skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am saying that whatever biological differenced "proven" re propensity for risk taking have an effect size several orders of magnitude smaller than that among SV entrepreneurs, while cultural biases are shown to be of similar effect size (and greater). So no, the effect sizes found can have no more than negligible bearings on reality.
You have to be careful, though, because the train of thought that makes rights contingent on actual ability to perform leads inexorably to a justification of eugenics. Once you agree that even humans may not really have rights unless they meet a certain bar, you create all sorts of incentives to start screwing with the bar. And we shy away from eugenics not because of the idea itself, but because of what fruit it bore, and there's little reason to believe it would go any better a second time.

Plus you're a distressingly short trip from the bar being "having right and proper political beliefs".

"Speciesism" at least has the virtue of being fairly unambiguous. It may still be the better policy even if it isn't perfect.
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Interesting! I really expected the results comparing rendering SVG vs playing m4a, but m4a vs static image being the same? that's cool :)
I second nsitoula's comment. I am interested but confused what you would be offering that could help stem what I think are fairly normal feelings for any entrepreneur.

Honestly, the image I had in my mind when I finished reading your post was an old time snake oil salesman standing on a soap box trying to sell the magic elixir to cure everything from boredom to cancer. Sorry, not saying you aren't legit just sounds too good to be true kinda thing.
On my laptop, I've been using f.lux [0] to prevent the bright monitor lighting from keeping me too alert late into the night. It took me a while to get accustomed to the hues, but I really like the way the light softens as the evening progresses.

[0] https://justgetflux.com/
It might make sense in a human context if God has a physical (immortal) human body.
who cares how dim they are, they enabled Humans to be active at night and therefore disrupted that day-light body cycle. Which is what the comment was about.
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Whats the difference between sexual discrimination, racial discrimination, age discrimination, and religious discrimination?
regardless of how ridiculous this guys comment is, an offensive twitter comment is no reason to arrest a person. public ridicule, sure. government involvement, absolutely not.
It's discussed here http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/21/why-i-still-dont-think-its-...
Complete first half of the article is misleading :( Only when they describe the actual experiment you get the real information:

> They spent five days reading from a paperback and five days from an iPad.
You don't need nested lists:

['FizzBuzz' if x % 15 == 0
else 'Fizz' if x % 3 == 0
else 'Buzz' if x % 5 == 0
else x for x in range(100) if type(x) is int]
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The Paperwhite and Voyage are front-lit, not backlit. They should be fine.

This article on what I assume was the same study http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/12/e-readers-and-tablets... mentions specifically "iPads, Kindle Fires, and Nook Colors", and also says "A Kindle without a backlight, as you'd expect, only reflected about as much light as a book and had its peak omission in relatively red wavelengths."
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Good Man. Unfortunately, lots of piss-poor researchers out there write study reports with very small n sizes, and 12 is not the worst one I have seen.
Yes to the civil code: the rest were mostly in place before Napoleon, weren't they?
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b/c the applications that care the most about these types of errors (big iron networking, and mil/aero) implement software error correction in the processor. It's not worth spending the extra money in final test when commodity DRAM is, well, a commodity.
I've got a Kobo Aura HD, and notice no difference in sleep quality compared to reading a normal book with a light on. YMMV, of course.
I'll second this as my own anecdotal experience.

I rate the primary cause to be cleaner and fresher air, perhaps about 90% of the problem solved. I'd say the last 10% is that airlines are smarter about dealing with turbulence.
I'd start looking at this for ideas. It's a paper on using memory erros to break out of a java virtual machine. They didn't have a good way for generating them, so resorted to waiting.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/memerr.pdf
The scripted experiments are fun indeed :]
Also the firebase server usage is shooting up like anything :D
And I guess ASLR would make it even harder.
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I'd rather submit to you it's BECAUSE Homo sapiens mastered Fire AND Light that we have become a dominating specie. So, it may have damaged our health in the process, but it has been massively beneficial for our survival as a whole.
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Zhukov's only tactic was charge at the german lines backed up by the threat of NKVD submchine guns ;-(
Grammar something nobody will be offended by here: someone.
Number of apps is not a measure of usefulness or enough for a buy decision. I have with my Moto 360 a, let say, small number of apps, but quite useful ( Google Now extension, navigation, remote photo trigger, fitness tools, to name a few). I know that more and more developers will add their wear-enabled apps and this will increase the functionality. The battery point is a good one, but while I sleep I have to take any watch off my hand so the point in my case is kind of moot.

Besides that, who would wear a kids like looking watch? Ok maybe some of us, but with some good leather straps, the Moto 360 looks really good and somehow unnoticed, like a normal watch. This gives me some real value, but also I am not a very young person too ;).
Electricity is dramatically different from torches/candles. It's brighter and safer, so it got used more. It affected how we sleep:

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-broken-sleep-is-a-gol...

> Prior to Edison, says the Virginia Tech historian A Roger Ekirch, author of At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past (2005), sleep had been divided into two distinct segments, separated by a period of night-waking that lasted between one and several hours. The pattern was called segmented sleep.

> Sleep patterns of the past might surprise us today. While we might think that our circadian rhythm should wake us only as the sun rises, many animals and insects do not sleep in one uninterrupted block but in chunks of several hours at a time or in two distinct segments. Ekirch believes that humans, left to sleep naturally, would not sleep in a consolidated block either.
It results in different hidden class because the whole point is to be able to reference named fields by fixed offsets from the object location in memory (same as for example reading struct fields in C). If the order changes, so will the offsets too, so same names with different order must have different hidden classes.

Integer keys are not practical to treat as fixed because they are used as array indices 99% of the time which are dynamic. So they should be optimized differently, and they are. They are backed by a dynamically resized array (so it's implemented like Java's ArrayList). And it's not possible to track insertion order in this representation, so integer keys have different iteration order from named keys.

Note that doing hash-tabley things with the objects (like changing their property order constantly, deleting named keys and so on) will change the backing representation to ordered hash table. The ordered hash table emulates the same order that results from the nature of the above optimizations to make it less surprising for user when the representation changes. If it wasn't ordered, it would be very surprising when the iteration order suddenly changed from ascending integer keys and insertion ordered named keys to something completely random.
I certainly won't if you refuse to even attempt an explanation.
Ha, the number 2 slot on HN. The nerds must be bored before Christmas.
yes in the beginning we were loading in the whole data from firebase, of course it got a bit big with 250-300 people playing non-stop for the past hours :)

we have optimised it now and it should be much better - remember to ctrl+refresh to clear your browser cache
What do you mean exactly ? How would it make sense?
> ownership and lifetimes are the important novel things

The first is very clearly a borrowed C++ feature (from RAII and smart pointers). I'm unfamiliar with the 2nd but it sounds like just making the compiler yell at you more when you break scope rules (like C++ will happily let you do with dangling pointers - I will give you that dangling pointers are bad).

> Rust doesn't solve race conditions: it solves data races, which are also problematic (they cause memory unsafety). It is impossible/very hard to avoid arbitrary race conditions, but data races are the only ones that can cause memory unsafety directly.

This sounds like gibberish to me. When I said "race conditions" please read it as "data races". Many of which will not "cause memory unsafety directly". Many of which low-level code such as a kernel will need to not be abstracted from. (Imagine writing a page fault handler in a language that tries to hide data races from you... Doesn't sound like a great idea.)
Buddhism includes reincarnation as animals
Because all it does it makes your colors screwy, it doesn't actually help anything?
you could try ctrl+refreshing for latest version
Thank you both of you for the links. After reading up and doing a bit more research into this, I find AS to be a very dangerous organization.

We have a 2 1/2 year old girl who has a significant delay in communication, everything else she pretty much excels at. We started speech therapy and she is definitely improving. We've asked the therapists about autism since we read quite a bit of scary stuff on Autism Speaks site. The therapists both stated that while she may have an issue that can be associated with the spectrum, they do not recommend labeling her as autistic. They did mention that some parents prefer the autistic label because that will open up more resources for them with local school districts which in a way, inflates the autism numbers.
It's more complex than that. Whether the site's TOS are enforceable is a matter of jurisdiction and may depend on the intent of the web scraper.

Ryanair for example has lost several cases where they tried to forbid scraping their website on the groups that data scraping promoted free competition and served consumers in general. See the latest decision here: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ryanair-suffers-setback-ge....
I love f.lux. It would be nice if you could run it on iOS without jailbreaking.
Google has now ‘forgotten’ more than a quarter-million URLs
Speaking of which are the greatest generals, according to Livy Hannibal and Scipio Africanus met at a dinner 10 years after Scipio definitively beat Hannibal and that's what their conversation was about. Scipio asked Hannibal, who are the greatest generals of all time? Hannibal said, Alexander, Pyrrhus and myself. Annoyed that he wasn't on the list Scipio said okay, what then if I hadn't beat you at Zama? Hannibal said, I'd have put myself ahead of both Alexander and Pyrrhus.

Unlikely to actually be true but a cute story.
I have a Pebble Smartwatch and it definitely does not have 5-7 days of battery life. More like 1.5 days (2 if your lucky). Also, I do think the fact that Android wear makes so much functionality so easily accessible is a huge deal for smartwatches. You just say "Ok Google". The whole point of a smartwatch is to seamlessly integrate technology in your life. That means our interactions on them need to be quick. You can't get that if you have to poke around the Pebble watch UI for 15 seconds before getting to your app and THEN sending out the text, or checking your calendar etc.
>> If I may ask, what is the point you're referring to?

Perhaps as someone else pointed out, aliens could be a metaphor. There were plenty of places here on earth that didn't get the message about god back in the day. When that guy says "there is no data" he's ignoring a lot of history. Replace planet with continent and you can see how God actually handled beings in different places - he didn't.
The Importance of Mindfulness When Managing a Startup
You said "being exposed to bright light late at night is nothing new" which is demonstrably false.
>So the title is more than a bit misleading

I already made a comment here some dutch news thing that picked up on this and debunked it. It's weird to see it on HN this late and this upvoted.

Technically it's not misleading.

Why not? Let's grab Wikipedia's definition: "An e-reader is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals." e.g. there is being made NO distinction between e-ink displays and normal LED displays (iPad, tablets, screens and the sort).

It's kind of misleading because people usually think of e-readers as e-ink display type of e-readers. But this is only a small subset of the 'actual' e-readers.

Conclusion? Don't stare at a light emitting screen (iPad, TV, PC) before you go to bed. Read from an e-ink display or a book.

I, personally, am still waiting for the day that 60 Hz e-ink PC monitors will be available.
From Doc linked from the page: "Dr. Czeisler received royalties from McGraw Hill, Penguin Press/Houghton" [1]

It's shaming of the BBC not to have dealt with the findings more critically, rather than regurgitation of the press release. The characterization of iPads as e-readers in the context of the royalties looks suspicious.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/12/18/1418490112
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I feel like this statement could get used a lot on HN.
Thank you veeeeery much for this comment, I really appreciate it. The right hande column isnt meant to be absolutely positions, I think I have just done the colun slightly incorrectly.

I did originally try to make it all scroll correctly into the right sections, but wasnt able to do it properly.

Really I could use some help on how to get the functionality in place.

The Docs site can be developed independently of the main library (which powers the editor).

Its all built peacemeal using grunt and some templates.

Any idea on how to do the scrolling :) if someone points me in the right direction it would help me do it quicker!

I have created an issue for it on github, so I will take a look at it https://github.com/ilikeprograms/Cluckles/issues/19

You say you want to see a number of changes, im open to suggestions if you have ideas on how to improve it so you would use it regularly :)
You stripped the context from the quote... They're not comparing going straight to sleep vs using an before bed e-reader.

"A team from Harvard Medical School compared reading paper books and light-emitting e-readers before sleep."
Sounds great. I hope when pieces of it fall of the surface they won't have similar effec on human as asbesthos.
I was waiting for that one. But animals are just vessels for humans souls while waiting for another reincarnation, as far as I understand. So animals are not given much soul on their own.
What happens exactly when I click the button? It optimizes 50 images and put them in a separate commit?
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The C++17 standard should have them, once concepts become a thing; iirc they're not in it now to avoid issues with choosing between sort(Container, Comparator) and sort(Iterator, Iterator) overloads.
Seems like a pretty useful tool, but I don't have any repos with images. Can anyone report on actual usage?
Meme-science. What about those laptops people staring at for 8 hours/day and those 50" back-lit TVs running 16h/day? Do they contribute to a "health-damage"? To what extend?
How do they factor out "stress" from being a subject in a "study" from "stress" of being exposed to deadly back-lit?

"Methodology" aside. Let me guess - the "study" has been sponsored by affiliates of e-ink display producers/sellers?
Why doesn't it mention the manufacturers' names?
The title on HN was edited. It used to say what the BBC article title still says which is "E-books damage sleep..."
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So why aren't fireflies our lords and masters?
Upon reconnectionn to the network the Apple OSs immediately resume using their previous lease address on the network, whilst initiating DHCP in the background.

Works OK in small domestic networks but can cause some issues in big uni and corporate nets with frequent address churn.
The point made here is that when you hold a back lit e-reader you're literally staring into the light.

Unless you're staring directly into the lights which light your home for long periods of time it appears to be an appreciable difference.

However, I had thought back lights were well known for preventing strong sleep cycles before this.
Having tried most of those, funnily enough, I am back to bits of paper.
I feel a little dirty defending non-readers, but I don't think that's sufficiently clear or prominent. In the context of a product description, it's ambiguous as to whether that's simply a recommendation or a hard statement of fact. For example, in the world of cars it's common to see the phrase, "Always use genuine $BRAND parts." Of course, other parts work fine, it's just a recommendation. The Keurig statement is a bit stronger, but still not clear.

I'd want something more like, "This device uses technological measures to prevent compatibility with third-party packs." And a bit more front and center.
You know you're reading a quality article when one of the subheadings is literally just (quotation marks and all) 'Concern'
Car manufacturers are moving in this direction. Not with DRM fuel, but with the specialized maintenance machines required to read/reset the diagnostic codes on your car's onboard computer.
Sounds like a great technique for ddos.
"They spent five days reading from a paperback and five days from an iPad."

... and proceed to show a kindle in the pictures.

Of course, the iPad has a screen so it's going to damage your sleep. The refresh rate + bright blue light is bad for you. Why did they need to make a study for that? That's know.

What I am wondering is a backlight e-ink display. No refresh rate, and a dim backlight. Now, that's a study that is worth it.
I still keep around a few halogen and incandescent light bulbs for the evening.

They emit a better light (color temperature) than fluorescent & LED lamps (and contain no hazardous waste). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
You must be doing some very intensive things with your Pebble. I have the automatic backlight turned on (turn on when I shake it), and mine regularly lasts 3-5 days, even when I go running regularly, which happens to trip the automatic backlight for most of the run.

I also use it to track yards I go swimming, Runkeeper for tracking my runs, and miscellaneous things like the music app and the Swarm app.
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This is one of those comments we'll look back on in 30 years and say "what the hell were we thinking letting a company control our devices like that?".
Basically! When you click on the button, it will spin up a bunch of workers (1 for every 10 images). These will optimize your images in parallel, and then push the changes back up to a branch and open a pull request for you to review.

There's no limit on the number of images - it can optimize hundreds quite quickly - 50 is the number of parallel workers you can have.
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I think it is a smart idea. Some feedback from my first impressions:
* Add some extra contrast. The small text white on blue text is hard to read.
* The link 'View your active submissions' shows a page to delete your submissions and not view them, am I right?
* The 19.99 up-front came as a surprise for me, it missed an introduction
* You could reduce the number of form fields to fill in. Right now it's quite a burden to start using your service. You want to engage your visitor. Maybe split the form with an extra hidden step.
Anyway, nice work, we need more of those little side projects!
People don't always die in chronological order.
Interesting, thanks for the info. The article specifically calls out 'original Kindles' as being ok which led me to believe the Paperwhite could be an issue - however that might have been referencing the Fire.
It didn't help the French navy that the revolution executed and exiled quite a few of its officers.

As for "fought outnumbered yet achieved crushing victories", it's worth remembering that Britain had allies nearly throughout the war: Portuguese and Spanish during most of the Peninsular War; Germans (and Dutch) at Waterloo, and most of the time the Russians and Austrians fighting the French with whatever success to the east.
You can check out an example of the pull request you'd get here: https://github.com/shrinkrayio/demo-images/pull/6
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I wasn't writing games in 1995 but I suspect you are mistaken. Fortunately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_in_video_gaming tells us about the major games that year; unfortunately there are 33 of them. Descent and Mortal Kombat 3 are the ones I remember. https://github.com/drguildo/Descent/blob/master/MAIN/AUTOMAP... Descent is written in C++ (note the "//" comments) but it's a very C-styled C++, not even with classes. MK3 I don't have any idea, but it was eventually released for a lot of platforms with different CPUs, so I doubt it was written in assembly.
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Hasn't this already be researched quite a lot with Laptops and PC's? I thought it was common knowledge now that the light emitted from those devices would effect your sleep. A sample size of 12 isn't good but I'm sure there are much more comprehensive studies that have already been done on this. I think they're the reason apps like Flux exist.[1]

[1] https://justgetflux.com/
Unfortunately every couple of years the popular kids come up with a new half-assed GUI for doing this stuff, but if you stick to the command line then the same simple things that have always worked still work, viz:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

Ta-da, basic internet connection sharing is working. (If you want automatic network configuration for the devices that are connecting to your machine, you'll need to install and configure a dhcp server e.g. dhcpd)

Edit: oh, no, that won't work, your network device is no longer eth0 because the distros have been messing around with it again. Sorry, I can't help, I moved to FreeBSD years ago to get away from this crap.
Ask HN: How to refresh on modern features of C++?
I first learned C++ 14 years ago and have only used it in a non-trivial fashion on one or two short projects since then.

Today, reading an article on popular C++ myths [1], I now realized there are a TON of things I didn't realize modern C++ can do now. auto, unique_ptr, for_each, and range-for loops were new to me. I'm not 100% certain if all of these were recent additions to the language.

What are some things I can do to brush up on the modern features of C++?

[1] https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/12/myths-1
Did you create this account just to smear Patrick? What a shitty thing to do.
This is an awesome concept- I always find myself trying to get the best deals. The biggest issue for me is the upfront fee. A percentage of final savings would be far preferable.