skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit different than this scheme, but I actually read a short story in Dragon magazine about 35 years ago (very likely 1980 or 1981) about an MMO where most people paid a subscription fee to play, but you could exchange in game currency for play time (and could even cash out into real currency -- leading to pro players who would compete for collecting the most in game gold). It is an interesting twist to have the players front the real world cash.

As an aside, I always dreamed of playing the game I read about. One of the cool things about the game was that your character continued in the game as an NPC when you were offline. I always thought this would be very interesting way to have player generated content, where they would have to build defences to protect their player/gold while offline. Other players could launch raids to try to steal it. No one has ever built a similar kind of PK system that doesn't piss everyone off, but for me it's a kind of holy grail of MMO functionality. I hope I see it before I die :-)
I am guessing you are outside the U.S. because here it's actually a still a real nuisance to transfer money between banks.

There are plenty of attempts to solve this problem though. Square Cash, Venmo, etc.
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PNGs also have optional compressed text metadata chunks, and it's possible to sneak a decompression bomb into one of those as well. You can get about a factor of 1000 in the compression -- 1MB of 'a' winds up being about 1040 bytes. You can have multiple itxt chunks, and it appears that the chunk size is only limited to 2^31-1.

See https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/master/Tests/ch... for a quick way to generate some of these.
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Really depends on your domain, but reading up on "bounded contexts" and "domain-driven design" will help you in determining which microservices might be named and designed in your area. For example in online retail, seperate microservices for Customers, Products (catalog), Product reviews and Orders might be a feasible distribution of responsibility, functionality and data.

Note that there's always a catch in going from a monolithic application to one with a more distributed nature. Distribution of data requires data synchronization and results in integration challenges, because of the unreliability and higher latency of networks.

Lastly, Martin Fowler c.s. wrote some nice articles on microservices: http://martinfowler.com/tags/microservices.html. That will help as well.
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I was a big procrastinator in the past. But I was lucky in that one of the things I procrastinated with was learning psychology !.

As I learned more and more psychology it became obvious how to win over it. I created a mastermind with other entrepreneurs and it helped enormously First, everybody has this "problem". Second, you help other people and you help yourself.

Now I can make amazing things in very small amounts of time, and spend a lot of time reading-writting things that interest me, or stay with my family.

Basically what happens is that the human beings are flexible enough to do things no animal could do. But it comes at a price, no natural things require immense amounts of effort to do, even if trivial.

For example, most men could spend all day long hunting or fishing without problem, even if it is hard, rich people do that when they are free to do whatever they can. But plowing the earth or writing a book or programming are totally different.

When you do non natural things, odds are your body responds badly. For example, programming all day means you don't exercise your inertial system. If you sit all day, your lymphatic system suffers a lot. There are hundreds of things like this. You don't see any of this, you only know that you try to work and your body says NO!! You try to force it, but the situation worsens and your body will tell you NO WAY even stronger.

My cofounder died in his twenties by cancer trying to work harder. He forced himself so much into work that he got weaker and weaker before getting cancer. No sleep, no exercise, bad food. We know today that eating well, exercise and sleep is essential for your immune system.

Anyone that offers you an easy solution, he is BS. It requires effort and time to learn how to control yourself, but it is probably the best investment you could do in your entire life.

Probably the best practical book on the issue is "the Now Habit". I prefer the audiobook. Wake up Productive from Eben Pagan is great too.
> The researchers, who have continued following up with the participants, will look at one-year outcomes later this year to see if the results were maintained.

This is quite important. Let us know how they've done in a year. I have been through times of extreme productivity and, well, the opposite in much shorter time spans. The difference being partially down to self-confidence, being aware of the reality of the results of the work and a mastery of stress levels. 'The opposite' happens when stress and the resultant bad decision making creeps in. To me it's the external factors in one's life that mean that any single person can be both a procrastinator and an extremely productive '100x' person in the same year, month, week. When stressed or 'temporally myopic' (as per the article) no amount of tools, widgets, hosts files or GTD schemes will work. They are all too easy to disable, workaround and ignore. The solution can not be quick-fixed, imho.

I've tried a lot of things myself over the decade-plus of working from home, currently even having my machine announce new Pomodoro sprints every 25 minutes (+5 minutes for break) to try to enforce a working atmosphere. It has an effect in that it at least generates the atmosphere, but it can have the opposite effect if external factors have already primed me for procrastination. Those factors can be tiredness, everyday life issues, being overworked, underworked, distracted etc. Any of which cause me to frequently ignore the espeak announcements. The cronjob that launches Anki every day gets equally ignored during these periods and they tend to start to bake in a habit of ignoring the automated reminders and thus the good habits for longer than I might have done without them.

All of which leads me to believe that self-motivation and constant reflective thought of one's current and future situation (all with a confident and optimistic outlook) are the only ways to maintain a level of productivity approaching constant. Understanding that there isn't a quick-fix, that effort must be exerted, anxieties must be overcome. Learning to cope with life's external factors so that they don't push your work off course. Those kinds of things seem like the real solutions to procrastination. And they are great personal challenges for many, myself included.

The irony of the length of my post on this subject is not lost on me, but then I have had a productive morning and this is my lunch break (sweet, sweet excuses...).
Yet, the "spherical cow in a vacuum" expression came from a hard science. Einstein didn't exactly develop his relativity theories by making measurements and drawing statistical conclusions either.

Pure theory has its place in science, as long as one is honest about its limitations.
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Don't bother applying here. Their email address redirects to /dev/null.
MkLinux, however, is.
I remember when PayPal was x.com. You'd tell people you could send them money via text message and they'd say, "What's a text message?"
They should focus on getting some working dashboard and integration for SaaS.
That's neat, but I still think the self-reproducing r.zip from "zip files all the way down" is the best compression trick I've seen:

http://research.swtch.com/zip
Concepts found in mindfulness and CBT can help with this.

The idea is that thoughts influence emotion and physical responses, which then influences behaviour, consequentially influencing outcomes.

With procrastination, you will think of a task that you are avoiding. This may create anxiety and a tightening in your stomach. This will then prevent you from taking action. The outcome of that is rationalisation thoughts such as "I've got loads of time on this" or "I'll just do it later", which then eases the emotional and physical responses, leading to you postponing the task and doing something else. This cycle will continue.

By being mindful of these thoughts and recording them, you can then begin to look at rational responses. So, for example, you might say "I'm not good enough" and then craft a written, rational response to it. You continue this until you have an uncertainty, where you can't be sure if it's a rational response. You then create a practical plan of behavioural experiment to test it. This may include doing a small part of the task and seeking feedback to see if you're on the right lines, as an example to not being sure if you have what it takes for the task.

Identifying these cycles and consciously taking steps to elimate them can probably do more than focus on any particular part of the cycle alone.
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-To-Peer Network
Imminent Threat as a Service?
No! I still want to try out a Core M with a beefy cooling solution. You could propably beat mobile i3/i5's with it while having a very low idle power consumption...
I learned it back in the 1980s from "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" by Niklaus Wirth.

There's a more recent edition available: "Algorithms and Data Structures".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921125
This is exactly what I mean. Burning is not good, never. It damages the skin and that can cause cancer. Getting 1 MED of sun / UVB a week is however OK it seems.

What 1 MED is for you depends on where you live, what time of the year it is, and what skintype you have. If you take a sunbath of one hour in New York in July, and the next day your skin if mildly rose but not burnt, than 1 MED = 1 hour of sun for you, under those circumstances. Then you can divide that into two or three parts spread out over the week. So for 1 hour, you can sit in the sun for 20 minutes three times a week. That will give you enough vitamin D without causing nonmelanoma skin cancer.

In Mexico the sun is brighter, so that would shorten your 1 MED period. In november in NY the sun is less bright, so that would make it longer and probably even harmless.
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So far they have largely been built into monitors (by Sony) which gives different obsolescence profile.
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Yes, but this could be used as a hook after a push on the git, so that code would always follow a certain convention, whatever editor the developper that pushed used.
It makes the library unusable for anyone, but open source software.

If you write any sort of software, and link against this library, boom all the code needs to be GPL'ed.

I don't think that's a good thing for promoting a library's use. Most people will just not use the library, and leave a bad taste in there mouth rather than spread the use of GPL.

If you want your library to popular don't use GPL.

What happens is that someone else comes a long and creates a MIT version. Eventually it gets replaced with the MIT version.
"armchair quarterbacky" would make quite a good password, but unfortunately it's 1 character over their limit.
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Walkmod also allows (for Java) to work with the syntanctic and semantic information. So, for example it can remove unused elements (e.g variables).
Ask HN: Phnom Penh shared workspaces and real estate insights
I'm a copywriter who will be in Phnom Penh for 3-6 months and need a space to work to service my clients back in Australia. Just a desk and internet is all I need. Would love a mix of expats and locals or even just locals.

Real estate - I'm travelling with two small kids, so looking for a quiet area on the south side of Phnom Penh (partner is working near the Genocide Museum). Not really into the apartment + pool + gym thing, or the gated community thing. I guess I'm looking for an area that is small-townish, or village like, with the benefits of being close to or part of a major urban centre like Phnom Penh. If that doesn't exist, would love any tips on where or how to find quiet streets/neighbourhoods.
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The trouble is that currently there is no reasonable amount of money you can give to receive such a nice and user friendly experience as what you get with torrent sites (even more so with the popcorn app).

Usually when one deals with black markets you get much worse user experience, where there is no guarantee of quality, no economy of scale effects, no standardisation. Everything is less pleasant, but you get to have your stuff cheaper than buying it officially.

The paradox here is you get a bad user experience AND you pay for it. That's what I find appalling. Almost nobody who holds the contracts for these movies comes from "what value can we bring to the customer" point of view (well maybe with the exception of Netflix). Everybody does the "how much we can fleece the poor stupid people" approach, and it shows.

Pirate solutions tend to compete on user experience ONLY, and there you can get a real honest competition.
We haven't "cured cancer" but the death rates for many varieties are going down. One headline this year was for an immune system therapy against advanced melanoma, which is dramatically lowering death rates in trials; I have a neighbor who's actually getting that therapy.
Exactly, Walkmod acts as a framework for language transformations, but we have started with Java
Relativity theory fits well into this description. It (the special relativity) was derived from a formal attempt to unify classical mechanics and Maxwell electrodynamics, which was only possible if you ditch the Galilean relativity. Both classical mechanics and electrodynamics, in turn, came from a huge body of experimental data.

General relativity is a different thing, it was a pure hypothesis, an extrapolation of the simplest possible generalisation of the special relativity [1]. And it held this hypothesis status up until it was sufficiently confirmed by the incoming experimental data. Before that, a multitude of alternative hypotheses existed which had the same numerical predictions covering the available experimental data (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Logunov#Relativistic_t...).

So, yes, it's important to distinguish theory from a hypothesis.

[1] this "simplest possible generalisation" method works most of the time, but not always, so it's mostly valid to do so in the hard sciences, and should never be used as a justification for hand waving in the social sciences.
Yes, what I wanted to show in this example is that those elements that are "dead" can be removed (there is a plugin for it)
looks great - will you been adding offline support?

mainly ability to sync changes made offline on clients back to server and handle conflicts?
That is exactly it; I know plenty (including myself) but relocating for a job is not of this day and age (travelling for team meetups is another story obviously). And obviously less obscure languages have more opportunities for working remotely.
cool! been thinking about some very weak laser & attached detector every time I was lying under one of mosquito nets while travelling (or cursing myself for forgetting to bring one with me). Didn't know it's actually semi-real thing :O
The issue I thought about was cheap and reliable detection - to avoid firing laser in direction of a person's yes behind mosquito for example.

"Photonic Fence can kill up to 50 to 100 mosquitoes a second, at a maximum range of 100 ft" - now that's pretty awesome!
Oh paypal.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/My-Feedback-for-PayPal-A...
Is this equivalent?:

A tastes good.
A is good.
There's also dynamic generation of output by specifying a custom filter in a RAR archive that is executed during decompression:
http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2012/09/fun-with-constrained-progr...
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This is in health/medical and the employee in question is nearing retirement. I'd like to think that he should be encouraging them to consider a succession plan ahead of time to minimise risk for the thousands of people likely to be effected by this.

There's a good chance, from my understanding of the situation, that his managers don't understand the situation as well as he does. I think he should think bigger than himself.

Management's decisions are unlikely to be budget related.
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Alright, I'll bite. People like this guy, serial killers, malignant sociopaths operate outside of society's morality borders that you're talking about. How can we possibly evaluate them within them?
That's impressive. Here are some other compression curiosities.

http://www.maximumcompression.com/compression_fun.php

A 24 byte file that uncompresses to 5 MB; another file with good compression under RAR but almost no compression under ZIP; and a compressed file that decompresses to itself.
I wonder to what extent politicians formulate policies based on models or make high level policies based on ideology or perceived voter preferences and then select the economic models to justify what they have already decided.

Edit: this isn't a comment about economics but how economics is used in a political context.
Why does this matter? Somebody's going to own the land. If English people don't want foreign companies owning it, then they should make that illegal. If they don't have a stranglehold on who must pay tax to the UK government then they should tax something else they they do have control over instead. If these things have side effects that are even worse then welcome to the free market - you have to make yourself attractive to taxpayers if you want them to come and pay tax.

Australian have similar concerns. They don't like rich foreigners buying their property. Yet somehow they still allow it.
On FreeBSD, I've seen bugs in release builds using that approach. The compiler works, but the compiling doesn't.
I think Blizzard can buy the tokens themselves with gold they generate.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10153164
Aha, but you're using the assumption that there are an equal number of WoW tokens bought by players and sold by players.

Blizzard could sell 20 million WoW tokens each month to players for cash even if only 2 million tokens are bought by players for virtual currency. Blizzard needs only buy the remaining 18 million tokens on their own auction house in exchange for virtual currency (which, conveniently, they can create out of thin air).

The question here, then, is not about the number of active accounts, but: how much extra cash are players willing to put into the game in order to get gear / avoid grinding / gain a competitive edge, etc. The size of this market could be very different; Wikipedia links to [0] (2008), which on page 10 examines some possible lower ($200m) and upper ($1.4bn) bounds for the annual size of the market. Of course, not all of that is WoW, and not all of it would necessarily be captured by Blizzard, but that's where I'm pulling the "tens to hundreds of millions in additional annual revenue" from.

[0]: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/w...
Usually Keynsian economics is understood as economic thought that is based on aggregate demand, this is for example the view Wikipedia takes. [1] From there it is straightforward to argue that higher wages lead to higher employment, a view that makes Keynsian economics popular on the left.

The view, that too high wages cause unemployment, is a staple of supply side economics, the view that the economic process is driven by the supply side.

Krugman argues a lot about sticky wages recently, but not because this is a central tenet of Keneysian economics. Krugmann argues about sticky wages because it is a good argument against the troika's handling of the Greek crisis, since the internal adjustment in the Euro area would either mean inflation in Germany or deflation in Greece.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
Actually, calculating equilibrium prices of markets is PPAD-hard (similar to NP-hard, but not quite) in general. See for example
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.0644.pdf
My favorite scheme is featuring a more eye friendly, informative website.
This is an interesting perspective... in those languages, is what we consider the active or imperative voice actually imperative? Or are their perceptions of the language differing from ours? What we consider imperative may not actually be perceived as imperative in their native tongue.
That's an unfortunate name selection, because of this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_server - an integral part of the Internet routing infrastructure.

E.g. http://lg.he.net
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Paypal fights ‘social awkwardness’ with new service
"Love is the Plan the Plan is Death" is one of my absolute favorite science fiction stories. "The Screwfly Solution" is along the same themes but harder to take in IMO because you're less emotionally distanced from it. Tiptree was definitely one of the best SF writers of her generation.
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I think it depends on what you want to achieve.

If you want to design algorithms, and not just reuse an algorithm from a catalog:

"Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach: Udi Manber" Is very good.

If on the other you;re interested in a an extensive srvey of algo's and data-sturcutres, see"Algorithms and theory of computation handbook", by atallah. It has 2 volumes.
There is a difference between the types of videos that end up on youtube and are availiable on DVD, the intersection of the two will be quite small and if you compare to say Netflix, their content is a subset of the DVD content (Netflix orginal stuff makes this not quite true).
Perhaps I should have said "institutional experience", but the number of people creating fighter radars at the time were not exactly numerous.