldilocks pricing model.
Evergreen: cooperative i/o and multitasking for Python
Modafinil is not a long-term solution as regular use causes tolerance.
Wow.

I don't feel guilty for over-sleeping. I've worked out a life for myself where people don't care that I sleep until 11:00. I simply don't schedule meetings or appointments for the morning, or if there's absolutely one that can't be avoided, I go to bed early and set an alarm clock to wake up for it.

It is not being a sissy to know your limitations and preferences and to work around them. If you make a commitment to another person, you should keep it. But nobody is forcing you to make that commitment in the first place. Is it really impossible to schedule that meeting in the afternoon, or to not have it at all?

It's not the OPs place to say what sort of sleep habits other people should or should not have. If he finds them annoying, fine: don't work with them.
Any disorder is a problem to be solved by some, while being an obstacle which others let stop them. If it's important enough, you'll be there, awake and early.

By being late, you're communicating that your job isn't the most important thing in your life. If that's true, we should be honest about it.

Every generation is full of the weak and the strong. We're all weak in some ways and strong in others. We've learned to subsidize one another.
Rather than starting with modafinil, melatonin should probably be the first step. It might help, and people do not report tolerance after prolonged use the way they do for modafinil.
Totally.
I'm the opposite though. My brain stops working after 9pm and all my best work happens from 4am - 8am.
I was surprised at the depth of this thread too. But honestly, yeah. If you're going to wax poetic, it behooves you to let the audience know you're launching into a digression. Instead you started with a quote and a "Not exactly", which sounded like you were making an argument about the substance of the link.

I don't even disagree with your point. But I posted because I did find the linked article interesting (if a little fluffy) and thought your digressive correction was missing some of that substance.
When you accept a job, or a meeting invite, you are making an explicit committment to a work schedule or an appointment. That is a personal committment that you chose to make. If you sleep through it, you failed your committment and should feel like it.
I think the point here is that everything today is considered a "medical condition". While that makes sense from a medical perspective, all it does is give people excuses for not dealing with their problems. "I can't get to work on time, I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome". "I can't focus in class, I have Attention Deficit Disorder". These are genuine difficulties that afflicted people will have to face, but don't ask the whole world to change to fit your circumstances.

Note, I was in and out of specialist children's hospitals for a good year or two while doctors tried to diagnose the reason my brain works differently to theirs. I have a certain set of psychological challenges I have to overcome, but I don't sit around whining about it all day.
Or you provide support some other way than by phone. Plenty of consumer startups large and small don't have an easily reachable phone number on their sites.
It's a common problem, and so worthy of a solution.

I'm not sure the "get over it" solution is working. It's accepted that developers will work without wearing full suits. This isn't different, maybe allowances should be made for productivity's sake.

Missing appointments is a different thing, and is unacceptable. Is day to day flexibility really that big of a problem?
Don't let the guys from Boston troll you.
That's because ojciec is not a cognate of father (neither is tata).

Take a look at:

http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=%2Fusr%2F...

Google translate does an ok job of the Russian if it ends up looking too confusing.
Actually another quibble. A few minutes on wikipedia suggests that the ancient Greeks invented "computing:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Not to invalid your point, just that its quibbles all the way down.
Right, but I don't think the author of the original article was talking to those people...
I'll flip this one on the head: someone doesn't think it's their duty to adjust to your silly requirements just because a previous generation paid their tithes without complaining.

The entire point is, for many people "quitting reddit" is not going to help. At all. And if you don't get it, then boo-hoo, stop reading things that make you write silly rants.
The OP sounds like an angry curmudgeon. He/she can't cut someone some slack if they're running a few minutes late? I'm glad I've never had to take a meeting with this person. This isn't about whether or not someone is disciplined enough to get enough sleep - this is about OP's rigid inflexibility. Things happen - your child has a tantrum at breakfast and spills something on you, your car has a flat, your cat dies. If life's inconveniences are too much for OP, he/she should consider working solo.
The saddest thing is how morning persons have managed to make a virtue out of their biological clock and that their preferences are so deeply ingrained in society now.
My top tip for making sure you are not a zombie in the morning is:

Don't eat a late dinner. Eat before 7 pm.
Go to bed between 9.30 and 10.30 pm.
If you want, use the time before second sleep[1] to catch up on reading.
Get up when your alarm rings at 6 am. Every damn day.

These are all points you certainly can control yourself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
Seriously? Would you say the same thing to someone who is suffering from PTSD? Just "man up" and get over it? No way, unless you're a complete idiot. It's easy to throw people down and attempt to discredit an attribute of "how their brain works" when you don't suffer from the problem. There is _no_ need to put people down in this manner.
This post is stupid. Not everything can be fixed with 'will power'. There are inherent physiological differences across people, you need to stop assuming that everyone else experiences the same 'reality' as you.
I think we're agreeing :)
Hey, everybody! A straight, white, cis man misses the good old days, when we wrote off anyone who wasn't straight, white, cis, or male as "not allowed to be successful." The best days were when women couldn't vote and before the Civil Rights Act was passed! We valued hard work then! Ignore gains in productivity since then! "Sissies" is still an insult indicative of moral superiority! Anyone with executive functioning less than mine will receive less material wealth than me because that's how to achieve a maximally just and happy world!
There is civil war. And cables will always be delicious target for any party. No bank transfers for the fleeing elite or being able to deal with external affairs, total blackout for the defender (military and police have their own systems usually so the ruling party is not that affected)

The situation in Syria is dangerous. A failed state in that location ... Arab Peninsula in the 2013 is the Balkans in 1913 ...
Ah so the IT equivalent would be something like a ceremonial pager duty model or something?
What a prolix pile of raw, unthinking emotion. The original post was kinda silly, but it was miles ahead of this irrational Puritanical drivel.

If you believe that life should be hard, then you are welcome to make things hard for yourself. Personally, when something is hard, I treat that as a problem to be solved so that living a good life is as easy as possible. I think my approach will be more fruitful in the end, but hey, it's your life.
I hope no one here thought .sy was a cool suffix for a domain name.
You're not. Go live amongst the trees and be a beautiful independent spirit and write a great American novel.

All this author is saying is that if you CHOOSE to make commitments and then fail to honor them, you're not an awful person, but yes you should feel guilty for that. On that, I agree.