skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does largely sedentary mean?

So, for example, running a marathon doesn't take much training. It averages about an hour per day, according to this [1]. The runners seem to be living "largely sedentary" lives, playing video games, watching TV, sitting for work, etc. It sure seems like running has some positive effects [2]. Are you saying that Stephenson's approach of walking slow most of the day is pretty much the only way to unlock an extra year or five?

My argument is, of course, argument via google. There's so much contradictory information and economic motive to, well, lie that it's hard for me to get a grip on what's actually sensible. Some regular exercise sounds like a good argument, and there's some evidence to back that up ([2] for example), but it sure has the feeling of folklore.

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/the-marathon-runner...

[2] http://www.hs.iastate.edu/news/2014/07/28/iowa-state-profess...
Drought-Stricken California Communities Consider Desalination
Never knew about the dot. I always use open $(pwd)...
That's a bit of a straw man argument. I would have chosen another product to highlight Apple Pay though. It's not just the irony in following it with a diabetes app, but that Tim Cook's predecessor had a well-know quote about selling "sugared water".
Unfortunately, I suspect you overestimate the obfuscating power of dynamic content when the number of users is sufficiently large.

A certain MMO I play recently had a limited-time event built around figuring out the meaning of different clues (locations to go to for the actual meat of the event), and despite a fairly large number of variations, people had collectively figured out just about every possible clue->location mapping within a matter of hours.

That's not to say you can't prevent cheating, but that even with relatively little incentive (that whole clues thing gave only a single cosmetic item, and anecdotally I've seen very few people actually use theirs) users can and most likely will outpace any attempt to prevent it by means of varying the problem.
I rave about it because it already does all of the things I mentioned very well. What non-Windows 8" tablet that could possibly let me do all of that?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/07/fukushimas-nuclear-ca...
> It makes me sad that I will probably never see a single one of your suggestions implemented by any potential employer that might want to hire me

I was implying that you could see this at your current/next employer by implementing it there. If you fix it there before the time comes to move on you personally may not reap the benefit but someone else might and the lessons learned by you and your colleagues get spread further out. If nothing else, you learn how to maneuver hiring pipelines quite well by designing them.

> The people creating the interview protocols do not solve their problems like software professionals.

As soon as you are asked to become part of the hiring pipeline whether it be resume sorting, phone screening or interviewing, you become one of the people creating the interview protocols. You can apply whatever tools in your arsenal to fixing it. I have found using standard software development methodologies to be very compelling and useful in this context.

> The reason why I start interviewing elsewhere is often because my current company has stopped hiring (or started firing).

This is a problem that is more worrisome than involving yourself or not in designing hiring pipelines. It implies a reactive approach to your career, and that is likely to lead to suboptimal results, and can be actively detrimental to your job prospects in bad job markets. I would look to the root cause of that behavior and see if it lends any insights.
No leadership experience.
I think the submitter, which appears to be the author of the essay given the account and host names, doesn't care about promoting a discussion.

The account has posted self-hosted essays about every two days for almost a year. They garner almost no comments, and no followup from the submitter. Instead, the account gets downvotes, and has an average karma of .81.

This suggests someone using HN mostly for traffic promotion, and is unlikely to respond to either of our comments.

I agree that your points and conclusions are good ones.

The "-or" vs. "-er" observation is weak; it's a historical relic of how we treat Latin vs. Germanic words. Had the author been more well informed on grammar, the essay would have refered to agent nouns, and included "beggar" and "liar" as two of the rare non-er/non-or cases.
OpenMDAO is cool, have an upvote!
I've always been certain that the name comes from the common children's game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag

right?

The wiki article has a short discussion of how that morphed into video game terminology, which is the etymology that I'd expect without having researched it.
With Apple I think the problem most comes from their aspiration for a mobile-only world. But they might just be suffering the same problem many (if not most) software packages face: The software gets near perfection.... but the organization does not have the capability to process this. They've got a team of developers, and developing on that particular piece of software is what they DO. There are managers of that team, and their career depends much more on keeping their team busy and working on some new thing far more than it relies upon the quality of the software itself. It doesn't look very good if your career seems to 'plateau' and your teams activity is just bugfixes and polishing a stable, usable product. The guy on another team who 'took risks' and radically redesigned the interface or jammed in a few new features that changed the target audience of their application will fare far better, even if their existing target audience has abandoned the application in droves (though they probably won't, as lockin is real).

I've never heard of a company which had an endgame - what to do when the software is DONE. I have certainly suffered through many different applications which reached an apex of near-perfection and simply changed direction and went rapidly downhill though.
Stephen Curry – With the Crazy Dribble and 3 Point – BasketBall
Yes, it likely would - most disks will top out on read i/o rate, especially on somewhat random access.

rsync in general is quite optimized and usually the limiting factor to a data transfer is the network or disk rather than CPU speed (unless crypto is involved, for example, over a ssh connection)
They tried to pivot, raised a bunch of money, hired 70+ people, and likely burned through it all.
Ongoing discussion of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175119
Sitting is new smoking. It's okay to not be active all the time, but when you turn it to habbit then it starts to be dangerous.
I noticed the security implications of "memory that doesn't always behave like memory" when that paper came out a few months ago and was discussed briefly on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713411
I see your John Oliver and raise you Yvain[0] - a doctor's description of how it actually works. Spoiler: it's more subtle and much worse.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/17/pharma-virumque/
why devops isn't bullshit: http://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2015/03/10/is-devops-bul...
I'm irrationally annoyed that Neal freaking Stephenson is using such a shItty host.
Too bad that choosealicense.com is so carefully designed to maintain neutral appearance while actively discouraging copyleft licenses (relegate GPL to last option, describe it as only about sharing rather than about preserving freedom, make it outdated GPLv2 — since they like GPLv2 loopholes better than closing the loopholes etc.)
As the spec for Swift solidifies, we'll see open source implementations. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple ends up releasing Swift as open source eventually as well.
It's amazing how small they made the circuit board http://images.apple.com/v/macbook/a/overview/images/internal...
Well if you buy into the idea that an authors work is part of "one big universe" then Enoch Root is obviously an "incanter" who practices polycosmic manipulation.
The best overview of the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItFjEG3LaA
I'm late to the reply here, so sorry to have missed the discussion.

We use Sendy at work, 40k+ sends weekly. It saves us boat loads of money since moving from Mailchimp. It's a nice thing to have.

However, we had hoped to extend it's tooling and customize, but that's right out. I've rewritten the CSV import code because it reads in the entire file, twice, before processing. I found some bugs where it can silently drop lines of your import. That's not "f-n awesome", it's bad software.

These are real things. The default Sendy setup can drop tracking opens because it doesn't access it atomically. These aren't "computer science" issues, they are evidence of a lack of competent design.

We've forked it, patched it, and use it internally, but only because it's cheaper than writing our own, for now.

Don't dismiss warnings. I'm not telling you not to buy it, I'm telling you that the guts are shitty and you should know that before you fork over cash.
Nvidia fares way better. I develop on Windows at work and use bleeding edge Arch at home. Happily using compute shaders on OGL 4.5 at home.
Did you look at any of my references? Quoting from [1] above:

> The 400-page report, due to be released later this week, also describes a darkening mood at the prime minister’s residence as a series of hydrogen explosions rocked the plant on March 14 and 15. It says Mr. Kan and other officials began discussing a worst-case outcome if workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were evacuated. This would have allowed the plant to spiral out of control, releasing even larger amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere that would in turn force the evacuation of other nearby nuclear plants, causing further meltdowns.

> The report quotes the chief cabinet secretary at the time, Yukio Edano, as having warned that such a “demonic chain reaction” of plant meltdowns could result in the evacuation of Tokyo, 150 miles to the south.

> “We would lose Fukushima Daini, then we would lose Tokai,” Mr. Edano is quoted as saying, naming two other nuclear plants. “If that happened, it was only logical to conclude that we would also lose Tokyo itself.”

The Japanese PM. The Chief Cabinet Secretary. A team of 30 university professors, lawyers and journalists who interviewed more than 300 people, including top nuclear regulators and government officials in preparing a 400 page report. All support what I said. Yet you dismiss it as 'nonsense' and 'alarmism'. Please tell me why I should not instead dismiss you as being an apologist for the legacy uranium powered nuclear industry, stuck in a mindset of denialism.
>people were speculating that the innards would be swappable

Yup, totally sounds like something apple would let you do.
grunt < gulp < webpack < make
Ask HN: Can I have 15m of your time for 15m of mine to try an experiment?
Hi HN. I'm asking for a few of you to join me in a 30 minute Google hangout.
Format First, 15 minutes would be of you walking through our product with myself and a few devs from our team. We're looking for honest candid feedback on our product's first time experience from sophisticated users. The second half is your 15 minutes to ask me anything in a 1 on 1.

Here is the signup form: bit.ly/1AU587C

This will be fun. Now for some FAQ

Q: What is the experiment? A: I'm going to try and do two 1-1s a day. We're going to take the feedback from that day's 1-1 and use that to drive what features our growth team builds for the day. Hopefully the next day we've rolled out improvements and getting fresh advice, incrementally making product better each day.

Q: What kind of things can I provide advice on you ask? A: I've been programming for ~10 years. I went through YC. I've raised a few rounds of capital and lucky to have a built a great team. I probably could best answer things related to my experiences in YC (applications, interviewing, etc), raising capital from angels and VCs, product stuff, recruiting, operating a company, getting your first job in programming/at a startup, etc. I wouldn't make huge life-altering decisions based on my answers but hopefully by sharing my experiences, you'll have another perspective on what ever questions are on your mind.

Q: Why the secrecy? A: I hope you've never seen our product. If we told you before the session and tried it out, it would corrupt the experiment. Once we meet in the 1-1, I'll first introduce myself so you'll get to know everything about me and the product.

Q: What will you do after the experiment. A: I plan to write about it and let others know how it went. I'd like to anonymously share my experience/notes from each 1-1 (with your permission).

Q: When will the 1-1s happen? A: I'd like to do one at 10:00 PST and and other at 10:30 PST. We can do it any day that works best for you.
There wouldn't have been time. Compartment syndrome is a medical emergency.
Why don't you just type Command-Shift-N like everyone else? Only beginners use the menu for these common operations.
+1 for Australia, but come to Sydney first.
Is something "publicly available" if you can be sued for using it? That's the case for patented material for the 20 years before it expires.

There's a difference between the details of the invention being known and it being available for use. In the case of Google, it cost them $300M to license the PageRank algorithm because Stanford owns the patent (despite its inner workings being widely known).
Take it from me: Before you jump headfirst into machine learning, take a refresher course on Linear Algebra. Make sure you are very comfortable working with matrices and vectors.
Sorry, but I can't trust someone who doesn't want to go to the police but has no problem spreading it over the internet for everybody to judge. It makes the police to be some monsters who got no clue how to handle rape, which is simple defamation, it risks other women who now has to deal with a rapist going around freely because the "victim" here is too precious to do something about it. If a woman have no problem writing articles on the internet there should be no excuse not going to the police. I am sure by now people who worked with her knows anything about it, so there is no "reputation" excuse. This is not problem with sexism in tech, this is a heinous crime that should be dealt with like any other serious crime. This woman is just an attention grabber and nothing more than that, the rape claims are false.
The license description at choosealicense.com actually misrepresents the GPL. The GPL doesn't actually require that the source of modified versions be released to the original author. It requires that the source be released to the users who get the software. It is a downstream license designed for the freedom of the users and only incidentally works incompletely as a license to promote sharing the code back.

Everything about the design of the GPL including the very wording of the license is explicitly about blocking software from becoming proprietary. The choosealicense.com description is intentionally designed to avoid giving any acknowledgement of the GPL's actual design and intention because they don't want people to value the things the GPL is about.
Show HN: theca – a simple CLI note taking tool in Rust
But it worked in a very specific context (security) and a specific company (Matasano), no? I know Stripe has done these CTFs in the past (and mostly security related), but they only spin them up on occasion. If the promise of such a technique is so effective, then why wouldn't Stripe invest the money (they've got plenty, let's be honest) in doing this all of the time? Especially given that a recruiter who would place someone at Stripe is probably taking home $20-40k on a placement.

Also, what are the plans outside of security related (if any)? Can you do a CTF style process for non-security?
> pretty

I'd have comments on other points as well but if there is one thing KDE apps generally aren't then they consistently aren't pretty. I know, eye of beholder, but it's almost as bad as TK. In the link you provided there are:

- grooved borders between every second UI element.

- icons are way too colorful with gradients everywhere.

- underscore hints on menus are ugly.

- places panel takes up way too much space and eats away at the tree view panel.

That said, I use Dolphin, but only because other file browsers on Linux are for various reasons bigger catastrophes.
But then you have to keep the brick close.
You can have a nice, semi-premium watch for cheap. Rolex Air Kings are fantastic watches and have a healthy and inexpensive used market. I hate current watch stylings (large, ~40mm+ faces) so my grandfather's Air King from '67 suits me fine for daily wear.

You can do fantastically well for yourself if you have/develop a taste for Soviet watches. A large number of them look great and have as-good or nearly-as-good movements and can be had for $50-150($400 on the extreme outside...). The better ones among these will have service records with them. If you like great watches that get attention while being nearly-throwaway, this is the way to go.
Actually, the GPL makes total sense for end-user software. In fact, lots of people argue that it makes the most sense for downstream software since it protects user freedom and won't be used in a way where compatibility is an issue. But you're right it makes sense for the OS too. I guess the GPL just makes sense, period.
Coincitentally hardware to play with those types of attack just got commodified

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coflynn/chipwhisperer-l...

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/chipwhisperer/wiki
He's talking about the more popular (and wireless) magic mouse.

That mouse has literally been around forever, and no it's not what users are generally using now.
The worst thing of new versions of WinExplorer in my opinion is that you can't position files at the location you want (with the exception of the desktop). I have some folders in my Mac that I organize strictly by location, and that is impossible to do in recent versions of Windows.
ARM's big.LITTLE architecture could feasibly bridge the gap between mobile and portable devices. I recently acquired a ODroid XU and a bunch of peripherals to serve as a modular mobile computer. Right now it complements my laptop and phone, but eventually I could see it replacing both by getting a small "tablet" that's basically a display/speaker/mic and a pico projector + tiny wireless keyboard. All of these components already exist, but the LCD and projector are currently out of my price range for what's essentially a fun experiment. There are even battery banks available for around $99 that can charge USB plus many laptop models, and can be used while charging (something most cheaper USB battery packs don't do).

The biggest issue will probably be keeping the thing powered all day. In the medium term I can even see the possibility of a shift away from ultrabooks and toward more modular laptops, since the giant battery needs to live somewhere. Then you could have a mobile device tethered wirelessly that doesn't need the same level of components (except maybe GPU) and the battery can be reduced further.
Probably the most articulate and persuasive piece analyzing treadmill desks is Neal Stephenson's "Arsebestos" in his book of various essays Some Remarks. If this is a link to said essay I wouldn't know, the server is crushed...
I've written both makefiles and gulpfiles.

Yeah, I guess you can get make to do the exact same things as gulp, but gulp already does what a web developer needs, in a language they already know, with a massive plugin ecosystem you don't have to re-implement in shell.
I am picky about file managers. Since switching to Linux on my primary desktop a few years ago, a file manager remains the only thing I miss from Windows. I used Directory Opus. It wasn't perfect, but was damn close for me (admittedly a power user as far as file management tasks is concerned). The one key feature that I have been unable to find in any Linux file manager is extensibility. I also dislike the lack of a queueing mechanism. I shouldn't have to sit around and wait for a 40GB copy to move from one network location to another before I can start another bit of data movement. And I should definitely be able to create a custom button that launches tools or performs certain common operations like flattening a directory tree or creating an ISO from a VIDEO_TS folder. In Linux I rely on the commandline, and don't mind that terribly, but if I had the time I would create a file manager that was easily extensible with Python taking design cues from something like Sublime Text. Should anyone do this I am certain it would be a successful product. I paid something like $95 for Directory Opus, and Opus is a fairly successful product despite its high price (a good bit of that high price comes from the company being based in Australia). I contacted them when I switched, telling them that a Linux port would be profitable for them, but they are not interested.
AFAIK no legal requirement exists saying a founder must have a salary greater than $0. But founders must find value in their compensation package in order for them to not quit. Pay them nothing and they're that much more likely to quit.
I wouldn't be able to read or concentrate if I was walking on treadmill. And how noisy is it?
The mathematics we teach our kids…
> That is an a typical scenario unless your job requires frequent presentation.

I completely agree with this assessment. Even here on HN the majority of users are not giving presentations or even screen sharing. When it does matter, there is often a third party device they have to present from anway.

I'll take the adapter not being in the box, as for most users they won't be using it enough to warrant the extra cost.
1) It was only an application

2) It was abandoned in 2006 (extremely unlikely to be re-opened)

3) Nothing to do with Google.

Check for yourself on: http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair

Application Number: 10/953212
It seems clear the Air is doomed, although it'll take another couple of years. It'll be this for most users, MBP for those that really need more RAM, more ports, etc.
The answer to the "why hasn't stripe done this" question is simple. They aren't in the business of doing it. You might as well ask why stripe doesn't sell database systems. I mean, they probably have some expertise in building those out as well.

Stripe is going to hire a couple of hundred developers over the next decade (assuming things go well). It sounds to me like Starfighter's goals don't translate to a couple of hundred X 20-40k. They seem a touch more ambitious.
This is an important problem. As part of interviewing processes, I have several times tried offering "take home work challenges". I had to stop after, having run the experiment several times, I detected plagiarism in about 30-40% of the cases. The risk is of plagiarism is real for any problem that's well known enough that the problem and solution can appear online, and detecting plagiarism is not always easy.