skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... what's the alternative? Depression is another common behavior pattern/mode that "must have evolved for a reason". And sure, there might be a benefit to depression that is yet unnoticed. But since based on the current information it's so bad, treating it anyway makes sense. It's pretty implausible to somehow verify there are no benefits from procrastination, and it clearly causes problems for people (from their own and other's perspectives). That seems like something to attempt to solve. It's not like every single mental/biological feature must be beneficial somehow, that's not actually how evolution works. It might be, we can't "prove" otherwise, but we kind of have to work with what we have until there's a complete map of human neural structures or something.
You Might Not Need an Apple Watch App
Keeping on Top of Your Fantasy Football League Funds
How does it compare in terms of memory and speed, to the GNU implementation of STL?
Paypal sandbox was always really problematic when I used to have to use it. Full of odd cases where you'd suddenly find yourself outside of the sandbox, or undocumented issues such as needing to run your IPN listener on port 80.
CUPS 2.1.0 Released with support of 3D printing
We're actually working on a full example with code and a short video, we'll add this to our website and github repos as soon as it's done
The farmers in this article are using native ants, which they collect from the wild.
Maybe a bit off topic but reading this brought me back to the early nineties when I first got a copy of SimAnt. The instruction manual was filled with information about ants. I remember staying up all night reading about these amazing creatures!
WHSmith 'bug' spreads customer data
Peter Gabriel was the lead singer at the time that album was made. Phil didn't join until much later.
Biggest image in the smallest space
The problem last time around is always put down to bandwidth and the need to download plugins. But actually I thought content was the larger problem. I actually bought and paid for CosmoWorlds and I still rate it up there as 'best software ever'. The problem with it was that nobody was using it, the learning curve wasn't being taken by that many people. I found myself 'the only one' using VRML properly, as in proper lighting, an environment that you could explore rather than 'an odd shape you could inspect'.

I expect that games will be important to 3D #2, but still, it will be the 'unwillingness of people to learn the new tools' and imagination that will dampen whatever we do with it.
I would suggest Sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/
I had the same idea! I've used Emacs org-mode to keep the "stack trace" in a tree. Still, it's hard to keep the discipline to actually use it.
Hey everyone, one of the founders here! We've written a blog post that pretty much sums up our vision on real time infrastructures and our drive for this product. Have a look: http://blog.telepat.io
In spite of its good intentions, a restrictive license such as the GPL is always a weakness and a flaw. I would like to pose the conjecture that any library with a GPL license will eventually be replaced by a library with a more liberal license; the reason is simply because it has one feature extra, which is the more liberal license.
Technically you can just swivel chair and a gamepad. That could be enough for like 80% of use cases.

You can watch tv in a virtual theater from a couch, you can observe 360 videos/panoramas and play most of the games from swivel chair.
Setup.py vs. requirements.txt
About that Amazon story, or, on burnout in tech
Also they recently removed the ability to save images directly from Google Image Search in Chrome on Android. In what world does removing functionality make life better for anyone?
Cool! Permalink for future readers: http://blog.telepat.io/2015/08/17/hello-world/

:)
So the body of the email is formatted like a CV? If so, sounds like a good idea.
Unleash your hidden mental abilities
A 286 machine was mentioned in a recent article here, will you be able to find a running Skylake machine in 2045?

I've been thinking about this lately, and between the jihad against lead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_pest) and these machines storing the BIOS etc. in flash memory, I'm beginning to doubt it.
Those organisations are sclerotic because they ultimately answer to politicians, not to academics; they are political constructs first and foremost, serving specific national interests, with heads nominated by political leaders and (surprise) often lawyers themselves (e.g. Lagarde). In fact, during recent events in Greece it became clear how their own researchers disagreed with the policies being pushed from the top. It's like developers were forced to write websites in PASCAL because their employers told them to.

The Excel error is also exemplary of what I referred to as "pop economics": a single argument was "divulged to death" and transformed into mainstream orthodoxy even though it was still being confuted in academic circles.
> I just don't see what people think others would understand by teleologic statements like: "write Go the way it wants to be written"

To me it means "Read what the creators thought about when creating Go and how they view it, and do the same". But really that applies to any craft that exists: instead of trying to apply and adapt what you already know, clean your mind and start from scratch.
To me this article seems overly negative and pessimistic.

You could criticize computers in the 90's the same way. Yes, VR "isn't there yet", but it doesn't mean that it's not fucking amazing.

In my opinion it is an opportunity comparable to the beginning of internet. You can't just criticize resolution and other technical difficulties that will obviously be fixed in the next 2-5 years, and ignore the magnitude of what VR has to offer.
Edward O Wilson also suggested farming reptiles for meat in his famous book "Biodiversity"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson
So you want to build a tool/data-structure to track your yak-shavings [0] ?

[0] : http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YakShavingDefinedIllGetThatDon...
By opening the web browser and surfing to youtube.com :D
There's some data to speculate that chronic non-burning levels of sun exposure is protective against melanoma while acute burning exposure is inductive. Until the data becomes more clear get some sun exposure but do not burn.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2082713/
I think the idea is that it does not promise that the email will necessarily be deleted, but that it can be securely deleted (by forgetting the key for it) such that it can not be recovered later by compromising the users computer. So if I understand this correctly, it is synonymous with forward secrecy.
What is the purpose of this?
It's not exactly difficult to transfer money using your banks website or "paym" to mobile?

This seems to be a solution in search of an actual problem
Output from WDPT released to public domain
Actually, it decompresses to a 5.8MB PNG. However, many graphics programs may choose to use three bytes per pixel when rendering the image and because it has incredibly large dimensions, this representation would take up 141GB of RAM.
Crocodile tears are being shed.

Britain has been enriching itself using outright aggression prior to WW2, and since then using its influence in the global monetary system.

Mexico, Bangladesh and india has been for years trying to pursuade the british govt to help them get all the black money locked up in the UK back to them. And I am not sure what is going on with all the Russian black money. The Saudis too use London to hide their petroldollars and so do countless african dictators and terrorist organiznations.

It will be sweet to watch when the chickens come home to roost.
This vision doesn't seem to hold any improvements for me over a VNC session and a webcam.
IPN brings back some painful memories - IPNs from settlements, IPN timings...
Kind of like here in the Post PC world where we are all coding on tablets while sitting on the beach.

Sorry, but no. I just don't see this happening. People don't want things on their face for that long. Even eyeglasses bug me and I've been wearing them most my life.
BI Professionals Spend 50-90% of Their Time ‘Cleaning’ Raw Data for Analytics
You don't seem to know what Keynesian economics is. Please google it. Other key phrases include "sticky wages".

If you think I'm wrong, please show how to use a Keynesian theory to predict "real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped". Good luck.
Hardware review sites are very good at distracting us and making us think that absolute performance is all that matters (hence your comment about "blowing competition away"). And, yes, Intel has the fastest processors. But what matters to most people is performance per dollar. And in fact AMD often beats Intel at this game, especially in the consumer market (sub-$300 range).

Example: I recently built a Linux video transcoding machine to reencode H.264 BluRay movies to smaller H.264 files [1]. A $110
AMD FX-8300 is able to reencode an average BluRay movie around 47-50 fps, while you would need to spend more than twice that amount of money to match this performance with Intel (the performance of the FX-8300 at this tasks falls between a $200 Intel i5-4590 and a $250 Xeon E3-1231 v3).

[1] Using: avconv -i input.mkv -threads auto -s hd720 -c:v libx264 -c:a libmp3lame -sn -b:v 1400k -b:a 128k -ac 2 output.mkv
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10155251
Distributed Messaging: What You Want Is What You Don’t:
Well in this case are you really procrastinating? Clearly your brain is making relatively solid decisions, considering how your career is moving (upward).

In this situation I'd like to recall Bertrand Russel's great dictum: "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time". :) Totally changed how I think about my "procrastinating" time when I read that.
You're saying the underlying platform somehow has some bearing on the quality of the users and the content? Don't get me wrong, I agree phpBB is outdated but well-established, long-running forums are a goldmine of information.
I had a think about the people from Philosophy I kept track of and I can honestly say they are now predominantly upper-middle, unless they stuck to academia, which about 30% or so did, and obviously, are poor (as far as I know), and somewhere on the road to a PhD.

There's a schism in philosophy between analytic - the more "logical" side, with rigorous proofs and arguments - and continental - the more "what is art/ethics/love" side. I was firmly interested in the continental side. Of those that left philosophy, I found that continental people would often end up in some kind of community-oriented area, like education or sociology or social work or the like, whereas on the analytic side, people tended to end up doing physics/maths/comp sci type stuff.

Obviously that's not a rule. When I left university, I worked in an industrial site, and a magazine, and at a Salesforce implementation company, and then at the industrial site again, teaching myself more and more programming at each. I got promoted to the IT department of the industrial site, and continued to learn, and then got a job doing ETL/Database/Automation stuff at a big telecom in the marketing department. I've been lucky, and I've known the right people, but I honestly would still be happy if I was working at that industrial site. There was a Theology graduate who also worked there, driving a forklift.

If people ask me, do I recommend getting a philosophy degree, I say I don't. That's like asking if I'd recommend that people get a tattoo. I'm very happy with mine, but its a decision that needs to be made by an individual. Like a tattoo, it reduces your job prospects, and there are no take-backsies.

Now comes my smug paragraph. Everyone in philosophy, and who even starts philosophy, hears the same jokes. Pretty much nobody is saying its a good idea to do a philosophy degree. To do philosophy, people have to overcome the societal expectation that they will die in a ditch, poor and unable to do anything "useful". To do philosophy, you really need to love that shit. I've honestly never heard someone speak with regret about completing a philosophy degree, whereas of the biologists, engineers and economists I know, some wish they'd done something different. If you read philosophy, and you love it, do what you love. Don't do something just because you think it'll make your life safer.

I'd rather live a happy "burger flipper" than discover I don't love what I do in 20 years.
Thanks Ash for posting! For some more insight: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/06/30/shido-bot-for-slack...
It would seem then, that as humans, we are forcing ourselves to be less contextual on our talk and more uniform. This is precisely how cell phone talk becomes more understandable, is by meaning the same things when you talk much more consistently.
Code-Switching/Mixing - Sociolinguistics
Also: www.producthunt.com/tech/shido
and: http://www.producthunt.com/tech/speedlancer
Repetitive Strain Injury (overusing the hands to perform a repetitive task)
discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9644931

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677900
> To me this article seems overly negative and pessimistic.

All I am doing is providing an opposing thoughts about VR, because much of the media about VR is overly hyped. Jeff's outlook on the technology is 100% true for him and people who agree with him.

Much of the hype around VR is overly positive and unrealistic.

> Yes, VR "isn't there yet", but it doesn't mean that it's not fucking amazing.

Yes, but that doesn't mean that it's immune to ending in a complete flop. See: "hype."

> You can't just criticize resolution and other technical difficulties

If nobody criticizes the shortcomings of the technology then those shortcomings suffer from lower prioritization. Positive perspectives on technology (fandom, hype) are nearly worthless and merely drive the hype machine. Negative perspectives drive the technology to a more viable place.

Jeff's musings are important milestones that virtually everyone would agree with as critical goals (that currently limit the viability of the technology), if only many weren't completely blinded by hype and zealous fandom.

Information such as Jeff's is important for people who want to make informed decisions about forking out $400 for the tech right now.

That is why I specifically said:

Counterargument
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Can anyone explain the part about "ignorance"?

> McLuhan cites the parable as a productive use of ignorance and indolence, ....

I can understand indolence. This is a pejorative term, but it basically means the desire to avoid doing work. Certainly productive use was made of this.

But ignorance is lack of knowledge. I do not see how the boy made productive use of any lack of knowledge. Rather, he made productive use of his knowledge of what needed to be done, and that it was always the same thing.
Good question, we get this asked a lot (usually in relation with companies such as PubNub or Pusher.io). It's different in a number of ways:
- it's compatible with any number of protocols (we call them transports). Currently, we support websockets, APNS and GCM. MQTT could easily be added as a transport protocol for subscribing to channels
- it also handles data aggregation (for example if you have a large number of updates on an object in a short amount of time, the system will aggregate them and send only the relevant updates to the subscriber)
- it's more open (in my opinion) as it's designed to enable developers to swap out one component for another (and writing a thin adapter for it if it's not already available). This should also mean that the whole system can be better optimized depending on the workload type and use-case.
CATE shudders
umm... but eclipse already do this...
Looks handy for large image processing tests, thanks.
How tech is changing our relationships
The feature phone era of TVs ends next week
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For those looking to research this further, there was also an excellent piece on the Private Eye podcast which explores this in more detail:

https://soundcloud.com/privateeyenews/page-94-episode-8
> not sure what you mean by "desktops"

I would assume he means "non-mobile". I.e. things not ARM.
You can DOS a site that doesn't have password length enforcement. 20 characters really is too low though, because it rules out a lot of pass phrases. I believe Django allows up to 4mb for the password, which is more than enough for any sane password.
Do you happen to have a source for any of your figures regarding these markets? I have a hard time understanding how a small scheme like this will result in hundreds of millions in annual profit.

At the end of the day, each monthly player results in one monthly fee, whether they are paying for themselves, or buying a token which another player's paid for. Hundreds of millions in increased profits would require tens of millions of active accounts. I am I think at last count Wow had about 6 million active monthly accounts.
There are 5+ million RPi's out there and I bet there's significant overlap in the types of propellerheads (read: early adopters) that have gotten one for other reasons or just for kicks, and who might be interested in this.

Running this 24/7 on your power guzzling worm infested Windows box is not really the best match.
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Why I will never again rate an Android app
A few days ago a colleague came into my office with his brand new table and told my that he installed the same Android app as me. WUT? How does he know what app I installed on my personnal smartphone ?

He showed me that, in his tablet google play, my icon and name was displayed under the app description. When I clicked on my icon, I could see other apps that I installed. WTF?

He then explains me that he added me in one of his Google+ circles. I then checked all my confidentiality otions and my G+ account. Everything is set to undisclose any information. I created the G+ account to lock my nae as I did with other social service. I'm not into exhibitionism. I don't publish any information on these services. I don't have my colleague in my cirles. G+ allows to see who added me in his circles. I saw that my Boss added me in his G+ account. There is another colleague and a totally unknown woman in a city 800 km away !?

I recently installed Waze on my Android smartphone. Every time it started it would display a dialog inviting me to rate the app. To get rid of the dialog and because I find it a good app, I rated it five star.

Today, I checked again on my colleague's tablet if anything changed after I reviewed my confidentiality options. The Waze app was added to the list. So rating an app is enough for your G+ followers to see it.

On this day I decide to never rate an Android app anymore. I don't find it right that my colleague and my Boss are notified on my apps rating on my personnal phone. This is a tool for spying.

I'm sorry for Android app developpers and user who would find the feedbak usefull. But things are getting Orwellian at Google. This is the type of problems you get with a monopole.
Some questions:
- What are the benefits of this tool in comparision with Code Sniffer + pre-commit hook?
- Is it possible to convert custom code sniffer standard to .styleci.yml to be able to use both?
- The documentation looks a bit poor https://styleci.readme.io/docs. It would be nice to have more examples of failed tests, auto fixes, etc.
- Is there're any other features apart from coding standards review and auto-fix?
- Does it make a separate commit to repository, when it fixes the code? If yes, how to keep the history of commits clean?

General impression about it is like a silver bullet for the companies which are ready to pay for fixing coding standards instead of teachning developers how to do it.
Not directly related, but there's one tweet I like:

"No no no no. The voice of newbies is one of your biggest assets. Why don't they understand? What is the confusion?" John Resig

https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/584030561313943552
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I like tools like this, but why not just write good code in the first place and make people fix code they write poorly?
possibly they're using C with classes because they're sick of C++?
Scotland only got rid of the last vestige of feudalism in 2000:

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

There are reforms to this whole area in the works though:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-3322...

NB The whole issue of land ownership is rather contentious for historical reasons....
Could be Lua, too.
Sorry for the typos. I can only edit the title, not the text. I wrote this with my iPad 1.
I was hoping this article would have more substantive advice for new Go developers. It seemed to mostly have very general advice that applies to most other languages like: "Don't try and write language X in language Y. Keep complexity down by not over using complex language features."

I'm writing my current hobby project, a podcast fetcher, as my first project in Go.

The project has been going generally well but there have been a few annoyances so far:

* Why are you not able to easily version git dependencies? Go's solution to this problem is to tell you to create an entirely new git repository for each major version. Really? If they didn't want to go full blown dependency versioning with something like CocoaPods, they could at least let you specify a git branch or tag.

* The db.Sql abstraction does not support multiple result sets. Therefore database drivers, like the popular mysql driver, don't support multiple result sets. This really limits the kinds of stored procedures you can call.

* The debugger support is bad. I have to fall back to using print statements for most of my debugging.
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Collins was already in the band (IIRC he may even have been a founding member). The difference is he wasn't yet the frontman – he was the drummer. Pre-Collins-fronted Genesis is way better though, IMO (I do like me some progressive rock, though).
Cringle transactions are only free since very recently. Prior to that they wanted something between 10 to 20 cent per transaction. Even worse they seem to need six days for your transaction. (It's three days per transaction and they transfer it to their own account in-between)
That's cool. Presumably the same "attack" could be applied to any file format that uses DEFLATE.

From a legal stand-point, I'd be wary about following through with the authors suggestion of "Upload as your profile picture to some online service, try to crash their image processing scripts" without permission. Sounds like a good way of getting into trouble.
Cohesion and Coupling: difference
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