skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This week my cat died. I held him in my hands as he passed away after 20 years of being a fuzzy friend. After the first tears passed I felt an overwhelming sense of relief at I wasn't sure how to process.

I've been working on something big, at least in my head, for over a year now. For the first six months my coworkers were skeptical at best and at worst, unsupportive and critical. But I pressed on because no one understood the vision, and no one would until I proved it possible. Then, after a tipping point, that mysterious market change where suddenly everything becomes clear, everyone went from critic to heaping hope, expectation, and almost desperation for the success of my project. A small scrappy idea went from nothing to 100m$ and success went from a few million users to demands for over 1 billion. And so with impossible expectations, I pressed on again. I began suffer constant tightness in my chest, visions of the void that kept me awake and wide eyed in terror, and anger. Deep down I knew this couldn't meet my or my peers expectations, at least not overnight.

After my cat died, it reminded me that all things end. And when something ends it's a chance to start something new. My panic and burnout was the realization I too would die, and this project is likely to be my biggest measurable contribution to humanity. I got on a plane and flew to nowhere in particular and just hung out for a few days. Then I came back and started to look for a new place to live.

Being frozen in the same position for a long time, working towards the same goal is self destructive. Its seems to be a crippling side effect of the obsessions Silicon Valley is so eager to promote. It's takes variety and purposeful breaks sometimes to complete anything big. I don't have renewed energy yet, but I think I will soon... if I just let myself explore. Eventually whatever I build will be a representation of that hopeful exploration, and that spirit is the most important part.
We've been looking back in time billions of years, because we look at objects billions of light-years away. If there's anything amiss about how gravity or whatever isn't working like it used to, that's news to me. I haven't heard of even a hint or something like that.
I used to type on Dvorak at home and Qwerty at work and switching between the two was no issue.
"Apparatus" is defined at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/426/regulation/4/mad... . That definition does not include walls or hammers.

Also, that quote that you repeated does not come from the actual law, but is an interpretation the law for those curious about phone jammers. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12238960 for a link to the law.
This is a totally idiotic summary of a well written article.
I've been using My Style [1] for blogs like this. On Dan's, I added the following tweak:

body { max-width: 768px; margin: 32px auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 20px; }

It really helps my focus on long articles that are otherwise hard on the eyes. I know there's Readability and all, but this extension works without any additional steps once set up.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/my-style/ljdhjpmbn...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164694
Thanks. This http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hope-for-new-parti... is the real content here.

Edit: This quote from the scientific american article provides a counter-perspective

“We would have been very lucky if we found something, some new phenomenon or some new state of matter at this early stage,” says CMS physicist Tiziano Camporesi. “But we have to be patient.”
Me too, simply because it's the only one I can find that has a trackpoint.
Boon Companion: Çelebi’s Seyahatname is one of history’s greatest travelogues
How do you know it's a sha256, beyond the length?
The idea is that some business models are more capital intensive than others to implement (like establishing a two-sided market place or building something tangible like electric cars).
The FBI is living in the hole it dug for itself. Where was the "conversation" about warrantless wiretapping? I certainly don't remember it. What about the conversation about secret FISA courts?

Sorry our constitution is making your job harder. Feel free not to cash your paycheck next week if you think it's too hard for you.
Here are some counter examples to the cynical uproar, I have specifically chosen examples of entrepreneurship born in India (against ones re-imported from the US and elsewhere)

Successful companies that created products for the local market. All examples are from TamilNadu a southern Indian state. More such examples exist all over India. Such examples are not possible without having consumer interest at heart, Indian companies not respecting consumer interest is a myth in my opinion.

http://www.slideshare.net/SuganPragasam/chick-shampoo-case-s...

http://www.slideshare.net/Rushabh93/cavin-kare-and-chik-sham...

https://yourstory.com/2013/09/entrepreneurship-r-ramaraj-seq...
Why would they worry? You still need to pay your taxes in USD, and that's not likely to change. Coin.mx didn't report suspicious activity, not because they were at risk of replacing USD
Suppose that you set a computer to work and it learns a fantastically accurate model that no human is able to understand. Do you then declare victory and move on?
The F-keys seem to be the part that aren't built like tanks. I had to replace my Kinesis because my Esc key was wearing out from 6 years of using Vim on the keyboard. (Sure, it convinced me to bind Esc somewhere more convenient, but having Esc not register when you press it is quite frustrating.)
Thanks for the link. More information about testing with Löve (heh, "with Love") would be wonderful, I'm only used to Enterprise Java, I'm afraid.
Same here. I thought I'd have to change careers. This keyboard makes it possible for me to continue coding.

I am wondering, does anyone here use the foot switches that kinesis makes and in what configuration?
Because they just enacted a law that allows the government and corporations to force employees to go work in the fields due the food shortage.
In my opinion, those blocks (known as Cerdá's manzanas) create a much nicer space than normal ones. It also seems safer traffic-wise. True, it takes a bit longer to cross as a pedestrian but I think that's worth the price.
Luckily they can go to a number of other cities that accomodate their needs!
There's lisp posts here all the time, but forth posts are regrettably sporadic.
Strawman.

Actually I have greater hopes for Africa, considering that nothing on the likes of,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonising_the_Mind

has emerged out of the sub-continent.

Edit: This has an excerpt,

http://swaraj.org/ngugi.htm
>The essence of an article or book or movie is not always at the title.

Also good to know: Headlines in newspapers are not written by the reporter, that is traditionally up to the copy-editor.

Titles of books are often not chosen by the author either.

A title or headline isn't a promise, it's a 'hook.' There is no reason to get mad once you understand that.
Things have changed a lot since this was written in December.
I live in Caracas, there's massive national food shortages. Now you can't have 3 meals a day for a month with 100€, and would spend quite some time finding it (on the black market). Last time I saw sugar, it was around 3€ per kilo.

Edit: If you want a realistic picture of how is life today, read this piece, written by a foreign journalist that actually lives there (sadly, most things I see in foreign media is written from outside): http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7c0464c1dd404aca99458a8a19930...
I don't have any examples as there is a cult of corruption in Washington. I can report that Bernie Sanders simply refused to take the money of prison corporations, and in my state senate it happens all the time[0]. Am I unreasonable to not vote or advocate for anyone who is apparently corrupted by corporate money?

[0]http://articles.philly.com/2016-06-27/news/74031420_1_house-...
And pertinently, if there were, is the timescale fixed, or are there externals events that might speed it up?

The Sun's dying and will become a red giant (about 5 billion years to go), but it's luminosity is currently increasing, so our rock will become a scorched Earth in around a billion years. Then there's the potential for meteors, climate-change, antibiotic resistance, or millions of tiny black holes to do us off first (how quickly do black holes grow, anyway?)

Colonising other planets and other solar systems seems the only viable solution to the long-term survival of the human race.
I think prison should be for rehabilitation, but I think it's a bigger departure from how we do things than you appreciate. For example, should a woman who kills her abusive husband be imprisoned? From a purely rehabilitative point of view, the answer is no. There is zero risk of recidivism there. But even most people who think prison should be about rehabilitation probably have trouble with the idea that someone should simply go free under those circumstances. I.e. they believe that prison should be at least a little bit about punishment.
Wait. What?

Twitter's limit is 140 characters.
Those cars can be bumper-to-bumper if they're all automated.
Wow, that is very sensible indeed. Pragmatic. My money is on this.
Re: stickers

In Europe WhatsApp is a lot more popular than Messenger, and so people use emojis a lot, instead of stickers. Anecdotally I believe the amount of emojis in a conversation in Europe is many times the amount of sticker use in a conversation in North America.
Is it turtles all the way down? Who insures the re-insurance companies?
It's the fear of that punishment that is desired. Most people think murderers or similar are beyond redemption
"they" is not uniform. You're referring to a portion of the US executive branch, this is a state judicial entity. The ruling is in the context of this specific criminal case.
As far as Leibniz's famous question "why is there something rather than nothing?" is concerned: admittedly this is a metaphysical question, not a physical question. Still, I think we owe it to ourselves to answer this question too, and not simply dismiss it out of hand.

That is the big, big question.

On the one hand, I can easily imaging that there is nothing, nowhere, ever.

But on the other hand, doesn't it necessarily seem the case that there should be something existing somewhere, for at least some time? How can nothing exist... ever?

Even after all this time, I still can't wrap my head around this question.
There are those who reverse engineer encryptions, network protocols, and in this case hardware and learn more about the technologies used than anyone else applying for said job (just as an example). People learn invaluable things from this scene. Yifan Lu has done some interesting stuff, and I have seen others do great things that have led to their growth in the Reverse Engineering scene. Some go as simple as recreating a close sourced websites PHP back-end (or recreating it in PHP) and they learn plenty to get them started. The tougher the security the more you have to understand what you're working against, the more you learn.
If you make it. If it effs you up, then things go a much scarier way.
I hear you, and my thought was to simply put the ball in their court. Perhaps they're too young to go beyond yes or no, I have no experience in parenting, but I thought it could signal interest in their experience and success to prepare for the time when they do respond with "yes! $reason..." If my parents had ever left the door open for me to say "that sucked!" things may have been different, but I'm sure as a parent you're full-up with advice based on psychological projection.

In light of all this, though, how about "Great, you're getting better!" It acknowleges the accomplishment, marks them as improving over the past, and implies there's more to do? Again, projection. :)
I think their value over the long term is similar to tripadvisor/yelp - while anyone can come in a create a repository of home sharing they wouldn't have the reviews/reputation data as AirBnB has. Going into someone's home / letting someone in your home, just like hotel reviews or restaurant, reviews/ratings can matter in the decision making process.
Excellent news and a wonderful breakthrough; I am definitely glad IBM's Watson exist but was it really an AI that made this discovery?

"...The system looked at the woman’s genetic information and compared it to 20 million clinical oncology studies. After doing so, it determined that the patient had an exceedingly rare form of leukemia...."

That sounds like an extraordinary search and data compare but did Watson create those search parameters on it's own to solve the problem or was Watson fed the parameters?
Please correct the title, it is about a Tabby's star, not alien megastructures.
Just because you can understand the thing doesn't mean that you can completely control it. Just because we know about the speed of light doesn't mean that we can travel faster than it, just because we know math doesn't mean that we can make 1 plus 1 equal 3.

Knowing fundamental principles wouldn't make us all powerful.

Very interesting argument though.
> On some superblocks it seems to me they could connect the corner blocks instead of the center block as the one way lanes.

> This would leave the old middle roads free of cars altogether giving pedestrians more space

You seem to be missing the point entirely. The in-block roads are for when you have something to do in the block, which is why you can't cross a block through them (they loop and send you back the way you came from). You arrive, you do your thing and you leave. The entire block is pedestrian space, which is why the speed limit is pedestrian range.

> maybe let the cars go a little faster (10 km/h is rather unbearably slow slow).

1. that would defeat the entire point of superblocks by still having fast vehicles within them

2. at 400m long, in-block loops can be traversed entirely in 2mn, since you've got something to do there (otherwise you'd go around the superblock) that seems perfectly fine.
I hope that the details of this story are changed, otherwise I'm not sure if you should share all this on the internet until it's resolved.
As long as we've got Gordon Freeman and a crowbar, we're all good.
> In the meantime, we would remind you that it's very, very unlikely that this strange flickering star has anything to do with aliens (and is even more exciting if it doesn't - because, hello new space phenomena!).

I think aliens would be a little bit more exciting... Might just be me though.
Saving Globalization and Technology from Themselves
It's actually 64 characters long. The length of a sha2 hash. I had to count it myself to verify.
Nothing is ever that simple as the people of Norway are finding with Anders Behring Breivik who as far as I can tell has converted to Nazism and is getting a bachelor's degree in political science from University of Oslo after murdering 70 people.

As I recall a couple years ago he made public complaints that the prison had not yet given him a PlayStation 3 to replace his current PlayStation 2, because it offers more suitable games to his playing style. Probably has it now.

Punishment should fit the crime is the model in the US but since the 90s ever since sentencing became a political football that model has broken down.

I find that rehabilitation is a word that comes easy to people who have never been victims of an actual crime. Prison time should never be population control/engineering but it should be a deterrent.
Then don't frequent that bar. It is absolutely the venue's prerogative to set the atmosphere in any way they like that doesn't violate the law. The customers vote with their dollars. Time will tell if there's enough people who value a tech free social experience to keep the place running.
Could an astronomer weigh in as to why the dimming effect isn't due to a 'rogue' blackhole entering orbit with the star and both blocking light and draining material from the star? I haven't seen that hypothesis dismissed yet.
Engineers Create the First Dust-Sized Wireless Sensors That Can Be Implanted)
No. F refers to a different function than t.F.
So it's flickering rapidly and slowly dimming. Perhaps it's because they are completing more of the dyson sphere.
That's exactly the kind of stuff that in my opinion the death penalty should be used for.

Edit: if what you are saying is true that's exactly the kind of behaviour that's undermining our entire justice system and faith in the government and the system as a whole.
In California, a police officer goes through 660 hours of training. A hair stylist/aesthetician goes through 1,600 hours of training before they get licensed....

http://beautyce.com/california-cosmetologists-putting-in-mor...
Please could you cite the relevant English law?
I had RSI issues, and jumped into using a Kinesis Advantage and switching to Dvorak. I eventually went back to using my laptops keyboard, and still use Dvorak. I haven't had any RSI issues in the last 6+ years! I highly recommend switching to a Kinesis if you have hand/wrist pain and still need to work.
historicity?
Aw, come on, mentioning Kakao Friends without Apeach? :) https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e...

My last trip to Seoul I even picked up an Apeach pillow and set of peach-butt coasters from the Kakao store. Love that dude.

These are stickers for sure. My Asian friends and family use them all the time, including as replies on their own. Even my parents and 70-80+ year old relatives do this with regularity. The extra context that these stickers add are very useful and I wish they were more popular among my non-Asian friends. Somehow little rows of emoji and Slack reactions are just not quite the same.
Exactly, why nobody is talking about this?
While at ma bell the prison collect program was always "over there" like programs that managed recording and rating gov't ld lines

In the pre cellular days we always thought prison collect was high but so was charging .37 per minute to any light user.

Overcapacity and cell phone Ubiquity never made it to private networks like prisons.
I reached this level of disillusionment 2 years into my theoretical particle physics Ph.D. program and dropped out to do software engineering... when this guy was graduating from High School in 1995. To me it has been obvious for a very long time that the standard model is pretty damn close which means we are in a pretty shitty energy regime for discovering anything new. I agree that astronomical observations are really the only way forward.
Why no guff when SSL was introduced? Perhaps back then there were tons of vulnerabilities, backdoors or untrustworthy CAs, but can it still be the case now? The FBI would have us believe that some kinds of encryption are acceptable? If that's the case then they must already have a way to circumvent it.
All keys are remap-able. I have moved the arrows to the left.

And yes it takes time getting used to. I am faster on regular keyboards.

But with this one I don't have pain.
Guessing he will be adding modes like in kerbal space program which also started out as sandbox only
I think getting murdered would be more of a concern than the low cost of living.
I have a few friends who hired programmers remotely, they had to fly down with cash to pay them, no other way to get them money. Eventually the situation got too dangerous despite the incredible wage arbitrage they were getting by paying in US dollars. (too dangerous for the employees who were getting robbed frequently, and the bosses to carry the cash down there)
First reported on 3 days ago:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/whistleblower-edward-snowden-sparks...

http://sputniknews.com/science/20160803/1043913532/snowden-t...

And he's tweeted since, so it's a pretty good bet that he's not dead:

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/761609959213789184
>Again what does all this have to do with flower crowns and embroidered dresses?

ask the nationalists. It was the article and the original comment author who originally brought it up as a symbol of Ukranian nationalism. I just mentioned most notable examples of that nationalism.

>the centuries-long campaign to suppress Ukrainian culture

you obviously just don't know what you're talking about.
What they don't mention in the article is that inmates aren't able to call cell phones. Earlier this year I had to bail out a friend arrested from a traffic stop.

He wasn't able to successfully complete a call to my cell. After he said his name and it told me to press 1 to accept the call, it would just disconnect. Frantically trying to figure something out because I know they don't give you many calls. I ended up having to "add money" to my account just so he could call my cell phone and tell me where he was so I can contact a bailsman.

I had to pay money just so he could make his free phone call to retain a lawyer or a bail bondsman.

EDIT: This is the company I had to pay https://web.connectnetwork.com/
I don't know for sure. It's 64-length hex string (not 156 like a lot of people are reporting), the same output as a sha256 checksum.

Looks an awful lot like somebody opened up a terminal and typed in:

> $ echo -n "some password" | shasum -a 256
Live video – Duo attempts first two factor authentication from space
Most of the laws are never applied and specially in the case of the ones like this one that are clearly impossible to apply and mostly for the show.
Denuvo DRM holds the line
So going back to Forth is probably not a good idea, but consider this....

1. Modern CPU microarchitectures issue multiple instructions/micro-instructions per clock.

2. Modern CPU microarchitectures rely heavily on register renaming in order to avoid bottlenecking on register allocation.

3. High code density is a huge win because: a) highly dense code reduces the cache footprint for a given amount of expressed functionality, which in turn reduces the amount of die area that need be dedicated to instruction cache in a well-balanced processor. b) highly dense code reduces the amount of bus traffic filling the instruction cache from main memory, thus reducing the overall memory bandwidth required to execute a given amount of functionality. Taking a & b together, they explain, in part, why X86 is still king of the hill, and it certainly explains why X86 won over Itanium. X86 code, for all its accumulated cruft, is very dense.

4. Stack machine code is also very dense, because exactly zero bits are dedicated to register names in every instruction.

So... given that the register numbers in typical 2-address or 3-address machines are getting renamed away anyway, why have them at all? Let the compiler generate 0-address code for a stack machine, and let the instruction decoder parse a long string of tokens during a single clock, using standard register renaming techniques to assign virtual stack locations from a large buffer pool. It could issue multiple stack ops per clock, but unwound into simple 3-address micro-ops for the CPU back end. It's really just the final step in moving the register allocator from the compiler to the CPU.

These are all solved problems for the X86 instruction set. Given that existence proof, it is difficult to argue that it would be hard to do for a clean stack-machine ISA.
Ask HN: How Do You Learn How to Cook Well(Michelin Star Level)?
I know how to cook, but I have a hard time finding resources about cooking well. It's pretty easy to find resources about programming design, philosophy, theory, etc. However, I can't say the same for cooking.

I find it hard to find books about the theory of cooking. Things that include cooking temperature, texture, color, taste, chemistry, etc.

What resource are you all using to learn how to cook well?