skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a psychology enthusiast (and soon to be student), I'm quite annoyed with our fascination with "geniuses".

It seems obvious that people who are very famous in their field became "very intelligent" because of a combination of hard work and genetics. But it's as if these books capitalize on the faint hope of being a repressed genius of some sort. I highly doubt Einstein or Shannon (as the article implies) ever saw themselves as more than passionate. And the ego required to want to find your inner genius goes contrary to the enormous humility they seemed to display.

That aside, these books and articles all make the same mistake of studying a single person after the fact. It's similar to mimicking Steve Jobs: That's not how he became Steve Jobs. We literally cannot know how much luck was involved in his (or Einstein's) success. Might as well study the lives of lottery winners.

So if not that, how can we maximize our potential and generally better ourselves intellectually? Simply by referring to the very vast fields of learning, motivation and general cognitive science.

But "learn the science" doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "how to be Einstein", now does it?
I did this from Northern NJ to NYC. 2hrs each way by bus. Awful. The only benefit was that you almost (98%?) always got a seat. A small laptop and you've got 4 hrs of potential productivity on your own "time" for whatever you want.

But wow, does it suck away the joy from your life.
my FATHER co-worker's sister-in-law makes $73 /hour on the computer . She has been without a job for nine months but last month her check was $20283 just working on the computer for a few hours. This Sitemore information>>>>>>>>>>>http://ow.ly/iBXm30dNtIZ
Not every city has delusional real estate price. The point I made in another comment is that the "choice" of going into the suburb has a price put on everybody else. Urban sprawl has a real price (Highways, interchange, pollution, etc.). Here in Montreal you can have a decent townhouse for 500K to 800KCAD.
my dads buddy recently bought a fantastic yellow Toyota Camry just by part-time work from a
> home pc... go right here>>>>>>>>>>>http://ow.ly/iBXm30dNtIZ
I've seen 3 Claude Shannon articles on HN in the past 2 weeks. What's the occasion?
Show HN: Catfs – Cache AnyThing Filesystem Written in Rust
I use termux[1] to clone/pull my pass repo for "Password Store" on Android since I need ed25519 key support.

[1]: https://termux.com
So... Linux is the worst desktop, except all others.

I agree with most of your gripes, but fragmentation is more an more just becoming a reality. UIs won't look the same anymore, it just doesn't make sense to. So people will experiment with different things and try to find something better, the alternative is to stagnate with accepting what we have.

Fragmentation, can be restated as "Community diversity" and it ain't going away because its a huge strength. Because while you think gnome3 sucks if Canonical had their way everyone would be using it.
"Up For Grabs"[0] was posted on HN a while and it seems like a cool idea, but doesn't seem to have a ton of traction.

[0] http://up-for-grabs.net/
Guilty as charged. I eat meat and I consume caffeine.

I even do so consciously and intentionally "for medicinal purposes." I even blog about that fact, which gets largely ignored by the world, never mind that it is obviously revolutionary. However, like Rodney Dangerfield, I get no respect.

But, I have never smoked, I rarely drink alcohol and it has been a lot of years since I took either prescription drugs or OTC drugs or even had a vaccine. (Now cue the folks who will accuse me of being an evil piece of shit anti-vaxxer.)
There's a new biography on him, A Mind at Play

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Informatio...
Americans frequently cite long distances by time: the assumption is that you are taking a car and that the traffic is whatever they perceive as normal.

For very long distances, this correlates to 50-60 miles
per hour.

For trips inside an urban area, it's rarely accurate to the nearest 10 minutes.
Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Thunderbird

IDE: Atom

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: Google Calendar web
The problem is that IT and regional monopolization shouldn't drive patient outcome. The technology is a cancer here -- it's literally made everything other than prescribing (Note that pharmacies do interoperate) measurably worse. Paper & fax was better.

A family member just was hospitalized for a serious issue that requires rehab, and the default from the hospital is to get you into an affiliated facility (a nursing home). The better facility (a rehab hospital) for this person's condition is in a different network. We handled data transfer by putting the records in my hands and delivering them to the physician hands at the rehab facility.

If you're not aware of these differences and pushy, you'll get sent to the default and likely have a worse outcome. So my family member gets stuck with a worse quality of life, and the taxpayer via Medicare gets to spend exponentially more on providing care.
ADOBE+ILLUSTRATOR+CC+2015.3.0+CRACK+DOWNLOAD
You don't know anybody that works long hours because they prefer to spend time in the office rather than with their family? I sure do.
Boring is of course personal opinion ( the prominent Taco Bell behind the welcome to Cupertino sign on Stevens Creek ...) but the latter part of your statement is not supported by local housing/rental price/availability.
If you're using XMonad, you definitely want to use the pass addon in the xmonad-contrib package: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs...

I would claim that there isn't a more convenient password management solution than this.
Implemented as 700 lines of shell script?! Why?
I think they're speaking from the perspective of founders who, until they start the company, do have day jobs somewhere. In California, there's no issue, but in other states with enforceable non-competes, that can be a pretty big hinderance to starting the company.
This article misses what seems like the most obvious explanation, which is that the USA economy has recovered from the Great Recession. We had a stretch from 2009 to 2014 when it was difficult to find any normal investment that paid better than 1% or 2% a year. Seeking yield, money poured into startups, because they seemed like the only thing that might be able to offer better than 20% returns (assuming a basket of startups, most of which fail and some of which return 100x).

Since 2015, the economy has returned to almost normal, so the need to invest in software startups is reduced. And this would most likely effect San Francisco the most, since it had received the most investment during the era 2009-2014.

Now that the economy is almost back to normal, there are a lot of areas in the economy that offer possible returns. The need to focus on software startups is diminished.
> There have been countless threads where HNers declare that there's no such thing as a genius and that anyone can do anything with targeted practice.

That's not my experience. What I have read is that in most cases people rates as "genius" just the visible face of a project and forgets about all the rest of the people that are as good, or better, just because they are not so visible.

Also, there is no genius without a lot of practice and study. And that has a lot to do with motivation.

A well-balanced team can outperform a "genius" as the complexity and size of the task grow. And that again requires practice and will to do the job.

So it is more about not allowing people to be "prima donna" and value everyone work.
Personal happiness doesn't factor in to it, missing very early bitcoin was a result of flawed thinking, which I intend to correct.
Could I get a link to the package manager and list of packages?

This is news to me, unless its another one microsoft's crappy marketplaces, and I would like to do some reading.
I am a huge, huge fan of the free font “Input”[1]. Just love how customizable it is, so much so, that I’ve replaced Pragmata Pro with Input on Sublime.

[1] http://input.fontbureau.com/
Amazon Redshift Spectrum Extends Data Warehousing to Exabytes
"With interest" at least to me is a very greedy proposition. Those people just kept you from having zero ethereum. If anything, I'd personally give them reward money.
Google Maps glitch
You lost me at "10'000 hours".
Via https://twitter.com/KELLYWEILL/status/886292028732178433
I live in Austin and sometimes commute via bicycle. When I do, it takes me about 40 minutes to get there. Enduring the pain of the commute is kind of the point. :)
> I don't know that much about the Ether devs, but I'd expect it just didn't occur to them--even among PL folks, knowledge & experience with something like coq is somewhat rare unless you went to the right undergrad or grad school. Especially if you weren't keeping up with the latest research in the last ~5-10 years or so.

Hmm, you'd think they'd know about languages like Haskell though.

I don't think it would be practical to expect developers to write verified code anyway; it's still far too challenging in general. Having a language where you could optionally formally verify the code would have been useful though.

> Something like Coq with a few primitives to represent interacting with the Ether network, and an optimizing, verified cross compiler would have been a perfect fit for this sort of thing, in my opinion

You wouldn't think something like Coq with a few primitives would make some contracts difficult to write?
Excuse me, but I believe you are very much mistaken. Those places are as much or MORE expensive than most places on the peninsula... In fact, the reality is that prices have almost normalized across all of the cities from SF to Los Gatos.

It is becoming increasingly hostile to any new arrivals as the barrier of entry is skyrocketing to the point of being out of reach even for "rich" people.
i switched to lubuntu last year (ubuntu had some serious unity problems), i really like unity, give gnome more unity ish design
See also [1]. Let's have a look at him again in 7 years.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/e555d83a-ed28-11e5-888e-2eadd5fbc...
Mass parallelism and hosted build services only help if you've got money to spend on them.

Microservices don't help much when building desktop or mobile apps as opposed to web apps.

If you keep artifacts around, local build times can be short, but often you want to clean before doing a build to distribute beyond your own workstation/device. Our iOS app nightly builds regularly take 45-60 min.
I love Firacode and use it in Android Studio/IntelliJ but it has this bug[0] where "=" is invisible in Gnome terminal. So, I had to switch to Fira Mono[1], the parent of Fira Code, from Mozilla. Fira Mono doesn't have cool ligatures but it's a good font and works pretty well.

[0] : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/162
[1] : https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
Get 25 monkeys to throw darts at S&P 500 stock symbols on January 1st of each year. The chance that at least one monkey outperforms 5 years in a row is about 55%. (The target areas need to be proportional to market capitalization etc.)
History repeats itself. The coal industry extracted resources from the land in West Virginia until it was forced by resource depletion and regulation to scale back. The tech industry is just extracting wealth from society instead of the land and what's left is scarred, poisoned and will go on to cause problems downriver. The SF is starting to look less attractive and operations are slowly spinning up as needed at adjacent mining sites. Eventually there will be noting left to mine and the mining towns will be destitute and states downstream (Like Colorado and Oregon for example) will have polluted water to deal with.

Internalize the profits. Externalize everything else. It never changes.
> Given the nature of FSF's business you'd think they'd be on the cutting edge of digital identification and authentication.

The FSF is very careful about the legal system. Signed paper contracts are a robust legal technology. When something important happens, they don't want a judge to be distracted by unfamiliar things.

edit: they also have digital signing in a couple of different forms.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-now-offering-paperle...
It probably doesn't exist. Most funds of this type are very very paranoid about publicizing the methods they use because
1. Another firm could exploit what they are doing.
2. Another firm could trade the signal and remove their ability to profit.
3. They think being opaque makes them cool and mysterious. Which it does.
I think what he is doing is modeling equities as an interaction model and performing clustering and or community detection on a dynamic graph. On the bottom you see a bunch of triads graphs. When they say "A quant tries to make sense of time-series price data that at first look chaotic because we don’t know the different parameters and their relations. So you try to piece that together, as one would do with biological data." you could accomplish this by taking the time series data and when one equity interacts with another within some type of time series window you would compute a set of graphs and see how they cluster together.
I use it for two major reasons:

1. It's distributed. I can elastically add/remove nodes. I need this not so much for scalability, as for reliability, and I want to be future-proof.

2. Changefeeds. Nothing else even comes close, and my entire application is built around them.

I have no show-stoppers. The thing works. Sure, I'd love to see some things done differently (ReQL looks nice at a first glance, but has many limitations in practice, causing code that ends up being quite complex), but overall even if it were to stay exactly the way it is now, I'd continue using it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=Mz
Could be, at the same time I would argue that those who had disproportional impact almost by definition thought very differently from others (defying convention is tough: imagine what is must feel like to question the multi century reign of Newton as a lowly patent clerk).

Very few minds have done the work to come within reach of the conclusions that these guys have been able to draw. From there I suppose it ought to be possible to approximate the likelihood of a Eureka moment probabilistically.

I'd be interested whether future scientific progress is so complex that it cannot be attributed to a single mind (some indicators are rising numbers of contributors for influential papers).
> calendar you can add events to (does a modern desktop calendar for Linux even exist)?

I don't know about Gnome - but KDE has both a desktop calendar/organizer app (Korganizer) and a (unrelated) Plasma widget for the toolbar - the gorgeous Event Calendar Plasma widget, which shows your Google Calendar events.
or Bluetooth
it sounds like there was no electronic way to share the digital version of the CT scan

Seems unlikely. A few years ago I was given a CD-ROM of the scan of my jaw and was able to download a free DICOM viewer to look at it. These things seem to be standardized.

Wasn't really excited to take that much dose to my head but at least I have the souvenir of a 3D view of my jaw...
I highly doubt Einstein or Shannon (as the article implies) ever saw themselves as more than passionate.

They may have kept it to themselves, but they were certainly aware of their status.

Who are we to say what the author should or shouldn't study? Why is studying a genius a bad thing? (And they are geniuses, if it's possible to compare one person to another at all.)

You've made some good points about how someone becomes a genius: it's mostly luck, especially in genetics and upbringing. But there's no reason that studying this is inherently useless.
In Python the if/else block does not return a value.

Python has a ternary operator, which does return a value. It just so happens this operator uses the tokens `if` and `else`. But it's the same thing what you'd write in C or Javascript as `C ? T : F`, would be written `T if C else F` in Python. Different order of arguments and tokens, but it's still the ternary operator and not an if/else block.

You can't get a result from block statements in Python. Just because the ternary operator uses the same tokens as the if/else block, doesn't mean it's the same thing.
Have any specific places coverage is lacking? I can get that to the right capacity planning dept at TMO.
LA hasn't seen anything like the VC / tech boom that the bay area is currently in. Prop 13 reduces liquidity, but that doesn't automatically have an outsized effect on prices. It's only when a market is illiquid and there's a huge spike in demand that you see ridiculously negative effects like this.
Off topic rant:

It bugs me when people mix our standard numerals with Roman numerals, such as 12MM to mean twelve million. They are different numerals and the meaning is not defined when they are used together.

And Roman numerals are not like SI suffixes, meaning they are not multiplicative; Roman numerals are additive, so MM is two thousand, not one million. Also, M is an SI suffix, so 12M means twelve million and 12MM just looks like a typo.

Obviously people do not use SI suffixes may not feel the same way, this is just my pet peeve because I use SI suffixes in science.
I refer you to the critiques provided by Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, and Kim Il Sung (and descendants). They have provided strong enough critiques to say, at least, that there is room to be deeply suspicious of the works of the "great socialist thinkers", and to wonder how well their fine-sounding ideas align with reality.
> We asked the HackerNews community, "What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

Yeah, and the experiment went horrible wrong :(

The last thing the community wanted was a plain Gnome 3 shell for 17.10.

The older Unity was great, the latest Unity and Gnome3 are crap! (ugly as hell (macOS UI clone for the cheap), and worse usability than older Unity and macOS) So you single handled destroyed the default Ubuntu with some weird decisions. And this systemd trainwreck is still on board.

For applications:

* Web Browser: Chromium (with sane privacy default settings)

* Email client: Gnome Evolution

* File manager: Unity 7 file manager

* Basic Text Editor: GEdit (older version with menu bar, from Ubuntu 14)

* Office Suite: LibreOffice or Callibri

* Calendar: Evolution
Most apparent with Darwin's theory of natural selection: He had to rush to publish because someone else had stumbled upon the same thing while he was still analyzing his data and compiling it together.
I initially interpreted this as a new CPU architecture. Nope, Intel has the IP around mixed general-purpose and reconfigurable computing architectures.

Regardless, awesome idea for a course. Provide the source code for a complex architecture and let the students hack it.
Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal,

IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse

File manager: Double Commander[1]

Basic Text Editor: Vim

IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin

PDF Reader: Evince/MuPDF

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: Gnome Calendar

Video Player: Vlc, Kodi

Music Player: Audacious

Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome

Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder[2]

[0] - https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix

[1] - https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/

[2] - http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
Why shouldn't we build more to promote clustering?
> Compensation isn't nearly as elastic as housing prices though.

Because there is usually room to give. If people were on the brink of actually having to leave due to rising costs, incomes would lose their inelasticity pretty quickly, insofar as the need for labour is required. There is always superfluous work that is useful at a low price, but fine to give up completely if costs grow too high.

> Not only that, the demand side for housing is also the supply side for the job market, so prices are squeezed on both sides.

Squeezing is necessary to a point. After all, the economy eventually seeks equilibrium. It has been the case – at least before housing costs grew out of control – that one could make a fortune by moving to the Bay Area, where average incomes are significantly higher than most of the rest of the country. Now the costs are rising to close the gap with lower-income areas.

If someone in a low-cost area has a gross income of $30,000, and expenses of $25,000, then someone in a high-cost area with a gross income of $150,000 can take on expenses of $145,000 without being any worse off. While housing isn't the only cost one has, it is usually among the largest (with taxes being the other major expense). Having $145k to spend on expenses each year can go a long way.
Really? Why is seeing a "less than or equal to" symbol legible in a textbook, but not a text editor?
I'm generally happy with all the Ubuntu default apps.

Basic text editor: gedit. Search has been a lot less usable since it moved to the top right bar. Keyboard sequences like control-f + part of a word + escape do strange things like sending you back to where you started. I'd like to be able to pilot to different parts of the code using control-f, down/enter/tab, up/shift-tab, and escape.

Also searching a huge file hangs because it stops to highlight every instance of the first character before processing the second. It should never be faster to open a terminal, find the file, and run grep. Also the entire app hangs to do syntax highlighting on giant xml files.
> In way I don't mind that Linux gamers are getting better games on average

Who says they are? There's plenty of crap available for Linux. I mentioned Braid because it's a very popular and very good Indie game available on both platforms. I surely wasn't implying that Linux only receives ports of the finest of games.

Also what makes a game "good" is subjective. From the perspective of hours played, Braid isn't very good.

> That doesn't describe the situation well. Linux gaming is for sure a much smaller market than Windows gaming, but not only it's already viable

It is viable for some small developers and for larger developer who are already using tools ported to Linux it can make sense to add support however for the majority of game studios making popular (not necessarily good or bad games) it doesn't make sense.
every result about undecidability uses Cantor's diagonalization.
I was commenting on the use of these fonts to display code to others, not use while writing.
You'd think so, but no.
Is that true? That's very interesting. The common story is that he had to rush to publish it because he was worried about his health.
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."

It gives you snapshot into what developers thought about web development in the early to mid 2000's. Bandwidth and processor speed was in short supply. Early web app's would bog down the average machine. And our ISP (internet service provider for those who may not know that acronym) charged us by the minute of usage, not by the month.

Desktop clients (games and email) would download a local copy of just the data and cache it. Many of these were applications were set to dial in the ISP, pull your information, and then disconnect. I remember a chess client that could be set up to dial in to the ISP every minute and then disconnect so that you might make it under the 60 seconds charge. That was cure for bandwidth. And the local clients were optimized for your machine so yo got faster everything.

You actually see the same thing going on with tablets and phone. Sure you can use Facebook through Chrome. But its slow and eats us your mobile data cap. But if you install the app its a lot faster, richer experience. And it only download the data it needs once without constantly reload the same contents over and over again.
It's a quick read. Only 2 pages. Not particularly dense and accessible to most programmers.