skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to delete completed items, but I found it robbed me
> of a sense of accomplishment I kinda value.

This contains the key to ending procrastination -- crafting one's psychological relationship to the intended task, and also to the pastimes one uses to procrastinate. You can't fit work that in an app, though. It's more like internal marketing, management, or propaganda than scheduling.

> There are no perfect answers in the continuing battle with one's self.

You can always strive to do better, though.
What are the security implications for hosting IHaskell on a server and giving public access to notebooks? For myself, Emacs + Intero + stack makes a near perfect development environment, but IHaskell looks great for writing online books and educational material.
Culture is learned behavior that is transmitted from one person to another. If your parents don't know elite cultural norms and your schoolmates don't know elite cultural norms, then how exactly is a child supposed to learn elite accents and elite cultural norms?

There is a staggering number of parents who are struggling to keep their children fed and in a moderately stable home life, and a staggering number of kids who go to school hungry nonetheless. More than any other first-world nation, the US tolerates a high rate of poverty and economic inequality, which is what drives our average standardized test performance down (for example). "Half the children need to starve to motivate the others" is not only an obscene moral argument, it drags everybody down.
I really don't think that's true. Flash performance was never near-native and JS is usually within 2x native once the JIT warms up. And people are still making tons of art, off the top of my head:

http://js1k.com/

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/

http://dryad.technology/
Apparently, I was wrong! While many organizations are working on reducing sonic booms, mass is not a factor.
This does sound like a privacy disaster though they don't mention smartphones in the article ?

What does sound like a problem is eyes for something they're not intended for, being hands and fingers, I wonder if people will end up with RS'eye' ;)
> However, it seems to me that what the author is proposing is really just more/better adherence to html/web specs...no?

Pretty much but buzzwords/PR work, "CPP Compliant" vs "We build stuff properly (for a given value of properly)"
I have. I built a career from watching Jeffrey Way talk about php and javascript years ago. He has a video site called Laracasts now. Videos are a good way to start, but you have to love it to be good at it. Don't listen to language purists. Start with what you like.
Do you also now cover your computer mic?
I'd put that on the landing page or on an about page.
It is probably the same tech as Sharp Crystal phone for Sprint. Foxconn bought Sharp and starts peddling its tech?
Not just you. I have similar sentiments, if not exactly the same.

To me, the ipod was a double-edged sword, because I felt like it introduced, or at least reinforced, many UI choices that are actually very poor. The onion parody of the keyboardless laptop (http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...) is funny precisely because it's true.

I'd argue that Apple's UI choices have been popular as much for creating a cache of sophistication as for actually being useful. Binding multiple functions to the same physical element on the ipod was useful to an extent, but then they went overboard at some point. They were always more difficult to use than they should have been, and to me, they were overhyped.

I own a mac which has been good to me, so I'm not totally anti-Apple. But I prefer other OS GUIs, and am often confused why Apple doesn't get called more on their over-minimalism in design. There's such a zeitgeist of minimalism in general in design that no one really questions whether it goes too far sometimes.
Formlabs announces new line of engineering 3D printing materials
> XML is not a "data description language", it is a type system

XML means "eXtensible Markup Language" - so pretty much exactly a description of the data it contains. Granted, you can mark up a bit of data with a type, but you can mark it up with anything else as well.

I've even seen entire programming languages built upon XML.
I have had luck with non-game 16-bit programs in Wine, you can look programs up in the Wine database to see if they work: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
"Wearable devices and environmental sensors ideally should consume very little power to avoid the need for batteries that would have to be replaced. Lee and Nathan developed a thin-film transistor (TFT) from In-Ga-Zn-O thin films. To make the material less conductive, the films were fabricated to avoid oxygen vacancies. The TFT operated at ultralow power (less than 1 nW) and at switching voltages of less than 1 V with very high intrinsic gain. The devices work by changing the height of the so-called Schottky barrier formed between the semiconductor gate material and the metal drain contact."
Did you read the article at all ?
If you spend extra time after work building personal projects, contributing to open source community etc. you'll not stuck in nothing. Don't let your workplace limit and dictate the technology that you know and use, feel free to develop yourself. Then it'll be very easy to jump between different workplaces until you find the best for you.
Client-side XSLT and HTTP caching address both those issues. Yes, JS is another way to solve those issues, but not the only one.
+10 : quick prototyping!

I always do develop quickly a Django project (1 day) with the Django Import-export module [0] so that I can show to the client the data he wants in an Excel file or else... And most of my developers friends (php...) are blown away how I manage to do that ( i.e a perfectly working admin, nice landing page and complex import-export features). And with Python, you can even show your code to the non tech client and most of the time I've found that he really "guess" the Python code more than a Js code. I'm always delighted when a client makes suggestions on my python code.

[0]: https://django-import-export.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Whoa whoa whoa, what's some fat cat solution right there! Just use a http header for your content and you're set.
Meteor made me way productive
Without the bezels, all our phones will look the same. We'll be holding a slab of pixels with some OS, with some voice-activated assistent, with some apps. More or less the same. Even more so than now.
>So in the future, what happens when no one owns a car

We will still own personal cars, for all the same reasons we do now. The percentage of ownership will drop, but I think most 2 car households will still own at least one car.
I wonder who's going to be stupid/reckless enough to sign that intermediate.

You have a much higher opinion of the probity (and competence) of CAs than is probably warranted.
SDF (http://sdf.org/) started out as a BBS but by the early 90s had turned itself into a public access UNIX system with a community feel. One of the original admins is now on staff at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle.

Tilde Club (http://tilde.club/) was(is?) an attempt to revisit 1990s-era UNIX community tools from a 2010-era perspective.
Nope. Still commuting. But becoming remote is my number one goal.

At the moment, I have a client outside of work (ReactJS stuff), and am negotiating a remote gig with a company in California.

I agree that exotic technologies give you a leg up.

My stance is also that, if you're pushing for remote, then by definition you need to justify why you're a better choice than your remote competition who may live in lower COL areas.

If you're remote, then why should someone pay you a high salary vs. paying a lower one to that bright guy in Romania, who can still live like a king?

That's where marketing, differentiation, and service come in. But these are just my guesses.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
I've got a Sharp Aquos Crystal. If I use it without a case, it will frequently register touch events on the edges of the screen just from holding it. There's no way to hold it that will prevent this.
My favourite line in the whole thing is "Steven P. Jobs, Apple's Chief Executive..."

I'm sure many of us in this forum knew exactly who Steven P. Jobs was, but it's astounding to me that he went from requiring an introduction in full in 2001 (that's not really that long ago, relatively speaking) to someone you can just refer to as Steve Jobs with no further qualification necessary - everyone knows exactly who he was.

It almost seems laughable in hindsight that he was referred to by his full name.
Sharp did it 2 years ago with their Aquos Crystal

Image: http://resize.indiatvnews.com/en/centered/oldbucket/750_533/...
Sure, but by then we'll be lamenting the lack of TrueVR(™) support that would allow us to walk the surface of Mars.
What I find ironic about this is that if they actually tried to be a Toyota Corolla, they might have given off the perception of being a Porsche. Even if they didn't give off the perception, they would have at least put money in shareholders' pockets.
The best (most accurate) PS1 emulator is mednafen I believe.
Furthermore, there were 32,500 suicides in 2013.

I wouldn't say the US is in any position to make the choice of prioritizing life over jobs, not yet anyways; there's still no way to live without a job.

Market forces will decide, of course, but I suspect we won't be saving lives with autonomous cars. Just differing the time, place and means of death.
Are you suggesting that if we have two planes of the same size and shape, the heavier one displaces more air?

I can understand that objects floating on water follow that principle but that's because they are floating. Once fully suspended in water, I think the amount of water they displace is just their volume. Shouldn't it be likewise for aircrafts in the atmosphere?
Show HN: 10 free to use high-res illustrated wallpaper images every 5 days
Another vote for contributing the camera location data back to OSM. A surveillance layer sounds awesome.
For the people who like Discover Weekly, what was your previous music discovery process?
I agree with the focus aspect. The core value adders are the marketplace listings. I imagine Commentary and Emergency will be features that if the core listings work well, then they might make sense as extra value adders (there isn't twitter or emergency services in many areas where this could be utilized). However, if these detracted from the core listings they should be cut. Focus is key. Thanks for the good advice.
LGTM, ship it.
Was pondering this for another business and it seems relevant here. How many people would be required to run "the core" of twitter (basic microblogs)?

Seems like that could be very lean...simple UI. A feed. A huge database. For web and apps for the two major mobile O/S.

Now go one step out. Running ads on that feed. Core sales team (those with paying accts) and administrative team. Need a revenue source. Add them back.

Now....what does everyone else do and is it generating cash?

My suspicion is:

- First two groups are lean & covered by revenue
- Most of the rest of the team is "strategic" yet not revenue generating
- The rest is support and will scale up/down with headcount

Standalone twitter + ads feels like a business you can make ramen profitable.
> If you genuinely think it is hard to hire people at that point...

Where? In US, SV, New York, China, Ukraine, Argentina? If you growth it can be difficult to scale without having higher profits or outside investments.
A Look Inside Apple’s Custom GPU for the iPhone
Scientists say signals from certain stars are “probably aliens”
The 7 million unemployed in the US may disagree - what are they, zombies?
Ask HN: Should I be nervous about using React?
I have been using React to build frontends for about 6 months now and I love it. Should I learn Angular2 instead and ditch React because of its sketchy licensing?
I rather offer us both the locations so I can avoid cameras when necessary, than wonder.
Microservices interfaces – Normalizing communication between services
I really like the design (better imho than Google Pixel). Hope they get some success and Apple/Google/Samsung take note to refresh with newer designs
Humanity on its road to invent Pham Nuwen's localizers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Localize... :)
Personally, I'm more function over form so and I can't imagine having a bezel-less phone that won't be a nightmare to use (using one hand).
Not only that, but I find scheduling too much kills the pleasure of doing things on a whim as well as feeding a growing angst when you keep on postponing stuff.

Maybe we should stop trying to live in the future so desperately and just enjoy the present moment.

[...] and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather’s and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it’s rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father’s. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.

— W. Faulkner
The url should contain all the information so we don't have to make a HTTP request.
I created the blog post. That post was largely focused on academic outcomes, especially variation in various test scores and related measures of general cognitive ability (aka "intelligence"), but:

1) there is also good direct evidence that genes explain a large fraction of the systematic variation in economic outcomes. I invite you to read this https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/38881/HECER... (especially pg25, table 1, and compare h^2 vs c^2 )

2) Parental involvement is unlikely to explain much of the black-white disparity.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09645292.2016.123...

3) teacher observations and other casually observed bivariate correlations are heavily confounded by genes. the kids with seriously disordered lives are significantly more likely to have parents with low executive function and cognitive abilities and are more likely themselves to have low executive functioning.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xge/137/2/201/

4) I am not arguing that parents/communities are entirely unimportant in all dimensions, but the role is much, much smaller than is commonly believed and it particularly has relatively little influence on cognition and closely related phenotypes. The influence of parents is more on things like educational attainment which, while significantly determined by innate ability, are probably not purely genetic (holding other things equal children of more educated parents get more education..... much more about culture/preferences than ability to afford though

http://www.nber.org/papers/w22734
Yes, my idea of a safety net is family plus basic income.

However, crucially, there are thousands of important and hard problems out there available to anyone with a roof over his head, food and internet access.

Anyone who doesn't find a hard problem to work on, and this includes those in employment with excellent safety nets, is going to go bad sooner or later (drugs, sociopathy, crime, mental illness, suicide, etc).
The 8-steps security testing approach for a perfect project
Uncovering secret surveillance enabled by the courts? Easy to read graphs that have a y-axis starting at zero? Paywall free, informative content? I clicked a few ads to say thanks.

When only 1 of 4,100 cases over five years in a particular district has the public record unsealed, I think it's safe to call this a cover-up.

> Yet the listings of how often law enforcement applied to judges to conduct covert electronic surveillance — a list that itself is usually sealed... The information about what are known as pen register and trap and trace orders was made public after litigation by the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), journalists and others, including some service providers.

You know, when the press operates as it should, as nonpartisan fact finder and uncovering truth through hard-fought FOIA battles, well first your sick about whatever you just read, then at least you feel a bit better knowing that at least someone is trying to shine some light on it.
So you're a 50 year old truck driver. High School education, no college, but a damn good driver. What exactly do you think he's going to retrain? A few weeks at a bootcamp and he'll be a rock star coder, pulling in the $60k/year he made working his ass off on the road?

Please. Less simplistic "solutions" that have continually failed workers.
I'm a Scala dev now, but when I was a Java dev, I went and learned Python, then Ruby and Rails. Never left Java (well until I got into Scala) but learning those absolutely changed the way I wrote code, and with respect to web dev finally gave a clear picture that was near impossible to see in the Java ecosystem.

(Also using IntelliJ IDEA for the first time in 2002 - opened my eyes as to what was possible for an IDE, and what was possible to do with Java.)
Millennials are not buying cars. Its changing already. The percentage will drop as previous generations die off? Then settle near zero.
So sad to see what the square is turning into. I'm sure Leavitt & Peirce isn't long for this world, either :(

I didn't spend much time in Cafe Algiers when I was there, but I did spend a ton of time (and money) at Casablanca, which is also gone :( I'm glad I got to take my wife there at least once before it closed.
Given the size of the deposits, and the ROIs of available low-risk investments, does the difference really matter?

Skip a single CappuFrappeGingerPumpkinLatte (or what people buy in cafes in SF) and you just got more money than any investment on the deposit can ever make.
Which can satisfy almost the same trip distances as cars, most days.
It took a bit longer for some of us to get broadband at home. I don't think I got it until about 1998 or so. A number of the (relatively) big commercial BBSs transitioned to becoming dial-us ISPs for a time. I used Channel One in Cambridge and they were my first ISP at home until I eventually got broadband through, I think, AT&T Roadrunner.
...an AI which has proven many times to be a better driver than humans.
It seems like Upwork is getting a lot of bad press[1] in the last few days, and it seems like it is well deserved.

I would certainly not use them in the future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282
“I don't want blood on my code”
> I haven't planned correctly, it's that I do not follow my plan.

I use Any.do (which I like the UX off a great deal) with Reminders for this, at first it felt like it was nagging the hell out of me since I was snoozing so much stuff but then a strange thing happened, I stopped snoozing stuff and started doing it so I could kill the task if it was a quick task.

On the UX side something like that has to be so effortless for me to use (ymmv on what effortless is) that it becomes a habit otherwise I just forget to enter stuff as it occurs to me.

What I'd really like is an unobtrusive bluetooth like headset with natural language processing (think miniaturized persistent Alexa) that didn't need to sync through my phone but could sync with it periodically.

"Hal, task: remind me to buy cat litter, tomorrow morning, 10am, remind me again at 1pm"

"Hal, remind me, Monday morning, 10am, task: check I answered email from FooClient"

Then at 10am Monday morning audibly "You have a task: check you answered email from FooClient" "I've done that"

"Hal: Snooze all notifications for 2 hours" (for when you don't want to be disturbed) and have it cue up anything in that period.

"Hal: while I was snoozing, you missed the following tasks" etc.

Most of the pain of using a phone for task management is that typing stuff in is still annoying, on the technology side we are pretty much in that direction already I've even considered buying an Echo and seeing how far I can get with it's API.
"Real jobs" doing what? If it doesn't require any education, it might be the next thing that will get automated.
6'5" (1955mm) here. I don't sleep on airplanes. I did get a lot of work done coming back from Amsterdam.
The current minimum wage in the UK is £7.20, and what's more if you are on the minimum wage in the UK the government will frequently top that up with tax credits (money paid directly to the claimant either weekly or monthly) and possibly housing benefit (money paid to either the claimant or landlord, and in some cases help to pay your mortgage) as well, although these typically only apply to people who are earning less than an equivalent to a full time minimum wage job and/or have children.
A quote from the book (Pre-suasion)

"Taylor reports that she knew then, without a single piece of data yet collected, that her experiment would be a success because the rehearsal had already produced the predicted effect—in her."

This is why psychologists are being laughed out of science.
>Can you recommend any references for a non-economist to learn about this theory?

This TED talk by professor Franz Hörmann does a good job of explaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ksYFsleto

Simply put, when money is created by the bank for a loan, only the amount for the loan (the principal) is created and given out. The problem is that an extra fee (interest) is charged on top, but the money to pay that fee was never created.

So basically it is an impossible contract to fulfill on a macro scale. A negative sum game.
Do you or one of your co-authors are looking for master II interns on this topic ? I am a Machine-learning MSc candidate at the Paris-Sud University looking for an internship in applied ML to other scientific fields like Physics or chemistry. I think that Generative models has great potential for system design.
web curriculum : https://laurentcetinsoy.net/cv

You can contact me if you want a more formal version : )

Kind regards
With the way the market is, unless you stay at one job forever, its actually hard to stay with the same language... the world changes, opportunities change, your interests change...you'd have to try very hard to stick to one language.

Now, on that topic, what's much harder than learning multiple languages, is learning multiple language paradigms. If you have a C++ background, learning C#, Java, Swift, JavaScript, whatever is pretty easy.

Learning Haskell, ML, Elm, F#, Clojure, etc...now that will make your mind bend and spin for a bit. Those aren't nearly as common in a work environment, but you can gain a lot from learning at least one.

This is kind of similar to how if you're an english speaker, learning another european language isn't nearly as interesting as learning a CJK.
Ok, good point.

But the point that I wanted to make is that a software crash wouldn't explain why the lander behaved as if it was on the ground. So it's more probable that it reached the "on the ground" condition.

If that condition was adequately programmed, the chances that some sensor glitch could have triggered it are quite low. So the probability is higher that it was either badly programmed or maybe someone flipped a bit somewhere ..
Procrastination is a psychological problem, not a planning problem. Seems like you solve a problem in a wrong way, or you promote your product in a wrong direction.
You can say it is a combination of kanban, time tracker, project management or even habitica...blahblahblah, but it is just combination of functions not solving any procrastination problem at all.