skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Something moves through a tube' more or less is all SE systems share. Essential differences between hyperloop and pneumatic tube systems:

- hyperloop uses underpressure; pneumatic systems typically use overpressure.

- in hyperloop systems, the intention is to not move the air (employing a fan to sort-of hide the fact that the capsule moves through the tunnel); in pneumatic systems, the air must move, as it is what drives the capsules.

- because of the above, hyperloop capsules cannot completely seal of the tube they move through; pneumatic systems should.

- hyperloop (cl)aims to reach significantly higher speeds.
That's because once you've gotten deep enough into the hole of opiate dependence, your perspective on heroin shifts drastically.

Suddenly that little green pill that barely gets you off anymore looks a lot less appealing for $1/mg. Especially once you discover how cheap and widely available heroin truly is. A $10 purchase of heroin gets you exponentially more bang for your buck.

It's not a long journey, especially once you've walked half way. You can't regulate or price someone out of an addiction.
Austin has culture and affordability as a counterexample.
Agner Fog's ForwardCom architecture has some interesting ideas around extensibility: https://github.com/ForwardCom/manual/blob/master/forwardcom....
It's a BNC, but good; or it's IRCCloud, but free.
'k' is up, because the author is typing quite a few of it in the screencast before going up. :)
Isn't The Verge biased and very pro Apple? At least that's the stigma I read online that The Verge is basically Apple News.

EDIT: Maybe instead of downvoting, just prove me wrong.
Personally speaking, no apps helped me beat procrastination. What actually helped me a lot is figuring out that I am unhappy and depressed in my life and why is that. Once I figured that out I set for big changes, and stopped caring a lot for things that made me unhappy. I appreciated things I got, I started going on trips around the world and met my wife. After being happy in life I found my self in a very positive mood and very keen to explore things and not just sit in-front of a computer browsing youtube or other things that didn't help me in life.

Another thing that helped me a lot, although am a software engineer and I write code for a living, I said I'll only use computers, phones and whatsoever while I am at work. When am off work I am completely off tech, including TV. That forces me to enjoy time with my wife and go out do things, workout etc. Now of course this might not work if your goal is to make research or I don't know create app's per se or your own company. Although making sure that your hobby, goals, work whatever that is only takes part of your time a day and not the whole day tends to help into having a balanced life.

Good luck.

Edit: also something I forgot to mention those apps you mentioned might work for some people that like task specific programs etc, personally I find it that I couldn't program my life at all, I'd rather having it in a natural flow than having appointments with life, but thats just me, I see people that are quite happy with having a schedule.
To what degree has legal alcohol offset the abuse of more powerful drugs? I don't know. I doubt such a thing is credibly calculable. What I am certain of is that it isn't 'enough'; despite legal alcohol, abuse of many other drugs continues to thrive. I don't believe legal marijuana is going to provide a sufficient substitute for more powerful narcotics either.

Marijuana is easy to obtain and cheap almost everywhere in the US, and in some places it's even legal, yet people still abuse a panoply of other drugs. Here one may read a recent story about growing methamphetamine abuse in Colorado, a state that has had legal and extremely high quality marijuana for several years now:

http://www.cpr.org/news/story/meth-use-colorado-has-police-a...

No, we need to accept the fact that some fraction of us are going to hurt ourselves, whether with liquor, stimulants, hallucinogens, etc., help them as we can, and stop self-inflicting the damage and costs of our doomed attempts to control things that are inherently uncontrollable in a free country.

I don't want any "iron fists" in our justice system on behalf of the "drug war." Those that would ruin themselves with legal drugs are a far smaller problem than the extreme violence, endemic corruption and law enforcement embiggening we've self-inflicted trying to save them from themselves.

I care. I have family members that I grew up with that have ruined their own lives with drugs. But I never forget that every one of them was born after we declared our "drug war" and it didn't do them one damn bit of good.
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The graph stops at 1970.
Highly recommend reading The Power of Habit (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055PGUYU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...)

It goes over strategies and psychology of habits and how to change bad ones and form good ones. I literally just finished this book before opening HN to see this, and I loved it.
"If you had a tool or platform that could cut down your backend development time in half, would you use it?"

Of course I would use that if it didn't make the backend worse in some way. Who wouldn't? You might as well ask someone, "Would you take $100 if I gave it to you without asking for anything in return?"

But when you're saving me time, there must be some tradeoffs. What are they? At this point, I'm at a good equilibrium of time vs. quality tradeoffs, and I haven't seen any tools on the horizon that will make a huge difference there.
I know what you mean, but I couldn't think of a better example that would not have involved explaining something else that would have distracted from the point. I wasn't comfortable doing it, but at the same time, couldn't think of anything better.

Actually, I have similar problems when teaching - I'm writing a git course at the moment, and it's hard to illustrate concepts in a realistic way without hopelessly artificial repos.
I'm sorry - I don't mean to imply that Germany is all powerful. The power dynamics of different EU institutions are complex and sometime unwieldy. And often a single country can block something. However I respectfully disagree with your last sentence - assuming each country has equal power is not reality but fantasy.
I have just finished the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, I can't believe it took me so long to get round to reading such classic sci-fi. Definitely recommended.
Proper Unicode and RTL support is something Jonathan Blow recently spent a lot of time getting just right for The Witness. I wonder if he'd ever consider open sourcing that work.
Flatland vs the Zoned Zone, at first glance: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/the-two-americas

The real question is why do the cities on the coast prosper, even in a recession, and those in Flatland shrink? Why wasn't the tech labour market in NYC and SF in 2003 and 2007 half as affected as the labour market in Dallas or Austin, even though rents in SF are astronomical?
In an Apparent First, Police Used a Robot to Kill
"Why move to a city to do stuff, if once I get there I cannot afford to do anything."

Likewise, I live in a culture-free area, but between work and kids and numerous easily affordable vacations to cultural areas, I have no time to go out drinking (which is usually all people mean by "culture" anyway). If, suddenly on the commute home, an art museum fell onto the interstate, I'd merely have to detour around it, I have a little league practice to get to tonight.

I find it ironic that a childhood friend lives in Chicago but can't afford to do anything but scrape by, but as an outsider I can trivially afford to visit and do more in his own hometown than he can afford to do! He does have a much cooler address than I do.
"The Wrecking Crew" by Thomas Frank.

"Liar's Poker" by Michael Lewis

"Alaska" by James Michener

"Merchants of Doubt" by Naomi Oreskes

"Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory" by Charles Fernyhough

"Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How The Brain Codes our Thoughts" by Stanislas Dehaene

"The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists" by Gary Marcus

This has been a busy year and I have not read nearly what I usually do.
That’s a typical nonsense brought by a media who repeated after some Russian official. Just like the Bloomberg did about HyperLoop in the original link.
Generative Adversarial Networks
The leftmost one is left, the rightmost one is right. Of the two that remain, the one that looks vaguely like an arrow pointing downward, that one goes down. There's one key remaining, and that one goes up, k?

As everyone says, it doesn't take a lot of practice before you know it well enough that you'll never forget. Unbind the arrow keys, or go play some nethack (no-keypad), or whatever.
If you read Russian, read this:
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3018874

A person from some state-controlled organization talks about the teleportation in more details. He refers to “a 20 years old sci-fi movies”. Can you recall a 20 years old sci-fi movie featuring quantum teleportation of elementary particles?
Thanks. And part of the reason for writing all those blog posts was to share some tricks regarding reverse engineering.
The Changing Nature of War (2007) [pdf]
as does houston, which always seems to be overlooked on these lists. i spent four years there for grad school, and other than the woefully inadequate public transit system it was a very livable and extremely cosmopolitan city.
Just signed up. Can't wait to start talking to HAL
From what I read on Wikipedia:

- The Coriolis force is a different effect than the centrifugal force.

- The Coriolis force is unrelated to the radius of the rotating object. This is not true of centrifugal force, so while it doesn't make sense to talk about Coriolis forces resulting from spinning "something too small", it does make sense to talk about them from spinning "something too small" subject to the constraint that the apparent gravity from the centrifugal force meets some threshold such as g.

- The Coriolis force is a tidal effect, inasmuch as it is described by the tidal equations of Laplace ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_tides#Laplace.27s_ti... ). That would make it an example of the tidal constraint that I originally suggested.

Have I made a mistake somewhere? The third point seems kind of shaky.
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HabitBull(http://www.habitbull.com/) is great app for this. It also ties into quantified self analysis pretty well. I had some great luck with implementing GTD with Omnifocus and Focus GTD for personal projects.
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that's only because of misguided regulation and formula changes, you can't get a crushable 80mg oxycodone anymore through legit channels.

shockingly, changing the formula did nothing to quell the demand for abusable oxycontin formulations, leaving the market wide open to anyone willing to press their own chinese powder. chinese powder doesn't strictly mean oxycodone powder, either.

the counterfeits are often filled with cheaper, more easily acquired, more potent fentanyl analogues. fentanyl and it's analogues are active in microgram dosages. that's why heroin addicts are dropping like flies coast to coast, even heroin is being cut with the cheaper, exponentially more potent fentanyl.
Yup, Wine is more like implementing the syscall API, LibC, OpenGL, and a couple of GUI libraries all in one.
It's not in every culture, it's between cultures as well.

Africa adds 30 millions people every year. Pretty much everywhere outside of Africa is below replacement fertility.

In the 20th century, Africans were 10-15% of the world population; by the end of the 21st the could be >50%.
What's Deep Learning 4J's performance on the Soumith benchmarks?

https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
Haven't seen anyone write this yet, so: I wonder if this (I mean the whole Linux subsystem for Windows) is gonna be the downfall of Windows in the end. As at this moment, somewhat counter-intuitively, it should actually make more sense to write software purely for Linux, effectively ignoring Windows, as then you'll get Windows compatibility for free. I'm somewhat surprised they didn't actually try to contribute to Wine instead, or build something similar on their own.
Israel has a great high-tech sector. I have enjoyed it for more than 20 years, and continue to be a part of it as a consultant. It's amazing to see how many companies are here, big and small. And for engineers, it's shocking to see just how many good jobs you can choose from. Israelis in high tech live a privileged life.

And yet, we have to remember that Israel is a small country, and that even if a large proportion of your population goes into high tech, that's still a far cry from everyone. Add to that the fact that our schools aren't pushing science and math nearly as well as they could, and I'm not hugely surprised that there are problems on the horizon, near- and long-term.

The problem would seem to be more for companies than for individual engineers. Individuals with high-tech skills will continue to be sought after. But if you're starting a company, and want to recruit talent, then the competition for such talent (already quite fierce) might well be even tougher.

The government is making a strong push for better math and CS education, to try to stem this problem. And I'd like to think that things will change, but I don't know by how much.
Since moving to Palo Alto, I have to think that this area resembles more of a small town that you describe rather than a large, cultural city. Local brewed beer is rare to non-existant. Pub beer labels read the usual brands you'd expect. We're skewered between San Jose (go Sharks!) and SF(go Giants & Warriors!) and save for a few brief weekends of Stanford football are completely void of our own sporting events. Our skyline is worse than lacklustre, it's non-existent. In fact the lack of tall building means Stanford's own belltower has some singular local prominence. Except for the fact that nearly every building is emblazoned with the Who's Who of tech company branding, it would be difficult to pick out Palo Alto from any other sleepy college town.
Actually from everyone I talked too, 23andMe is pretty useless since they do very shallow sequencing, the amount of actual correlation is fairly low, and false positives and false negatives is actually quite high.
The hypothesis I put forth (implicitly) is that homosexual genes are still around because of the massive social pressure to have children and to never admit being gay.

Now that this pressure is gone, we could see a huge drop in these traits over the next few centuries.
Looks ssh-based - ShutIt can be applied to various delivery methods (there are 4 at the moment - bash, ssh, docker and dockerfiles).
My phone's calendar app has become crucial to me. Recurring tasks - work cycles, fitness, etc. - get a recurring block, with a well-defined start and end time. Non-programmed to-dos("remember to bring a..." "don't forget to take care of...") are accomplished by throwing in the task somewhat arbitrarily at a moment in the future when I might be able to do it. Between those two I always "find the time" to work on what I intended to work on and my stress about what needs doing goes way down, while my consistency goes up.

Sometimes the schedule slips or I sleep in and let a bunch of tasks slide; this is an expected failure mode and I build it into how I use the calendar. I do not think about strategies to be productive anymore - my maximum capacity per day is acknowledged by setting those start and end times, and if I want to produce a lot then I aim for consistency.
I could not find this having been discussed before but it has become more relevant to me with the increased tension in the US. I was particularly struck by the elements of passion, chance, and reason where the chance of two shootings in a very short time frame, inflamed the passions of the BLM movement, and for at least one individual reasoned to the point of view that they needed to "go to war" in order to right the wrong.
And again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067470

In an Apparent First, Police Used a Robot
to Kill (npr.org)
2 points by nxzero
The moniker "Startup Nation" owe's a lot to the eponymous book: https://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Nation-Israels-Economic-Mira...
It's a great read.

Speaking from personal experience, Israel is the only place on earth with a startup ecosystem comparable to the Valley.
I think, as a rule, the burden of proof falls first upon the claimant.

You have made a claim with no evidence to back it up, only hearsay.

This is why so many who frequent HN include citations for even trivial comments.
That issue basically forced me to switch from plain-text to html emails, and thence to the slippery slope of using italics and the OCD of syntax highlighting my code snippets..
Indeed - it looks like work on 64 bit was started, but never completed, which I think is a shame.
Right, I think this has been a trend for awhile -- standard product ASICs ending up in multiple brands of similar products.

Just the masks for manufacturing these large chips on the newer processes are millions of dollars -- not even factoring in all the design work to get to that point. But they achieve far higher density than you can get with an FPGA.
I posit that, if you abbreviate a variable name like that one, you now have two problems.
How else would you define worth, besides "what someone is willing to pay"?
Hangouts isn't a good example to pick apart. The iOS app usually gets updates sooner than Android; it's not just a recent thing. Wifi calling, voice messages, redesigns all came first to iOS and then later (or never) came to Android.
Re: docs

The code is well documented ;)

Operational docs will come, but I haven't really had an opportunity to focus on those yet.
We might actually benefit from some amount of radiation, rather than assuming that increased amount of radiation equals higher cancer risk.

It's called radiation hormesis. Though I don't think there's a scientific consensus on this issue.
"As an aside, I keep seeing these fantastical claims about Ada that, when you dig into them, come with the exact same or more restrictive semantics than Rust."

Ive been looking forward to seeing such a point-by-point comparison of safety features between Rust, Ada, and SPARK. I gave you or someone else involved in Rust the Safe and Secure Ada 2012 book listing those features to help. Just link to it in a reply to me if and when you publish such analyses.

Btw, even if I agree on restrictive semantics, the thing you didnt mention is results where Ada and esp SPARK are immune by default to so many error classes. Rust definitely had it beat on dynamic safety and probably concurrency. However, unsafe programming in SPARK is still quite safer than Rust. :)
How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes and got caught
I respectfully disagree. People who sell drugs are by and large non-violent offenders.

American prisons would have plenty more room to keep pedophiles in prison and off probation if the cells weren't packed wall to wall with non-violent drug offenders.
I've written something like this. It's not a general service (since it would have to constantly pull stuff from pinboard), but you can run it on your own server https://github.com/gbirke/pin-this-day/
Does this offer any glimmer of hope that GPU support is one day possible, and we'll be able to run machine learning and other general purpose GPU tasks through WSL?
I'm not saying that legalizing weed will divert usage. I'm saying it will deal a severe blow to the finances and internal stability of these drug gangs and massively weaken them for the final blow. It's also not worth banning in the first place, the result of moral panic not rational analysis, and not to mention that it's a lost battle culturally.

Drugs will always be with us, but not like this. We can reverse the tide of destruction. There are entire communities being ravaged by the current heroin and prescription opiate epidemic. I refuse to accept that this is just the price of modernity. America wasn't like this before and it doesn't have to be like this in the future. We can build a better society for our children.
As a 23andme customer I guess this means that drugs that suit my DNA are therefore as a result of this study going to benefit me before anyone else. I don't mind if my DNA is used for scientific research and I don't call that a moral grey area in any way. It's data.

Good for them and for me.
Ask HN: Does anybody have a list of HN story ids including 'dead' submissions?
I'm working on some hobby project and would like to get my hands on this data without bothering Dan (he's got work enough) or re-crawling HN. The various APIs seem to be rather problematic for this (maybe I'm missing something?).
Java's concurrency model may be stuck in the 1970s, but it actually works, unlike a lot of newer frameworks...
I've automated mostly everything from getting weather data, to soon giving people refunds, to soon ad sales.

I mostly try to ignore competition and stubbornly make what I would like to use myself. It helps that I am a "nomad" myself, so I know kinda what they need.
As far as I can tell, Hangouts never got much development love. It's always been buggy and inconsistent, and trivial issues will linger for years.

Come to think of it, that's pretty much what all Google-on-Android apps are like.
How the US and Israel Almost Caused Global Computer Catastrophe
"As others have pointed out already Argentina is less hospitable than Canada"

They have pointed out nothing of the sort.

The base climate in almost all of Canada will kill an unprotected human within hours for a significant portion of the year. That is simply a fact, even if you cherry-pick "Canada" to mean Toronto (which has a climate moderated by Lake Ontario), as the other guy tried to do.
Culture is more than just drinking. Art, Museums, Sports, Music, Food etc. all contribute to what what we call culture.

Also, people live in big cities for a variety of reasons. One the biggest ones is finding better jobs. If his current job is not paying enough to live by, I think that living in Chicago offers a lot more opportunities for him to get a job that does.
It's mostly from memberships (click Join) and some ads
They appear to be sequential. Couldn't you start with the first post and iterate through them, checking to see if the story is still available?
Pokémon Go used by armed robbers to lure players into trap
I have to say, Google Inbox has utterly changed my life with its Reminders feature
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&lt;em&gt;Wired&lt;/em&gt; Founder Kevin Kelly On the Technologies That Will Dominate Our Future
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This helps to understand the scope of cancer in laymen's terms. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php/archive_print.ph...
It's the WSJ. Of course regulation has to be the problem.

But usually, it's geography. Manhattan and SF have water borders. There's sprawl outside them, but the good stuff is near the center.

If you don't have geographic obstacles, cities can get insanely huge. Mexico City. Beijing. Shanghai. Tokyo. The US has the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, with about 20 million people, the world's second largest city area. That's what happens when expansion jumps the geographic obstacles.
Not in insert mode, it will insert 'h', 'j', 'k' and 'l' ;-)
Why oh why would one want to do this terrible thing?