skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started working at a small startup in January. With the team as small as it is, the working hours are very flexible -- if I make it into the office at 10:00, I'm usually the first one there.

Since I had the luxury, I did something that I want to wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who can: I stopped using an alarm clock.

I'm a "night owl". I tend to have trouble sleeping before midnight, and often stay up later than that. Unfortunately, for most of my life (from school, to university, to a 9-5 job at a "real" company) I've had to wake up earlier than I would otherwise, normally around 7:00 or 7:30. It was always a struggle, and I would usually hit snooze a few times before I actually managed to struggle out of bed. Even if I happened to go to bed early enough to get 8 hours' sleep, I'd have trouble getting up.

It took me about a month at to sleep off my debt. Now I go to bed when I want, and wake up in the morning around 8:00 or 8:30, no alarm needed. I went from 3-4 cups of coffee per day to 1. I'm almost always in a good mood, even first thing in the morning. I used to be convinced that sleeping for 10 hours if I wasn't interrupted was just a fact of my existence; now I wake up after 7 and a half hours, all by myself.

This is not an endorsement for setting your schedule to 10-6. It's an endorsement for not setting your schedule. If you treat yourself right, body will know when it's time to get some work done, no clock needed.
UMich is not really emblematic of mid-level schools. While rankings don't mean a lot, UMich is still ranked #13 by US News & World Reports for graduate-level economics and thus would be either one of the lower top-tier schools or near the top of the mid-tier. It would probably be easier to get a good job from UMich than the vast majority of other mid-tier schools.
Horcrux is also the name of an excellent backup utility that's convenient for backing data up to multiple locations [1].

[1] http://chrispoole.com/project/horcrux/
If there’s any confusion regarding my name …
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I thought it was pretty crazy that a tweak to prevent XFree86 from breaking on 64bit systems + support for the ELF small code execution model would later result in pthread_create overhead so large that creating threads on a P4 would be as slow as creating threads on a 386.

But, hey, maybe it isn't that crazy to you.
try using Gen too the use flags allow for great flexibility and allow smaller packages.
I guess I got books to read then. Thank you.
I think the NSA deserves to waste time monitoring comments from "suspiciously" nicknamed users if that's what they are doing, because surely the real taliban would be posting comments under their own name, on hacker news :)
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That is where the being away from the keyboard part comes into action. You have to actually meet with people to be able to talk them into giving you opportunities.
The official reason as mentioned in Go's FAQ (http://golang.org/doc/faq):

> We also considered using LLVM for gc but we felt it was too large and slow to meet our performance goals.

Does this mean compilation speed, performance speed, or both? Or is this a hand-wavy excuse to use gcc instead due to Ian's expertise?

That being said, there is a project that builds Go on top of LLVM:

https://github.com/axw/llgo
Not familiar with forcast.io — thanks for sharing! Before I got into web development I worked at a company called Prologue doing motion graphics in After Effects and Photoshop. Even if you've never heard of them, you've probably seen their work: http://prologue.com/

This background is much of the motivation for the library.
>The biggest one to replace is the PDF Reader.
I think a PDF reader inside IE would make the most sense here. I have been using Chrome/Firefox's built in PDF reader with good results for my uses.

Which other ones do you dislike?

I think Mail is pretty weak, but I also think if you're displeased with it, you probably also have a copy of excel or use a browser client.
This isn't a particularly new idea, so I don't see any reason to link it to Glass or any specific (Google or otherwise) technology.

Eric Schmidt has been saying something like this for (at least) about 3 years. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7951269/Young-w...
You make some good points.
It would be great to hear the problems you had building it
BTW, he hasn't been CEO for two years.
I agree with you. More transparency brings more acceptance and tolerance. Fuller information about life and how other people live theirs allows people to decide better and accept their life or discover the way how to alter it.

From technical standpoint computers should never forget anything and it's really unfortunate that they do and that this implementation detail leaks to UI.
The annoying thing when it comes to this kind of sleep problem is that it never gets completely better. Over time I've come up with ways to ensure I actually get up early enough for important events and don't sleep through alarms - not even 'i hit the snooze button' problems but just alarms literally not waking me up - whether it's by making alarms louder, setting 6 alarms spaced out 15 minutes apart (yes, really), or going without sleep if I have to wake up too soon (in practice I found that getting 3-4 hours of sleep consistently is impossible; I always sleep through the alarms).

Even with all that though, nothing really changed. If I go a week or so without setting alarms and just let my body wake up naturally after a night's sleep, I will naturally drift from waking up at say 6am to waking up at 11am. Sometimes I drift backwards, and find myself waking up in the dead of night at 4am and being completely awake. It's extremely valuable to be in a work environment where you can at least mitigate this by going in to work early some days and late others.

I also find that forcing yourself to adhere to a sleep schedule that doesn't feel natural can result in more fatigue, and I wonder if other people have the same experience. I tried doing an 'early' schedule at work a few times, waking up at about 6am and heading in to work early, and always found that I was completely exhausted by 5pm. Moving my waking time forward a few hours almost always alleviated the problem. Maybe it's something you get used to only after doing it for months at a time?
I'm pretty sure the entire industry of stand-up comedians are laughing with you.
>Raphael is an abstraction on top of SVG and VML

Still specific to vector graphics rendering.

So not "on the contrary", but "to be exact".
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Raphael has no support to work with groups of elements.
That's a great video, and obviously she is very qualified to speak to this subject. I don't see how this shows that the GP comment is "right" in its assertion that this is just an effect of biased sampling.

I only had time to look at the first few minutes, but around 6:50 she does say that our solar system is "not that common", which she quantifies as "it could only be as much as 10-20% of star systems". Maybe that means <= 10-20%?

So, this does not seem to contradict anything Vogt and Brown were quoted as saying.

Incidentally, I wasn't going by the statement in the NPR article, but also by the press release from UCSC (http://news.ucsc.edu/2012/12/tau-ceti.html), Vogt's home institution. I don't think that quote is subject to journalistic mangling.
Also relevant:

http://www.quora.com/Meteor-web-framework/How-does-Meteor-pl...
> He uses the word "chattel" because it's a term that was used in the slave trade, but he can get away with it because technically it's just another word for "currency".

No, its not another word for currency. "Chattel" is a widely used legal term for personal property; its used as an adjective with "slavery" to specify a particular kind of slavery (the one in which slaves are legally treated as chattel, which while its probably the most familiar kind to most people is not the only thing considered "slavery"), but the term "chattel" itself isn't particularly associated with the slave trade.

More relevant, "chattel currency" is a term for things used as currency that are not legal tender (its not exactly commonly used because there isn't a lot of need to discuss that particular class of things.)

However, there is one place its pretty commonly used, and that's among the kind of conspiracy theorists (often goldbugs) who think (for example) that Federal Reserve banknotes aren't legal tender and are a scam to get you to surrender your "real" money (which these conspiracy theorists seem to think is still real legal tender) for "chattel currency".

Given that a not-insignificant number of those conspiracy theorists seem to have flipped from being goldbugs to "bitbugs", I wouldn't be surprised if it was the use of the term "chattel currency" was calculated, but it certainly wasn't a slave trade reference.

> Some stats from Google search

Counting search results isn't a substitute for knowing what you are talking about. I'm actually surprised that "chattel property" (which is a redundancy) has that many results, but that doesn't change that "chattel" means personal property, and that its use to refer to that is the most common use.

It is also true that "slavery" is a common context in which "chattel" is used as a modifier, and that use -- because specific discussion of that form of slavery as a class is much more common than specific discussion of non-legal-tender currency as a class -- is vastly more common than reference to chattel slavery.

But that doesn't mean that "chattel currency" is a reference to chattel slavery, any more than the fact that "green" is far more frequently used as an adjective to modify "eyes" ("green eyes" -> "about 500,000,000 hits") than "grocer" ("green grocer" -> "about 1,840,000 hits") means that the phrase "green grocer" is a reference to "green eyes".
This is solving the wrong problem. The problem is not the infinite preservation of history, but the overreaction of the employers and organizations.

The need is for society to evolve and accept the people the way they are and not enabling people to keep a mask in public.
It reminds me of that old Onion article: "Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index" http://www.theonion.com/articles/google-announces-plan-to-de...
Just nitpicking, but Eric Schmidt is not the CEO of Google anymore. He stepped down on 2011, and was replaced by Larry Page. He is the Executive Chairman of Google though.
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+1 Awesome Story. Best wishes to Chris for his endeavors.

I'm also wondering - are there any platform where people expose their ideas and solicit help from tech community?
This business model is already in play with mugshot extortion sites and such.
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It's not newsworthy it's just the latest piece of random bla bla written for HN to advertise a startup completely unrelated to the subject matter.

AKA growth hacking.
I wish there was an easier way to find those people with keys.
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> In other words, approach this as if you were a scientist and take the emotion and assumptions out of it.

It's almost like someone has put together a huge body of data that you cheerfully ignore.

http://sentencingproject.org/template/index.cfm

In the future, I am not your research department. This is a trivial google search for a site that compiles a huge body of data you want. Racism is alive and well in the justice system.

Which is all way off topic from the more important question: why is this curious young girl's life being ruined.

P.S., you are, in my book, not a good person. Just thought you should know. Mostly because of your willful ignorance.
Or maybe, just maybe, work on becoming better.
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> My friend swears that it is manna from heaven. I swear that it is burnt plastic.

What makes you so certain these are different things?
Because it's like complaining about gravity and telling that lots of people currently hurt by gravity would benefit from having the ability to turn it off in some defined volume on demand.

Technically true but kinda disconnected.
Why should you use willpower to control sleep if working a different time slice is neutral or better for your job?
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I added this to the Feature Requests thread, but I have no clue if pg actually looks at that.
That doesn't make it any less useful at all? I am very fond of abstractions and modularity. Two.js is a nice rendering component. You can easily add an input component on beside of it if need be.
"The results show the Bay Area's economic inequality and its relationship with transit and urban form."

I'm not sure what they are supposed to show. It seems to show me that there's very little relationship between income and mass transit service.
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We need CAPTCHA-style license plates :)

I actually started doing some experimenting with IR LEDs since they emit light outside the visible spectrum, but do show up on cameras (as long as the cameras don't have an IR filter). The LEDs just weren't powerful enough.

There is this http://www.nophoto.com/
Regardless of whether they were right, I really appreciate that they added the "... – if The Register understands the paper correctly – ..." clause.

So many technical articles just get the facts wrong and pass them off as correct. I appreciate the honesty in this case.
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I'm guessing you weren't reared as a kid in the U.S. The ice cream truck coming to our street was the coolest thing when I was a kid.
Hi there [enter your mark's name here] old friend...is what I refer to as 'sleazy'. A strong term I admit, but if you are going to send me an auto response, don't pretend like we're close buddies.

I would respect more something like 'You are the 159th signup we had today, send an email to [a real person] to request support.'

Perhaps I am just an outlier.
You are wrong about this part:

The purpose of a speed limit is not to make people not go more than 55 miles per hour. The purpose of a speed limit is to make driving safe, and particularly to make driving safe for society, even moreso than for the individual. If everybody is driving at 65 in the 55 zone, but everybody is safe, the higher purpose of the law is being met, and citations for speeding are just punitive for no gain. When conditions make 55 unsafe, people need to slow down enough to be safe, regardless of what the local speed limit is.

The 55 MPH speed limit was enforced by congress to reduce the consumption of fuel (gasoline). It has nothing to do with safety.
> Interpreting a statement that uses a word with many definitions by looking at what Google's autocomplete comes up with is the height of fucktarded.

But it doesn't have many definitions. It has one definition. (Okay, two: one as a noun, and one as an adjective which essentially restricts the noun it modifies to the subset of the thing that noun refers to that also meet the noun definition of "chattel".) And what is being done (for which "fucktarded" may still be a valid description) isn't choosing a definition by autocomplete, its assuming that any other use of the adjective form is a reference to the use of the adjective form that is behind the autocomplete.

Which is about equivalent to assuming that any use of "green" as an adjective is a reference to "green acres" (which is what autocomplete suggests first for "green", at least when I use it.)
I majored CS and with minors in Math and Econ. The economics minor was one of the better decisions I made in college and sometimes I think I use it more than the CS stuff. For example, things like opportunity cost I use almost every day, while it's rare I analyze the "big O" run time of code I'm writing.

From what I saw of the higher level econ classes, you're completely correct. For the most part they're not learning much new stuff, they're learning the same stuff in more detail and investigating why. It's interesting, but has limited applicability to real life. The low level courses are also interesting but have real life applications all over the place.
Great. This is why a centralised AppStore will break: it will get buried with a million apps peddling grandmas cookies.
Wow, 10 years is a long time. Getting a design of mine in the CSSZenGarden was one of the biggest accomplishments of my life still to this day. I'm pretty sure that it's responsible for bootstrapping my career.
Unusual is a subjective term. She says 10%-20% of the planetary systems are like ours. Are you saying that that was the point made in the original article too?
This is the site that got me to move away from tables. My how time flies! Remember the days when teeny tiny microfonts were in style? Also Photoshop orbs... Everywhere, there were bloody orbs; from gaming forums to "tutorial sites" (that linked to other sites). Part of me feels nostalgic, but another feels it's good to grow out of all that.

In many ways, we were entering a Goldilocks zone for a semantic and accessible web, but I fear we're starting to slip back a bit into a client-side dynamic web phase that isn't accessible, not semantic and overall app focused. Which is fine if you want the web to be a series of apps, but there's a heap of content in there too. And it would be a shame if it only became accessible via apps.

"Webkit-only designs will be discarded with prejudice... Graceful degradation is acceptable, and in fact highly encouraged."

Can't tell you how happy I am to see that they haven't lost any of their sensibilities.
Dig the idea, but what do you guys do that is different from going through other crowdfunding platform. What makes you more than just a kickstartr/indiegogo clone with an education theme?
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FastSpring and SaaSy handle global tax collection, payment, etc. for desktop software, SaaS, and downloadable gaming companies. We are the merchant of record, so the vendor is not responsible for collecting and remitting taxes, we are. There is a large number of other functionality we enable software firms to outsource as well, with the intention of leaving developers to focus on building their companies, not dealing with e-commerce infrastructure, features, taxes, etc.
The comment made sense to me. The technical approach of filming on a white background so there are no borders on the video is neat.

The content of the video felt inauthentic.
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find myself waking up in the dead of night at 4am and being completely awake

Search for recent threads on sleep referencing "first sleep". Seems the electric light has made us forget most sane humans through most of history would sleep at sunset, then wake a few hours later in a relaxed blissful state, then sleep again. Methinks what you experience (not uncommon) is natural behavior, subverted by not realizing you're supposed to go back to sleep after about an hour of some nocturnal activity.
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Thanks for the kind words. The response on Twitter and the Angular mailing list has been great, and I'm happy to have made it on the second page of HN :)
Sometimes we just need to find our own keys (or even pick the lock). (:
I just returned from a walking survey of local govt sponsored "food truck tuesday". Runkeeper claims 0.71 miles in 11:18 (I walk fast) The banners/billboards and signs are back up for the spring. 70 degrees, light wind, sunny, near ideal weather. The city picnic tables are out and about 20 people eating (maybe two per table and maybe 10 occupied tables) and maybe 10 in line across all the trucks. Local time is just after lunch rush hour.
1) Korean BBQ is dead, we went from like 4 trucks at the same time last fall to Zero. Called it! Hyper narrowcasting competition killed ALL of them off simultaneously, which is too bad because I like KBBQ when I make it at home. A general lack of Asian food which is too bad, I really like that kind of stuff.
2) Prices are now a bit lower, almost as low as brick -n- mortar locally.
3) Cajun, meatballs, pitas, pizza by the slice (come on, that's the best you can do?), several southern style BBQ (the new KBBQ fad?), a burger place, a wings place, perhaps some I can't remember. I believe there was one plain ole sandwich place.
4) The themes seem to revolve around given a substance pick a container (meatballs) or given a container (pita, pizza slice dough, wings) pick a substance to put in/on it.
Some anecdotes:
Everything at the cajun place was $8 but don't know portion sizes which is probably why they were the only place without a line. The wings place is slightly more expensive than BW3 two blocks away. The burger place was priced about like Culvers. The meatball place sold out and was closing up which I guess is good revenue news. Generally speaking you could "eat well" for about $10. Lots of "our entree is only $8" or so in big letters but a coke or some side dish is $2. The local food selections remind me strongly of the local mall food court except somewhat fewer choices. I found the roar and smell of multiple 2 KW gas electric generators to be remarkably unappealing, if there's one thing the city .gov could do, it would be provide electrical hookups. No one sells snacks and dessert is rare. Food Truck Tuesday is currently operating at about quarter capacity. Only about half of one side of the road was occupied all in a bunch. Lots of traffic from the office buildings to the trucks and back, so actual sales are probably higher than picnic table occupation would imply.

I believe a lot of fads and prices are driven by the food network food truck series.
Hooray! for an occasion when the system worked. It's of course quite heartwarming to see someone in a position of authority coming to a sane opinion, getting incensed at the ridiculousness, and even going on the offensive.

But what of all the others that have been mired in endless litigation with no such happy ending? And while fitting, is it really desirable for Prenda's punishment to mainly consist of being ground down by the bureaucracy?

Wouldn't we rather an efficient system where ridiculous cases were dismissed outright, unenforceable laws were retired quickly, the lawyer protection racket was unnecessary, and the innocent could be reasonably confident of ultimately prevailing instead of simply settling to avoid years of stress?
I agree. Too many people think that a "condition" frees them from all personal responsibility.
I'm going to reserve judgment on the findings themselves until I read the paper (although, having a background in historical linguistics, I've learned to be very skeptical of any claim that posits historical superfamilies.)

However, I will complain about the pop-science intro, because the thought that a hunter-gatherer has some chance of understanding a sentence like the one given is laughably preposterous. An Old English speaker would only barely understand it (just as we would only barely understand gief þæm menn ealdan þisne fýr[1]), to say nothing of the many thousands of years of change between us and the hunter-gatherers spoken of. There is a vast difference between 'two words have a statistically provable correspondence' and 'two words are understood as the same word.'

[1]: My old English is pretty weak, so I take full responsibility for grammatical errors.

Edit: accidentally used 'th' instead of 'þ' in the Old English.