skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'd prefer being harder to track over having Time Machine, push notifications, and several sync services work, then you can disable most of them; if you'd prefer services to work and usability of your applications, none of them.

If you're not sure of the nuances (or the pros/cons of using a "secure" Mac OSX install vs a secure Linux distro), you should research each of the services you're disabling to at least appreciate the attack surface each surface adds to your machine.
One thing I like to do is "ratchet down" by saying, "OK, what's the most amount of time I can handle on the task I'm putting off." Sometimes it's as little as 5 minutes. So I set a timer for 5 minutes, do that much work, and then take a break to do something fun. By stacking enough tiny slices together, eventually I get back in the groove, and in the mean time it's amazing how much you can get done even in 5-minute increments.

Speaking of which, I have some writing to do… See you in 5.
Show HN: SVHumor – TheOnion Meets Silicon Valley
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But the person entering form data - how do they know the JavaScript is OK? All users must trust the server to send js that'll encrypt correctly. This isn't visible to users. If you server is compromised, there is no way for users to tell, right? What actual reduction in trust is there for users with this system, versus one where the encryption happens on the server?

The only benefit I see is possibly some sort of legal thing or against an attacker that only has read access to server memory. What am I missing?
Article is behind pay wall. Any alternative links?
C, C++, bash, javascript...
Making Beliefs Pay Rent in Anticipated Experiences
I do love war stories, but I think the OP has missed something:

After the meeting one of the managers told me that it was really our job to come up with projects that the customer wanted to buy, not the other way around. And it usually couldn't just be a general project for minor improvements, it'd need clear and ideally measurable goals

I think the OP has misunderstood the nature of consulting. This is exactly what needs to be done to convince X to spend some of their cash on having Y do work for them. You need to make a business case, with concrete duration, cost, goals, and benefits. That this system is a mess is really not in dispute by anyone... but no one will pay to improve it "just because".
So you couldn't play a game like Hold 'em that requires a small and big blind? Or anything requiring pre-deal antes?
Wow, Gruber's not a fan [1]. Can't say I'm surprised, but this seems harsh even coming from him.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/01/google-logo
Meditation will follow the same principles regardless of the specific techniques or tradition. The reason is that there isn't much to it. When you come down to it, there isn't much difference among Zen (Chan), Vipassana, Insight, Taoist shengong meditations, etc. This is because they all touch on the same ground of being (emptiness). (And yes, you'll find this in Western traditions and indigenous tribal traditions).

The exercises that will have the most variants are concentration exercises, usually some sort of one-point concentration on a sensory object -- sight, sound, touch, kinesthetics, taste, smell, etc., tangible or untangible in varying forms of abstractions. Journeying methods (where you visualize a space, or say, in Gestalt therapy where you allow fragments of your persona to embody) are variations on concentration techniques. Despite the emotional connotation of the word 'concentration' (which usually mean, some sort of pressure, stress, or force), skill in concentration has more to do with relaxing than stressing.

Kundalini yoga is interesting because you'd have to distinguish between Kundalini Yoga (tm) (the specific lineage of Kundalini yoga promoted by a genius in marketing) and kundalini yoga (the class of practices or yoga designed to awaken shakti and kickstart the Kundalini process). I don't know the details of your practice, but I wouldn't doubt that you would find them helpful. If you are arousing energy, then you will start surfacing up buried emotions, memories, habits, etc. and a complete system will also include methods on dealing with it. If nothing else, there is simply "sitting through it", and that is where it intersects the mindfulness practices like vipassana or insight.

Does this help?
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This Week in Meteor #29
The problem in the Microsoft case was use of near-monopoly in one market (operating systems) to gain unfair advantage in another market (browsers), though even that seems a bit outdated already since the idea of shipping an OS without a browser built-in seems ludicrous today.

In any case, that concept of using monopoly power in one market to bolster power in another doesn't really apply here with Google.

I share a lot of the unease many people have with the amount of power Google has been able to amass as the de factor curator of the Internet, but I'm also somewhat amazed they are in the position they are in and have been as (mostly) benevolent as they have been. I suspect it is actually pretty hard work just to remain somewhat close to neutral when you are sitting on that much power.
it's not isolationism, it's providing a welcoming space for people who have historically lacked one, and ensuring that they are in the majority there. that is absolutely one way to change society for the better.

can you think of a way to have a free-for-all hackerspace where women are in the majority? because the dynamics are very different if you are not.
Game development tools to get you started – Part 2
Biilmann here, I'm definitively not at Facebook no :)

I've run Haskell services in production for more than 4 years and still operate 4 of them to this date. I also contributed the wai-eventsource module to the Yesod project and build a Haskell powered eventsource addon for Heroku.

It's not my impression that there are tons of other people in the bay area with as much experience in actually using Haskell for real world production stuff. Most of them are probably at Facebook now and the journalist behind the article did interview them...

That said, it's absolutely true that for Netlify I now use Go for the tasks I would have used Haskell for earlier.

Haskell is an awesome, mindblowing language, and when I started using it for production tasks it was by far the best tool for the job at the time. By now, however, Go is a far more pragmatic choice for most of the tasks I used Haskell for before.

Unless your whole stack is Haskell based, the context switching involved in going back and forth between more traditional languages and Haskell are really brutal. Apart from that, it's very easy to bring someone new onto a team and teach them enough Go to be productive in a day or two. You just can't do that with Haskell.

That said, it looks like a really, really good fit for what they're doing at Facebook with regards to spam filtering. I can totally see how you can make a safe DSL for rules that will be statically type checked and handle concurrency without any need for developers to think about it, and the Haskell runtime is incredible for these kind of things.
Popcorn Time lawsuits continue as 16 are sued for watching Survivor
I bet it's only "well understood" by a very small group of people in 2015.

On the other hand, at least it's _possible_ to make your own at home: http://makezine.com/2008/01/07/make-your-own-vacuum-tube/

I somehow doubt there's many talented amateurs assembling MOSFETs in their garages...
Why Startups Should Leverage Compliance
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Interest in humanities is going down among high school students because their parents and high school teachers rightfully advise them against it. Then they get to college realize their freedom get drunk and realize that hard majors are hard. Their interest in the humanities then goes up. This is not a paradox.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-read-the-wsj-for-free-...
Exploiting Ripple Transaction Ordering for Fun and Profit
The book "Expert C Programming" also says stick with signed, use unsigned for bitfields or binary masks. This post says unsigned for bitwise or modulo, so basically unsigned when expecting the value to be bits in a machine instead of a number.
Maybe they're backing the spinner with latency data collection across all their apps...
That's funny since signed over/underflow isn't defined, while unsigned is.
The even bigger problem with Argentine ants is that many species of them are leaf-cutters. Leaf-cutters will defoliate your plants, not protect them! Especially your roses.
That's dramatic. I'm not sure if restic has compression yet. If not, that could explain it.
I don't mean to sound flippant, but it seems like AD/HD to me. No real concern for due dates far off in the future: "Look, it's either due now or not now."

Describes me perfectly. :)
Convolutional neural networks applied to the kinetic energy functional problem
Wow. Their end-goal upgrade, the one that they've installed on one line, and are installing on everything else looks so antiquated.

My city's subway/elevated train system will be 30 years old this December. Train control is fully automated; there are no drivers on trains, and in normal operation there is no remote (human) operator either. It's been automated for 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)

(Side note: during the BART strike, some HN commenters suggested computers to replace drivers, and other commenters said that wouldn't be safe. Such hilarious technophobia on HN.)

I don't want to trivialize NYC's challenges and accomplishments: for one thing their system is far, far more complicated (468 stations on 34 lines, vs 47 stations on 3 lines), and for another we all know it's very hard to upgrade legacy systems.

But I'm astonished that they would work so hard to modernize their 1930s technology to 1970s standards in the 2010s.
Tried - m.griffin@ibm.us.com but SMTP failed to send.
Content publishers have created a really bad situation for themselves on the web from these types of ads, slow Javascripts, and other "ad tech" excesses.

Apple is responding with ad blocking technology and a news app. Facebook has responded with articles that load quickly from their apps. These solutions represent an existential threat to the open web, and therefore Google.

I really hope Google doesn't just stop at app ads, and starts punishing websites that do objectively horrible things to end-user experience.
Honest question: Would it be possible to create a "friendly" version of signed that is actually unsigned underneath? After all, it's just bit patterns.
Dopus5.91 released
this is probably one reason why gumroad switched to hosting files themselves.
Impact of US Interest Rate Hike on Bitcoin [pdf]
Somewhat related, but I'm annoyed at the Android overall. It seems I can choose a default "protocol handler" for _every_ app that wants to open a specific type of file. For example, in every new app that opens an HTTP application, Android asks me which app I want to use, Firefox, or Chrome?, It then reminds me that I can change the defaults in "some > place".
https://www.google.com.au/logos/doodles/2015/googles-new-log...
Just tried that and it didn't work.
Actually, false. The NLRB could not decide not to allow self driving cars. What could happen is local or state governments could acquire self driving cars and then provide rides to citizens (as they do with other mass transit systems), and legislate private self driving car companies out of existence (as the roads are government-owned).
One of the most annoying problems in C and C++ (and Objective-C/C++). Most of the time we deal with quantities, sizes, distances, coordinates, identifiers. Except for the latter, all others can end up in the negative space even when we think they shouldn't. Having said that, identifiers and enumerated codes should also live in the signed realm as they can get converted to other types, again, in ways we can't always predict (and result in bugs).
To me, Facebook's logo is far better than Google. Facebook is much less childish.
> Humans naturally seek reasons why they are right, but to understand the universe, you must seek reasons why you are wrong.

Fantastic! Is that original?
The RubySpec project has since been discontinued for many reasons: https://gist.github.com/nateberkopec/11dbcf0ee7f2c08450ea
Show HN: Who's Hiring? An app for easily searching the monthly thread
Wow, I have said almost exactly this before. "There are only two deadlines: today and not today."
Inspired by http://hnhiring.me, I decided to take a day and create a project using HN's Firebase API. I also used it as an exercise in applying Google's Material design UX.

The app can query all available data dating back to 2011, and is live updated while a thread is going.

In the search input, you can type in a regular expression to narrow your results. e.g.: javascript|ruby

Or, getting more advanced:

(?=.*javascript)(?=.*remote|portland)

Source code can be found here: https://github.com/Lokeh/whoishiring

Currently I'm trying to decide on a good solution for showing the search input on phones and smaller screens.

Let me know what you think!
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Pretty sure a lot of the attraction of Phish is when using psychedelics. So if you just tried to play some of their songs normally then it might not have the same impact.
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> I've heard this from Uber and some anecdotes (part of Uber marketing, I suspect);

O_o Well this a first. No I simply like Uber as a service and model.

> is there data?

No. So you're right. I probably can't claim "most drivers". But it being the biggest ride sharing service by far, it's difficult to argue that it isn't a strong choice.
Ask HN: How Good Is Web-Based VR with Oculus Rift?
I have seen that Mozilla is playing with VR, and I think Chrome. I am curious how good the experience is versus "native" (i.e., not a VR-enabled web page). Basically the same?
Excellent. While we're on the topic, does anyone happen to know the status of LLD?
There are many, but my vote goes for flat 3d [0]. It is a natural progression from purely flat. It adds more context, and gives the designer more room (an extra dimension!) to be innovative without being intrusive.

Flat animated is sort of where it is at now. Google's material would fall under flat animated as well as much of iOS 8/9, but drop shadows and gradients are better replaced with subtle tones and accenting along the lines of posterized Anime art [1].

As a designer if you can make Google and Apple's latest efforts look dated, you've done an excellent job. Flat 3d sort of does that.

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[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=flat+3d+ui&es_sm=93&source=l...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=posterized+art&es_sm=93&sour...
You are correct, in all regards. (I also pay automatically, making such methods of informing the user rather ineffectual.) I am not clear that they are required to inform you. The current terms state,

> Your Service is subject to our business policies, practices, and procedures, which we can change without notice.

but go on,

> WE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH AT LEAST 30 DAYS' NOTICE OF ANY CHANGE WARRANTING CANCELLATION OF THE AFFECTED LINE OF SERVICE AND YOU MUST NOTIFY US OF YOUR INTENT TO CANCEL SERVICE WITHIN 14 DAYS AFTER YOU RECEIVE THE NOTICE, OR AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THE NOTICE.

It is not clear to me how the statements "We can change without notice" and "We will provide you with […] notice" are not contradictory.

> This is all spelled out quite clearly on their website when choosing a plan

I only see that screen if I explicitly click on "Comparison chart"; if I simply select the plan, I never see that; nonetheless, I concede that it is there, if hidden.

Since finding a hardcopy of my agreed terms is utterly hopeless, I looked it up via the Wayback Machine: At the time that I signed up with the plan[1], it was "Unlimited" with no qualifications, and none appeared even in the fine print, AFAICT (correct me again, if I'm wrong). I'll concede that the terms allow changes at any time, and while it may be within their right to do so, I still find it morally objectionable; AFAICT, such terms exist in nearly every contract a person agrees to these days, from renting to cell phones to ISPs; what choice have I?

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20111231100541/http://prepaid-ph...
I love some of Le Guin's works, although I found that some are much better than others. I would definitely recommend reading The Left Hand Of Darkness, I think it stands out among her best.

The follow-up, The Dispossessed, I thought was much weaker and less interesting and in fact I couldn't even finish it, which was odd given how much I loved Darkness. But in general she's a more intelligent, perceptive, engaging and literary writer than many of her (usually male) science fiction counterparts, whose work is often barely readable (flimsy characters, lousy dialogue) or is reminiscent of what you'd expect if you asked a teenage boy to write the plot to a science fiction action movie (e.g. much of Neal Stephenson's work).

I read The Telling quite recently and enjoyed it as well. The Earthsea fantasy series is also excellent.
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I'm not a huge fan of _why (apropos of the article, I have read some of his work), but I think this quote deserves to be posted in its entirety:

“when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
I sure hope so. Google has been a pretty bad offender across the board as far as pushing users to install their mobile apps: https://twitter.com/mdudas/status/638792939842469893/photo/1

Even more extreme is that every single time I click a link in a hangouts chat on iOS, it asks me if I want to download Chrome.
And that's exactly the point of the migrations.json manifest; you'll get a merge conflict whenever this happens, and all you need to do is resolve the order of named migrations in a JSON array. It works really well!
In some ways it's good, but in other ways it's worse. One noteworthy change in the last few years compared to say 10 to 20 years ago, most startups are either self-funded or funded through incubators of the already rich, unlike pre-2005 or so when regular investors had a chance getting in relatively close to the ground floor (let's ignore that most everyone lost their shirt!)

I think the negative of this is that most of the wealth created in the technology is going to remain in the pockets of those who are already rich and well connected.

I'm increasingly feeling like as our society becomes more technically advanced, it's almost inevitable that the vast majority of wealth is going to flow up to the top 10%.
AI to keep Humans in Zoos
Your installs are improving their App Store ranking anyway though!
I love that poem. :)
Note that this blog post is from 2014.
I just checked out discourse and honestly as a user I would rather use phpbb than that. Im sure discourse is a much better piece of software but I can not stand the format.
Is that Olivetti X/OS or their SVR4 port. X/OS is really legacy.