skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much as I'd prefer year-round DST in general (as we once had), I have enough flexibility these days that it really doesn't matter that much. At one level I wouldn't be opposed to moving New England to Atlantic Time where it "belongs." But, if I'm being honest, I have to admit that it's probably not worth putting Boston in a separate timezone from New York and the rest of the East Coast (and creating a 4 hour difference from California).
If I may make a recommendation: check out ClojureScript with reagent and re-frame when you feel you've achieved what you set out to in Elm. While Elm nailed the essence of FRP, ClojureScript really nails the experience I was looking for in ways Elm can not.

While it doesn't have the gradual typing and fantastic compiler messages, it is also functional and immutable. But to my view it has all around better tooling, very simple FFI (either reference JS already on the page transparently or pull in JS formally via extern definition files similar to TypeScript typings), optional typing via core.typed, sourcemaps with a native debugger, and a node-like full stack synergy through Clojure but with all the power of the JVM.

You definitely lose some confidence at run time due to the dynamic typing, but on the whole I think the gains far exceed that. At least for me it's a package that is very hard to beat.
My favorite counterargument:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst/

>If we stayed on Standard Time throughout the year, sunrise here in the Chicago area would be between 4:15 and 4:30 am from the middle of May through the middle of July. And if you check the times for civil twilight, which is when it’s bright enough to see without artificial light, you’ll find that that starts half an hour earlier. This is insane and a complete waste of sunlight.

>If, by the way, you think the solution is to stay on DST throughout the year, I can only tell you that we tried that back in the 70s and it didn’t turn out well. Sunrise here in Chicago was after 8:00 am, which put school children out on the street at bus stops before dawn in the dead of winter.

DST is the only sensible option in my opinion.
Botched Java patch leaves millions vulnerable to 30-month-old attack
This is a great day for humans. Glad to see all those years of human research finally pay off.
Previous discussion from over a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8692563
I think it's interesting you're describing values systems in terms of particular jobs. Like, I work as a writer, and I do value the work that I do, but I don't think of that as my values - my values are: sound, well-researched information; kindness; humor; creativity; taking care of important resources; starting good conversations... It is difficult to believe that any of those values are "deeply offensive"to anyone - and if a person finds them offensive, I do want to change that person's mind. I agree that values are often associated with a community, but i think the work of speaking across community lines to find common values is deeply important - particularly in a far-flung democracy. In your Sanders vs. Trump example, I think actually a lot of the underlying values are the same - dignity for workers, safety for families... if we were all better at speaking about our underlying values, we would have an easier time understanding each other.
Collections-C, generic data structures for C
I agree with your point, one size certainly doesn't fit all. However, people should also be aware that they are not special snowflakes and there large groups of people who have the same tendencies and benefit from the same advice.

Therefore, even though I appreciate that this isn't a solution for everyone, I don't think it's fair to say that this boils down to just a personal experience with no external value.
But don't forget, with Basic Income an employer is able to offer a higher overall income without increasing their costs.

Maybe your soul crushing job isn't worth it for $20k, but it might be for $30k. Or you might be willing to work half as long for $20k.

Also, since the cost of quitting becomes much lower, there's a much stronger incentive for employers to provide a decent workplace. And that might not even mean any extra costs. They could just treat employees with more respect than they needed to when you were desperate.

Basic Income means you end up with a real market for labour, instead of a bunch of desperate people taking whatever they can get.
This is a matter of perspective. If you were a tiger, you would consider anything that walks or crawls to be "meat".
A VAT works without regard to the wages paid.
Razor Blade Stealth.. http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth
Adobe issues emergency patch for actively exploited code-execution bug
This game is a great example for the people that said that AlphaGo didnt play mistakes when it had a better position because it lowered the margin, because it only looks at winning probability.

AlphaGo made a mistake and realized it was behind, and crumbled because all moves are "mistakes"(they all lead to loss) so any of them is as good as any other.

Im very suprrised and glad to see Humans still have something against AlphaGo, but ultimately, these kind of errors might dissapear if AlphaGo trains 6 more months. It made a tactical mistake, not a theory one.
They just added encrypted voice and video calls (1to1) in the latest version (Guess that's why this is posted now).
Wire launched at least a year ago, if not earlier, and I have the same question now that I had then: Why should I use it?

For good security, I have email/PGP which has few of my friends, but lots of usage for secure communication.

For secure chat I have Signal which some of my friends use, but not many.

For most of my chat I have WhatsApp which is relatively secure, and has a relatively good UI. Almost all my friends and family have this.

For the rest of my chat I have Facebook Messenger which isn't secure in the slightest, but it also has almost all of my friends and family on it. It has a very good UI, and lots of features that I make good use of.

Wire on the other hand has almost none of my friends, isn't open, so can't be any more secure than WhatsApp, and has a pretty but ultimately annoying UI, and very few features.
Came across this yesterday which is also a tiny laptop/gamepad except it'll probably come out sooner and it's cheaper, faster, intel atom, and Windows 10. The Pyra has some advantages over it but it's more expensive, older hardware, and probably over a year away still.

http://obscurehandhelds.com/2016/02/gpd-are-back-with-someth...
Is Snapchat Working on Augmented Reality Glasses?
To some degree I agree, but even if they don't lie they can still get in the way of code reading given the current sad state of code typography. If comments were handled better, I bet they would be updated more regularly with code changes since it would be more of an eye sore if they weren't.
So, what is the cause of this improved efficiency?
I find that comments at the top of functions are helpful when implementing an algorithm found in reference material, especially if they have a citation. At least that way you can check that the function appears to do what the reference material specifies.

But generally commit messages, descriptive symbols, simple logic, short functions, and unit tests are better.
Thanks, this just raises further questions. I have a lot to learn before I can call myself a weak player, but it does sound like AlphaGo regressed to the level of an amateur, which needs a explanaition by itself.
It's probably because USA is inferior to your nation in every way. b^)

Don't believe everything you read.
TP-LINK Won't Sell Reprogrammable Routers in U.S., Blames FCC Firmware Rules
I'm wondering the same, it is a shame there's not a whole lot of end to end encrypted applications, it's a conspiracy all of it's own or something? Maybe cryptologists are sparse or this is just not in their available time for the type of problems to tackle, not sure. The need is clearly there for more open source secure applications, hopefully we see more.
I don't want to speak for ArkyBeagle but I think, when young adults move, they often move for work - so you show up in a city where what you're there to do is work, the people you know are through work, you don't have the balanced social structure of family, friends, and work, so you don't end up spending healthy time relaxing with family and friends, you just... work. That's my guess.
UBlock Origin might be faster, but after I installed it, several websites lost their css formating... ABP just works well enough.
I completely agree with you.

This notion that work is life sounds absolutely insane to me. I love programming, but I also love spending time with my wife, playing games, learning new things, traveling, writing and a whole lot of other things.

The worst part of the status quo is that it doesn't matter whether or not I'm an workaholic, I have to work to do a little bit of what I love.

We don't have time to do everything. But we have to limit ourselves to love our work only because there's almost no time to do anything else!

Some people think working 80/week is good, I don't mind them. But if I want to travel, to afford even simple things, 40+ hours of week of work is inevitable

And the bottom line is, most of us only work to make the top 1% even richer
"Like many start-ups in this area, it is seeking to grow quickly and discover a sustainable business model later."

The original value promise: end-to-end encryption, free app, protection from ads, won't sell your data, won't store your data.

What business model do they expect to discover later that won't break the promise?
Insane transforming superyacht concept looks like a UFO
> a number of moves that made absolutely no sense at all even to way lower level players.

Another possibility is that it was looking way deeper than anybody, and there was a 1% chance or turning the whole game around with those seemingly bad moves. But Lee Sedol blocked that deep move in a way nobody was able to see.
It feels really weird to see someone being showered with congratulations for beating a computer program. What exactly is he being congratulated for? For probably triggering and then capitalizing on a bug in AlphaGo's AI? For showing that human resolve, perseverance and a "fighting spirit" can trump a flawed AI, at least until the AI gets fixed? For giving DeepMind extremely valuable test data that will only accelerate the refinement of AlphaGo's AI? For helping to advance an amoral field of study that can potentially delegitimize everything that currently makes humans unique and extraordinary?
No true Scotsman fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
I kinda like reading stuff like this online. It reminds me that I (and my colleagues) are doing this stuff extremely well.

The only way to change your culture is to draw up standards and then fail any code review that does not meet the standards. Nothing goes live until it passes code review.
> coloring your source in all bright colors of the rainbow rather achieves [badness]

Low-hanging fruit is the braindead R/G/B/Cyan/Magenta/Yellow used by some terminals in response to ANSI escape codes: https://sdkmvx.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/ansi-colors.png

In my mind, there's three types of colouring: None, Designed-By-Human, and the aforementioned Eye-Searing-255 (which should really be killed off or at least not be the default for anything used seriously). It's disgusting to open source code using vi or similar and have it presented in Eye-Searing-255.
OMAP5 are still being produced for the automotive industry.
How about just for playing a good game of Go?
I don't think you're using it wrong, but the default for the trackpad is a hard click, as you say.

But you can set the trackpad (Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click > Tap to click) to accept a soft finger tap. And two finger tap is equivalent to a right click.

I think the MBP trackpad is the primary reason for me not moving to another laptop, even as I become less and less enamoured with OS X itself.
I think that is a very clever form for this device. I don't want to detract from Bunnie's laptop because that is such an amazing device from the story of it its inception to the real world implementation, but I think this is likely a better form factor.

I can imagine happily using this one.
There's a documentary ("Some kind of monster") on Metallica's creative process for the St Anger album. It shows James Hetfield (arguably the band's leader) wanting to have a more balanced schedule, and adapting the band's process to fit to it. The result was a very mediocre album.
At Secretive Meet, Tech CEOs and Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot to Stop Trump
By NN you mean a neural network, of course? That makes even more sense...
It reads like someone who isn't doing much of realtime support. This works great for projects that haven't been unveiled or even ones that require little ongoing maintenance like a game. But if I worked 3 hours a day, my clients would crucify me.

Sadly, it isn't always possible.
Python in the open
Exactly what heuristics would they use to know how an omniscient being would play? Unless there are some strong arguments behind it, it sounds like arrogant BS.
I don't think that answers anything. Just because some anonymous poster put code online doesn't make it usable under the MIT license no matter what the ToS of the website says. The poster may have copied that code from a GPL code base...
I find syntax highlighting is brilliant for focusing on small elements in code. Switching it off is useful for looking at the overall structure of a closure.
I'm familiar with Plentyoffish and his 10 hours/week. However, one has to be careful with Markus Frind's self-reported "hours worked" because many people who are passionate about their projects don't count all related tasks as "work". He's probably not lying but outsiders auditing his time with a hidden camera may not conclude it to be just 10 hours. Also, his "10-hours" seems to describe his steady-state at the 5-year mark and not what he was doing in his first 6 months learning ASP.NET.

To put 10 hours a week in perspective, think of creating a web startup and trying to discipline yourself to work less than five 2-hour days because the Plentyoffish guy did it. It's not hard to imagine that a single SSL misconfiguration or typo in an XML config file could have you chasing a mystery bug like that for 12 hours straight. Or an unexpected spike of traffic has you scrambling in the AWS control panel but the issue cascaded to a bunch of other processes that takes days to get things back under control. Or your initial customers want a new feature but your "programming budget" is 10 hours of programming time. Stack just a few of those unexpected crisis together and all of a sudden you're already at 50+ hours for the week. A startup is an endless barrage of those unexpected fires hitting you relentlessly.

As for Trello, as far as I know, it's not profitable yet (which some folks consider a factor for "success"). Also, the "we believe 40 hours" may be a sentiment J Spolsky espouses for his workers but he (the founder) may not be necessarily constraining himself to that.
Another way to look at this is just how efficient the human brain is for the same amount of computation.

On one hand, we have racks of servers (1920 CPUs and 280 GPUs) [1] using megawatts (gigawatts?) of power, and on the other hand we have a person eating food and using about 100W of power (when physically at rest), of which about 20W is used by the brain.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2169454...
This is a silly false comparison.

No, I'm not willing to implement one tiny wealth transfer that could conceivably be part of a Basic Income scheme. That would be stupid.

However, if it were possible to magically enter into a voluntary but binding pact with a large enough group of people to make Basic Income work, then I absolutely would do it even if it would mean lower income for me.
Hi Dan,

I'm not using Wire yet - so I'm just quoting their marketing material - but they directly address your comments:
"Wire uses open-source cryptography to encrypt all content. We made the source code for data handling available to the public under the GPL License. This means that anybody can review the source code."
"Only Wire offers fully encrypted calls, video and group chats available on all your devices, on any modern platform. Unlike niche security apps we do not sacrifice usability for security — Wire is simple and straightforward to use."
I agree. It should have been done, and the benefits system mostly abolished, decades ago.

Given the organisation of welfare in the UK it is so very, very easy to fall through the gaps. It's designed for the world of the 1930s-70s. There's no point in a safety net unless it's reliable, and it clearly isn't.

If you had a simple 9-5 job and been made redundant, with P45, the system seems to cope. If you are self-employed, an ex-busines owner, or juggling multiple, possibly zero hour, contracts the system breaks utterly. Claiming seems to be an entirely manual process with various people employed to validate, check and ask questions, so it is very expensive to do.

If you knew you were getting that £100 (or whatever) a week, every week regardless, you'd risk the uncertain project, or even the second attempt, learning from your mistakes. The system right now puts you off ever trying anything not 9-5 again, because you'll know it'll be months to get any help out of them.

Of course, like talk of simplifying the tax system, I am not optimistic it will ever happen. Or it will be an ineffective token gesture that solves nothing.
> isn't open

Their privacy page (in the comparison table) claims they are open source. I didn't see any links to their code however.

edit: Sorry, reading on mobile (after just waking up) and didn't see the link. Thanks @ukblewis
I'd freely speculate that 90% of the benefit of syntax highlighting comes from mere lexical highlighting - specifically, making comments, strings and keywords visually distinct from everything else. And even keyword highlighting is very secondary to the first two.

Making comments distinct from normal code is nice because you can easily alternate your focus on one or the other while reading through; and you're not likely to accidentally read commented out code as actual code. You're also not going to forget to close out your comment, for languages with paired comment delimiters.

Making strings highlighted makes it a little bit easier to ensure you're terminated your strings, especially in edge cases around escaping and quoted quotes (for languages that have a choice of quote characters).

Semantic highlighting - distinguishing identifiers based on their definitions - is a seriously niche win most of the time, where you're spending ever increasing amounts of CPU for a marginally actionable hint.
I actually saw this article and was immediately thinking of an additional product my company could sell (we sell recruiting software).

But then I started playing devils advocate. If your sending an offer letter wouldn't you want it really personal and not as much about the $$$. Wouldn't you want to cite memorable and salient specifics about the individual.

This letter seemed like it was completely automated. It didn't seem "sticky" at all. I think a "personal" letter might have greater success particularly for smaller companies hiring expensive talent. Obviously you need to state what the candidate would be receiving for compensation but I think making it the only focus will lead to price comparisons.
I'm eagerly awaiting for the Pyra to get ready.

It's not perfect, it's far from free hardware, and it's not a very good form factor for a phone replacement. But I rarely take any calls, so it's good enough for me.

And the ability to install whatever OS I want trumps everything else. I'm tired of phones where updates depend on capricious manufacturers. I want a real Linux and not a bunch of apps. I can't wait to see a tiling window manager running on that thing.
Dude, read the webpage before you comment, they link to it:
https://github.com/wireapp
Tesuji has no implication that your opponent won't anticipate it. Both sides can know that the tesuji is there, and it's still a tesuji.
Exactly. Here's one I cherry-picked showing the opposite:

http://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewarticle/j$002fbejeap.2007.7....
Well, I know that I can transfer within Europe and to some asian banks for free.
Fallows Renames Dunning-Kruger Effect as “barroom Einstein”
That's interesting, what do you do exactly? Designer? Developer? :)
Your kidding, right?

It's 2016, and technical people are still asking why people should use $SINGLE_APP instead of $COLLECTION_OF_OTHER_APPS_WITH_POOR_UI.

You'd think people would learn by now.
How frigging smart Sedol is?
That's what Gary Kasparov attributes as one of the reasons he lost to deep blue.
I am planning to buy a similar setup, just a tablet with a keyboard running Windows 10, I wonder how expensive this laptop in a box would be.

Quite expensive but may be worth it, I am looking at this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teclast-Windows-Andriod-Tablet-Prote...
Also switch to metric system.
The Great Math Mystery
After looking at the tutorial the game mechanics are still not clear to me.
Intel and NVidia also sell chips in this price range.

http://ark.intel.com/products/84685/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-...
http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Accelerator-passive-cooling-900...

Now, I guess you can decent performance out of cheaper chips already, but paying $5000 for an Intel CPU is hardly rare.
Work is a good excuse around which to build your life. The excuse approaches perfection in occupations such as programming which is getting paid for what would basically be your hobby. And―as any excuse―it is, as lovingly ever-favoured by your mind, easily used to avoid facing things in life, and edges in yourself. Staying busy is the opposite of having enough. It is doing versus being. When you do, you're trying to achieve something. When you be, you're liable to realise that you aren't missing anything, and that the keys to your life are found within yourself. People need both flavours but work rarely offers the latter.
I don't think shifting school schedules is as easy as you'd think. The start times in my town (and I assume most) are structured to enable working parents to get to work around 9 (depending on their commute) after getting their kids off to school.

Pushing school times back an hour would be a big disruption for a large percentage of the population.
Debian GNU/Linux Is Switching to Firefox from Iceweasel
> It was about giving the author the ability to say "no you can't use my creation in your political campaign".

Which is why the modern US system is extreme nonsense. Political speech is protected under the First Amendment and that kind of use is basically the purpose of fair use, but we still have century+ copyright terms.