skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right answer to this is Google: You can search for any combination of things you want from any time. No need for a centrally maintained directory.
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The problem is that it's quite hard to get an amendment through so it's really not much political capital on her part to say this because she can say "I tried. \_(ツ)_/¯"

Question is do you trust her to actually try to push this through?
I can. 0. There, more anecdata.

Honestly though, I never use `-e` either. I keep a ~/.crontab and edit that, and then `crontab ~/.crontab`.

Voila, backup/time machine/git friendly crontab.
Love this framework, it has been a lifesaver when I need to implement an HTTP API in an existing Windows service, with no need to rely on IIS.
Agree, I miss some way to organize, group or tag the grains/docs.

If a folder structure will be implemented, sharing options should also be available for folders, I think.
Open question - What is the actual cost of living with Diabetes type 1 in the US with a good health insurance? The reason I am asking is I have a 10-year old son with type 1 and we are thinking of moving to US (from Sweden) and would like to estimate the actual cost of living with diabetes in the US in order to make a real life calculation of what it would actually cost us per month. Any tips would be appreciated - if you wanna take it privately - message me on Twitter (@hising) or send me an email - mattias at ridgestreet dot se
Here is the author's motivation:
"It felt wrong installing half of npm even for basic utilities, so I made JUST, a family of dependency-free modules" [1]

1: https://twitter.com/angustweets/status/754375515159441408
It's always nice, if you're going to go around saying "pedantic:", to have what you say afterward be correct.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cow
I would be interested in their reaction to two notes being played which are just slightly out of tune.

Because it definitely seems like something which can be trained - professional musicians often have a pain-like reaction to it, while your Average Joe just notices that it sounds bad.

But at the same time, your Average Joe still notices that it sounds bad, and yeah, just like with dissonances, it's hard to imagine someone who doesn't.

Personally I do think that they would dislike it, because I have this theory, which is somewhat similar to / a generalization of the Uncanny Valley theory [0]. That theory is that we fundamentally dislike anything which is not similar enough to something else to be perceived as the same thing, but neither different enough from it to be clearly distinguishable as something different.

So, no matter if that's two tones which are slightly out of tune, a painting with bright blue right next to baby blue, a shadow in the dark, or rice with noodles.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
> The essence of the blasé attitude consists in the blunting of discrimination. This does not mean that the objects are not perceived, as is the case with the half-wit, but rather that the meaning and differing values of things, and thereby the things themselves, are experienced as insubstantial.
Does anyone know where the text of the amendment can be found?
That's not quite what I was trying to say. What I was saying is that there's many splits in the Python community. I work on large distributed systems, and have zero experience with quantum computing or advanced maths.

But, I'm a curious individual. I'd love if the academic Python community (to try to put a label on it) would all write code that was "idomatic". I know that "idomatic" is a problmatic term, but specifically I'm asking for people to follow PEP-8 and generally follow the ethos of `import this`.

Once we're speaking a common vernacular, we can better share ideas.
They haven't done anything better with Apple Music though. The client for the phone and for OS X are both atrocious. The experience is significantly worse than the experience provided by Spotify and other competitors.
More glory for semantics at the expense of understanding
We released a passwordless auth library for iOS about 2 weeks ago. At first glance, it looks much simpler than the process described on this website. We also take advantage of Secure Enclave key storage rather than leave the authenticator somewhere that malware can steal.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/06/28/start-using-the-secu...

https://github.com/tidas
Malcolm Gladwell is an idiot posing as a "scientist" (because of his hair I guess?) Every book he writes is just anecdotes with a vague thesis. Practicing stuff makes you good? Thanks for the insight.

It's feel-good science-iness like those crap games that "exercise your brain". It's just marketing.
Easier inline editing of command args i.e accidentally executing the script when trying to enter a newline.
If you asked the farmers, they might tell you that the root of the problem is that there are so many lions.

Who's better off, the farmers in Africa contending with lions, or the farmers in France who wiped out their lions long ago?
Agreed. I've been a sysadmin for about ten years now and absolutely loathe them. At the surface, they're simple to use, but it very, very quickly becomes a headache as the server count increases. That, and just about everyone who uses cron forgets to clean up their old messes or adds random scripts here and there, which makes a machine's crontab very, very messy. It makes finding a rogue cron job very, very difficult to find sometimes.
> people with mental problems fleeing rural areas and moving to cities

Yes, although it is not easy, perhaps it is easier to live as a person with schizophrenia in an urban environment. Although inadequate, there are more likely to be some mental health services, and urbanites tend to encounter and tolerate a broader variety of human behaviors.
I already have implemented a naive NTRU in python. I'm not worried about it.

Besides, I mainly meant as a fun side project, not an open source thing for distribution. I'm not a bad programmer but I have no experience with secure coding.
I have some very mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, I strongly believe that the effects of the C-U decision on the political dynamic in the U.S. have been catastrophic. On the other hand, if you look at what the decision actually says it is really hard to come up with a principled argument against it, at least not if you believe in freedom of speech. The facts of the case were that some people made a movie which the government tried to suppress because of its (political) content. I don't see any way to condone that without shredding the First Amendment. If I have to choose between freedom of speech and stopping the undue influence of money in politics I think I'd have to choose the former.
Yeah, this is basically mythmaking. That's fine as far as it goes, but it's a poor substitute for medicine. The author has several hallmarks of being a quack: he is described as practicing "dream medicine", makes sweeping medical/health claims despite not (as far as I can tell) having a degree in physiology or medicine, and is part of a center for "integrative medicine" headed by alternative medicine guru Andrew Weil.
Something curses based would be nice - no need for a GUI ;). Cron's syntax can be hellish. For example, % is treated as a special newline character (ugh) so that commands like this don't work - and it's very difficult to troubleshoot:

appstartup.sh | tee -a app.`date +%Y%m%d`.log
And how is that any different from a civil service? Let me guess - you've never seen an episode of "Yes, Minister", have you?
Zstd and lz4 fit different spaces. Zstd is more symmetrical in terms of compression/decompression performance. The reference implementation of lz4 has a fast-compressing and slower-compressing (but better compression ratio) implementation, and they both are slower to compress than Zstd, but are also both much faster to decompress.
Google is not the right answer. Far from it. Lack of imagination is what makes it the de-facto standard. Why do I need a centralized body to do filtering and curation? Why can't it be a collaborative effort augmented with some machine learning? People should be in charge of their own information bubbles.
For power users text based will always be preferred.

Directed graphs look nice but visual programming has an important limitation: The ratio of useful information vs space is really small compared to text based representations. What can be represented in 10 lines of code needs a lot of space in the screen when using visual programming.

With that said, I think there's a lot of room for improvement and maybe an hybrid model, where the expressiveness of text can be extended with visual cues.

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Is Earthquake Forecasting Possible?
Unfortunately a common affliction of aeon.co authors.
I've had type 1 for nearly 10 years, after 4-5 years I think my body stopped producing glycogen. That's why I am super-alert for lows.

The constant fear of trying to catch if you're low is exhausting. Especially when a diabetic like me goes through sad phases, can't get enough sleep etc. The main symptom of being low is dizziness, and if you're blood sugar levels are not in control you always feel that diziness.

I've had panic attacks, thinking I'm low when I'm not, got really depressed, my blood sugar levels were like a roller coaster.

This year I managed to get a grip of my life, right now I'm on vacation and relatively happy, I noticed that I get by with much less insulin. Stress definitely has an effect on diabetes management. During exam weeks for example, it's nearly impossible for me to keep my levels under control.

A CGM could end all this suffering, but the cost of having one is very high. The insurance, at least here in Turkey, covers only 3 strips a day of the cheapest brand available.

I've seen 22 mg/dl at a time, and didn't lose consciousness. Most diabetics can feel when they're hypoglycemic.

PS: These are my own experiences, sorry if it's too verbose.
You reference those here and there. Curious what projects you work on, esp OS-related?
> good health insurance

In the USA, that generally means being a civil service or Microsoft employee. Anything else involves limits and co-pays, so find out in advance.
My java script fatigue led me to disable it on my phone.

Seriously. I's been about nine months.

I use the exceptions feature to add in common sites where it is required.

I have been surprised over the course of this experiment by how little it is really needed for casual browsing.

And it has led to a decline in my consumption of garbage Internet by forcing me to take the time to add the exception which leads me to question whether this content is really worth the effort.

I think about building a feature that can do quick, single instance, javascript exceptions.

However, I fear it would undo the good done by the natural filter on my surfing.

And as a bonus, my data usage decreased considerably.
Which means he is stating "practice a lot and you'll get good."

Which would be obvious if it wasn't also false. You also need to be practicing the right things in the right way and evolve what you practice as you develop.

If you put a person in a room with a piano and had them futz with it for 10,000 hours they will end up much worse than someone who has a dedicated coach, sheet music and proper exercises.

Pretty much everything Gladwell posits is just some folksy wisdom pretending to be fresh insight wearing a shoddy Einstein wig.
This, and other recent events, remind me of the "muckers" from John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar
OSX Terminal does this (but with Command-f).
I think the HN community is pretty diverse and for the most part attracts people who are genuinely interested in constructive discussions. The folks who blindly dismiss something as being the new "hotness" are probably down voted because they were simply doing that - blindly dismissing without providing any useful feedback.

There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with something, but I think it's important to provide useful feedback and even more important to provide it in a useful way.

I quite like seeing what the new hotness is, and I equally like reading about unpopular languages/projects too. I usually get more insight into those projects when I read through comments because a lot of smart people (probably a lot smarter than me) provide some awesome input. The posts that I see as having been flagged or down voted is usually because the comment was aggressive or completely non-constructive (trolling).

Personally, I'm indifferent in either case. If I don't like or necessarily agree with something I read, or it really doesn't add anything to the discussion, I just scroll down to the next comment. But I'm sure the people who are passionate enough to down vote a particular comment are the same people who will upvote others, and given the broad userbase HN attracts I'd assume that for a person who down votes a comment, there's probably another who upvotes - unless the comment is just a straight up troll then the community usually does a good job at moderating.

I think the up/down voting system works pretty well; it gives the community some ability to moderate a thread so that we can focus on the content that matters. That's not always the case of course, but I think it works most of the time.
Delicious in its heyday would have qualified as a crowd sourced directory.
Hyperlinking is good, we should do more of that.

I have my urxvt configured to open http(s) URLs in my browser, but it would be nice if I could open URLs of arbitrary protocols via handlers. Similarly, being able to distinguish valid pathnames and open them in $EDITOR/$VISUAL (or perhaps via special file-type handlers) would be a nice.

Overall, I'm not particularly dissatisfied with the state of the command line in 2016. My experience has been that I make no more (or fewer) mistakes with command-line interfaces than I do with graphical ones, and that spending a few seconds thinking about what I actually want to do prevents me from using the wrong approach (i.e., a graphical or console program) to a problem.
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Article mentions that Nautilus , default gnome/ubuntu, file manager doesn't have Tabs, which is incorrect as I use it daily and tabs help me get more done in it.
Check out my Github: https://github.com/SirCmpwn

The pinned projects there are groomed.
Minor quibble, but you forgot tape :)
Clothing based on real snippets of source code
Disney doing this is a net good, as it funds more projects. There are plenty of public domain animated shorts and characters, but once out of copyright no one seems to have any desire or incentive to protect or make new works from them as opposed to bundle bad copies of them on dollar dvds.
3D Printing Pen Lets You Print with Your Own Recycled Plastic
A 2D, single-page data format for lengthy documents
Ask HN: How to get back a stolen car
Don't know how many of you lost your car due to theft. Unfortunately my girlfriend's car (her 1st one bought just 12 days ago) got stolen on Friday in Gdynia, Poland (white Ford Fiesta 2009 with all options & with visual ST package VIN WF0GXXGAJG9R08406). Any clues? Ideas? ;) We've already posted on car ads in Poland, ran a paid FB/Instangram campaign and talked with the police...
The article talks about that.

> But none of this conclusively proves that cities cause schizophrenia and some argue the causal arrow actually goes round the other way. People with psychosis, the alternative explanation goes, are just more likely to end up living in poor city neighborhoods—something first labeled the ‘social drift’ hypothesis.

[...]

> . But we know this can’t explain what we see in modern studies because time spent in the city is also associated with your future chance of developing these experiences. A recent study led by Joanne Newbury at King’s College London even found this effect in children, who have little say where they live.
The site was created by a big-block "nutcase", presumably to demonstrate how the economic majority is in favor of bigger blocks. Unfortunately for him it demonstrated exactly the opposite.

Here he is advocating for increasing the blocksize limit to 8MB as soon as possible: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1238605.msg12897706#...

And here's his post announcing the launch of the service: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1133634

The site allows anyone to propose statements which all Bitcoin holders can then support or oppose by signing messages with their coins. The anti-small-block question wasn't written by the site owner, but is currently the most supported statement on the site.
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Windows CE can be a RTOS. XP is not.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838350(v=winembed...

"Is Windows XP Embedded a real-time OS?
Windows XP Embedded satisfies the vast majority of performance requirements. However, if you require a more powerful real-time support for your Windows XP Embedded OS, you can utilize one of the real-time extensions that are available through third-party vendors."

There are apparently third-party real-time extensions available, but if that counts then the existence of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT makes Linux a RTOS and I think that'd be a pretty silly claim too.
I applaud the concept, but also don't have too many qualms about installing lodash's single function packages, since they typically only have a couple of requirements and are battle tested.
I agree. The only time I seem to reach for a file manager in Linux is when I have a folder of files and need to choose files using a non-obvious criteria (like delete zero-size files or find filenames that are repeated). These are cases where coming up with the shell command takes longer than just sorting and pointing at something.

Otherwise, I prefer the shell because of things like history, job control, and tab completion. I've had users ask me about Nautilus and I kind of blank because I would have just used Bash.

I haven't used Windows in years (I'm quite comfortable with Finder and decent with Nautilus) and find Explorer really awkward to use. I'm sure it's just lack of familiarity. 15 years ago the situation would have been reversed for me.
What's the purpose of having a module like just-template when ES6 already supports templated strings? The only difference I see based on the example is that instead of using a template string literal, you call a function with an additional data argument.
If we could start with having working ctrl-c ctrl-v that would be great :). (I know Windows improved on this with 10 but Linux is still lacking)

Other than that I wouldn't mind some graphical features, such as being able to display thumbnails of images for example.
Do this: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLin...

And this: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...
Anders Ericsson's deliberate practice theory, from which the 10,000 hours idea came, has also been critiqued in other ways. See this special issue of Intelligence for some articles, and below is a sort of summary: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01602896/45

His work tends to focus on narrow areas of performance: chess, music, etc., where rote learning, memorization, drill, and repetition are the main keys, unlike 'messier' areas like research, engineering, teaching, and the like. But even within those narrow domains, his theory isn't sufficient to explain performance, individual differences, and expertise (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613...). There are so many exceptions to the rule (like child prodigies http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613... ), so many domain differences (like he is acknowledging now in the target article). He ignores the last 30 years of research in cognitive psychology. For example, persistent misconceptions and bad habits that prevent us from learning and making significant progress in both conceptual and physical domains.
His theory ignores genetic factors that influence performance and expertise (see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613... or just watch a game of basketball), and ignores the role of IQ (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613...). The data does not support Ericsson's theory, and his arguments have errors and contradictions (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614...).
> The reason they had to be "controlling and litigious" is so that their licensing terms were respected and they received the attribution they deserved

You are free to harass people about licensing if you want, but you don't then get to turn around and claim you're fighting the good fight against overly restrictive copyright law.

If you're litigating against small-time festival organizers for not putting fine print on a poster picture, you're much closer to the Warner Music end of the spectrum rather than the Richard Stallman end of the spectrum in terms of copyright.
I haven't seen that part of their toolchain; that's where I'm interested. Also, seeing a successful test of this toolchain in working silicon, with a known vendor and a good process, would be extremely helpful for the community (if other people are going to get aboard, which I hope they are).
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Take a gander at an actual 17th century composer playing with that idea in a most audacious way [0]. The section of the piece I'm referring to begins around 3:26.

The idea seems to be, keys that are foreign to the piece should sound dissonant.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbrrMtWICs4
Every time their religion takes over a society it goes from bad to worse. Look at what is happening now in Turkey, they have fired 1/3 of the judges, killed surrendering soldiers, are in the process of killing their enemies up and down the country, whether or not they were connected to any faux-coup. Secularism is stone cold dead.

There is no place for Islam in Europe. Not. Ever.

Turkey can never be part of Europe for as long as its people are Muslim.

I would prefer to die than let these jackals come into my country. The chances are that they would ultimately kill everybody who didn't fit into their weird fantasy story anyway.

The alternative is many years of terrorism culminating in civil war. Just yesterday I saw on HN some idiot claiming stopping migration from the middle east would hamper economic productivity. No idea about what he is talking about, because as an investor I have news for you:

The middle eastern countries have no economies! They have religion and oil. When the oil goes they shall just have religion. It is that simple.

In case anybody's forgotten we fought each other in Europe for One Hundred Years over religion. How about we don't do that again!
I've had this happen to me too and fortunately the insurance paid out, any attempts at recovery failed.

If the car got stolen that close to the date of sale you have to wonder if you really had all the keys that were made for that car.

Chances of recovery are very small.
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Watch a stampede of zealous 'Pokémon Go' players storm Central Park
It was apparent that they are very selective about stuff like that. You have to be a target of significant value. They could use this attack against specific buyers but I doubt they'll compromise all of them. Risk vs reward.
"15 14 1/2 2 *" -> “At 14:15 on the 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29 and 31st in Feb.” :)
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The irony is that the Western concept of something that is "in tune" is actually dissonant to the same Western cultures of the past. Well-tempered tuning has only been around since Bach's time. Our music today would not sound right to those during or before his time, in general.
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