skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been a fan of power naps for the past year or so; I work from home so taking 25 minutes to nap in mid-afternoon is not a problem.

I just completed the program in "Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan" (Williams, Penman) and found in those eight weeks I didn't feel a need to nap in the afternoon. I just didn't get sleep late in the day.
Is the timestamp on this post incorrect? "Posted 3 days ago. June 27, 2014 at 7:44 PM"
Another thing to think about is eventually the higher skill jobs are leaving. There's nothing inherently American about, say, programming, and there's a heck of lot more of "them" than "us".

The only real hope for natives is high skill service jobs perhaps ER doctor.
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Wow, really impressive. I tried the first Jazz lesson, completed it, was prompted to register, happily signed up and I'm very excited about the other lessons!
Are they actually charging young people more, or are they charging inexperienced drivers more?
People like photos. You should consider putting a couple product photos on your site.
So, this is known, and tracked in our bug tracker [1]. In the meantime, you can ask your users to use the drop-down in the doorhanger (the little panel that come down), they can whitelist your site this way (it says: "always share with this website" or something).

As you see in the bug (and in a duplicate [2]), this behaviour may change in the future. As you can understand, this need to be changed with care, it's rather easy to screw up, and could have serious privacy implication for our users (of course, your use case it absolutly legit, but websites get hacked, and some website are clearly malicious).

In general, if you want to talk to the team because you suspect a bug in Firefox, or anything, really, come in #media on irc.mozilla.org, or come and talk to us on the dev-media mailing list [3]. We don't bite, and love to hear about the crazy stuff people make with our APIs :-).

Keep up the good work !

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819413

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=893945

[3]: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
Show HN: Dollar and Cent – A functional tool belt for Swift
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I agree with you in that it's not a bad idea for your use case. I would likely still make an admin portal to insert data. If we are dealing with static pages that have a dynamic spreadsheet, I would look up a Wordpress or Drupal solution first.

After reading your comment, I'm thinking that it may be easier in some situations like a teacher posting curriculum. It's also much easier than setting up a Wordpress deployment.
Lots of competitors in this space...
- Hootsuite
- BufferApp
- SproutSocial
- Hubspot
- Circular.io
This is the only response to my question that seems solid.
They could open source it and have other people use app engine if people want to use it. Otherwise if its open source people could implement what ever they want on the back end.
Hah. I remember writing a letter to my college newspaper (which was printed) defending the launch of Cassini against anti-nuclear hysteria. Tempus fugit.

Some big space stuff happening soon: Rosetta will orbit a comet and send a lander to the surface (later this year); MAVEN and MOM will reach Mars (later this year); Dawn will rendezvous with Ceres (early 2015); New Horizons will flyby Pluto-Charon (mid 2015); Akutsuki will enter Venusian orbit (late 2015); Juno will reach Jupiter (2016).
Dollar is a Swift library that provides useful functional programming helper methods without extending any built in objects. It is similar to Lo-Dash or Underscore in Javascript.

Cent is a library that extends certain Swift object types using the extension feature like ActiceSupport in ruby and gives its two cents to Swift language.
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Fair enough, and I apologize for making such an outrageous assumption. In fairness, I think I may have misread the tone of your original post and was a little miffed. (Not appropriate, but we all make mistakes--mine are just more regular than they ought to be.)

I do appreciate the subtle tongue-in-cheek reference, though (I chuckled). +1.
Android is open source, Google services are not.
>“You can't solve social problems with software.” – Marcus Ranum

This is the first time I've seen that quote or that name. I have no idea why I should believe that quote, though. For one, the NSA, CIA, Russian intelligence (what's the preferred name these days anyway?), etc all invest significant time and money into software.

Additionally, I feel like the Internet has solved lots of problems for me personally, even if those aren't "social" problems per se.
Vasalgel (the US version of RISUG) is in clinical studies right now, run by the non-profit Parsemus Foundation. Donations to aid the studies are more than welcome: http://www.parsemusfoundation.org/vasalgel-home/
Yes! But the best theory is not Copenhagen or Pilot Wave.

Eliezer Yudkowski has a brilliant treatise on the Many Worlds interpretation here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/ that really should be required reading for anyone that wants to talk intelligently on the subject.

Edit: seriously, don't even bother reading the article. It (like most science journalism) is garbage. Take the time to work through Eliezer's sequence.
Quick question - are you offering any analytics? If you're, it's missing from the Pricing (https://www.getstacker.com/pricing) page.
Service-net (https://github.com/mesosphere/service-net/) is a proof-of-concept
for service routing and discovery with IPv6 and DNS. The underlying mechanism
is similar -- IP tables is used for routing and load-balancing -- but DNS and
IPv6 tunneling are integrated as well.

One downside of IPv6 on AWS is that the IPv6 tunneling protocol -- protocol
number 41 -- is only available in VPCs. The EC2 classic network allows only 3
IP protocols -- TCP, UDP and ICMP -- to pass through it.
Google has millions of spiders, in datacenters all over the world. Maybe respecting crawl delay added more shared-state overhead than they wanted.
In the United States, the term "welfare" is typically used to refer to need-based social programs like SNAP (food stamps), as compared to things like Social Security which are available to all citizens after a certain age. Politicians across the spectrum use the phrase "entitlement programs" to refer to all social programs offered by the government.
Completely true, and IV seems pretty terrible, but this also has nothing to do with his cooking expertise.
Your analysis is good WRT "VC has been, and will continue to be, an underperforming asset class" as an isolated group. However, it is relevant to consider as a class, they're competing against large corporations, the home of Dilbert and TPS reports... Beating them as a class should be fairly easy.

Like the story about two guys running from the bear, you don't have to run faster than the bear, you just need to run faster than the other guy, and Dilbert doesn't exactly have an ultra-marathoners physique.
The freakonomics of crack dealing
Android is AOSP, AOSP + GMS is AOSP + GMS.
Why does subtracting these two times (in 1927) give a strange result?
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This website gives a simplistic visualization of what I'm talking about

http://www.traffic-simulation.de/

Decreasing the time gap and space gap decreased the amount of traffic
Agreed - but I think unified inbox is a rare feature. Also, his pricing is pretty simple and user-friendly.
The US is already in a recession. The two quarters of negative growth is not a good means of showing the shape of the economy.

You could have two quarters of -0.5% growth, and that would mean recession. Or one quarter of -3% growth, and that doesn't mean recession, despite being worse than the two quarters. It's a silly way to calculate the state of the economy. Besides that, inflation is intentionally understated, GDP is contracting at a worse rate than stated in the headlines. 2% GDP growth is a recession in this environment of intentional central bank inflation schemes.

Not once post WW2, has the US economy shrank by more than 1.5% in a single quarter and then not entered a recession (or already been in one).

Housing has begun to tip over, as the Fed pulls its asset inflation program. Corporate earnings growth is anemic at best, most blue chips are struggling to grow at all (MCD, KO, IBM, WMT, etc). The vast majority of growth in the stock market has come from multiple expansion, not from earnings growth. Full time jobs are still far under where they were in 2007, while simultaneously welfare benefits are dramatically higher, including labor problem indicators such as SS disability (and of course labor force participation is at 35 year lows).

This all with 0% interest rates. If you can't grow an economy with 0% interest rates, you're in for a very, very bad time.

Stocks tend to hit new record highs just before a recession begins. This happened with both of prior Fed asset inflation parties, in the late 1990s (2000 peak) and early 2000s (2007 peak). They repeated the same inflation recipe, trying to fake a wealth effect, and turned it up several notches. The same result will occur again on the backside, for obvious reasons.
guaranteed higher education

How about "guaranteed job training?" That way, if you wish to pursue a career that does not require a post-secondary degree, you can prepare yourself for that career just as well as the white collar worked who spends four years studying post-modern poetry.

N.B.: I have degrees in philosophy and writing, so I'm criticizing the study of the liberal arts.
I hear you, but am not sure I have a good answer. There's simply no consensus about what belongs on the HN front page. It's a gigantic tug of war every day, and many users (on either side of any disagreement) feel bad when the content they favor doesn't prevail. It's good that people care, but it sucks that many are guaranteed to be disappointed. We don't seem to be able to eliminate that effect, only manage it and try to minimize it.

In the current case, it's important to realize that a post getting killed by user flags is a really strong signal. It's probably the strongest signal we get. That needs to count for something.
The chart in the blog post is also from june 27-28, so it looks like you're right.
And there's nothing unjust about paying women less because they'll just quit to have babies, right? Society has decided that that's not how it works.
> it would also be a good idea to completely remove the profit motive from health care.

If I had a fatal disease with no known cure, I want a system that makes whoever finds the cure filthy rich. That's my best chance at survival. If anything, I want a system with even more profit motive.
I felt this way and I left.

After 3 years, I'm moving back. I've gotten over the issues that were bothering me about New York and realized that my success in the city will require me to work for it. Where I ended up is a much more miserable place to live.

I couldn't be more excited to go back to NY. I had the native's perspective (grew up in Midtown) and now I'm getting the transplant's one by moving back.

Non-billionaire, btw.
What's wrong with with discrimination based on eye color? Shouldn't anyone with blue eyes be killed at birth? That's not on the list you mentioned, so it's fair game, right?
I'd be interested to see any of the research on this, if you have references. I suspect that in practice it's exceptionally hard to draw realistic conclusions from any such research, simply due to the confounding factor of "the wider social structure of the country".
True, I'm thinking in a paradigm where humans in cars are replaced with driverless cars. The externalities that you point are valid but I still think that the efficiencies gained by having diverless cars would outpace any externalities (see my lengthy comment about minimum time per car added to a traffic network.)
Awesome. I'm really happy for all of the people working in this space... eHealth really deserves this level of attention from VCs.

I've been also working in eHealth/mHealth. We built an Skype patient-doctor with WebRTC but due to lack of funding we dismissed the prototype and pivoted. Maybe in a couple of years we can try again...

As you said, exciting times...
Check out Vasalgel. Reversible chemical vasectomy, coming soon to the US: http://www.parsemusfoundation.org/vasalgel-home/
On the Robotic Nature of Wasps
Except for that indentation (tries to make it look like a letter I guess)
Thank you for your insight =)
Wow you're stupid.
My buddy held a talk on Elm last week and they're going to publish a paper on it focusing on the FRP part. But to my knowledge Elm isn't pure FRP because it mixes state with behaviour. (not entirely sure though). The good part is that it works, the bad part is that it's creating messy and bloated js output, even for hello world.
This is pretty awesome. Nice work! I've been playing for 30 years but I am eager to try it out and learn some new stuff :).
Would be nice to be able to turn off specific items, for example house cleaning is a service I've never needed, and probably never will need.
It is? What's your evidence of his bias?
The thing that worries me about our debt is that it's not like the rates are locked-in for 1000 years. After bonds mature, we need to issue new bonds to pay for them. And if the interest rates are higher at the time, the new debt will have a higher interest rate (I guess, technically, the bonds will sell for a lower price, which has the same effect).

Paying our current level of interest on our debt is not crushing. But it's not hard to imagine the rates tripling (or more) considering how close to zero the rates are now. Then we are over $1 trillion/yr in debt service (if my calculations are correct).

Combined with what seems like a structural deficit, I don't see any good way we'd get out of that.

In other words, we're not falling off a cliff now, but it seems like fragile situation.
You should delete this post and make a new one with an actual URL.
If you're buy-side you know you're a clown on the execution side - it's not your core competency, it's just a cost center that you vaguely want to keep as low as possible while you make your real money through long-term value investing or serving your fundamentals-trading clients. You'd rather trade in the pool full of clowns, where the sharks get kicked out, and execution will be basically a wash rather than a transfer of money from you to the HFTs whose core competency is execution.
I failed to read this article on an iPad because something (I think the floating link on the right) kept jumping me to another article. Of course the website isn't buggy I'm just holding it wrong.
Too many mixed metaphors.

Aside from employees, .gov gives people money two ways:

1) Contracts. 200 F-22 for $100B or so. $1M for the service contract for that server for a year. Usually involves a psuedo competitive bidding process, a lack of one is unusual enough that you get the phrase "no bid contract" because its an oddity.

2) Entitlements. If you meet these requirements, you get this money, or income tax credit, or whatever. You're entitled as a member of a class where that class is poor dudes or historic property investors or hybrid car owner or whatever. Usually doesn't involve competitive bidding or auctions at all.

You're just going to confuse people by mixing contracts and entitlements in the same line.
Invade your personal space? Really? Your personal space? You entitled piece of shit.
> The fact that interest rates on Treasury bonds remain so low, despite our debt levels and despite certain political figures repeatedly attempting to force the US Government to default on that debt, is prima facie refutation of the idea that no one in the market actually thinks US debt levels pose a major macroeconomic problem in the short to medium term.

With respect, I don't think it's accurate that the fact that bond rates remain low correlates to evidence that there's no major macroeconomic problem. Just take a look at the Federal Reserve's balance sheet that was relatively stable for many years has quadrupled in 5 years.

Reference: Chart: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/RSBKCRNS

Reference: Balance Sheet:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/Current/
Most likely not. I don't actually think it's possible. A government needs to borrow and it needs the facility all the time because you obviously can't predict the kind of disaster that might require it. And inevitably politicians will get into bidding wars in order to get elected which ends up ramping up national debt.

Symbolically though, if government ran a surplus for x years during a particular ten year period, that would be sufficient to say "look, we've mostly balanced the books, we have been running surpluses during some years".

Again it's about public perception more than anything else. When national debt is climbing towards heights only previously reached during WW2 and government has shown zero ability to run a surplus in over a decade (I think Clinton ran surpluses?) then people will simply not trust politicians with the authority to borrow the necessary amount for Keynesianism to work.
> "i prefer universal essential services (healthcare, education, etc.) over a guaranteed basic income."

If we believe in the market's ability to efficiently find the path forward, identifying "essential services", even if it were possible, is wasteful at best and more likely counter-productive over time.

Twenty years ago we'd have locked in home phone service and missed internet. 10 years ago we might have locked in cell service, but missed mobile data. We'd have propped up "bad" products, at massive profits for the benefactors, for years beyond their relevance, instead of allowing the market to evaluate and react to changing conditions.

And while we might agree that it's logically possible for efficient and effective government to correct mistakes like those, the "money is speech" reality in the US gives such outsized power to lobbying interests that even an optimist has to rate effective "steering" of any definition of "essential services" as "unlikely".

Never mind the basic question of whether it's at all desirable to force a youth from an underprivileged family to "buy" government-guaranteed education, instead of allowing him to spend even a fraction of the equivalent on a laptop, smartphone and developer tools -- or a 3d printer and amazon hosting services. Or even allowing him to look outside the box of lobbiest-approved education providers, and allowing him to "spend" his assistance on developer conferences or workshops or online learning or just moving to another town that has a better local program.

Would some people inevitably spend a guaranteed income poorly? Of course they would. They also sell food stamps for cash -- at 50% of their face value -- to make their bad decisions regardless of what we might prefer.

It isn't worth the cost to try to enforce "essential services" spending at the micro level. It's too rich a target for corporate lobbyists to define approved services at the macro level. And at the economic level, there's little reason to believe it will give us better outcomes.
Would you elaborate on why Elm isn't FRP please? I've added a bit, but I hope to hear more from an expert on the topic :)
A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative gdp growth. So if the economy shrinks this quarter we are, by definition, in a recession.
The US can't just "lock in" rates by deciding to do so. Most of the world treats debt very different than the US consumer is used to on credit-card and mortgage loans.

The US issues debt and the market bids on what it will pay, nearly always charging higher rates for longer terms. And the US can't pay it down early; it has those rates for the entire term of the loan.

If I read http://www.bankrate.com/rates/interest-rates/treasury.aspx?e... right, the US can borrow for 3 months at 0.025%, but for 10 years at 2.63%.

One reason the US does so much short-term borrowing, among other reasons, is that it's so cheap to do so.
Very interesting (and certainly plausible)! Could you link to any of the experiments?
Many thanks for the feedback. My initial idea was to add product photos, but almost all the successful startups I see don't use product photos on their main page ( eg. asana, dropbox, basecamp, box). Also I wonder if photos would make the product seem more complicated than it actually is, since a visitor would be looking at data that hasn't been generated for his/her account.
Speaking of rubygems and npm, SBT also solves issues that neither of them are solving.

Actually npm doesn't even solve the issue of dependency management well for client-side dependencies - people apparently use Bower for that - and then just wait until you get the idea of building mixed apps. And then building stuff may not be so required for one-off JS scripts, but if you want to run a linter over your code, or to package dependencies in a single binary based on Common.js or AMD and maybe to do minification for distribution, then you're in for a world of hurt. And in case you think it's unfair to compare the clusterfuck that is Javascript's ecosystem against SBT/Scala, you may be interested to know that Scala.js (the Scala to Javascript compiler) is a pleasure to work with, one reason being that it just works with SBT.

The Ruby ecosystem is somewhat close to sane, but beginners still have to deal with gemspec versus bundler, rubygems versus Rails, rvm vs rbenv, plus the issue of native dependencies (for Scala/SBT, the only native dependency is the JVM itself and until 2016 at least Java SE 6 is all you need). And Python for example - is another example of a clusterfuck.

It's easy to forget as experienced developers that we did experience pain when we started with our current platform. Lets face it - when it comes to dependency management and build systems, we should be ashamed of ourselves. And now after having worked with other environments, SBT may suck (it does, it really does), but to me it sucks less than everything else I tried, because at least it solves most of my needs out of the box and for the edge cases there's usually a plugin available.
I think people are basically more or less the same everywhere in that respect. Americans don't like public transit because it really sucks in America. In places like NYC where it doesn't they don't. But not every city with great transit has to be a stressful megalopolis like NYC - Vienna or Zurich for example are really nice and quiet (and clean and have low crime) despite having great transit.

It's kind of a chicken and eggs sort of thing but I'm pretty sure if you've suddenly by some miracle have really awesome mass transit in LA or Houston like you do in NYC, Tokyo & lots of European cities (even medium sized ones like Prague or Copenhagen) I'll bet loads of those freedom and sparsity loving folk will start using it and over time population and living patterns will adapt to the new conditions.
I can't either. I remember feeling so excited when Cassini finally arrived. My emotions roughly echoed your own.

What's incredible to me is how serene Saturn appears in the NG article in spite of the violent winds that tear through it, and the illumination of the shaded side by Saturn's rings is jaw dropping. It's difficult for me to express the feeling I have when I observe such ornate beauty, and it's something I feel every time I see these images. To say nothing of the scale of it all--which itself is difficult to imagine.
No, of course not.
Actors, sports stars and high frequency traders are.

(I guess my post should have read "earned income").

Edit: actually my post does reference earning rather than simply collecting. Unemployed and those on welfare don't earn. So what is your point exactly?
I think he means that it is very rare to find a government that runs a surplus for even a very short amount of time, let alone the amount of time Keynes's original theory intended.