skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried many times to do it digitally over the years, tried many apps, none really stuck more than a few days.

Last November I started keeping a physical Design Diary, though, and I've managed to keep it up since. I come up with tons of ideas for games, stories, websites, etc, and I tend to lose the ones I don't actively pursue over time, so now I just write it in there. It's nice because with pen and paper I can actually draw the designs of things too, although it's still mostly text. I also put notes from lectures on design I listen to in there also. I also just record whenever I work on those projects and some of the decisions I made while doing so.

I also put some personal things in there as well to provide some context and help aid my memory of when things happen (I have a terrible memory), but I do write this with the idea that somebody might read it or I might want to share it someday, so I try to fully explain the ideas as well as I can.

In fact, I don't just take notes in there or anything. I take notes on scrap paper first, since my natural notetaking style is pretty messy and filled with gaps, and then I sit down later and take those scraps and expand on them in the diary, sometimes days later.

It's already become one of my favorite physical artifacts (that's not an actual game I've made), and I'm trying to start a second one that retroactively goes back to previous games and stuff I've worked on.

The only structure I have in there is I keep things segregated by the day it happened on, more or less. Sometimes I have lecture takeaways put in there weeks after I actually watched it though.
This might be considered similar to the DoS vector that was also present in the HTTP Public Key Pinning proposal [1]; an adversary seizing temporary control over the server can convince clients to not request a response from the server for a certain period, or in the case of HPKP request a response that cannot possibly be fulfilled.

Its seems much more mundane in this Cache-Control case, but it is the same vector nevertheless.

[1] https://blog.qualys.com/ssllabs/2016/09/06/is-http-public-ke...
I don't know about laptops, but I would expect a lot of these "2 in 1" devices to ship with a 1 or 2 cell battery.

Tablets frequently have lower voltage batteries. The iPad 4 for example has 3 cells but they're all in parallel, so the voltage is only 4.2V.

For laptops the sweet spot seems to be 3 cells, and I'm not entirely sure why, apart from higher voltages requiring smaller traces/wires. Maybe due to the LCD backlight? The LCD from the iPad 4 actually requires ~12V for the backlight, so there's a buck boost converter somewhere on the iPad logic board for this.
Nice. At an old job, I got a little bored, so I'd spend time crafting wonderful commit messages. Most of them contained puns, some very subtle, some less so.

In regards to commit ethos, I'm not sure I agree with all of the statements made. To me, something simple/concise, that others will understand, but not lacking in key info, is much better than several paragraphs explaining the same thing.
We use 3D printing extensively, for large sized parts, and there are very few options out there.

Consider buying a few machines that can do very large parts. We would use you literally today if you could do that. It's a very underserved part of the market.

I'm talking apx 700mm x 400mm x 300mm
Apparently, the report that Casey Jones did 84 searches for chloroform was based on a misreading of the mork file format
(see https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/mork-keeps-on-giving-when-t..., although you'll want to type that out yourself rather than click the link).

The competence of people doing this sort of discovery is not unquestionable.
I think well of Musk being proactive and establishing credibility.
Google Gοt Rid of 1.7B Bad Ads
Designing tactile icons on touch surfaces for the blind and visually impaired
InfoWorld 2017 technology of the year award – Visual Studio Code
> A: People who vote straight party-line, no matter what. A toad could be on the ticket and they'd vote for it.

Since the parents is discussing running for local office, I'm not sure why you think party comes in to play. Or perhaps this is a regional thing? In my city, party affiliations are not advertised/listed for positions such as city council, mayoral, parks board etc.
Am I supposed to authenticate my Twitter account on this thing? No thanks.

Also, really sucks that the homeless will be left out of this giveaway.
Why did you develop just for OSX and would you consider supporting other platforms (Linux!) in future?
Holy hell, is WeTransfer.com bad
His Wikipedia article disagrees with this, saying "Upset that Nasser would not enforce a government based on Islamic ideology, Qutb and other Brotherhood members orchestrated a plot to assassinate the Egyptian president in 1954. The attempt was foiled and Qutb was jailed soon afterwards;"
> Let's not pretend Chinese students are turned away because they lack individuality.

They absolutely are.

As someone who has been involved in this process, this is without question the biggest challenge for Chinese students to apply to top schools. They simply do not have the individuality and intellectual curiosity that US universities want. The reason is because having those qualities is totally incompatible with high achievement in the Chinese educational system up through high school. The high scoring Chinese students were either never interested in critical thought or they completely repressed that tendency at an early age.
Maybe we should add a way to show/hide degrees of nesting in a thread. In state 0, show only top-level comments, state 1, show top-level plus replies, etc.
doubt it would stay that expensive if proven, mass manufacturing surely would drop it quickly.

with regards to the mention of other companies more complex methods, perhaps its merely reminding people that complex solutions are not always the only way
"Vine’s business problems throughout the years – poor management from directors leaving every year, competitors such as Instagram implementing their own short video features, massive lack of innovations to keep users, and their biggest stars from jumping to other platforms." Seems to sum it up there: lack of innovation, adaptation, and forward thinking.
As another commenter pointed out it's SoundCloud's genres that are at fault, they're at #9 here: https://soundcloud.com/charts/top?genre=alternativerock
^^ Seconding that people see Strong Towns.
I work at a mobile games company called IGG
This is why RAID6 and similar are used. Or tree like structure of RAID10. Mostly because the probability of a HDD dying whole is lower than in part, you get much more of the extra redundancy than expected.

These should be also patrolled and resilvered regularly, which should catch imminent failures too.
The big benefit of Slimbook would be the tested hardware "where any potential hardware-related issues have already been ironed out before a new version of our software is shipped to them", according to the KDE announcement: https://dot.kde.org/2017/01/26/kde-and-slimbook-release-lapt...
The quality of a package manager is of much less importance to a desktop system user than the (un)readability display, I would think.
You wish to tell me that the character of people is not based on religion in a theocracy, where the ruler is literally called "Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution"?

Iran executes over 1000 people every year using very barbaric methods every year: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/07/irans-stagger...

It does speak for itself that after thousands of years you ended up in one of the most backwards forms of government possible, though I'm not sure you realize the implications of what it speaks of.
Google took down 1.7B “bad ads” in 2016
Cool. Thanks for the link!
Jesus, I thought this was satire before I watched the video.
Thank you!

Is there any info on the cutoff for /classic?
I have several Lenovo X220s running FreeBSD and am very happy with them. Inexpensive, good keyboard, sufficiently fast, good battery life, good expandability and availability of replacement parts.
> This is no different than how math textbooks present the history of any particular mathematical abstraction or theorem: they don't go in depth on all the false starts and dead ends people explored before making real progress. That's certainly something interesting but it has no place—and no room—in textbooks dedicated to explaining abstractions. The simplified story of how something could have been developed is, I believe, more relevant to understanding the importance of an idea than the way it was actually developed.

Unfortunately, textbooks rarely do even this. That is, they don't supply nearly enough justification/motivation for the complicated definition they posit and the structures they develop. For the canonical (and accessible) bit of philosophy of mathematics on this, I highly recommend Lakatos’ "Proof and refutations" [1]. As a demonstration, it gives a very non-historical and exhaustive explanation for the definition of an "honest" polyhedron with respect to Euler characteristics [2], and is liberally footnoted with the actual history. Unfortunately, textbooks have not improved much since it was written in 1963.

[1]: https://math.berkeley.edu/~kpmann/Lakatos.pdf
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_characteristic
Hi Vince

You said each app comes with a hosted DB, do developers get direct access to this db or is it a big shared one? Are you planning on providing this direct access in the future?
Can you disclose the exact DB (MySql/PostgreSQL/MongoDB)?

Congratulations on the launch, you are doing a good job education developers in regard to this new way of building APIs which helps everyone competing in this space (myself included) and the YC backing helps with credibility to this domain. Keep up the good work.
Obviously the "quality" of fat source can make a difference just like for carbs, getting them from broccoli or brown rice can be more filling than getting them from fries per calorie. Avocado's and nuts are obviously more filling than animal fats. For the most part, I think your body "craves" fats and eating them solves that craving. But this isn't the same as being "filling". I've also heard that the beginning of going on a high fat (ketogenic) diet is difficult, but your body adapts and fat tends to start filling you.

finally, peoples bodies vary and some are full with fewer fats or carbs than others.
That's a great talk which I've seen multiple times. However I still keep a journal with good security. Sure there's a chance that I'm distracted by something while the journal is open and the police bust in right at that moment. That's a risk I'm willing to take, similarly as I'm willing to take the risk of being run over every time I cross the street to go buy some groceries.
Yeah, multiscreen was a complete mess until very recently. Not just because of Qt, but because of several Plasma bugs. It's much better now.
It's hacker news, some of us are interested in the tech stack!
I agree with you about the perennial repetition, though of course these things are always new to somebody. What are some articles you've seen on HN recently that don't make you restless and unproductive (if there are any)?
Facebook text notifications = dangerous
Hit the road, Jack
Thankfully there is still Canada/EU/Australia on the cutting edge of stem cell and gene therapies.
That said the Trump administration is likely to be a great blow to science overall, to be felt worldwide I would imagine.
Glad I am not the only one who thought the article lacked real info.
Timeless Tips for 'Simple Sabotage'
There are always some personal preferences, such as that I would wish the i7 was quad-core. But I'm a big fan of KDE Neon, and would very likely get this one if I was in the market for a new laptop at the moment.
2008-02-13. Pretty sure that's how it was when pg added that page, and if the dim and misty vaults of my memory can be trusted, it's because on 2008-02-14 there was a big influx of users from Reddit for some reason.
>Citing isolated instances in an industry that provides services to billions and saying you should be scared because of that is paranoia - on such a large scale you are guaranteed to have bad outcomes. Meanwhile most people eat processed food and are still walking around.

That would be relevant if I had said that they wouldn't be walking around (that they'd die immediately, etc.).

But what I said is that they are sold unhealthy crap to eat, not just openly but also misleadingly and covertly, because it makes production cheaper (not necessarily price, the margins are more often than not pocketed) and the product more addictive to consumers (more sugars, artificial coloring to entice the eye, etc).

Whether the industry "provides services to billions" is also irrelevant, as it is possible to sell crap to billions, or at least, millions. Billions consume corn syrup in all kinds of food stuff because it's cheaper than sugar and has all the subsidies, for example. It's still crap.

>there's nothing wrong with high sugar/salt if you're healthy and are within your calorie limit.

There's nothing wrong with anything if you don't eat it too. And yet a whole country, or half of it, is less than healthy, to the point of talking about an "obesity epidemic".
Even ignoring counter-intuitive probabilities, the law of large numbers is often surprising:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=347059.347561

If you deal with large data, you might have experienced such issues already - hope you have application level hashes on top!
With something like cancer which has a wide geographical coverage, and more or less standardised treatments, couldn't you get a good result from including everyone in hospital X in a treatment and comparing to the general public?
"The machine, Spadea said, is being used primarily as a marketing tool, not the first step toward employee-less McDonald’s restaurants."

lol
Stripe supports popular European payment methods
It does, if you say "expand desktop" instead of "duplicate". Obviously. Depending on how you lay the screens out there can obviously be regions that are off-screen, that would confuse an app or two (e.g. imagine a 9-digit phone keypad, one display occupying regions 1 and 2, another regions 5 and 6. An app might think to start with its top edge at the off-screen region 4, and its bottom half in region 1, requiring one to hit Alt-Space, M, to lock the window titlebar to the mouse.
Do you have more details on your T-bot project available somewhere? Sounds pretty interesting
I haven't looked too deep into Handbrake in a few years (so someone correct me if I am wrong), but I don't think they use ffmpeg. Their core, the codec libraries, is mostly the same as ffmpeg, but ffmpeg is not the "foundation" of Handbrake
The problem is more fundamental than that -- once you run for office, people will ask you questions on topics you had never considered before. And you will hear stories that will change your perspective on how governments try to solve problems.

Here's an example from my state's motorcycle rider's lobby --
"Would you support a law allowing motorcycles to proceed through red lights under low traffic conditions after making a reasonable safe stop?" (Because motorcycles don't always trip the sensors at intersections.)

That's just a taste. I have a large binder full of mailings from advocacy groups, printing companies (brochures and yard signs) and some of the official paperwork. And that was just the stuff that seemed worth keeping.
If by that you mean they can't dictate the price of drugs, sure. But that has more to do with not being an arm of the state than being "fragmented and small".
I had a lot of problems with Yubico Authenticator. Wound up switching back to a generic app.
Where does the article say homeless people are excluded?
I hope one day we will all pay for everything by selling our friends advertisements
Microsoft Office Hash Extractor
That is perfect.

I have to say I adore the community here. Even though sometimes comment threads dive into slashdot level examinations of detail and occasional political mess at times, the discussions are typically quite enlightened and remind me a lot of early Internet communities. It's typically harder to find that community online due to the popularism that typically dominates mature online communities.
This is a wildly revisionist view of US influence on the Middle East.

For starters, you're assuming that the US government and it's intelligence agencies always understand the actual consequences of their actions and are always successful, which is hilariously false. So instability is a frequently unintended result of meddling in foreign affairs, despite our intentions.

And the idea that all these nations would be "thriving" if only they'd "bootstrap" themselves is extremely naive. Iran is a great example of using "ample oil surpluses to found basic progress", when they attempted to nationalize the oil industry. But that would've hurt Western oil profits / consumer wallets, so we overthrew that administration.

I'm no ME expert but your understanding of the history of these nations is incredibly shallow. The powerless are not the cause of the world's problems.
I don't think that applies to English. As I read it, the sentence is definitely a claim of priority.
That's not what he did or said, and your inability or refusal to recognize that is why a lot of people are against you trying to create a moral justification for mob attacks.

You don't get to decide that for yourself because you live in a society where you gain benefits from designating sole authority to enact violence to the state. If you engage in violence, then the state will in turn give you what you deserve. Even if you understood him correctly, which you did not, he has a right to speak them and people like you get to go to jail if you go around assaulting people.
Wow, that's really good. Thank you!
Any timeframe for production?
Musk has also expressed his endorsement for Rex Tillerson as Sec of State too.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/elon-musk-explains-why-he-sup...

I wonder if a lot of the "Trump is against science" stuff is premature. I might be an idiot, but i'm willing to wait a few weeks before declaring the planet doomed.
The article touches upon automation, but doesn't make clear how the Big Macs are made. I'm assuming they are made as usual then placed in the machine.

So there isn't too much of interest here. This is really a marketing campaign and not progress on automation.
This may be a bleak way to look at things, but the money the rest of the world will start making with this in the future will ensure that we eventually come around. Money wins over morals and ethics much of the time.
AWS Lambda: Faster Is Cheaper
That sounds convenient, but using versioned URLs will already give you that. Except for when you bump the version without changing the resource I guess.
Paper by 53 or Sketches or Sketchbook or any of the several sketching apps available for the IPad would be my guess.
Is the last paragraph a joke? If so, could someone explain it?
Is there a greatly increased risk for cancer from stem cell use given these are cells that have a high rate of proliferation?
The ferengi is weak in this one.
Why We're Ditching Optimizely for Google Optimize
Surprisingly few homeless people are on Twitter.
Purism laptop – a laptop with hardware kill switches
Flint, Michigan still does not have access to clean, running water.
Ask HN: Is anyone actually using Windows Subsystem for Linux?
Trying to understand if this is actually a usable solution, and what scenarios? My main scenarios are nodejs / react / webpack and Rails / Postgres.

I have a 2014 MBP and thinking of upgrading to a windows laptop (since 2016 MBP dropped the escape key), but being able to do rails development easily is a requirement. I used to use an Ubuntu VM with Virtual Box and VIM / SSH on a previous windows box, but I find that clunky compared to Visual Studio Code in my MBP.

So far, both Rails and Webpack have broken in subtly weird ways every time I've tried. I was able to get my rails app working by installing Postgres and Elasticsearch on windows, and connecting. But it was slow and occasionally had weird issues.

Would love to know what others are doing here.
Peter Turchin has done similar work. This book is a great read!

https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Rise-Fall-Empires/dp/045228...
>The label does that though - the ingredients list. The title just doesn't.

The ingredients list is like the small print in contracts.

The title should also describe accurately what's inside, including any pictures on the packaging showing actual truffles etc.

And of course restaurants use the same "truffle oil" to serve $30 and $50 dishes with no "ingredients list" to tell you it's not actual truffle oil.
Pretty much. The first thing I noticed was "Start a 14-day free trial of NationBuilder, leadership software designed to help you win your election." Not a free license mind you, a free trial. This effort seems designed to feed business into the NationBuilder sales pipeline more than anything. If they offered an unlimited (users, duration, feature-set) license to candidates that are launched via this site then that might be a real public service. As it stands, it's marketing.
Just throwing it out there - are you sure there isn't a session cookie tied to your login still on your machine? Or, am I completely wrong and you're just limited to the country's offerings by your location on registration?
Ah, that's a fair point. Most math textbooks are not that great pedagogically—perhaps I was just projecting how I think mathematical ideas should be introduced :).

I'm definitely trying to do this myself: whenever I teach an abstract concept (more from PL than math), I've started to explicitly note both the formal definition and why it's interesting or relevant. Many explanations of abstract concepts I run into forget one of these components or the other, and it never ends well...
Since the KDE slimbook is on the front page I thought I'd share this, looks much more developed and useful to me
What made you choose to go through YC a second time after your startup Layer By Layer? Isn't the network there for you after the program?
Ask HN: Confused Software Engineer
I am in need for help but not sure whom to ask. To be honest, my other developer friends are also on the same boat. So, I hope somebody out here can help me.
I am 30yr old software developer with 9+ yrs of experience in Java/J2EE. I have worked throughout the stack. I have managed mid sized teams and I have also worked as an individual contributor. I have reasonable exposure to Python and R.
I have done some good work in building APIs, learning frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Jersey, AMQP implementations (the usual mix), and work on personal projects where I got to learn a bit of NLP/ Machine Learning.
I am confident about evaluating a framework, learning it and putting it to use in the project. Although, I never got a chance to master any of the frameworks I'd learnt. Largely, my fault.
Whenever I start looking out for a job I brush up my core Algorithm/Data Structure skills and it helps me get through the interviews. Since I've worked throughout the stack I get questions ranging from OOPS to Continuous Deployment. I answer things which I'd done/read in the past. But I feel miserable for not keeping up.

I find it difficult to solve HackerRank problems on a daily basis because my work demands me to learn/focus on something that's totally unrelated to these problems. For example, one day it'd be a new BPMN tool, or a new NoSQL DB, or even a new Javascript library.
I try to keep up but it just becomes too much at times. I feel tired and overwhelmed. I also want to have a life outside of work. I want to be able to read books, watch movies without the fear of it jeopardizing my career.

Questions:-

- Has anyone feel/felt the same way? How did you overcome this dilemma of "want to do everything but end up doing nothing" ?

- How do you manage your time?

- Can a person be successful in his/her career and at the same time have fun outside of work ?

Thanks in advance

~k