skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UKFDubstep https://www.youtube.com/user/UKFDubstep/playlists

NewRetroWave https://www.youtube.com/user/NewRetroWave
/playlists

some classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcpM0yN7p0c&list=PL7Tph50TCR...

and sometimes the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/
Opeth
Bloodbath
Leprous
Soen
Haken

Mostly prog metal that I know well already. I find it hard to focus with music I have not heard before, but can quickly go into very deep focus mode with something well known.
I listen to almost any music I know well, typically in album order. Novelty in the background is terrible for my attention.
I recommend playing with a postscript repl, either ghostscript or couple of the online ones.

http://logand.com/sw/wps/index.html#sec-1
There's one of those that hawks bad terrible credit advice products on local PBS pledge drives, leveraging PBS's credibility to bolster her own. Same with the shady quacks peddling their snake oil. All revoltingly trading on the vulnerabilities of others.
+1000 for Kate Bowler, every interview she's done, and her podcast "Everything Happens". https://katebowler.com/everything-happens/

The profound intimacy (not without its joy or laughter, but full of brutal honesty and shocking maturity) that comes from living with incurable cancer and bringing other people into it is truly something apart from the everyday. Though it probably shouldn't be.

She is really a scholar of the human condition (in addition to her profession of religious scholarship-- see her work on the prosperity gospel, really) and her insight is amazing. This is not a "typical" anything.
Is it not the in other countries? No free Dollars anywhere
No, you change it at least every 6 months, more often if crossing the mileage threshold. There are several kinds of oil degradation occuring, one of them is elevated in cars that don't drive much, or only drive short trips. Read an owners manual - you'll see words like 'every 5,000 miles but no more than 6 months'.
After his Pinker affair...
A few years ago there was an article like this about an old computer on HN that mentioned France's complicated railway workers pension system. Anybody have a link to that? It was super interesting.
I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking, but 1Password 7 is a separate purchase, unless you’re using a subscription (then it is included in your subscription). There is no transfer of licenses from v6 to v7. Does that help?

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits
Thanks! And yeah heavily inspired by tt.fm (RIP). Hopefully the community keeps growing and can bring some of that 2011 internet magic back.
Time to Learn React – Web Guild Week at Strava
Apple maps got way better! Granted, coming from a difficult starting point...
That looks incredibly well put together -- congratulations. I'm about to launch my first commercial React Native app (pretty simple app aimed at general aviation pilots), so let me know if you end up sharing some of the code for your project -- I'm sure there's lots to learn from it!
This way of shopping/browsing is becoming, if not already, the minority.

People use the address bar as a query line - increasingly with voice commands over the address bar even.

So, whomever runs the search tool behind the search bar (overwhelmingly google) controls the product space.
When lines > quality, deep/tech house is good: Stimming, and Oliver Schories

While thinking/reviewing/learning, generally instrumental jazzy/stoner trip-hop stuff:

Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hIgBEXuQD8

Fila Brazillia - A Touch Of Cloth: https://youtu.be/RjuP9cvgLic?t=4m56s

Also Kruder & Dorfmeister/Peace Orchestra, John Abercrombie, Hidden Orchestra (highly recommend the albums Archipelago and Wingbeats).
This is nothing new, rehabs do the same predatory shit and provide terrible treatment, in order to keep addicts relapsing and coming back. See John Oliver’s latest episode today.
You even need to look skeptically at your family doctor these days, too. Is she sending me for more blood tests or an X-ray because she really thinks there is a problem, or is she just hustling, spreading my insurance company’s money to her pals at the blood and radiology labs?

Honestly I have no way of knowing. Sending me for all sorts of tests would indeed maximize shareholder value, though, which is all anyone in the US cares about anymore.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I think what you're saying is correct.
[LIVES STREAM] Building MoodBoard App with React and Node
I'm a big fan of Raymond Scott's electronic stuff because it's interesting, non distracting, and usually doesn't have lyrics. https://youtu.be/rYVIDJtKU-A
In some aspects, more details are in the earlier (1972) text by the same author:

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_burroughsBgnImpMay72_2...
In terms of criminality, my feeling is that the CIA was always a bit of a loose cannon. In the WWII era with "Wild Bill" Donovan, there were all sorts of hijinks that wouldn't fly today, ranging from assassinations to downright silly operations leaving agents exposed to unnecessary danger. In the Eisenhower era, I don't think there was anything as bad as torture, but Allen Dulles and his cronies authorized assassinations behind Eisenhower's back (the criticism is that Eisenhower did not institute strong enough oversight of CIA back then).

Similar to the Military Industrial Complex, the intelligence community has morphed into a bureaucracy all its own, with a tendency to hide its own agenda from oversight.
> they simply don't get punished, except with a small fine, so they keep doing it. It's disgraceful.

Violent thieves (robbers) get punished. Non-violent theft is treated more lightly unless is done on a big scale. This gives criminals a high incentive to not be violent.

I have heard that the theory is that if you hard punish any thief, then thieves are going to be more violent to not get caught. If you focus the police force on violent crime, then violent crime goes down.

Most criminals know that if they give themselves in when caught, they will get a more favourable sentence that if they resist.

The goal is to keep people safe first, then property. To punish criminals is a means to that goal, but just that. I think that in the USA there is a moral component where punishing criminals is a moral imperative, even if this causes worse crime or if people get wrongly punished. Or, at least, that is what I interpret from the news.
As ADHD Diagnoses Increased, So Did Calls to Poison Control
My Toyota Camry is now 10K/12 months oil change interval.
My jaw definitely unclenched seeing that Pinker was not on this list.
Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu
I definitely recommend the defcon station - literal music for hacking https://somafm.com/defcon/
Also ABCL lets you Common Lisp over the JVM and have full access to the Java ecosystem.
I rewatched this movie a few weeks ago with some friends that hadn't watched it before. They absolutely loved it. I'm not fan of remakes, and I think this movie is overly very critical to be remade today. Today, viewing the original one should be mandatory.
I had a BMW and drove fewer miles than that. The maintenance alone for random things breaking (run flat tires punctured, oil leaks, breaks, battery, etc.) was like $1k/yr. Depreciation was also huge over 6 years.
> I'm sure they have a good reason to do it that way but why run a privileged process when per-user processes could do the job just fine?

I actually don't know. I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully they have a good reason, because you're right about the attack surface issue.
Small up-front cost now versus having your lives threatened in the future.
One point that is not raised or discussed, which I think is important, is that these learning platforms are not “the real thing”. They’re just artificial environments with building blocks designed for making toy projects, but no engineer would ever use them to build something of significance.

This is not to take away from the work - I’m a big fan of Cynthia Breazal’s group and the work her graduate students have done over the years. But it would be nice to see effort put into removing the artificial separations between user/programmer, or learner/professional. An apprentice carpenter uses real hammers and table saws, an apprentice baker uses real flour and sugar and ovens, so why are apprentice programmers using the plastic playset/ez bake oven equivalent of Tensorflow?

(and if the answer is just “because tensorflow is too hard for a 7 year old”, then how can we get somewhere where there is something as powerful, if not more so, than Tensorflow, while also being accessible to 7 year olds?)
HNers seem to find the best stuff. I subscribe to the weekly email one of our peers sends that gathers up links to books mentioned on HN. Every week there's at least 2 or 3 worth picking up.
How do arbitration clauses compare to 'no sue' clauses. By the second I mean contracts that state one party shall not sue the other for a given thing.
As far as I know, 'no sue' clauses are unenforceable.
It seems to me that arbitration clauses prevent workers from suing their employers which would essentially be a 'no sue' contract.

I don't think the courts would miss this, so I am probably wrong here somewhere. Would anyone care to correct me?
> All I've said is that it's painful to go from CL to Python in terms of the general features of the languages (not their tooling).

As a programmer with full experience in both languages, I agree with this in 200%.
It has an exceedingly dominant market share (FYI: Being a monopoly does not require "zero alternatives exist". Merely that those alternatives are at the mercy of the main one), which it uses to direct and control Internet protocols in the way it finds most beneficial to Google.

All new Internet protocols and 'standards' proposed by Google come with the implied threat that Google will do it anyways, since often Google implements it in Chrome before it is a standard, leaving everyone else to accept it or be rendered incompatible with Google, who has control of most of the Internet.

A significant number of websites now only test against Chrome and only support Chrome, leaving really only one option, often, when trying to interact with a given Internet entity.

And Chrome isn't just a monopoly, it's a monopoly they illegally use to manipulate the market and boost their other products. For instance, while competing search engines can bid for default placement on Firefox, Google gives it's own search engine exclusive rights to be default there, the monopoly search engine on the monopoly browser.

Recently, Google even introduced a method for banning competitors ads into Chrome, rendering Google ads the only "sure thing" for not having your ads arbitrarily blocked by Google.

Chrome is one of the clearest examples of why Google must be broken up. It's Ad/Search business cannot own platforms like Chrome and Android.
Hm, this is useful to know...there are a lot of conference posters and publications about using Kalman filters to interpret neural signals, particularly from Utah microarrays for the Gee-whiz brain-machine interfaces out of the BrainGate consortium. Not having an a background in EE, I was always fuzzy as to how it worked.
No, the 6 months recommendation is due to absorbed water vapor causing gelling and sludge. It's specifically targeted at vehicles that aren't driven often, or only take short trips. In these vehicles the inevitably absorbed water is not driven off by engine heat often enough and they become fouled due to sludge.

The mileage based change intervals are about two kinds of degredation, shear (loss of viscosity), and Ph (exhaustion of wear additives). Shear may be improved by synthetics but additive depletion is not, although it is uncommon to run oil long enough for that to become critical.
Those skills at 18, the integrity to not sell something like this on the black market (assuming here that an 18 year old in Uruguay isn't exactly swimming in money), and a bounty from Google under his belt - he won't have trouble finding work. If I was considering hiring him, the creative bit of guerilla marketing for The Expanse he threw in there wouldn't hurt his chances either.
The TED talk by David Christian about big history is still my favorite TED talk of all time: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_christian_big_history?utm_ca...
What on earth do you mean. Have you ever bought a car?

You negotiate the price you are willing to pay. The dealer has no idea if you are leasing, paying cash, or financing. The all-in price is either financed or leased at a specified interest rate. They do not "add in" an up front payment. That doesn't even make sense, and would be incredibly misleading.

If we negotiate $25,000 for the car,and I finance at 0%, you are saying they up the price to $27,500 to "build in a profit"? Nonsense. The numbers are in front of you and you can do the calculations yourself with high school math. 0% is 0%.

You are totally out of your element and shouldnt be providing financial advice. Maybe that's why the dealer rips you off.
It's been a while, but IIRC Docker wasn't affected by Dirty COW because they mount /proc read-only. (Sandstorm was unaffected because it doesn't mount /proc at all.)

FWIW I haven't kept the security non-events up to date over the past year or two. There was at least one Linux kernel bug I can remember last year (CVE-2017-5123) that allowed a breakout from all container engines, because waitid() is too important a syscall to block. However, the vulnerability was newly-introduced and hadn't made its way into too many distros before it was fixed.
It’s very American, but not unique to America. Take for example Japan, which has an issue with homelessness like most other countries. One of the industries that’s emerged are “poverty businesses” which run private shelters as NPO’s. What they do is usually rent or buy unused corporate dormitories, put up some cheap walls and turn a double occupancy into 2-4 double occupancies. Then they get homeless people, hook them up with lawyers and help them to get their social welfare payments. So far so ok, but the end result is that they take up to 80% for room and very basic board.
I got one of those letters... I download from other sources now... it's just harder to find older stuff.
Same here. I read some of his past book recommendations and found them either uninteresting or not funny for books he listed as being funny.
Someone must have been going against best practices and remaking the wheel because I see different types of wheels everywhere I look. Shopping carts have a certain type of wheel, skateboards have a certain type of wheel, longboards have a certain type of wheel, rollerblades have a certain type of wheel, bikes have a certain type of wheel, planes have a certain type of wheel, cars, trucks, RC vehicles, toys, etc, etc, etc, etc...
do you have a link to that email list?
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Wow. Among all conversations, haven't heard this simple truth mentioned any more. Would love to hear more discussion along these lines.
Yes. SF needs to stop trying to make self-driving cars a thing and catch up to the rest of the country that wants mass transit.

Why do SF tech companies keep reinventing the bus??
Google quietly removes ‘don’t be evil’ preface from code of conduct
Deltron 3030 Virus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrEdbKwivCI

I'm not writing viruses but when writing simple bash scripts with white text on a black background terminal it can be very enjoyable
I work with G Suite and this story 100% did not happen.
Have you discussed it with them? Did you ask them, without judging, why do they feel that it's better to delete the comment rather than update it? I'm wondering what kind of answers would come from them.

Who knows, maybe they have a legit reason for the behavior. Or maybe they simply did not give it enough thought. Either way, the humane appreach, talking, could help here.
Somebody is underrating the Common Lisp ecosystem, me thinks. There are much fewer libs than in Python, of course, but, most likely, everything you need you would find in CL, and some of those libs are very high quality.

>There is one legitimate reason to switch from Lisp to Python: The number of packages and extensions. Python really has more than just batteries included

Which you can "steal" by using them from Common Lisp. By using the lisp library called "burgled-batteries".

But still, as pointed below, the Java ecosystem is even bigger, and you can easily leverage by running Common Lisp on the JVM (using Armed Bear Common Lisp).

And then there is Clojure, a lisp-like language that is weaved together with the JVM and thus with very easy ways to interoperate with the JVM.
How are the torrents grouped or organized? What are some good ways to locally recreate the SciHub front-end search functionality?
Since everyone is already weighing in on their experiences I guess I'll add my own,

I went 2 years without a car and it was great when I was in the period of my life where I wanted to be head down and studying to get a better job. I spent almost nothing on Uber because I used public transit or walked everywhere. I can count on one hand the amount of times I used Uber, seriously.

Even after I bought my house which is in a suburb kind of in Seattle I continued to go car-less which included a 3mi round trip walk to the grocery store. Didn't mind it much, just had to plan around the weather.

However I moved to the PNW so I could get outside and experience it, not spend my life in the city. Going hiking means 80-100 mile round trips easily on the weekend and Turo, reachnow, zip car were just not ideal for this. Cost is prohibitive if you're doing it every weekend. That's a minimum of $80-$100 * 4 if I go out just one day on each weekend.

I bought a beater truck for under $3k. It has 4wd and a bed to toss all of my gear in. It's the perfect vehicle. Insurance is super cheap, only need liability because who cares if it gets totaled it's already banged up. I can run to Home Depot and get stuff for my projects around the house, toss my bikes in the bed, do my shopping. It covers all the bases and gives me the connivence of not having to deal with finding a reachnow car or meeting up with someone for Turo, etc. One important caveat, I also do my own repairs so if you aren't mechanically inclined it might not be the right choice.
I only drive the vehicle on the weekends and still commute via bike or bus to work.

I also noticed that because of my inherently cheap nature I wouldn't rent a vehicle to go do these things even if the end result is that it's cheaper than car ownership. My brain just can't get over the fact that I'm directly paying for the hike, or the trip to the store, etc. I think a lot of people also feel this way and idk how to overcome that kind of irrational thought, but in the end the opportunity cost of having a vehicle is worth it, if it means I'm actually getting out and doing things I enjoy instead of staying home or in the city.
Ooh Ooh My Turn Why Lisp?
Been listening to a mix of video game and movie soundtracks as well as some piano scores mixed in...
https://www.pandora.com/station/play/2476798788059171414
...definitely allows me to drown out everything and focus.
+1

The supreme court is not a legislative body. It's fun when your side wins, but that's essentially the same as hoping for a benevolent dictator.

The most important SCOTUS cases are constitutional ones limiting the legislative branch, not becoming a second legislature.
AFAIK, there's considerable debate whether she was physically exceptionally beautiful or not, but to me the important bit about her is this (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Cleopatra_VII):

In contrast, Cleopatra could understand and speak multiple languages by adulthood, including Egyptian, Ethiopian, Trogodyte, Hebrew (or Aramaic), Arabic, the Syrian language (perhaps Syriac), Median, Parthian, and Latin, although her Roman colleagues would have preferred to speak with her in her native Koine Greek.

She was the first (only?) Ptolemic ruler who bothered to learn Egyptian. In my book that makes her incredibly attractive!

And consider this: Julius Caesar was no inexperienced youth when it came to women (some details here: https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-might-not-know-abo...). Mere beauty would not have been enough to impress him that quickly.
The best yelp engagement I saw worked with customers directly: a property manager ran a raffle for half off a months rent. To enter, you just had to leave a review on yelp. They didn’t explicitly ask for good reviews, but the majority were pretty positive.

For about the same amount that yelp wanted for sponsorship, they got over 30 real, quality reviews that complimented the recent improvements that had been made.
Big History
I love Battleship hacks. The game begs to be implemented everywhere for its simplicity. Before I learned to program I implemented it in MS Excel circa 2002. It was played over a local network as a shared file, and it relied on manual polling (file reload) and honor (don't peek at your opponent's worksheet).

I played it with a coworker during breaks in an environment that IT had locked down, but they didn't block Excel.
> Also you never really use readline(), since files are iterable
People sneer when I say I would categorically ban all advertising, but the more I observe the more convinced I am of this. Advertising is brain manipulation, nothing more. It's unreservedly evil and harmful, and we would all be much happier without the constant bombardment.
AFAIK there are limits to that. Certainly, contracts are required to be reciprocal. That is, one cannot write a contract that states A gives stuff to B, without requiring B to give some form of compensation. This is why things are sometimes sold for $1 rather than gifted.

I think there are also 'no contracts can be made under duress' clauses that limit how much one can use leverage to unbalance a deal. Not sure what kind of limits there are to that though.
The Tesla’s stopping distance of 152 feet from 60 mph was far worse than any contemporary car we’ve tested and about 7 feet longer than the stopping distance of a Ford F-150 full-sized pickup.

That’s worrying, and almost as worrying is that Tesla says their braking is much faster. I’m sure plenty of fans will make comments about shorting stock, but this is Consumer Reports, and they have a very good reputation to protect.

I’m not thrilled by this tidbit either.

The Model 3’s stiff ride, unsupportive rear seat and excessive wind noise at highway speeds also hurt its road-test score. In the compact luxury sedan class, most competitors deliver a more comfortable ride and rear seat.
3GL
If you were to ask me which city needs more surveillance, it would be Barcelona. The amount of petty crime, the constantly being approached by groups of people offering "services" and "products" is insane.

I love most cities, but that's the one place where I had a strange feeling -- I think I was afraid?
https://tormentedradio.com/
Getting Paid for Clearing the Streets of Scooters: Sanfrancisco
I tried a bit of everything and its really random for me. As i metal/rock fan i rarely listen to the genre.
Here is some artists to get you started that really help me focus on programing:

- Trent Reznor and NiN: Social Network, Ghosts and The Fragile.

- How to destroy Angels (also a subproject of Trent Reznor).

- Daft Punk: live album and Tron soundtrack.

- Miles Davis: Bitches Brew.

- RadioHead: OK Computer, KID A and Amnesiac.

- Gojira: Magma and From Mars to Sirius

- Opeth: Live at Royal Albert Hall

- U2: Songs of Inocence and Songs of Experience.

- Massive Attack: Mezzanine

- Blade Runner soundtrack.

- Interstellar soundtrack.

Recently Synthwave DJs

- Kavinsky: Outrun

- The Midnight: Any song (i really love these guys and the atmosphere they put into their songs).

Hope it helps you find a music for your mood.
Wow thanks for this. I never knew the current user registry hive was stored at NTUSER.dat. I've always figured out the user id and navigated through hkey_users.