skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had tinnitus since I was in grade school. I think eventually you just get so used to it that you don't notice it unless you explicitly look for it.

With that being said, I'm interested in trying out some of the techniques mentioned here. Being able to sleep in (almost) absolute silence sounds blissful.
In terms of cleanly communicating one's intent, I'd also suggest a look at Sean Johnson's talk about letting the function arguments determine what version of the function is used. This is a common idea in most programming languages and some Functional languages, such as Haskell, tend to take it to an extreme. And yet, it is not as common as it should be in Clojure.

One of his rules is "If your function starts with a conditional, get rid of the conditional and look for that pattern in your function arguments." That is, move the conditional into the different versions of your function.

Also, his "Recursive Function Pattern Matching Pattern" makes recursion much easier to read. See the screenshots here and then click through to the video:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-recursive-functio...
Wow, I'm glad you like it.
This is really well done. Very useful for my future projects.

Are you also considering adding a simple grid system to the generated css (maybe bootstrap grid)? That what this generates a complete framework that looks like I configure it. Cheers
Worth mentioning that this was after Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance so he didn't have access to work that he himself had done on the Manhattan Project ... his brother was blacklisted, lost his academic job, did ranching, and founded the Exploratorium... Oppenheimer exudes a great deal of serenity and optimism considering the times and trials he went through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#Security...
A Sleep Mask That Lets You Control Your Dreams
That's a problem with your high school and the device you are using which you don't have control over.

We're solving problems of high school students who don't have access to an SSH client now?
This in all likelihood describes 1%of the 1%. Just adding in a little perspective.
> And on top of that, the United States Air Force runs a detection network that includes satellites that can spot nuclear-weapons tests.

Always curious about this, but how do satellites detect the tests? Especially underground/water ones?
This is my only issue with urban dictionary, it feels like a lot of it is just random words that people shoehorn sexual activities into.
GitHub Follow: Following repository file movements on GitHub made easy
For example, some morning post:

http://krocodl.livejournal.com/1235708.html
"How I left to work in Luxembourg"

"Скажем так, "уехать" никогда не было моей мечтой, но тем вариантом развития событий, который я никогда не выпускал из виду."

==

"Let's say, leaving abroad was never my dream, but it was an option that I always kept in mind"

Sums up my ramblings nicely.
Rocketry grew out of the aviation industry, not the submarine industry.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10321206
A very cool idea with impressive results, but sadly, side-scrollers will only have left/right sprites, and top-down games will only have front/back/left/right. Whereas the Mario example in the article also has top/bottom.

So to actually use this, you're going to have to be able to make the missing sides yourself. And if you can do that, you can probably design a better 3D block model as well.
Most of the candidates aren't serious. The point of the debates should be to showcase a range of viewpoints.
> Unfortunately, they were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my property. In addition, they were persistent about requiring my passwords for all devices. [linked article]

> “Our priority is assuring the integrity of the investigative process and generally speaking we don't acknowledge that an investigation is underway ... unless or until charges are filed, arrests are made, or documents are publicly filed with the court that confirm a probe is taking place.”[1]

Wat? They can take your stuff without a court order, not even from a secret court, and if they don't make any arrests or charges, they're not even required to confirm or be accountable for what happened? I really hope this is a case of a handful of idiots doing something unsanctioned that will be fully and transparently corrected. If this is upheld as fully legal, how is this not a mockery of basic rights? I'd expect this from a totalitarian state; what does that say about the USA?

I can understand why DHS would feel national security is served by being able to seize or detain without any justification before or afterward. It's awfully convenient to forget about all that red tape. I don't understand how the judiciary would uphold such a tradeoff of basic rights. (A comment[2] suggests they won't.) They better at least require a secret court to sign off if this were to be 100% legal... it's sad that anyone accepts that, but it's better than absolutely zero oversight.

A mayor, of all people! It's sad to think of all the less-powerful people who've already had this happen, but at least a mayor should be able to get some kind of resolution.

[1] http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Stockton-mayor-was-brief...
[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/small-town-mayor-...
This is a much more controversial statement than most HNers give it credit.. It's by no means settled 'science' that government loan subsidies are the largest (or even a large) determinant of tuition costs. Colleges used to be much more subsidized by taxes which have been pared back for decades, the loans are the result of this change -- not the cause. Total tuition costs increase much faster than inflation but look at total costs per student for the college and it's a very different story.
You probably don't realize this but "cago" in Spanish means "I shit" or "I shit myself", depending on context. If you accent the "o", "cagó" it means "he shit" or "she shit". So "avocago" could mean that someone named "Avo" took a shit.

Not the kind of thing you want to associate with fresh produce.

I would seriously consider pivoting to a different name.
> I have seen studies

From my real life experiences, which mostly included asking female friends and colleagues, those studies have always sounded absurd, pretentious, and stupid. Looks matter a lot. Really a lot; for either sex. That is almost ubiquitously true especially for these dating sites.

This guy put it really good there:

> “It’s the visual. I don’t think anybody reads these things,” says Mr. Simkhai. “If you’re hot and attractive to the other person, you’ll meet them. Grammar? Are you kidding?”

That's exactly how it works, aberrations or exceptions aside.
I down-voted you because this is pretty blatant copyright infringement. Just because you're doing something nice for people that don't pay for the Wallstreet Journal, doesn't make it right.
Memory read latency benchmark
Ooho Edible plastic free water bottles
I can't escape the odour of sour grapes in discussions like these, where people who could have gone into finance reassure themselves and each other that they made the right decision to take a less lucrative path through life.
This is the epitome of America's appreciation for avocados :)
We'll agree to disagree then.

> There are systems that need AWS's model, but they're for specialist products.

Netflix. Tinder. Reddit. Yelp. Slack. Foursquare.

AWS' model works absolutely fine if you have systems knowledge. If you're looking for a PaaS, its of course not the solution for you. It feels like your comment is "Why doesn't AWS do what it wasn't designed for?"
Not necessarily. 3D modelling and sprite artistry are very different skills.
> their incentives are aligned

They sure are. Apple sells native ads which, naturally, they do not allow users to block. http://advertising.apple.com/
That sounds like a very pragmatic approach.

> The main thing is being realistic about the speed that you can acquire language.... Expect to take at least 10 years for your first foreign language.

Nobody ever seems to mention this explicitly about language, nor the fact that you need to apply yourself consistently to the task over that time.

I think that's because it's off-putting to hear you won't achieve high level language for a very long time.

The point is though, you can get yourself to a level of mutual understanding within fairly short time (a few month to a year.) The rest of the time is spent increasing vocabulary, improving grammatical understanding and learning the myriad of unwritten grammatical (and often ungrammatical!) constructs and idiomatic use that people actually use to communicate.
Self-driving trains do exist. There are quite a few cities that use driverless trains.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_operation
I live in SF and have an avocado tree in my yard. Once they start ripening, we get hundreds every week, and resort to putting a box of them outside our place every day.
(I know, you're thinking "you must not love avocados as much as me if you can't eat them all!" but it turns out that 100 avocados per week is beyond my abilities)

So your other option is to try and find that box. :)
What company needs a demigod personality?
Wouldn't it be funny if they nudge it off its current course, onto a collision course with us?

No, actually not that funny.
That term is like the insignia-in-fashion for Indian (where I'm from) teens on Quora these days.
If we do both then both the school and student are incentivized! (I was thinking of the for profit schools owned by hedge funds)
Of course, in the West these places are called churches. Many people with schizophrenia say they see heavenly figures and talk to them, they are called prophets who receive "revelations" from god.
"For some people..."

I think there are a lot of people who share a similar perspective.

For every Gates and Jobs, there are many other equally talented programmers and marketers who were not and will not be as lucky as these two.

But if these other talented programmers and marketers conducted themselves in the manner of Gates and Jobs, would anyone forgive them?

It's tempting to retort with some rhetorical rationale like "the ends justify the means," but then no one has any proof that behaving like Gates or Jobs has any causal link to the level of success they experienced.

Microsoft and today's Apple are what they are. Some people love these companies' products. The word "cult" is sometimes used and people get quite defensive about their computer preferences, too. Effective marketing I guess.

But not everyone has been so impressed.

For people in the later group, there is little reason to celebrate Gates or Jobs, unless one is on the receiving end of some of their cash, whereby it can be put to beneficial use.
Whether you sympathize or not, saying "meh" to someone's death is a slippery slope with psychopathy at the bottom.
The OP asks an interesting question though: why would I run an IPFS node if it just benefits the company and not me?
Reality warps in some really weird ways, the more you do this. You stop being able to interact with your friends that aren't doing it; you stop taking care of yourself in ways that don't feed maintenance your ability to keep grinding; you're always "on" so you never really relax enough to reflect or see things in other contexts or perspectives; in the back of your head you might know there's something wrong but you maybe can't put the pieces together, and since you've always been told you were so smart, that scares you, and you become defensive; at some point the idea that you've been on such a wrong track for so long becomes intolerable and rather than cut your losses you decide that "saner" approaches are really weakness.

That's at least part of what I experienced, in a similar life style. At some point I realized if I kept doing it, I'd end up dead or crazy in ways I didn't want, and found alternatives that let me live and explore. But quitting was one of the scariest things I've done in my life.
The article states it wouldn't do any harm to Earth if it hit, and a planet is a pretty hard target to hit even intentionally.
Vegetables take longer than a week to become inedible. It's the week-and-a-half mark where they start to get limp and questionable. It's the two-week mark where they start to rot completely. If you have a problem with rotting vegetables (bought from the grocery store, fresh out of a garden are much more durable), then you're keeping them longer than you think.

Meat goes bad much more quickly. If I'm not eating meat within two--maaaybe three--days of purchasing it, I will freeze it.
I think the answer would be try to treat it using modern medicine and having a high chance of living.
> I can't imagine the mindset that would lead someone to sacrifice their entire existence on the pyre of working; what's the point of making big cash if you've got no time or people to enjoy it with?

For most people who do it, it's a few-year long stint that will leave them with a chunk of money in the bank, a top business school admission, and a resume line-item that will parlay into a nice corporate finance or management gig. And if you're good at the job, working at a top bank or consulting firm is still the most direct route into the C-suite at an established company.
I think that simple "supply and demand" is a major factor: lots of developers would love to program in these languages (big supply), but there are very few companies that actually use them (small demand). Economics tells us that when there's an oversupply of a product or service, the price drops (and vice versa).

Also, a developer might be willing to accept a lower salary if they get the chance to program in one of these languages because it would give them greater job satisfaction. However, if they're forced to program in a mainstream language like Java or Python, they'd rather try to maximize their salary.
This is not a new development and certainly not exclusive to Wallstreet or the City or Amazon or magic circle. It is part of the aura of these places—belief that the endurance necessary for this kind of over work isn't present outside and that they are/will be better for overcoming this ordeal— that this makes them different from others this is part of the exclusiveness of these places along with the pay.

But there are many people working equally harder and sometimes even [harder].

Here is another story from less prestigious cousins of WallSt. and magic circle law firms: Big 4 auditors! A PwC associate overworked to [18 hours a day, 120 a week].

[harder] : http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/05/woman-n...

[18 hours a day, 120 a week] :

1. http://offbeatchina.com/25-year-old-auditor-at-pwc-shanghai-...

2. http://goingconcern.com/2011/4/did-a-pwc-auditor-work-hersel...
I like your reasoning, but I worry that the math of minimum wage jobs can't put people through school any more.
Yep. The days are shorter (that is, fewer hours of light) in winter seasons because the sun is at a lower angle and spends more time below the horizon, not because there are fewer hours in the day. Your noon will repeat regularly every 24 hours no matter what season it is.
Zappos’ experiment to end the office workplace
I would be pleasantly surprised if NASA could nudge an asteroid massive enough to pose a threat to human life on Earth.

If we can nudge it into a collision course, surely we can nudge it out of one.
Yeah there's a bit more to it than that. Lighter stuff allows you to go further with less energy. Lighter wheels and tires make a really big difference as does tire rolling resistance. In something like a century (100 mike ride) a lighter bike may make the difference between finishing and not finishing.

Also wind resistance goes up as the square of velocity so it's harder to go faster than it is to simply ride around a clunky heavy bike.

There is a saying in cycling: strong,light, cheap. Pick two.
This article explains how satellites can detect "underground" nuclear explosions
http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/satellites-can-detect-u...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311336
Are you working with https://unhosted.org/ at all on the unhinged apps concept?
Nice post. As the author of the original snippet I'll admit it wasn't meant to be production-quality code, just a toy example in the context of a blog post. When I find code like that in a reasonably large production codebase I tend to refactor it too. I do believe in optimizing for readability by default; in Clojure this sometimes requires a bit of effort because of the "stalagmite" effect OP describes.
TXR Lisp:

(defun wordlist-sentence (sentence)
[(opip
`@1.`
(split-str @1 #/\s+/)
(cons :start)
(remqual ""))
sentence])

(defun make-markov-mapping (sentence)
(let ((wordlist (wordlist-sentence sentence)))
(hash-from-pairs (mapcar (ret ^(,@1 (,@2))) wordlist (rest wordlist))
:equal-based)))

(defun markov-data (text)
[(opip
(split-str @1 #/\./)
(mapcar make-markov-mapping)
(reduce-left (op hash-uni @1 @2 append) @1 (hash :equal-based)))
text])

(defun pick-next-word (map word)
(let ((choices [map word]))
[choices (rand (length choices))]))

(defun sentence (map)
(for
((words ())
(this-word :start)
(next-word "X"))
((not (eql [next-word -1] #\.))
(cat-str words " "))
((set next-word (pick-next-word map this-word))
(set words ^(,*words ,next-word))
(set this-word next-word))))

Run:

$ txr -i markov.tl
1> (defvar map (markov-data
"Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized \
\ if it is to last. Prince Vasili knew this, and having once realized that \

\ if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be unable \
\ to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. But in \
\ Princess Drubetskaya's case he felt, after her second appeal, something \
\ like qualms of conscience. She had reminded him of what was quite true; \
\ he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in his career. \
\ Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of those women-- \
\ mostly mothers--who, having once made up their minds, will not rest \
\ until they have gained their end, and are prepared if necessary to go on \

\ insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even to make scenes. \
\ This last consideration moved him."))
map
2> (sentence map)
"Prince Vasili knew this, and having once realized that she was quite true; he
could see by her manners that if it is to ask for himself, he felt, after hour,
and even to last."
How a Charity Fundraiser in Nova Scotia Became a Months-Long Weekly Party
"Modern" here seems to be pretty broad and consists largely of works made when horse was the main mode of transport. And in fact, works after Muybridge in the 1880s are more accurate than those before. So I don't know if lack of access to quadrupeds would explain it.

On the other hand have we controlled for quadruped type? At a guess, later artworks are largely of horses, and horses' legs are thin and move fast. Mammoths' legs are huge and move slowly, making them easier to observe. Horses also have multiple gaits, and the faster ones are very difficult to observe.
The tragedy is that this is unnecessary. If Wall Street compensation can support paying enormous compensation, it can support hiring enough people to do the work. As with medical residents' brutal schedules, it's tradition over rationality.
Don't forget the double-neckties fashion.
The flip side of that is that we're now about 5 years into the phenomenon of managers and entreprenuers cargo-culting assholeism as a way of acheiving success. Every time I read about some jerk lamenting the fact that his employees like to eat dinner with their families, we have guys like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk to thank for it.
You were probably with middle class people (lived there for 5 years, wife's from there).
That would be hilarious, to a sufficiently distant civilization after a respectable amount of time. Maybe there's some kind of award they give out to planets that self-destruct. But instead of the Darwin award, it's called the Fermi award.
>One is that they see finance jobs as desirable jobs, focus their whole lives up to that point on getting the job, get it - and find it's horrible. What do you do then? Do you go back to all the people who were really proud at your achievements and tell them you're a failure?

Is it a surprise to those on that career path? I work with people applying to law school, and it's widely known that major firm jobs demand an incredible amount of your time.

I think people might, mistakenly, expect "I can handle it, I like a challenge", but the gist of what a job at biglaw requires is pretty well known.

I'd be surprised if finance is different.

I agree spineless isn't the word, though. Motivations for entering that type of job are simply very different from what motivates people who wouldn't even consider it. I can't say exactly what it is, because I'm very far from that type. But the people I know on that path (in law) certainly are quite able to stand up for themselves. They're very confident, capable people.
You might have chosen the wrong platform for your needs.
Except for the tremendous forces racing bicycles exerts on the tubes and welds of carbon fiber / steel, that could cause catastrophic failure in the most unexpected moment.
Imagine Pinocchio at rest.

Suddenly, Pinocchio says "My nose is growing!"

What happens next?
Hard work is important and it is the only effective and reliable way to be successful. This does not mean all nighters or alcohol-cocaine binges should be the norm, it must be the rare exception.

End of the day it's-just-not-worth-it over everything else.

If you think it is the norm or encourage such behavior, you're selfish, you're what is wrong with the society.
Don't be that political correctness, dude.
I have a friend who is a Market Maker on Wall St. He's very successful makes a lot of money, works very long, but he has a very low self esteem. He tells me "I don't know how to actually do anything of any use in the world." I don't really understand him but I think he ends up feeling like his life is worthless. At the end of the day he could be as rich as Midas but he hasn't figured out what life is worth even to himself.

Assuming your belly is full, I think if you're not curing cancer or something like that you'd better be doing something that makes you happy: the work itself has to be fun. Otherwise you could end up like this guy or my friend.
Microservices do allow you to an extent to avoid multi-threaded applications, which is considered the most "pure" way to do parallel processing. However, even though it might be considered "impure" I think microservices are a really effective way to manage parallel computation. Especially when you're using languages which have leaky threads that end up accidentally sharing state you don't intend to share.
In New York City, it is against the law not to recycle. Paying for garbage removal (via taxes, or preferably, a per bag fee), but not for (realistically) recyclable trash removal, would be a good start.
Naturally I agree.

The question is better framed thus: who has taken the more lucrative path in living their life? Who has found burgeoning vitality rather than pecuniary richness? Who has traded what is priceless for what can be used to pay other prices?
I don't think the offense to Spanish speakers will be what stops the 2 billion dollar buyout from Google.