skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, how did you find yourself taken to those technologies? What made you feel like you couldn't achieve it in vanilla JS?
Sleep deprivation would be a bad idea for me because sleep helps the immune system, and my immune system needs all the help it can get (because of my chronic infectious disease).

I have found however that _listening to music_ during sleep will prevent my sleeping a lot from having a depressant effect on my mood. I recommend avoiding music contain exciting or bracing passages; you don't want your sympathetic nervous system to become active during sleep.

If I learn something that I want to retain, then I don't listen to music that night, because the same process (REM sleep?) that tends to depress the mood also helps with the consolidation of new learnings and new skills.
We'd be interested in that cost comparison!
Joi Ito, the current director of the Media Lab, highly praised Aaron during the memorial held at the Media Lab in 2013:

http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N12/swartz.html

The rest of MIT might deserve shaming, but please don't punish the Media Lab.
>opportunity is greatest

Opportunity is emphatically not "greatest" if it does not include maintaining the lifestyle you can get elsewhere, and there is no plausible path for even recovering that level of comfort, much less exceeding it.
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Apparently they've tested it for a year or so already and are now doing a wider rollout. http://www.wxyz.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/fac...
Interestingly enough, there has been an opposite trend, in software engineering, to have the user rely on the mouse for pretty much everything except typing text. One curious example is Plan 9's text editor called Acme, where to perform certain actions you even have to click more than one mouse button simultaneously, a.k.a.'chords'. (I am not sure how long an average mouse would be able to withstand this kind of abuse.)
I went ahead and rebooted it so I could plug my Kill-A-Watt back in just for you ;). It idles at right around 110W. I did a quick sysbench to peg all the cores and it goes up to about 300W. Note that I have some other things sipping from the meter so it's actually several watts lower for just the tower. With the Windows 10 guest running (host using GTX 950, windows RX 460) it idles between 190 and 250.
FWIW, I was very much in favor of making bike helmets mandatory until I read an article strongly argued against mandatory helmets until the last paragraph and then said something like "Don't get me wrong, I personally would not get on a bike without a helmet, but it's kind of like heroine - even if the law was in favor of it, it still would be a bad idea."

So here I am - I think wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle is just common sense, but I am a rather easygoing person who would dislike forcing my way doing things on my fellow human beings just as much as they would.

Interestingly, I heard there was a study that roughly said if helmet were mandatory for cyclists, the decrease in cycling would cause an upsurge in cardiovascular issues that would completely eat up any advantages in reduced brain injuries. Again, I am like WTF, wear a ____ing helmet, dude/gal, but the anarchist in me is strong enough to prevent me from forcing my will down others throats. Which is good for everyone, I suppose. ;-) At least it keeps my stress level in check.
You do realize that there is a substantial fraction of the population that does not have any money to invest?
The nicer the package, the worse the contents.
Do infrastructure projects in the US cost more, or am I imagining it? Is it proportional to what the local population can pay or something?

Anyone have an idea why or how it coild be fixed?
I'm not buying your conclusion that stop-loss orders don't work and a sign of somebody who doesn't know what they are doing.

Sure, assuming there is a flash crash your stop-loss will convert to a market order and if you are using a big name brokerage you order will get filled (maybe delayed, and most likely at a lower price than institutions, but it will get filled).

What is your background if you don't mind me asking? Do you work in finance or in the market?
The uncomfortable truth is that even if style-free information-dense content would be better for you, it wouldn't be better for the advertisers that currently fund this content. And nobody is going to pay for this content out of pocket when they can pay for it though the tax of terrible UX and being reduced to a data product bought by businesses.

If the web is broken, it's not because of the technology, but the shaky economic foundation upon which it's built.
Algorithms composition? (similar to function compositions[1], since algorithms are just function that take an input and return an output.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_composition
Yeah I originally thought about getting one of the 1U prebuilt systems from natex. So glad I went with the huge quiet case instead.
While we are on this topic, let's not forget the real culprits: cfaa and widespread abuse of discretionary power by prosecution.

We must repeal (and not replace) the cfaa. Of course, we should name and shame MIT at every junction (shame on you, MIT!) However, we shouldn't lose sight of the bigger picture. CFAA is evil.
Comparing new grad compensation packages from the elite (sought after by the big employers) schools suggests close to 2x.
Maybe we should simply have an economy where everybody lives on capital gains, nobody has to work, and finally everybody will be happy.
Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump
They are oddly content with the Obama Administration having that same policy for 97% of its tenure and the same effect for 100% of its tenure (the rule to limit it was only put in a week before the election and had yet to take effect).
Erlang and Haskell give you a sequential programming model for I/O (and everything else) within each actor process. You can read from a file, take a result from it, do a database query then post a message to another process.

In Akka, you must use asynchronous I/O directly, or use a thin abstraction such as Futures with monadic bind to accomplish the same thing. Under the covers, the Haskell and Erlang runtimes are handling this for you so that you can forget about the fact that you are doing async I/O.

In Akka, if you don't pay attention to this and use a non-NIO Java library to do I/O, you will block the entire scheduler. Whereas, every library in the Erlang and Haskell ecosystems already uses the async I/O abstractions in the runtime.
Brain Activity of People Viewing Comedy Movies (2013)
This has to be the most intellectually sound, and technically sophisticated analysis that still has, "Well then of course there wouldn't be a movie to watch," as it's answer.
>bleak economic prospects of structural inequality

The housing crisis has nothing to do with economic inequality. If there are 3 units and 5 people who want them, 2 are going to be dissatisfied, even if they all make the exact same income.

Lower inequality just changes the allocation strategy away from "who has the most to spend" to things like government lottery, who was here first, who belongs to the most politically favored class, and who is willing to spend the largest share of their equal incomes on rent (making the most sacrifices in other areas of life). Arguably, we already live in this world, due to SF's progressive policies around housing allocation which seek to dampen the influence of "how much do you have to spend on rent" on what (if any) housing you'll get access to.

The housing crisis would remain exactly as severe as it is now if you erased 100% of inequality between people.

We have it because there is economic inequality between geographic areas, leading people to migrate to areas where this no room for them, and no will to build vertically to make room.

But that's only in a world with flat population. If we were reproducing above replacement rate, a housing crisis would be inevitable without construction, even if every person and every area had exactly the same socioeconomic status.
Gambling always favor the party with more capital.

The current market is cultivated more as a place for gambling than meaningful investment avenue for advancing economies. That's where the sentiment come from.

No one is complaining the access to the market is lacking. Rather, all are forced to join a market that has obvious flaws that the rich and powerful are not interested in fixing. And if not join the market, you stand to lose for sure.
>Anybody can participate in the market

Except for people living paycheck to paycheck because they're on welfare making minimum wage. In other words about 20% of the population, if they're smart with their money, can participate in the market.
HTML isn't XML. HTML is older.
Funny thing, for me, this is exactly the reason why the mouse is annoying.

I use Vim-bindings pretty much anywhere privately (to the point of using qutebrowser and an awesomerc file that allows me to switch workspaces using hjkl), but am forced to use VisualStudio at work.

VsVim makes VS barely usable for me, but it still has so many usecases that are mouse-mandatory that I'm constantly cringing. When programming is mostly thinking, I want to spend my time doing that and not slowly pushing a pointer along on the screen. The whole dialog-based systems basically constantly interrupt my thinking flow, and context switches aren't free :-)
Well I guess one of you personal challenges is to see if you can make a more unique Wordpress template.

Though I think making your own site from raw also give you learning opportunities.
Sorry, anybody can participate, even people living paycheck-to-paycheck. For example, instead of buying that $5 Starbucks, save up and buy a share of $SBUX which is currently at $54.53.
If Boaty McBoatface can win a ship naming contest with almost 130,000 votes, certainly Aaron Swarz can be nominated with 2x that number - win or lose.
It depends.

When you hear about massive projects being done cheaper (especially in per-mile costs), often it's because the project isn't running through an established, densely-populated area. So what you end up getting is "cost of building in a wilderness" versus "cost of building in a dense established city". The latter is going to be more expensive.
Point 2 to me was not about singular/plural, but about companies being animate/inanimate. It turns out that there used to be a very clear preference for "which", but by now, "who" is winning out in US usage: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=company+which%...
Show HN: Easy encryption with *sym*, with password-protected keys and more
According to TFA, an image with no alt tag will cause some screenreaders to read the src, so a purely decorative image should instead have a null alt tag.
If your ultimate goal is to build your own product, then starting a consulting business is a distraction. Maybe it helps to just focus on the goal? How you make money while you pursue the goal is not important. So keep your day job and work on the product as your side project. I'm almost certain your day job is MUCH easier than starting a consulting firm, so you'd have more time to devote to the goal. It's also much more stable and predictable in terms of income.

Good luck!
It'll also be nice if we see neighborhoods that pop up similar to what's on the Caltrain corridor, like in Burlingame or Mountain View. Really nice, walkable areas with lots of retail and housing.
Control Plane versus Data Plane
It's not just that using the mouse is slow. The mouse is also dumb. By that I mean that you can't tell it to take intelligent actions like jump to/select/delete a particular semantic unit (e.g. a sentence). Using the keyboard allows for more intelligent actions and for composition of actions with (optionally) mnemonic keybindings. The mouse is far less precise and requires some UI for pretty much anything.

Besides, even if I'm thinking more than I'm coding that doesn't mean I'm okay with the coding part being slow.
While not every crazy person I know is a genius, every genius that I know is crazy.

Pretty sure people that know me would place me in at least one of those categories as well.
Ask HN: Fatigued by the complexity of ES6 tooling. What to do?
After taking a React and Redux course for a while, I decided to rewrite an old app in it for learning purposes. Started with create-react app and everything was working fine. Ran yarn add react-router to try and add routing to the nonexistent app, and there began my five hour struggle to get this working (which is, not even done yet.)

After looking for docs for a long while to even get the page to render (because the react-router documentation isn't working well either), I ultimately wanted to scream. And I ask myself, why did we overcomplicate front end so much and how did we get to this point?

Now to you: how do you deal with JS fatigue? Please share tips, and learning plans, etc. Is it just me, or is this too complicated for something that should be simple? And are there any alternatives or hope?
The EFF is more concerned with the legal side of things. They do more than their fair share trying to inform people of what's going on but that can only go so far, it's a fact that most people do not give a hoot. The important fight is keeping laws around the stuff as sane as possible.
>I would disagree. My portfolio of index funds is up almost 20%. The last 4 months have been fantastic returns.

Well I suppose it all depends on what you consider fantastic. We talking 6 figures or 7? It's still chump change compared to what that 10% made.

The DJIA gained 3000 points in 3-4 months. It took 3 years for the previous 3000 points up to Nov 8 2016. Just a PSA, in 08 it went from 14k to 6k in about a year.
You can have teleop disengagements that don't require a driver in the vehicle.
Joi Ito, Director of the Media Lab, highly praised Aaron during the memorial held at the Media Lab in 2013:

http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N12/swartz.html

Perhaps the rest of MIT deserves shaming, but please don't punish the Media Lab.
I think the actor model is orthogonal to distributed systems. Actors are a good model for concurrency in a single system or a distributed system. Just like lots of people build distributed systems in C++, Java or Go, there are a lot of people using Erlang in a single node application.
Oh my. I've needed this so badly. There are so many little things that still obstinately need a mouse even after I've almost completely done away with one. Thank you so much.
I think it's a case of "Ha, Ha, only serious"
I once wrote an automated tool that got in a loop with someone else's automated tool.

Bot love.
If it makes you feel any better, I heard about Bitcoin when it was under $1, thought it was a cool idea, didn't have any disposable money to buy any, and promptly forgot about it.
FWIW, if I had kids, there is no way in hell they would be getting on a bicycle witout a helmet. But most people don't answer to me, and when I think about that long enough, I am fine with it. The responsiblity would be too much to wear. ;-)
> even people living paycheck-to-paycheck. For example... save up and buy ...

So your solution for living paycheck to paycheck is to simply not live paycheck to paycheck. It's surprising no one's thought of that before.
LOL, oh, HN commenters, please never change.
What's a good use for distributed Erlang? I'm writing some Elixir apps, and I can't think of a great reason to use distributed between a client and a daemon running on the same box.
A Hackintosh is perfectly viable. Assuming you can boot the installer(free from the Mac App Store), it's trivial to set up the necessary bootloader and extensions(certainly easier that making Windows dual boot nicely).
Right, but those people who don't give a hoot elect the politicians who write the laws. They're focusing on the one aspect of the problem they can possibly approach, but it's ultimately like a circular shoving match... utterly hopeless.

The EFF can't pressure lawmakers if they can't rally people to apply that pressure. When most people just shrug and buy an IoT toaster, it's not hard to see how this goes.
The OODA Loop: A Tool for Better Decision-Making
>There is no "canon" explanation for the film, since Kubrick did not provide one, and 2001 was, at heart, his movie, independent in significant respects from Clarke's novelization and later sequels.

If you reject the canonicity of Clarke's novel, then everything after the "Jupiter and beyond..." card is nonsensical. What is the viewer supposed to think about the space baby that's actually grounded in something within the movie?

(Edit: Ditto for the aging sequence. I know that you can fit the events into the "alien zoo" framing, but since the film doesn't direct us to that explanation, and if the novel doesn't count, it can't be any more than a fan theory.)

Incidentally, that's why I think the film went sharply downhill after that card.
All true. But OP was never trying to argue that PHP is more complex than other language, but instead claimed that once you get to the point of requiring complexity, PHP doesn't get to have the "it's braindead simple" advantage anymore. To quote:

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Disputes like “Why do I need PHP if there’s Java?” have become more frequent nowadays. I don’t know who’s in the right, Holly Wars are tricky. But each dispute has an argument in favor of PHP — it’s easy for beginners. To my mind, this argument isn’t valid anymore, which is exactly what I was trying to say in this article. A novice programmer will have to learn lots of new things, as well as write tons of configs: frameworks (very similar to java frameworks), databases, linux, shminux, JavaScript with all its baggage, http-protocol, various tooling and many more. Even if it’s not SPA.
Honestly, how would you know? Most people don't talk about their wealth. I'm not aware of ever having spoken with anyone worth $50MM, but it's possible that it's happened.

Of course, you're absolutely right that net worth that high is exceedingly rare. This is much smaller than "the 1%".
What's the point of this comment without explaining why? If you're going to pat yourself on the back, don't only do it once, spill the beans! There's nothing wrong with your implication, just be able to back it up because it's a fairly large one.
I'm surprised Hemmingway was used as an example in this piece. He did believe he was being monitored or 'stalked' by the FBI. His wife/family did have him subjected to electro-shock therapy. Wasn't it later proven that Hemmingway was followed and 'harrassed' by the FBI?
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alt="" means decoration - screenreaders will ignore it.
That's what you do with a mouse though. With a keyboard, you can move by semantic units (like a paragraph or function), use fuzzy search to jump to a specific function, etc.
Well, they do say that the only way to distinguish genius from madness is by observing the results.
> It only takes a few hundred dollars and an online brokerage account, such as etrade.

less, even. you can open with vanguard, and buy single shares of their index ETFs (with no brokerage fees).
Manufacturers have to take full responsibility for the behavior of their vehicles. They're the driver. Reckless driving means jail time for the CEO.
There's a first time for everything you know...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13848028
At least they're not handing this control to the NSA/CIA. Apple's also made a few important steps towards
keeping data encrypted and on device, instead of being sprayed across the internet(the Mac's new photos.app is a great example of this).
That's right. I was referring to how clocks are used by DST to change our behavior. I wasn't arguing against clocks.
Life is so complicated, and sometimes the line is even more blurry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-h...
Can anyone comment on the level of development?

I came across one comment where the author seemed to think the main gurus were no longer working on it. e.g. here: https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-experience-with-using-Pon...

I myself don't have much knowledge of Pony,which is why I ask...
AMD Poised to Disrupt the Data Center with Zen-Based Naples Platform
It is sad that the state of statistical knowledge is so low that the third and forth paragraphs are necessary.
MS is a big supporter of FreeBSD and has done some high quality work in supporting HyperV/Azure. ARM and users like Cavium are also supporters and have done a lot of enablement work.
This seems quite all over the place and I'm not sure what the point was. Was it that sometimes mental illness and creativity are coincident? Everything else seemed like a bunch of worldbuilding.
He did not manipulate pound. UK government manipulated it by locking the exchange rate that did not reflect the fundamentals. Pound was doomed, Soros just profited from the crash. So, yes, great stuff - government should pay for its stupidity. Unfortunately they pay with our money...
I believe I'm crazy but far from a genius...
Rich people are really clever about getting non rich people to take their losses, so don't count on it. E.g. Bail outs and QE spread the pain away from those who took the risks, avoiding such moral hazards.
Isn't that a bit of an ironic tautology, fellow commenter?
I'm sorry to hear about the people in your life that passed away.

I understand the claims, but without evidence they are only a couple claims among very many. Evidence is what separates science from all the other theories of the world.
> who knew the great battle over privacy would be lost before it even started, because people want their toaster to go online?

I think the issue is there are no good alternatives for the typical consumer. There needs to be a push back on companies to provide these sorts of smart home/tv/music technologies for the public in a distributed manner, i.e. components not needing to connect back to a company server but instead a local one. Sure, the average HN reader can probably set something up like that, but until a solution without tons of coding and assemblage comes along, we will be stuck in this status quo. EFF could be a starting point to rally people behind creating a market demand and supporting companies in a quest for privacy-minded solutions.
The mention seems to be related to his suicide. "Crazy" might not be the appropriate word, but his suicidal idealization (see For Whom the Bell Tolls) was detrimental. He also shot his legs up while fishing with a machine gun, so he clearly did crazy things...

"Crazy" is a bad word. There's "crazy" and crazy. Hemingway was touched with unique ways of thinking, but he wasn't John Nash (with all due respect to Mr. Nash).
I don't think you understand the concept of paycheck to paycheck. Although it may be the case that some people living paycheck to paycheck spend outside their means on luxuries like brand name coffees, there are also those people for whom paycheck to paycheck is forced on them due to external factors. Now I didn't downvote you but I think those who did did so to hint that your perspective could use a reality check.
Aaron Swartz should be declared the winner.
Netflix has done phenomenal vendor management here. Intel is a big ship with slow feeeback loops but they were able to connect the dots and hopefully we will see Intel working in earnest to support the long standing and rapidly growing segment of FreeBSD revenue.
Just want to clarify: It's subjective perspective.

Right. Whether there is pressure is a subjective judgement. But the fact that you feel pressure DOES NOT make it an objective fact that someone else is putting pressure on you.

To get to an objective fact, you would need to find fair and neutral third parties. Neither of the two people directly involved can actually judge.

As a neutral third party, my impression of Steve Blank is that he is probably a very good person to work for. I have been in environments similar to the one that he described. And I found them very good environments to be in.