skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Most important time is now;

I've been thinking about this occasionally -- it never quite sat right with me.

Then, recently on a podcast (I think it was Marc Maron, can't remember the guest) they were talking about this, but suggested instead of living in the now, one should ONLY live in both the past and the future -- "those who suffer from dementia and similar diseases live in-the-now and its terrible".

In a certain sense the past and future are all we have to interact about as now can be pretty illusive. So, with that in mind, the question becomes how to make it constructive and interesting.
A pronounced theme in the article was disregarding this superficial drive to nowhere and instead focusing on philosophising on your own existence.

I doubt many of us know what it's like to be dead but to think its Zen is actually a nice thought.
Apple is working on a secret high-powered iPhone code-named ‘Ferrari’
The team I work on has used Basecamp for years and recently tested out many of the competitors listed in this article. We were unenthused with all of them and found them to be missing features that we need and that I would consider basic to any project management system, one example being project templates.

Others had weird notification systems with no ability to customize or fix what was bothering us about them, weird and terrible UI issues, etc.

So while I am not an enthusiastic Basecamp user, we are still using it. This is not to say that the competing products were "bad", but they at least weren't right for us.

I am also unclear how Basecamp is considered a "failure"? Because it's growth has slowed as supposedly proven by the fact that they have removed their weekly signup figure from their homepage and because of stats gleaned from app downloads? I don't buy it.

If Basecamp is a failure hopefully I will have created a product one day that is a similar failure!
Show HN: Markov Generated HN Titles
Please don't post drive-by snark to HN. You provoked a whole flamewar with this uncharitable snipe.

The following links give an overview of the kind of discussion we're hoping for on HN. Please (re)-read them and post civilly and substantively. We're not against campfires, but throwing matches around carelessly in a dry forest does none of us any good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
I know I'm not the first (or last) to do this but I was interested in how Markov Chains work so I decided to create a simple Twitter Bot that submits generated HN titles.

If anyone has any tips on how to improve it feel free to share. The source is available at https://github.com/zcr1/hn-markov
Curious, what specific source are you referencing?

I've restated Tolstoy's words from his short story, "The Three Questions."
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My problem is that we really don't have any local experienced outfits. Chicken and egg problem I'd imagine.
How can they be a myth? Harsher winters from volcanic eruptions appear to be a historical fact. Nuclear explosions can kick up a huge storm of stuff into the atmosphere -- that's part of their point. Multiple explosions, multiple effects, likely similar enough to volcanic winters. Or worse, depending on the breadth of the exchange.

And, of course, there's making massive amounts of the environment radioactive.
Nice! Yes that's quite a good method. I also found that googling my name + some relevant keywords (like ruby, programming, resume, etc. in my case) found relevant results
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin confront a stark choice: begin another nuclear-arms race or reduce the threat of nuclear war.

it would seem like the latter considering how close the two seem to be
Apache Fineract 0.5.0-incubating Release
Btw, we also plan on open sourcing all this. So everyone will be able to give feedback and contribute. The hope is it becomes a really useful tool for the community
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Complet...
Wow! It's like an article on design, written by someone who knows fuck all about design.
> If there's anything we've learned on HN, IoT software is complete shit when it comes to security.

Yes, but I think most people here will till you it's not because of a lack of engineering talent. Rather security takes time and a lot of money (in particular security engineers) and IoT companies would rather do without for the most part. And even if you do pay the price it doesn't always work out. It's not an engineering or talent problem, it's a management and P/L problem.
Skyhook lost the suit against Google in 2014
Here is an early diagram I made when we were exploring the idea. It's not the complete story but hopefully it communicates the general idea https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/www.clap.chat/assets/HN-a...
24 days of Rust – conclusion
ironically reading such a long article seemed like a poor use of my own time , so I skimmed it
A success story, congratulations!
Four Books for Freelancers for Mindset and Motivation
I am not sure there is any utility in differentiating between these 2 types of increased use. Either way it's increased use, and either way it's good for Bitcoin.

Nowadays the peak trans rate is in fact 3.7/second [2200 trans/block]. The average is 2.8/second [1700 trans/block] - https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-per-block?time...

Even when you drop chain trans, the trans rate has been smoothly increasing over many years - https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-chai...
"Store non-optimized json in disk(not sure but looks liek it)? Check."

How can you say "not sure" and "check" in the same line?
Im aware it could be done. I just think anyone who does it deserves a swift kick to the nuts.

I could create plastic rice and sell it... but I'd be a horrible person for doing so. Just like these people that created the aggregators. Pathetic waste of life ass hats... can't think of anything good for society... so they shit on it.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/23/africa/nigeria-fake-plastic-ri...

The guy who bought Epi Pen and jacked the price because he could... also deserves to have his genes removed from the pool.
Some great suggestions here, but mostly well within the engineer comfort zone (Adams, Gaiman, Tolkien, Asimov, Pratchett, Weir, Sanderson, Rothfuss). If you're feeling like trying something a little different, I'd highly recommend Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. It's historical fiction set in Tudor England, and follows Oliver Cromwell who is a kind of fixer for Henry VIII. Beautiful language, but Mantel also has an ability to enter into the mindset of the times in a way that can be striking and alien.

I have a fear that engineers on here are all reading and watching the same things. Intellectual monocultures are boring and potentially fragile. Let's make 2017 the year where HN reads a few books that aren't about wizards or engineers in space.
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Maybe I am too old, but from my vantage point, "Computer Science" and "Algorithmic Science" are really two entirely separate fields.

Computer Science is exactly what the OP talks about: computers, CPUs, implementation details, hardware, plumbing, etc... One needs actual hardware on the table to work this out. Imperfect hardware, with latencies, clock issues, etc... THAT is true computer science, IMHO, and is very near Electrical Engineering.

On the other hand, Algorithmic Science really is an applied form of mathematics. One does not actually _need_ a computer to design, understand, invent algorithms. A brain, paper and pen are enough.

Those are two different sciences, and I suspect very few people are actually great (world class) in both simultaneously. It is futile to imagine that a single school curriculum would adequately form people in those two very different topics.

I could add that where I work, we have in-house the two kinds of people: a couple of mathematicians for the (amazing algorithms) and a few very picky low-level programmers who actually implement the algorithms with blazing fast, hand-crafted code. The two groups would never dream of doing the other's job.
> No clue how they got all that shit.

Credit bureaus and companies like Axciom or DataTree collect, keep and sell tons of data.

At the very least you should request your credit report (it's free if you don't want FICO score) and check that everything in it is correct. This is not the last time someone pulled a background check on you.
No, the question asked by the parent poster is "what is the probability that I would be born at this time in a long time frame".

Which is what I was answering. You can't pick a human at random including from the future, unless you're outside the system somehow.
It's a vendor zone, anyone can register for a vendor zone...
But... they're not, though. You can at best say that of the original kickstarter backers (a now-tiny minority who backed a very different vision of the game - I'm part of that group, by the way), but not of somebody who's buying a ship today.

There is a plethora of information available about the vision of the game and that is very much because of CIG's approach to openness. They make everything available. They release countless youtube videos, blog posts, etc about design work on the game.

The people putting money into this, they're not preordering a game they're expecting to come out 3 months later, and then ending up disappointed because it's still in development.

And I've seen CIG offer complete refunds (sometimes worth thousands of dollars) to backers unhappy with the vision shift.

On these points alone they're doing a hell of a lot better than most game studios out there.

And yes, they're "promising sun moon and stars", but unlike Molyneux's games, NMS or whatever other overhyped project you can think of, they're constantly delivering updates about it, delivering content.

People will always be disappointed. I've been in the games industry long enough to know that gamers never know what the hell they want, and when they see something they think they want, they're usually wrong about it. Opening the gates of game development for consumers to peek inside, try out the product during its earliest days, is a ballsy move and one that simply isn't getting the credit it deserves, especially here.
I think I'm just going to enjoy it and do my best not to count the number of hours in it. I imagine I'll probably get some stuff done though.
As a complete layman reading that paper, Skilling's arguments seem quite damning of IG. In particular, Amari's fundamental assumption seems to be refuted:

"For inference, the only acceptable value for the Rényi-Tsallis parameter is α = 1, which is the correct information. That negates the generalisation to α != 1 which underlies Amari’s “α-divergences” in information geometry."

Have any IG proponents responded to or refuted Skilling's critiques? This is interesting because Shun'ichi Amari is credited amongst others with advancing the field in the 80's[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_geometry
Yet at this stage other studios with publishers probably have only shown a teaser.

The fault isn't with CIG, the fault is with open develoment in general. It's just not going to work.
Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old
World's last wild frankincense forests are under threat
It's still more likely that you need to react given that the alarm has gone off.

P(attack | alarm) >= P(attack)

Unless the alarm is literally random, or even anti-correlated with being attacked. The alarm is still useful.

Remember that the penalty for missing a true alarm is possibly even worse that reacting to a false alarm.
How does this differ from hnchat that was posted back in September, especially around user auth?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12431724
Depending on how serious your company is about network security, it's entirely possible they MITM all secure connections. Especially something really suspicious like a persistent SSH tunnel to a scaleway server.

I don't even understand why you'd go through all the effort. It's a silly position to put yourself in. If the IT policy bothers you that much, talk to somebody about changing it or find another job.
Ryzom organic MMORPG Patch 3.1.0 – 2016-12-23
I've been hoping to find a rebuttal to Skilling's paper from someone who understands information geometry. Anyone here able to provide one? Or are his critiques viewed as legitimate?
http://ryzom.com/?lang=en
Please don't stoop to lashing out personally. Friction is inevitable in an internet forum like HN, so each of us will occasionally be rubbed the wrong way by a comment here. Most of the time this is just a glitch—a crossed signal about intention. But even when the other person really is being condescending and whatnot, it's important for the sake of the community not to make the thread still worse, as you did here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13247090 and marked it off-topic.
I would like to see this study replicated as the sample size of 22 seems low, and I have a strong suspicion nutrition plays a very large role as covariate here.

Just not sure how generalizable this is.
Ive been doing some data analysis internship for a similar study but more brain vs circadian cycles. The human data is often messy and does not replicate.

The clonal mouse studies data is often more consistent, and what Im building an in silico model for.
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:34
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For what it's worth exercise is needed for me to feel mentally stable.
JavaScript IS lisp with 1) a new syntax and 2) more things bolted on top that make it a non-LISP language. There are two things under the catagory of JavaScript. The Functional size and the Imperative side. It's the only language in the lisp family that allows you to write both, neither, or some combination in the same program. I say neither because other paradigms can be expressed from within JavaScript that will not be expressable in most FP and Imperative languages without some muscle involved in forcing it to do so.

Watch David C.'s talk on JavaScript the Good Parts to see this diamond in the rough.
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We're all going to die. The inability to make light of death seems like a refusal to acknowledge this fact. One perfectly valid perspective is that, when facing the impermanence of everything, nothing is off the table for poking fun at. Most of us have experienced tragedy and some of us can still laugh at it.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't ever be serious, but I'm not convinced that our collective sense of humor should be modulated down to the least tolerant and most sensitive among us.
This is a distracting red herring argument and you know it.

Solar makes up less than 1% of the US energy supply. No one is saying we power our high-energy industrial consumers until we get up to say 50% renewable with all existing the low-hanging fruit out there.

Energy is not an all-or-nothing proposition. You can still use the energy-dense sources where they're the best tool for the job while still decreasing our existential risk elsewhere.
I second Accelerando and Book of the New Sun. Both challenging in their own ways.
Very cool! I hadn't heard of HNChat but the authentication process is very similar. I like the idea of letting user's manually add the id if they want to. I think we may make it optional to automatically handle it for you or let you do it manually.

Biggest difference from my first impression of hnchat is that we built ours as a chrome extension and you participate directly on HackerNews instead of an external domain.
It's a lot worse in India. One can look up voter information in one's constituent area and find the names, ages and addresses of the hundreds or thousands of people living there. Many government enterprises also put up subsidy related information for public view along with detailed personal information in the name of "transparency".

With the unique biometric identification system (Aadhaar) being pushed heavily for various uses (not just subsidies alone, which is what it was intended to curb leakages in), the lack of a national privacy law, and the attorney general recently claiming in court that "privacy is not a fundamental right", things have never looked bleaker. The central (federal) government and state governments don't care about privacy and privacy protections. It seems like the masses, many of whom don't know much or don't care much, are being coerced into systems that can be heavily misused by those in power.
>> compare the current "game" to what was originally promised

That's a real issue with crowdfunding. More often than not, the devs truly have no idea what the final game will look like. Much of the early funding goes into what are essentially extended market research projects. Alphas are released, feedback taken, and changes made. Everyone expects that devs have some final version of "done" in their heads, but the truth is that such pictures constantly change in response to user/market feedback.

There are only a handful of indi games that ever developed towards a finite picture (Prison Architect). Most bounce around trying to please all the fans until some financial tipping point causes them to slap "1.0" on the latest build and push it out the door (KSP). That crowdfunding and traditional funding result in very different game development should be no surprise to anyone. StarCitizen will release when they need to release. Until then the cycle of feedback and iteration will continue.
AWS had 7000 new releases in 2016 including new products and feature releases. However these are not all patented but monetized as SaaS products. It is time that these enterprise companies like IBM understand and accept the revolution sparked by Linux.
Interesting, did your scripting language compile to C first? I'd be interested to see how you integrated TCC if it's available.
I'm not affiliated with CIG (edit: I am an early backer as I mentioned elsewhere), but I am passionate because I work in the games industry and I see what CIG is doing as incredibly beneficial to the industry; open development is huge for both studios and consumers but it needs all the love it can get.

So I'd really love a source for your "is seen as a joke in the gaming industry", because that is not at all what it's like here and is making me doubt your intentions. CIG is producing a game that people are passionate about years before it's released, completely self-funded and all that off a kickstarter. They're the reason Kickstarter got so popular in the gaming industry: everybody wants to be them.
I'm fine with my boss seeing what's on my screen because he has no expectation that it will be my editor 100% of the time. He doesn't go out of his way to look, but our desks are also positioned such that he's going to see it when he's going to his desk.
Right, but the assumption of original state is still invalid. An increment from 9 to 10 might be invalid if, say, the guy has already worked 40 hours and by union contract cannot work any more hours. If it had been corrected to 8 and my intent was either "set to 10" or "increment by one," the values of 9 or 10 are both invalid. So, unless we want to attempt to account for all possible rules (and vastly overspend on the project) the best choice when assumptions are invalidated, regardless of intent, is to surface the conflict.

This is very much just a distributed database where we've chosen availability in the presence of network partitions rather than consistency. The end result is that conflicts will inevitably happen, and aside from a hugely complex set of rules, the cheapest resolution is still human intervention.
Time management is difficult because work generally expands to fill the available time (Parkinson's Law), and it depends on the inherent, insoluble complexity of working with other people.

The author suggests that time-management schemes are a means of distracting ourselves from the briefness of our lives and the inevitability of death -- the central theme of Ernest Becker's 1973 book, "Denial of Death":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death
I didn't downvote you, but I'm guessing that a community of developers would be especially inclined to resent apologist rhetoric regarding a 70 million dollar software project that can only produce alpha software with no sign of being finished within the decade, especially because so many of us know what it's like to bust our asses on a tight schedule with limited funding.

I think the SC tech does seem impressive, but when compared to a game in a similar vein like Elite Dangerous, which took a lot of well-deserved heat for not quite meeting expectations, yet still managed to produce an overall fun game that engaged the community while it continues to improve, its hard not to feel like SC could be doing more to give the backers something other than tech demos.
OpenVPN is pretty slick for point-to-point connections into a cloud environment. We run the server side in a docker container on kubernetes and push the cluster services network routes as dhcp options to clients, so developers can work locally just as if their services were running in the cluster.
This is very Unix, C, and Intel specific, to the exclusion of practically everything else. It's quite a good introduction to some aspects of those, but the title should be changed to make this clear.
Sounds like something someone would say that has no idea what dementia is; feels comparable to saying a savant is a genius.

Being in the present is a skill that is learned, not a disorder.
Not to beat the NetApp horse to death, but they've solved that problem (they just do a poor job of advertising it):

https://github.com/NetApp/netappdvp
Golang: Who needs generics?
Yep, there have been many arguments on Debian that it isn't disributable as it isn't compatible with DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines).

Also, google code hosting removed it as it wasn't Free Software... which was quite ironic given their 'do no evil' stance.

The real issue is... few 'bad people' think they are evil, and therefore it is too subjective. Licences are not the place to make silly clauses, if you want the main premise to be respected.
Please ask in terms of Mwh so that we can do the math (multiplication) for you.
> anyone who does it deserves a swift kick to the nuts.

Let's say you want to buy a house and apply for mortgage. The bank can either look at your credit history to determine your probability of default, or not look at your credit history and assume your probability of default is the same as US average. The bank uses this probability and prime rate to decide what interest rate to offer you.

If you paid your bills on time in the past, your credit history would be clean and you'll get a better rate.
Hackers Want to Take Down Xbox Live and PSN on Christmas Day
'I don’t think globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are'
Ah, so you're one of those folks who doesn't answer my emails! Makes me pester you multiple times, by email, SMS, Skype, and if I'm truly desperate, the dog park. You're just outsourcing the work of communication onto me. When you ask for a favor I will pretend I didn't hear it! Winky emoticon.
Give all service providers a unique email, and a fake name. It will be very hard to correlate your identity between two providers. And most providers don't need your real name.
What does LIL offer over LUA?