skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who is considering creatine, you need to be sure to properly hydrate. I am not aware of any cognitive benefits, there are most certainly physical benefits to it. Regardless though, if you are consistently taking creatine hydration is extremely important.
Have you tried it in production? It would be nice to have a feedback from a DBA
Make C# More Dynamic with Hyperlambda
OK, but where are the eight octopus recipes?
So was the WITH clause until someone decided it should be valid and added it.

Every improvement to every language ever started out with someone saying, "Hey, here's an idea..." And none of those ideas were ever "valid X" at the time they were proposed.
An updateable firmware does not necessitate a software decoder. Hardware decoders can (and do) have their own firmware, and can support additional formats if they were designed with that in mind.

Also you can have a hardware decoded MP3 path, and a software decoded OGG path, for example. They can coexist.

Most real hardware wasn't designed to be on the market long enough for any of this to come to pass, though, and you're probably 100% correct.
tldr; Emojis are Unicode entities, and as such, can be used within a SQL statement. Do not try this at work.
Don't Kill Your Startup with Bad User Onboarding
It's sarcasm. He's commenting on how projects today use way too many frameworks.
He wasn't just a member of the NSDAP, he also joined the SS. He's on the record suggesting the use of forced labour of concentration camp prisoners to build his rockets. That's at least an 8/10 on the Nazi scale. Don't whitewash his past just because he went on to build the moon rocket.

It's also interesting to see how much more apologetic the English Wikipedia article on von Braun is compared to its German counterpart.
Hmm, i've definitely heard that story about decreased competition being a factor in USA post-war prosperity, but I seem to have been misinformed, since after looking at [1], it was due to a lot of things - namely increased fertility and farmers learning how to do more economically valuable jobs - but not from them winning the war.

What's very sad is when you read a little further on about the USA economic decline after 1970 to today...

Anyway thank you for letting me know I was being a dingus!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United...
They're a scientist: https://xkcd.com/678/
I was speaking more about "riffage" over presence, but I'll keep an ear out for it. If anything to say, "here, listen to this".
The boring stack, the fun architecture
Introducing ReShifter for Kubernetes: backup, restore, migration, upgrade
I think a combination of things, really. They never scaled down properly to really low end devices. The Intel systems had poor peripherals for some reason with high latency. They didn't really grasp the detail of what was needed for either the "maker" or industrial markets. And of course it wasn't a licensable IP.
One would think that fuel dumping nozzles should be required equipment.

My other thought as to why they went back is that they could get the aircraft repaired more easily there.

Anyways, glad it turned out alright!
(I work at OpenAI.)

Great project. We've found that the VNC Universe environments are hard for today's RL algorithms primarily due to the their async nature. We're currently working on a new set of Universe environments without VNC; I'm very happy to see others inspired by the core ideas of Universe as well.
Say Hello to Justinmind’s New Oracle Fusion UI Kit
This camera is a game changer
I am making an app that takes pictures and tries to tell you if the food in the picture has allergens. I didn't know if I should feel humble or just laugh. (I decided it was hilarious in the end) But it made me aim higher in a hackathon last weekend. I also use your app in my elevator pitch for people to understand.
Smartphone light sensors used to steal web browser history
> 10x better than the ad-filled, [...] 'stories you might like' suggested bullshit

Actually I see these on an AMP page too.
But Modafinil as a brain supplement isn't an FDA approved use and doctors generally won't prescribe it.

Creatine is available at any health food or supplement store, it's legal and widely available.
Give up? Seriously.

I used to force myself to do all of my ad-hoc scripting in bash, but I got sick of the clunky way of parsing arguments, dealing with arrays, looping over data objects, etc.

I got pretty good at it, but at some point I decided just to stick to a language I knew well (R) to string together various pipelines and construct commands. Any high-level language would work, though. I'm much more productive now.
It's more nuanced than that.

Working at your job 80 hours a week = a waste. Always.

HOWEVER, spending 40 hours a week engaged with something you enjoy and are interested in is a perfectly fine way to spend your time.

But what, I hear you ask, if I enjoy my job? Well, what about the job do you enjoy? See, if it's the work, chances are you can freelance, self-study, build stuff for yourself, in the same field, and get the same impact, AND you're free to do it how you want, free to learn whatever lessons you want, AND to capture any value it may add for yourself, rather than giving it to your employer.

This person is spending their time learning. I.e., investing in themselves. I disagree with their statement that that's required for their job, but it -does- likely make them better at their job than they'd otherwise be, and so long as they enjoy it, I can't find fault with it. But it shouldn't be a burden.
What a coincidence, I've been working on a PHP state machine implementation myself in the last few days.

Anyway, I find the concept of "events" a bit weird in this case and I prefer to work with "states" only (state transitions rather than events that change the state). It seems like an unnecessary abstraction to think in terms of an event rather than a state.
Of course, to follow this advice you have to be able to identify problem-solving ability, which is hard and why most hiring managers fall back on buzzword bingo--to say nothing of HR departments.
This is a study about monkeys. How does this and why should this apply to humans?
Ugarit: content-addressable storage and backup written in Chicken scheme
Persuade Yourself into Peak Performance Using These 9 Strategies
Anyone got tips for working with FSMs in REST and/or MVC? Very rarely do you find HTTP verbs match FSM events leading to a fudge somewhere
I once calculated my $/h when I was working a deathmarch (80+ hrs per week for over a year). It came out to considerably less than what my brother was making per hour working an assembly line in a factory.
The breakdown occurred because we no longer prevent mergers and acquisitions on the basis of regional monopolies or impact on local economies, but on whether consumer prices are increased or decreased.

Capital accumulates, and if you let it, it will suck everything out from the country and suburban areas and concentrate it in the major cities. The decline of rural America has everything to do with the flows of capital and not a lot to do with whether small towns are sustainable.
"Be sincere and ask them how their day has been"

But, realistically, the sales guy doesn't give a shit about how their prospect's day has been - how is this 'sincere'?
Starting a New Tech Lovers Site
Some suggestions:

Direct your focus to plain Bourne sh as much as possible, moving on only after you understand what enhancements over vanilla sh Korn or Bourne-Again actually offer.

Pick up Manis, Schaffer, and Jorgensen's "UNIX Relational Database Management" and work through the examples to get a feel for the philosophy behind large, complex applications written in shell.

Join a Unix community (sdf.org) and try to do useful things with shell (e.g. cron-schedule stock quote e-mail notifications via shell scripts, etc).
> And yet it still gives light. ... Would you even notice you're inside the star?

I bet at between 90K and 150K times the Sun's luminosity, you'd be too busy boiling away (OK, perhaps exploding in half a millisecond?) to notice :)
In Texas there would most likely be no such subsidy.

ERCOT runs markets for multiple aspects of energy generation, transmission, and management. Standby or peaking can be just another of those. As long as it is cheaper to provide that service via gas turbines they will win. If batteries become cheaper, they will start taking market share.
> When that happens, the resulting explosion will be visible from Earth, even in broad daylight.

How much visibility are we talking about?
From a 14+ year Linux/Unix admin:

Get a very brief reference book of every common UNIX command. Read all the commands, what they do, what options they take. Start using them.

Shells are most useful when they are used to tie together other programs. In order to do this, you have to know what all the command-line tools you have at your disposal are. Learn the tools, then start writing examples using them. Keep the examples and the docs somewhere to reference them later.

For quick reference, the command 'whatis' will give a blurb from the top of the command's man page. `whatis ls' "ls (1) - list directory contents". View many at once with "(cd /usr/bin; whatis * | grep -v noth)". Many often-used commands come in "util-linux" and "coreutils" packages. Read man pages completely when convenient.

It may also help to have a VM or desktop which has no GUI, where you will be forced to use the command-line. When I was starting out I used a desktop with no X server for months. You can get a lot more done than you think (and 'links -g' provides a graphical browser if you need images)

To learn more about Bash itself, you can look for server installation software packages made with Bash, or in the "init" tools distributed with big distros like RedHat, SuSE, etc before they used systemd. But it's better to get used to more shell-agnostic scripting using UNIX commands than it is to use Shell-specific language/syntax.
On Linux I use cmus in a guake window. Cmus is a curses-based music player / browser and guake lets me access it with F12 at any time. Launches almost instantly and I never worry about it consuming more resources than it needs.
To me this seems like Mosh, but worse. I think that each project's approach has different strengths. For me, the best part of Mosh is the intelligent, asynchronous handling of type-ahead. Mosh feels really snappy, even over poor connections. I'm not bothered by needing to run Tmux on the remote for scrollback; I do that anyways, and I have no need for this fancy "control center" mode.

My big frustration with both Mosh and ET is that neither expose a data communication channel along side the PTY. I use SSH for port forwarding, Tmux paste buffer sync, file transfer, and SSH agent forwarding. Without those features, I'll always need to use SSH/Autossh along side these tools for my other SSH use cases.
Will that work for the next 30 years? We know the nintendo model has worked over the last 30.
Just because something matters objectively, doesn't mean it matters to the client/business (at the moment). And unless you as the developer are in the position to dictate that, sometimes you're at the mercy of non-technical requirements or demands. You can be right about everything, but unless you're the boss, at least sometimes you can only do what you're told.
The few games I still like to play from my Atari 5200 days are Missile Command, Gyruss, Frogger, and Pac Man. All of them have been ported/updated but they are still fun in their original incarnation under emulation.

From my Sega Genesis days: Streets of Rage, all of the Sonic games, and the Mortal Kombat series are still pretty fun.
I'd be interested in hearing more background here. Last time I heard Musk say anything about AI, he was still on the hype train to crazy-town, talking about the world-conquering things it would do in the coming decades that have nothing to do with what anyone's researching right now.

The idea that OpenAI could talk him down is pretty impressive, and if true I would significantly positively update my impression of OpenAI. (I thought OpenAI was funded by people on this hype train.)
Is it really that weird though? You really want your workers to be healthy, full of energy and dynamic.

But I have known very amazing programmers who are not so fit though. So I guess its not a very good idea to discriminate based on appearance.
So that more activists will turn towards using Telegram actively.
How much does a bug fix save you? How much is that worth? Are you popular enough that people are constantly trying to break your security? Bounties are cost saving measures.
Akka FSM in and of itself does not address distributed FSM's. However, supporting such would likely involve their clustering[0] support and perhaps distributed data[1].

0 -http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/index-network.htm...

1 - http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/cluster-usage.htm...
The stuff they found were some big picture stuff but also little things like misconfigured drive encryption. So even if you do the right things it's good to have someone check that the right thing has been done right. This is way too specialized for the regular dev to stay up-to-date with.
Another New York Times paywall bullshit!
If you're not developing for a real-time system, like most (all?) larger games or software for embedded hardware, it is likely that you are not thinking about performance very much, even if you have the time and skill to do so.

You don't think about performance, as a developer, usually, until it becomes a problem, and there are so many layers and frameworks between an MP3 player and the CPU that this kind of thing should be expected.

It is much more difficult to keep a real-time system working in real-time than it is to keep something performing as well as a desktop computer user expects it to perform.
Anything you liked about it?

Yes. The design is better then Reddit.

Here is how you could further improve it:

When I click the "X" on the upper left so the sidebar goes away, then the design gets way better. It's almost good then. And good design is hard to find these days.

The only thing that then still looks annoying to me is the "Recommended channel" thing. Make that go away too and I am a fan of the design.
On iOS I usually find AMP pages to be less usable. It forces a bar at the top and I can't easily share the link. Sometimes sites don't seem to work at all. For a long time any Reddit link on the Google Search results just didn't load on iOS for me.

I run an adblocker and use reading mode frequently. I do not usually suffer any issues with ads even without AMP. It is solving a problem I do not have and creating more problems in the process.
Can't confirm.
At the risk of uncovering my ancientness, I remember reading astronomy books as a kid which specified that stars are so far away that they can't appear as anything more than dots of light even when viewed through the largest telescopes. Always makes me wonder what can be achieved in the future, especially since we're probably somewhere on an exponential progress curve. Of course, assuming a lot of optimism about not cutting off the branch we're sitting on before that happens...
I agree that these kids are all amazing (including Lorde, I hope she has a long and successful career like Bush and Wonder). I just don't buy that modern tech makes that much of a difference. It's just... different! If you see what I mean. :)
There really are a lot of hyperloglog implementations in go.

I'd be interested in seeing a comprehensive comparison between implementations for speed, accuracy and space efficiency.
Call your credit card company and have them reissue you a new credit card with a new number :)
What Questions Should You Ask a Mobile App Developer Before Hiring Them
There was a research that concluded that after a month, there is no difference in creatine amount in blood if you've been loading or just taking 5g daily.
Personal anecdote here, which may mean absolutely nothing in the bigger scheme of things.

I had encountered, from time to time, a certain category of recruiters who seemed to be hunting for brogrammers. The type looking for passionate ninja rockstar hackers to work for free beer, free food, and night life in an exciting high-energy startup. These recruiters just also happened to be young blonde women in low-cut tops who were rather overplaying their ditziness. They also preferred video conference to phone calls.

My assumption is this was all quite engineered to hit their mark.
Not really

It might have annoying effects but you can't "overdose" (sure, getting a large dose is still not recommended)

You can overdose on some fat-soluble vitamins, notably Vitamin A. And by overdose I mean you can die from it
What's new in Node 8.0
You can redirect users to the full-blown pages, using e.g. mod_rewrite.
I think good programmers, by default, try to write readable, easy-to-maintain code. If you ask them to write high-performance code then they will do it, knowing that readability might suffer because of it.
Ask HN: Do you know any opensource drawing tool embeddable within a webpage?
Hi,

Do you guys know about any open source drawing tools which can be embedded with my website. I came across few, but I would like to know about different options available before deciding on which one to use.

The ones that I know about are literallycanvas.com, wPaint ,Sketchpad, Sketch.js
, Atrament.js
and http://leimi.github.io/drawingboard.js/ .
Ask HN: Difference between a NAS and Home Server?
I am trying to leave cloud storage and make a box to store all my backups, media files, documents, etc.

Having a remote access is what I am trying to aim for. What are some builds I should look into?
In some industries and areas of the US 'consulting' can mean temporary employment of various kinds.

In other, IT consultants might be employees of a large firm like IBM who show businesses how to modernize their IT. This would typically be architectural work, very similar in nature to normal business consulting.

There is a middle grey area where a business outsources development or IT work to a specialist company.

Here in the UK, we tend to say contracting instead of consulting in the first context.
Seniority rules are written by unions, not airlines. From airline management point of view, they have a fixed liability (number of pilot man-hours) and a fixed resource (pool of money to pay for those man-hours). How that fixed resource is applied to the fixed liability is up to the union.

To quote a letter to the editor in 2003 WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB105149633146672400

"A 45-year-old captain who has been with an airline for 15 years cannot quit and go elsewhere, because doing so would mean starting all over at the bottom, earning $25,000 a year at a new airline and working every holiday. Imagine if a surgeon had to go back to being an intern every time he changed hospitals."

It's exploitable somewhat by airline management (definitely takes the metaphor of golden handcuffs to the next level), but then the number of airlines is not fixed, with new start-ups coming on board every few years or so, so you'd think that at least someone would exploit these inefficiencies, if it made economic sense for them.
I've heard rumors that 25% of people have naturally higher amount of creatine and taking extra will not help
Great idea that I would be terrified to pursue from a legal perspective.
1000 times this.

You're going to get a lot of snark from people saying things like "don't", or "learn python instead".

This epitomizes "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing".

Bash has many cringeworthy aspects, but we have to deal with the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and the reality is that bash is the default shell on 99.9% of unix boxes you encounter — even if you use an alt shell on your machine.

Coworkers machine? Bash. Default AWS AMI? Bash. init script to bootstrap $DAEMON? Bash. ssh to a server at your workplace? Bash. Random O'Reilly Linux tutorial? Assumes bash.

My advice?

Take some time.

Sit down.

and read "man bash"

cover-to-cover.

at least once.

A lot of the illogical things in bash make a lot more sense once you understand its parsing/expansion rules. And once you understand what is in the language vs an external terminal program in your PATH.

Since that sounds unappealing (and I scoffed at that very advice for many years), I've also found the wooledge bash guide to be very helpful.
The Tandy 2000 -- their first x86 offering -- wasn't 100% PC compatible. Unlike every PC-class machine, the 2000 was based on the 80186, which precluded hardware compatibility with the PC. Software that did all I/O through the BIOS would still run, but that was thin on the ground even in the early 1980s. Most software had to be specially ported to the 2000, and the only graphical game that I could find that received this treatment was Flight Simulator.

The Tandy 1000, which came after the 2000 and used the same keyboard, was PCjr compatible, and subsequent machines would maintain IBM compatibility.
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Next time, try to google "absg shell".
So, the linked article mentions "know your audience," but I think glosses on emphasizing that a bit.

Engineers, content creators, program directors, are going to be looking for different things and make decisions in different ways. Don't just ensure decision makers show up; make sure you're talking about the pros and cons those decision makers will care about, rather than the ones you think they should care about.
Very interesting! If you were to make a v2, would you adjust the 49:1 imbalance and add more hot dog images?
What Should SMBs Consider When It Come to Application Development?
"Mechanical Sympathy"/empathy is a very good expression, kudos!
Thanks for this! Didn't know about Pramiracetam, and it seems I can get it online.

I'm already taking Modafinil, so I might experiment with taking Pramiracetam as well, see if I can get an extra boost.
I have not seen it, but I think the internal volume is very impressive. Compared to the ISS that looks more connected mining shafts.
U.S. Military Sees Future in Neuromorphic Computing
New: Cosmic JS Integrations
>> They built in the burbs because that is where they could establish equity.

I thought they wanted to build sprawling campuses because they didn't want to feel like an old stodgy company in a tall office building downtown?

Not to mention hardware companies like Intel/Apple probably couldn't get the warehousing and manufacturing footprint they need in a big city.
The pages load too quickly. Thereby ruining me for all the other pages out there.
Machine Learning and the Language of the Brain
I am glad I am not the only one with questions about the external GPU, I had considered trying that, but came to the conclusion that the data transfer between CPU to GPU would be too slow for ML tasks.
So, what is your opinion on this ? if you had to do it again would you use the eGPU or just use AWS or another GPU cloud service .
You make a good point about the specific needs of IT departments, who do care a great deal about features and their particular pet peeves (security, robustness, etc.). Definitely important if you're doing enterprise/complex sales. I don't think Joanna is selling that kind of a product.
But it doesn't do (a), either. Google hosts a cache of the content, but the original is hosted by the publisher, and Google's cache isn't exclusive. Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter, IIRC, operate their own caches, and so can anyone else who wants to (and there's a fairly strong incentive too if you host something that functions as a high-volume portal.)

AMP makes it harder for real walled gardens to provide an attractive performance advantage to end-users, making it not only not a walled garden, but also a potent weapons against walled gardens.
It may be true today but the banking system has matured to that point over hundreds of years. There have been many instances of runs on the bank, run away inflation, worthless paper currencies like the Continental in the history of cash.