skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3d printing might not have had the huge impact expected for it in the consumer world, but in the professional world printing is hugely important. Getting a physical model of your cad file overnight from a black box at your desk or in your model shop is a workflow game changer. Make an ergonomic change to your grip? Test it out almost immediately. Manufacturer needs you to change the draft on your shell? Print it first before sending it out and make sure everything still fits. When previously you had to make engineering accuracy models all day in the shop or get a part made by a small run manufacturer, now prototyping and testing variations from cad can all be done in house. Consumers might not be directly benefiting from the advent of democratized 3d printers, but they are benefiting in the gains of efficiency at the firms designing their goods
They wouldn't. It's for people who use R as their everyday tool (many people in diverse fields), and want to seamlessly create reports and papers directly from that tool.
"Don't you think it is reasonable for a FOSS project/company to collect basic stats on their audience?"

No. That is not free, that is paying for it with your privacy.
Efficiency numbers, please? Is there such a thing as a motor or generator that is more than 65% efficient? 0.65 * 0.65 is 0.42. Then add mechanical losses, and I^2*R losses in the power lines to, from, and along the train lines. Commutation losses for the pantographs (assuming a typical electric loco). Is off peak electricity really 4x cheaper than peak? Otherwise the losses kill the benefits. The article is short on math, which is sad, because the only meaningful question here is one that simple arithmetic answers.
Ah, lodash and lodash/fp are slightly different packages. https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide
The crowdsourcing is almost already there: https://www.facebook.com/StopClickBaitOfficial/
The Left and the Alt-Right: Our Divided New World
I hate to bring this up, but treatment of depression, anxiety, and I gather, most mental illness is an Art.

Psychiatry should be extremely embarrassed of just how little progress they made over the years.

This lack of sleep trick has been practiced in most psychiatric hospitals for at least a decade, or more.

As usual, they don't have a clue to why it helps some depressed patients, but it does.

I am extremely dissapointed in the treatment of mental illness. Some days I think the profession does more harm than good. I've personally kinda given up.

I do know this, we have made just living too hard. It shouldn't be this difficult. "Yes, life is difficult." By the rich MD, but life shouldn't be like this. Plus, we should be a lot more understanding of our fellow inmates. Yes--we are all in this chit hole together. People are bombarded on what supposed failures they are daily; that needs to stop. Media is the worst offender. And it's all designed to buy their products.

I see nothing wrong with self medicating by sleep deprivation. I see a lot wrong with giving some Golden Boy $350 hour for dubious advice, especially if your insurance doesn't cover the Doctor's rediculious fees, and high priced dubious drugs.

If your reading this and depressed; just try walking for at least 30 min a day, depending on your health. Fast walk, or run if you can. It's been The only thing that very helped me with my minor, dysthymia(low level depression). The only thing.
Apple Drops Hints About Working on Self-Driving Cars
It seems it would actually change nothing because its a optional flag and you can simply not use it.

Also i cant really agree with that (doing Rails since 3).
The New York Times needs to give up all pretenses of objectivity and openly declare itself as a propaganda organ. At least if it is going to continue on it's current path.
Following up on katzgrau's recommendation for "The Power of Habit", I think it's important to stress that you should prioritize and choose the most important habit first and focus on that 100%. In the book, Charles Duhigg mentions "key habits" that, if changed, will lead you to change other habits as well.

I've been down the road of changing habits multiple times and I think the most important habit you can adopt is actually to continuously watch your progress, adjust your routines if necessary and, more generally, give you time to think about where you're moving with your life on a grand scheme of things.

Whenever I tried to get into a new habit, I found that the hardest thing was actually to come up with and take counter-measures if the routine wasn't sticking as expected. I would often try a new routine and if it failed to stick, I would automatically fall back into my old (bad) routine.

So my advice is this: Set aside time to reflect upon your routines (and your life in general). Make this your very first habit to get into. Personally, I've found that doing it once a week is by far not enough for me (and it's also a difficult habit to maintain), so I decided to do it once a day and, since I rarely find the time at night, I decided to get up a bit earlier in the morning and go for a 30min walk. This has the added benefit that you get a bit of exercise and lots of fresh air. I also use that time to decide on my most important task for the day that I will work on right after the walk.
Well, it's similar, except in this case the universe wouldn't have to be deterministic. As far as I can tell there's no law saying you can't have two clocks, where observers entangled with either observe a different sequence of events.
Introducing first ever Vulkan PlayStation emulator
Learning Exploitation with Offensive Computer Security 2.0
I'm going to assume good faith and, in my very humble opinion, you are absolutely correct. If it's got the word disabled in it it has the same connotations.

You. Are. Broken.

Refer to all disabled people by their chosen name if you know it, otherwise ask them and then work around any logistical problems as they come up and as they are referred to you by the disabled person. Do not assume anything and do not push a wheelchair without asking and/or being asked. Even if a disabled person is lying on the ground, they will ask if they need help.

Rules to live by able-bodied people, rules to live by!
I laughed at this part:

> However when I did necessary changes to the less_dart code I discovered that it actually became several times slower. Hmm.

It's almost like those kuh-razy V8 people knew what they were doing and wrote all that code for a reason.
Why? Can you describe the dangers you're thinking of?
I don't know if vision and hearing impairments are the only ones considered in all technology but certainly in web design vision is the main one considered. If a web site has been made accessible to someone who is blind and uses a screen reader, that includes making sure it's keyboard accessible. What are some examples of a site being keyboard accessible with a screen reader but not to you with the assistive technology you use?
What this annoyingly ignores is one of the biggest contributors to deforestation, animal agriculture.

80% of the deforestation in the Amazon has been for cattle and their food[1].

It makes sense, people eat a lot of animals, animals need a lot of food. Blaming banks is an easier group to blame then ourselves and our own choices, though.

[1] http://globalforestatlas.yale.edu/amazon/land-use/cattle-ran...
Then what is the point of the checkbox?
For unity, there was Unity Asset Server. Not sure if it's still available/supported.

More generically, I'd suggest you check out Mercurial with the Largefiles extension.
TC39: A Process Sketch, Stages 0 and 1
Data Elixir 108: Data detective. Mistakes with stats. Probabilistic programming
I do: there is no evidence of voter fraud and America has a long history of using measures at the polls to prevent certain demographics, particularly black people, from voting.

We made it illegal for black people to vote. Then they were given suffrage. So we had a poll test, pushed because people knew black people were less likely to be able to read. And we had a poll tax, pushed because we knew black people were less likely to be able to afford the tax. Those were made illegal. Now we have voter ID laws, pushed because a certain party knows it will prevent certain demographics from voting. Those are being made illegal in the states that they've been passed in.

We need to look at these laws in a historical context.

> So why cant we do what india did for over a billion people ?

That would defeat the purpose of voter ID laws in America. I agree, if these laws were being promoted in good faith, there would be a well-funded initiative to get every single eligible voter a voter ID like there was in India. We wouldn't be closing down 31 DMVs in a state that just passed a voter ID law.

But these laws aren't being pushed in good faith, they are being pushed for their downstream effects: less people will vote and, more importantly, less people in demographics who tend to vote for a certain party will vote.
15 years ago today – Remembering the collapse of Enron
You can check out http://www.spring.org.uk/making-habits-breaking-habits A good book on habits. The book covers on habits are formed, how they can affect you and how you can change them.
Not the OP, but the reason I switched to the Mac 12 years ago (and never looked back) was to bring together my nerdy, creative, and "end user" sides under a single OS.

I'd been using mostly Linux on the desktop since 1996, I manage servers for a living and couldn't live without a terminal. That's the nerdy side.

On the other hand, I was serious enough with photography and electronic music production to need best of breed tools, which are still largely Windows and Mac-only to this day.

There's also a time for everything, and there are days when regardless of your computing skills, you need your creative person/end user hat on and apps that "just work" to keep your right brain fully focused on the end result (e.g. "No thanks, I'm not going to get distracted compiling some Gimp plugin to get red-eye removal", which may or may not have changed since I last tried)

MacOS, in spite of its recent slight drop in quality, is still second to none in satisfying all these requirements at once.
Authoritarianism and Post-Truth Politics
Which is why I always insist on "...if you have fully educated yourself on the matter and follow each and every one of the rules" (and this includes: don't touch it if you have schizophrenia or psychosis running in your family). It was btw how I managed to end depression while stopping meds completely.

Also: cost = $30 for 1 dose + testing kit; compare that to the price of months/years of meds (this should be relevant especially for US citizens which do not benefit from a sane/affordable health care system). Not to mention their oftentimes heavy "side" effects which can even become permanent, such as the loss of libido, etc.
NodeKit: Node and Electron on JavaScriptCore or Chakra
Otherwise known as "banks lend money to people". Pantomime villains sell newspapers, 2008 and all that.

Much like technology that can be used for good and bad, I prefer to live in a world where services are available to all without discrimination – knowing that some people will do things I disagree with using those services – than a world where some random person's morals are used to restrict those services to certain groups.

I find it pretty weird to see people gleeful that a far right party cannot get campaign funding, but those same people baulk at any criticism of democracy. The bank probably doesn't care about the party politics, but it does care about it's reputation. Trying to call the banks out for who they lend money to is probably effective but – IMO – chilling.
People don't expect to get a return on investment with cars and silicon. Really if you think of it, there's wide spread market manipulation being performed by the public, local, and federal government.
I see where you're coming from, but I don't think any low carb advocates are making a moral judgement against diabetics. It's not just diabetics who have suffered from the wrongheaded diet advice that's been given for the past 40 years.

Yes, a low carb diet is not a cure to diabetes, any more than a low peanut diet is a cure for peanut allergies. But I think the idea that people can eat whatever they want and use more and more insulin has lead to a lot of unnecessary human suffering.
You're right. When I wrote the above, what I had in mind was sculpture (what I've mostly see consumer 3D printers making these days - representational things like D&D set pieces, or cosplay props). The interface of programs like Maya, for making very complex 3D shapes, I wouldn't call trivial.

But in hindsight the context of the discussion is more about industrial design of functional consumer goods, which I completely agree is a highly skilled trade, and while learning the CAD program is still a lot of work, that's one of the least of the requirements.
I see, thanks for the info :)
You can play Zork in Slack with Slork:
https://github.com/devshane/slork

It's a Zork wrapper written in Elixir.
LibHunt; a list of libs in different programming languages
Couldn't this be simplified by just having an airport express + a set of powered speakers (or appletv if there is a tv too) in each room/location?
To answer my own question, I just remembered two examples. First, "skip to main content" links that are always visually hidden, even when they have focus. Another is one I saw earlier this week, an accordion widget that that was totally keyboard accessible but had no visual indication of focus; fine if a screen reader is explaining everything, really hard to use if you're using your vision. I suppose a blanket issue is the lack of visual indication of focus, especially by overriding the browser's native styling of focused objects.

Still, I'm always interested in other examples.
What's your e-mail?
What's his day job? Internet is dark about this guy.
I had a similar POV as well -- I went into reading this book thinking there would be exercises and projects to reinforce the ideas. In particular, the following sentence (and remaining paragraph) in Chapter 1 set me up for that:

> The exercises accompanying this book focus on teaching cryptography by breaking inferior systems.
So basically bugseverywhere with a web ui ?
I think the main problem here is that there are several semantic differences between 5.3's and LuaJIT's integers which would make this a bit dodgy; eg. rounding behavior and mixed float-integer arithmetic are different.

IMO 5.3 should have done what LuaJIT did and require a suffix for 64-bit integer literals (say `L` to avoid conflict with LuaJIT's `LL`). Given how rarely Lua code needs true integers this large, that probably would have worked better. It also would have avoided the gotchas of porting code to 5.3 where the integral numbers you never add `.0` to are suddenly real integers instead of floats.

I'd love for LuaJIT to get 5.3's bitwise ops but the semantic differences between the integer implementations would make this interesting to say the least.
I feel like a convection oven might be the next level of reliability in this space. You should at least get very even heating since the airflow is fast enough to be turbulent.
All those people who spent their 20's eating $13 sandwiches from Seamless, instead of putting their money in the bank.
You could always use more performance to turn your editor into a better IDE. If the Lisp was faster, some of the C could be rewritten in Lisp, which would be smaller and more portable. A future IntelliJ or Visual Studio could be written with Emacs.
Seriously. Coffee is hot. Traditional methods of preparing it involve boiling water. If you are not smart enough to avoid pouring boiling hot coffee in your lap, I have little sympathy for you.
ARC Data Buffer. It replaces SLABs in ZIO buffers with scatter gather lists.
HEPCloud formation: handling troves of high-energy physics data
pushing this narrative just cost the democrats all 3 branches of government. very few people still believe it, or care.
Who Won This Rap Battle?
Why was this downvoted? It's a reasonable concern when "LWN subscriber-only content" is in bold at the top.
Ask HN: Do those “sign up for our newsletter” pop-ups actually work?
Over the last few years a lot of websites have started showing pop-ups a few seconds after the visitor arrives asking them to sign up for the site's email newsletter. Often these take up the entire screen or otherwise make the site unusable until the user dismisses them.

Do these pop-ups actually lead to more sign-ups than, say, a little widget off to the side? Are the sign-ups good quality - i.e. are they people who are likely to stay engaged and/or generate revenue for the site?

I ask because I typically see these on sites I get to from a Google search. I'm usually visiting these sites for the first time and I know very little about them. I would never sign up for a newsletter before I even know what they do and if they have useful content.

I would guess these popups are targeting repeat visitors, but even then it's still annoying and just makes me dislike the site.

So, if anyone has any experience working with these newsletter pop-ups, do they work?
The surprising benefits of a reply-all email storm
Similarly with autism, some people dislike the person-first phrasing:

http://autismmythbusters.com/general-public/autistic-vs-peop...
Playing Zork as your intro to text adventures in this day and age is akin to playing King's Quest as your intro to graphical adventures nowadays. You just don't do that. Not in a world where Monkey Island also exists.

KQ and Zork are both iconic for various reasons, but none of those reasons are because the games are particularly good. They wantonly kill the player, they let you get into unwinnable states, they have puzzles that are essentially impossible. . . hey, it was a new genre, folks were still figuring things out.

In the case of text adventures, I'd suggest starting with something like Anchorhead (long, horror), Lost Pig (short, humorous) or Savoir-Faire (medium, historical-ish).
Without sources, we'll have to agree to disagree.
All the liberals down voting me oh well... I'm an independent and didn't vote for that maniac or that queen!

This is a simple issue of how healthcare Became more expensive, less accessible (primary care docs hard to find and not readily available to see you.. so we flood the ERs), harder to use(insurance companies throw up the gauntlet and don't want to pay for things prescribed) and a real pain in the butt to sign up for.

All the above happened because of Obamacare and its eye towards helping every man, woman and child access to affordable healthcare. But that mantra goes against capitalism and thus creates a system where care is worse because insurance companies who once covered most things aren't so they have enough money/profit to pay for those men, women and children who are poor and can't pay. That demographic is the winner and all others are the losers in this game. It's a losing game either way and soon for the poor so and again see ya Obamacare ... socialistic ideas working within a capitalistic system is going to fail.

If it was completely socialistic it might work, but heck no the govt already taxes me enough I don't want them taxing me at 60 to 70 percent!

Hopefully it is replaced with a better system! Time will tell.

*typed on crappy iPhone 7 whose auto correctness/AI needs work!!!
I'll second this recommendation. "Cliff Notes": https://sivers.org/book/SuperhumanByHabit
I wholeheartedly agree to almost everything you say and especially that everyone is probably able to learn some programming in a suitable language, just as they can learn to read and do math - and it would be good for them if it was taught well, if not because it gives you a tool for solving problems that you might not otherwise acquire. But I am certain that not all, or perhaps not even the majority, have the skills required to pursue a professional career.

I doubt however, that there is much to gain from simplifying the languages, and especially not by going the graphical programming route - it's a chimera occluding the actual problems.

Graphic programming could be used as learning tool, just like a set of training wheels, but just as them it would eventually become a hindrance as both make simple problems simple and everything else much more complex or virtually impossible.

The tools and languages can be improved of course but I do not think there will be any ground breaking improvements, just like there probably will not be any ground breaking simplifications in mathematics, or the process of learning it.

As an side note, I personally wonder why not more work have been done in incorporating first class support for entity-relation and/or graphs in languages - which is probably useful when modeling actual real world problems. But as it is still possible to build using generic language constructs, no one seems to care.

Or maybe the problem is that the educational system is so bad that too many are actually struggling to not topple over with their bicycle even after some years in university.
Taking TRust-DNS IntoFuture
DOE and CERN have done a really nice job with HEP, the jobs can basically flow to any compute backend without a lot of effort. Instead of saying "we have a private cloud" or "we use the public cloud", they just say "we use all the clouds".
Name sounds a bit like "Gdansk", a city in the northern Poland. I wonder if that's where it stems from...
I'm curious about why set working hours are a problem. Would you mind going into more detail about that?
It sucks I agree, but, companies are not obligated to hire people or to not fire them because people need to eat or else a company could be forced, legally, to hire far more than they need or can afford. This would drive them out of business and all their employees would be on the street.
Amazing tool! I've been looking for an accessible tool with these capabilities!
Highly recommend a test drive on the virtual box image.
This AI Boom Will Also Bust
I don't disagree with you; I'd like an answer too. But our collective failure to come up with one doesn't justify every reaction.

In a very real way, supporting the far-right is supporting terrorists[1]. And if we can excuse that, how can we blame extremist Muslims for supporting their own version?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism#Europe
I second "The Power of Habit", Duhigg is the kind of writer you're looking for - aggregating scientific sources and multiple studies, but presenting them in very easy-to-consume popular-science format.

Worth noting that the 21 day recommendation is "average", the actual "stick time" has a huge variation between a few days spent on "brush my teeth as soon as I wake up" habit to (likely) months that it would take to pick up the "run 5 miles before breakfast" habit.
Partition Keys in Longevity
Quickly trying to bootstrap my knowledge of the field I have a few things for you.

First of all as such the examples you have given aren't quite habits. A habit is generally defined in the research as a sort of automatic response to contextual cues. So running just "every day" can never be habitual, however running as a specific part of your morning routine can become habitual.

Secondly the cue is the essential part in making the habitual behaviour override your conscious intentions. It is however both necessary and sufficient, so you don't necessarily need to worry too much about rewards or accountability to make things stick. Just developing the association between cue and behaviour is enough.

And that is basically all we know for certain so far. At least as far as I can learn skimming the first related literature review that popped up (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17437199.2013.87...) and some of the associated papers.

If you are not the kind of person who can through willpower alone get yourself to set up the cue and do the action it may benefit you to get help from someone who is better at that kind of thing until the habit is automatic.