skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you read vast majority of content on internet?
There are lots of articles come on internet everyday which I want to read. But I get manage to read only few of them. I really feel I should read more. I save them on my pocket app and never able to read that again.

So what do you do to read more. Do you read every article which is interests you right way or do you do something else to read them?
The article previously posted concerns design of a reactor for inherent stability. What you are thinking about is called active control. Here is a paper investigating such control of a fusion torus: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop/21/8/10.106...
Self-Organizing Maps with Google’s TensorFlow
> “JavaScript sucks for large apps because it can’t even identify the type of a variable, and it sucks for refactoring.” ~ lots of very confused people

The article then goes on to not use the word "refactor" again. So tell me, why am I confused? Because I have some pretty expensive JS tooling and refactoring JS absolutely, 100% still sucks compared to a statically typed language with a good IDE.
Is this the interface that Stallman wanted to modify to eliminate the difference between "add" and "commit"?
>760lbs of Arm & Hammer Clump & Seal Multi-Cat Odor Sealing Cat Litter

Where do you even store that much cat litter?
Well, are you aware that the same Haskell you cite has a REPL environment, with on the fly code patching, and that does not require all expressions to "go throught main" anyway, right?

I simply have no idea how anyone would use a REPL to do main development (I never liked the idea anyway). I use it just for early stage testing and debugging assistance, just like I do in Python, Lisp, Prolog... and certainly not Perl - this one has a useless REPL.
I really want to build a team someday like this. https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/github-scaling-on-ruby-with-a-n...

or Shopify.

I think it's possible on a Ruby or Python stack. Yes Ruby was a flavor of the month but now its not. I feel like if I hire a Ruby guy/girl now, they might have done it for a while or at least they don't seem to chase technologies.

If I built a product on Node, or Go I just feel like that person would be gone in a year when the next thing comes out.

I'm sure it happens on the Ruby/Python side but I think probably less.
Actually, this is the one we made three years ago: http://labs.gooengine.com/pearl-boy/

The one linked to was a quick remake in Create...
Thanks for the warning. I made a bad choice with the hosting.

It should be solved now.
Well, yeah. You can't account for everything. Traditional sports don't consider elevation, air quality, wind, etc.
I want to see if the experience of gender has an effect if explored by a similar study to the submission. For example: Do nonbinary people have the same brain development as the people in this study, or do they diverge from cisgendered people of the same sex?

Until they look at nonbinary and genderless people, we won't know whether sex or experience of gender is more significant in brain development. Even throwing in gender nonconforming people might produce some interesting findings.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642068
Indian Scientist: “New NASA Findings Tell That ‘True’ Black Holes DO Not Exist”
Magit is the best git ui out there, more powerful than the git command client w/o getting in your way.
Holidays are a team’s Chaos Monkey
Cool - you can move around with WASD.

That's a beautiful scene, by the way. I just hope someone comes to rescue the poor kid soon.
I kind of agree with this, but having recovered myself, I've found that addiction is more than just your drug of choice, it manifests itself in all sorts of little things. People find they quit drinking and then realize they've been compulsively shopping or eating. The same basic mechanism is the same and I think the author nails what it is: a cognitive-behavioral loop one has difficulty getting out of primarily because your brain is overvaluing the short-term over the long term for just long enough to engage in the cycle and strengthen the compulsion. Of course there's physical addiction, but not everyone likes that distinction. That is certainly powerful, but it's powerful to the extent that it makes the psychological addiction that much stronger, by having these very immediate responses with a clear behavioral solution (use your drug of choice).

There are people with really severe addictions, sure. In rehab there was no shortage of people who had to be monitored 24/7 and medicated because suddenly stopping their drug could actually kill them. There were others who were not as desperate. But I think it really is the same underlying phenomenon: substance abuse as well as gambling or some people who overeat or whatever else people typically need to go to rehab for - those addictions simply are greater and tend to have worse impact on a person's life. I was in rehab for alcohol having already quit every other drug at that point (causing my precariously balanced array of simultaneous addictions to cause one of them to dive head-first into the ground) and I wouldn't say that my addiction was the same as the heroin or cocaine addicts' problems. It simply was not in the same class, so I think there's already a recognition that everyone's addiction is different and unique to them.

Also, fuck, I'm clearly addicted to internet distraction. I'm writing this post instead of finishing my research paper.
Why do you think addiction is real only if it's extreme?
> rings true

I see what you did there.
Quake was released in 1996, so what's so amazing about that? Because of Moore's law a 20 year old game running in IE6's javascript engine would probably be fast enough.

The equivalent Ruby, Python or PHP could easily run Quake on today's hardware.

Also, what do you mean by 'much'. Like orders of magnitude or 30%? Microbenchmarks are fairly useless.
> In what sense has the market spoken here?

The fact the original article is a call to "save mozilla" isn't enough? Then look at Firefox's market share.
Ask HN: Would you like your banking data in real time via IPython / RStudio?
Hey,

We're building an intelligent financial assistant (meetcleo.com) at a startup incubator here in London (joinef.com). We were thinking of building out a feature where you could run your own Python / R code in the browser to analyse your transaction data.

The process would look like the following;

1. Connect your account(s) - we use Saltedge.com to pull the data.

2. You'd get a browser IPython / RStudio Server instance with your data loaded into a dataframe (we pull new data once a day)

3. You can run your analysis / schedule jobs / save scripts, etc.

Let me know if you're interested and we'll build it! We build really fast!
I don't think you can fix gambling or alcohol addiction like that. I'm not saying someone can't be addicted to the Internet. I'm just saying this author's story is not a story of addiction. There is such a mental block with addiction. It's like trying to fix an airplane engine while piloting it. And you're trapped in an infinite loop. It's exhausting. If all it takes is someone to unplug your router, or dump out the alcohol, you are not addicted.
I'm not aware of any simple way to get up and running like you are describing in Haskell, no. But it's unclear whether you are saying that such a thing cannot exist in a statically typed language, or whether it just does not at the moment. Can you clarify?
Types and the type system are actually orthogonal to the code. They constrain the allowable semantics but nothing requires them to be commingled.
Those gmail permissions:

Batched Inbox would like to:
+ View and manage your mail

Sorry, but any solution which involves giving a third party access to all mail is not a solution.
Working-On: Ubiquitous sample Todo App's evolutionary set of apps
[CoffeeScript Version](http://iamanubhavsaini.github.io/WorkingOn-coffeescript-FireFox/)

[JavaScript version](http://iamanubhavsaini.github.io/WorkingOn-VanillaJS-FireFox/src/index.html)
Thanks for sharing such great list. My everyday coding somehow relates JavaScript. Visual Studio is the best IDE i have ever used, though it has some intellisense issue only for javascript, specially when your project consumed many libraries and some of the library used same method name. As a debugging tool Chrome Dev tool is awesome.
I disagree. Addiction is defined as: "a strong and harmful need to regularly have something (such as a drug) or do something (such as gamble)." Do you not put phone/internet usage into that category? In a 2-hour drive this morning I had three near-accidents all because of the drivers on their phones. Ask the average American 30-year-old to avoid their phone for 24 hours straight and that will be a significantly difficult task, one that actually causes physical reactions not too dissimilar from drug withdrawals. Not all addiction results in hopes of death.
Also, would you potentially pay for this feature? (small monthly subscription)
How to Structure React Projects
I started using Eudora when I first got to college. It was my way of keeping in touch with my old friends who I moved far away from.

I can still remember the .wav file that played when I got mail (and spam was not as common those days so it was always happy mail).
Regarding 2., are you saying that, in general, some true facts are so harmful that the public needs to be prevent from knowing them? And if so, who is in charge of determining what the public can know, and why are those people immune from the harmful effects of these beliefs?

For example you assume the existence of some people who believe that a liberal democratic society requires women in science and tech, even if they are inherently less able in these fields. Why then, can't these people explain to the public why this is the case, so that the public will then accept the need for women in these fields, regardless of the truth regarding IQ?
The kind of code you could only write while on holiday in Cambodia.
Because "you continue to use it, even though you know it's doing you harm" is part of the modern definition of dependence.
I definitely don't like the idea of "one place for all documentation". To me one of anything, if it's the only one, is too small.

What I think lacks in today's web is an easy way to passively "discover" the important stuff as it's being created / becoming relevant.
Not in Chrome. I just get "ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED".
Very nice! I'm going to get one.
I am addicted to hn. Reddit, and FB just make me depressed.
While I like hn, I can't spend more than 30 minutes on it. It then starts to depress me. Maybe I'm depressed?
Digital Branding Guide Book
> The company hasn't been around for the same length of time that the author says is usually when he gets bored

This is the problem with some people. They worry so much about the latest technology that they forget to just get stuff done. The company might not even last long enough for engineer turnover. Just do things instead.
Should I do Physics without units?
The new enthusiasm for neuroplasticity
I may be a minority (I doubt it) but this "social activity", "we are a happy little family" attitude is exactly what is driving me out of the companies and towards independent work.

I wish I could work for a decent company that didn't pretend about this stuff and didn't have company lunch and outings and other pretentious things.
This looks interesting and something I will definitely watch, but at this point I think I will still stick with http://h2o.ai/ (another JVM based ML open source project that integrates well with 'Hadoop'). I have been really impressed with the quality of the product and even more so with the quality of the people behind the it.
Smooth on my Kubuntu AMD Radeon 7670M. You can move the boat about with the wasd keys, if you didn't know.
All+In+One+Profits+14+Day+Trial+Sales+Page
And a very old one too. Look at the website for some really cool looking projects: goocreate.com
> MIPS had a chance to be an ARM, but it was squandered.

I have always wondered how ARM succeeded when MIPS was already around. Anyone know ?
To an extent. Road race world records are only valid if they fall within certain limits of elevation change. You can run slightly downhill, but can't descend 500 meters. Ditto for tailwinds, I believe.
This happened with the 2x2 cube too, 3 world records in the same competition: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/events.php?even... (Trentin Open 2011)

The scramble was too easy, required only 4 moves.
FWIW perl currently builds and passes tests on z/OS, under straight EBCDIC: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/ms...
I understand the sentiment but it's hard to stop a train this big in motion at this speed.

But the point remains, we've had: WebGL, SVG, Canvas, web workers, local state, etc, etc - some for many years - and _most_ of us use barely any of those. We do need time to use these APIs or libraries which make them more useable and explore.
Couldn't you say the same about a lot of "drug addiction" as well?
> Using Gmail

Complaining about

> any solution which involves giving a third party access to all mail
I try to avoid it, but I keep thinking of Emacs as "an app store" for developers. For a product or service or tool targeted at programmers, it is hard to think of a better combination of ease of delivery, a highly correlated demographic, and narrow focus.
Then we need a new definition for what I know as addiction. I think your quoted definition may actually get in the way of helping addicts. There's no way that if society imagines addiction as merely a "strong and harmful need" that they'll ever be able to sympathize with people who have addictions as I know them. "Oh, you're trying to quit smoking? I quit Farmville once."
Nvidia : Mythbusters Adam and Jamie draw mona in 80 milliseconds
Goodbye WiFi New Li-Fi Internet Is 100 Times Faster (And SAFER)
In the original version we made three years ago, you can also go swim under water (click symbol bottom right): http://labs.gooengine.com/pearl-boy/
I have become a big fan of Pinkerton as of late. Not only for his views described in this article, which are well-documented and refreshingly logical, but for his views on religion. A lot of my extended family will lament about the days news from time to time, reacting to the eye-catching headlines of death and destruction. Forwarding Pinkerton's book and this article tends to assuage these tendencies quite handedly. I definitely recommend this strategy to those who may relate to my family as well.
not at all. the 'facts' are obviously out there, but it's not the job of a university president to promote them, especially when their facticity is a) indispute and b) promotes expectations and norms in society that could and do adversely effects a segment of it.

summers is still a faculty member at harvard, he's just no longer president, and no longer speaking for the institution
I'm not sure that the water is meant to be inside the boat, but still great work !
Is 6 billion euro a large sum to invest on such a potentially game-changing project? How much does the US spend on coal, or solar, or wind each year?
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Drug addiction has a strong chemical dependence compoment, but I wouldn't be surprised if depression was what led people to get addicted in the first place.
I recently wrote a chrome extension that helps me curb my "compulsion loop."

It's pretty simple; each time the browser loads a website that has potentially distracting content (think: twitter, FB, reddit, hacker news, rotoworld, etc) that I tend to over-visit in search of new tidbits, the extension keeps track of my visit and the text content of the page.

The next time I visit, I do a text comparison that checks how similar the content is to my last visit. If there's too much overlap, the browser redirects.

There's a profound difference in using this approach versus existing distraction-detractors. When I see the browser redirect away while trying to load reddit.com, my rational side takes over and reminds me that I should be done with tidbit-seeking.

I ought to clean it up and put it on github; I'm sure someone else might find it useful.
Yeah, sound was not smooth on my system too (750 Ti)
Given the highly political nature of this topic, I don't think anyone is going to be convinced by saying "this was debunked by experts" without even posting a link. Especially when being a mathematician doesn't make you an expert in statistics or sociology, so the Notices of the AMS can't be considered authoritative on this topic.
Did they finally realize that targeting low-end devices with a web stack was totally ridiculous?
> “JavaScript sucks for large apps because it can’t even identify the type of a variable, and it sucks for refactoring.”

So where are the toolings for refactoring then? Article doesn't mention a single one.
Same could be said in 1913. It is probably true in the long term, but local maximas of human suffering are no joke.
The article should be titled, "The World is Not Becoming More Violent".

Violence among humans is only one of many metrics to gauge the state of the world. Other metrics show trends that are not as rosy. Let's not forget, for example, that we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction event, exhibiting a rate of species extinction 10x greater than during any other extinction event.

If we especially ignore our anthropocentric biases one can make a convincing case that the world is falling apart.
Spelling English is a pain. Can modern text reduce this pain? How can you see the sound in text?

Written and spoken English can sync CAPS in sylLABles while vocaliIZED. http://th.ai youtube CCaptions=ON, text=monospace, see syllables precisely while you hear them, playback SLOW.

In theory, constant experience of SYNCHronous vocALized TEXT will help you spell better faster.
Should not be hard to do at all. The engine is open source on github btw: https://github.com/GooTechnologies/goojs
Couldn't get the swimming to work on my Nexus unfortunately. Tapping on the icon of the boy with flippers did nothing. Cool demo otherwise!
Wind speed is accounted for in athletics. Records won't get validated if there is a strong tail wind.
The linked article mentions that the interview was in Salon, not Slate. Is there a link/ownership between the two that I wasn't aware of?
http://goocreate.com/ looks pretty cool - just signed up.
Yet another article that glosses over the fact that the civil war in Syria is also a Russian/US conflict and could spiral into a full on proxy war in the same vein as Korea and Vietnam.

Russia is supplying military assistance to the government of Syria, while the U.S. (and other NATO countries) are supplying assistance to moderate Syrian rebel groups (but not ISIS). This breaks it down
clearly:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/world/middleeast/the-sy...

This just happened recently:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/europe/turkey-syr...

Russia has repeatedly warned the US to not interfere directly in Syria (you might have seen this):

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...

This is all interesting considering the Republicans are already
talking about increasing the US presence in Syria (for the purposes of
defeating ISIS).

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/16/politics/republican-isis-2...

Statistics are nice but the model is too simple and doesn't account for the complexities of geopolitics.
The day I did something
You got the journal completely wrong.
Libgroupsig: An Extensible C Library for Group Signatures
This is great!

One of the most confusing things with React and Angular or in fact any other non convention-over-configuration framework is how you go about building your project.

Structure is super important, and this resource looks good.

I would add a demo application on Github that does handle data (something super simple will suffice), just so people can fork the project and take it from there.

I know for me, when I started with Angular, the Yeoman generators were just life savers, I think it would be a great "next stage" for this post.
> "You continue to use it, even though you know it's doing you harm".

Well, sure. I'm wasting time all the time on the internet, even though I know I shouldn't. Sometimes it have real negative effects on my life, it's certainly a real addiction by that definition.

I've actually experimented a bit with chemical addiction to caffeine and nicotine (consuming a lot of caffeine/nicotine for a few weeks then stopping completely), and it was way easier to break than my internet addiction.

Are you claiming that chemical addiction/dependence isn't really addiction/dependence if you can "override" it?

To claim that my addiction to procrastination isn't really an addiction because I recognize it and doesn't feel so powerless than I would want to kill myself is absurd.
I personally don't see it as a value add and therefore wouldn't pay for it.

First I don't analyze my finances that often just looking once a month for potential fraudulent transactions (In the US it's more frequent than when I lived in europe).

Second if I would really care most banks export in CSV format which makes it easy to process with panda [1]. My gut feeling is that's what most tech savvy users would do, and they are tech savvy if they can write Python or R.

I'm probably not your typical user but I hope that helps.

[1] http://pandas.pydata.org/
Title should have [2014] on it.
Ivy, part of swiper, is also good and more light weight, it's what I use for completion now. (though I used helm for ages and really liked it too).

https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper
Emacs has a packaging system with repositories.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=browse;id=MarmaladeRep...
Tell me. I've just sit in front of my computer saying "well, I'll write those test cases for my side project".

Yet, I'm here, replying to you.
Check out the forum at forum.goocreate.com and let us know what you think. We are looking for ways to improve the platform to make it easier for people to use and more open too.
The Web must not stand still. It is the only open platform we have. The web (and browsers) becoming a relic from the past is too great a risk for humanity.

Keep pushing the Web forward till the next What's App or Snapchat is a Web app. Till we have decentralized app hosting and file sharing. Till we have native execution speed. Till we can distribute or install fully functional applications outside the arbitrariness of Apple and Google store policies.

Here's to those who are pushing the web forward.
Why, when someone shares with you the tool that they've used to free themselves from distraction, is your response to go, "oh, let me tell them how to get around that tool so that it no longer works for them." ?

How is that anything but a massive imposition of disutility to the parent and to anyone else that uses the tool?
They do consider wind. Too much tail wind can invalidate a world record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_assistance
Not to mention Intel had quite a successful line of ARM CPUs back in the day - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale

Which makes articles like this one: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-arm-processors-... ridiculous.

"the unthinkable happened. Intel revealed it was going to build ARM processors."

Do your damn research, people :-)
But that doesn't sell newspapers/bring website clicks, does it? Hence why the media likes to say 'we're all doomed!' at the first possible opportunity.

It almost makes me wonder what the internet, online 'journalism' and social media would have been like if it existed during the two world wars.
Seems like the data site is down. What is the format of this example data?
Why does the author consider it a perfectly healthy accomplishment to spend a monthlong vacation reading a dozen books, but dangerous and unhealthy to check his email more than thrice a day or read redditlike sites?