skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a phone, you're not running totally stateless, and can actually make progress towards solving the problem.

Maybe the underlying problem here is that people increasingly assume calling won't help them actually make progress towards solving the problem. Years of dealing with tedious phone menus, call centre staff who literally can't understand or speak basic English properly, and often call centre staff who don't have the authority or capabilities to do anything useful to fix the problem anyway, have taught many customers that calling will be a waste of probably significant amounts of their time.

I'm not sure how fair that really is, but phone support seems to be increasingly polarised these days. Some organisations still take it seriously, and you can speak reasonably quickly with someone helpful and knowledgeable. In these cases I often find the phone support is the fastest way to find reliable information or solve a problem. Other organisations are more like the stereotype I described above, and I confess to having very little patience with them these days. If I'm calling because an automated system already wasn't working well enough, and I don't get a confident feeling about the phone support almost immediately, I don't mess around any more: if it was an enquiry about a sale, they probably just lost that deal, and if it was a significant problem or complaint, they're probably getting a letter with verified delivery instead.
It's happening. I interviewed a few years ago at a place where they were planning a full-scale experiment for this exactly in their call centers. Hundreds of staff in that call center.
A petabyte over a 1Gbps link would take ~94 days and is probably far more than what is necessary, so I'm not sure why that's included here.
So if it's open to the whole list, then the cost to get access is effectively $5000.
I'm about 100 pages in, and the concepts seem very sensible so far. It boils down to methodically keeping track of your to-do's in one list, not in your head, so you don't have those distracting "oh right I need to do X" moments throughout your day. The book is a collection of tips to help you do that better -- you can take bits and pieces if you want.

I have no doubt that if I actually started doing what he says my days would be more productive and less stressful.

That said, so far the book is really verbose, so I'm unsure if I'd recommend it over an online summary.
Really cool. Somehow I had missed the introduction of this but it's a friendlier interface and already on my Ubuntu systems.
Previous discussion (~5 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477667
Stardew Valley
Robert Caro's The Power Broker about Robert Moses, the most powerful unelected government official in U.S. history.

Caro, a Pulitzer winning journalist, is a wiz at writing, so you'll enjoy each page. But more importantly, even though Robert Moses was a bad buy, you don't have to be bad to learn to get what you want, in an organization, by ignoring superficial power structures, and focusing on the real ones.

Plus you'll learn a ton about how NYC was built out in the depression.
New Haxe language feature: import.hx
Do a google search for Charlie munger reading list and you'll uncover gems like Influenc, guns germs and steel, poor Charlie's almanac
I commit every time I complete an atomic unit of work. Write a 3-line test and a 3-line method that passes it? Commit.

Working on something that will take a week to be atomically complete and testable? (For instance, a major refactoring.) I'll write myself a checklist of steps and commit every time I complete a step.

As someone else said, once every 30 sec is too often, and once a day is too infrequent if you're coding 8 hours a day. When I'm in a rhythm I'll typically go anywhere from 10 min to 2 hours between non-trivial (e.g. typo-fix) commits.

I do not push every commit immediately. Once a day is a good minimum as a backup strategy and if you want to make sure you can work on the codebase from elsewhere or if you have a CI system to warn you of merge conflicts.

I'll also push whenever I complete a ticket (for long-running branches we typically have sub-tickets, or I'll push when I've completed work that someone I'm sharing the branch with can build on.) Git makes it easy to develop those units of work on separate branches, and when you merge them back to the feature branch is generally a good time to push.
Dogmazic – Music streaming associative platform under free or open licenses
React adaptive grid
This was neat. The explanation starts around 1:50 https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI?t=1m50s
Mosul Dam wasn't completed till 1986, and 1983-1986 is the period of time where Mosul Dam was being constructed, and when U.S.-Iraq relations were at their most friendly.
Deconstructing the Original Xbox Boot ROM
You might prefer "Time Management for System Administrators" :

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007836.do

It's a little bit GTD-ish, but has a direct practical IT take on it without so much dwelling on terminology. Certainly changed the way I worked for the better.
I felt the same way about GTD for the longest time, until I decided to read the small book and see what the fuss was all about. It completely changed the way I look at productivity and getting things done. GTD is not so much about David Allen or The GTD Method, but about a logical, structured way of processing inputs into your life. The more inputs you have, the more you'll benefit from the ideas (I consider them ideas more than 'methods') presented in the book.

I don't follow GTD exactly the way David presents it in the book, but that's just the thing: What I learned from the book was not a specific method, but how to think about task management in a way that makes sense given the limited capacity of my brain to remember a large number of transitory things.
That is one awesome book.
> Honestly, it was a great way to keep kids off the streets. You were motivated to sit around for hours, doing something harmless while being very social. For many introverted kids, it was a godsend.

In prison, I DM'ed 4 game groups a week. All the introverted guys flocked to the games, and I watched them develop social skills over the years. They had to learn to interact with each other, share, work together, and express themselves if they were to be part of my games.
Can not agree more. That explains well about how LinkedIn screws itself.
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working:_People_Talk_About_Wha...

Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowe_%28author%29#Gig:_Am...
In keeping with the spirit of the "Show HN" guidelines, is there a demo or repository or something for people to play with?
I'm currently reading - Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson, so I immediately recommend it.
It isn't addressed in the post and the author gets kind of defensive about it in the comments, but this is one of the things that Wayland is supposed to improve on. Each application can only communicate with the compositor about its own windows, and only has access to a buffer with it's own content.

I'm honestly not sure where we are on the adoption path for Wayland. Pretty much all of my Linux usage is command line.
The thing you're wrong about is the reversal uproar. Male-owned companies and the men who run them are highlighted all the time and no uproar ensues.

This is sort of like asking "where is white history month" when the real question should be "why aren't all the months also black history month?"
No, everyone seems to believe that, but it does not. The phrase did not exist before 1998, when OSI published the OSD and Tim O'Reilly viciously promoted it:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&ca...

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgot...

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler
some recommendations on mixed topics from my recent non-fiction reads, I enjoyed all of them for different reasons (the song machine book even got me to listen to music I would never have thought I'd enjoy, but can't argue Max Martin knows how to write a catchy song!)

When breath becomes air
http://smile.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/d...

Do no harm, Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
http://smile.amazon.com/Do-No-Harm-Stories-Surgery/dp/125006...

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
http://smile.amazon.com/Song-Machine-Inside-Hit-Factory/dp/0...

Why we work
http://smile.amazon.com/Why-We-Work-TED-Books/dp/1476784868/

Enlightenment 2.0
http://smile.amazon.com/Enlightenment-2-0-Restoring-politics...
10-3-2-1-0 Formula to Get More Done
I'd recommend being a bit more specific about the things you're after. But here's two of my favourites (one technical, one business):

"Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software", by Charles Petzold

"Rework", by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
There's always the rolling release route, which I have been happily running for 4+ years without any issues.
Cassettes follow vinyl with huge boost in sales
The incredible power of ignoring everything
Sorry, but this is BS. Inflation is a hidden tax.
That is a very old article, I wonder if there are any new approaches to this issue.
A non-problem in practice as far as I can tell. It's also a very convenient feature.
TenFourFox homepage: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
How Riot Games Became a Telco
Also:

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", by Stephen Covey
Not really non-fiction, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is always a good read. Also if you're just interested in 'stuff', Plato's The Republic is very worth reading :

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_%28Plato%29
> 100 ships have taken a route around south africa during the last quarter of 2015...17483 ships used the Suez Canal last year

Thanks for the context. Any way we could compare the TEUs going each way? Unlikely the 400 ships that went around the Cape are 44 times larger than the 17 483 that went through the Canal (17483 / (4 * 100)), but I'm curious by how much the gap narrows.
I find that difficult to believe.
I'm stuck connecting... :( tried both with my phone and my laptop - both in Chrome Version 49.0.2623.75 m

webrtc works fine, but I'm unable to type anything...
I started reading Henry Kissinger's On China. I'm currently on the Cold War chapters. USSR and China actually had a very tense relationship and Mao often played Soviets off against the Americans.

One reason I wanted to read the book is Kissinger and Nixon are responsible for establishing relationships with China. My parents generation were able to come to the US because of them. Many older Chinese immigrants have positive opinions of the two, despite them being amongst America's least favorite politicians.
We increased user satisfaction by 35% focusing on the One Metric That Matters
Just for kicks, how do you feel about the gigawatts used to mine bitcoins, or rather, keep the blockchain ledger ticking?
I recommend Dan Drown's first book, Digital Fortress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress the book is filled with Cryptography, Quantum computing, NSA, Assasins....... Was perfect for me and will be for any other hacker!! :D
It is of course entirely possible to run a less-trusted application in a nested xserver like xephyr in any distribution and avoid this.
Wayland was planned as default for Fedora 24 but has been postponed[1]. I don't think it is on by default in any flagship distributions yet.

1: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/03/04/why-wayland-anywa...
You might be interested in the SubUser[1] project, which does exactly this application siloing for Linux.

[1] http://subuser.org
Part of me wishes it was turned into a Trigun like anime. Would do it poetic justicr
This is a bit of a snide remark on my part, but maybe the fact that that Dorsey is trying to run two separate companies at the same time may explain some of Twitters aimlessness.
Yes, but that's not "rootless." The Qubes approach provides much better usability because the windows from the untrusted application appear individually and are managed by the host X server.
Florian Cramer - Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts

http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/anti-media-ephem...
Op is talking about entering the market now.

That mirror app was created 6 years ago. You can create any trivial app and succeed if you're one of the first in the market.
i personally would appreciate a security popup from the OS asking me if i want to give full access to an input to any app. otherwise, to each only his own, and the possibility of applying for global shortcuts perhaps...
ls -Recurse -Include "*exe" $PATH | % { something $_}
So what is the current status of GUI isolation in Linux (say Ubuntu), Windows and MacOS?
Zero to One by Peter Thiel

The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Strategy Rules - Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs by David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano

These are all timely books and recently written.
NHR: Yet Another HTTP Router for Java Based on NanoHTTPD
The world beyond your head is fantastic. http://www.amazon.com/The-World-Beyond-Your-Head/dp/03742929...
If the person you replied to just died today, virtually nothing would change about global capitalism. Also, what kind of ethics do you subscribe to that validates your reasoning? I can't imagine your definition of responsibility being useful at all except as an excuse to tell people to stop complaining about the flaws of a system far too large to be at all under their influence except collectively.

Granted that we have collective responsibility for human activity, then only by collective action can we assume stewardship of our responsibilities. The basis of collective action is first consensus, which is achieved through communication. Therefore the grandparent is taking a perfectly rational action in communicating their distaste for the system.

I feel second-hand embarrassment for your combative and flimsy dismissal.
For tmux, that opens up pretty much any terminal based editor (vim, emacs, nano) along with all the extensions you might install with it (and the build environment).

But for a protocol, I think what EtherPad (and google wave) had done with cell by cell action is what's needed. If google wave had taken off (and actually implemented their federation concept), I could definitely see people creating plugins to send and receive character operations via a google wave server.
"In contrast to iOS where all app data is siloed off, exactly as it should be."

Which is also why trying to do anything productive on a smartphone is such an uphill battle. Arbitrary programs not being able to exchange arbitrary files is totally crippling for any use-cases that go off the rails of what one single app wants to let you do.
Show HN: I built inthing.io, realtime streams with a Python / REST API
First Audio Recordings from the Bottom of the Mariana Trench Are Nightmare Fuel
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits?author=harding
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

I really enjoyed the parts of that book that were actually about the motorcycle trip. Pirsig's thoughts on quality didn't resonate with me, at all.
I don't dispute this.
Berlin as a startup – 7 min pitch [video]
Took a philosophy class in college, where we read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Got a big shock about halfway through the book when I closed it and saw "Non-fiction" on the spine!
I am happy to hear millenials are not going the route of the Baby Boomer locusts. Gen X is the nihilist generation, the Baby Boomers took 10 - 15 years to go from Woodstock to throwing themselves off the top of buildings on Wall Street. The band Jefferson Airplane perfectly mirrors their transformation. They played at Woodstock, then became Jefferson Starship, and finally became the cockrock band Starship. For their final trick, the baby boomers invented the reverse mortgage to guarantee that they leave nothing of value behind for their children.

Note: I am only 51.76% serious. I love a good generational joke. Funny that we think we can classify an entire age group with such prejudice.
I Am That, by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freedom from the Known, by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Think on These Things, by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Bhagavad Gita

The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking
For personal projects, Trello or Asana are about right in terms of complexity.

For organizations larger than about 3 people and engineering teams larger than 2 people I strongly prefer to track software work to be done in something explicitly designed as a bug database, with visible and short numeric identifiers for work items and a strong preference for a Kanban view. Jira is almost perfect for this, though it's a misery to configure, a little bit overkill for teams at the smaller end of this scale, and its few shortcomings are very short indeed. Phabricator will also do in a pinch. Pivotal is nice in principle but lacks sorting and filtering features that make the backlog possible to manage.

Getting non-technical people to look at the issue tracker on a regular basis is crucial but nearly impossible. I'm still waiting for someone to build an awesome integration between JIRA and Trello or asana.
The point is increasing transactions that can be included without hard forking.
Fixing the Internet for Realtime Applications
As one observer to another, I have a strong feeling that the debacle between raising the block-rate versus not raising the block-rate will end up similar to Mt. Gox.

The true charlatans will be exposed and may make out like bandits, while the fools who defended them so vigorously will suddenly become dead quiet.

Wash, rinse, repeat.
Street Fighter meets history’s greatest scientists
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.
Show HN: Thunkable – A drag-and-drop tool for anyone to build native mobile apps
Says the man using electricity to write messages that aren't necessary. /s
Have you tried the follow up - 'Lila'? It goes at it somewhat differently.
Yes; but make no mistake, it's pure rent extraction. The canal has a substantial public value (to the degree that improving the international economy creates public value) but by setting a price that is only just below the cost of avoid the canal, almost all of the potential public value is captured by the people who control the canal.

There's some resdiual value accruing to the public from getting goods faster, but urgent goods aren't generally sent by sea.
Speaking of which, are there any home routers out there without ridiculously tiny upload bandwidth? When I finally got FIOS I had to pay Verizon $300 for their crappy router that I can't even configure because even though my own router served perfectly well in every other regard, it couldn't handle more than 768kbps up.
You're talking about condos, others are talking houses.
a bit unnerving. why wouldn't some ad-tracking mechanism that's part of some apps simply collect everything it can and radio it back home?

btw, can this be considered a huge security plus for web apps? they can break out, but at least they have to put in some effort.
On Western Terrorism by Chomsky and Vltchek. A lucid and refreshing take on global geopolitics.
In this election season, if you are left leaning and would like to understand just what it is that's underlying the politics of the right (or vice versa), I recommend Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind.

http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religi...

Prior to reading this, my politics aligned very closely with those of Sanders and I thought everybody on the right were selfish, evil, close-minded fools. After reading the book, my politics are still left of center (but definitely right of Sanders), but I think I understand and appreciate the politics of my right leaning family and friends.
Are you being facetious? He wants to build a prototype not hit hype cycle funding.
I've been researching this recently and I think the Qubes approach is still the best. Some people use xpra, which is fundamentally very similar to Qubes (a compositor running inside a dummy X server), but xpra has been designed to run over the network and hence is not as efficient as Qubes with transferring buffers. Consequentially, I find xpra to be too slow to be usable. xpra also has gained a lot of additional features lately which I worry has increased the attack surface.

Coincidentally, I was planning to spend some time today porting Qubes' GUI isolation to run outside of Qubes (for use between containers or other OS-level sandboxes). If I'm successful, expect to see a Show HN.
for files on disk (not external disk) older then a day you can run

`locate` or `locate --regex`

Its faster since it uses a path database(If you have root you can run sudo updatedb to update it beforehand)
Angry Americans: How the 2008 Crash Fueled a Political Rebellion
xdg-app is currently being developed by gnome and it does sandboxing like not giving Tetris access to your file system

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps
In general you are correct. However, when you get into developers capable of making convincing and secure cryptographic products, you get into a seriously reduced subset of the whole of all developers; regardless how welcoming a community is. Bitcoin Core developers sound, at least, like a seriously reduced subset of cryptographic developers since knowledge of blockchain dynamics and such is also complex.
This guy has already explored pretty much every avenue to get more of these connectors:

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/03/20/finding-a-db-19-ange...

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/02/01/designing-a-db-19-su...

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/02/02/bagging-the-db-19/

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/02/12/db-19-madness/
I want to call a support person that's actually more knowledgable than me.

Many phone support agents are just looking at and reading from some sort of scripted FAQ, which means they are between me and the content I want. I'd much rather they just put all that text online rather than having it read to me.
Elsewhere i read about using vnc locally to run something as different user.

That seems to block this, though not for the reason i expected (i get an error about a mission extension when i try to run xinput list).
Toast Plugin – Latest version now supports loader over toasts
I highly recommend "The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" by Simon Singh. Really readable history of cryptography, without much math.
Rubble from the rumble
Prison DM'ing!?! Now those are some stories I would love to hear! Have you written them down at all? If so, where can we find them?

Also, if you are not familiar with the larger DnD online community, this link may be a good place to start:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndgreentext/wiki/hof

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/
Multisignature transactions with mutually trusted arbitrators.

Why then mine in the first place, you just reintroduced trusted parties?

Hardware wallets, etc... Use your brain, common sense prevents the majority of losses.

If you are careful enough, everything is fine almost by definition. But a good, i.e. user friendly, system is one that lets you make mistakes without hurting you too badly. Therefore asking what to do in order to be fine is kind of the wrong question, one should better ask with what kind of stupidity you can still get away.
PIN number analysis (2012)
An Unlimited Block Size Would Be Fine
On Force Fields and Turbulance
I somewhat agree with your conclusions, but not with your reasoning.

Anyway, to me GPL and LGPL always was the same thing but in different contexts:
GPL = Applications;
LGPL = Libraries - a nice trick is instead reading Lesser GPL, read it Library GPL. It fells better.