skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two big differences:

1) HN has less content, so it is much easier to run out of things to look at.

2) Its content is less digestible on average, so you don't get nearly as deep into "mindless info consumption" mode.

That being said, it definitely has those characteristics to an extent.
Ever see that photo of Mark Zuckerberg surrounded by hundreds of people in VR headsets? The backstory of the original Matrix movie doesn't seem as far fetched anymore.

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-virtual-reali...
Ruby is an example for sure, Haskell is another.
I agree, exercise is addictive, and I love running, but I worry that it's bad for the joints, from what I've read, which is the only thing holding me back at the moment. But I see all these people running, and I wonder, are there no join issues, or does everyone just not know yet.
Who is running critical infrastructure that you cant easily reach right now? Are you saying you know of a major CVE that has no coverage?
Absolutely, but it’s not that simpel, it’s made to be flexible and handle different logic. Not that it’s magic by any means, it’s fairly simple but you’d want to generate the initials on the server anyway, to acomplish similar results

For example, it takes first letter of first name, and 2 letters from last name if only two names supplied and desired length is 3.

However if 3 names are supplied, it uses a letter from each name.

It’s not magic, but doing it in CSS wouldn’t be easy, I imagine
A friend who sold insurance used to use this “trick” but via telephone. He would call, let it ring twice then hang up. People would see the number on caller ID and often call back.
I meant privatised in order to remove the state ownership and encourage competition in the sector.
>He found one weakness: By asking the server the right question, it would reveal his own IP address .

>The question was asked and the server replied. It was located in Sydney, owned by the server Digital Pacific.

What the hell does that even mean? It almost sounds like they were doing packet sniffing and looking at the IP addresses of where the packets came from. Any non-tor exit node IPs could be the server's IP. Similar strategy was used against Silk Road.
as evanlivingston mentioned above, Knuth is in the position to cut off people from his email; trying to run a digital company without an email is kind of like trying to be a lumberjack without an axe
Ouch, Yeah appears pretty obvious. Will add some rounding to the sizes or similar
And they rejected a couple of his pull requests and implemented similar features themselves.

I don't think it's necessarily the responsibility of a project to validate its users. But there are examples like Node where the emphasis is on retaining and involving contributors.

https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/healthy-open-sourc...

I'm not sure it fits everywhere but based on later posts, it seems to be working for them.
The original article (which has been flag-killed) was pretty poor, but included this link in the comments: http://www.lispcast.com/cognitect-clojure
I’m so glad to hear such feedback! Thanks!
Yes. I’ve been running with this model too.

I also think about distractions (pop ups, bullshit social media, etc) as interrupts that disrupt program execution. The mindfulness movement has organic parallels.

Is mainstream news nourishing to my brain?

The biggest story of the week (year?) has no leakers and limited facts. The media have made virtually no progress on explaining who this person was in Las Vegas.

We do have 12 sources that prove some DC douche called another douche a moron.

I am not letting the media run code on my cpu anymore. Their code doesn’t nourish.
One of the problems with modelling culture-bound phenomena as 'objective' rule-based systems is that the latter can become normative. If a mathematical model of typography gained hold, eventually someone would point to your 'unaligned header' preference, and demand you relinquish it because the model proved you were wrong.

This is analogous to that famous Sydney J Harris quote:

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers
It’s transparent to me, weird.. I’ll have to look into this. Thanks for feedback :)
Our phones, their glitziness, and the way they captivate definitely hijack the mind's operations when it's saturated by them.

It's a rough solution but simply dampening the strength of the signal is one way to manage our minds.

That's why I'm moving towards a smartwatch with cellular. I know I need to be connected, but to specific people, not to the information highway. (More information cul de sacs.)

I'm excited about the kind of lifestyle patterns we can design that would be more kind to ourselves but not any less performant.
ABBY Startup Failed. Here’s What We Have Learnt
When did pancreatic cancer get a reputation for being curable? I was under the impression that it is one of the most fatal cancers.
In that case, I doubly appreciate you sharing the info, it does fit with how the SEC likes to operate too.
Very much so, at least one of them. “The Entertainment” was sufficiently addicting to effectively zombify characters, now fulfilled by the stereotype of people that float across busy streets without raising their eyes from their phones. The repeated parallels to drug use and escape therefrom were none-too-subtly interspersed with The Entertainment for a reason.

Also, the literary broken narrative effected by story-length footnotes that had story-length endnotes imitates the short/shattered attention span experience of living that DFW was already able to feel and express—and Infinite Jest was published over twenty years ago.

I escaped into Infinite Jest to survive a period of deep depression, denial, and directionlessness, so that shattered consciousness was pretty easy to relate to at the time.
CLRS was also the undergraduate textbook at my school, RIT. I didn't think it did a very good job of explaining algorithms if you didn't already have a good grasp of them.

Skiena on the other hand does a nice job of both describing the algorithm in a straightforward manner and also getting you into the algorithm headspace.
HN is different because, if you play your cards right, there will be no obligation to additional, subsequent behavior modification based on your actions, and minimal (if any) real life social consequences related to your participation.

Facebook and Twitter are notorious for producing disastrous results among individuals careless with their identity. Reddit permits the free creation of pseudonyms, but the material is less engaging and currated with less rigor.

I wouldn’t rate HN as “addictive” since there aren’t any real barriers to ignoring the site, and it lacks the kind of reach other sites have in “finding you.” This is to say that the usage patterns of the other sites you mention, saturate social circles so thoroughly, that it’s hard to not hear them mentioned in daily conversation.

You may prefer HN, and it may fill certain gaps in regular daily activity, alleviating boredom to an extent, but if you find it infectous, that’s merely a reflection of the intellectual personas that get moderated into your attention based on merit.

Is stimulating conversation addictive? Is reading material deleterious? At some point the buck has to stop with the individual’s own judgement.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense in this case. I'll have to pay more attention to the context next time it happens.
You're completely right in regards to Java, I am not set on any particular language, which is exactly why I am not sure where to head yet.
I know basic web stuff (HTML, CSS, JS), but no frameworks or anything in that direction.
I'm just not sure where to have the best chances with becoming a little profitable, especially with the competition that might have stellar experience.
How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing (2015)
In Pat Cadigan's anthology of short works "Patterns", she included this introduction to her short story[1] with the same name:

> Television will achieve its apotheosis when it is interactive.

> Of course, some people think they have that now. For some people, TV reality is as much of a reality as what they move through most of the day. I remember listening to two people I used to work with discussing the horrible burden a character on a TV series would have to bear for causing someone's death in a fire. These were not uneducated or isolated people; they had simply been drawn in so far, they were projecting the characters well beyond the end of the show -- indeed, beyond the life of the series itself. And we've all heard amusing stories about actors who play soap opera villains suddenly attacked by irate viewers who cannot separate actor and character, Maybe more people can't than can -- the host of Death Valley Days was President of the United States for eight years.

> Does TV encourage, or even induce, schizophrenia? Or does it create a separate reality in conjunction with our minds, something that is neither totally our inner life nor totally TV. The networks might call that programming.

Marshall McLuhan explained how humans see tools - such as media - as an "extension of ourselves". It's important to keep this in mind when creating tools or types of media: you're also defining part of the human that uses the tool.

[1] The short story "Patterns" was originally published in the August 1987 issue of Omni.
As are the rationalizations.
Thanks to Ikea, Cafeterias Matter Again
This excellent article fails to mention artificial intelligence. Facebook has recruited one of the world’s top AI teams, led by Yann LeCun. Their work and Google's are the equivalent of tobacco companies engineering cigarettes to ensure that nicotine hits a smoker's brain more quickly. Facebook and other social networks are the cigarette companies of the mind. Cigarettes blackened our lungs with tar, and social media blacken our brains with distraction, alienation, envy, and loneliness.

Social media networks will become ever more addictive, and by using AI to increase the click-through rate on the ads, they will squeeze ever more money out of their addicts. AI will be essential to the "capture and sale of attention," as Tim Wu puts it, walking users from curiosity to the cash register more and more efficiently.[0]

Lewis is right to focus on addiction. Especially because behavioral addictions are easier to ignore than addictions to substances slung on street corners. But they amount to the same thing: you want something, but you don't want to want it, and being unable to resist it, you sabotage your own life. Addictions turn our brains against us.

In a prescient 2010 essay, PG warned of the acceleration of online addictions, and the lag between the introduction of an addictive product and society's response to it.[1]

Capitalism is an accelerant for addictive behavior, and we are only just realizing how unhappy people become as a result of the marketplace’s newest and most insidious products. What's worse, the necessary functions performed by our phones and the Internet are fatefully tangled with the apps that addict us. They put the heroin next to the tap water.

For anyone interested in a fictional account of American society as a tapestry of addictions, Infinite Jest will change the way you think. It's all about that buzz.[2]

Full disclosure: I prompted Paul Lewis to write this piece.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-H...

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-David-Foster-Wallace-eb...
Some suggestions:

1) don't start a new project in Swing when you could use JavaFX instead. Since you're using Kotlin, you'd also want to use TornadoFX, a nice DSL for JavaFX.

2) use Maven or Gradle (or hell, any build tool). Don't store artifacts in source control.

I was really hoping someone who knew what they were doing was building this after the mini Electron debate earlier this week :/
Not only the new stuff that replenishes the pool, but often times when I find a new resource/subreddit that I don't know much about but find interesting, there's often a huge amount of info already there. So even depleting the pool of past information becomes a huge distraction, all while more stuff is piling on top.
Uncomfortable meaning physically uncomfortable. Even when it's not painful (like walking for an hour on a treadmill), it is uncomfortable and it feels bad and it's boring. Yes podcasts and ebooks are great, but they're even better when you're not exercising.

People who enjoy exercise are by far the exception, otherwise we'd see a lot more people doing it. We would see every elliptical at the gym occupied on January 1st, and they'd stay occupied indefinitely.

But that's not what we see. The ellipticals are all taken on January 1st, and they're all empty by February.

People need motivation and willpower to do it. That should tell you all you need to know about how enjoyable it is. You don't need motivation or willpower to eat a steak or watch a movie, because those things are fun. You need motivation and willpower to exercise, because it's boring and it sucks.

Sorry but every time this subject comes up there's this contingent of people trying to insist to everyone how fun exercise is, and none of you seem to realize that you're outliers and this is your hobby and not everyone likes your hobby. Most people don't like it and can't be convinced to like it and will never like it, and that's normal.

But the tone is always that there's something deficient with people who don't exercise, and if they don't like it that's a sign of their deficiency or something, and you think we all need pep-talks to better ourselves. I don't agree with this.

I don't think exercise matters anywhere near as much as you think it does. I've waited my whole life for proof, and all I've ever gotten is correlations found in studies funded by vested interests (if exercise works the food industry can shift blame onto the consumer).
Good analogy. The one I use is to compare our modern use of the internet and social media as our eras cigarette.

We know that it isn’t good for us but we don’t realky have any idea just how destructive it is to not only the user but to society.

My analogy breaks down in that cigarettes have very little to 0 use where as the internet is in fact useful and can be safely used - much like sugar.
The Heterogeneous Future of Urban Mobility
creepy AF
I know nothing about Clojure but I'm always interested to read how open source maintainers interact with their community.
Sure we're already hosed, but turn off your WiFi is a fair suggestion. By making it more difficult to determine if the WiFi radio is off and more difficult to disable, Apple is further pushing this solution into "security circles".
You were so preoccupied with wether you could, that you didn’t stop for one moment and think I’d you should!

Just joking. Good job. I think it’s been years seen I saw a Java App, and have to say, I am a bit disappointed at how Swing still looks.
Well, that and the fact that IQ is significantly hereditable, tends to correlate with high income, and also correlates with high standardized test scores.
Yeah. Lets all go on a Keto diet and sustain 400 million americans on steak. Do you people ever stop and think about the consequences of your diet?
I can't say I agree with the author here. The biggest problem in "product" manufacturing has been trying to understand whether or not your "great idea" was in fact great or just something you and you alone liked. Crowd funding sites do two things for you, they give you a slope and an intercept. The slope, how quickly people sign up, is a good indicator or market interest, the intercept (the final point you end up at) is a good indicator of overall addressable market.

Why wouldn't you take advantage of that before committing possibly millions of dollars into a project?

That said if you're a successful company you really should execute perfectly on your crowd funded product, it should ship when you say it will and it should have all the fit and finish of a professional product. If, as a company, you consider crowd funded products to be somehow a 'cheaper' alternative to "real" products, then I have an issue with that.
It might be more correct to say three valence quarks?
this is what they said about TVm rock and roll, comic books computer games etcetera etcetera going back to the dawn of time.

As Socrates's says “The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”

Not mention the shocking depravity of shaving and painting statues blue
HN might be worse because it's easy to label it as necessary or useful in your professional life.
«isn't significant proof of decline, although since it's 2 of 5, a 40% decline seems notable to me»

Any percentage value is irrelevant because a change of ±2 among 500 retailers is statistically insignificant. If it was ±20 it would be significant.

What if we went from 1 to 2 accepting BTC, would you say "acceptance went up 50% among top 500 retailers?" It would be highly misleading and improper to report it as such.
Most of the research I’m familiar with is related to cognitive biases from areas related to political science or religious beliefs and it’s very obvious now that facts are not a way to get people to believe things that were initially spurred by emotional reasons. Most of the stuff I’ve seen basically says it’s impossible to get people to get past their cognitive dissonance problems without making something very personal that requires them to adapt or risk more or less a form of identity loss. In fact, facts may cause people to bank even more on their existing beliefs and seek out “alternative facts” that support their current beliefs. This is a similar mechanic to how some anti-LGBT politicians have relented on their publicly known positions when some of their immediate family members have come out as homosexual. This is not consistent either - many such persons are simply disowned by their families and in extreme cases of bigotry result in an honor killing.

My personal, not-very tested belief is that there is a strong biological component to political alignments and if you put that person in a different culture they’d gravitate toward similar values on a relative scale.
I can see what's confusing you, but it's correct as stated.

Item is not a reference to the physical data structure in memory. If you treat it as a black box where you put items in and then ask it if it has seen the 'item' then the wording is more clear.
What are the false pretenses? It sounded like they were very upfront about what they were providing--they just found they got a better response rate if they didn't tell people until after they called.
Something that helps a lot is to be ruthless with notifications on a smartphone. I basically have it set to only bother me for calls, SMS, and chat apps. Everything else is turned off.

And whenever I get a new phone, it surprising how bad the defaults are. Basically every apps default is to spam notifications.
During the last UK election they got 3 out of the 4 main party leaders wrong for searches about "general election 2017"
Well, considering that Google hasn’t updated maps in my city since 2004 (satellite) or 2009 (street data), entire districts are missing, no transit data is integrated (despite being freely available in the required format, and even HERE maps has it), I’d say that Burda probably has some product that’s useful as a map as Google maps is.
Haha! Thanks! I can't really say this is representative of the best modern Swing has to offer, though, so I hope people won't judge it too much by my joke project ;)
Hey kevinherron—thanks for the feedback. I actually was aware I could build something nicer with JavaFX, but one of the main constraints on the project was that it satisfy my nostalgia for old Swing apps (particularly the 'Metal' Look and Feel), so I decided to go in that direction.

As for building—I agree the current project structure is basically unforgivable :) However, I figured the chances of anyone seeing the project were extremely remote and it was just for fun so I didn't bother with any of the boring stuff. Maybe I'll fix it up a little now though.

EDIT: the project now uses Maven.
Most of the points above are very true, particularly 3,5,7,9,10,11 from my experience.

Additionally:

13) POs and devs accepting feature requests that don't add value but add a lot of complexity

14) Team members who add negative velocity and lower morale of everyone else in the project (but typically are highly regarded by the management who dismiss any complaints)

The core IMO is that most people (especially non-technical, but technical too) can not properly understand the complexity of a software project as it's not something tangible like a building or a bridge.
Passages like this made me think the author's intent wasn't totally earnest, but going for melodramatic effect.

Now that the party is over and sunrise begins to reveal the plastic fairy lights and overdone makeup, I begin to question my life as well as the values that I am looking for within it.

And the opening was just shock value, or an emotional outburst, not that he hates and wants to move on.

...Fuck Clojure. There I've said it and God it feels good.

More misguided than malicious, which is how I would interpret it if the intent was purely earnest.
>run digital exchange
>get arrested

when will this meme end? I don't own any crypto anymore, but I find it endlessly weird that a government can just declare something illegal and immediately begin arresting people with no warning.
Open Web Application Security Project
Oh in that case I understand. I'm doing pointer arithmetic on guaranteed aligned data so it compiles/works fine.
Something like this would make an interesting AR app. Imagine being able to see all the subways below you with the trains going through in real time.
Someone in another thread mentioned this and found it interesting. Never heard of it before.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2017-Top_10
Nice. Also check out https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/, particularly as it says: "I am making it available here [...], under the following conditions: [...]; web links must point to this page rather than to a separate copy of the dvi, ps, or pdf file." Not sure if he meant his copy is a "separate" copy, but the web page is useful, anyway.
Even that's not enough. I spent the last year or so switching over to consuming news through RSS, moving myself and close friends out of Facebook, and downloading textbooks. I've been teaching myself advanced mathematics that I didn't get a strong hold of in graduate school.

I found myself in the middle of a category theory exercise stuck. I wasn't getting anywhere, and couldn't figure something out. Break time, so I opened my RSS reader. Even if my RSS reader has curated content, it's easy to read. An article about urban planning here, optimizing latency there, and before I know it, an hour has passed. I spent none of that time focusing on my problem, and I'm just as stuck as ever.

I think, at least for me, I need to stem this constant flow of information. I need to take time to step aside of it, live without it, then get back.
IMO, if you have some problem, and want to post in some Stack Exchange site, now you have 2 problems... I'm really sick to try formulate SE questions, Im most interested if the question will be closed instead of think how can I get a answer... Im too frustrated and I see a lot like me frustrated too. I'm really really tired to fight against SE Zealots...