skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not consider myself as very productive (and still try to learn from others). Some things that has helped me are

1. Increased water intake/Eat Well. I drink 1st bottle (300ml) with black tea (usually Oolong) and then refill with hot water. I make sure I am drinking water while I work. I am vegetarian and I take almost no sugar. I have replaced sugar with raw honey in my chai :-). I try to have more plant-based diet.

2. Take breaks. When I am stuck with the problem, I take either water-refill break/pee break/short walk to get me away from the problem, but possible solutions find me where ever I am.

3. Start day early. I usually like to start my day between 5.30AM-6AM. But I do not jump on emails/office work. I have a separate to-do list to learn/read different things (mostly technical). I start my day with it. That's my kick.

4. Less scanning. I use Asana in the Calendar view. As soon as I reach the office, I make sure the world is not crashing. I add tasks that need my attention and close the email. Then I add things I like to do (and aren't listed in my today's task). I start hunting these tasks. If I have some dependency on others(Ops for example), I create tasks/email them and move on with my agenda

5. Exercise. Not doing very much these days, but try to run for 20-25 minutes every evening, to have physical workout > mental workout (This is a key to good sleep)

6. Sleep well. I try to get somewhere between 7-8 hours every night. I need to learn to improve this area.

At the end of the day, I prefer a fulfilled day -> A day where I produced value to my company Plus I learned something new. That produced happiness which leads to productivity. Iterate.
> Hello and Pocket are just two buttons in a toolbar which you can remove.

I would have preferred to see bugs fixed, rather than features that undeniably belong in extensions. Even if it'd been issues that don't even affect me.
Actually it would be quite interesting to read about how the Web Archive accomplishes things like this.. Do they regularly scan news sites for new articles?
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I think it's more the inevitable outcome when students and teachers are forced through endless cycles of tests, evaluations and metrics - from primary school onwards.

A well-written paper on this, which I think has been discussed on HN before: http://www.systema-journal.org/article/view/314 (you can get the general idea by skipping the technical parts in Section 3).

If this theory is correct, then it has less to do with the supposed weaknesses of today's students or a deliberate political agenda to keep them from growing up - instead it's an unintended consequence of the idea that everything must be subjected to constant "scientific" numerical evaluation.
Is five years evading law enforcement really that much better than ~1 year in prison? (One year based on the fact that the five year limit only applies if the maximum penalty is at most 2 years[1], and presumably a first timer would not spend the whole 2 years in prison (and the actual sentence in this case might be below 2 years anyway))

The general principle, as far as I know, is based on the idea that the need for punishment is lessened by time.

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preskription#Preskriptionstide...
I left Portland a month after you arrived. The combination of lack of seriousness about education (failure to meet state minimum standard instructional hours, anyone), anti fluoride stupidity, and trustafarians got on my nerves, as well as persistently low wages. I do miss the weather (and had no trouble finding co working spaces even then)

For my part I'd recommend Montreal - I was impressed by the hackerspaces and coworking there
> Mozilla currently don't provide a dev build for Android, just regular and beta versions

Nightly versions of Firefox are available from https://nightly.mozilla.org/.
Folks would bring cots and blankets during Finals week while studying in the Engineering building at my university. Engineering students were not being coddled - you had to put in countless hours of study to make the grade.
The author of this post seems to be on another planet. For example, the "play, dog, music, and other therapy" that he is disapproves of comprises maybe 0.05% of the experience of final exams for students (that is, a student might stop to pet a puppy for 5 minutes at some point during finals). The rest of the experience is almost entirely unchanged. He paints it as if it comprises 50% of the experience, like students look forward to exams so they can pet puppies.
I'm not sure this is the appropriate venue for this type of post/spam.
What everyone with that point of view means is this: the prosecutor has had 5 years to fix a potential complex setup but waited for the very last minute.
Nope. I mean desktop linux. Every time MS, or Apple, launch a new OS with silly fine print and non-removable malware I get people asking about linux.

Actually, silly ToS language and spyware don't really matter. The entire update/versioning process with MS is so painful that distros like ubuntu start to seem the easier option.
Oh, then you don't need to buy them, just wait a while. With very few exceptions (mostly a few "ecohouses" for foreign tourists), no developer touches those villages with a ten foot pole. Between the desertification of the region, the crashed real estate market and the cost of rebuilding those houses, the average return is probably between "terrible" and "catastrophic".
How is it unnecessary? This is a real theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny_state). The term may seem pejorative, but it is a real agenda pushed by some parties/groups.

I'm not saying the US currently has a nanny-state (far from it compared to what is implemented in Europe for example), but this could be a real agenda.
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It's funny and scary how it's the opposite of what Free Software stands for.
Neat. I really liked Ubuntu One. However, if they seek to receive contributions I think GitHub would give them more exposure than launchpad, from what I can tell the history is not preserved (probably with good reasons) so the switch from bazaar would not have been painful.
If I went to my professor at university complaining that I waited 5 years and then could not solve the challenges b/c of not enough time left, he would just laugh at my assumption that I'm not responsible for the fu
One year ago I said it will be awesome if they did, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8347760 It is AWESOME :)
I think one of the biggest issues fusion power needs to deal with is whether or not it's worth the money. Renewable energy has gained serious momentum in the past years, and while it takes up significantly more land-mass-mass (things like solar panels and wind turbines), it requires less research and development than fusion, and is advancing at a significant pace. Contrast this with something like nuclear fusion, that has been under development for decades, and still has yet to produce a long term viable product.

The one area I still think I see fusion reactors succeeding in, is that they can theoretically use nuclear waste as a fuel[0][1]. However, outside of Transatomic Power, I really don't see many fusion companies interested in dealing with that issue. Given fusions history of failure, I think that fusion energy really needs a hell of a selling point beyond a simple "we make energy" to be able to succeed. I think that selling point doesn't get much better than using nuclear waste as fuel.

[0] http://www.transatomicpower.com/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXXwWOImm8
You might want to fact check yourself on Rockefeller:

Founded 1870, antitrust 1911:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil

Crude prices in that time frame (and beyond):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_Prices_Since_186...

Production in that time frame (having trouble finding a nice long time-series chart):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_petroleum_indus...

If we want to make a strong claim of harmful monopoly[0], we should not expect to see a massive surge in production combined with an impressive decrease in price.

[0]Here I use the term "harmful monopoly" to refer to a firm that has both market power (can influence prices by controlling supply) and uses it to increase its own profits.
What we see instead is a time period where we do indeed have a dominant firm, but one behaving as if it were in a competitive market.

The important characteristics of a competitive market here are low barriers to entry/exit, and a commodity product. There were incredibly low barriers to entry/exit, and oil has, for nearly its entire existence as a product in the modern age, been a commodity.
> Are there actually any numbers for this supposed infantilization? It seems to me that the number of people complaining about unis being not PC enough is relatively equal to the number of people complaining about the first group.

Isn't this the same response we hear every time someone else speaks out about this? "This is just the work of a few bad eggs. If this was a widespread problem, why aren't we hearing about more of it?" Which, yeah, the first few times people have made this complaint, I agreed with. But it has started to ring hollow.

> Sometimes very small, very loud groups can be perceived by outsiders

I don't think the author here is an outsider—they're a professor at a university where this is happening.
did they release this uber data to the public: i dont see it in these tables:

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/results/emerald-diagram-43...
For those people in London (England) interested in SICP in Clojure, we are running a monthly study group. Our google groups group is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sicp-mailonline and the code is at https://github.com/MailOnline/sicp-mailonline (each person has their own branch).

We are just starting Chapter 3 and at the current rate of progress it will be at least a year before we have completed the entire book!

Anyone interested is welcome to join us :-)
As you do, I have a lot of programs and extensions installed on my machine. How about you install them all on yours? Come on! Don't be grim! They are fucking awesome and if you don't use them it's not like it is the end of the world :^)
What a difficult question. I think it's confusing for the same reason that there are so many options, we don't know what the future will be.

All I can tell you, and what most people will be able tell you is, what tech we are exploring. For me that is React + Flux on top of a c# or groovy backend. Docker is very exciting, but it is not exactly ready since the containers you create in Docker don't actually contain.

If I had to reduce my decisions on which new tech to adopt to a primary factor, I'd say it is, does this tech promote a decoupled code base? Applications are getting huge, and whether you are trying to superman a solution as a solo dev, or trying to clearly define a separation of responsibilities across a team, the ability to make modifications to the code with as little knowledge of the application as a whole is what will allow you to develop a large app which is still maintainable.

React + Flux - yes

c# + entity framework + webapi - yes

groovy + gorm - yes

docker - yes
"“In my day” (I’m old now, my day was the late 80s early 90s), you visited the registrar’s office. A financial aid office. The bursars office. I felt like an adult, making decisions and finding things out for myself… But now there are counsellors for everything. Counsellors. As if the very act of registering for a class is traumatic event for which the student needs counselling. According to some universities, these counsellors provide “customer support”. That’s Ohio State’s term, not mine."

Wow, this feels really out of place. When I was in school from 2006-2011, there was definitively no feelings of being an adult permitted. The university encouraged parents to make any kind of financial aid / money related decisions, and encouraged leaving the students out of it. There were counselors for their use, if they were needed. Definitely agree with the gist of the author. On the other hand, people have been complaining about the weakness of the youth since Socrates, so I'm not sure that this article is signal rather than noise.

As far as exams being stressful, I'd say it's fine to give students a break and let them handle the stress however it helps. For most, it's their first exposure to "serious" evaluation of their work, and it is a bit daunting because their decisions are ineffable once made. Of course, the stress-mitigation strategies that the students learn during this time period are essential to their growth-- this isn't focused on enough, IMO. After being in the workforce for a while, exam time seems more like a vacation from stress rather than a stressful time to me. I wish that I had been able to pet a nice puppy during exam time.

I also wish that there were a "phase 2" of college to be taken after 5-10 years in the workforce. The education of having to provide for yourself imparts a lot of discipline and enthusiasm that I really could have used as a student. I could probably get eight bachelors' degrees in the time it took me to get two the first time around. College was a step in the maturation process for me-- a step that was a bit too small as a result of some of my mother institution's decisions.

In summary, colleges certainly coddle the students, and the students are eager to be coddled. But don't be too bitter: the students deserve their youth, too.
A very good response to Win10s inclusion of closed-source, proprietary, non-removable, everything-is-uploaded, "just trust us", spyware. Ubuntu isn't perfect, but it's far more trustworthy than anything MS has put out in recent decades.
The first 3 dot points read more like a case of a broken condom than exceeding the scope of consent. A lot of the evidence is what she thinks he was thinking - this is not high quality evidence. He seems to have done everything she asked him to do.

The last dot point is from the other set of charges (SW rather than AA). That one is a fairly clear case of straight up exceeding the scope of consent. If it happened like that, it is bad behavior. He could reasonably be unwise rather than malicious. A formal apology and a moderate fine for any medical expenses seems appropriate to my moral judgment, although the courts would know what is appropriate legally.

At any rate, the two cases here are rather minor compared to the suspicion that the US government is setting him up with a smear campaign. The forces against him include a government which apparently has a secret court and a spy network that was being run by the executive without the apparent knowledge of the American congress. These charges may not exist in a vacuum. Lots of people are not perfect, the issue is that he deserves some freedom from persecution for his political actions. Someone obviously agrees with me here that these charges were politically motivated, because the Ecuadorians are granting him asylum.
> - Can't run my own version of AMO

You can, AMO is open source: https://github.com/mozilla/olympia

Run your own instance and make your own builds of Firefox that point to it and you're good.
Most people here think this article is about Assange being guilty or not. It's not.
I'm just waiting for the day some physical product manufacturer has the chutzpah to try to apply the "licensed, not sold" paradigm to a tangible product.
Anyone thinking what I'm thinking?

Company headquarters and accelerator program... :)
We've just been Oraclesplained.
See also "I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me" (http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid) from just a few months ago.
yup, and that's what i don't get. statistically, plugins like java and flash are a bigger security threat than addons. i don't even remember an addon going rogue.
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He repeats the phase that college is not trauma but ignores that during the college phase of young adult lives many mental health issues arise in an environment without the only support system a child usually knows, their family.

Suicide is the leading cause of death[1] for college students and this guy is going to criticize the addition of resources to help handle stress? It just reads like ignorance.

1: http://news.virginia.edu/content/more-us-college-students-di...
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I don't agree, we are talking luxury software here. oracle systems and contracts are the most expensive on the market, you should not feel any guilt for any contact with their gold plated support, and you could almost expect them to run warning free in most analysers, like you expect a Ferrari comes without any blemish in the paint, albeit it's a freaking car and the paint is not functional.
Correct:

Class C - 0 Votes (GOOG)

Class A - 1 Vote (GOOGL ~4% higher cost per share)

Class B - 10 Votes (Not publicly traded)
> The end of Moore’s Law means how programs are built is changing.

I feel like this is just not true. Yes we have slowed down significantly over the past couple of years. BUT I do believe that once something big happens (My bet is the replacement of Silicon in chips or much stronger batteries). I feel like Moores law will pick up right where it left off.
> The only definition of "reverse engineering software" that I use

Uhm, no, that's far too narrow. Reverse engineering is any kind of introspection into a device in question, designed for obtaining any degree of understanding of its inner functioning.

What you're talking about is called "decompilation", and it's not even among the most useful reverse engineering techniques.
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switch (c) {
case BAD_CODEPOINT1: //bug 30943
case BAD_CODEPOINT2: //bug 32821
/*....*/
}

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>make your own builds of Firefox

Yeah, let me just get all of the potential users of my AMO alternative to compile a custom version of Firefox for it
I'm not sure if XNU really reaps any benefits from its arrangement. It's not so much a hybrid kernel as much as it is a chimera kernel - the OSF Mach component is used to define the low-level constructs like tasks, threads, VMM, IPC/ports (XPC sitting on top of it), system clock, host info and so forth, but no real reliability gains to speak of.
Is this so different than the accusations of contempt often levied at several large personalities in the open source world?

I'm honestly curious about this.
WTF people. So much hate for Mozilla these days, this appear pitchfork group.

Lets review what the article says: addons needed to be signed. The process is automated. It takes only seconds. It prevents some malware from spreading.

You can still host your addon wherever you want. This is just an extra step that can actually improve security. It requires more effort by the part of the developer but it also helps prevent some security issues.

Firefox Dev Edition and Nightly will have switches to turn this off. Firefox stable and Beta will not. Do you want to switch this off? Move to more bleeding edge versions. Or pick the unbranded version.

The unbranded version is available only in English and this is a problem that can be solved with language packs which are available in the hundreds.

Heck, this is an improvement to security. You can opt out by moving to a different Firefox version, there are three versions you can use, DevEdition, Nightly and Unbranded. If you opt-in you have an extra level of confidence in the addon you're installing.

Developers take only couple seconds to submit and retrieve back their addons and the added bonus for security is great. This will prevent those pesky spyware/malware from hijacking your browser which is a problem faced by many users that are not as tech savvy as this crowd here.

And yet people throw a tantrum....
And still doesn't work nearly as well.
I use skype all on the time on Ubuntu 14.04LTS, seems fine, no issues! :)
> Justices either run for office as political public figures or are appointed by political public figures

Mon dieu, Baron de Montesquieu must be spinning in his grave! :)

One of the key principles of modern government is (or rather, should be) total independence of the judicial system from political pressure. In practice this is hard to achieve. In the US it turned into a "parallel democracy" with elected judges, who might not answer to regular politicians but are politicians themselves; in Europe it's usually a fundamentally-administrative career path, however in various countries it's more or less influenced by political winds (after all, an efficient Government or Parliament will want someone to actually enforce laws that get passed). Still, there is a clear ideal of purity and independence that original constituents were striving for (usually as a reaction to the arbitrary power of kings and popes), and our failings in reaching it now does not mean we will never reach it.

On your more general point, rather than "justice" I'd rather refer to "law enforcement". Yes, law enforcement is political: it enforces laws written by ruling interests to perpetuate such interests (be those moral, economic, of class or whatever). The degree and intensity of enforcement for any given rule is eminently political. However, "justice" itself is not necessarily the same thing.

At the end of the day, man is not perfect; a system will always be required to address this problem and its consequences. The existence of such a system is not just political but essential to society itself. Pre-political forms of society, where the tribe leader ruled uncontested by virtue of pure physical strength, likely still involved the administration of justice to a certain degree. In a way, the emergence of political structures themselves is an answer to the problem of obtaining justice (who defines what is just? How does he define it? How does he enforce it? and so on).
Feynman and a great analogy (The inconceivable nature of nature)
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It's not a failed startup (still running with paying customers and some profit), but I don't have the time to make it blow up.

Also, in talks with an ex-porn star to be the spokesmodel.
Alibaba looks more like GE than Google (2014)
By this legal definition I should be able to pay for a product priced at 1 pound with any amount from .5 pound to 1.5 pounds.
As I understand numbers they represent an abstract concept of reality. To say anything between .5 to 1.5 should be 1 is to do injustice to all numbers both real and imaginary.
Funny how the ISP charges the person for the whole setup, but then keeps that setup to serve future clients.

The only scenario where it's acceptable to pay for that sort of installation is if you own it and share profits made out of it.
It's a growing trend though. Plus, based on news accounts, these are the vocal minority groups that affect a great deal of people's day-to-day campus life. For instance, they chase off speakers that don't care to hear nor want anyone else to hear.
Don't some types of contract require a CYA clause along the lines of "if any part of this contract is invalid, the contract only covers those parts that are valid", though?

I'm not sure whether this is just voodoo or whether those contracts would otherwise be nullified as soon as you point out any single clause is actually invalid.
I also quite clearly recall mozilla stating that plug-ins are responsible for over 95% of all browser crashes.
So you're saying Assange should be allowed to do whatever he wants, because USA?

And re: Ecuador, there are certainly reasons why they have granted asylum.

Wanting to protect a victim of persecution is virtually guaranteed not to have been a real consideration. Pissing off the USA and the UK is the obviously much bigger motivation.