skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar to the 15 minutes starting trick. If you don't feel like doing it, just do 15 minutes of it and you can stop. Typically you keep on going and it starts it up.

Another trick is leave a simple tasks or error (syntax error) in the last place you were working the previous day/night. You'll jump right back in and get up and in production mode the next day, easy task to knock out and get coding.

Sometimes having another fun project that you can work on while procrastinating or thinking about your main project is helpful to keep in production mode. Procrastination sometimes is a battle of how to implement something and you should switch to a prototype mode and try them rather than overthinking the possible solutions.

Sometimes all those fail and you need something like Rescuetime but that also makes the blocked sites more desirable.
1) Wealthy people/corporations would love this plan. $100 is nothing for Godaddy to sit on? Your plan would just make it easier for big entities to buy/hoard good domains.

2) The one thing I feel should be changed is a registrar should not be able to buy a expired domain. Greatname.expired goes unpaid. Godaddy should not have first right to buy the domain.

3) I would like to see the number of domains go up in price exponentially. First one $5. Second one $500. Third one $5000. (And this would probally not work out in the end for numerious reasons. The only good thing about our current system is little guys can sometimes snatch a good domain name, usually by luck. I would like to try a lottery system?)
Here is a series of older New York Times articles detailing the offshoring of legal work to India:

Corporate America Sending More Legal Work to Bombay | MARCH 14, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/jobs/corporate-america-sen...

Outsourcing to India Draws Western Lawyers | AUG. 4, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/business/global/05legal.ht...

Keeping Legal Work From Moving to India | August 6, 2010 http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/keeping-legal-w...

Legal Outsourcing Firms Creating Jobs for American Lawyers | JUNE 2, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/business/03reverse.html
"buy real estate no matter where it is located it doesn't matter if there is no actual supply and demand constraint in our vast suburb in comparison to a city on an island or peninsula"

the truth is that your parents don't know anything about economics and investing, they are simply people that had children
>going unchecked, that town would surely become such a terrorists base

Sounds a bit unrealistic to me. You haven't been getting your information from Chinese government controlled sources by any chance?

I see they called the Dalai Lama holding a prayer session for monks who had killed themselves terrorism in disguise so I can see how you could worry too much buddhism could lead to prayer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/19/dalai-lama-pra...
Yes, it's the standard package for "BigLaw." There used to be a database on Greedy Associates that showed the salary progression for each firm, but I can't seem to find it. They tend to move in lockstep with each other.

Graduates of the top 14 schools per US News and World Report rankings feed into these jobs. Some at lower ranked tier 1 schools end up in big law, but they are typically at the top of the class. I would bet that not a single student of the law school mentioned in the article ended up in with a $160k starting salary.

This was the best salary survey I could find: http://www.lawcrossing.com/article/900045279/1st-Year-Salari...
A few years ago, when VerbalExpressions hit HackerNews I became interested in regexes [enough so that I did a Racket Port and put in some time on a building a more complete model]. VerbalExpresions is still popular enough to hit Hacker News from time to time.

Anyway, I bought the O'Reilly Mastering Regular Expressions and looked at some StackOverflow questions and bought Ullman's Introduction to Auomata and took his Coursera course and in general thought about the nature of regex's [and regular expressions] off and on.

What really highlighted the nature of regular expressions was thinking about regex generators. They popup from time to time and their purpose is to take a set of inputs and produce a regex that matches them. The problem is that given strings [x,y,z] the two best regex's are * and x|y|z. Any system that produces some other regex is by definition more difficult to understand than regex's themselves.

Now circling back to novice users, simple code that iterates over strings with a loop or comprehension is probably going to be less prone to bugs than using regex's because regex's are so powerful.

It's also going to be simpler to understand because the tools are familiar and purpose built and the abstractions of the code can be matched to the abstractions of the business logic. What makes regex's hard is that the abstractions are mathematical and intuitions about regex's rely on mathematical intuitions about automata [and in the case of Perl type regex's not simply finite automata due to backtracking and capture].

Please don't misunderstand me, I think the article is a neat piece of work. Even though I think that simplifying regex's isn't really possible because of mathematics, the article may introduce someone to the idea of using them. Because regex's are immensely powerful, that's a good thing.

Good luck.
Serious question: Is the worst case really a full-blown apocalypse? Or are people mostly safe if we live in a city at a high altitude?

I understand that sea levels will rise, we'll lose some land, have to relocate some people, and weather events will become a lot more violent and energetic. But we're not looking at human extinction?

I really have no influence over global warming, so the only thing I can do is prepare for the fallout.
You wouldn't know if someone is squatting or just building something that might take years before it's launched.
Then that is what needed to happen. Banks failed, therefore they should go away and be replaced with something else. It literally is that simple. By bailing them out we shifted away from capitalism. Which may not be bad, but let's call it what it is. Once we use our own capital to reinforce dead/dying businesses we give them incentive to get too big to fail, make all the cash they can while doing it, and screw everyone along the way. People would have been better off with prepaid cards and cash. We should have used that bailout money to make sure people got their money from banks. This is where the injustice lies. If we didn't send them to prison, we didn't have to PAY them for being criminals. Ugh they even paid themselves huge bonuses with the money we the customers gave them to continue screwing us. Remember them not loaning money though we just GAVE them tons, even though it was a provision of said bailouts? Saying it "wasn't their problem"?

Sorry, I'm jaded but when I see people say stuff like that it just makes me so resigned to the fact this is not the place I grew up in, in the 80's.
You seen the replacement rate of energy with solar panels in the last 2 years or so ? Granted, cost calculations for those were done when oil was $100, but they made sense at that point and solar has been lowering in cost by ~27% per year. In other words, despite oil dropping to 50, it's just going to continue. Even China is moving away from coal (thank God for that). Coal generates disproportionate amounts of CO2 so this helps even more than you'd guess from a simple linear estimation. Most oil usage is going to get replaced soon as well (people are talking about electrical engines for non-nuclear navy ships, container carriers, ...)

What we need to invent is cheap, dense, mobile batteries. No amount of blustering by Elon Musk can mask the fact that we can't store electrical power anywhere near as easily, lightly (meaning we need the ability to pack it up and move it around), and small. Yes you can fix it with $50k cars, but electrical cars could be $10k and even less if we assume magic perfect batteries. That'd be great and will get almost every gasoline car of the road.

Batteries are currently about 10% as dense either per liter or per kilogram. A bit of this can be made up because the infrasstructure to "burn" electricity is much simpler and therefore lighter than the infrastructure needed to burn gasoline. So let's say they're 20-25% as dense for locomotion purposes (this makes them not work for powering lights or factories or ... at night though). So we need batteries 4x smaller and lighter than current batteries. Assuming the current rate of improvement in batteries, that would require about 20-30 years (improvement per year is about 5%).

So that's just not good enough. Please invent something to fix it. If we can store energy efficiently, co2 release per year will stabilize probably on less than 10% of it's current value.
If and only if they manage to build a track record of doing exactly that.
Business wants a just and fair legal system.

Reliability and predictability are extraordinarily easy. For example: he who pays the most to the judge wins. That's very reliable, very predictable. It can be automated. Decisions can be taken instantaneously with absolute and perfect certainty as to who should be the victor. But it isn't just or fair, nor is it friendly to business.
The best way to eliminate domain squatting is to make domains non-transferrable. If you own a domain you shouldn't be able to transfer it to anyone. The only way to "transfer" a domain should be to return it to the domain registry where it may be purchased by any interested party at market price determined by auction.

However this probably isn't going to change.
For years I've used an old 19" LCD in portrait mode next to a new-ish 24". The display heights (after rotating the 19") are identical, and the vertical resolutions are almost identical (1080 vs 1024). It's a cheap/free way of getting a wider screen. Usually I keep some paper or reference document on the 19" and have two side-by-side terminals on the 24".
Once you know this trick it's pretty easy trick yourself out of this trick. What has helped me is just preparing for the task, for example, getting up from the couch and cleaning up my desk, arranging my paper and pencil for notes etc.
I think the best argument is that I don't often have trouble finding domain names available for normal registration. Raising the price only benefits richer people with less imagination.
I find Blender quite handy when it comes to (randomized/parameterized) generation of 3D objects for the purpose of rendering, although I've only done really simple things. However the API, while in Python (which is good), feels very unpythonic and clumsy, all while being severely under-documented. It would be really nice if the API could be cleaned up in a future major release...
If they give me lossless FLAC streaming and let me augment their catalog with my uploaded CDs, I will run to them with open arms.
Hey, nice usage of "$(git branch-name)" in the commands, I haven't thought about that

I have been keeping my gitconfig public [1] it's been a while and I will definitely use this repo as another source to increment it :)

[1] https://gist.github.com/felipesabino/6391408
1. currently black boxes of the same size.

3. I enter data, then what?
The parties of any contract are also free to exploit the contract's terms.
I don't quite follow how this is much different than visualizing event data with something like Kibana/Banana on top of Elasticsearch/Solr.

edit: to clarify, when it said "streaming analytics", I thought that there would be some discussion of real-time, in-flight analysis instead of the data coming to rest in yet another event/log repository. The article is light on the "streaming" part of things, imho.
I know this works, and I've used it, but I also find it to be the most aggravating thing about JWT and also OAuth. With OAuth, some sites allow you to refresh a token after it times out (so really the refresh token is the source of truth, defeating the purpose of the OAuth token), and others only allow you to refresh before it times out (forcing a login by the user if they are disconnected too long, or storing their username/password in the system keychain, making that the source of truth and again defeating the purpose of the OAuth token).

Also a timeout of this kind is only security theater, because it may only take moments to vacuum a client's data once a token has been skimmed.

The JWT library I'm using in Laravel blacklists tokens by storing them in their own table, rather than invalidating them. This is self-evidently a pretty bad vulnerability because malicious users could fill up the database, so now the developer has to deal with that scenario.

Put all that together and I think the notion of token expiration is, well, dumb. In fact I think timeouts of any kind are a code smell. They make otherwise deterministic code very difficult to reason about in the edge cases. The best thing to do is encapsulate timeout handling in a refresh layer of some kind, once again defeating the whole purpose of timeouts in the first place.
Coase theorem says that shouldn't make a difference.
DUDE! Just link the github URL directly next time -- not only should this sort of discussion be done and persist on GH, not a random HN comment thread, but, for whatever reason, iOS won't let me copy that link so I have to type it in manually. Which I won't do.

Poor form, buddy. Poor form.
Of all people the residents of the town will be the least unhappy about it. Because they truly know everything is impermanent. Its their practice and will see it as part of nature. Today I shall not buy anything Chinese. I wish there was a supermarket that sold things not made in China.
The earnings surprised me. I know a decent software engineer whose effective hourly rate is embarrassingly close to the lower limit of Steve’s reported $15–50 range. On the other hand, that’s busking in SF.
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Couldn't agree more. Kids learn to handle money from their parents behavior, for good or bad. A single letter can't have the same impact that years of example and teaching can.
Are you sure? CloudKit is the thing that replaced iCloud Core Data.
Cool, but the ships are all rather samey. They all spring from the root hull, with a main body being longer than it is wide. Perhaps that is needed to conform with our terrestrial concept of "ship". But I think it could be improved by randomizing the number or shape of starting hulls. It would also be interesting to see what could be done by extruding spherical shapes rather than boxes.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes:

> a "runaway greenhouse effect" -- analogous to Venus --
appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities. [1]

[1] http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session31/inf3.pdf
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If it has a provision for forwarding all assets (with the necessary internal state detailed) to another address/DAO, then you can basically perform a migration to a fixed version.
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I work on a project that does a lot of systems programming in C#. It's awful. Myself and several coworkers every now and then ask, "why wasn't this done in C or C++ in the first place?" So much jumping through hoops avoiding the GC kicking in, or the GC moving memory around, doing P/Invokes, translating things between managed and native, and so on... It's not fun at all.
I wonder if those impeccably dressed Jehova's Witnesses in SF subway stations collect data on their pamphleteering/conversion efforts
Honestly, I don't think that's far off from the mindsets of a sizable number in the developed world.
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I would tend to agree with you. As of right now, I'm not personally involved in the fight against global warming. I'll try to do my part, but it's just like the efforts of one vegan trying to stop the slaughter of millions of animals.

If it's going to happen, then it happens. I'll be reading the news all the way, but really the only thing I can do is to be prepared for the worst.
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I'm saying there are use cases for node. Maybe not as ideal of core infrastructure where scalability and latency are of the most important. But there may be use cases where a new engineer could contribute faster, cleaner, and more effectively with node. An amazing engineer with node, can do far greater things than a mediocre engineer in golang, or what ever the fashion language of the year is. Node has its place, and should be respected.
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These are still your problems. The economic fallout alone could personally affect you, or those nicer days could lead to hurricanes and tornados where there were none, and so on.
Form follows function! No wait... I think I have it backwards
Given the way transfers work, that would also mean you couldn't move a domain from one registrar to another. So if you had a domain that anyone else would want, and your registrar decided to raise their prices or change their policies, you'd be unable to leave without losing your domain.
we should've just Gaddafi enslave thousands of women in his harem \s. You should read the book 'Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya' before going around spreading hate and supporting cruel, inhuman dictators.
You are severely underestimating the effort good procedural content takes.
No the party didnt forget to check the link or have some joke in mind, jwz's site always does if you have HN as a referrer.
Its actually a lot more than most random beggars make - and at $17 an hour, more than many New Yorkers.
Th article doesn't say why in particular but in general the government is very sensitive to any organization that might challenge its authority. In addition, China is committed to Hanization of Tibet, so limiting opportunity for aggrieved people to get together is probably important to that objective.
Very macross of you.
It is significantly easier to engineer a solution for a single, large (generally industrial) pollution source than a billion small pollution sources for both technical and political reasons.

So, for example, electric cars are incredibly useful even if they have the same carbon footprint as combustion cars simply because they move the pollution source to a single point (the power plant).

In addition, there is not a lot that an individual can do that will dramatically affect his carbon footprint. Neighborhoods don't magically become walkable or bikeable. Businesses don't magically implement work-from-home because a low-level employee wills it (see: Yahoo).

Most carbon reducing solutions require buy-in from a group of people, and that takes forever, if you can get them to agree at all.
They use pamphlet a/b testing as a service for continuous improvement of user acquisition
Coase theorem applies if there are a) zero or sufficiently low transaction costs and b) if parties are able to bargain.

If domains have to be returned back to the registrar b) doesn't apply. Auctions ensure that a) doesn't apply either.

Furthermore, adding a 7 day waiting period before returned domains become available will further ensure that parties cannot trade domains between each other but must purchase from the registrar which makes owning a domain and squatting on it for purposes of selling it pointless.
People need to stop putting lifestyle businesses in quotes.

I mean if he's pulling in a couple million a year for just himself, that's incredible. That's the dream.
I never got the money talk. It was just a part of conversations.

Me: "People sure have a lot of stuff these days. These self-storage places are huge."

Dad: "Yeah. I figured it was a growing industry, so invested in one back ten years ago. The company made a lot of money, but management were a bunch of crooks. They spent all the revenue on overpriced purchases from their friends and family.

No matter how good the fundamentals, you can't win if you're dealing with crooks."
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I'm delighted by how little code this is!
I don't buy this.

This is not a problem. Anti-intellectualism is the problem. Our culture encourages people not to be smart. In a sentiment captured by Marco Rubio when he said it is better to be a welder than a philosopher, we teach young people that non-intellectual pursuits are more noble (so long as they make money). We teach men that it is more manly to work with your hands. We teach women that service-sector jobs, or jobs that require more social acumen are more womanly. We teach people the false-dichotomy of left-right-brain dominance, making it easy believe that one is simply unequipped for logic and quantitative mental work. We teach black youth that their role models should be athletes and pop-stars, not people successful in STEM-fields (personal experience). Our popular culture characterizes smart people as weird, eccentric, and disconnected from the rest of humanity -- those tropes are obvious in the article's examples of "Big Bang" and Sherlock Holmes.

When my wife learned coding, all her old college girlfriends were amazed that she turned out to be so "smart". She was shocked, as she never saw herself as particularly smart (though she is), successfully learning to code is just a function of putting in the practice. It became apparent that her friends were socialized to believe that this coding was the exclusive domain of this mythical class of brainy people.

Sure some people are naturally smarter, thus it is relatively easier for them to do mentally laborious work. However, If the economy increasing favors people who can carry a heavier mental workload, then the first step to preparing citizens for participating in that economy is overcoming our culture's resistant strain of anti-intellectualism.
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Species survival? Gene reproduction you mean. The organism is simply a way for the gene to propagate itself.

Check out Dawkins' The Selfish Gene.
You don't get from words in the address bar to pictures in the window without the roots.
A good letter if you are a middle-class household without any real problems. But that american dream isn't applicable to everyone.

I'd write a very different letter for a family struggling with one or more dependant/disabled family members. There, conventional saving can be difficult but also dangerous. A big pile of money or other assets can too easily be attached or lost to a horrible situation.

I'd also write a very different letter for wealthy families. For them, asset protection is far more important than savings. They often spend more energy dissociating themselves from their wealth via trusts and other tax-efficient games than they do actually building savings.
The language is Solidity (https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) which runs on the Ethereum VM.

Certainly one of the challenges for the project is implementation and security issues in the Turing-complete language they decided to create for the purpose of smart contracts. Postscript and ActionScript have probably averaged a security flaw a month for the last decade; I can't imagine getting Solidity correct from the start.
JWZ may know his stuff, but damn he can be a salty asshole...
And while people love to trash on the East Coast Elites and other nonsense, these coastal cities in many countries are the economic centers of the world. You can't just displace NYC and Tokyo and Hong Kong and Sydney and so on and think "no big deal, it's just some displacement" because it will rock the world economy like nothing we've seen if these cities become swimming pools.