jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Very, very good post.

Some other thoughts -

If you notice some habitual thing you do when feeling initial frustration (surf to a website, turn on the TV, whatever) - then try changing your environment slightly to make it harder. If you use Google Chrome, delete or move a site you go to habitually. This can help a lot for not bailing out during that first 15-30 minutes of warmup when working on something a little frustrating and a little beyond current skill level.

Silence is good, but if you have a hard time finding it, try to find music that drowns out the outside world for you. Electronic music helps me - a nice mix of Benny Benassi, David Guetta, or John Digweed and I can ignore background noise. Also, if lyrics distract you and you like electronic, maybe try looking up some "minimal techno" - it's kind of weird, but very cerebral. I work very well to it, it's zone-getting-into music for me.

Silence or kill your phone entirely.

Make very clear to people when you're about to work on something important and don't want your concentration broken, let them know you're going to be an angry cave bear woken up from hibernation if they bother you, and let them know exactly what to bother you on - "Don't disturb me from working unless something is on fire, and maybe not even then" tends to get the point across.

Also, you've kind of got to regular your caffeine/sugar/food a little bit so you don't totally spike and crash. It takes a while to get this down, but there's very few things that are as much of a bummer as having your blood sugar crash, caffeine withdrawl, and hunger kick in all at the same time when you were doing good work. Knowing your own rhythms and eating/drinking/caffeinating intelligently during your work helps a lot.
From what I understand, micro-transactions for virtual goods is a lot more common in places like China, and if you can offer custom themes or other "value-added" services to these clones, you can monetize off of that - must like Farmville makes money on selling people special seeds.

If China and the US reach some kind of agreement - and the services were unlocked - there would already be enough of a market share for the existing clones to maintain control over that market. Future clones would still have a chance in succeeding as well depending on the race to localisation of the products in the local language and demographics.
What does fishy even mean? Why does everything have to be a conspiracy theory? Noah got bought out of his Odeo shares at the same price as the rest of the investors and then later got a piece of Twitter (even though he only worked on that for 3-5 months and thus wouldn't have even met the standard qualifier of a one year vesting cliff).

He's a great guy and I can see how this was painful. He wanted in and wasn't allowed. But that's not the same as it being unfair or him getting screwed.

Why leave him out of the story? They left a lot of people out of the story because otherwise it would be a catalog of Odeo employees. Every one at Odeo has some story about how they contributed (including this here Engineering Manager) but there's a big difference between those of us who merely did our jobs and those who really took on the responsibility for making Twitter happen.

In the end I think the right people got the credit.
You did it for free? I think this is really cool, but... They're charging for it? Seems reasonable for you and Andrew to get a (smallish) chunk of the revenue or a (reasonable) chunk of the profit. Heck, if you wanted to, you could donate it to charity. But you've effectively donated something pretty valuable to Noah (who is an awesome guy, but already rolling in $ with AppSumo). :-)
I don't know if I would call this a "pronunciation guide", in the sense that it doesn't tell you how to actually stress the syllables or say any particular letters. Instead, it's more of a "naming guide" or "verbalization guide" for glyphs that don't map to specific vocal patterns.

Nitpick? Yes. This is HN, after all.
"Teleportation" is a precise term in the field of quantum information; it wasn't the choice of the news article. Yes, the term was chosen to sound sexy, but it's not an unreasonable term for what it describes even if it can't quite live up to Star Trek.
Great summary of some of the potential changes coming to books as they become unbound. I think the most important part is finding the right container that seamlessly creates a networked book without burdening the readers by requesting more attention.
One of the perks of using web fonts is that they sometimes get corrupted in download.
You should usually be doing 'data handling' wherever results in the best user experience. Persistence and calculations which are essential to the integrity of your application's data obviously need to be done (or at least validated) on the server, but if the application has any kind of complex workflow then constantly going back to the server to generate new application states is likely to severely bog down that workflow.
Instead of learning Angular, learn Meteor, React, and/or Ember. Just trust me on this one..
It would be great if you implemented a crop/preview feature, so the user could line things up properly instead of having to manually loop through editing/submiting until a decent result is achieved.
You're totally right Periodic. I didn't talk about passion but that's definitely one of the main drivers of my efforts (the others being parental pressure and personal ambition).

I think competition is healthy and good as long as it doesn't consume your life. Whenever you engage in an activity where you can compare your performance to others, there will be competition. So why not try and be better?

More broadly speaking, winning can also more a general term for "being successful" or "achieving your goals".
I had a long answer but HN died for me.

The short answer, take a drawing class to learn the fundamentals of how to draw. From there, start drawing those ideas you have, but can't implement.
yup. definitely added later. that is pretty interesting...
According to this source, there are: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/dorony/2014/10/07/scala-perform...
My kid is a kindergarten student at a very well-resourced school in Silicon Valley. Pretty immediately, they set up a virtual learning system that is used to assign tasks and for kids to share work. I appreciate that the teachers are doing what they can, but honestly for younger kids this sort of thing isn't really that helpful.

The system is far from seamless (even as someone who runs an edtech startup, I have found it very difficult to navigate). A task that takes the kid 5 mins to complete often takes at least as long to upload/process. That's not a good time ratio when you're looking to have your kid occupied so you can work/make food/etc.

Instead of using the online system, we are taking this as an opportunity to let our child explore interests and get much more personalized learning than is given at school. Khan Academy has been great for math, and the books we read at home are more advanced than the standardized assignments given online.

Doing things this way definitely takes a bit of time from our schedules, but I'm not sure it actually takes more time than if we did the online stuff. And at the end of the day, our child will have learned much more and with a more engaged attitude. Honestly, I think one of the bigger risks/downsides is that our kid will develop an arrogant attitude toward school — that it's too easy and not worth paying attention to.
Private schools are able to make different assumptions about their students and have almost all gone to online learning during the pandemic. This, along with an uptake in technology, is creating a clear win for private education if you can afford it for your kids, further draining public systems of their more well to do students.
> “We are talking about companies with plenty of assets and strong businesses”.

We are also talking about companies with specious "assets" and incredibly fragile businesses.

> Should we let clearly creditworthy companies go bankrupt because the credit markets are temporarily closed?

No, but they are not all creditworthy. Do you happen to know the ratio between the two? It seems to me that is a rather important data point that a logical person should be examining as part of their decision making process.
You may find "Twenty Five Doors to Meditation: Handbook for Entering Samadhi" by Bodri interesting.

Most people don't meditate correctly or go deeply enough to enter the breathless state. A lot of the popular teachers of mindfulness meditation (Kabat-Zinn, etc) never mention what happens when you allow your body to become totally still and ignore sensory input (or even that you should). Yet this leads to the Taoist's Original Breath, or Patanjali's spontaneous Kumbhaka, where the breath naturally suspends for long periods of time, and is really the doorway to deep meditation.

Sorry for people wanting medical science here - materialistic science has inherent limitations when trying to deal with subjective experiences such as the nature of consciousness itself. You'd have to convince yourself if you were interested that the states reached by e.g. intent concentration on the breath is experientially very similar to those arrived at by other methods.

BTW: I can see from your comment you've either never practiced Zazen, have no experience of it or have had a charlatan teacher.
I'd be concerned for your financial stability if you need to liquidate assets as soon as you might miss out on two weeks' pay.

There are a lot of people that will really struggle in the coming weeks or months, but the venn diagram of those folks and people with a significant presence in the stock market is really quite small.
Enough until there is nothing left but the present moment. (One step at a time ofc.)
I think the real issue is that exercise, being a physical thing is much easier to observe and parameterize.

How many miles do you run on a flat treadmill? How high of Heart BPM? How much does the individual weigh? What movement is done, for how many reps and what weight?

Now how does one parameterize the intensity/duration of a meditation session? And does it, like exercise, depend on the existing adaptations of the individual?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
We Brits also call a cell phone a "mobile phone" which describes perfectly what it is.
This is dishonest reporting. Many of the books in question were simply removed from school curricula, that is not "banning."
I don't understand. Is "difficulty" some axis that's independent of "effort" and "outcomes"? Is conscientiousness defined to be the result a person achieves on a particular test, and can you provide a link to that test?

Do you often leave comments like "No. PCR-covid and pulse-oximiter-covid are different diseases. One of them involves having virus genomes in your body and the other one involves having low blood oxygen?"
It's almost as if you can prioritise profits, or you can prioritise service delivery, but you can't prioritise both.

Health care in the US is no different.

It's traditional to call this 'efficiency' and 'freedom.'

But perhaps it's more realistic and honest to call it 'grift.'
"Wildcard People was a success, but turned into a normal tech job board. That's not what I wanted.
I will be changing how this works in the coming months."
Every home that uses electricity for heat is a mission-critical site when it's 0 degrees F outside. Kids froze to death in their own beds.
> Btrfs lets you keep metadata at a stronger bitrot-protection level

I really have no idea what BTRFS feature this refers to, but ZFS stores redundant copies of metadata. See: redundant_metadata, https://zfsonlinux.org/manpages/0.8.0/man8/zfs.8.html
Guys. This isn't funny anymore.

HTML5 is a set of markup standards that, in conjunction with other open technologies, can be used to create dynamic, standards-compliant web interfaces.

Flash is a virtual machine. It is good for a lot of things you would use a VM for. It is not good for a lot of things you wouldn't use a VM for.

Some hardware manufacturers don't want virtual machines in their vertically-integrated ecosystems, and somehow this turned into a holy war between things that have no reason to be at war.
Well, not always. There's really two situations where the power can be used in practice. Firstly, if the government supports the actions of the monarch (although you could argue that this isn't much of a power).

More importantly, if there's no government to remove them. The monarch could have the power to resolve a disputed government, or to appoint a government in the absence of one.

It's also important to remember that monarchs are often rich, connected people, so even if they can't use their official powers, they may have influence in other ways.
I am an Indian and I can point you to a number of incidents involving banning of books, movies and jailing of artists. People jailed for posting anti Sonia Gandhi messages on Orkut[1], banning of the comic Savita Bhabhi[2], seizing of Ask Me servers pre trial[3] are recent relevant examples off the top of my head.

[1] http://www.merinews.com/article/man-jailed-for-posting-obsce...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savita_Bhabhi#Ban_and_criticism...

[3] http://news.oneindia.in/2010/01/30/data-theft-hc-asks-askme-...
uBlock seems to interfere with the bookmarklet dialog box.

Very nice idea execution of the idea. I can easily see this being built up into a sharing service.
> I never indicated that I thought my opinions were universal.

This wasn't the problem.

The problem was that your opinion was to have a universal language.

This is textbook imperialism. This is why English has such major influences from French and Latin when it's essentially a Germanic language. Because a couple of empires invaded England and imposed their language.

> The US have had immigrants from all other the world a few centuries ago and I have never seen any problems directly related to education with 2-3 generations descendants, so I think it was a safe assumption. It can be discussed.

The US prints out reams of extra paperwork precisely so that it can be offered in multiple languages. The US fought and continues to fight proxy wars dealing with how these immigrants are integrated into the culture. New York City used to be a battleground between the Italians and the Irish. Read just about any significant span of American history and you'll find a disagreement between two different sets of immigrants. Don't need no West Side Story to explain it.

Of course, at the same time, the US invented the network standard dialect of English while making fun of Californian versus Midwestern versus New England versus Southern accents. Odd... those are also some of the clearest political battlefield lines historically. And it's the US who is internationally laughed at for having the least informed and most cross-culturally inept population in the world.

Furthermore, do you really want the US to be the de jure overlord of the entire world? Because I don't.

And lastly, linguistic mutation. Even if you buy into the Chomskyian notion of a universal grammar inherent in the biological human brain, you still have the fact that language evolves differently for different groups of people and there isn't any way to reliably intermingle them on a regular basis unless you use top-down imposition.

> IMO, it is actually much more akin to an engineer proposing that we set a standard so we could stop focusing on component integration so much, and actually get to work. I think many engineers prefer standards to having a large variety of systems that achieve the same things, so I see no reason why that wouldn't apply to languages.

So, basically, you want to do this: http://xkcd.com/927/

Protip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Esperanto
My dad did something similar back in art school. He bought a used postal delivery truck and it was his semester project to convert it into an RV.

Once completed, he'd take weekend trips. Leave SF Friday evening and drive an arbitrary direction until he was tired. He'd find a place to park and in the morning wake up in a new and unknown location to explore for the weekend.
Probably ~16 mpg, so a donation link for fuel budget would be fair. I think people would help because of the awesomeness.
pyOpenSSL, which means you can't use SSL in twisted :(
Because Android is the "open" system, and Apple is the "closed" one?
Immediate response to your inquiries?
I'm reminded of Japanese intelligence gathering methods in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. This would be a hell of an intelligence gathering tool, the best part of it is that you could gather data in such a fractioned and distributed way that individual people wouldn't be able to guess what it is they're doing.
Yeah I agree, different than big money status. It's like sexy-i-financed-this status.

The type of status that this truck is trying to market to is like the `I paid 1.5 million cash for this crazy pentagon` status.
Slack was being jerks telling everyone change is hard and to suck it up. Now, they backpeddled.

This is what hostility looks like. They think they know better than their users. They don’t.
Personally I would say that certificates are not worth anything at all. If I'm hiring someone with no experience, I don't expect them to know much and I don't care about the certificate. If I'm hiring someone with experience, then I assume they can pick up the knowledge that they need quickly. In some fields certificates can be useful, but IMHO application programming is not one of them. When I was doing Windows development (nearly 20 years ago now, mind you) an MSCE was really not very impressive. In fact, almost the reverse: it's almost an indication that the candidate doesn't have confidence in their abilities.

A degree is useful. Whether it is worth the price really depends on the situation. I've known quite a few people who have made the transition from an external field to programming, but you have to be a bit lucky. Your first job is kind of critical. If you can work for a good company for 2-3 years, then you pretty much have it made. Most companies won't care about official qualifications after that. However, it can be a real crap shoot to get that first job.

Whatever you do, I would say that programming education is very, very important in the career of a programming. I'm 30 years or so into my career and I still spend a large amount of my time studying on my own. No matter what, you need to learn this stuff and you will need to keep learning for decades after. IMHO, this is really what distinguishes a programming job from many others -- the treadmill of new techniques, technology and ideas never, ever stops and you have to be running constantly. If that appeals to you, then this might be a good career for you. If you have the idea of, "Well, I can just push to get this done and I'll be set", then I think you'll end up being in a huge amount of stress a few years into your career.

With all that said, I would recommend doing some academic MOOCs to see how you feel about it and how you would feel about going back to school. Or as you say, take a few courses. However, I would encourage you to stick to academic courses and stay away from certificates (which are likely to be unrepresentative of what you need to do for a CS degree).

Finally, if you think you can find a good job, then you might just want to go for it directly. However, be picky and make sure that you find somewhere that has some good senior people and who don't mind mentoring juniors.

Good luck!
As nozzz said, this is using clang.
So I should correct my statement, c++ is in average 30% faster as gcc is in average 20% faster than llvm.
The trouble with economics, especially macroeconomics, as a science is that it lacks good predictive power. Science is prediction, not explanation. Economic forecasting ought to work at least as well as weather forecasting, and it doesn't.
I honestly don't understand the distinction? The article is legit, because somehow it has authority by being published in a random media outlet? Is that it? Whereas my opinion is "flamebait" because I don't have authority?

Yes, I disagree with her. Not because of her old age, but because she seriously claimed the scenario of Handmaid's Tale was near. There were people demonstrating in Handmaid's Tale costumes, and she was cheering them on.

If anything, THAT is "political flamebait" - claiming we are entering Handmaid's Tale territory. It was and is ridiculous (unless you believe fundamentalist Islam will take over eventually, which for PC reasons I assume we don't), and that is why I don't hold much stock in her writings anymore. Not because of her old age.

And the article is applauding her for "political flamebait", so by extension, it pretty much also is "political flamebait".

That's my opinion anyway. But I'm sure it will be considered "political flamebait" by HN.
What about that "Cybergirl" that introduced Elon?

She called him her "creator". Just an actress (Grimes) on video with weird almost-flailing gestures or was it an animated AI from a secret Elon project made in the likeness of Grimes?

https://youtu.be/0y3wE0pgXcM?t=131

For real. When she's done talking her expression just goes full neutral like she's waiting for input.

edit: this is not criticism, I loved it, I am genuinely curious if that introduction was artificial. Felt uncanny valley.
It's not the full book and more of a preview or as it calls it "essential excerpts". Can someone add this detail to the title?
No, the question is who deserves the blame.
Constrained RL is a way to say "thou shalt not murder", instead of saying "murder is utility -10000".
If you really know what you are doing you aren't even using NaCl, you use the individual algorithms.

For example: https://github.com/orlp/ed25519 .