skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you keep a personal journal?

Yes. Org-Mode+Org-Capture

If yes, do you find it useful?

Yes. There are many advantages to keeping a personal journal. It allows you to have better recollections about what actually happened in the past, which is important taking into account that memory is constructive and prone to distortion. Many ideas and insights are forgotten, recording them is a way to fight that.

What tools would you recommend?

Emacs and Org-Mode. Git. Markdown and any other editor is a good option also.

Is there any specific methodology that you follow?

I use some ideas from GTD. Explaining my whole methodology would take more time than I have right now.

When journaling, do you try to track any specific aspects of your life or just write about anything that is currently occupying your mind?

Both.

Any advice on how to get the most out of personal journaling?

Make it an habit. Put a time or word limit and just let the words flow. Make it seamless, for me capturing an entry is pressing 3 keys.
I was confused as to where this quote was coming from at first, but figured it out: https://www.niacaction.org/what-does-trumps-ban-on-iranians-...
This looks interesting, but I'd rather have a pi with Gigabit Ethernet.
Is there not precedent for handling that

correctly in a plain text field?
And yet, it's not government by the people. It's government by representative.
You might like this TED talk on the mathematics of love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N37x4GgDVBM
If their motives were to protest Trump, I think they may have been better served by sticking around and pouncing at the chance to leak evidence of corruption or something that otherwise undermines the administration, just like Deep Throat having been a disgruntled FBI agent who ultimately collapsed the Nixon Administration.

But the State Department knows a lot more about what is really going on than many of us do. Maybe they wanted no part of it, should there be some kind of post-calamity Nuremberg Trials.
To be fair, Ada Lovelace was probably the first to think about using it for something other than pure computation. I may be wrong, but I believe there's nothing special about the representation being binary. You just map "logic" to digits (one or more). The base (or a generic set) you obtain the digits from doesn't matter.
Has someone else read this and understood the argument? Because I don't follow it.
The network coverage is definitely more comprehensive in India than in the US, in my experience, probably due to the significantly higher population density. I was able to get coverage on a dirt road in the middle of seemingly nowhere in parts of India, while I can't even do the same on many county highway connecting smaller towns in the US.
Ex-employee here, left a while before this process started. We had a really strong product, and loyal and growing user base, who rated us over Cite This For Me consistently. It's a shame for the users that it ended this way, I naively hope that CTFM pull their finger out and improve their product
Apparently people disagree with this sentiment. Allow me to expand on it:

TL;DR - One language for all purposes is the wrong focus.

- Python's success is largely due to things it has done well: Numeric and scientific computing (NumPy, SciPy), system administration scripting (yum, RHEL), workflow management (Luigi, Airflow, Snakemake).

- The idea that one language can be used in all tiers leads to things like JavaScript. Does all things but none of them well.

- PHP and Ruby are already strong in the webdev area, and there is little need for Python to compete here. Resources spent on making Python a top tier webdev language will always be a game of catch up, and distract from its strengths.

- Yes Django is a thing, and should continue to evolve, but its unlikely to catch up to PHP.
As someone who faced a similar decision two years ago (whether to go to MSRA or Google in SV for my sabbatical), the air pollution was one of the top three factors. I'd love to spend a year in Beijing, and the food is a bonus. But we decided it wouldn't be appropriate or fun to have a 3 year old inhaling that for 365 days. This was from experience - we speak to a week when she was two, and she'd have a coughing spell every time we left the hotel. But yes - many stresses. Family, not speaking the language very well, etc. In the case of seanmcdirmid, though, he's fluent and seems to like the food. :-). (welcome back, btw)
Nice to see features I'm pumped about in a decimal version.
I guess we want to use markdown in commit messages then.
Having something like yubikey is better than just SMS given the phishing attack scenario will have to convince you to type in the SMS code, which should set off alarm bells if you have a functioning yubikey installed on the device you are logging in from.
To be honest with Linux I'd still go with 1920x1080, since that's still usable as a native resolution if the UI scaling for HD screens isn't being applied for one reason or the other.
Ask HN: How many comments do you read on HN? Is it worth it?
Top posts get lots of comments ("Ask HN" especially). Do you read them all? Scan them all? Read only the top few? Is it worth the time?
Curious to know why people are still running antiviruses. I haven't had one running since, i believe, Windows 7 release and switching over to Chrome/Firefox from IE but even IE is very resistant to threats these days.
The populous isn't always in the best position to think through the long-term implications of their desires.

In this case, Trump rode the anger of voters who want to close the borders to both immigrants and imported manufactured goods, because they perceived that some of their jobs going to illegal imigrants, and other manufacturing jobs had been taken overseas.

How many of those people, do you think, buy everything at Walmart (whether it's all they can afford or not)? How many of those people realize that a 35% border tax and getting rid of our internal slave labor force will lead to commensurately higher prices of goods and services, without necessarily bringing back the jobs that were actually automated away? If they have thought it through, where's the better outcome?

This is why we don't have a direct democracy. These issues are more complicated than one can wrap their head around without making it a full-time job for an industry, and the decisions aren't helped by folks making decisions out of anger and desperation.
Shameless plug: if you want this to work on Linux without diddling the device node permissions, install this:

https://github.com/amluto/u2f-hidraw-policy

I need to get around to integrating this with upstream udev so it can stop being needed as a standalone project.
This is virtually unprecedented. You cannot replace people with such specialized knowledge with political benefactors or some random people. It's like replacing all the doctors in a hospital with random non-doctors. While people can learn these complex roles, with no one to train them the end result can only be a mess. Same is true at the CIA, the people who do all the analysis might not be glamorous as spies, but these are specialized people requiring a lot of experience and knowledge. If these type of folks leave, you are basically out of luck for a long time.
> There's definitely some scummy stuff going on in the food industry, but I don't think a little fakery that saves the consumer money and creates a good flavor is that bad of a sin.

I disagree. I think a label should accurately describe it's contents, plain and simple. I much prefer to decide for myself what is in my own best interest thank you very much.
Funny how little you can do to Trump at his age. He'll probably be dead before you can do anything to him that matters to him.
Even if we think that the "old guard" should go, how does one go about replacing all of them in such a short span of time?

It's not like they can "hire" replacements from competitors (like what happens in the corporate world). There is only one State Department and the work they do is very different from any other institution.
Nobody cares about a country's wealth -- people care about their own. See Adam Smith.
Also my guess is that when VR takes on mobile (in the next 24 months) they will want it to be branded Facebook and not Oculus..

There was some executive shifting a few months back in VR at Facebook and they seem to be distinguishing already implying that "Desktop VR = Oculus" and that this is only a piece of Facebook's VR work.
It’s Not You: Hotel Thermostats Really Are Rigged
No intention of arguing as I don't believe this is a good reason for not losing weight; I believe that for other reasons. However, just thought you would be interested in this. Check out some of the recent studies on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26469381

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27281542
The best graphical designers I saw working always start from scratch and use very simple building blocks to compose more complex things in their own style. Often they create from scratch even letters when creating a logo.
Just went back to paper and pen this last December. I like the immediate access to pen/paper and I use it to get "salient" thoughts out of my brain and onto something safe. I always keep it nearby. (As long as I remember!) Meanwhile, at home, I use a nice fountain pen that makes it a pleasure to write and practice good/fast penmanship.

I've already filled up one notebook in a month's time, and it has served as a very low-stress way to keep my stream of thinking clean and unburdened from previous thoughts. I know that they're safe on paper, and I can move on from them. When it's time to pull all my thoughts together (for example, I just finished a lengthy proposal) all I have to do is refer to my notes, which were put down when they occurred naturally, and not in a "forced" deadline environment.

The paper/pen comes in most useful at night – at bedtime – when my mind throws up two or three ideas that I'd like to keep. (But not get out of bed or stare at a screen.) After I jot down my two or three intrusive thoughts, I sleep more soundly.
Pretty much everyone I've talked to that uses a YK has the same configuration I do, by priority:

1. Security key

2. TOTP via phone authenticator app

3. Offsite saved backup keys

(4.) Disable SMS

This implies two things: first, that for pretty much every site you rely on, you're going to be both TOTP and U2F anyways, and second, that sites that don't support U2F yet will just start at step 2.

U2F is more convenient than TOTP and, because you're virtually never going to actually use it on a site you U2F into, U2F is still mitigating the phishing risk. You're carrying your phone with you anyways. It's pretty much win-win.
I also journal using org. The only reason it stuck for me was exactly what you said. It's 3 keypresses when I'm already in the application and I find my mind wandering.
Considering that the Buran program was much less active and only had a single launch, the ROI on that wastage seems like it would have been rather low.
Can you please recommend an easy to get started guide. I have checked out some written ones and even some videos but I always become confused.
That's awesome that something like that is still running on the internet all these years!

EFF, or some organization with more longevity than a single consultant should build something similar.
In the US, there are at least three ways this is handled:

1. Parents are known. Think Chelsea Clinton.

2. Parents are known social elites within the school's geographic circle. Usually trustees will get involved, sometimes writing recommendations.

3. If parents are elites outside of the school social circle, this is often handled by folks on the local/regional admissions boards (the ones applicants interview with). They can provide a lot of insight in this area.
Cool! I'm doing something similar, but more from the data-analysis side of things for my condo's efficiency.

I've been trying to keep a blog of my progress, if anyone is interested, though please forgive the poor grammar / stream-of-consciousness in the posts... I've been writing quickly to get caught up.

https://dan-nadler.github.io/
Explaining the upside and downside of D-Wave’s new quantum computer
What about "patterns" writing patterns analogous to software patterns.
I was super excited about this until I saw it was another 13" screen. Does anyone enjoy using a screen that small (honest question)? To me anything under 15" just doesn't make sense, especially if 50% of my time is spent without an external monitor.
There is a different sense of freedom that I believe the person you replied to is alluding to. The cultural and social norms may be more ingrained in India, but there is a less litigious society that overlooks or ignores small offenses, or may not even have regulations preventing many things that would be illegal in the US from taking place. It's not necessarily desirable freedom, but freedom nonetheless.
Since this thread is going a bit off topic I figured I would share a link from your friendly neighbors to the north it relates to your two party system and is from a great canadian leader we had a long time ago, who brought us our version of obama care.. It's the story of mouseland.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://...
The notation shows per core and says sold as a 2 core pack. Does that make the actual price $28k for the pack or $14k for 2 cores. The way they list it is not particularly clear.
I was asked to register, so I suppose some others were too.
I'd be surprised if this wasn't what most creatives do. I think it was B.J. Novak (from The Office) I've heard in an interview where he explained that he keeps a notebook to keep track of every idea he encounters during the day. From the outside of it it's pretty much the same concept.

As for the blank-paper-scare, my go to tool is the [Most Dangerous Writing App](http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com) - for the times you can't get started, it's a good push down the hill. (I'm not affiliated with them in any way.)
>I think it's fair to argue that it's a tenant of faith for liberals that all conservatives hate gays, hate minorities, hate women, etc.

Well, to paraphrase your next sentence: "that these people exist in the Democratic party is impossible to deny, to tar and feather the entire Democratic party as this way is how we get to the binary world view."

In particular, I am a liberal in a rural Pennsylvania county that voted 75% for Trump, and I know that my conservative neighbors do not hate gays, minorities, and women. (Most people I've talked to were responsive to his position on coal mining; I'm not sure what will happen in four years if those jobs don't come back.)

>This is why I say people are expressing a binary worldview. From what I can see, many are not expressing that there could be a third possibility. Or fourth. Or a myriad of options.

You mentioned Twitter; if Trump being a Nazi is one bad option, and there are x-1 other good options, I think it's only natural that the kind of people who like to tweet are going to tweet about what they think is the most dangerous one.
How did these videos evolve to be the way that they are? Is it just titling with a combination of terms that kids are likely to hit in a search, plus colors/sounds/expressive faces/weird non-sequiturs that make kids laugh and watch the video to the end?
> This time, it’s taken just five days, since the hostile takeover of the US by its worst elements

Stopped reading there. I don't agree with his immigration policy at all, but we voted and Trump won fair and square.
re: 2 - I assume these guys are like the UK Civil Service, they are experts in their field but politically neutral in their work. They serve the government of the day as best they can, fulfilling their policy objectives using their specialist knowledge to identify the best (or least worst) way of doing it.
Because if you want to actually do science it doesn't really produce profit, it produces knowledge and results which someone else may use for profit decades or centuries later and the idea of "shortages" or "supply" or "demand" are all ideas that come from the market which is not relevant here.

There's high pay for brilliant scientists who want to work on weapons manufacturing or oil drilling or high frequency trading or building scalable advertising platforms but not for doing actual science.
I'm sorry I forgot to include specs:

FPS: 1.
Chrome Version 55.0.2883.87 m (64-bit) on Windows 10.
AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD Graphics 2.90 GHz
16 GB ram

On Firefox 51, I get 2 FPS (although probably roundoff error).

Doesn't matter if I use low textures without anti-aliasing.

I should not the CPU usage for shoots way up. So most likely the WebGL is not utilizing the GPU. I should note that the GPU is integrated into the CPU chip as an "APU"...maybe this particular model of APU isn't supported by the WebGL.
10 years. Never had a death march. Reason being chose good companies with good processes. Being a product company helps a lot.
Org-mode in spacemacs is my choice, though that is more of a TODO list keeper than writing down personal thoughts. But it is plain text and has timestamps. It is also very flexible and powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM&t=1271s
Funny you mention that quote. I'm half way through Jefferson Cowie's bestseller about the demise of the American working class starting in the 1970s [http://fave.co/2j8L5pI] and the first part of the book recounts the struggle of young west virginian coal miners against the entrenched, oppressive, borderline-criminal leadership of their union. At some point in time certain unions started to operate as political machines and the incentives of members and leaders did seem to substantially diverge. It's interesting to think about how organized labor has evolved across different sectors (physical labor, knowledge workers like teachers, Government workers, law/medicine) through this perspective of divergent incentives.
I've never experienced performance issues due to users. I run https://styleci.io and we're absolutely fine dealing with thousands of users.

If you're running jobs, be sure to do so on the queue.
Is the relay for your heater controlling the main voltage input or is it controlling at the thermostat connection?

I've been wanting to do something similar with the units in my apartment (they're similar to what you'd see in a hotel window unit). The thermostat and controls are integrated and I can't disassemble to access them, so I either need to build a rig to push the buttons (hard) and turn the temperature dial or just put a relay at the mains and manually set them for AC\Heat depending on season. Adding a relay to the mains seems straightforward, but it's 220v and I don't want to mess up.
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Sadr's death squads and Houthis.

If blowing up random civilians is the definition of terror then I'm sure the Syrian government would qualify.
Many are pointing out that the senior leadership has been in the State Department under both Republican and Democrat administrations. But given the mess that America's foreign policy has been since 2001, is this truly a disaster?

Tenure does not equal competence. Some would argue this is especially true in government.
Anyone want to help me understand what the issue is with trusting the cert? Is it that the government is becoming a signing authority for Thailand and could secretly connect some users to the government's servers instead of the website they're trying to get to. How wrong am I?
Show HN: Conceptually – 52 Concepts to Add to Your Cognitive Toolkit
I don't know this for a fact, but if I were FB I think I'd be fanatical about verifying real users to prevent people setting up social media PBNs. A holy grail of grey-hat SEO nowadays would be to control large networks of interlinked fake social media accounts, which could be used to promote content artificially. This kind of spam is potentially hard to detect since the networks could be very large and appear organic (to the point, theoretically, of having AI-driven "users" behind each one), so the first line of defence is to identify fake user accounts.
I think their motive was probably to avoid having to tell the diplomatic relations they'd spent decades building to lick Trump's boot or fuck off.
Do you keep a personal journal?

Yes.

If yes, do you find it useful?

Yes

What tools would you recommend?

A well-crafted acid-free paper notebook, comfortable pens.

Is there any specific methodology that you follow?

Yes.

When journaling, do you try to track any specific aspects of your life or just write about anything that is currently occupying your mind?

I keep a system of journals. One series for personal thoughts, current life events, moods, reflections. One series for my mathematical explorations. Another for ruminating on the literature and polemic I consume. One for musical notes and development.

Any advice on how to get the most out of personal journaling?

Develop a process. A habit. Have a plan. Journalling for me is about making my thoughts concrete and objectifying my beliefs, opinions, and self. Writing is thinking.

Thanks for the answers!

Hope that helps.
I would also like an answer to this. Most people that are opponents of these sorts of policies live in areas that are represented by senators/congresspeople that have a similar view.
> I think Hacker News could relax a little bit

Please try to conform to the rules of the community as they are, not as you wish they were. Your tangents really aren't helping the signal to noise ratio here.

This is not reddit or Quora.
Part of the point of hardware tokens is that you can't back up and restore their keys. If backup and restore is important to your userbase, you should stick with soft tokens.
My friend's mom has a journal entry for everyday of her life. I'm jealous she has all those memories stored like that. It's a vast collection of notebooks
That's why you buy two keys. No, they don't have anything to "sync".
I prefer it for mobile, it's a nice balance. Even though I use a 27" monitor at home, I adjust easily enough.
Trump was a master manipulator. He barely had a policy dirrction. Ironically it's conservatism that loses in the long run.

Be in no doubt that such missteps will form the hadokens by which conservatism's will be k.o ed by the libs.
True, and I don't want to jump the overprotective-parent gun here, but what I think is worth keeping an eye on with these videos is how they are not an underrepresented group expressing their creativity, but rather a very well represented group targeting a vulnerable audience. There are no easy lines to draw, but I think it does bear further scrutiny and discussion (especially from folks used to defending forms of media from demonization.)
Evernote is my commonplace book. I started with TiddlyWiki and Wiki on a Stick before Evernote, and I might use a different app or methodology if I was starting now. The ability to link notes together was very useful in the Wiki, and part of the reason I moved to Evernote, but I use it much less these days.

I only do regular tracking of two data points: books I've read (a simple list in Evernote) by year, and board games I've played against a human opponent (on BoardGameGeek).

Whenever I have an idea or thought I want to remember and expand on, I post it as a note to Evernote. Then as my interest in it continues, I revisit, expand, or revise each post. Some of these have grown to thousands of words or whole notebooks unto themselves.