skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the OP is happy with his schedule, which is great. However everyone needs different lengths of sleep for the body to process/release toxins. For me it's 8 hours at least to wake up feeling refreshed and not relying on coffee or other stimulants to go through the day. As for waking up feeling tired no matter when, the optimal timing for waking up matters and is at the end of a 90 minute sleep cycle (you need a few of those per night). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep. You can also use iOS apps like "Sleep Cycle" to aid you in waking up at the right time - really made a difference for me. Waking up to a screaming alarm is probably the last thing you want.
That whole "begging for an invite" thing was, in my world, the reason we couldn't use Wave. When you have a project with 10 people, and 3 of them can't get on Wave... it's game over. Back to email/IM/whatever.

I never understood why, beta or not, anyone would release a collaboration tool without the ability to invite collaborators.
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That trust in the principals of IEX and the ownership structure is precisely what I find so odd.
jamesbritt said:

> getting the PDF just right was important to me.

i respect that. how were you generating the .pdf?

*

> Since the user can set the font and text size

> the idea of page size goes pretty much out the window.

what pagesize did your .pdf have? that's what i meant.

if you put each section on its own e-book screen, and
make the sections small enough to fit on one _screen,_
or two, or three, they'll also fit on one/two _pages._

*

> Using CSS page-break doesn't quite help,

> since it presumes what has come before

> and how it fit on the page.

i'm not sure i understand.

so -- for the sake of others reading this thread --
let me explain further. when you create the e-book,
if you segment the book into small-enough sections,
it'll generally work, across almost all situations,
no matter how the person has configured the fontsize.
so there, a "screen-break" comes before each section,
and before-and-after images you want to fill a screen.

conversely, for the .pdf, you _know_ the pagesize, and
the fontsize as well, so you know where pagebreaks are,
and you add/delete/change until you get what you want.

*

> What's needed is orphan/widow control

> and "keep with next" so that, for examples,

> related sections can be rendered on one page

> or the next but not split across pages.

it would be nice if the programs had enough smarts to
do this automatically; until then, you do it manually.

but you don't need indesign to do it; you really don't.

i'd be happy to show you how i'd do your book, if you'd
be interested in seeing it, if you send me a copy of it.

*

> In practice, though, I found I needed to

> aim for some sort of highest common factor

> across popular devices, keep test-viewing

> the results, and drop anything too clever.

that is the approach that is needed these days, yes.

-bowerbird
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I suppose one could add this book to

The Blind Side -- the story of how one of Michael Lewis's classmates as an Ole Miss booster, gave impermissible benefits to a high school recruit and got away with it.

Moneyball -- the story of a GM with 0 World Series appearances and a .530 WP.
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Yes, pacman is wonderful. We're very grateful to the Arch Linux devs.

You guys are all correct, we've not paid nearly enough attention to marketing. Here's the description I tried to post:

MSYS2 is an updated, modern version of MSYS, both of which are Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) forks with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.

We wanted a package management system to provide easy installation of packages, and ported Arch Linux's pacman. This brings many powerful features such as dependency resolution and simple complete system upgrades, as well as providing the build system (makepkg) which is used to make these packages. The set of software-building recipes (PKGBUILDs) for MSYS2 itself are at:

https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages

.. and those for MinGW-w64 (i.e. native Windows software) are at:

https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages

Both 32 and 64bit are supported.
I am part of the group of people who would go back to the cable companies if they would budge on their channel packages. I would pay per channel if I could just customize my listing.

I bring this up because you are totally right, but at the same time if the cable companies will evolve to what consumers want, they may not have to take this route.

If not, we can hope they dont charge too much more, they are already making the US look stupid on the world stage of internet access prices.
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But it's not at all the same. Discussion is chaotic and unstructured, there's very little collective action, and it's not a community, it's just a bunch of people congregating in the same place.
Done! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7532955
I love this. Awesome. Just awesome. Seems like a great way to stay grounded and keep perspective (along with staying active and giving you structure). Keep it up.
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I defer to your friend's expertise on the subject, but really, the Church isn't trying to hide anything. This was not the case when the ASV opened to the public in the late nineteenth century when in fact the Vatican's hope was that researchers would read their documents and write nice things about the church. These days, however, the ASV is one of Europe's main archives, curated by respected professionals. There is no hidden agenda.

A more likely reason why your friend had such a hard time was Napoleon, who made a policy of transferring all the grand archives of the countries he conquered back to Paris. An enormous number of documents were lost during the transfer and the eventual repatriation, somewhere around one third. Records relating to Galileo's trial were lost, for example. Of course, the most likely reason that your friend and I had difficulty is just the incredibly user-unfriendly systems of cataloging that the ASV uses.

At the risk of sounding like an apologist for the Vatican, I should also point out that the fact that these archives are open at all is remarkable. These aren't a national archive, for instance, where the state maintains records as a service for its citizens and to keep the nation's heritage alive. The ASV is quite simply the dumping ground for the Vatican's bureaucracy over the past 1700 or so years. They don't owe this to anyone.

It would be like if Microsoft pooled all documents generated by HR, marketing, product development, engineering, legal, and its other divisions, physically dumped them in various containers over the centuries, and one day in the year 3749 A.D. announced that the public could rifle through the papers if they wanted to. The immediate impetus would be to demonstrate that Office 3750 was not in fact part of an anti-competitive plot to secure a monopoly on productivity software sold in Alpha Centauri and Venus. But by 3800 A.D., that original purpose would have been long forgotten and researchers, regardless of which office suite they use, would be able to mine the archives for anything that anyone working for Microsoft ever said, did, or observed during the work day, so long as those thoughts were captured on some format that eventually made its way to paper.

...to make the analogy more complete, let's also assume that most of the other major institutions and their archives have been wiped out by this time. What ends up happening, then, is that researchers in 3749 A.D. dig through MS' archives for glimmers of things like what people ate during the day in 2014 or what sort of music they listened to.
Interesting. I wonder if users flagging ads have any impact.

I say this only because I had a habit of flagging ads with the reason of 'other' and entering 'wrong language' when FB showed me ads in the wrong language.

FB ignore browser language for ads, preferring to use IP address. Duh.

It might just be that x% of people flagged a number of your ads for similarly odd reasons and you got banned automatically.

Also I'm testing a theory that FB will at some point just tag me as an 'ad hater', because any ads that show in the timeline I mark as 'don't show me again', reason 'not interested', purely because I don't like the feature.
They already are accepting pull requests - several have appeared in hotfixes. There's a link to some of the pull requests in that blog post, although I'm not certain you can access them unless you've paid the subscription and setup your github account link. There are a few really quite cool pull requests being reviewed just now too.
Also, cut your expenses, save 20%+ of salary, build up a 6-12 month emergency fund IN CASH or money market.

Then, if you lose your job or need to take time off, you aren't totally screwed.

Also, after-tax investments lets you fund personal projects without taking the huge penalty for raiding retirement savings.
There are a handful of WinDbg plugins:

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You missed the point: there's a difference between demanding that evidence be produced, critically examining it, etc. and saying that someone is completely blameless and being railroaded by management. Both are defending your member but the difference between ensuring that the system works fairly and unqualified partisan support is that the former case allows you to distance yourself from someone who actually has committed an offense.

This is particularly important for public sector unions where there's often a highly sympathetic third party involved and the union needs to avoid losing public support. Consider the case of a teacher accused of abusing a student – if the union says “we want the legal process to be followed completely and fairly" that will be remembered very differently than “our member is being railroaded by hostile management” if the evidence shows that they did in fact commit the crime.

Lawyers are a special case — they do have something of a bad reputation because of this but most adults understand that this is how the system is supposed to work and don't assume that, say, a criminal defense lawyer personally approves of murder. Unions haven't managed to establish that distinction, in part because a lot of well-monied interests have made a priority of portraying every individual incident as representative of all union members.
All great points, but you can't fault someone for wanting more eyeballs on their project. In this case more eyeballs -> bigger talent pool -> more/better contributions.

But in general, as the old adage goes, don't count your chickens before they hatch. It's fine to spend a little time marketing, but I totally agree to focus your energy on your product with your initial traction.
This was a really complete answer. Just to not repeat and complete it with a couple of new things:

-You might get some interesting and fun things in here: California Academy of Sciences and The Exploratorium. Every Thursdays they have special events.

-This is another website where you can find something: http://www.sfweekly.com/

If you want to socialize www.meetup.com (already told by Jemaclus) is great. You can also organize or find meetups to programme instead of programme alone for example. There are meetups for whatever think you want to think, so just try some of them until you find something and some people you like!
He donated money for a campaign that he believed in. You might believe that was discriminatory, he did not. Ultimately its up to the law to decide that. He gave money for a caused he believed in, even if that cause was wrong.

But contrary to what you're trying to link it to, that does not affect his professional life or the way he managed mozilla up until this point. There's simply no evidence of it. There's no logical fallacy. There's just no evidence that he's done anything discriminatory. No angry anonymous mozilla blog posts about brendan. No company leaks. nothing.

Saying that because he's CEO and in charge and doesn't have someone to hold him accountable so he can do whatever he wants...outlines your ignorance of company structure and...office politics. Sure, a CEO can call the shots, but Brendan had been in charge of many things at Mozilla for a long time and could've realistically gotten rid of people or shuffled them around whenever he wanted to. But he didn't.

Could he have been secretly scheming to get rid of "the company gays" at Mozilla for 15 years and only now finally realized his master plan that he was CEO? I honestly, seriously, doubt it.

The fact that you cannot, and will not separate personal life from business is what truly worries me. Many people are cooperative and productive despite having different beliefs and backgrounds. Sometimes they can offer insight from a different perspective and sometimes they can be a hindrance. This is a core prospect of working with a group of people, and it is a great advantage. Brendan has shown that he wasn't a hindrance the 15 years he was at Mozilla, and he's given back a lot to the open source community.

On an off note, and I am not implying that you are doing this at all, surrounding yourself by a group of people that hold the same mindset is bad. It creates an echo chamber and allows for really terrible ideas to flourish.
no, the buy side is long. the sell side is selling things like IPOs, etc. that the buy side might want to buy. sometimes they provide liquidity, sometimes they're just an agent and rent-seeker.

markets, trades, liquidity are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. every trade is a friction and a cost, and only happens because the two sides aren't happy with their portfolio.

"more friction in your machine is generally bad and just creates heat."

"oh, but that's not meaningful, people who make sandpaper and grippy tires are needed to create friction"

"..."
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I found puzzles involving dialation to be quite annoying.

Consider this solution for the third puzzle of Transformation Puzzles 2:

Reflection over the line from (1.5,-1.5) to (-1.5,1.5)
Dilation of scale 256 about (2.5,2.5)
Reflection over the line from (1.5,-1.5) to (-1.5,1.5)
Dilation of scale 1/256 about (2.5,2.5)

You are unable to visibly discern a difference between the two shapes after this, but the interface refuses.
Facebook Messenger does it every time you go to the App, it's very annoying. It definitely makes me use it less. I don't think Apps should be aware if they have had permissions denied, functions should just quietly return nothing/false data.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/S4MmKo3.png
> I suddenly realized how much of a complete weirdo others must see me as and felt shame comparing myself to others in my peer group who, without depression holding them back, have become much more successful. ... It really brought up a feeling of hopelessness, like I wasted my youth and thus will never catch up, or will always been seen as defective in some way.

Preach it brother! I feel the same damned way.

> I guess when I was depressed I really didn't consider these things or they simply didn't bother me.

I revel in my weirdness when my mood is different from others-- they're just polyannas. Makes it harder to make that appt. to get the meds adjusted.
I guess if you have your liquid waste contained within closed loop then you can get around drought issues.

Making black water potable I'd guess uses more energy and resources than recycling grey. I bet a victorian sewage system couldn't work without gallons of water either. An alternative might be to defacate in our gardens if we have them.

Piss by itself isn't that harmful, you can use it on the garden. I piss frequently into a watering can.
How crappy is the SNCF search for trains if they are successful?

I mean, sure, their UI is so beautiful and responsive it makes me weep when I have to go back to the crappy DB app, but the functionality is just not there. That seems to be independent from the country in which you are searching. I want to select the train type (including high speed or only regional trains), I want it to be very clever about special discounts that might apply (e.g. instead of buying a ticket for a connection it can often be cheaper to buy a ticket which is valid for unlimited connections in regional trains during one day).

I also want to see the platform I have to go to. At least.

The DB app and search engine might be slow and fidgety, but at least it can figure stuff like that out. Also, with the DB app I don’t have to print anything, I can just show the ticket in my app. (I’m sure they would like to do that, too, but since they aren’t the DB they likely never will be able to.)

I really wonder what makes them successful. Surely it can’t be that hard to reach the DB’s competent level of crappiness.
Well Debate.org seems to agree with what I think you are trying to say which is "being against gay marriage does not make you a homophobe"[0], of course Slate would disagree with you [1], and The Atlantic would agree with you [2]. I could go on but I won't, I'll just tell you what I think: yes, It does.

And yes, he was a homophobe, by giving to a group of people trying to destroy human rights for homosexuals. I think people can change but the complete lack of response on that specific issue from Brendan Eich makes me assume he still is.

[0] http://www.debate.org/opinions/does-opposing-same-sex-marria...

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2013/12/16/gay_marriage_o...

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/being-ag...
I took me forever to figure out how to execute the reflection (which is to click on the arrows that point to the dash-line after you position it by dragging.) But it might be from being dropped in the middle instead of going through the sequences.
how did you find such a job, and how can someone find a similar kind?
What about many-worlds? It appears randomly from the inside but actually isn't.
> Yeah I'm sure his grandmother had no problem understanding the general theory of relativity.

Here[1], try and see if you can understand it. I'm sure you can, I'm sure your grandmother can too. Also if you have any specific questions about pharmacology, molecular biology or anything related feel free to ask, I might be able to come with a reasonably simple answer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgpD4XZP0uM
Neil is brilliant, good find.
Clinical trials, sure - but anything that's specific to the FDA is squarely "regulatory compliance", not "research".
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These often serve as 'third places' and are a valuable tool for socialization that Western society has nixed in favor of cheap substitutes like Facebook and Reddit.

It's not a community unless there's also accountability; which entails clear standards of behavior and being held to them. In a professional context, this would be a minimum bar of skills, along with resources for continuing your training.
When I read on reddit that a recently single dad moved from cable to Netflix - and the kids greatly prefer it (think about it, no ads etc) - that's when it hit me that it will be All Over for cable. At the very least, it's going to lose the next generation, if not this one!
It's fine to go to a direct competitor, I think. I'm just saying working for both at the same time would be... well, probably career-ruining in my line of work. I believe our little industry has an unwritten rule of 2-week minimum cooldown when switching companies.
Thanks for the feedback!

The undo button thing would be a huge improvement; I'll fix that. (Also, if you do two transformations that cancel each other out, it will notice and remove both rather than adding two. So you can actually undo a reflection by clicking the reflector again.)

As some other comments have pointed out, you might have seen the text based dilation, which is used for one of the problems for a specific reason :). The dragging dilation tool is far from perfect, but is a bit closer to what you described.
> It still blows me away that Time Warner, Comcast, and others have failed to take advantage of their existing relationships with networks to rollout their own Netflix style of service.

They have -- its the video-on-demand service that is part of their cable offerings. (And also available over the internet to their cable subscribers.)

> so building a VOD style of offering would only be a matter of setting up the infrastructure/team to manage it.

Cable services have had VOD offerings longer than Netflix has had streaming.
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Like I said in another thread, I'm an engineer for a smoke alarm company; so my advice may be biased....

There are smoke alarm alternatives available, but they're very expensive. Nest is a high priced gadget / toy that must be thrown out after 7 years. You're better off buying a First Alert or Kidde photoelectric smoke alarm with a 10 year battery. Then you'll never have to worry about it for 10 years. They'll cost around $30-$40 each.

If you want a higher-end serious fire protection system, there are alternatives if you look around. Crossfire alarms are very good (although their website may not be...) They are made in USA (even the plastic injection molding, circuit board assembly, etc).

They are wirelessly interconnected, photoelectric smoke alarms with a 10-year battery. They have a heat alarm for the garage, kitchen, furnace closet, attic, etc. These are places you can't put a smoke alarm, but also places where fires actually begin. You have smoke alarms in your bedrooms, hallway, and living room; but fires rarely start there. They also have a carbon monoxide alarm; and all the alarms set each other off. If there's a fire in your garage, the alarm in your bedroom goes off.

They're also coming out with products that will send you a text message and call the fire department, and products for the elderly, children, and hearing impaired.

These are very high-end systems, and are very expensive (even more than Nest). They're sold only by dealers who professionally evaluate the home and install them. This also adds to their cost - you're buying an alarm plus a salesman plus an installer.

Companies like ADT and AT&T offer good systems that can call the fire department and have other features. But, they're expensive, have a monthly fee, and are usually based on normal cheapo alarms.

There's a few options; but none of them are perfect...
There are a number of possibilities depending on whether you send in a routable order (it's a flag you can set -- route or don't route, and there can be fees associated with routing). What a sophisticated trader would do is send two orders simultaneously taking out the small 100 lot at 30.01 and the 10,000 at 30. The exchange with the larger but worse price order will accept your order if you set the ISO flag, indicating you have sent orders to clear out better priced orders at any market centers displaying a better protected quote.
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