skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideas may be cheap, but that doesn't mean that good ones are not valuable. Execution against a bad idea is my largest frustration with SV.

Consider Color[1]. Raised $41m for a genuinely terribly idea. Social networking with random people in your vicinity just isn't a good idea. All of the time and effort spent solving that "problem" was a waste of brilliant people's limited life.

On the other hand, the AirBnB team has executed tremendously well. Their idea is also excellent. To say that ideas are cheap is to discount the vision of a company. It's to repeat the tired maxim that hard-work is all it takes to be successful. But no matter how hard you work towards putting Tinder on the Blockchain, it is still a terrible idea.

Start with a vision of how you the world will be different, then apply execution towards that.

[1] http://mashable.com/2012/10/17/color-shuts-down/
A closed blockchain is still distributed (just not open to everyone), and still has different nodes checking up on each other, while an SQL server is a single point of potential fraud.
They are basically asking people to pay $96 to buy a pig in a poke. So in exchange for saving $204 (which is what a one year subscription is claimed to be offered at) when the product is "done", you are putting $96 at risk against the possibility that the product won't be right for you, or worse, that they will declare that the product has reached "1.0" status with only the barest bones feature set.

Sure, maybe the site will automagically "adapt" as you load more pictures, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and you might think that it looks ugly. And maybe how the site "optimizes" for particular goals is by using some canned stock phrases that you don't like and you can't customize.

Or maybe it will do the job implied by the marketing video. There's no way to know! No money-back guarantee (and if the company goes bankrupt, no recourse in any case).

Is that really worth $96? I personally don't think so. I'd much rather wait until it's done --- especially since they have VC funding --- and then decide for myself whether the resulting product is fit for purpose.
The only things you ever see with your eyes are those things that have reflected light in your direction. They aren't random because you're only catching light coming right at you.
Experiment confirms that quantum mechanics scoffs at our local reality
I use Fantasque Sans Mono - I love its subtle character!
https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
Any sort of styling control: if there's a particular style I want applied to certain portions, I have to recreate it at each use. God help me if I decide to change it halfway through the document.

Orphaning of content: GDocs will very happily strand a section header at the bottom of a page, dropping a page break right between the header and the content.

The cursor will occasionally just go where it pleases.

Revision history (compared to diffing git commits) is incredibly frustrating. Click on a revision, read the whole doc, repeat…

As a sibling says,

> Oh and typography.
Voat.co used to be not accepting new member registrations, and now it is
I've been using Monaco for Powerline for quite a long while now. The main issue is that most of the builtin proportionally-spaced fonts have some glyphs which are difficult to distinguish. Monaco gets the job done but other people prefer slightly different glyph styles or want to make their own fonts, more power to them.
It's a small world after all. Interestingly, DNA from Aboriginal Australians suggests Australia experienced a wave of migration from India about 4,000 years ago.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/01/aborigin...

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21016700
The problem is that it's not decentralized enough. Bitcoin is still scarcity economics when we are ready for abundance.
On my work desktop, I have Pidgin running. There are accounts connected to

Google (friends and family)
IRC (technical channels)
our company XMPP servers (in-house chat, primarily a workgroup channel but also side conversations with individuals)
and a Slack channel via their IRC interface, for Rands's management discussion channel

None of them are distracting, because there are no sound notifications enabled. There are no pop-up notifications. If someone mentions my handle, that channel tab highlights blue; if there's new random chat, the tab highlights red.

I assume that there is always content available, and when I have time for it I glance over and see if there's something blue. If I have more time available, I check on something red.

If I'm working from home, I log in to those accounts on my working machine at home. Same procedures.

If there's an actual alert, the phone in my pocket will start making noises - a specific noise that I don't use for anything else, in fact.

It took a while to gain trust in all that, but now that I have it, I don't have any anxiety from checking chat or email or what-have-you: of course there's going to be content, and it's not going to be an emergency, because an emergency is always signaled by noise.
Could be added as new design not in the paper
This reminds me of an observation I had when a family member, who had never talked about such things with me before, finally said he had an idea for a novel, and detailed it to me. He had never said anything about it before, he never said anything about it afterwards, and as far as I know, never worked on it.

Everyone has ideas for such in their heads, I think. Making up stories is a decidedly human activity. But what makes an author is not merely having an idea, but putting in the work to sit down, hammer out that idea, and refine it until it's good enough to sell. Even in the face of crippling self doubt, the knowledge people may not be interested, it may not find a publisher, etc, they're the ones who manage to get it done and get it out there.

I'd imagine correlations could be drawn to business ideas, but I don't know that business ideas are as universal as stories.
There's nothing about slack that makes it inherently more syncronous than email, as long as you switch off all its dumb notifications to make it work like IRC.
Ask HN: Why are certain posts to HN getting 'Dead“-ed?
I recently enabled "showdead" on my account, & I'm seeing posts get "dead"-ed, in which its not immediately clear as to why they get killed.

Examples:

jonathanhadams.com

-and-

socialposter.org

It leads me to wonder what criteria is implemented to determine which to kill...
Perhaps it's an abrasive trait, but I really am not over-concerned about being available. That is, I check my work email once in the morning and I flip through my team's Slack channel when I'm directly pinged or after coming back from a time-out mini-break. Other communication mediums I check even less frequently.

Folks who feel compelled to be highly-available, what's the draw? Is it a nervous compulsion, a sense that you're going to miss out on something or yet something I haven't even imagined?
This pithy expression is overused and I would argue, unhelpful.

Ideas are cheap, but ideas that will make you rich are rare. And the ones that no one else is already working on are even rarer.

I remember reading another one of these blog posts with 1000 startup ideas and they were either ludicrously niche ideas with 0 market value like carpets for dogs, or in the realm of PhD research like making cellphone batteries last longer.

Ideas are not equal.
My compromise is to turn off notifications for most group chats and rooms. I still probably check chat every 15 minutes, but I choose when to check instead of a notification breaking my train of thought.

I'm a big fan of using chat to see if someone is available to talk before going over to their desk and interrupting, but if you only check it twice a day there's no advantage to using it over email.
If they're up for the pain, they have my support.

I presumed nothing. Have you ever experienced sciatica or back pain from herniated discs so intense you piss yourself? When even breathing hurts?

If you are able to zing happily along in your Rascal Scooter and ignore the pain, my hat is off to you.
Sure, but when there's bugs in the caller of macros I have to figure out what exactly is going on, and that's where the rubber meets the road.
We just ran two events in Seattle.

The "MegaGame Society" is sort of the over-arching organizing group (they licensed Watch the Skies from the UK group, updated it significantly, and are recruiting more groups to run it locally).

They're definitely the folks to follow for information on games outside of the UK.
Chuck Schumer’s No-Fly-Zone Rule for Drones Won’t Work
Curious to hear how NoFlo imparts any amount of credibility to the team.
Dina used to be my go-to font as well but a few years ago I switched to Anonymous Pro [1] as it tends to be more recognizable at the small font sizes which I use.

[1] http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro
IO is the type, not the value. Something that takes IO and returns IO wouldn't be optimized out for the same reason a negation wouldn't be optimized out simply because it takes an Int and returns an Int.
How do we know its a fictionalized movie? Well in the movie all of the prisoners are white.
Telephone dial is anticlockwise, dialed clockwise.
"All [/usr/bin/true] is supposed to do is to return an exit value of 0"

As http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html points out, there are several reasons for the GNU true to do what it does:

1) it's faster to run an executable than to start a script that does an exit 0.

You'll notice that FreeBSD also uses a compiled C program, at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.3.0/usr.bin/true/t... . And it has two embedded SCCS identifiers, even though that isn't required by POSIX.

2) the original AT&T code said that shell was covered under copyright. The BSD code went through the lawsuit which established that there was no copyright infringement, but the C code is obviously not derivative of the original script. (It's unlikely that this is a real issue now.)

3) The GNU coding standard says that all executables should support a --version and --help. See https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLin... .

Of course, once you expose English output to the user you should support internationalization.

Yes, that's mission creep. Then again, complaints about mission creep in GNU code is ancient. Here's a joke about the options in GNU echo, from 1985(!) - https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/echo.msg.html .
Report back when you have first hand experience with that hip. I think you'll be unpleasantly surprised.

There's a lot of chicken counting going on when the future is discussed. We have very effective pain medicines right now that many people can't have because of their potential for abuse.

I wouldn't count on anything until you see actual meds on the market that some group of "We Know What's Best For You" people hasn't declared evil.
Defending something touching the questions whether there is free will or not / whether there is predestination of fate or not is a hard task...

Just to avoid pumping up this thread, please have a look at the references on this wiki page (count: ~230):

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

You can find supporting arguments of any flavor there. Have fun and a nice evening!
I just the default font for sublime text. I've never found a "source code" font worth switching to,
Postgresql replication and load balancing with pgpool-ii
http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576 [non - pdf]

Here we introduce an artificial system based on a Deep Neural Network that creates artistic images of high perceptual quality. The system uses neural representations to separate and recombine content and style of arbitrary images, providing a neural algorithm for the creation of artistic images

Gatys, Echer, & Bethge
A Look at Foreign Data Wrappers
This is how they launched gaming.
Is it possible to create a functional emulator entirely HLE?
A Roadmap for a World Without Drivers
Hack's "i" is not an improvement IMHO, they made it less distinctive from "l".
The final winner three-by-three plus one is the only one suitable for mobile phone. Perhaps because in mobile phone screen is used as reference; in the phone keyboard the receiver used as reference. In the calculator and adding machine are not moved around and the table is used as reference.
Markov Chains with GameplayKit and Swift
We use Hipchat at work and I have it set to only notify me if I'm mentioned (including @all and @here) or if someone directly messages me. My email doesn't notify me when a new message comes in so I check that every so often when I feel I need to rather than when I get interrupted by it.
Currently, the absolute pinnacle of AI technology are programs which, in the highly specific contexts for which they were explicitly programmed, trick 33% of people into thinking they have the language skills of a 13 year old.

No.
I'd consider profont much more beautiful than Dina, personally.
I love Menlo and use it almost exclusively, but the inline asterisk makes people upset for some reason. I personally prefer an inline asterisk.
Zimbardo

* old project : "What makes us evil?"

* new project : "What makes us good?" or Hero ? http://heroicimagination.org/ ( The Bystander Effect ; Mindset; Social Conformity; Adaptive Attributions; Situational Awareness; Prejudice and Group Perception )

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heroic-Imagination-Project/32...

---

video: "HOW CAN AN ORDINARY PERSON LIKE ME BECOME A HERO The Heroic Imagination Project - Philip Zimbardo"
The Heroic Imagination Project, Philip Zimbardo at Brain Bar Budapest 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdAvV3SjNmY
I am also curious how the calculator design came about.
Etcd discovery url is down
Questions: Aren't there already several systems for managing this such as those used by SETI and various cancer research projects? Have you taken into account the energy impact to the world of disabling power saving features on general purpose processors?
It was a kickstarter proj they delivered on. Don't know anything about them, and only little anout this project. However, blindly, I would def. rather back someone who has delivered a project over one who hasn't.
Notch needs to move on to new pastures and wake up his analytical side to reflect on his situatedness. I would suggest higher education and taking an interesting masters or even a Phd which would introduce him to remarkable new challenges. Totally different ways of thinking can be extremely difficult but amazingly refreshing for re-seeing the world. For example reading Heidegger, Deleuze, Foucault, Habermas or Adorno, with a group of others is an amazing experience.

Maybe a programme in politics, theory, philosophy, sociology or an interdisciplinary programme that combines these with understanding digital media would be a way back from ennui. With that kind of money you could study at a great School and be able to buy all the books to do the reading
Getting 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity. Not great when you need a token to spin up the cluster.
It feels, and this might just be my opinion, that Slack inherently has different response speed expectations than email (or other async comm methods) due to it being a chat client.
It is zero cost for linux kernel to just keep an optional feature and quite a problem for openbsd to accept and maintain another arch after that student is done with his project and moved on.
You seem pretty intent on posting strawman arguments and fud in every bitcoin related thread.

You do realize that it is basically impossible for a miner to roll back last month's transactions and that no such thing has happened at all, right?
We're talking about computer names here which is admittedly a very nerdy topic but can we do so without descending to this level? You may find that funny, but it merely contributes to the stereotype of technical folk as basement-dwelling closet cases.

Even if you are so insensitive to not recognize how disrespectful this is, you should at least be able to appreciate that it is a legal risk.

If I were to discover any such juvenile shenanigans in my group it would be grounds for immediate termination.
Migrants prepared “to die on journey of death” to reach EU
Yeah, anyone describing anything that Kevin Warrick is involved in as the pinnacle of anything* obviously wouldn't know a scam if it bit them on the face.

*Other than possibly hype generation
or "The Outer Limits" Counterweight (1964)
I was referring to IO (), which is a type that can have only one value, () — hence my thinking that a compiler should simply optimize the call to (), since there is no other logical value that it can return.
Good conclusion with a terrible reactionary-sounding title.

I'll add that whoever invented pop-up notifications for the desktop should be dragged away screaming and pleading, only to be silenced by a gunshot in the distance.
Systemd Absorbs “su” Command Functionality
Those examples are top level domains.

Usually people post specific articles vs. top level domains. Perhaps you can find specific examples?
> So you choose a template

They explicitly say that it doesn't use templates in the video. If you assume that part's bullshit then everything else is plausible, but if one of the first things they say about the produce is a lie...
> You know how the blockchain works, right?

You apparently don't. Payments do not in themselves offer any risk whatsoever when the payments are made to a brand-new address (which is so obvious and basic a point of secure Bitcoin use I didn't need to mention it); these payments to the blackmailer can then be mixed in numerous ways at varying costs and levels of efficacy - Coinjoin, a large DNM, a web wallet, an exchange (either to just gradually withdraw, or sell outright into another cryptocoin & then sell that cryptocoin at a different exchange, particularly one of the cryptocoins with built-in anonymity features), sent to stealth addresses, etc etc. The pseudonymity of this does not affect the mechanism of turning a lump sum into a stream of payments: the payments can be safely made with reasonable levels of transaction costs, and thus the blackmailed and blackmailers can transact safely and keep the data private or not, with neither side being ripped off for more than one payment.

> The hackers are rationally incentivized to maximize their returns, and that includes selling the data to the highest bidder before the price depreciates. That means that Ashley Madison would need to beat the highest bidder each month, without knowing if the other bidders are even real.

If the hackers are bluffing, then AM can always call their bluff. If AM is not confident they are bluffing, then they will simply pay up to the value of keeping the data secret. Where's the problem here? Again, why does a stream of payments fail where lump sums would succeed?
>>Wireless researchers will almost certainly have the licensing in place to do investigation and modification.

Most/Alot of research, especially security research is one with out the manufacturers permission,I highly doubt they will have licensing in place to do investigation.

>>Device makers choosing not to update their devices should honestly be handled through tort; a few lawsuits against companies making defective routers will get makers to shape up.

You may want to consult a lawyer on that, since most of the manufacturers EULA explicitly indemnify them from this type of liability. If this was possible Microsoft should be bankrupt by now. My 2.5 year old Samsung phone has need seen an update for over a year, many security problems have been found both Samsung and my carrier say "Buy a new phone" yet somehow I think me attempting to sue them for not updating the device will be less than successful. Instead the best option I have is a Custom non-OEM ROM that is still being updated.

>>reasonable efforts have

Most of the people posting in support of this measure, including yourself seem to have a vastly different defination of "reasonable" that people like myself for who are open source / open hardware advocate. I bet you believe secure boot, UEFI and other measures are "reasonable" as well.

>> This is not an evil policy that has nefarious purposes, it's about making sure people don't intentionally use their devices that will cause damage to the neighbors on the bandwidth spectrum

The Road to hell is paved with good intentions, it may not be the FCC's goal to lock in hardware and to prevent users from replacing OEM operating systems, we can call it an "unintended consequence" if you wish. At the end of the day however it is a distinction with out a difference. If this rule is adopted, innovation, consumer freedom, and consumer security will suffer.
Trying "Source Code Pro Light," it reminds me of one of the fonts on Solaris CDE but a bit more sensible.
> So you choose a template

"It's called The Grid. No templates, no coding."
Did you vote me down? I never said anything about people not changing. My post has nothing to do with destiny or the human capacity to change themselves.

In a sense what I'm saying is the more darker conclusion from this experiment is that the "power" given out in the experiment didn't magnify or change anything. The guards in the experiment were already corrupt, the experiment only served to reveal their true nature.

Aspects of Darkness exist within us all. We've all felt the tug of greed, anger, lust, gluttony and hate to certain extent and we've all taken measures to hide this darkness. Power eliminates fear and reveals traits that we would otherwise hide.

I'm not saying everyone is inherently evil, nor am I saying people can't change. My belief is that people can change, some people are more evil than others and that power reveals the true nature of a man.
Perhaps check out PragmataPro. It’s a true work of art.

http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm
Among what community is it underrated? It seems to be very highly valued. Maybe it is still under-valued even given that, but I'd be surprised.
How much do clouds weigh?
Both people who submitted those links are hellbanned. (check their submission history)
> Just about the only thing I agree with is that I wish package checksums would be required by Policy!

Furthermore, < 350 binary packages out of ~50000 lack an md5sums file according to https://lintian.debian.org/tags/no-md5sums-control-file.html.
The app requirement alone kills this demographic. Login nails the coffin.

These kids aren't going to install an application on a friends device and log in with their own credentials when they can search a .com instantly.

The household computer, the one with the bundled multimedia speakers, that's where you'll find them hovering, socially selecting and blasting main stream pop.

Teen parties are being DJed with YouTube! YouuuTube!
Of the languages you already know, Python is definitely the best choice for audio. There is a lot of code to learn from:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/Audio/

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic

I would start there and learn the audio & music concepts. Once you understand that part and know what you want to do, you will also be in a better position to decide on programming language.
For discoverability you should make the rules accessible front and center on the game page.

I just clicked through and spent a few minutes clicking around ... I couldn't find the rules anywhere without clicking through to Wikipedia.
Beautiful code highlighting for x86-64 assembly in Sublime Text
Some die because they get flagged by users. Some die because the submitter is banned. Some die because the domain is banned. There may be other reasons, but I don't know of any others for sure.
Very true. One example I know of is the Casa Diablo thermal power generating station built on the Long Valley caldera on the east side of the Sierra near Mammoth Lakes. Its been there since the mid 80s.