skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look at it like this: You can make up whatever craziness you want in your universe, but the craziness must remain consistent and follow the 'rules' of your universe.

You can violate the real laws of physics, so long as you do so consistently within the rules/laws as you've defined them. You can have 'magic', so long as the magic is used consistently.

Heck, you can even break your own previously-established rules, so long as you can explain why in way that is consistent with everything else. If you do it with foreshadowing ("there is some theoretical way to make our faster-than-light engine allow us to travel in time, but no one has ever been able to get it to work") then it might even be accepted. If you do it with no notice because it's merely convenient to the plot ("hey, I just came up with this crazy idea to make our ship travel through time, give me 5 minutes to re-route power and connect a widget and we'll be good to go"), then it's stupid.
Elevator and vending machine are two good examples for learning about state machine.
My brother committed suicide after facing a prison sentence. It is a really difficult thing that when you meet people (even for years afterwards, it still happens to this day 13 years on) and they just want to talk about the circumstances behind his suicide and the things that get him to that point. Having people consistently drag it up for you really hurts at times.

I also have experienced the name-calling thing. My mother, at times, ends up calling me by my brother's name. I think that is the hardest thing at times, because clearly she's not over it (he shot himself with her in the next room).

I really do feel for Noah. It's not something you ever truly get over (here I am posting about it 13 years on), just something you just got to learn to deal with. I found that for me, I had to find a healthy coping mechanism/hobby to get through those first few years. Life still goes on man.
Nope, that's a non-issue.

The real issue is NIMBY homeowners in SF blocking new housing construction: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/san-fran...
I think the thing is in reality, there is no "true self" or "true identity" but there might be layers of identity that turn on or off depending on the situation. It's not like your persona mode is fake or anything. The only real sting is when a persona is based on lies or contradicts a larger part of your personality is when you get into trouble.
I don't think this is true. So many shops these days sell fulls (inc SSN, DOB) at reasonable prices, some including even VBV/MSC passwords; you can filter by non-VBV/MSC as well, making VCV/MSC useless.

And if you really know where to look, the ability to look up someone's SSN will only cost you a buck or two.
At 4.4KB (gzipped), it seems like a really good alternative to jQuery. Thanks for the suggestion!
Can you tell me where I can find information about the compliance requirements for ACH transactions?
Ending Our AngelList's Experiment
I assumed the induction panels were repurposed commodity gear. Typical use would be to charge phones, tablets, laptops, roombas, etc… and Ava could top-up at an airport or coffee shop. That conclusion makes more sense than Nathan inventing his own wireless charging standard.
Kudos for the AES-GCM and AES-NI work, and for your contributions back to FreeBSD.

Best wishes for your 2.3 release and the new bootstrap based webGui!
Gotta be honest: This article got me misty-eyed multiple times.

This is what I find cool about Freelancer (and games like it). There are STILL a decent amount of Vanilla and mod servers out there, and that game came out in 2003.

This is one of the big reasons I don't play much multiplayer anymore, other than Minecraft. There's no permanency and no assuredness that what you put together with your friends will be around tomorrow. I know my minecraft server is always going to be running and my friends know it too, we've built amazing things there because of it.
You mean an expatriation tax? No.
I am in Myanmar. But I have been following Aaron's story since 2013. If someone is in tech, it is a good chance that they have heard about Aaron no matter where they live.
As I understand it, time only "slows" from the BH frame. From an observer POV it would happen as described.
I think about this too sometimes.. TNG in particular had scientifically literate characters and that sort of depth was considered normal, there was no fuss about the big ideas and the knowledge, they just applied it. It is easy to get used to a mature baseline of thought like that as a viewer. Most of the newer apocalyptic themed sci-fi just seems silly in comparison.

As a side note, I really like some of the comic books written by Jonathan Hickman, for example his S.H.I.E.L.D. or FF runs. He seems to be a fan of science.
yeah, the python folks lost their mind around the 2/3 split. source: ex-python user.
You forget they probably put in a few NSA chips and "bugs" before shipping it. So ...
The Stone Reader – Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
Over a phone interview with Segment.io, I was asked to program an elevator controller. It was described to perform like an HTTP server would handle requests... They were getting confused when I started writing code for a state machine. Glad I got a job offer somewhere else.
As someone who has commented on your engine threads in the past(and pointed out this challenge) it's good to see that you're getting towards the content stage of dev.

Here is my tip this time: try to find a lot of anchors outside of the game engine. You can do design incrementally by defining what the "rules", "logic", and "lore" of the world are, in order to clarify it. For example, use a mind map tool like a writer to plan scenario ideas. Pick a genre of music and a visual design language and incorporate them into the game's identity. Consider the limitations of the camera and control scheme and allow those elements to shape the scenarios. Borrow plots and characters from stories you like. Compose an essay response to something you want to critique, and then figure out ways to turn that essay into game form. If you don't have ideas for game mechanics, you can develop the story more instead and you'll eventually find some story elements that convert into mechanics.

The more of these things you can piece together in a coherent way, the more it will start to look like a complete design where "the work is cut out for you", instead of being a mass of bad content to crank out. There are a lot of ways to go about defining the design, but you will have to find some anchors if you want good content without a lot of meandering and second-guessing. The meandering should happen in notes and sketches, well before you try to write final code or assets.

Oh, and all of this can be done with an eye towards marketing. You can opt to choose and highlight elements specifically to capture an audience. The hard part tends to be finding concepts that you're happy enough with to want to think about for months on end.
It's a good overview of VP9, but it's certainly not enough to implement a decoder, or call it a "spec".
I really wish we could disable all the title bars.
Good luck. It surprises me that the US supports such a vicious law enforcement system compared to the rest of the developed world - I'm a Brit and ours leans the other way towards being a bit easy going.
This pilot study will enroll up to 6 individuals with
treatment-resistant depression (at least 2 failed
attempts at an anti-depressant treatment) who are judged
by a physician to be appropriate for the study and who
remain under outpatient supervision for the duration of
the study.

This requires $80K???
At work I have a Z820 dual-Xeon (each w/ 16 cores) specialist workstation packed with SSD drives and 64GB of RAM.

At home I have a 6 year old beaten up Thinkpad with an i7, 8GB RAM, and a small SSD.

Apart from when I'm compiling some very heavy workloads, I can't honestly feel the difference much. For the smaller projects I do at home, it's still zippy.

I thought about getting a faster machine at home to run Quartus at higher speeds for some FPGA personal projects. But the free web edition will only ever use 1 core anyways. So almost pointless upgrading.

Tech has become mostly 'good enough' for many years now, even for engineers. It's only gaming tech and display technologies that are really making me want something newer.
It doesn't seem fair to not allow proper comments and label choices using the keyboard...
Toronto's mayor demands an end to competition for fast, affordable broadband
I wonder if they count chromeos devices as pc's in this study, currently my main dev systems are a chromebook and a digital ocean instance that I remote into.
Yea, but its a pain to open another tab and run another command and switch back to this tab to see the progress.

Why they didn't give a progress bar in the first place beats me.
TIS-100: http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

Untrusted: https://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/
I dunno. People still do business with IBM, and they worked with the German government on the census system that tracked victims of the holocaust during WWII.

IBM's existant history didn't put Cisco off of doing business with China.
Plenty of people don't use AMD packages at all, wtf?
The problem you bring up is very real. Who designs software and websites? People who are very good with computers. Who uses the software and websites? Mostly people who aren't good with computers.

I work in a UX role and my yardstick is whether my mom would understand it.
It should be noted that I live in Australia, so our law enforcement system is relatively lax too.

However, my father also died of a heart attack a little over a year beforehand, so I'm sure that was part of it, but I'm sure the jail term was about 90% of what was on his mind at the time.

I only wanted to share just in case Noah ever reads this. Things do eventually get better.
What do you use to polyfill the browser to support RPM? :)
Those people seem plenty OK to aide and assist an entity which tortures and commits war crimes, mass murder, genocide, so they have more common with a member of ISIS than they do with any sane human.
Yes, it is harder to implement changes in a large system than in a small system. However, you should note that Switzerland is more culturally diverse than the United States by a number of metrics, including immigration. For example, 25% of the Swiss population are foreigners, three times as much as in the US. Also, Switzerland has three official languages. Consequently, there is no national TV station or newspaper that can reach the whole country at once. But if it helps you, I'd like to mention that France also has a wealth tax and that Germany had a wealth tax until 1997.
I don't know why they left it out, the work on removing retroviruses from the pig's genome is fascinating.

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/222/removing-62-bar...
Through observation and personal experience, I've come to the conclusion that the majority of depression has its basis in physical conditions -- the state of (the rest of) one's body, and/or of one's environment. And really, environmental causes become intractable when they produce corresponding physical changes in the subject. (Including, but not only, the brain.)

So, until physical health and environment become center stage, "the problem" of depression will continue, with at best various palliative treatments -- too often touted as "the cure" -- slapped on to ameliorate, or bury, some measure of the symptoms including "depression".

I'm not saying this is 100% the case. But I've seen too much of the extreme opposite end, where diagnosis and treatment are rather divorced from the physical circumstances.

Even these days, the "industry" seems to be heavily populated with... [oh, redacted, I guess].

P.S. Regarding psilocybin, which the OP endeavor is apparently focusing on, perhaps again my experience is an anomaly, but many of my drug-taking friends from my younger years seem to have ended up happier and more "successful", in a personal sense, in life.

Having been more than sufficiently scared/indoctrinated in my early years, I avoided drugs. Looking around me, I now more than occasionally regret that. Maybe a little self-medication and experimentation would have led to some different choices at critical junctures that I now see, in retrospect.

Granted, drugs do destroy some people. And, given current circumstances, societies. I don't mean to make light of that.

But the often hypocritical, "just say no" fear-based inter-generational culture that has predominated in my part of the world, with respect to this topic? Not productive.

Hell, aside from the personal side, we've lost -- delayed for decades -- research into psilocybin and marijuana, that earlier showed signs of promise and now are proving to be quick fruitful areas of pharmacological development.

P.P.S. Maybe this is the wrong message to share. And even with my current wondering, I have -- retrospectively, I guess -- no desire to become, or have become, a habitual user.

My primary point, I guess, must return to the personal and the anecdotal. I've had my ups and downs, but I always used to bounce back -- until some physical injuries led to chronic discomfort and limitations on my activities. That marked the start of extended dark times, and a gradual but relentless downward spiral including further, reinforcing physical health developments.

Guard your health! Your first and best line of defense -- or offense, to put it perhaps in a less fearful term.

That includes guarding it by using it for positive experiences. They tend to be self-reinforcing -- just as the negative are, in the opposite direction.
Show HN: Learn Flux from an extremely simple demo
yum makes rpm easymode!
I can see it working for governments but for private banks, not sure. Even in Canada, we see a lot of value placed on business relationships and even though there's plenty of transparency, many times there are things that get swept under.

However, in Canada, we do have a system like that for government projects so it could definitely be a step in the right direction. Especially for developing countries.
In India, there's a protocol called 'IMPS' that allows instant transfers. The cost per transaction is a measly Rs. 5 (around $0.08).
Put it in the startup command dialog.
Department of Defense Nudges Contractors to Patch Juniper Backdoor
What's been your experience working with the Shopify platform?
Anecdotal, my AZ-JS user group didn't make it quite a year... ironically, now about 7 years later there's 5-6 meetups a month centered around JS and related (JS, JS Workshop, Node, Mongo (JS interfaces), Web Tech, IoT has lots of JS meetings as well)... I was just a couple years too early.
I'm not sure, other than that because {} evaluates to a value, this already looks very close to valid Rust; I thought it was for a minute, but realized that it's not quite.

I'm not sure I personally feel that the first is particularly better than the latter, but it should have to be by a large margin to justify adding new syntax to the language.
This is interesting, would like to see how it might help Kiva some day more efficiently transfer money in the U.S.
So... We're posting reactions to reactions now.

Next, somebody will make a hyperbolic comment toward the poster that's offensive toward women. Triggering another reaction post from the tech-feminist crowd.

Followed by another reaction by the anti-tech-feminist crowd.

The cycle will continue on between those two, followed by the male feminist/apologists, the moderates, the consciously religious, etc...

All the while, the original post (ie JS fatigue) was nothing but the whining of one sorry JS dev. It was no more newsworthy than the N reactions that will inevitably follow.

No offense toward the poster but can we please NOT post stuff like this.
Sigh, the number of noobs is growing at an alarming pace.
Former NSA Official Tells UK Politicians Mass Surveillance Risks Citizen Safety
Scaling Content Production at Coursera
TNG is a thing that comes back as a topic almost whenever I have a longer discussion with my mother and brother. It's those discussions that made me realize that there are two things that Star Trek world had, that I miss in the real one:

1) High level of baseline literacy we were talking about. Contrast to our world, when many people shy from learning new things, and those who do learn are often labeled as nerds and warned about dangers of having too high self-esteem. I really long for the world where this sort of anti-intellectualism is not something to be proud of, and where the social pressure is encouraging self-development, rather than discouraging it.

2) Expectation of competency. It's visible on all levels - from civilian vs. Starfleet interactions, through teamwork of starship crews, to the inner workings of big bureaucracies like the United Federation of Planets. Everyone is assumed competent until proven otherwise. Characters in Star Trek know they're working with others who are as smart as they are, and so they trust each other and trust the system. Contrast with the real world, where we often assume our coworkers are incompetent, and the predominant narrative in society is that bureaucracies are stupid and evil.

I only now realize how much my expectations of humans are different thank to Star Trek, and that a big part of my life is trying to form an area around myself, where 1) and 2) would hold.

There's also point 3), but that may be a particular quirk of my personality - I prefer stories where not individuals, but organizations are heroes. That's another reason why I love Star Trek, and that's also why S.H.I.E.L.D. was always my favourite part of the Marvel Multiverse. A magical mutated flying superhero is boring. A Helicarrier - now that's interesting. :).
Hike’s Mittal competes with billionaire dad and WhatsApp
The tracking systems is one of the reasons I ordered a Tesla.

Google (location awareness) and T-Mobile (cellular provider) already know my locations at all times, I'm fine with Tesla collecting that data in return for software updates, Autopilot refinements, and for the vehicle returning data to them to enhance their own Autopilot algorithms.
Being a noob, after asking several "dumb" questions, I was given a link to Eric Raymond's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"[1]. You need to learn to ask questions the proper way.

Ask your supervisors to organize pair-programming sessions. That way you'll learn a lot.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I thought "that's silly". Then I thought what I do when I get a compiler error. Most of the time I look at the line number, go to the source, try to figure out the mistake quickly, if nothing is obvious only then go back to the error and actually read what it said.

You're right - I was taught for a long time that the compiler will usually say something like "unexpected ':'" - which is in most cases absolutely useless.
I'm sure you're not. The issue is, "economically viable" is a useless phrase by itself, and is usually used to imply "economically viable at current prices".

For most non-energy non-renewable resources, humanity can just pour more energy than they do now into securing the scarce resource, and things will be a bit more expensive, but less concentrated ores will be targetted and more expensive extraction methods used and the supply will hold up at a higher price. Substitutes will be sought and some will maybe be found, if they work out better than the now-pricier resource.

Finance abhors an inexpensive depleting natural resource it has no substitutes or emergency supply for: if it is economically viable for one investor to buy all the world's remaining supply of Technetium, he will stockpile it and trickle it out to the resource-starved market at ten times what he paid. To assert that "lack of education" is the problem is ignoring the numbers issue: it only takes a single smart investor to turn the whole market towards appreciating reality-mandated scarcity, and he earns a very large profit for educating the market.

Fossil fuel extraction concerns have a better basis: they have a floor at which it is mathematically impossible to profit from extraction, EROI<1, so long as you are using the energy you extracted to harvest more energy. I was for a period of five years or so an alarmist on this point. Even so, it looks like there exist enough positive EROI deposits to raise global CO2 by an untenable amount (an amount which depopulates >10% of the world's presentday habitation due to high wet bulb temperatures), long before we run out of coal, oil, gas, & kerogen shales.
Other way around actually.
No, it doesn't suck more than YAML-based scripting. I write complex Bash scripts daily - if I have to write the same in, let's say, Python, it would take longer, will possibly run slower, and will definitely take longer to test. Again, Bash is a nice tool, but you need to learn it well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880604 12 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882762 10 comments
One of my high school teachers had a rule that any time he called a student by a sibling's name, they got a point of extra credit.

It happened most class periods to somebody, and that was with him being very deliberate about asking people to point it out and trying very hard not to do it.
The problem there is not the US government. The problem there is religion - a specific religion to be extact. Once we start actually holding islam to the standard of modernity we may make progress here, but as long as we shy away from criticizing and shaming the religion publicly - it will keep doing this.

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

Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is the chair of the meeting that is supposed to oversee implementation of the treaty.

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

The guy that Saudi Arabia elected for this role has been convicted - multiple times - for abusing and locking up "personal assistants".

The problem here is not the US supporting Saudi Arabia. We need to shame islam and take it kicking and screaming into the 20th century. Half of the quran needs to be declared to be toilet paper and nothing more, and then we can talk.
I don't have much need for 4K, but have been considering re-encoding all my BR (ripped) content again in HEVC 1080p, as I do notice the difference, but the file sizes on my NAS have left me favoring 720p/h.264, but the size difference for 1080p/h.265 is minimal, but quality is noticeably better.
I think this is a major challenge facing software technology now. Seems to be related to my question at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10883322

One way to solve this is to create a modular super-app for which developers can write components. This is much more than just the idea of plug-ins or extensions, because the super-app will be built from the ground up, and at various layers, to be highly modular, which almost every aspect being replaceable with user-chosen components. Also, the basic structure of the app and the its extension points cannot be changed unless by majority vote of registered users.

For example, imagine a task super-app. The user should be able to choose from various competing workflows, UIs, or 3rd-party integrations. These components could be purchased outright from a gallery, subscribed to, or paid per use. So if I have a little idea about how to improve todo lists, I don't have to build an entire app from scratch to do it, I can just define a UI flow.