skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favourite talks from a developer was his talk on "Deep Work,"[0] where he talks about how he manages to keep working on projects that take a very long time to complete. He has some pretty good advice with regards to managing one's own psychology and avoiding burnout while being productive.

[0] https://vimeo.com/94259578
Welsh funeral service interrupted by pornography played on Smart TV
You're assuming these networks can be disentangled. There's no evidence that the brain is modular in the way you propose.
I see no mention of systemic checks and balances or corruption investigation further than a couple of bad actors. So yeah cover it up replace it with something hopefully less corrupt, but not what needs to happen to prevent it from happening again.
I think that simplicity of their product line drives some of the corporate sales as well. If I tell some random IT department to get a macbook, there is only so bad of a machine they will pick for me. HP, Lenovo, and Dell have some really shoddy machines at their cheap end. At a startup you can specify exactly what model you get, but when it's a large IT department saying "generic windows machine" is much more of a risk than asking for "a mac".
Those are exterme cases yes, but do you give money to people addicted to drugs? alcohol? criminals? what level of crime do you make the cut off? what about people with lots of kids? do you give money for each kid they have? Then don't we run into the problem of "welfare moms" But what happens if a terrorists uses the money to build a bomb does the program implode?
Seems like a lot of effort if its not for the money. Cool resource though
It actually wasn't that bad, I was in and out pretty quickly and the Doctor doing it was pretty good. It sure beat driving to a city and getting it done. I just thought it was funny that doctors would go assembly line. Never heard of anything going wrong, and they were nice people.
Sometimes it's the little things that get missed with Sketch
a lot of that carries over. biggest pro for me when I work from home: cheap homemade food for breakfast lunch without the hassle.
Is it based on any major distribution
Command and Conquer remade in HTML5
JBlow is featured in the documentary Indie Game[0][1] which follows the trials and tribulations of development and launch of two indie games Super Meat Boy and Fez.

It's surprising how similar the whole experience is to launching a startup!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_Game:_The_Movie

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/
Tests are the only way I passed highschool. If I got a teacher that required homework as a significant portion of the grade, I would fail that class. Leave me alone, let me sleep through class, then give me the test and let me go. Thankfully homework was usually only 20-30% of the grade, so the little I did along with my test scores passed me in most classes with a C. I managed to fail 7 classes in 4 years and still graduated with a 3.08, thanks to summer school and the extra points from honors/AP classes.
Hope the dynamic/static dispatch issues around protocol extensions get sorted out--the current state is pretty lousy.
Is anyone really surprised with this?

These things have to be made tamper-evident, otherwise this is going to happen.
FTT's are bad. There are no models which show that they generate any revenue having been extensively researched in both the EU and UK. The basic rule is that the more you tax something the less of it occurs. FTT's are not only extremely expensive taxes to administer they also reduce overall economic activity and have been overturned everywhere they have been tried.
At least he was already stiff.

This may seem humorous at first, but seriously... it makes me a little bit sad that normal people can't even sort their TV's out any more without an "engineer".
I used to cheer for all those special-purpose distros, but I've found that I'm not a one-purpose guy, so I was always juggling several live CDs.

I guess it's nice if you have an PC in some lab, but a general-purpose distro fits most scenarios much better.
eh skimpy article, plaintext passwords and packet injections

(tbh i always assumed packet injections were hard as fuck, but i guess when your office is in the telco its ez)

i figured out how to remove the nsa from the internet for those who care. its very low tech... we simply unplug their line, and we keep unplugging them. or more clearly we pressure other admins to unplug them from the network, and use our admins to actually work for us not the government. with resistance, we would probably have to unplug lines to companies with admins who refuse to unplug nsa lines. i think it could be done and i think its lovely if it is. i think the public would a) love the idea if they are knowledgeable and b) flip the fuck out when their internet goes off cuz the admin wouldnt unplug the nsa. all in all a fun shitstorm, and a decent technical problem when we have to route the entire internet somewhere other then a telco with nsa offices.

its interesting that it could have been done along, and could at any time be done. we just lack the will.
The True Story of the News Anchor Who Committed Suicide on Live TV in 1974
Yes people with schizophrenia do exhibit specific abnormalities that are a reflection of the culture, but the real environmental factors that lead to schizophrenia are things like stress, which incidentally lead to synaptic pruning.

I think it is better to think of this aggressive pruning idea as a general loss of computational ability. You are correct that a lot of the brain spends energy rejecting hypothesis about the world, so less computational ability would inevitably lead to less filtering and more suspect beliefs.
Fiber internet was installed in my parent's neighborhood a few months ago. It involved multiple crews digging trenches through EVERYONE's backyard, taking more than a month to complete. I don't know where they run multiple cables down the same pipe, but it certainly isn't where my parents live.

Back to the original point, somehow or another, people managed to get water before the City of Flint decided it was something they needed to control. The City did not come into being because the City Government had started providing water.

Furthermore, the citizens of Flint right now are being forced to pay for water that they can't use, because it is part of their city utility bills. They can't refuse service, unlike a natural monopoly where the customer could still refuse to purchase the product if it wasn't sufficient to meet his or her needs. This is the worst part of a government monopoly, and the risk we all face when the government fails to provide a service it has promised us.
Where do you see Newegg asking for the troll's patent to be invalidated?
I don't know, maybe. The members of my family have the hyperactivity part of it, too. But, the hyperactivity is like constantly staying moving (while learning) to avoid that discomfort. And, I totally understand the distraction part and the need to feel overstimulated. Now that I'm thinking about it more - it's like I have to work extremely hard to remove my attention from the rest of the environment. Almost like I'm taking in too much information, and it's hard to shut out the other stuff. Does that make sense?

But, that's an interesting perspective, because all of the members of my family have some sort of bipolar, as well. And, bipolar has co-morbidity with ADHD. So, maybe that type of ADHD is different?

As far as NRIs, yeah I once had a panic attack (also co-morbid with bipolar and ADHD) and had to go to the ER. The neurologist gave me an NRI, and it made me so absolutely sick - it was a feeling like someone twisting my brain inside out.

Also, I've had sleep studies done, and I've had no underlying sleep issues.
Hadoop Creator on Luck, Development, and the Right Place at the Right TIme
“House of Cards” character in agile team
The Secret to Sustaining High Job Performance
Quality Police for Java projects, 0.15.5 released
Blank: Turn your photo into a t-shirt
I have the feeling, that "in the wild" most people replace JavaScript (Node.js), Python and Ruby with Go. Rust seems to be more of a C/C++ replacement.
Honestly, if I have to deal with corruption, and all the other stuff, I'll at least have nice weather with it at this point. Central coast California, Boulder, CO, etc.
I barely skated through highschool pretty much on test scores alone. If I couldn't do the homework in class the day it was due, it basically didn't get done. My sat scores managed to get me into college, which I dropped out of due to the homework. Went to two more community colleges after that for a year each, then another college I got a scholarship at but only made it 2 years there before I got a good job (thank god for my interest in computers from age 6) and decided it wasn't worth it. I'm considering going back now that I've gotten my head straight though.
So, you're looking for a way to express non-conformist beliefs about markets, and are happy to take a hit for that if incorrect, is that correct?

Walking in the footsteps of giants, the first modern individual, for me, being Ricardo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo

You mention 'buying global' Bear in mind that most stock markets outside Anglo Saxon countries are very different, as company financing goes very differently. 'Buying Germany' is completely different from 'Buying DAX'.

If you're seeking an index, there should be passive funds for most major MSCI indexes down to the obscure, but they're representative of stocks, not of economies and fundamentals.

If you're interested in building portfolios, then proxies are the best bet, and that's why funds-of-hedge-funds exist. They cover a lot of exotic interests by packaging together hedge funds into certain groups. I have always avoided these, however, as often hedge funds avoid being part of funds-of-funds.
Barbie's Got a New Body – Inside the Biggest Change in Barbie’s 57-year History
Re: electroshock therapy, the "modern" version of ECT (i.e. the only version allowed for the last 50 years) is effectively just about inducing small seizures in the brains of anesthetized people, rather than frying anything. Less "burning out the bad parts", more "recalibration of synaptic weights" ala how ketamine is theorized to act in the treatment of depression. Actually scares me quite a bit less than the idea of being given chronic doses of antipsychotics.
Apparently the button erases tape when pushed for two seconds, provided the airplane is on the ground and the parking brake handle is on.

http://www.a320homecockpit.de/downloads/a320flightdeckdocume...
Thanks, haven't seen that one.
Bay Labs Launches to Bring Artificial Intelligence to Ultrasounds
Nim compiles to very efficient C or C++ (or js) and most benchmarks shows Nim programs performance being almost the exact same as C/C++ - and often better than Rust.

So... why not using it to replace C and C++? Since I have worked with Nim (and I use it to implement my own language) I would say "hell yes"! It is such an immensely better language and it integrates perfectly with those eco systems. The GC is a good one (or well, there are 5 to choose from) and it is for many, many applications not an issue.

And before pcwalton drops in with his endless spamming about Nim not being safe, Nim being undefined etc etc (it's getting quite annoying), please spare us this time.
Why/when should I use it over Intercom?
Error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler
I wish I had known about this sooner. Installing IRAF was always a pain (though less so after they released just one big tarball for Linux/x86)
The 'business model' of big media like the New York Times is to be grandfathered by a bunch of people who are happy to spend a lot of money for the chance to form and color people's opinions. That is infinitely more valuable than the chump change they can make from advertising and circulation, which, as is apparent, barely covers operational expenses. You can see this story play out for all big 'serious' newspapers all over the world.
Nope. Take a look at the complaint (linked in the article)--specifically on the last page.
Building for Long-Term Success: The Principles of Sustainable App Development
Well, it was a while ago and was probably over a shared bottle of wine... :-)

It was one of those occasions where I probably made some comment about how daft the US legal situation sounded to me and she lectured me with a long list of issues with "loser pays" - as she is far brighter than I am I probably didn't quite appreciate the subtleties other than not to remind myself not to make sweeping statements about the legal system around her...
The best theory about combat styles I read was about the shift from chariot mounted archers to massed infantry.

Prior to the collapse the regional powers in the Levant measured might by the length of their chariot lines. The speculation was that skirmishers (possibly from the western Mediterranean basin) were employed to clean up after a volley-pass, and that these skirmishers realized that the horses would go down as easily as wild game, took that knowledge back to their homelands and returned en force.

Iron weapons aren't quite as good as bronze (or so I am told), but can be produced more readily and cheaply and thus can equip a larger force.
Seems like separation of power needs to reach further.
Yep. Get me in front of KSP(or World of Warcraft in the past) and 14 hours will have passed without me even looking up.

My older sister hates fidgeting. She punches me(somewhat playfully, on the arm/leg/etc...) every time I start 'bouncing'. I generally wind up with a few bruises when we have lunch. My leg will unconsciously bounce, or I'll start tapping, she'll give me a warning, I'll stop. Then in 30 seconds unconsciously start again. WHAP!. I might remember for a minute this time. Rinse repeat.
Great work man! I will get one for sure.
Great to see Nim getting an official book, (Dominick is almost like a co-author of Nim at this point :-).

My impression of Nim is that it is what Go should have been, if language developments of the past 40 years were taken into account, so if you like the simplicity of Go's syntax, but want modern features, seriously consider Nim.

I personally couldn't get over the significant whitespace, (relying on invisible characters doesn't sit well with me) [1], but apart from that I like the language a lot!

@dom96 Do you think that the focus on web development is good to have? I realise that it is what a ton of people do these days, but since web developers already have so many technologies to pick from, perhaps selling the book as aimed more at system/game even native desktop developers could spring up more interest.

Also, how exactly is the garbage collector tied to the standard library and the language itself?
For example, if I opt out of the GC completely, would I end up in a situation similar to D, where I'm not using GC but everything around me still is, so I have to carefully program around it, or is it handled differently?
(And can you possibly compare Nim and D as the languages seem to be covering similar territory.)

Lastly, what major work still needs to be done before we see a 1.0 release and how best can we help Nim to move towards that goal right now?

Thanks, back to the book now...

1 - Maybe a gofmt style tool would help somewhat.
Zotac’s new Steam OS box isn’t worth the headaches
You really shouldn't accuse anyone of being barbaric when you sling around words like "gay" as an insult. Don't be a caveman.
I could integrate my entire workflow with Jenkins and custom parameters and custom development of console applications ( creating automated versions of packages ( npm / nuget / .. ), mostly with the use of the "build number")

It handles 3 situations:

- local ( not included in Jenkins, but is automated within the development tools -- eg. Visual Studio. It uses local databases and local paths)

- development

- beta

- live / production

So my entire workflow is automated now, the merging of branches and etc. is done by the developer. Testing is automated ( unit tests) ... Deploying is just a matter of minutes instead of 1,5 hours. And best of all, all related packages are updated automaticly with the correct tag ( development, beta, ..)

Another way would be using TeamCity ( instead of Jenkins)
5 Martial Artists, 10 Quotes and 3 Learning’s
Full text link: http://clatl.com/atlanta/southern-comfort-the-last-local-hon...
The curious thing is that police-forces are paid for by state and local taxes. Why is no one advocating cutting their funding until come into compliance with certain higher standards?
Contact forms suck
Will give it a try, thanks for the recommendation.
Stephen Hawkings Preprint on ArXiv: Soft Hair on Black Holes
A number of nations that have managed to push themselves from impoverished status to first world over the last 60 or so years did it by shielding their nascent industries with various protectionisms. Japan and South Korea spring to mind.
they tried castration, lobotomy, and drilling a hole in the persons skull to drain the blood (they had no power tools so a hand crank drill)

on children. on teenagers. on the old. and on the stupid.

to cure voices...

you dont know what your talking about guys.

were talking about elective surgeries, that people could not refuse, and testified later to the supreme court they were done without permission, and sometimes tortured or beaten if refusing the surgery.
What I find interesting about Blank is the simplicity of their product. It feels extremely basic (creating a custom t-shirt takes literally just a few minutes), but they've nailed the UX. If they can keep the product this simple, grow their customer base and expand into different verticals I think this could be a very successful business.

Disclosure: I'm the interviewer. Not affiliated with the interviewee however.
There are some good comments here that get at the false dilemma. The observation that your blog posts will fall on a power law curve is only valuable a posteriori. After writing a blog post, if it doesn't do well you can chalk it up to power law.

A priori (meaning at the moment you sit down to write your next blog post), it's entirely useless, and maybe detrimental. At this moment it's more like the 10,000 hours of practice theory. It's not 10,000 hours of random application that will get you success. It's 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, directed skill-building behavior directed towards marginal improvements.

Will your portfolio of blog posts live on a power law curve? Yes. Does that mean you don't have to put any effort in? No. What it means is do your best every time, but don't expect success every time.

In a basement laboratory somewhere there are 1,000 monkeys typing (and generating a power law curve) and after a few centuries they still haven't written any Shakespeare.

Locally your own oeuvre will follow a power law. Globally your work, when compared to the work of others, will follow a power law. It's fractal in that way. However, if your work is shit it's still going to be hard to break through.

Side note, what OP doesn't realize about blue pill-red pill is that red pill is based entirely on a priori principles while blue pill is the opposite.
Many brands are cheap, including most food brands, so buying some should not be a problem. I'm not sure what 'dignity' is involved in brand name clothes unless you're in high school.

They should be able to afford a room in 95% of cities or some similar number, but perhaps not in the trendiest trend city that's refusing to allow denser construction.

Isn't medicaid mostly already expanded?

Being barely at the poverty line is fine, because you can get a job on top of it.

People can and do complain about the details of every government policy ever. That they would complain about the details of this one is nothing special.
Ask HN: Is it too late to start a service marketplace?
Have "service marketplaces" and/or "sharing economy" type business models passed their prime? Is it too late in the game to start one now?
> In patients with schizophrenia, a variation in a single position in the DNA sequence marks too many synapses for removal and that pruning goes out of control. The result is an abnormal loss of gray matter.

I find this to be a terrifying thought. Just the idea that I have some code inside me that's marking synapses for removal, and then they get removed. Those are my memories!

But I'm very excited about this. I'm not a geneticist by any means, but I hope the answer is as simple as replacing this gene with CRISPR.
ReactJS E-Commerce with No Back End Using Snipcart and Gatsby
If you are using Windows, also consider Tronscript, which fights for the User.

https://github.com/bmrf/tron/blob/master/README.md#stage-1-t...
https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

It de-bloat all useless software installed by OEM, BleachBit your computer, purge telemetry which tracking users, Disinfect virus and optimize computer. Most of the strange problem will go away from my experiences.

It is one tool that I will highly recommend to someone who really want a clean computer.
Gene drives do not have to be used to eradicate mosquitos (although they can be used that way). They can be used to spread malaria resistance genes to mosquitoes, thereby rendering mosquito populations immune to malaria infection.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1521077112
The clearest sign yet that Microsoft is cool again
You can't calculate an average across all industries. That does not make any sense to do. As an example, men choose to work more dangerous jobs than women in industries that tend to pay higher (miners, oil rigs, etc).

If you want to play fair, as this paper did, and consider a particular job type (highly paid executives), it would make sense to start calculating averages or percentages.

I don't think this washington post article really proves anything about the discrimination women experience within the workplace, after getting hired. We do know that the gender balance is unequal in the STEM workforce, and for various reasons, some employers feel compelled to try to balance that ratio by hiring more women. However, this does not mean women experience greater upward mobility after entering the organization.
I don't know about that; the cheap Square reader is a piece of crap that is really just a "starter" product (they're not well-made and fall apart after even moderate use). Anyone who swipes more than 2 or 3 cards a day would be better served by one of Square's commercial readers -- all of which connect via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or the Lightning port.

Also, Apple would certainly include a Lightning->Headphone adapter that would also be usable for card readers. They just use the line in from the microphone.
Apple and Google should build detection for this into their respective devices.
NO. The article is talking about releasing sterile mosquitoes. This is a chronic intervention in the sense that you need to continue releasing sterile mosquitoes over time in order to keep populations low. The gene drive technology is a one-shot deal: you release a few mosquitos and a few generations later none of them can be infected with malaria.
Interesting nearly simul-post. Same here, I scored 1250 on the SAT, 31 on the ACT, and in the top 99th percentile on the CPT.

Literature/Comprehension has always been my weakness "Read the passage below, then select what you think best describes the point the author is trying to make" -- they all look like right answers.

Took 18 credit-hours per semester of courses on scholarship, right out of high school, failed all of them miserably, dropped out, goofed off for 5 years doing whatever would make money. Got a good job that pushed me back to school, once again got a scholarship, went for another year or two, was forced to quit due to personal circumstances. I have two years left on my BS in Computer Engineering, I may finish one day, but it's not very important to my current line of work.