skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No mention of interest in programming. That would be a lovely way to pass the time and create some useful things. If not for leisure, perhaps to improve the environment (but that could be dangerous, one mistake and they're dead).
This sounds like a ton of work to do what FM already does reasonably well; if anything I'd like to see the amount of funding, variety, and _bandwidth_ for public radio increased, hopefully breaking some of clear channel's grip.
I know everyone likes technologically advanced solutions, but honestly for anything that isn't straight broadcast, such as your suggestion above, the amount of work needed to workably implement it on the surface appears huge; why replace what just works with something else that doesn't have a immediately distinct advantage?
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most un-Google-able joke ever written!
Why an experiment? It sounds like a very good pitch for a project services company.
Any plans for Sensei plugin? My business depends on it and I am a little scared…
I used to spend way too much time with my TI-82 calculator. I programmed it, I played with graphs on it, I played with numbers and equations on it. I received it at a time when there was no way my parents could afford to give me such a thing (I think they were darn close to $100 at the time, which was a lot, and honestly still is). I had a Junior High Math teacher who had cancer and was retiring, given only a few months to live. I was helping her to clean out her class room on the last day of school and she handed it to me and said "Make sure to pass what you learn to someone else". Honestly, I will never forget that woman and the lesson she taught me.

No other teacher ever gave me any problems which needed that kind of power at the time, so I just played. I learned so much.
Oh fuck. Someone knows I bought some RJ45 connectors!?!
Gymnema Sylvestre is helpful in the treatment of diabetes
Gymnema Sylvestre is specific herb to increase insulin production in pancreas. Helps to regulate blood glucose levels and enhances glucose tolerance.
The leaf extracts contain gymnemic acid, which is known to inhibit hyperglycemia (increased sugar level in the blood).

The principle constituent of Meshashringi is gymnemic acid, which has anti-diabetic properties. It reduces excessive blood sugar.

It has also been shown to have a regenerative effect on pancreatic beta cells and is insulinotropic, which means it stimulates or affects the production and activity of insulin.

Meshashringi helps decrease the craving for sugar. It temporarily abolishes the taste of sugar and helps neutralize excessive sugar present in the body in diabetes mellitus.

Eating the fresh leaves numbs the taste buds to the sense of sweet or bitter
Hence the name means 'sweet destroyer'.
It also reduces appetite.
Chrome extension for sharing URLs with nearby computers using sound
The React Podcast
Here's show about it/him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzNMCXWCZzQ
You can choose be be obtuse or you can see that people might use an alternative if they believe service is going to decline.
For me, it was three instances with dokku-alt, and deploying exactly the same to all three... fronted by two (load-balanced) caching/ssl-terminating nginx instances. Using my cloud provider's table storage for configuration (caching in an app module, that clears it's cached results every 5 minutes)... realistically my configuration doesn't change that much.
The example of Night School is instructive here. They tried to disrupt transportation while playing by the rules. For their pains, they were shut down.
I once visited the second biggest Radio Telescope near my home town, and one of the there Wirkung engineers mentioned that the Green Bank telescope only got a bigger aperture than the system at Effelsberg because the americans couldn't stand being second best, not for scientific Reasons. But I don't know if this is true or just an Urban legend.
Thanks for the feedback!
The main benefit is that we have an improvised retriever which at the moment automatically extracts media (Flash/SWF..., Videos/FLV/MP4... and Audio/MP3/M4A...).

Can you please link to a file which youtube-dl supports and SaveItOffline does not? :)
Bob Hoffman – The Golden Age of Bullshit(2014)
Maybe your idea of "great sense of humour" is off, if you can't see how "great sense of humour" is connected to being able to take everything seriously.
Indeed, and furthermore, because of the sheer size of the population of China, it shouldn't surprise us to see stories about this that involve Chinese nationals. It's not surprising there are lots of great people but also less-great ones as well; it's a big country!

To actually suggest that there is some "organized Chinese conspiracy" thing happening, someone would need to show that this happens more often than statistically expected.
Intelligence is like four wheel drive. It just gets you stuck in deeper mud.
Unfortunately, even though my MBPr exhibits exactly those issues, it is a Late 2013 model so it doesn't qualify.
John McAfee supports his pal who found security flaw, hacked an aircraft
Yahoo Falls Sharply on Report of Higher Tax Bill on Its Alibaba Stake
AMD finally talks about HBM memory
fuuuuuck off. (age 39)
Wanted in Saudi Arabia: Executioners
You're imagining FM radio as some magical simple system that turns audio files into airwaves. But guess what's in the middle? People. People making decisions about what airs, in what order, on a very limited amount of real-time audio band.

This would move that decision-making to the client device, which could follow any algorithm the user preferred. There would be no people "working" at such a radio station. It would just be a box out on a hilltop with an antenna, retrieving files from an S3 bucket and spraying them—a bit like a numbers station.

Now, there might be some curation going into what counts as "local content" for the box to download and broadcast, but it could be algorithmic or just economic. Picture something more like the "curation" that Public Access television gets: anyone who wants to show up at the station and book a booth for an hour for a fee can have a "TV show." In the same way, anyone who wanted to hand the maintainer of the box an RSS feed of their podcast could have a "local radio program" that cars could receive.

The key, here, is that there would be an unlimited number of such "local radio programs."

Don't imagine radio as it is today. Imagine driving into the vicinity of a city and "picking up" the YouTube channels of everyone who lives there.
I'm talking my own book here, but: Cloud Foundry.

It already works. You throw code at it, the code is staged, deployed, logged and monitored.
None that I know of, but multi-rotors lateral flight authority is often weak vs winds. So, I would worry that a big gas bladder might strongly exacerbate that by requiring a much higher capability vs wind. But then again, a hybrid might not be a 'conventional' multi-rotor config.
I think a nice change for FM (and AM), rather than going away entirely, would be to turn over the bandwidth cheaply or freely to public radio, non-profits and other small time operators, maybe like college radio. I think it would be an excellent way to introduce more diverse and interesting programming without being totally beholden to the lowest common denominator, and kind of get away from the awfulness that is clear channel. Also having a more community focused bent would work wonders; CPR makes NPR even better around here (Northern Colorado), as it's not just national news, and you get a lot more really local stuff (including music). I think there's still a niche for FM out there, as I certainly enjoy listening to the lower end of the dial on my commute, as do many people I know.
BS is s pretty strong word. I would suggest that maybe you have different clients than I do. Most of mine throw their hands up very quickly and just have me do it - if they even try. Maybe 50% don't ever attempt to. Things like adding images and links are a challenge for them, especially when canned themes are involved. Some do fine with just plain text. Most don't. But all in all, most of my clients don't want to even think about a website, let alone edit it.
C Players think that they are A Players and believe in only hiring A players. This has been my experience for the past 30+ years. I've worked with people much better than me and much worse than me, and hired many people for startups over that time.

It is a good idea that if you find someone who is smarter than you, then you probably should hire them.

But the whole "we're looking for A players only" crap is the mantra of mediocre companies and in my experience has resulted in really messed up hiring practices (Eg: Amazon passed on someone I know (because I worked with him) was smarter and better at programming than I am... while hiring me. Not that I'm bad.)

The basic root of the problem is, if you think you're an A player then you think you're at the top of the heap. This means you're not actually aware of people enough to know the people who are stronger than you... which means you can't hire people stronger than you.

Also, I've seen really good people be mismanaged to the point where they aren't really contributing what they should. The difference between an A player and a C player is sometimes really silly stuff- like not giving them an office or otherwise constantly interrupting them, or refusing to give them specs, etc.

This pursuit of the best of the best also sends you down rabbit holes of looking for college graduates (only) who come from ivy league schools. There are a lot of people coming out of the Stanford CS department, I believe, that I would not hire. (Can't say for sure, because I'm not in California) But the skills of producing great grades at Stanford are not the same skills that produce great software at a startup. Not that Stanford students are bad, bu that it's not really a metric for success.

However, the "over achiever" "type-A" "A player" types tend to think it is, the conflate conformance in the pursuit of success with quality, and that's not accurate.

Yes, you need hard work to graduate from stanford, that's true, and that's a key element. But you also need innovation and critical thinking, and unfortunately, colleges these days actually undermine that. Generally, anyway, I'm not saying all college graduates are mindless sheep. Just that people who are more independant thinkers are less likely to go to college. Or less likely to have gotten a CS degree. (I was studying physics for instance.)
So would I. Basically all you're doing in 99% of these things is signing away any rights to have a say in what happens to your data.
The full unedited episode is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkM10SxmmwU
Don't take it so literally. The point is that the personality traits that give us our strengths and good characteristics are very often the source of our weaknesses and bad characteristics. Take a look around at the people you know well - I bet it's almost always the case.
Sorry about that, the documentation is certainly scant right now. The beauty of Shogun is that you don't have to do anything beyond dropping in the gem and setting the ENV variables. When you publish a page in Shogun, it will be live at the path you set within a few seconds in your application, using your existing application layout.
After 100 Jobs to Be Done interviews, here's what I learned
It would be great to stay young.

I'm happy to report that scientists have been seriously testing if stuff actually works for over a century (Slonaker, 1912).

They typically try an intervention, like diet or exercise, on lab animals, and then see how long they live.

For what it's worth, I maintain the world's biggest spread sheet of these life span experiments.

It summarizes over 14,000.

One column is the intervention (diet, exercise, etc..) another is the change in lifespan (+10%, -2%, etc...) another is the species (human, mice, etc...) and so on.

It's interesting to see what works.

More info is at

http://morse.kiwi.nz/kingsley/doku.php?id=science:start
I think the problem with the concept of the 10x coder is that it assumes "10x" is an attribute of the person, rather than a complex interaction with the environment. It's sort of like when they say about an athlete "he just wins". Well it could he just wins on that team because that team is a really good match for his skills, and the coaches did a good job, etc. You could also say "he just wins" because he has a knack for finding situations he will excel in compared to ones he wouldn't.

That doesn't mean it doesn't take some special sauce to be a 10x developer, but my observation is most of the things that 10x developers do are teachable. For instance, they almost always are concerned with removing small inefficiencies from their work (learning keyboard shortcuts, using better tools, asking a lot of questions, etc.), and when they do find they're in a situation where the environment tends to pull people down to the mean, they usually move on quickly.

This is just my opinion, I'm not a manager, but if I were a manager I think I would be more concerned with how to "coach up" talent more than finding a unicorn.
Samsara – Meraki founders raised $25m from A16Z to create cloud-based sensors
I think some of the Snowden docs claimed SSL was cracked.

Edit: look up BULLRUN.
something like "wrk -d 10 -c 1000 -t 4 http://127.0.0.1/byte.txt (one byte file) did:

Requests/sec: 100.00
Transfer/sec: 11.91KB

for a JPEG image (200KB) the results are similar:

Requests/sec: 99.86
Transfer/sec: 19.27MB
Unfortunately, both of those are still very much inferior to TypeScript. I'm waiting for flow to improve enough to actually become usable (still missing basic things like ES6 or really any kind of modules support for type exports, afaik?).

In the meantime, TypeScript works rather well and is looking to add JSX support.
I remember one program that had a string print subroutine that took zero args. It just used the return address from the stack to grab the nul-terminated string immediately following the JSR/CALL instruction. It then patched the return address on stack to return just after the nul.

Bad for storing data in .text, but still a neat hack that shaved whole tens of bytes off the program size.
A little strange to see: "Sendfile can hang if GET is cancelled." in the readme and no corresponding issue. Not even one closed as "wontfix". Sounds like DOS?
I wouldn't be surprised if this guy had a tough time dealing with people and couldn't stand working for anyone or managing employees. I think if he was born 20 years later he would have gambled all his money away on day trading schemes.

There are a lot of losers out there -- isolated, paranoid and looking for their loophole in the system. They'd be just fine if they'd realize that getting some social skills and learning to work well with others would fix most of their problems with the world.
I also don't think that China can keep up with the advanced industrial espionage conducted by the US.

http://www.bbc.com/news/25907502

https://news.vice.com/article/germany-accused-of-spying-on-f...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
> During my internship, I have gotten to know other developers at The Times and discovered that many of them didn’t start coding at five years old — some started as English majors, while others worked as chefs — proving it’s not what you know coming in that matters the most, but instead how well you can learn on the job.

Coming into this industry it can seem like everyone has a CS degree. I have yet to work with another dev from a non-traditional background. It is encouraging to be reminded that they are out there.
Many years ago my father used that teaching moment differently. I had tried all kinds of elaborate solutions (I was partial to parachutes). My father asked me, who does this for a living, and what can you learn from them.

Half an hour later I had an answer and built my device. My classmates and even teacher all looked at me with pity, for it was clear my device would fail spectacularly.

For flair I threw it another ten feet up (from the top of the bleachers). It made a sickening thump when it landed, and many grimaces were shared- but both the device & egg were unscathed.

I think there's value in both approaches, depending on what the kid lacks.
The Sound of TED: A Case for Distaste
It is awesome to think that martians would code on their own machines, but information is one of the only things that is free to transport over planets and almost without delay. In reality, due to their scarcity, first settlers will perform exclusively physical tasks, software will be updated and fixed remotely, and repairs will be performed following strict instructions or advice from Earth.

Coding as relaxation is plausible, but mostly for short projects and nothing serious. It is hard to focus on serious mental activity after laborious work.
This.

"How do I know I am doing the right thing?" Every second of every day, you have to keep that in mind.
Los Angeles City Council Votes to Increase Minimum Wage to $15
I'm also keen for Flow to improve, but for now it's possible to turn off the `flow` transformer in Babel and pass the compiled output to flow - this preserves type annotations in the output
" initially only allowed for the top 3 "property classes" and only to those over 30" so? The pool of candidates was restricted. Isn't it the same to vote? Should we let 10 years old be elected?

"only from those who chose (or were able) to attend." makes perfect sense to restrict the candidates to those interested in politics and the governance of the city.

" the lottery was only for those who attended." Again, those involved in the governance of the city. But was there any way for them to give priority to their name? No, no campaign, no 'communication specialist', no POTUS twitter account.

"So the lottery was only in place for about 180 years" So 2 centuries, what I said.

The thing is the lottery was only one aspect of the athenian republic, how laws were voted, how leaders were held highly accountable were also important corner stones.
Life? Of course not.
But maybe your dreams seem farther away or less realistic.

After 35 you've probably got a kid or two, a mortgage and all that comes with it. You definitely don't have as much potential time to put towards whatever. I don't care how much better you think you got at time management in response to increased demands on it, but you can't argue that you just have less of it day to day.
Etsy Plunges 13% After Reporting Its First-Quarter Financial Performance
I get that Wordpress is more of a "platform" businesses can build products upon, but who would really want to build on that shitty core,with that db schema?

A lot of people, obviously. You said it yourself.

Many of us have read opinion articles from 30 years ago about how much Unix sucks, or Windows sucks. But they became widespread for a number of reasons -- which led to app developers wanting to develop for that ecosystem. Same here. Wordpress is GPL and runs on almost all hosting providers. The economic incentives to develop commercial and non-commercial themes and plugins for that ecosystem are obvious.
Andrew Hessel – The Internet of Living Things (2010)
Wow ToroDB looks really cool! Good idea!
Google Is Close to Unveiling New Web Photo Service
Gratuitous plug: I'm working on a hosted service that does basically the same thing: http://rasterize.io.

My email is in my profile. Let me know if you're interested in beta-testing.
my guess: patents
you should read the article before you post
My dad's hand-me-down Swiss Army Knife (IIRC I was ~8 when he gave it to me). It was one of the larger ones with lots of different tools and I used it to pry things open, unscrew electronics and put them back together, strip wires for repairing devices I may have previously torn apart to vigorously. Also used it for lots of dumb stuff that was kind of dangerous but the blades were no longer than ~100mm so I couldn't do much harm.

Made lots of models, primarily fighter jets (F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18) but also a lot of Star Trek ships (a large 1701-D was my baby). Lego as well...

Also had a decent microscope and chemistry sets.

Teach your kids to make things and explore.
Presumably the 10^8 space doesn't get exhausted, though. They don't run bills until they've literally printed 83,200,000,000 of them.

So the operative question is how many bills were ever in circulation, not how big the theoretical space of the serial numbers are.
I'm not a Musk-apologist, but he already denied that vehemently on Twitter. And the "source" of that statement is anonymous with little credibility. Seems like an easy case of libel.
Why base 1 is not 1? or 0?

Let's see. Let's build a numeric system where two digits represent all the numbers and call it base 2. Only 0 and 1. But it may equally be A and B. So if you mix them all in combinatorial order they can form all known numbers in that base. A, B, BA, BB, BAA, BAB, BBA, BBB, and so on.

So base 3 is A,B,C

Base 4 is A,B,C,D

Therefore Base 1 is A, whatever symbol you use. And it has only one number: A. Which may well be the interpretation of decimal zero.
You technically could, but wouldn't the complexity and the cost of migrating over to a system like that completely outweigh the benefit you could reap? Think of all the cars that only have FM/AM tuners, and all the stations that would lose listeners the moment they transition their programming model over.

Not to say its a totally awesome idea in terms of features and functionality. The amount of inertia it takes to move away from a proven technology wouldn't let such a system see the light of day.
To piggyback on this, does anyone have any metrics on how much time is taken up by restaurant servers asking me how my food is today? I'm paying for the food and drinks, not to be spammed for analytics by the server.
Dirt poor shouldn't be a problem. Buy life insurance.
Nah, not at all. You just need to keep looking. It's certainly not easy. But I think that life is WAY too short to work anywhere you aren't entirely happy with.
Yeah, man, that "Asia" place, it like, doesn't count. And who's heard of this "Europe", anyway? It sounds made up. I guess the reality distortion field doesn't have the range to reach there.
Thank you! Finally an actual critique instead of a knee-jerk downvote.

Belpomme is the main figure of ARTAC, yes, but its by no means a "one-man organisation". Look him up on PubMed for published work and please reply back if you consider that to be pseudoscience also.

Correct that numerous studies have failed to show statistical significance. However, I argue they are the result of poor understanding of the condition, by exposing all subjects to same frequency and expecting same reaction. It was shown by Rea et al. (1991) that individuals react to different frequencies and once their particular frequency was identified, they would react with 100% certainty under double-blind, randomized conditions. Reference here: http://aehf.com/articles/em_sensitive.html If you honestly examine the Rea study, I think you'll agree it is quite robust.
That makes a lot of sense.

I read it as "Don't Hire ex Engineers"

I was probably thinking of managers...
Anyone know what they might be doing for the speed increase?