skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget: SaveTheInternet actually TOLD people that they are sending emails to TRAI. Facebook did not even do that! Which is why the Advertising Standards Council is investigating FB's campaign.
Breakup, as captured by my fitbit
A lot of the design paradigms they have implemented already exist in MacOS without sacrificing the flexibility a desktop interface affords.
This is an interesting anecdote about an extremely unlikely scenario, and one that hopefully you could laugh off if you're in a position to spend $100k on a luxury car.
This incident sounds pretty isolated and exceptional. The post and your reply made me feel kind of nauseated. Just sit back and critique the doers. How lame.
Goldman Sachs to Code Bootcamp: Student Embarks on Bold Career Change
My bad; now I know what an air drop is, and it doesn't involve blowing anything up.
Still, the above links are fascinating.
It's not exactly the same, but it reminds me of something I heard a few years ago. I knew someone who worked at a small non-profit. Once a year they'd do a particular fund drive that involved calling their previous donors and either talking with them or leaving a message asking them to please donate again. And every year, they'd get a message back on their machine saying only, "Please take me off your list!" They had no idea who the caller was, and she never answered the phone when they called her, so they could never take her off the list!
With these county maps, it's easy to get very high or very low rates of anything in sparsely-populated counties (see also all those red blotches in the mountain west). Checking wikipedia, it looks like there are 90 (!!!) people in that county; you can guess what one death does to the rates-per-100k people.
How virtual reality is about to change sports
I was doubtfull about VR until I get a gearVR some weeks ago. I now spend ~1 hour a day using it to watch netflix. Some game (drift, lands end) were interesting to play but content is lacking. Bigger TV screen for cheap that follow where you look seems like to be the killer VR feature. I can see it get a wide adoption.
Amazon Has a Brutal System for Employees Trying to Get Promoted
And what are the odds of switching back once the fashion moves on from heroin?
Okay this is fine... as far as it goes. I think I still want windows sometimes.

I would much prefer all of the things I do to be organised by the work I'm doing. Here is an example.

If I switch to the "personal project" I get a completely clean workspace (or whatever I left it as) with email filtered to be about only things related to my personal project. I want only the apps that I use for this project (browser, pycharm, photoshop, terminal) all on different screens all of these apps only showing the work and paths I have associated with a specific project.

Basically build GTD into all my apps and the desktop and allow me to filter said desktop by tags, projects, people etc.

And I think I'll take this opportunity to turn on no procrast again...
Recovery is hard in tiny communities. All your friends are doing drugs, there are maybe 2 or 3 12-step meetings a week, no outpatient programs that you can attend while working, no sober living facilities, and treatment involves a trip to the big city.

Contrast this with a modest sized city like my home of Madison, WI, where there are two rehabs in town, the land of a thousand rehabs is just across the state line, hundreds of meetings a week, and there is a thriving sober living community. Small town folks make up the majority of the recovering heroin addicts I meet here. They all took the quick trip up the road to Madison for rehab, moved into sober living in town, and stayed for the recovery community.

Perhaps that's more difficult on an isolated island community?

If you think it's too hard to get the dope there, you haven't met an addict in need...
Major Snowstorm Shaping Up for the Northeast? It Could Be a Monster?
Oh, I totally agree. It's just, like most things, you can take it too far. Only sleeping 20 minutes every 4 hours for a total of 2 hours of sleep per day is too far in my book.
> so there are some fairly radical changes in your body's chemical functioning as it goes into starvation and survival mode.

Ketosis is not a "starvation mode", it's just one of the normal ways your body provides energy. During most of human history people didn't have plenty of carbs available all day long, so ketosis was most likely the normal state and not an exception.

"Starvation mode" because of eating less is generally just a myth and an excuse for people why their diet failed.
I agree! Desktop Neo isn't about using touchscreen or tablets to replace the desktop. The opposite, actually. It tries to move the desktop even further away from phones by rethinking it for professional users.

And yep, the first part about using panels was very much inspired by 10/GUI. I am linking to that concept on the website, and also talked to Clayton Miller before publishing Desktop Neo.
Patreon Gains $30M Series B Funding to Support Growth
Funny that this gets upvoted so high and a more reasonable article that was posted in the same day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931349) did not.

I've done ketosis, high carb, and moderate carb, and the fact is that while ketosis can work for some, it can be damaging to others. I tried keto for a while and it raised my fasting blood glucose levels to pre-diabetic levels. As soon as I went back to a moderate carb intake, my blood glucose was back to near-ideal. Obviously you should take further tests (HbA1C) to be absolutely sure if you're at risk, but it's not all smiles and rainbows for keto, you really need to make sure your body can actually adapt properly to the changes that are going on in your body as a result of the diet that promotes keto.
I really don't want HN to turn into reddit, with half the thread devoted to jokes/memes, so I appreciate self moderation that discourages that.
The gestures for fullscreen and minimize operations need 6 fingers. Using both hands to do anything on a touch screen seems very impractical (except for typing with both the thumbs on a reasonably sized screen or a split keyboard).
CloudFlare is using Nginx Plus?! I'm disappointed!
Most of the software I write nowadays is for business web applications (with a few things going on in the background), and yes for this market I don't think there is really any better choice than Rails.

Although it may not have every new shiny bell and whistle, the ecosystem is mature enough to be stable and to have developed accepted best practices, which means you don't need to worry about whether the tool you use is still going to be supported in 6 months time.
> you call up and make a deal on a car, they "hold it" for you, you get there and it turns out the car you wanted "was just sold"

Although this generally doesn't happen after you stumped up thousands of dollars as a deposit.
The Edges
It seems like a lot of people skimmed without reading the top or bottom of this site:

It's not a company. It's not a product. You're not being asked to buy it or buy into it, just to discuss the concept if you'd like.

This website is a portfolio piece for a 21-year-old university student hoping to find an internship. In my opinion, it's an impressive demonstration of his design and technical skills. It certainly says a lot more than the average 21-year-old's resume listing what courses they've taken so far.
Many middle schools/high schools in my area teach computer science (programming mostly) with Minecraft. Its a good starting place for showing kids in a familiar environment what they can do with programming.
>Ketosis does put additional strain on the liver

Do you know what you're talking about? Fructose metabolism and alcohol metabolism also occur in the liver.

Keto reverses non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10620-006-9433-5

Many tissues can use ketones directly as fuel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone_bodies#Uses_in_the_hear...
Totally understand what you're saying, but instead of even attempting to tackle any of the issues he mentions, pg just comes across in this as "I am rich because I'm productive and if I couldn't earn a lot of money I wouldn't work hard so don't take my money," which is rather short sighted and self absorbed.
Excuse my ignorance but what is DN?
I'm a bit of a dinosaur in some ways, my main saleable skill is C, with some C++11 thrown in and various other bits and pieces.

The work varies. I've been brought in as a 'resource' little different to an employee by a few places, tinkering at the edges of long-established products and having to take technical direction from senior staff, with little to no input to designs myself.

OTOH in other places I have been brought in during the very early phases of product development, and even more or less taken ownership of direction for entire products. These companies also tended to treat me more like the consultant I'm trying to portray myself as. You can probably guess I prefer these ones :)

Contracts have varied from 1 year (with no exit clause, regretting signing that one but it's over next week!) down to 2-months, but then that was renewed on a monthly basis several times. Mostly due to hysterically over-optimistic delivery estimates by the guy running the project...

I've made some connection with the employees pretty much everywhere, and have been in contact with a few since the end of contract, sometimes they've even been enquiring whether I'm free for a stint at some new place they've moved on to.
> I don't understand the physics of a harddisk, or the pipelining of a CPU, or some of the low level OS functionality.

I think the key difference is that you don't need to know how that works. I think there's a question of how leaky the abstraction is and how often you need to look behind the curtain.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931469
What's vouch? The opposite to flag?
Available to hand-picked users or is that based on another karma level?

It's always fascinating to learn about mechanisms I've never even heard about, either by such comments or by dang's mails telling you to do X.
Recommended reading if this interests you: Dreamland tells the story of intersecting prescription pill and heroin use in America.

http://www.samquinones.com/books/dreamland/
Angular2 is following the exact same approach. Although the isomorphic bits aren't production ready yet.

Basically Angular2 renders a completely interactive view that captures any user events that occur while the app is bootstrapping in the background. Once the app is loaded, the events are replayed to make the user experience consistent.

React and Angular2 are fundamentally just different flavors of the same underlying infrastructure. React is more de-centralized and composition based. Angular2 is more centralized, monolithic, OOP, architecture based.

They have even eluded during presentations that the 2 core dev teams have been in direct contact to work out some technical details.

From what I've heard, Ember.js uses these same approaches. Kinda makes me question how much of this started with Ember and was later adoped by React and Angular.
I agree that some crank-looking people end up being Ramanujan, but the vast majority are not. When you look at the lunacy that most cranks put out, you start to see that there is a sea of weirdness out there, and doubtlessly a lot of mental illness. The old http://crank.net still seems to be up (hah! "powered by GNU m4"), so take a stroll to get a sample of the common thing that maths and physics profs have to wade through in their inboxes.
I wonder if Elon will respond with reasons given what happened to the New York times guy: https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive

Of course I have doubts the reporter was accurate but I do believe this guys complaint sounds legit.
Sidebar:

I get that this is meant to be a thought provoking concept piece and I respect that. My issue here is with the font color choices on some of the paragraphs. It is set to have an alpha of 0.4! Why would you do that? Why make things less legible?

I'm no designer so I've made some poor contrast choices and I can forgive those, but why would you make the text more see through? Is this a design pattern?
Could be a bug in the encoding profile validation as free users are restricted on the total output bandwidth.

Could you try with just one 4k resolution and probably 14Mbps?

Sorry for the inconvenience!
I am curious too. I wonder if this has anything to do with the public key encryption relying on prime numbers.

EFF has a bounty for large prime numbers: https://www.eff.org/awards/coop

"The EFF awards are about cooperation," said John Gilmore, EFF co-founder and project leader for the awards. "Prime numbers are important in mathematics and encryption, but the real message is that many other problems can be solved by similar methods."

Finding these prime numbers will be no simple task, given today's computational power. It has taken mathematicians years to uncover and confirm new largest known primes. However, the computer industry produces millions of new computers each year, which sit idle much of the time, running screen savers or waiting for the user to do something. EFF is encouraging people to pool their computing power over the Internet, to work together to share this massive resource. In the process, EFF hopes to inspire experts to apply collaborative computing to large problems, and thereby foster new technologies and opportunities for everyone.
Hopefully low. The treatment focused approach works, and so once people see this they'll keep it even after the white suburban community gets over it's heroin problem.
Who Is Aaron Swartz? He Died Too Young
my only complaint with nim is that there exists Pascal code out there that gets rotten and it is not possible to transpile it to nim.

Imagine Nim using LCL (Lazarus Component Library) or mseide code.

I think they should rethink it.
FixMe is an open source tool that automatically fixes your command line errors
From source control to Docker container in one command
It's a REPL. `exit` isn't in the standard library. Aliasing it doesn't make sense.
I wrote nearly the exact same explanation minutes after yours, but I've deleted mine because yours is clearer.
Did not get root on my test box (OpenSuSE 13.2 64bit) with kernel 3.16.6-2-default

uid=10000, euid=10000
Increfing...
finished increfing
forking...
finished forking
caling revoke...
uid=10000, euid=10000
sh-4.2$
I think some of that results from the limitations of mobile OSes: everything is tied to an app store, jailed, etc. A mobile device is not a "real computer" not because of any hardware limitation but because the OS is designed for it to be a dumb terminal to access the cloud and consume content and rapid-interaction services.

It maps well to the sorts of things you want to do with a tiny device in your pocket, but it's not suitable for producing anything other than selfies.

This is the hole in the "mobile is the future" argument. Mobile (as it exists today) is only the future if nobody has anything substantial to say or create and we are all just passive consumers.

This is really great desktop UI work and I do hope someone takes a look and gets inspired. It would really be nice if Linux desktop efforts stopped trying to deliver Windows 95 or early versions of MacOSX in 2016 and actually innovated.
To put it another way: Time cannot exist without mass. Time only exists because everything is always in motion (at least a little bit) and--in our perception--we have a memory/frame of reference.

From the perspective of a photon it lives and dies in an instant. Even if it crosses the entire universe!
What are the problems that plague others wanting to enter the ecosystem? Assuming you mean some form of discrimination, I can't imagine an open source maintainer rejecting patches due to someone's race, sexuality, etc.

In industry, the only somewhat legit barrier I have heard is the influx of brogrammers, but that's mainly annoying, and it affects anyone who doesn't mix with frathouse culture (i.e. nearly all good programmers).
I was curious too, and I found this post explaining it:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements
I agree with everything you said.

This is a brilliant resume and he ought to be looking for gainful employment, rather than just an internship.
They use the Lucas–Lehmer primality test [0], along with trial factoring candidate numbers up to a given bit depth to sift out some composites from the prime candidates quicker than a full LL test.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%E2%80%93Lehmer_primality...
That's not something I'd thought about. I work in a multicultural office too, but we were all raised by the internet, so internet flavored humor is generally universally understood.
if it's at the top of the list, it's not a strong password.

An interesting point of view that makes the whole thing a game-theoretic problem - your choice is only good as long as not too many other people chose the same.

An analogy might be that of a stock:
A password (stock) is only worth 'acquiring' as long as not too many people have it.

But I believe the difference is the quantity of passwords (money) chasing sites (stocks).

A similar version of that might be a simultaneous multiplayer number guessing game where the player wins that guesses the smallest positive number no one else has guessed.
Yes. I'm also getting sick of the phrase "poisoning the well".
This used to be a pretty common story, but I haven't heard it in awhile.

Don't accept offers that don't give you enough information to value your shares, unless equity isn't a significant part of your compensation.
Forking is an extraordinary measure, and often not practical - that is usually a very poor option.

Personally, I disagree with your approach to dealing with a toxic community. Having done moderation in various forums/chat rooms & now open source for almost 12 years, that's usually an approach that encourages poor behavior through insufficient action. As to a solution, I don't know what would be the best way to prevent it, but I'm not so naive to suggest there is an easy one-sided path to avoid it.
Depends if they put something related to it (probably formulated differently) in the license or not. If they do, then yes, I think it may stop some companies from using it.

Unfortunately currently their license page returns 404 http://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/LICENSE
Designer News: https://www.designernews.co/
Space Flower Out in the Sun (Space Station)
Linux LibOS project in 2016
I think this advice is OK as long we make a heavy emphasis on the need for some probability distribution over possible exit values. Such a distribution has to account for growth of the company, ability to succeed against competitors, potential acceptance of outside funding along with restrictions like liquidity preference, and so on.

No one is good at articulating these distributions, and many people who influence you during the hiring process with either be overtly nefarious in their attempts to get you to believe what their rosy-colored prior looks like, or they will be suffering from different biases (especially the earliest-stage employees).

For a young engineer who may or may not have a great command over this sort of probabilistic reasoning, and may or may not know any techniques to mitigate the biases that might creep in, it can be extremely risky to advise them to determine their own personal assessment of whether the exit will be 10X better and so on. Almost always they would be better off simply saying that they can't put a useful probability distribution on it, and therefore they cannot come up with a useful model of what the equity portion would be worth.

It sounds nice to teach these types of candidates about how to value the equity in terms of knowing about liquidity preference, asking about the composition of the board of directors, asking detailed questions about comparable companies and their exit numbers, and so forth. But in truth it's a bit like handing someone a loaded gun, pointing it at their foot, and saying, "you're welcome for the advice."
I knew that the #1 "rebuttal" of this would be: "links to ESR: disqualified!"

>it adopts as a premise that any CoC that refers to "safety”, “welcoming” and “respect" must be tool of Twitter oppressors

No it doesn't. It explains its argument for why that is, and provides examples.

Edit: I also knew, when I saw this post had been up for an hour, that it wouldn't make it to hour 2, no matter how many upvotes.
I think the central problem is that few userspace programs get as much engineering and tooling thrown at them as the filesystems. Itunes and similar apps which implement their own abstractions for organizing content have always trailed the filesystem for me in the following aspects

a. Hard to access the data outside the single ui

b. Performance of data import / export trails raw folders / file systems

c. Hard to figure out how to atomically backup the content in an incremental way.

d. No programmatic access.
Yet the code behind the REPL knows exactly what I was attempting to do and tells me that.

This is what Ruby developers mean when they say they optimize for developer happiness over bowing to the will of the computer.

/uses Python regularly and enjoys it.
Celebrity charades are hilarious. Pretty fun app actually, and already has quite a bit of content to keep me entertained during my layover today.
Tiling window manager, with easy back-and-forth? Works for me.

I have to say, I really like tagging-as-filesystem concept (where you can also meta-tag something), and the gaze/touch interaction proposed would be awesome to have in my opinion.

The current interaction with tagging (basing off OS X) is still pretty clunky. It's a separate field, the new vs previous tag selection is aggravating with a keyboard, and there's no easy way to browse or select multiple tags to filter content.

Having to move to and from the mouse a lot is a bit of a pain, and even with the best touchpads on the market, the interaction with them can still be annoying when trying to do things like click on a HN upvote arrow. Being able to start the mouse from the point you're looking at, or even forgot the mouse entirely when starting typing into the field you're looking at - those would be fantastic additions.

I'm slightly more dubious about the voice interaction, though there are times where "Hey Siri, set a timer for 10 minutes" is a great way to interact with an otherwise over-complicated device.
But Ghost, uh, Terrain can still make it possible to steal airdrop supplies by confusing the camera en route to its destination.
Building KPIs not one time reports
A book about politics? I think I just threw up a little.

I do feel a potential blog post in this, but I'm waiting to see how it shakes out in the near term. Even blogging about politics makes me sick but there are things that might need to be said. Hopefully somebody else will say it first and let me off the hook.
Ha! Agreed.
I've had a similar experience. I researched that and found that in those conditions having a fasting glucose that is higher than the "normal" range is not a problem, just an adaptation. I had HbA1C done several times and the results came back perfect.
I don't even live in Cali.

But some rocket launches come form the west coast, not all are Florida.
CSR Racing Hack Tool 2016 No Survey Android-IOS
>> "...one side wants to advocate for equality..."

The core premise of the linked article is that "equality" is merely a smokescreen used by one side to mask more nefarious objectives.[0]

[0] Note that I am not making any claims about the truth or falsehood of that premise, but rather am making a descriptive statement about the article's contents.
What they should do is sell heroin legally along with cigarettes and alcohol, and that way people won't overdose as much because they'd know exactly how much to use.
Cool designs with the Coffee Ripples
Well the launch Space-X launch was South-West, clearly not over any land.