skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a-fork-in-the-road

"Yesterday, Cyanogen Inc (Cyngn) announced that they were shutting down the infrastructure behind CyanogenMod (CM)."

A close reading of the original blog post (which mentions "Cyanogen-supported nightly builds" being stopped and provides a workaround to "anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally") clearly suggests that the post is primarily about the CyanogenMod build servers, and not about CyanogenOS.
Why do you neglect the SHIFT and punctuation keys yet give the ENTER key so much attention?
This is good. Especially this:

> A review of your “ideal you,” your ideal future, your major goals and desires in life.

One 'problem' with many task management methods is that when you slip (which most of us do) there's an aversion to opening up your Wunderlist/Excel/moleskin months later and seeing how far your current self is behind your aspirational self.

Task managers are good at atomizing goals into objectives but overlook motivations and outcomes. They lack a 'remind me again what's in it for future-me?' feature.

I'm currently attempting to code such a feature into my app. By way of example, take learning French as a goal:

* Tasks: the usual list of todos. Go to evening classes; Watch 5 hours of TV5Monde each week. etc.

* Resources: links to Youtube videos, uploaded language podcasts, communities on the web.

* Inspiration: images of French cities you want to visit, scenes from a favorite French film, quotes, a mini journal-entry about that French girl or guy you met that one time. Snippets of things the French-speaking-you will appreciate.

* Insights: how much time you're dedicating to the goal, hours already spent and estimated completion date based on your current rate of productivity.

So your task manager serves not only as a checklist but also as a control-room (or if you like, moodboard) for that goal. Tasks, tools, motivation and a feedback loop all in one place.
Certainly yes (within limits), and as many people said above that applies to all fields.
Sometimes knowing how/by whom/when something was discovered or entered into practice gives some perspective on what you are doing today.
Yeah, lots of places have newspapers for the homeless to sell. Of course, this doesn't work very well because most people are not very interested in actually read it. I frequently just give people money and tell them to keep the paper, because I've never learned anything useful from reading these papers. I already know what it's like to be poor and they don't provide me with any useful or interesting information beyond that. I'm not sure how useful it is to teach people how to sell something nobody actually wants, other than in some vague hope that they'll spin it into a sales job at a later date.
You made the original claim that it violates relativity so why don't you take your own advice and be more explicit.

The current accepted size of the observable universe is ~90 billion light years in diameter. If you were referring to some other statement that you think violates relativity then feel free to clear things up.

if you're upset about people making assumptions about your comments then (calmly) address those and clarify your point(s). Don't make aggressive and pejorative assumptions of your own.
What's the advantage to this over ssh tunneling?
> Consider how those old-timers must feel as they watch the mainstream Democratic party make transgender-bathrooms priority #1 while their own hometowns are turning into shit...

What country were you living in that transgender bathroom access was priority #1?
I've just used it with my relatives. Merry Christmas to you too!
Developing for IE6 by itself leads to PTSD.
Designing the Right Schema to Power Heap [video]
Tip for Vancouver people:

Urban Fibre gives home gigabit ethernet service for less than I was paying Shaw for 3Mb/s via cable. So nice to not feel ripped off.

I'm not affiliated with them.

Now if only my cell data wasn't so crazy expensive...
2D Terrain generation using midpoint displacement
Nope, thank you miles7

If you have more material, just put it for all.
It's helpful to separate performance from the ability to perform. It's generally not the greatest idea to prematurely optimize, but you should absolutely be making decisions that give you the flexibility to optimize in the future. For instance, adding a caching layer before it's needed may be a bad idea, but organizing your data in such a way that you could easily add a caching layer may be a good idea. Making your website in C because it's fast may be a bad idea, but choosing Python because you could easily add C bindings to the slow parts may be a good idea.
when the child is doing fine, they get to live in the moment, and are often left alone to do what they are doing. When we don't like what they're up to we often talk to them about 'not yet' or 'not anymore' and time becomes something they have to contend with.

And then we start doing fucked up things like asking five year olds what they want to be when they grow up. How much pressure is that? they don't even know what grown up is yet, except that people stop telling you what to do all day (oh, if only they knew, they would never grow up)
Nice idea, but doesn't work in practice. Without talking regularly with key stakeholders, you have no idea whether you're building the right thing - and frequently you won't.

If you define productivity merely as writing lines of code, then sure, meetings are a waste of time. But if you define productivity as delivering something genuinely valuable, then talking often makes you much more productive.
Why would a solar company need software engineers? It seems to me like a mechanical and electrical engineering field. It would never occur to me to look for a job in the field because I see no way my skills would be relevant. Nor am I interested in being someone else's cost center.

I am no solar skeptic; I have had a solar array on my house for three years now. I just don't see how you get from "solar is here now and not something we are still waiting for" to "you should get involved in the industry".
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Very few people have even remotely informed opinions on politics or history. Both fields are rife with propaganda.

While you can trust his scholarship to 11 nines, you have to be careful with Chomsky's conclusions. He's extremely good at framing the questions, so it's not like you have to disagree much. I just disagree with his understanding of simple venality, and a little public choice theory would explain much of what he misses.
The immediate dead obviously lose, too, even if by some metrics they lose less than others.

That said, excess capacity has a plausible value if your threat model includes the potential of a surprise counterforce strike where you may not be able to identify the aggressor before the strike lands. In that case, excess capacity is essential to ensure that appropriate response caapcity survives any such strike.

The fact that you have enough that, if it was all launched in an optimum distribution of targets to ensure maximum global distribution of damage it would kill the world multiple times over is irrelevant when you are planning for a threat model in which a substantial fraction of the capacity would be destroyed prior to launch.
Are you expecting to see any benefits from the async stuff in particular?
First, change your names on social media accounts and then delete the account.

Second, use the right to be forgotten laws in Europe (even if you aren't European). They've got Google by the balls and at the very least you'll be scrubbed from google pages in Europe, perhaps very soon - or not - you'll be scrubbed from Google worldwide.

Third, might want to change your phone number. But at the very least, even if you have poor impulse control or are too attached to do the first step, just remove your phone numbers from your social media accounts. Uninstall those apps from your phone. Clear your cookies. The main goal is to disassociate your phone number from social. You inadvertently upload it in a variety of ways, and this is a key component to their graphs. Changing it is better because your friends upload your number anyway. Now you will have a new number and no social media profile linked to it.

Fourth, be conscious of what/where you post. Now that you won't have privacy anxiety, this will be much easier to pay attention to.

Fifth, at your leisure, send sternly worded 'remove this content' emails to any web pages that still reveal info about you. Don't do this from free email and gmail accounts, do it from more authoritative sounding domain names. But in the email, refer to yourself as "my client"
The language had a fairly basic AST, was fairly C-Like, and used fairly basic programming constructs (e.g. at most functions are just a call into a dispatcher) so it translates reasonably well to C. Didn't pursue the project too far, so not really anything concrete to show.

@buserror's project sounds like a better example with code.
What about amazon lightsail?
There's a whole lot of projection going in your post - you're far too sure of people's guiding motivations based on a throwaway description of a momentary incident, to the point that you're now accusing another poster of weakening people in their community through willingness to lend a hand.

I also recognize that direct charity prevents or delays people from finding a better solution

You may claim that, but don't try to pass your opinion off as some universal truth that you 'recognize' while other people can't.
Depending on how large the exchange is; if only a few major metropolitan areas and some hardened military targets the world would be just fine.

We've detonated close to 2500 nukes in testing; unless the US and Russia unleash their 20-30K arsenal all at once (the other powers are negligible at these amounts) there isn't going a massive global environmental effect.

Infact even a fairly large depletion of the global nuclear arsenal is likely to produce little to no environmental global lasting effects.

So unless your life is dependant on the real estate market in London, Berlin, Moscow, DC or NYC I think you just might want to live through a nuclear war unless you really are eager to die.
While I'm sensitive to people who gave money to this project, I have to ask:

If Chris Roberts, with his name and reputation in the games industry, were still capable of making quality games, wouldn't he have been able to find a publisher to fund Star Citizen instead of having to beg thousands of his fans?

My attitude towards crowdfunding is to never contribute. If the product's successful, I can just buy it off-the-shelf when it's finished. (Like the new Elite, for example.) If it fails, I'm not out anything. (Sure, there's a small chance I might miss out on some Kickstarter exclusive deal, but I'd rather miss out on that then have an Ouya collecting dust in my living room.)
I don't feel comfortable with many of the lists Facebook is building. I don't want my ethnicity, job status, or daily updates collected so I do my best not to participate.
I couldn't agree more that a request for my attention does not obligate me to give it; if it did, I could spend all my (work) day answering emails and all my leisure time watching adverts.
I think the history of anything is important. It helps the student learn why things are significant, what they changed, and how things were before it occurred.
> Still, even warlordism has potential to be less bad than Communism (more room for ambition, better management of capital) or Fascism (you can be a minority and not die)

Warlordism sounds much worse than communism and fascism. Any culture that is sufficiently advanced to not be chaos and wars for the lords under walordism, would be much better without the warlords. Advanced societies with abundant resources and abundant capital do not need gatekeeping hoarders playing charity Olympics.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13242515 and marked it off-topic.
This is the rumor you're referring to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221923#13223326

What's more frustrating about claims like this are the premises that suggest IPSEC is somehow unknowable. IPSEC is far better studied than OpenVPN is, and its underlying protocol is simpler than TLS (which, of course, NSA is also routinely accused of having tampered with). More importantly: these are protocols, not ciphers. Not only can we read and simulate and test them, we can in fact prove things about them computationally.

I don't know how to articulate the succinct and conclusive argument that you're "not even wrong", but that's the territory that claim lands you in.
I've archived yarchive.net, and put it into archive.org with a note to someone to integrate it into the Wayback Machine.
I did not expect myself to be in accord with the list, but really... it's perfect. I read around one third of those and they were all 10/10 for me.
>You can ignore all of the Box stuff; the reasoning behind that isn't terribly important right now.

What is the reason to box the futures? futures::finished and futures::failed both return FutureResult.
Ask HN: What tech documentaries you think are a must watch?
Archived, put into archive.org
I'm mostly doing IO in these services and now I scale them up with threads and processes. I'm not using CPU so much so I could live with a small amount of threads doing async IO, because I don't need to process the messages in sync anyways. I have plenty of RAM to spare and could live with bigger memory usage.
Having more weapons is a more effective deterrent against an enemy who thinks he can destroy most of your weapons before launch.

Suppose country A estimates it can destroy 90% of country B's weapons before launch in a first strike, and can spend $100B to get to 99%. It'd be highly motivated to do so. But if country B doubles its number of weapons, it would be beyond country A's resources to get to an acceptable level of destruction.

That's one of many dynamics that causes arms races to go far beyond one weapon per target.
Does anyone have a good ref that reviews the history of dividing by zero? The current way of dealing with it just seems so ad hoc and dissatisfying... there has to be a long controversial history but searching around I find very little that isn't repeating the same stuff.
> Second, use the right to be forgotten laws in Europe (even if you aren't European). They've got Google by the balls and at the very least you'll be scrubbed from google pages in Europe, perhaps very soon - or not - you'll be scrubbed from Google worldwide.

This isn't quite accurate.

The search results are only removed for browsers within Europe.

Google will only removed "outdated" or "irrelevant" search results.

Google approve less than half the requests it gets for RtbF.
I remember a classic breakdown of 7 areas of life which has in a few places when reading about goals etc: Career, Family, Financial, Mental, Physical, Social, Spiritual. These aren't terrible decent, but I think Alex's breakdown is much better for sparking useful thought:

• Values & Purpose
• Contribution & Impact
• Location & Tangibles
• Money & Finances
• Career & Work
• Health & Fitness
• Education & Skill Development
• Social Life & Relationships
• Emotions & Well-Being
• Character & Integrity
• Productivity & Organization
• Adventure & Creativity

I actually liked these so much that I integrated them right into the yearly review section of the productivity app I run, Complice (https://complice.co/). The app is subscription-based, but you can use the yearly review without paying :)

To get to the yearly review, make an account then go to https://complice.co/YOUR_USERNAME_GOES_HERE/reviews/2016/yea...
> "Scientism" is a meaningless word

What do you mean by this? People prematurely assuming that science has a good explanation for something it doesn't has a long and storied history.

Scientists saying women couldn't vote because blood flowing to their ovaries fled the brain causing poor decisions, saying that black people had lower IQs because they had smaller craniums, that the Irish were a totally different inferior race than whites, etc. And people latching onto their authority as justification.

Most recently, many outlets have discussed the Clinton campaign's over-reliance on "data" and "science-like" methods, via their ADA "algorithm" and a refusal to go for grassroots tactics and instead trusting analysis of millenials or w/e.

"Scientism" is alive and well. People who think more numbers == more truth, even without putting those numbers and their underlying generating assumptions to any scrutiny, are very very plentiful.
I'm not sure you're going to the same kind of meetings as the ancestors. Of course you need context and feedback. The kind of meetings that often happen in a certain type of business involve way more people than necessary, most of whom also lack the context to make informed choices, and prefer to continually change the subject to draw or divert attention to/from themselves. Product meetings with savvy stakeholders pulling in a mostly unified direction are awesome. Even when people disagree, as long as they agree on the rules of the game and try to work for a win-win things tend to work out pretty well. Talking in circles offf-topic for 2 hours whilst people play with their social media isn't productive in anyone's definition.
There was one story that came out recently about an incident at US's nuclear base in Okinawa but that account is now being challenged by several former officers:

http://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/features/cold-wa...
I meant that ignoring the alarm completely is wrong (see GP), and that some kind of reaction is needed rather than suggesting a complete retaliation.
Same here, and I did a lot of work in signal processing from designing digital synthesizers to field and post sound engineering. Probably my single favorite textbook, unusually well written.
Show HN: Collecting Atari 2600 replays dataset
When I can add some of these libraries to my projects, it's like a late Christmas gift for sure!

Thank you for the whole team.
> “This topic of productivity induces the worst kind of procrastination, because it feels like you’re doing work, but I was producing stuff that had the express purpose of saying to people, ‘Look, come and see how to do your work, rather than doing your work!’”

Outside of email, I often get carried away with setting up a system for doing work instead of actually doing work. If I know I have a lot to do, I'll spend time thinking about how I might organize it in a list and track my progress. Sometimes I even open the App Store and look through more to-do apps!

Something I've settled on now is making a list (usually in an app called Clear), then going through it once a day and putting it on my calendar.

Putting things on my calendar has helped a lot. I think, "this is the time I've set aside to get this thing done. I'm not going to focus on anything else but this for the next 30min/1hr". It also makes me feel less guilty about relaxing when I've got nothing scheduled.
Is there a non-BI link for this article?
> The thing is, scientists really do have a greater chance of having an informed opinion of politics, or history, or any other subject than do actors or football players because to be a scientist you have to know how to evaluate claims based on evidence.

That doesn't mean they are more likely to have an informed opinion, at best it means that if their opinion is informed to start with, it's more likely that they have applied information well.

And even that's dubious outside of their specialty, because the issues with data collection and the tools to deal with them vary considerably between different areas of science.
Disagree. I thought it was always fighting a low budget, and for me, it never rose beyond the level of a poor mini series. Clive Owen was not good either - he has no real talent.
Ask HN: Classic debate of MBA. Can you share your experience?
I work for one of the FANG companies. I have been debating with myself if I should do MBA or not?
I have undergraduate degree from foreign university and have 10 years of software development and leadership experience.
I have been working as a Manager for last 2 years now.

My case for MBA -
1) Learn management with concentration on finance, operations and technologies

2) Get a rubber stamp that I have masters from US.

3) Not have people look down on me every time I say I earned Engineering degree from India. Tbh, my engineering degree was not a diploma mill. I studied super hard and scored distinction ( a big deal in India)

4) Break into the Exec. management.Almost all execs have MBA ( and/or MS). If I don't get degree and manage to break into exec. management, I will be an outlier.

Case against MBA -

1) Fees - It costs at least $150k to do MBA from a reputed school.

2) Opportunity cost - I could be doing my own SaaS app or startup or learn ML/AI if I didn't do the startup

3) Future opportunities - People look down on MBAs more and more in tech companies. Most opportunities for MBA are on on Business side with or as a product manager with cut-throat competition.

4) I personally believe Product Manager is most overrated position in tech.

I personally want to earn more money, live with less stress in 40s and 50s, spread head importance of across communities in the US and globally.

I don't make boatload of money right now. In fact, I am probably on the lower end of the spectrum when it comes to total comp. Spending on MBA also mean that I won't be able to buy house for 2 more years.

What are your thoughts? As anyone here got MBA that proved useful and made drastic change in total comp?
I don't see an issue with having a user type in an email address from someone's profile. Like the parent says in this case they're basically just using clapchat as their email client. Perhaps they could even set-up an SMTP gateway such that hn users could receive clapchats from emails sent to them @clapchat.io or whatever. Then maybe in the email they send have a tasteful link to also sign-up for clapchat.

Edit: upon thinking about it more, it might be better to randomly generate an address used for each conversation, to prevent a spammer from sending email to someone's @clapchat address
> What about people that have pioneered the theory of computer science? The likes of Karp, Valiant, Cook, Blum, Vazirani, Papdimitriou, Micali, Goldwasser, Goldreich, Shamir, Rivest and etc.?

> I doubt these people know the inner workings of computers

...wha...?
This is so ridiculous of a claim that I can't even think of how to respond...
I could believe that a talented game designer was capable of getting money from publishers, but not for the game the actually want to make (at least without substantial compromise).

And the downside of sitting out on crowdfunding is the reduced chance that something you like will get funded/made. Whether that matters to you depends on how excited you are by a project, and how likely you think it is to produce something matching your expectations.
Extensive discussion 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772943
Vibe.d as well:
http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/

The code is also available. I always wished more forums could do this. They're not really posting on usenet, just hosting their own servers basically. Sadly not a lot of new options for NNTP clients either. Usenet is one of my favorite techs next to IRC. Though I understand IRC more than Usenet.