skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same problem. Using f.lux[0] and writing down all the problems (programming related or not) that occupy my thoughts on a notepad which lives next to my bed, just before going to sleep totally eliminated the issue.

[0]: https://justgetflux.com/
I force myself to quit working at 12AM nightly. That'll give me an hour to watch TV before I hit the sack. It's worked well for me.
I had a similar feeling, and thought it was probably because I know nothing about aviation and therefore read that stuff uncritically and feel entertained.

I wonder whether that's a general principle in writing -- tell outside-your-expertise stories to entertain the reader, and then with luck (depending on your perspective), the reader reads the rest and feels entertained and informed and good emotions out of a sort of inertia the rest of the way through.
I hate the "no phones in bed" rule, and literally everything I do is PC-based or phone-based, so I stare at one screen or another right until I sleep. The f.lux and Twilight (Android) apps have been very helpful at making me feel more naturally tired when I should be.

Additionally, the Sleep as Android app makes for a great way to track and log sleeping patterns, and has a nice adaptive alarm.
How I run a bootstrapped marketplace with 11 sites and 5,000 vendors – by myself
it has its ups and downs. we do have a high crime rate and sub standard internet so everything's a tradeoff :)
It amazes me that while more and more jurisdictions are banning cell phone use while driving, vehicle makers are increasingly resorting to touch screens for things like stereo and climate control. When using a smartphone while driving is illegal, how are in-vehicle touch screen controls meant to be operated by the driver not banned?

As much as I love Tesla and what they are trying to do to the car industry, they are the worst offenders in this. Hopefully by the time I can afford one, there will be legislation making entirely touch-screen dashes illegal and they'll have the usual 3 dials for climate control, that you can operate without having to take your eyes off the road.
Yeah it is kind of click-bait when you think it might be the founder of Microsoft saying he always hated it. It appears this is the Paul Allen who wrote the note, though

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/paul-allen-8
Capitalistic economies in the region do much better, so who do you want me to compare to who is "fair?" Brazil, Argentia, Chile?

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

Still 2x Cuba and with usually less fingernail pulling. Communism is a worldwide failure both political, human rights-wise, and economically. Lets stop being "edgy" and defend it for easily garnered anti-US upvotes.
...you must be a terrible person?

The Concorde/douchebag line was a good segue into the logical inconsistencies of the second part of this talk.
I saw a presentation at a departmental colloquium 3 years ago which demonstrated similar capabilities. The point is, car companies are not responding well to this threat even though it is well known to them. In such situations it is in the public's best interest that information about the vulnerabilities be widely disseminated in order to keep the general public safe. Those with know how can already exploit these flaws and likely have been for years. The car companies need to act to secure their customer's systems.
Why You Love Your Phone: How Our Brains Remap Around the Tools as We Learn
Docker and Kubernetes works hand in hand. That is to say, if you choose Docker as your container format, Kubernetes runs Docker on every node to run your container. Kubernetes focuses on _what_ Docker should run, and how to move those container workloads around.

Docker also has Docker Swarm, which can be thought of as a competitor in some ways. But Google will be a heavy supporter of their container format for a long time to come.

Full Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes
When I find my mind won't settle down, I'll do 1 of 2 things. If I'm concerned about a list of actions I need to do the next day, I'll write down the list on paper. This allows me to relax and know I won't forget anything. Otherwise, I'll write in my journal about what ever my thoughts are. This allows me to slow my brain down the my writing speed. It lets me process my thoughts. Its helped immensely.
For linear algebra check out Prof. Gilbert Strand's course on MIT OCW. He's great at explaining the material and the course resources are comprehensive.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...
> "I don't like X unenforceable thing" is the mark of our generation.

A ban of this sort of thing could easily be enforced. They already prohibit discrimination, and there's already a body of precedent to help adjudicate grey areas. Make it a civil rights violation for landlords to ask for social media handles in applications. Then anyone who wants this kind of anonymity can simply avoid tying their real name to the service.

As social media posts could be used to glean protected information, I don't think it's even be that hard politically to get such a law passed in many states.
The fact of the matter is that this is Startup News not Hacker news. Hardly anybody on this website is a hacker. Most are people that code html and php in their day job and go home and do normal shit. These are people that complain about how the industry "pressures" them into coding in their free time.
Insurance... it's a thing.
It is actually extremely simple: Don't act online how you would not act in person.
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It's very common that people with similar skills have different salary, especially in a big company.

Big companies have the rules in salary increase rate for the current employees, but are willing to pay more to hire new employees from other companies.

For example, A's salary is $5000 and yearly increase rate is 5%. Two years later, A's classmate B is hired. B's salary is $6000. A's salary is $5512.5.

Similar thing happened to me. Luckily I got an exceptional salary increase years later. But eventually I left that company after 6-year service.
For the most part it didn't matter until recently.

Netscape versus IE (late 90's) - features didn't matter, they just rendered HTML and CSS differently

Firefox versus IE (early 00's) - Firefox added a bunch of great CSS support and things like rounded corners and PNG transparency, so once we could use those we could just supply a polyfill for the specific IE version that needed it. Opera could handle it already, Netscape was Firefox rebranded. Only IE (which announced itself as IE) needed extra help

Mobile vs Desktop (late 00's) iPhone! Android! Tablets! Now is where things start to get a little crazy, IE will be IE but a bigger concern is the separation between tiny little touchscreen devices browsing a website, and a massive desktop computer

Mobile versus Mobile (early 10's) - IE never says it's IE, we have smart watches, phones, phablets, tablets, netbooks, notebooks, and still desktops. There is Firefox, and Chrome that run on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOs, and Android, there's Safari which runs on OS X, Windows (old version), and iOS, there's IE, of which there are 8,9,10,11 and the new ones in circulation, and a handful of other browsers like Android browser that kind of gave up a long time ago but are still used.

I'm sure backend software was rife with feature-detection for the OS's it ran on (Redhat versus CentOS, special support for IIS, etc) but until things exploded after the iPhone was released in 2007 the web had very predictable deficiencies that could be addressed more directly than feature detection.

I can remember as a Linux user, there were plenty of websites that would only let 'approved' User-Agents in, because they would rather you NOT see their site than see a site in a browser they didn't support. When using Linux I often didn't have access to IE or Netscape, so I would use Firefox or Konqueuror to spoof a different User-Agent. Nintendo.com used to be like this, plus others.
That's the ones! Never seen inside one before - thanks for posting!
Ask HN: Best ways to approach online dating (from a site design perspective)?
What are the best ways to theoretically approach online dating? Not personally, but from a site design perspective. Some sites might want the users to 'Like' each other in order to unlock the messaging service, others want you to answer questions (OKC) to highlight the match factor, etc.

It seems the main problem, aside from the chicken and the egg, is women don't really participate (or perhaps reciprocate is the right word), yet they have gone through the trouble of creating an account.

Using a hetero context as an example, wouldn't the best way be to use a free credits system where women get 5 credits per month (meaning they can contact up to 5 men) and men get 2 such monthly credits (in order for the women to not get bombarded)? To make this potentially viable, the site would also have to apply a 'use it or lose it' solution...that is, use the site actively or else your profile gets deactivated (not deleted, per se) or less visible for a certain amount of time as a penalty.

Are there better ways?
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"May you live in boring times."
What you were never asked for your AOL username when you were trying to rent a house or get a job?
Exactly. Korea itself of course has been dealing with communists.

Burma and Laos had communist insurgencies. The CP of Laos, too, is an offshoot of the Vietnamese CP.

Most of Africa and South America had strong communist parties too.

It's quite simple. The CI (communist internatinal) was a world-imperialist organisation, and was trying to take over governments all over the world, following the Leninist model that had been 'successful' in Russia.
I'm not sure how this would make calgoo change his mind.

* Cops are under no obligation to go into harms way to protect the public.

* Cops primarily exist to collect evidence for prosecution after the fact.

* Just because criminals and crimes exist doesn't take away from cops' bad behavior.

* If calgoo becomes the victim of a crime, cops are unlikely to be able to make him whole again - for bodily injury, prosecution of the perpretrator can't restore his body or life - for property damage or theft, police usually can't be bothered with the small stuff.
>>This seems to be a pattern, at least among American conflicts (I have not studied others very much). As the combatants grow into old age, it's not worth carrying a grudge around.

If you've ever been to Serbia/Croatia/Montenegro this is evident - to the point of being a little bit weird. You see the former combatants doing business and living next to one another and it's hard to believe that less than 15 years ago they were roaming around in paramilitary groups murdering each other. Going to Belgrade as an American, I expected at least a little bit of animosity...considering you could still see strafing/bombing damage from American bombs in certain parts of the city... No one cared - and Belgrade seemed to be doing pretty well. It was bizarre. But damn beautiful place - would recommend Belgrade, St. Stephan in Montenegro (actually, don't go there...you will ruin it) and Dubrovnik.
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Thanks! Yes, this is something I agree with fully, and one of the things I feel works great with Sublime.

edit:
And while I might not have been it clear enough in my post, I'm not delusional thinking I might be sitting on a gold mine here. But I think it would be nice for people to show their appreciation if they also benefit from the app as well, but for it to work there needs to be as little friction as possible. And I don't know if/what such service exist, and if it is worth the hassle.
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> This is completely the opposite of my (also a millennial) experience. I blog on a regular basis, post things on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, what have you. The amount of thought that goes into each post ("could this be misconstrued by an employer?" "if I post this, will it offend one of my friends?" "Could this retweet become viral?") is paralyzing and exhausting, but not sharing is just as hard.

Shared feeling and thought process here. Sharing in this way has been a big part of my life.

My only 'solution' has been to scrutinize every word choice to ensure maximum sharing without allowing too much exposure. It is draining but, at least for me, has becomes second nature.
I have found that f.lux is not enough. Better than nothing, but not nearly as good as avoiding screens.
> Also why are you talking about Craigslist? This is airbnb...

And Airbnb is even more expensive than Craigslist. At least here in Austin, the hosts figure that the extra security etc should come for free, and they shall maintain their supposed margins, so, they pass all of the fees back to the guests!
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Never talk to the police. At least in places like St-Louis and other cities with historically bad police departments (most of the US).
I've noticed the theme of "twitter as customer support" and I suspect that would be incredibly unappealing to a landlord. Being known as "that landlord on twitter with the dripping faucet" is probably not a major career goal for most landlords.

Then there's people who post pictures of property damage "So drunk I puked all over the carpet last night", perhaps with an attached pix of vodka and blue kool aide, is not going to sell well to a guy who just paid for new carpet in his rental.

And then there's pets, cat owners can't avoid posting cat pix, although "in the olden days" a quiet although banned pet might have been tolerated under a "no problem for me, no problem for you" doctrine but if half your posts are cat pix its kind of hard to consider that "keeping quiet". At the complex I lived in during my bachelor years there was some variation between what corporate thought one onsite manager would do and enforce, and what one onsite manager physically could do and enforce, and given 200 hours of theoretical work per week the manager was very libertarian WRT no complaints = not a high priority for him. But he can't CYA with corporate if some tenant insists on posting daily (banned) cat pictures. Not to mention if it came to eviction time having to explain to a judge why documented misbehavior was tolerated for months or only enforced against some pet owners (here's three twitter accounts of kittens, why is my hyperactive Shetland Sheepdog the only pet the rule is enforced against, surely its because I'm a minority)
Tab bets on SMS to simplify restaurant reservation and payment
Yea i agree, but i'm not debating the meaning, rather the delivery. I really like the phrase, "you are not your work", because it comes from the opposite direction. To "stay strong" it sounds like you're not acknowledging that it's ok to be 'not strong'.
I disagree. Online posts express tone poorly. It's much less dangerous to discuss controversial topics in person.
Ultimately you will need to either work for yourself or have an open-source project on the side that you work on at your natural speed without pressure from others. As others here have noted, technical debt is not something most managers are concerned about, because it's a future cost, and they are judged on shipping code.

As I move into my mid-40's, I am writing software I never dreamed possible 10 years ago, but the speed is much slower, sometimes a month will pass with only a couple lines of production code being written, then after a concept gels, everything comes together fairly quickly. I would have been fired long ago working for someone else at that speed.

Hacking culture and the crazy Wall Street valuations of technically indebted companies like Facebook have distorted where people see value in software, and what they consider a normal development cycle, but don't pay attention to that - envision perfect software and work every day to improve your skills, eventually you will close the gap and you will find yourself to be not mediocre any longer.

On a practical level, I gained a lot of productivity by learning Relax NG - formulating your data structures and relationships concretely before beginning to write code has saved innumerable wrong turns and helped avoid misunderstandings with my clients.
Hey Lucas, I'd love to connect. I'm currently in Saigon bootstrapping http://thinklab.com

Regarding talent -- what do you think about the technical talent here? I find myself still working with guys from Eastern Europe. Would be awesome to find some talent locally though.
A manifesto from Jimmy Wales
We do know that the labour of a lot of people is undervalued and that we do know that salaries for tech workers have been artificially kept down; we know there's been collusion between Google and other companies in terms of salaries and poaching.

It may not be journalism but it does raise questions that we should try and answer instead of saying "oh well I guess that's just the way things are".
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I read fiction, often something I've already read. This seems like enough to move my mind into another groove.
> Why? Different people bring different value.

I didn't actually mean that. I thought the rest of my comment would give context that statement is what the opposing side is saying.
EU countries agree textile chemical ban
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I really like the .NET Framework, so this is firmly tongue-in-cheek, but I found this amusing:

Switch.MS.Internal.DoNotApplyLayoutRoundingToMarginsAndBorderThickness=false
Or heck even a quiet public road. There are tons of inter-state roads that have single-digit numbers of cars an hour. Just drive out into the desert and play around.

PS - Plus due to the flatness of these roads, with large de-facto shoulders you can pull off onto, they're much safer even ignoring traffic levels.
> High DPI support in WPF is now better.

Its about time.
So either the journalist/researchers did something highly dangerous to the reporter and others on the highway as a stunt, or the journalist has no qualms about making up details for shock value? Sounds ethical.
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Last night for me was particularly tough. Coded essentially all day, struggled with a bug for hours, and was still on a caffeine high past midnight. The game plan for me should just be to wake up even earlier and wear myself out through more exercise.
Calling the police on security researchers...I honestly cannot believe this is considered acceptable behavior. A much less aggressive (and thoughtful) move would be to contact the researchers directly. Wow.

Back to the article, I think that this type of exploit will become more and more common as vehicles become more connected and automated. We need to know that we can trust the software and firmware running on the devices that literally have the power of life and death over us. Unfortunately, this is a VERY complicated issue, and no one has a solution yet AFAIK.

I watched a talk by Cory Doctorow last year where he suggested validation at the hardware level (a la trusted platform modules), but unlike the typical TPMs that only allow vendor software to be authenticated, these TPMs would allow the user to directly authenticate the firmware. If you know the firmware is good, then each layer can validate the next layer up all the way to the OS.

I have yet to hear of a system that allows the user to directly authenticate software/firmware at the hardware level. Is anybody working on research of this nature? Or are there insurmountable problems with this approach?
Yup, you can run printcp, plotcp, and fancyRpartPlot on it to make it look nice.
Why your self-driving car won’t have a steering wheel
ya well all they did was stall the engine, they didn't tell the car to apply the brakes.
As another counterfactual to build intuition: had the KMT beaten Mao in the 1940's, would there be a Communist Vietnam?

Moscow sent weapons to Ho Chi Minh's and Pol Pot's armies via China. So it's extremely doubtful.
Now there are two parties who are making poor choices about how to handle things.
Ask HN: Is polymath dead?
I just had a look at http://polymathprojects.org/ and it seems like nothing notable happened since Polymath8, which finished almost 2 years ago.

Moreover, the latest blog entry is from Jan 2014, and the latest blog comment from Aug 2014. So during the last 11 months nothing happened.

Is there anyone with insider knowledge here?

Is this a typical case where the top organizer(s) are suddenly short of time and cling to their leadership, rather than early on looking for successors?
Welcome to the age of cloud-native computing – Mesosphere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9906107
Reminds me of this:

Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.

Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

-- In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946)
Thanks a lot for this! I didn't realize probabilities would be so important but I've been working with conditional expectations (not sure if it is relevant in machine learning) but it was an eye opener.

Another great introduction are the descriptive and inferential statistics courses on Udacity!
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Well, I did a terminal-like, request/response user interface for PostgreSQL when I got carried away with a homework assignment. It had a menu system several layers deep.

I assume one could do the same by having it generate html and javascript.

Note that could != should.
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Because the did it on public road, intentionally causing him to lose control of the vehicle.

Bunch of idiots if you ask me, no better than the clueless people you see talking on their cellphones distracted. A 1 ton vehicle is deadly in the wrong situation.

Like many other people mentioned, there's many ways to demonstrate this is a safe, controlled manner rather than out in the wild.
Make sure that you install it on all your devices. I used to read late night on my iPad, and it helped me a lot.
Also, are there real-world applications outside gambling, or as improved negotiations in politics/business?
Anyone who posts anything online using their real identity or anything associated to their real identity, needs to understand that it is now potentially publicly tied to them indefinitely. Do you think that when you apply for a job your employer doesn't look at your social media? The private sector uses social media data extensively when making judgment calls on individuals, and the scope of this is only getting larger.
Happy to answer any questions anyone has about bootstrapping, running a marketplace, trying and failing to raise money, etc.!
I clicked around and suddenly had multiple tracks playing. No way to stop them all anymore, other than closing the tab.