skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wim Hof (aka "the Iceman") has developed a fascinating method which enables anybody to consciously manage one's immune system, no drugs involved (scientific studies are available).

This should interest everyone who's dealing with immune system overreactions, such as any auto-immune disease, allergies, etc. and persistent inflammation issues (also touching depression).

For an easy intro, check out the Vice documentary: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/video/iceman

Joe Rogan has a long interview with Wim Hof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np0jGp6442A

A more recent interview: http://www.richroll.com/podcast/the-iceman-wim-hof/

For the biological explanations: http://www.icemanwimhof.com/files/2016wimhofmethod-revealed....

One of the scientific studies: http://www.icemanwimhof.com/files/pnas.pdf

Wim Hof's 2 Websites: http://www.wimhofmethod.com and http://www.icemanwimhof.com

If you don't have the USD 200.-- for the 10 week program, you'll find it on your favorite torrent site.
The Sorry State of Android Fragmentation: An Example to Understand
"Taizidang" (太子党) - the Party Princelings.

They are children and in-laws of of influential "communists" who regularly end up as generals, CEOs and heads of NGOs in their thirties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princelings
"Self-employed and independent developers who live in Germany can apply for funding."
It isn't just the metal that is polluting the soil. Apparently tones of very toxic compound have been in the mix, like arsenic. And this would be only the depolluting phase, as the devastation has torn the ground so much that its composition has dramatically changed at places.
English translation of the announcement https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u...
Not really like a phone though.
My line is always "salary is something I'd discuss in a face-to-face interview".

If they push just apologise and say you're not comfortable discussing your salary over the phone.
A lot of things in politics and social interaction are ironic.

I would note how the UK government did not want to raise steel tariffs to support Tata's Talbot plant. The reason was that it would increase prices for every consumer of steel. So the UK government blocked the EU's increase of steel tariffs.

What was Boris Johnson's plan? I can't find the interview, but he shared he'd increase tariffs to support UK steel. These are the same tariffs UK's autonomous government blocked - the same tariffs that he 'outsourced the blame' to Brussels for the UK autonomous decision.

Politics are hard for me to understand.
Every second Späti around Mitte is cash only. Not to mention the face of a cashier, when you ask if you can pay with a card. One time they asked me to buy more than 10E products in order to do that.
Show HN: Buttons - Organize and share your bookmarks
> I do sorely miss Firefox with uBlock Origin though! Ads on websites seem even more intrusive than on the desktop.

You could edit the hosts-file to block ads...
UberX now picks up from Sydney Airport
Basically, the project team for this (which is a German non-profit) wants to make the case that public funding of F/OSS can spawn cool tech that might eventually turn into startups.

The idea is to create a buffer between government (grant) bureaucracy and individual developers so that they have the least possible amount of forms and applications to deal with -- just fill out a few basic questions, and a panel of pretty cool judges gets to make the grants.

German residents only, for the moment.
Speech recognition has been ok for a long time if you happened to have an accent that worked fine with it.

I don't. I speak English with a relatively broad Scandinavian accent. Up until a few years ago, no voice recognition system I tested managed to recognise what I said with a high enough precision to be usable.

This "suddenly" changed over the last few years. And it may very well be that the approaches changed (e.g. more heavy emphasis on statistics and large scale feeding of voice data for bad recognition to people to help improve the models; offloading to data centres), but it did change for me at least. E.g. I can now not just have it recognise valid English words, but Youtube will recognise channel names that are mixes of words and letters/numbers, and Amazon Fire will recognise every actor name or movie title I trow at it with a precision rate I would not have expected just a 3-4 years ago.

It's to the point where the Google Docs speech recognition is almost usable for me too.
You're comparing the metro and the traffic in Shanghai to that in Beijing. They're not comparable. Beijing is far, far worse on both. A scooter is probably faster for most purposes than either but the metro in Shanghai is amazing, better than Seoul. Beijing is a horrorshow.
This last answer makes much more sense.
Making crunch-time a normal thing to be sought after totally does not. Not seeing how this culture is problematic really baffles me.
AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform
Sometimes I wonder how much long-term damage the Samwer[0] brothers have done to Berlin startups' being taken seriously. Not just from outside Berlin -- it's pretty common to run into someone working on "PetFoodScout24" or the "German Snapchat" or whatever.

As has been noted elsewhere here, one of the cool things about Berlin is that there is a "scene" if you want it but if, say, Soho House[1] isn't your idea of cool then there's also a lot of alternative things going on. And plenty of people who freelance while working on side projects that might grow into startups.

The low cost of living and (AFAICT, since I'm a regular employee) the viability of tech freelancing creates a lot of space for exploring non-obvious ideas.

For instance, while the gentrified and hipsterfied neighborhoods have quite high rents compared to incomes, it's still eminently possible to live for cheap in a safe and quiet neighborhood just a few subway stops from the urban hustle & bustle. This buys you a lot of creative freedom.

[0]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-15/germanys-s...

[1]: https://www.sohohouseberlin.com/en

edit: typo
You've got to be kidding me. The Soviet Union was a totalitarian/authoritarian expansionist empire that carried out pervasive surveillance of all of its people, and used gathered information to identify and silence dissenters by shipping them off to gulags or executing them. And you're here praising a guy who was helping them because you think he was concerned about their privacy.
Hey everyone, just want to share with you this bookmarking application that I created together with my brother. We wanted to do something minimalistic, easy to use, has great user performance, and offer features that we think will help to improve your online productivity, organizing your bookmarks, provide an easier way to share multiple websites at once and more!
Some XML dialects become very confusing if features are added as an afterthought without consideration of syntax and sematics. Microsofts Wordprocessing XML for example has caveats like w:permStart:

<w:permStart w:id="0" w:edGrp="editor"/>
(...)
<w:permEnd w:id="0"/>

permStart and permEnd define regions where special permissions are required to edit a document. It is encoded in a complete anti-XML syntax, where different tags (and a common ID) represent the start and end of a region.
Spain, in the mountains. I do coding and management which require only 'ok' internet and I for sure am more productive here working on my mountain view terras than in some office with other office views. When needed I fly to clients or partners or meetings for a few days and a few times a year I fly to partners and hang around for a month. I try to avoid offices so we usually meet in nature hotel lobbies, hotel lobbies in general or bars and restaurants to work or talk. Location does not matter a lot because if I have a phone or skype for meetings and something to write code and docs on, I am fine. Have been for 20+ years now.
Yep, basically, the Pi Zero gets put onto a pedestal and admired from afar.
I’m developing Halik - time traveling debugger for JVM inspired by Learnable Programming. Emphasis on the ability to explore and visualize your program. See http://meet.halik.io.
Living in Taipei also and I approve everything mentioned above :)
Plus:

- Taipei is a green city
- easy to meet interesting people
- Very foreigner friendly
- Good and cheap healthcare
Every country in the EU is better off economically as part of it.

If you were familiar with the U.K.'s history, might I remind you that the life was so hard that it had a positive emigration away from it in the 60's and 70's? No jobs and hard jobs for those that stayed.

I have to find emigration for Ireland, but considering how much Irish there are in the world it was not an easy life there.

I can go on - but every current EU country 'prospored' as much as they could, but they mostly 'muddled through'.
No, this isn't correct. If you set up a ZZP you lose it forever, however if you create a BV and hire yourself into it, you can have it. Source: I did this.
> The value is immeasurable, it's just that finance can't get a piece.

Plenty of people make money from this: your ISP, the utility company that pulls cables under the road, the construction company that dug up the road to put them in, the owner of the site where your ISP's network equipment is located, and many of the websites that you interact with.

I believe that the source of the confusion here comes from trying to slice the world into "VC monetization" and "human value", as if these were different or opposed things. I have a different way to look at this space which reveals useful insights:

We see lots of technologies go past that people seem to be excited about, but which then fail in the market. It is currently popular to imply that this means "the market" is some alien thing which is not aligned with what people want. A more realistic view is that people have multiple levels of interest. We can order some of them from lowest to highest:

- willing to read an article
- willing to write a comment on the article
- willing to blog about the technology
- willing to open their wallet
- willing to pay the full cost of making it

What we see is that a lot of technologies can only reach levels 2 through 4: people are interested, but not interested enough to cover the cost of making it. By any reasonable standard, that means we shouldn't make the thing: its value to people is less than the value of the raw materials that went into it. "Failed in the market" is a way of summarising this decision, but it gets a lot of negative press because it hides all the details so people don't understand the value comparison being made here.

The neatest mnemonic to think about this is "money is the unit of caring: you can measure how much people care about a thing happening by measuring how much money they are willing to spend on it".

"VC monetization" fits neatly into this picture: VC want to know more or less immediately if people are going to reach interest level 4 or 5 on this scale. They do not want to burn time and money on things which can only reach level 3: those things never had a future. You cannot tell the difference without asking people to open their wallets.
Thanks. That seems a fairly reasonable way of addressing it.
Pokevision and Other Pokémon Go Trackers Shut Down for Unclear Reasons
> Voice recognition has been okay for a long time

Ha what? That's just provably untrue. Just find an old Mac and try and ask it the time. A strong memory of mine is me and some friends discovering OSX's voice recognition system and trying to get it to work. It worked about 1/10th of the time, and the 'Tell me a joke' function was a particular challenge because it required you to get two recognitions to work in a row ("Tell me a joke", [knock knock], "Who's there?").

Remember those jokes techie people told about voice-activated photo copiers. That's how implausible it was that there was good voice recognition.
Thats a very very good pitch. Thanks for sharing I actually watched the whole thing and learned something
im not completely sure about this - but it seems that the people who run Didi and Uber in China are cousins (http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-ubers-fight-with-its-chin...) - and are both linked to the powerful Lenovo family.

China is a huge, closed economy .. where doing business in the country means buying into powerful business families. Money stays within the family!
No mention of Singapore is complete without mentioning the climate. Some may like it, but it's definitely not for everyone:

https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/f/ff/Singapore-Climate.p...
Real Vim competitor !
Blockchain Means the End of Asset Management as We Know It
Specs and pics of the hardware, if anyone else is curious: http://www.gsmarena.com/meizu_pro_5-7573.php
First: Python, as a general purpose language, looks terrible in build rules
compared to dedicated build tools. Yes, this includes makefile. You probably
have just never seen a well-written makefile (programmers rarely think of it
as a code, even though `make' is a programming language).

Second: have you ever heard of SCons?
The author doesn't seem very bright herself. I wonder if her parents thought the same way about her that she thinks about her daughter.
This.

I mean, Apple is investing into cars, changing the original goal from "car" to "self-driving car"... and we are seriously questioning whether google's effort was a good idea? WTF, people?
AFAIK Princelings is just one of the political gangs in China. Others are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_clique, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_clique, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zhijiang_Army, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xishan_Society
If I were 10 years younger & without kids... Hand to hand combat with the military police on a weekend sounds awesome!!!

Never understood westerners who live in Thailand (or any non-english, Asian country) but don't bother to learn the language. It's not as if you need to be fluent or even that good at it...
Well for one thing it's a huge disadvantage in life.
It's quite big in the free software world. Trac used to be the dominant system, but many are looking for even more integrated solutions and some of the biggest (Wikipedia, KDE) migrated to Phrabricator. It's mostly excellent, but know that it's all PHP and it's got a naming convention going that might be considered strange which you can turn off with the config setting serious-business (and that may be the only funny thing about it).
> So the very first thing you do with your macro powers, and pretty much the only useful thing you can do, is break s-expressions. Once the first macro is written you can no longer assume that inputs to macros will be s-expressions with the function at the beginning and arguments following.

That's just completely wrong, and makes me wonder if you have actually spent much time writing Common Lisp at all. Macros are orthogonal to S-expressions: they manipulate code (which is just lists) in-memory, after it's been read in from S-expressions by the reader. They don't break S-expressions at all (and indeed, the output of a macro is necessarily PRINTable as an S-expression, e.g. (macroexpand '(with-open-file (foo "/tmp/"))) expands to:

(LET ((FOO (OPEN "/tmp/foo")) (#:G637 T))
(UNWIND-PROTECT (MULTIPLE-VALUE-PROG1 (PROGN) (SETQ #:G637 NIL))
(WHEN FOO (CLOSE FOO :ABORT #:G637))))

When Lisp programmers talk of implementing a DSL with its own syntax, we almost always mean an S-expression-based DSL, where the fundamental syntax still uses S-expressions and the DSL is built atop them. An example would be CL-WHO[1], where HTML tags are represented e.g. as (:p "Some text " (:em "emphasised")).

Maybe you're thinking of read macros, which really can be used to implement other syntaxes, e.g. CLSQL[2], which uses custom reader syntax to implement inline SQL expressions? In that case, you're not wrong: implementing your own reader syntax does, indeed, break S-expressions. But it doesn't matter: due to the specification of the reader algorithm, neither elements containing nor elements within custom syntax care. The reader algorithm is quite elegant that way.

> I have to say I don’t care about macros, and actually think we’re better off without them. First-class functions are a much more coherent, consumable way of using code-as-data.

At the cost of being much more verbose. I've taken a look at trying to implement restarts in Go, and the sheer number of times I'd have to type 'func' is insane.

> But I tend to think that learning functional programming is the part that people are referring to

Once again, I disagree. IMHO writing Lisp makes one a better programmer because one starts to think of code as clay, which can be sculpted and crafted, moved around, deleted, generated &c. The worst good programmers I know of simply aren't comfortable with that concept; the best programmers I know are.

Compared to that, functional programming is merely interesting IMHO.

[1] http://weitz.de/cl-who/
[2] http://clsql.kpe.io/
Here is a project list:

https://okfn.de/en/projekte/

Looks like you can implement citizen/government related websites for a very low salary.

Using the term OSS seems like a stretch.
Sorry, but no. Maybe emacs or gvim, but not vi/vim.

Its not a terminal editor.
My thoughts exactly. AI isn't something that can replace "hard computing". That would be the equivalent of saying that we could replace computer with human doing stuff manually - all we need to do is train that human to not make mistakes most of the time.

I'd be more interested in other way of using AI to automate coding - make it to actually write code. Train it on existing code and let him figure out how to write a piece of code like a programmer would. I think it has much more potential than AI doing the calculations itself.
Actually, I love vim, because vim is on each server and can be used without any extra effort, so vim is out of competition here. But I love smooth fonts, scrolling, and appearance of Sublime Text, so I made it my primary editor.
JSON5 [1] is an extension to JSON that allows comments, multi line strings, additional commas at the ends of lists, and more. It has become my preferred config file format.

[1] http://json5.org/
The difficulty is always getting a dataset.

I've started trying to get a network to recognise different vowels ("aaahhhhhh", "eeeeee", "ooooooo", etc.). Relatively easy to generate data - you just need your voice and a microphone. Downside is all the NN systems are much more set up for images than sound.

Or what about neural net fingerprint recognition. There must be databases of fingerprints somewhere. Or irises.

Recognise a type of wood from images of its grain?

Or activity recognition from accelerometer data. I think Pebble recently open sourced their recogniser and it was surprisingly not a neural network. I'm sure a neural network could do better. Might be hard to get a decent amount of data here but this could be a good incentive to do exercise!
How is it a "stretch" if we make open licensing a contractual requirement?

For what it's worth: most of the software projects on that page have been developed by people on their own time, just because it's cool :)
That "buffer" model is more or less the default for public R&D funding in Germany as well as the EU. It allows for a bit of innovation in the grant process (although they're often administered by agencies that are every bit as beaurocratic as you'd expect them to be)
I realize this is a complex deal with many nuances but do elements of all of this not sound a little bit like a ponzi scheme? At least outwardly? Didi which itself has lost billions dollars so far has agreed to invest a billion dollars into another company who has lost billions of dollars. I guess investors are that confident that Uber can not and will not fail?
The First Community for Slack Admins
I bought mine from Pimorni. The unit was £4.

I don't mind paying for shipping, as the shipping isn't the computer.
In the tv show "Vikings", Season 4, Episode 8, Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) came up with an ingenious plan to safely reach Paris: Lift their boats up the cliff, carry them across the mountains and slide them back into the river.
I was also tempted to use new IOT amazon buttons with the IOT AWS offering ( https://aws.amazon.com/iot/ ), but after looking a bit deeper, the free limit is not that high.
Instead, I bought ESP8266 Wemos D1 mini for $4 each. Instead of AWS IOT I used Google Firebase and I have to admit, it works pretty sweet for me. IFTTT, Siri integration and all.

https://piszek.com/2015/06/24/smartpi/
It wants new stuff, but that doesn't mean "from scratch" or "not firefox". Plain bugfixing is out, new features may be in. You have to write a paragraph or two about how New Feature X is in line with their goals, one of which is more intelligent/better informed use of people's personal data. It doesn't seem impossible to do something along those lines with firefox.
If it's a gateway to a paid service (music stores, Uber, Lyft, etc), it generally won't have ads.

If it's free, but not a gateway to a paid service, I check to see if source is available; if source is available, it generally doesn't have ads (and if it does, I can just build it myself and remove them).

If the above checks fail, I check for a paid, ad-free version. If such a version exists, that implies the free version has ads. If the price is reasonable, I'll buy it, otherwise I'll skip it.

Finally you have free-as-in-beer but not as in freedom apps, that don't have paid alternative or any other way of generating revenue. I just assume those apps are either encrusted in ads or scams, so I don't install them.
> Or Uber invested $2bn and walked out with $7bn. Not a bad deal. Plus the value of the combined entity will skyrocket.

Does that $2bn 'investment' figure include the $1bn/year losses they were incurring competing with Didi? Uber ploughed in more than $2bn into China, and got less than $7bn (as sibling comment says, the $7bn is not all going to Uber).

I agree on the second point - the value of whatever percentage Uber owns is likely to go up.
So, back to Debian, once I want to deploy something and I've played with it on my Ubuntu dev machine, which OS would I evaluate first? Ubuntu Server, of course.

Maybe, but Ubuntu Server has serious downsides when it comes to security updates. Canonical only releases security updates for main/restricted, while Debian releases security updates for the whole distribution. So, if you are using packages from universe/multiverse (which I guess a lot of people do), security updates are not guaranteed. Or as Canonical puts it:

Canonical does not provide a guarantee of regular security updates for software in the universe component, but will provide these where they are made available by the community.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories
You're not wrong: simple macros can be written poorly. Macros which don't properly use GENSYM should be rejected in review. Also, it's entirely possible to write a hygienic macro implementation with DEFMACRO: nothing stops a team from doing that (or using one off-the-shelf).

But sometimes you do need the full power of DEFMACRO, and it's not possible to write DEFMACRO with DEFINE-SYNTAX. So one tool enables you to do anything you need, and the other only some of what you need. I know what I prefer.
How much does is cost to build your app's MVP in Romania?
The FAQ says you can also work on existing projects, given that you can clearly define a project for the funds.
The certs have good commercial value. There is a shortage of people with the Pro certs and they are needed for businesses to advance through partner tiers.
Any new module for an existing project is eligible as well. It's in the FAQs.
>Looks like you can implement citizen/government related websites for a very low salary.

Sounds ideal for students, sort of like Google Summer of Code.
Worth noting: for the Scala (and Java!) language, there is a Sublime-Ensime integration that provides something along these lines, but even more advanced. ie: go to method declaration, rename method, find calls, code completion, type info, etc.

http://ensime.github.io/editors/