skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's revealing how many times they admit their inability to control everything.

And their total blindness to the fact that most of these conflicts are proxy wars for powerful nation-states is obvious to anyone paying attention.

The truly beautiful thing is how well people are cooperating in such dense areas. For example, the favellas in Rio are much better off when the corrupt police there aren't selling arms to the residents. The large neighborhoods in Mexico City don't require American intervention to survive, just access to fields to grow food in.

The power vacuums where warlords threaten to organize everyday people against Western intervention are where we have destroyed the infrastructure (Iraq), fought decades-long proxy wars (Afghanistan), propped up cruel dictators (Libya), or drained nations of their resources (most of Africa).

This video is essentially pumping up the young, underprivileged American "volunteers" (those with no options for success in the industrialized world) to protect the investments of world bankers.
Ditto, this popular chart is very cool: ranked by approval, http://www.submithub.com/popular

To me it seems like expanding on the playable features could make SubmitHub itself a very meta/cool place to submit through. A place to engage other artists. It's like HackerNews for music.
I agree. It isn't going to have a large dent in adoption. Bigger companies won't just jump on board and will use Angular and React due to popularity and it is probably easier to hire engineers with experience in one or the other. But, I think the adoption of Elm for newer projects can have a significant impact.
Besides agreeing with the article on many points, I thought the examples were gold. Too often articles about best practices are too abstract.

I would love to read more practical articles like this. Any URLs people could share?
Scientists just broke a fusion world record – it lifts the bar for clean energy
Do we then say that men should not have the right to decline parenthood because its too expensive for society, while at same time say that women should have the right because its a fundamental liberty?

We could, but it is not a good sound bite when calling for gender equality and reproductive rights. It also sound as there is more, maybe smaller steps that we could do to minimize the difference in rights and responsibility when it comes to reproductive rights.
the irony of seeing this top on Hacker News is delicious
I've lived there 20% time since 2009 have never heard of this system. People said the same thing to me about those pylons. They've since launched a "busway" system and are currently building a proper light rail MRT system. It should theoretically begin operation of one of the lines next year. Lots of good work being done now.
Not the developer, but I've made extensions – there is a sandbox in the form of CSP, but if an external server is included in the policy, there are no restrictions.
This is the Copycat
Ark HN: Any Using Standing Desk at Work?
I am wondering how many company uses / to have a choice of Standing Desk at work. Or even require to use a Standing Desk. Given the obvious benefits to your health.
Can I ask how you feel it negatively impacted your children?
I would second what you said ...
I don't know if it counts as an ultrabook, but I'm enjoying my System76 laptop. There are a few different models, depending on what size you want.
We are a young startup, about 13 people in our office. 2-3 of us use a standing desk.
U.S. Potentially Planning Cyber Strike on Russia
Show HN: Chrome extension to show RSS feeds in horizontal lists on new tab
I've only ever used the low end tools for FPGA parts, but even when you design with an HDL, the output is realized in stages. It translates your code, then determines a netlist, then does physical layout and routing, then it can produce either a bitstream output for something like an FPGA, or one of several outputs that can be sent to a fabrication plant for ASIC production.

For the image processing "state machine" I imagine most of the "core" design is done at the HDL level with some small tweaks to the other steps along the way to optimize the chip for physical production.
A Chinese Perspective: BitKan Visits Ukraine Bitcoin Conference
FYI Opera and related browsers may "just work".
Do you mean that in the sense of:

The police asks you to surrender you phone. Telling "you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't mind" and you respond with "It is not up to decide if I have something to hide"

Or, your friend is arguing for letting the police see their phone because your friend has nothing to hide. Your friend says "I have nothing to hide". But you respond with "It is not up to you if you have nothing to hide, so you shouldn't have that attitude".

Assuming you meant the second, what is the reasoning behind it?
Paris and Tokyo are amazing food destinations for different reasons and, though I'd say I ultimately prefer Tokyo, most of my "What the fuck happened here?" moments happened in Tokyo. Like ordering a crab linguine only to be served a pile of fettuccine glued into a single solid mass with what looked and tasted like congealed Kraft cheese spread and the perfectly empty exoskeleton of a blue swimmer crab placed on top of it - like they had someone suck every morsel of meat out of it with a straw. There was no miscommunication: the elegant Japanese girl sitting next to us ordered the same thing and almost had an aneurysm wondering what universe her crab meat had disappeared to. Her expression similar to someone preparing for a particularly powerful sneeze that never came.

I prefer Paris for relaxing - nothing better than sitting under the heated awning of a Parisian cafe with a table to yourself, a book, a pint of beer, a black coffee, a pouch of tobacco and watching people walk past. Well, pint[s] of beer. Or a bottle of wine.
VR Is STILL a Stupid Idea
I agree. It's in our heads. We've got to leave the funk behind before we can do something proactive.

Silicon Valley is sometimes overly optimistic but I prefer that to the cynicism I felt in the UK.

Europe in particular really needs some successes. I think I could do something with affordable housing that would scale but we'll have to see. Am confident I wouldn't get venture funding but I have an angle or two. I intend to build a demonstration model as a proof of concept and then hopefully some traction will occur through internet-magic.

Good luck with your projects carapace! We've got this!
You are not alone, friend. I share the struggle and for the same reasons. Taking the next step is sometimes harder than taking the 10 that follow. Self Management is a lifelong process.
First of all: THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! It's been years, over a decade. This is awesome. Thank you.

What did you do to find it? (Is Google "punishing" me? My Google-fu used to be strong but I could not find this.)
> I'm not giving Trump a pass. I'm giving Trump supporters a pass, because I believe it's possible to support a candidate without supporting every position they espouse.

I have held that position for a while, but it became untenable due to the sheer number of outright awful positions that Trump espouses. It's no longer possible to say, "yeah, this one thing isn't nice, but there's still a net benefit".

At this point, there's no rational way to conclude that anything about Trump candidacy has a net benefit, unless you subscribe to some of his more abhorrent notions about religion, race etc - e.g. people of the "I'm not a racist, but there's something about blacks that makes them commit crimes and riot" persuasion, say. Or "I'm for freedom of religion, but Islam is a death cult". And so on.

So no. I don't buy into that whole "the call for genocide is mere hyperbole" thing. It would require such a manifest lapse of judgment to be realistic, that I would demand strong evidence of such in other matters to accept it.
Is QUIC specific to HTTP, or can it be used as as transport mechanism for arbitrary protocols?
Can only talk about my wife and our situation. We both work, but all ways make sure that either partner can hold a full time job and pay all our commitments. This goes for car loan, mortgage, shopping. It takes the stress of either partner that they can just take 6 to 12 months off when things get really tough.
It's worth noting that if you want to go above and beyond what JSX gives you, it's not hard to write a Babel plugin to make the syntax more trite. You could (relatively) easily write "the coffeescript of JSX" that compiles to vanilla JSX if you want something that's "prettier and less typing" while not making it the standard.
>Even more so when it extends beyond our comfort zone.

I hope you're not under the impression that rhetoric like "the low-grade but unrelenting sense of hazard that is a woman’s experience of merely moving through the world" is anything controversial or even a millimeter outside the Overton window. Lines like that are dogma in every major political, cultural, educational, and business institution in the Western world. A bologna sandwich would be more controversial and beyond-our-comfort-zoney than claims about how bad women have it in the Western world.
"Multilevel standards are like onions. They're smelly and make you cry a lot" - Ron Natalie

I found this quote when working with the CCSDS standards and it made life slightly more bearable.
Absolutely true for me as well. Often what feels on the outside like procrastination is, I think, just providing idle time for my brain to work out a way forward.
Does it still work? I don't thing so, so why it failed?
If you are outraged by corporate political ideology being forced on employees, then surely you are outraged over union political platforms that go above and beyond the objectives of a union (to maximize compensation) and serve to increase labor competition and depress wages, right?

At a union shop, a worker has no choice but to financially support the political agenda of the union, even if that agenda runs counter to the worker's best interest and/or ideals.

Exactly. The. Same.

Public sector unions take this further by creating a system in which management and labor are both operating under the union banner in a complete conflict of interest.

The whole situation is fucked and there is zero moral high ground in picking a side, much like our Presidential candidates.
The stuff about Trump is mostly verifiably true beyond reasonable doubt. ("I like to assault women.", dozens of women in his circles: "Yeah he does that.")

The stuff about Clinton is mostly verifiably false. (see Snopes for example http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau...)

That's the difference.
Marxism itself is not a political platform. It's a philosophical and socioeconomic school of thought with some particular axioms and methodology. None of these involve, or directly lead to, mass murder.

Specific political ideologies that use Marxism as a philosophical basis for their platforms, like Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism and Maoism, are responsible for mass murder. And yes, I would consider it okay to privately discriminate against people who publicly espouse such ideology.
For me it's "This task needs time to process, but not enough time to focus on and complete another task, so let me check something. Oh crap its been an hour"
And I was slightly overstating the case - those bacteria eat sugars, so if you're not immune or resistant, diet does matter. I don't think the bacteria care if those sugars are processed, though. As a Sri Lankan, you're likely sharing a lot of DNA with those native Australian skulls with beautiful teeth:)
I think your other points are good, but I disagree here:

> The vast, vast majority of Americans simply cannot afford to take extended time off to travel internationally

It can be done very economically; students with almost no money do it, staying in hostels, taking trains, etc. I know one guy who worked his way through, at least to some extent. If you have kids and a mortgage, that's a different story.
With HTTP2, you're no longer limited to a request-response model. What interfaces do people use to expose this new paradigm to the application? (e.g. application-based push).
I live in Japan and half of the Netflix content is inaccessible because for some reason they don't have English subtitles for Japanese movies. Does anyone know if this has to do with licencing? Does it cost Netflix more to add subtitles?
I recently stopped taking Adderall as therapy for ADHD. While it made me excellent at learning, the toll it took on my ability to feel pleasure and do anything not work related made it a double edged sword. Pomodoro has really helped me avoid distraction despite being much more distraction prone than I was on stimulant medication.
In 2013, I quit a 10-year job in the HFT/trading systems industry and went to work for small non-profit that developed web/mobile systems for humanitarian and human rights agencies. One of the best the things I ever did. What came out of it:

1. Completely upgraded my outdated skill set - from C++/Oracle to ES6/React/Redux/Node.js etc.

2. Completed a life-long dream of writing a full length science fiction novel (not yet published, sadly)

3. Developed computational psychology model (pet interest) that might one day be the basis of a paper

4. Learned proper leadership skills, public speaking skills and people management skills

5. Much better health - exercised, got plenty of leisure time (worked only 30hrs/week)

6. Networked through pro-bono consulting

It was financially punishing for me, but ultimately it was more than worth it. Last year I returned to the industry full time (a different industry this time). The additional skills/experience in the resume opened up a lot more higher level opportunities that I would never have been able to pursue 3 years ago. Right now I'm in a management level position doing exactly the kind of work I want to do, and I doubt if I'll ever have to worry about finding a job...

By the way, for anyone who asks, those 2 years were easily the happiest in my life.

Edit: cons: be ready to be poorer!
"The former ought to be possible, especially if I'm targeting C or LLVM (some bits might get a bit rough, but most of Scheme is pretty easy to implement)."

That's what they did originally. Should work.

" but the GBA is a really well-defined piece of hardware"

Then do a PreScheme wrapper on it supporting inline or calls to assembly for performance-critical routines. See if you can make the primitives on bottom close to how hardware works for efficiency. The AI research of the 80's indicate it might be able to handle a board game.
Isn't this simply maximizing the probability of a successful reproduction? Seems almost obvious given the whole problem was low reproducibility in the first place.
As an (existing) alternative of sorts I use Toggl[1] I used it because the application I used for Pomodoros was a Chrome App, and those are dying soon.

It has an option to "Remind you to track your time"[2].

Anyway, at least seeing the alarm usually gives me enough guilt that I end up going back to work.

[1] https://toggl.com/

[2] https://puu.sh/rLAvu/463eb95d09.png
Standard syntax sugar is good not because syntax sugar is hard to accomplish, but it's something everyone implicitly agrees to understand. Custom schemes are not as maintainable
> Thiel just thinks giving women the right to vote was democracy's greatest mistake.

He's claimed not to actually think that [0]. Statistically, few women are Libertarians, and arguably, he was just referencing this point, which is apparently familiar to the Libertarian community, if not to the rest of us.

[0] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/05/01/peter-thiel/suffrage...
My only real gripe about JSX is the crazy attribute casing rules. If it looks like HTML then attributes should be case-insensitive just like HTML. The worst of it is (unless this has changed) they are just silently dropped without any error message.
This all reads as American posturing. As well as an admition of the effectiveness of the recent politics related hacking.
It is clear the 'international community', global media and concerned citizenry have erred in rushing to judgement and condemnation whenever Amnesty and other global NGOs file a report on protests and human rights abuse.

It appears the right approach is to debate the intricacies of the law and rules of trespassing. Since there has been a systemic failure to consider these important mitigating factors in the past, previous condemnations now stand null and void and will be reconsidered in light of these evolved methods of validating human rights abuse.

Of course some apologists would consider this as mere sophistry but its important to point out no one can defend breaking 'the law'. Is Assad really violating human rights or are protesters breaking Syrian law?

While it is true NGOs like Amnesty and Reporters Without Borders have shown an unbecoming lack of zeal when it comes to covering their home countries I have been assured it's entirely due to a lack of funds and the greater importance of defending human rights in the middle east and impoverished third world countries.
Agreed! Piecemeal rewrites instead of big-bang rewrites...
I've been playing with Freenet, and it does the same. So the IPFS peer would be a VM with no public IP address, which connects through a Tor gateway VM. I'm guessing that IPFS needs a reachable IP:port, so I'd use a throwaway VPS as a clearnet proxy.
They don't even need to compel you. They get your fingerprint in the booking process and then they can reuse it however they please.
If you are trying to make a case that software has to be bloated to be easy to use and not crash, it is pure ridiculous nonsense. Virtual memory, libraries and better tools are the reason software is better now. Did you ever use uTorrent before it was bought?
Great is the enemy of good enough
Maybe I should have been a bit more specific, but I was mostly just talking about UI features and customizations. I have no problems with a ROM modifying stock Android under the hood if it's necessary to enable basic hardware functionality. The point is to keep modifications to a bare minimum, to limit the overhead required to support each new Android release, and to maximize the number of devices the ROM is able to support given limited resources.
What type of meditation works well for you? Have you tried Calm or Headspace? Any opinions on that type of guidance?
Shifty of you to imply both that I can go jobless and potentially unhirable on short notice, and that the lowest possible four figure dollar amount might also be more of my liquid net worth than Thiel's donation is to his bank account balance. One or the other, not both!
> men should not have the right to decline parenthood because its too expensive for society, while at same time say that women should have the right because its a fundamental liberty?

Yes. It's an interesting philosophical point, but there are real differences between men and women and this one is pretty straightforward.
> Use, because they have to.

...in your very uninformed opinion...
I still couldn't find a method for the worst source of procrastination for me: not having a clear understanding of where a task fits in the global picture or end goal. That coupled with highly abstract tasks kills my productivity completely.

In all my jobs, I've tried to ask more and more questions but I have come to the conclusion that few people have an answer for that. I suspect my experience hasn't been great on that front.

On the other hand, when the why's are clear, I don't have any trouble working at full speed to accomplish that goal (and will often put way more hours than I should).

Just writing this reply made me think I'm also often more productive when what I'm working on will be used by others or it solves a pressing issue. If it's just a "nice to have" I will have trouble focusing (after I realize nobody cares about the results, until then I might be working super motivated and unaware).
I wasted 4 years of my life doing this
I was VERY confused at the beginning.

This is not about R-Studio, the software/data recovery utility, but about R-Studio, the R (language) IDE.
"Serial sexual assaulter" isn't hyperbole, and I'm not screaming. fletom's comment is correct. It's not just an allegation when it's on record for everyone to listen to.
I think you are totally missing my point. The whole point I am trying to make centers on the fact that the coins are all actually equal. The observed difference in performance is entirely due to chance.

While, of course, human performance is not always equal in the same way our coins are, the fact that performance (or whatever it is you are measuring) will still regress towards the mean still holds true. The coin example just gives an extremely obvious demonstration about what is happening when things regress towards the mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
> The irony is that by blaming the system instead of acknowledging that the outcomes we see are the result of democracy working exactly as intended you are actually contributing to the problem, which is that everyone retreats into their echo chamber and spends their energy vilifying anyone who doesn't agree with them instead of working constructively to figure out how all 7+ billion of us are going to get along on this little planet.

But I am not blaming the system.

I pointed out bad faith actors in the system, which in my view, are contributing to the dysfunction of the process, and have poisoned political discourse in this nation. I don't remember the exact date when we crossed the threshold but do remember noting a somewhat abrupt introduction of extreme vulgarity and uncivility into televised political shows at some point in 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

The various POVs you mention are noted and point well taken. But were not these strains of thought present in the 80s, 70s, and before? I haven't watched TV in decades, but the few times I am exposed to it by force (visits to family, public spaces, etc.) my skin literally crawls, regardless of which point of view is being voiced. It's like the planet of the vulgarian apes. Don't you think the public that is exposed to this /garbage/ day after day has been conditioned to act in the same manner?

> Likewise, there is a substantial contingent of people who are scared witless at the thought of terrorism, and think that it's worth trading in the odd civil right to insure that terrorists are not "free" to plot our destruction unmolested.

This is the only POV that I find unacceptable. This view -- propagated from on high from -- is the factual "blaming the system". The clear subtext of this manufactured view is that our system is fragile and inadequate in face of enemies and needs corrective measures that alter the very nature of our system. Yes, the people were scared, but it was not the people who pulled the Patriot Act out of God knows where and passed it without even an attempt at deliberation.

They could have been offered other remedies, but were not. They could have been reassured by national leadership that we can prevail without disfiguring our national character, but were not.

Americans torturing and torture shows on cable TV.

Disgraceful.
It can be if you make it. It has been about a decade since I finished coursework for my pure math degree, I do not work in mathematics, and I am enjoying mathematics more than ever just from reading books. I do not miss doing textbook exercises (evaluating integrals? computing determinants? I reach for Maxima or Wolfram Alpha), and am content with reading other people's proofs.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

Just needs more time...