skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a really cool TED talk with some everyday applications of Bernoulli's work:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness?la... - Why we make bad decisions by Dan Gilbert
I agree. Similar to how so many people were sure waterboarding isn't torture, tried it to prove the point and promptly changed their minds.
A bit. Let myself slip recently with the lack of lifting and the boozing.
This is awesome. After spending a lot of time tweaking chart legend code, I would be very happy to pull a polished toolset like this in to future projects.
Verizon customers already enjoy an NFL streaming service:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/mobile-living/sports-and-well...
JavaScript/WebGL procedurally generated 3D world with day / night cycle
Hey HN. Here's a little more background on the science behind Saent: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-procrastination-equ...

Happy to answer any questions!
The pages containing personal information of AT&T customers were publicly available though. We have already seen that an overzealous prosecutor will construe regular access as "without authorization or exceeds authorized access" whenever convenient.
Steve Cannane is doing awesome stuff on Scientology, I look forward to more.
No, I'm fluffy.
After reading that article it did not answer the question of how he made his job redundant.

It did tell me to hyper multi task and be more efficient (wow ground breaking /s).

Am I being obtuse? Was there an answer in there that I missed? I was really curious how he quit his day job...
No, normal weight, healthy and exercise often.
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To be fair, I've known a handful of people who can do that effectively without getting lost. However, I'd say they are the minority and its really a "luck of genetics" thing rather than a learned skill.

No one I've met who claims it was a skilled they learned actually can do it. I'm willing to believe people exist who do, but I suspect they fall under the "luck of genetics" category and just convinced themselves they learned it. Or it could be a mix of both. However, 90% of people I've met that do it do meet the OP's "blindspot" criteria.
I'm fairly sure people were thinking this in the 1970s, just before neoliberalism came along and destroyed all in its path.
If the other cars on the road are self driving cars as well they could all communicate and take into account the one car moving to avoid the object in the road, thereby also reducing the chance of damage to the vehicle swerving to avoid the object
I'm the right size for a boy my age.
The 20th century, in contrast to past centuries, was an experiment in progressivism. The idea that the state can be used by the masses to improve the well being of individuals over what can be achieved in a situation of economic liberty. So what came of this? We're finding out is that the power to regulate, is also the power to grant special favors. That giving this power, even to a well intended political class, was resulted in a poor outcome for us.

I find it interesting that the EU took over the currency, interest rates and inflation are set by state actors, and that now we're seeing articles such as this one that blame economic liberties for the failure of the system.
This a further video about the design and engineering of the hydraulics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1wZb_RKRQg
It looks like Troy works from home, so he's got an advantage there.

Really the majority of the article is about time management, and he does make some good points, not that I agree with all of them.

For me, I had never heard about RescueTime before, so I think overall my life has been improved by checking this out.
Don't forget the section for electric cars!
The essential guide to talking to your customers
Memory speed didn't matter back during early 486-586 days. You just didn't think about cache misses as much because the speed disparity wasn't that great.
I'm one of those exploring elsewhere. Twitter today feels even more dysfunctional as a company. The pursuit to become algo driven and Facebooky reached its limit for me with the new link previews which fundamentally transform the Twitter experience from being text based to visual. The problem though is that the entire timeline is now visual with a spammy marketing vibe because most people today use Twitter for sharing links, not specifically for photos. The resulting photos from link previews are not interesting for the most part and certainly don't convey the fun that a visual experience such as Ello conveys. Because Ello supports Markdown and text can live just fine there, I've personally made it my place to play and relax. I updated my Twitter bio to indicate that my tweets will become stale. I will still tweet now and then, minus my personality. Ello has been a relaxing experience for me, but I miss the in-the-now vibe of Twitter. I'll miss Twitter, but never really forget it.
>> I’m happy listening and writing at the same time

Right. Stop multi-tasking in our meeting when you should be paying close attention and participating. I'm tired of having to repeat myself because you're writing an email.
You're just speculating. None of this needs to be true in Troy's case.
> did they merely figure out a clever way to reallocate wealth from other people?

Although it seems that money was indeed created to help distribute the fruits of work (a noble cause), one of the problems, as you have pointed out here, is that the system can be hacked. The monetary system takes real-world resources (including human labour, health, and dignity) and plays them like a board game. Even worse, the rules of the game are barely known and inconsistently enforced.
Genetics would def. be part of it, I think that's fair.

One person I'm thinking of in particular is VERY intelligent, which (unfortunately for those around them) helps them cope with (get away with) this behavior.
What I find striking about this, and other parts of the article, is how they seem like they must be contradictory.

He spent 19 hours of his day working? Thats exceptional. A feat I certainly couldnt achieve.

But... he also spent an hour and a half playing high intensity tennis and/or taking regular walks to the shops near his house? That dosent sound like 19 hours of work to me.

And he balanced his personal life and relationships whilst working 19 hours a day? Or did his family only see the benefits in the last 18 months (as he states near the end of the article)?

So often when I read these "hack your life/productivity" articles and actually try to figure out the logistics, it just does not seem to check out.
you can just email steve@shortwavecapital.com - just forwards to my real email address which I'll respond with
Correct. It's based on personal experience. It just strongly resonated with me.

You're free to believe he's different from 99% of us in terms of ability to multi-task and work 16 hour days.
One of the firsts apps I install is f.lux [1]

I put it on the "slow" setting, and it gradually adjusts my screen during the day. I stopped noticing it, however whenever I look at a co-workers screen, it feels like I am staring into the sun!

[1] https://justgetflux.com/
From the fine article:

> individualism replaced collectivism and solidarity

I find myself wondering if I am part of a remaining few who treasure that. I value self-sufficiency over dependency, moreso as I get older. I have come to realize that there can rarely be an imposed collective benefit that didn't come at the expense of at least one individual. The answer to "is it worth it?" will be dependent on which one you ask. Likely the same for "is it moral?" if I had my guess.

That said, I don't think individualism can last forever. The fast exchange of ideas gives incredible power to well coordinated groups. Will it descend into mob rule? Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell. We see regular examples of internet mobs taking down powerful people and companies. The recent Pao take-down comes to mind here. People have their opinions on whether or not it was justified, and mine is irrelevant here, but to me what is most striking was the sheer effectiveness of it. Eventually "we" will figure out how much power we wield and put it to use on targets of more consequence than the CEO of a cat picture website. Occupy could have really shaken things up with the right leadership in place. They were tactically effective, but lacked a leader to put them to effective use to achieve an end.

I think the time of the collective is fast approaching. As long as it's a volunteer collective, I have no issue. If it's forced at the threat of violence, I think my opinion would differ. I am not convinced that history inspires confidence on this one.

edit: small clarification
Haynes (http://www.haynes.com/print) is also a great resource.. might not be quite as in depth as the Bentley guide, but they're a lot cheaper and more than enough info for a novice.
This statement seems odd to me:

Second, information is corroding the market’s ability to form prices correctly. That is because markets are based on scarcity while information is abundant.

I don't understand how this follows. Wouldn't having more information mean that prices form more correctly?
Depends on the work though. If he was spending 2 hours/day reading and writing emails, maybe half-asleep is a perfectly appropriate state to be doing that in.

I program more than twice as well when I've got a good night's sleep, and I'm happier. But if I wanted to get promoted at all costs, I'd probably sleep less and spend more time in the office. I'd be less productive, and less healthy, but I fear that, sadly, in many corporate environments I'd be more likely to get promoted.
More specifically, nations are captured by their SIFI banks and used as a front to coopt the power of sovereigns.
Same thing happened in Australia. CYA laws passed to protect what had already been happening.

Our new BS data collection starts in October.

Unfortunately, it has bipartisan support, because both major parties are thoroughly corrupt and terrible.
We got a hint of this during the London riots of a few years ago. It only took 3 nights of public order breakdown for the the government to talk of shutting down Twitter and Blackberry messenger, and for Boris to buy his watercannon for the next event.

We know what a state of emergency in the UK looks like, it looks like Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
That sounds awfully like reinventing grue/bleen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
I'll embed that video shortly.
just a tiny balast
Oddly, that doesn't help for CNN. God help you if you try to read a news article at work…
In my case its the contrary; it's the changes in patterns that distract me; the brain can move repetitive sounds to the background.

I don't play the same song but play repetitive music, also I use mid-tempo and up so I don't get sleepy.
Europe is not a country. It does not have unified economic policy. If Europe started acting like a nation, and instituted a unified economic policy over the whole Euro-zone, then it would probably work just fine. However, there is no indication that will ever do that because all of the constituent countries like their sovereignty too much.
>"not sustainable unless you have a very real mental condition"

How does a mental condition correlate with sustainability?

Food is easy to track, if you cook yourself. And fairly easy to estimate if you're eating out.

I've tracked ~96% of my meals for the last 3ish years. As well as my weight every morning. It takes an extra 10 minutes max per day, the benefits of the data is well worth my time.
This is currently being discussed in io.js (and remember it's being backported to the main NodeJS branch). Feel free to come participate in the discussion.
Try listening to NPR's Car Talk. At the very least, it's really entertaining.
No, there are 27 combinations(when you still account for the fact that you can have three windows machines).

You can see it in that way:

machine1: L, machine2: W, machine3: O
machine1: L, machine2: W, machine3: W

The reason why it matters is that you have more ways to have exactly two linux machines:

m1: L, m2: L, m3: O

m1: L, m2: O, m2: L,

etc.

That gives you 2*3 ways of having exactly two linux machines (you have 3 ways of having exactly one non linux machine, and then this machine can be two different things). If you say that LLO is OLL, you would have only 2 ways of having exactly two linux machines.

Hope this makes sense.
No. I'm undertall
I'm fine with this. I'll gladly take a trade where my probability of dying, via the general improvements gained from self-driving cars, decreases in most cases, but increases in other very specific, low probability cases. On average, I die less frequently.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Agreed! I literally just dealt with this eariler in the work week, spent hours trying to figure out why an error wasn't properly being thrown in my unit tests ... forgot to catch the promise chain -.-

This applies to functions that are async as well in babel:

async function get(url) {
throw new Error('hi there');
}

// wont throw the error
get('http://google.com');

// catch the error
get('http://google.com').catch(function(err) {
throw err;
});
Why INTERCAL is better than Perl (2002)
Google Ventures and Google are separate arms of the same company. Ventures invested, but Google proper is working on their own service to compete against Uber.

Note how easy it'll be for Google to flip the "Uber" provider in Google Maps to their own service.
I suppose it's possible that he's right, but it seems more likely that he was not being very productive due to being tired all the time. That's why he felt like he had to work such long hours. Probably, if he had worked a normal number of hours a day, he would have accomplished as much.
>> "That might mean being on a conference call and also >>responding to emails (I’m happy listening and writing >>at the same time)".

>The people who I know did this missed very important >details of meetings, and even has to be clued in that >someone was speaking to them. They constantly relied on >others around them to pay attention to the important >details of any meeting. Definitely led to confusion and >issues (and blaming).

I have to agree. Certainly there are geniuses and other people out there who have "super-human abilities", but thats a very few people.

Troy could very well be one of them. But suggesting that this is "multi-tasking" is hiding the truth for the majority of people.

As you said, Ive known people who do this. They simply ignore one task while doing the other. It seems a bit naive of Troy to suggest this as a valid strategy.
Where did SIFT and SURF go in OpenCV 3?
I'm glad they busted them but hopeful that using the technology to stop clearly bad guys does not lead to abuse of the ability to use the technology on a wider basis. It probably will though eventually. It would be great if use required the consensus of at least three courts and one of them federal.
Well that certainly depends on your particular interpretation of the widely overloaded term "overweight." No one has ever suggested that I'm overweight, usually saying I'm thin. But when you look at official BMI recommendations, I am actually on the borderline of being overweight, at the very top of the "normal" range. If everyone was judged against these guidelines, it would probably increase significantly the number of people who are considered overweight.
It's a fallacy to assume if you're not able to task-switch efficiently, there's something wrong with you and nothing to do with the nature of your work.

As an example, Feynman would avoid distractions as much as he could, would make excuses to stay away from administrative duties at Caltech to dedicate solid chunks of time to his research work.

And when you're thinking in abstractions while programming, interruptions and task-switching is the last thing you could afford in order to stay productive.
You can also post renderings / videos you make to sites like YouTube and legally make money off of advertising.
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That's been more or less the de facto standard for more than a decade.
Yeah, the legend works very similarly in the one I saw as well.
Machine Learning is a sub-field of computer science and an area of intense current research. It has nothing to do with Python (a programming language) except that some machine learning algorithms might be implemented in Python.

You might find Andrew Ng's Stanford Coursera course a good place to start. https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/info.
85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in "human
engineering," your personality and ability to communicate,
negotiate, and lead. Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to
technical knowledge.

-- Carnegie Institute of Technology

Uh oh...
Ask HN: Is physics moving forward?
Looking back over last 20 years, technology (esp. related to computers) had made extraordinary leaps forward and the pace is accelerating.

As a total layman in the physics world, it appears (looking from the benches) that things are crawling at the same speed they did 20 years ago.

Is that true ? Is the speed of physics advances accelerating as well ? What has been happening that we might of been missing ?

EDIT: Especially in the applied & practical worlds
This one weird trick to hiring great developers.

The manager asked the job candidate one question. You won't believe what happens next.

Startup hires an unemployed developer. The reason will shock you.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I liked "Programming Collective Intelligence" http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu..., but it might be a little dated (in not using the latest libraries). It's a good way to learn some simple algorithms (optimization, clustering).

Also, rather than learning ML in 2 months (which is a very unfocussed and unattainable goal) -- try to narrow it down to some problem domain. You'd get better recommendations if you are more specific.
Agreed. It's irrelevant and no one's business what I do in my spare time.
I agree that there is a poor signal-to-noise ratio for content on the web. When I wrote the response I had in mind professional journalists and writers; publishers like The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, ACM, etc.
I question whether memory was literally not a concern, though. Were you as likely to outrun memory by the CPU, no? Did you still try and minimize the amount of data that went through memory for overall speed? I would think so.

And this is ignoring the fact that hard drives were still ridiculously slow. So, really, the concern has always been that there are large chunks of memory that are not fast. Over time, "not fast" has changed in definition. But practical considerations have remained that keeping a small data set will be faster than a larger one.
It's akin to single user vs time sharing OS back in the 60s. I wonder how more efficient would society be with fluid allocation of transport.

Many of us like the idea, I also talk about it to some people, surprisingly they have no knowledge of the SDV projects (Google or other), even driving instructors. So far it adds to the trust and legal issues, public awareness seem quite slow for such a thing.
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The answer, unequivocally, is yes. More precisely, they operate under different sections of the same laws that you and I do.

Police conducting undercover operations frequently break the law. For example, they might bribe someone, or pay money for stolen goods. They may even use illegal drugs.
The internet changes a lot of rules. Who will make the most effective use of these new rules remains to be seen, but the game has changed nonetheless.
Agreed. If you're responding to emails during a meeting, you are either missing important information from the meeting, writing bad email, or you don't need to be in the meeting in the first place.
Chrome has the option built in.

Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy / Content Settings
I've been a paid, professional software developer since 1995. In all of that time, I've been between jobs for a total of 4 weeks. And during all of that time, I've had employment contracts that said my work was for-hire, and the company owned all of the software that I wrote, even on my own computer on my own time.

So, the answer to your question is, I haven't written anything I can legally describe to you without permission, since 1995.

Is that seriously the ONLY question you want to ask me?
Not even for all of the available shaders, books, tutorials and other resources made available for it over the years? The analogy I make is a programming language that is so-so, but has a hundred relevant, useful libraries vs. the technically better language with hardly any libraries. Cycles has the basic building blocks to create a library of pre-defined shaders, but Renderman has over 25 years of history, and tons of RSL examples.
100 years is not a long time. And physical brain size has a low correlation with intelligence.
Great points Josh - it's pretty common for new Meteor devs to rely only on console.log - this is a valuable reminder of all the other options for stepping up our debugging game :)
Start weightlifting to increase serotonin levels.

My eyes started twitching - I needed glasses so watch out for this.

When you use a screen, you blink less. Actually try to blink more. Also look away and focus on far away objects - the usual tips.

The last tip I find that works is close your eyes gently while sitting down, and tense your whole body, as much as you can. Even your glutes, activate as many muscles as you can while keeping your eyes as un-flexed stressed as possible.

My eyes feel much better after doing this. I think I read this some time ago, and your body is using energy elsewhere - while relaxes the muscles not needed (around your eyes) and it feels amazing.

Good Luck!
Well, the thing is, perhaps your dentist is an average dentist, but nobody has the data to know that. Perhaps ALL dentists are pretty average, save for perhaps a few who go to conferences, have a blog, go on dentistry techy-forums in their spare time, or buy random dentistry gadgets to try them etc etc.

For example, my local butcher is a 'geek butcher'. He tries new cuts, goes to butchery meetups at food festivals, try tosource new things, etc; result is that he's really good at what he's doing, and he gets quite a few loyal customers.
I am with @pest . rethinkdb's github issues becomes my daily read, along with Github's Atom repo.

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb

Just look at the issues , how they handle them , how their professional responses , and how quick they resolves issues after issues with full co-operation between issue owner , users and contributor. They guide contributors as well. And it is really Addictive , be warned.
Well... it is thinking collective :)
What about young developers who haven't done any side projects, just trying to skill up at their company or spent all their time graduating?

What about older developers who worked before Github and so had their own projects dissolved to obscurity?

What about developers who don't do side projects but give 120% to the company product, even at home? (Some of us actually enjoy working on the products we build during the day :D )

You'll get exactly the same mileage by just asking the potential hire to tell you about something they built - full stop. You'll be able to gauge passion, if they actually did the work, how it solves a problem. You just won't be able to play with it, but I suspect the minimum of side projects is in any case live, and more about scratching an itch.

And even with non-disclosure agreements etc they'll be able to tell you enough of the technology to be able to make a call.
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No they don't reflect it at all.

MPs are totally fine with being in the public eye because, guess what, they've chosen to lose privacy to become MPs. When it comes to privacy MPs are atypical and cannot reflect the general populace.