skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually started doing this about a year ago and it was the best thing I've ever done for me mentally. I purchased 12 of the same shirts, three pairs of the same jeans and two pairs of the same shoes.

I found that, not only am I not worrying about what to wear in the mornings and focusing more on important problems, I'm more confident around others. I forgot how influenced our wardrobe choices are by our peers. I used to dress while dwelling in the future, which is a recipe for anxiety. Now, I put on the same thing every morning, on autopilot, and think about a problem I'm trying to solve.

It's really working great for me.
apparently, times are changing: http://wccftech.com/amd-vega-mi-25-instinct-gpu-accelerator/
I would think that a publication called 'The Economist' would be Adam Smith free market liberals.
> Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes... Though grantedly that is a different kind of excitement.

Call me silly, but that really is different to me. There's always some chance a natural disaster will wreck things up for you, but as long as society works together to respond to natural disasters, I feel fairly comfortable coping with that. Likewise, actually, to the terrorism problem in Israel.

The kind of "excitement" I really don't want to live with is the breakdown of social trust: having to worry that my own neighbors or local institutions will turn on me.
>What's really really scary to me lately is all of this talk about "fake news", which originally referred to outright lies that were part of click-farms, but is now being talked about as if CNN and MSNBC are somehow the only source of "real" news.

this is an intentional ploy designed to conflate the issues of tabloid-trash and dissent.

we don't even need a ban for the tabloid trash... but once we link it to dissenting from the mainline and call it the deciding factor of the election (a huge leap...), we put the mainstream media who have proven to be incompetent and dishonest back at the wheel.
I said that I was looking to use their CDN service, but I couldn't find some information that I needed to evaluate their service.

I really don't understand your "how would answering that question be in Akamai's interest?". Isn't that what companies do, getting clients..? You also said that contacting Akamai would indeed be the right thing to do, but then you're implying that they have no interest in replying to a prospect's query? I'm confused.
Lots of scientists use the term junk DNA. I've worked in and around sequencing for 20+ years now and the term in common in arguments about what the function of non-coding regions is.
No OS license key. No "Patch Tuesday". No finger pointing between hardware vendor and OS vendor. No third party drivers necessary to clean boot.

Built-in backup system, both to "cloud" if desired or external hard disk if preferred. Application signing that serves to protect users rather than nag them into unquestioningly running anything and everything as administrator.

Fantastic, fully native support for the wealth of open-source software available for UNIX/BSD.

Apple hasn't dropped the ball. You'll realize this once you end up in the Windows world frustrated and trying to do the same things you take for granted now.
Multi-tenancy after 10 years of Cloud Computing
One thing to bear in mind is that most of the relevant studies are carried out in mice, and mouse telomere dynamics are significantly different from those of humans.

Telomerase gene therapies clearly slow aging and extend life in mice to some degree, but the actual mechanism involved is up for debate. We can argue that it has more to do with stem cell activity and influence on mitochondrial function for example than keeping cells out of senescence.

My comfort level for telomerase therapies would be increased by running them in dogs or another longer lived mammal with telomere dynamics that are closer to those of humans and observing the results there. Of course this might well be beaten out by actually running them in humans if the BioViva / Sierra Sciences collaboration gets their medical center running in Fiji to offer the gene therapy at a reasonable cost some time in the next year or two.
Do you know if they still have the deleted pages? It would be nice to be able to recover stuff from before the deletions started.
Alas, Babylon has a good bit about that. One of the characters is stationed at strategic air command in Nebraska. He warns his brother about an impending nuclear war, and that is the last that is heard from him. The other characters speculate about whether he survived, given the fact that strategic air command is sure to have a very sturdy bunker. It turns out the base ended up being a very large radioactive hole. A bunker is, after all, a very static target, and it just ends up being hit by many bombs.

That's my recollection anyways. I read it in 6th grade, so it's been well over a decade since I read it. I really ought to re-read it.
Grass is greener. You start noticing issues with Mac OS X as well once you start using it professionally.
Wait until you get the random start menu no longer works bug. Not only does the start menu not appear, clicking on the File Explorer icon will take 30 + seconds to open, every time. There are links where thousands of people have posted various fixes but from my understanding MSFT hasn't actually fixed the underlying cause. To their credit they have released a utility that fixes the issue however.
>Depending on the exact mechanism and implementation, making fsync a no-op is not necessarily bad. As long as it can (with highest priority) fsync all of its buffers upon notification of loss of power and be done before all capacitance is lost then there should be no trouble at all.

I'd guess the most popular apps DO use a database on Android, right? So we could make some testable predictions. If the Moto Z's fsync is a no-op, then we should expect more database corruption. So if we don't see database corruption, we can presume a highly prioritized, efficient fsync on power loss notification. Battery pull vs. low battery poweroff event? I'm still thinking about controls and test methodology. Also, either Android app databases don't corrupt often, or they're good at recovery, because I haven't seen app errors (aside from incompatibility) in a long while. Then again, I have a Pixel, not a Moto Z.

I am going to reflash with these filesystem changes though; just not sure how to benchmark.
The whole article and not one mention of radioactive fallout? The radioactivity from a thermonuclear bomb spreads through the regional atmosphere and remains in contaminated soil for centuries...
So true! I have yet to see a metric that wasn't gamed somehow, even by people who are generally honest and upright otherwise.

If you base someone's livelihood on a number, expect them to attempt to maximize that number, probably at the expense of other numbers that you may or may not be considering.
If you switch to the preview releases of Windows they've upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 and you can easily execute Windows applications from the Ubuntu shell. The stock terminal is also a lot better (24-bit color!) but I'm using wsltty instead which, aside from not having the ability to use my preferred keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-Shift-C/V for copy/paste) works great. I have kotlin projects open in IntelliJ in Windows and can also run gradle in my Ubuntu environment to work with them.
For over a decade I wore blue jeans and black t-shirts ( The previous decade I just wore black ). It becomes a self reinforcing habit; I once wore a red t-shirt, and everyone commented on it as if it were the most hilarious and bizarre thing I had ever done. I didn't wear it again to avoid the humiliation. On top of this, it becomes especially difficult to find clothes that genuinely suit you - especially when you know that you will come under such critical scrutiny for any deviation from your standard uniform.
Wikipedia is "good enough"; they have the funding and it's too much effort for most people to switch (particularly now that e.g. Google integrates wikipedia directly into search results). It's a shame.
One-End Encryption (OEE) – Stronger Than End-To-End Encryption
Python 2.8 debate escalates, BDFL: “Bring in the Lawyers”
Because trump is the us president-elect.
And David Attenborough has been wearing the same blue shirts for most of his career so that its possible to cut shots from different periods without people getting distracted by constant clothing changes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LX85aiYXsM
I was going to say the same thing. If they had succeeded you would have gotten some valuable feedback
"OS decides to install Candy Crush and other games I never asked for. Unacceptable. " - I would like more details on this. I don't think I've heard of that before?
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Venezuela pulls 100-bolivar note from circulation to 'beat mafia'
Is that something you can escalate to someone higher-up in the Wikipedia chain of command (if such a thing exists)?
in my opinion people get too absorbed by hearing others that they donated X amount of money and then they make them like they are some kind of God's amongst us for doing so.

My whole life I've been hearing by colleagues etc that Bill Gates is an amazing human being and he has donated all his money and he has done so many things for humanity.

I am sorry but I just don't feel the same way and although I think I shouldn't force my thoughts on others I just feel the need of reminding them that this person still owns a yacht costing half a billion, he is still the richest man in the world, and no matter what he donates in my mind he will still be one of the "humans" that felt the need of having a 400m $ yacht while there are people out there starving to death.

Please and Thank you.

P.S I know am gonna get down-voted to hell and prolly shadow-banned cause of my opinion, but doesn't matter no matter what I say or what happens to me will change the way the world works (there will always be people that see goodness in people and others like my that are seeing the bad side in people).
Weren't the newspaper polls misinforming regarding the Brexit result? Perhaps their interest in Brexit is contrary to yours.

And haven't news organizations been known to exaggerate/mischaracterize small peaceful protests as large scale riots? I would think simply looking up "Venice riots" on YouTube and filtering for the last week or month would provide you the information you'd need rather than watching a talking head read a teleprompter while the same short video clip plays on repeat.
The first thing for me was coming up with a solution to a problem that I had at my last job and seems to be a problem for others: Windows Installer creation software. There doesn't seem to be a good option that doesn't break the bank and is easy to use (Wix and NSIS are free but there is a learning curve). I normally code in C# and that is what I'm using for my main project (the installer creator) and I fell into the old tech of WinForms since that was what I'm used to. I decided to learn XAML and WPF and that has made things so much easier. It was just pushing myself to try and improve the UI experience of my application that allowed me to improve.

I'm passionate about compilers and dev tools so that leads me down paths to other languages/frameworks to get my job done in the most efficient way. I like the more niche/obscure topics such as manipulating IL for .NET as well as injecting byte code into already made assemblies. Because of that I'm taking an indepth look at the CLR and CIL so that I can better understand how that whole system works. Now, this probably won't land me a job but it does help me stay motivated. With this knowledge I'm planning on making a decompiler/code injector/debugger for .NET dll/applications that are already compiled and shipped. I also have an idea for a programming language that I'm in the process of designing. I'm thinking of what languages to use for that because, while I'm most comfortable in C#, there are better languages to use to create compilers (I'm currently thinking of Nemerle or F#) that target the .NET framework (which again would increase my CIL knowledge)

At the end of the day think of what your passion is that could be solved with code and go do it. Pick a language you haven't used before or some framework that is new to you. It will make the project go slower but you would end up having learned a new technology.
A super simple introduction to neural networks
There are different levels of decision making. It's one thing to have analysis paralysis and spend an hour pondering some trivial decision. It's another thing to spend 30 seconds grabbing clothes to wear out of a closet or drawer--which is how I suspect most men at least get dressed on the average morning even if they don't wear the same thing every day.
I suppose it was taken, but "Viki" would have been so much better a name.
Sure, some may, but how many of them find it so fulfilling that they would do it without pay? That's why it's called "compensation"--it compensates you for the time you spend when you would rather do something else.
This is true for the first few years, but aging batteries can cause problems. My phone is in a situation where under higher power draws (GPS + navigation) it will simply die when the battery falls to 25%. It's been doing this pretty reliably for a month or 2.
I used to make native apps/games and some web games, and I was wanting to start making small games again, but I keep hearing how revenue has dropped precipitously for them and it makes me worried.

As someone who's experiencing the drop in revenue firsthand, what are you thinking of doing to address that? Shift platforms to PC/Steam? Change the designs of future games to reflect current trends, etc.?

I was considering I might just make games using a simple cross-platform tool like Love2D, keep the designs of the games small but addictive, single player only, no levels but can be played endlessly to failure (i.e. Tetris or 2048), either make them free with a simple consumable or a dollar, and distribute them on PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.

I don't expect to make a ton of money for most of them but I hope I'll get lucky with one of them and it becomes a hit. I have about 3 past web games to port and update that could work.

Does this seem feasible? What would you do differently?
Typically you're going to be storing tokens from e.g. Stripe these days, and not raw cards. Major card carriers provide the same service too. Still worth doing well and securely, but much less risky
I've used VimWiki for a couple years now. I use the most basic features (Enter, Backspace). The ability to instantly jump to the wiki is the most useful (Leader W W). My wiki is just a folder in my Dropbox so I can get to it on almost any computer.

When I started, VimWiki syntax was better supported than markdown. I've seen lots of markdown related pull requests come through, so maybe that's changed.

I use VimWiki for:

* Life goals (stretch and short term). I use it almost as a centering tool.
* Poetry
* Passages from books
* Book summaries (that I write)
* Lecture/Speech notes
* Notes on misc. items I want to explore
* Ideas for future science fiction short stories

Last summer I wrote a simple Awk script to extract VimWiki style definitions (Term::Definition) into TSV's for importing into Anki. I was frustrated that I couldn't fully automate this process without modifying Anki. Maybe someone else has figured this out?
Personally, WSL's existence temps me to touch Windows again in future if there's a particularly attractive machine.

But, well, Windows with WSL is still Windows. Much like Linux with a hypothetical flawless version of WINE would still be Linux. The desktop experience is still… poor.
Summary: Choosing what to wear has a willpower cost, since willpower is depleted by the choices we make during a day. Therefore, you should reduce the number of unimportant choices, like what to eat and what clothes to wear focus on decisions that make an impact.

My take on this:

1. Eating the same meal over and over again and wearing the same clothes every day is a sad and overly utilitarian way to live your life. Eating can be sensual and joyful, picking clothes can be expressive, fun and make you feel good. And in fact you need not miss out on these joys of life to spend time deciding JS framwork to use for your next starup or whatever, because:

2. The theory of willpower/ego depletion is probably wrong and cannot be reproduced (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...).
The quote can stand on its own merit. Discrediting the source doesn't change the words.
Sorry, "well accepted fact" was probably too strong wording. "Well known" might have been more appropriate. Wikipedia has some sources[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue
Deleting links from Wikipedia to your competitors is a famous black hat tactic. You can get away with almost anything on Wikipedia if you are deleting.

I think the world needs a list of web pages categorized by Wikipedia topics, but the people who will appreciate it most are spammers and there lies the rub.
Try to get the LTSB build, less clutter.
somewhat understandable why people have this view of him and his show. he let's his guests go on about what they think. it's usually a 3hr show. this gives people the perception that he believes in whatever they're saying because he doesn't interrupt his guests all the time.

imo Joe is very open minded, an avg Joe (had to) that is willing to hear people out and is fair handed in contrasting opinions. listening to the one with him, hannibal burris, and sam harris shows that he tries to take emotion out of argument and see where each person is coming from. but other times he'll just repeat things what he has heard other guests has said. for instance drugs that clogs up the blood for bicyclists when he had lance armstrong on.

i wouldn't say his show is scientifically dense though. that really depends on the guest. so when you have a person like rhonda on, yea her field is science and it's going to be dense in that subject matter.
Yeah, and then one of those hobbies becomes essentially full-time, and then you realize it has some marketable value, then next thing you know you're running a start up, completing the cycle of never-not-working-for-long.
The death of human race would mainly come via climate change. No nuclear war will directly kill all people, nor will radioactive fallout of even an extensive one. But if the climate would get really much colder, then the human race might be in danger.

For the majority of existence of anatomically modern human being (50 000 years to 200 000 years, depending on definition) the world population has been less than 5 million people (the population of world 10 000 years ago). I think it is quite likely that a similar population could be maintained today, with today's technology, by building artificial environments, running on nuclear power and other modern technology. Think of Caves of Steel. Major powers surely have done some preparations towards that.

It would be what was attributed to Stalin having called "statistics", of course [1], but it wouldn't be the extinction of the human race.

[1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/
But this isn't a problem if you buy quality hardware?
Some preliminary Fedora 25 stats – and future release scheduling
It really depends on DPI of your monitor. I have both MBPr and Windows PC with 4k 24'' monitor. On FullHD I can't look at Windows, on 4k it looks great (UI looks more sharp than in macOS, fonts looks almost as good as in macOS). And Linux fonts rendering is not even near - last time I saw it, it was completely awful, although it was on FullHD monitor, not 4k.
TCP/IP wasn't the official transport protocol until 1983. Before that was NCP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Control_Program). I got on the ARPAnet in 1982, and remember the transition day.

FTP and Telnet were around by 1974. So was an early mail protocol (described in RFC 524, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc524.txt) which used FTP as mail transfer agent. The first SMTP-like mail protocol was probably MTP in 1980 (RFC 722, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc772.txt).

Go read some RFCs -- they're great sources of early Internet history! Start here: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.html
This is a long but excellent article - well worth reading.

By coincidence, I became aware of this bizarre "deletionist" culture at Wikipedia recently when I was searching for information about a particular musician. This is someone who has a handful of popular-ish songs on streaming sites, all from television soundtracks, but hasn't really charted as far as I can tell - in other words, an artist I would peg at about 50/50 odds to have had someone bother to write a Wikipedia entry for them.

Lo and behold, I found that someone had written a Wikipedia entry for them, and that it had been deleted because they weren't deemed famous enough to have an entry! I was dumbfounded... This is someone that millions of people have probably heard in the background of primetime television, and information about them was actively deemed unworthy of Wikipedia!

It was a strange, depressing, and disturbing moment of realization about how Wikipedia had evolved from the early days when I was consistently delighted to find information on all manner of obscure topics, lovingly curated by people who cared deeply enough about them to invest their time in informing the world about them. Thanks to this article I now know that it wasn't just an isolated incident.
Solar-like oscillations in other stars
>> Whether to show a logout link or a login form is presentation logic, not business logic.

I would prefer keeping presentation logic, or any logic for that matter, out of the HTML.
Peer review feedback loops do tend to make one carefully consider what one says, however if the peers are too homogeneous, you may not get challenged on many things outside the bubble of their collective belief system. Heterogeneous peer systems, that is diversity, are more likely to keep you honest.
I used to write software tools used by Amazon associates inside the warehouses (fulfillment centers). I loved meeting the users and asking them 'what sucks about this?'.

A few would be too freaked out by some manager-looking-type asking them any questions. Some would say the usual stuff that we knew but couldn't help. Some would point out a few small annoyances that we would try to improve. Rarely, one would tell you things that blew your mind, like holy shit why didn't we think of that? I kept going back to try to repeat that experience.
Mind, having the Hudson horribly polluted from previous industrial activity in regions like Schenectady/Albany/Troy isn't all that great, either.
Ask HN: Which tool do you use for web prototyping?
Hi! I'm searching for a better prototyping tool for my web project. I'm using Balsamiq but I'm not very satisfied with it: I need to launch it with wine (I'm on Linux) and the control library is not very rich. LucidChart looks interesting but I've not compared it with something else. What can you suggest?