skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the same, but I don't like that it is searched by default when building a Go program. It's too easy for the versions of dependencies in those directories to have changed. And even if you vendor, it falls back to GOPATH so you can still bring things into your build by accident.
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Yes great productive things to do when resting, visualizing the movement.

There also was a great book about this which is oriented more to athletic skills.

https://youtu.be/nslkvLsupJU
An additional point it may be sometimes be more worthwhile to downvote incorrect information only if it seems unlikely to bear useful fruit and after providing enlightening information to the commentor if possible.
TBH, I wonder why you had to "leave without your notes", when pandoc eats org-mode for breakfast and gives you a multitude of target options, including markdown (and this is really after wondering what prevented you from using a fresh Emacs install, if you couldn't fix yours, to export them in the first place)
Genuine question - how is Bing a good investment? Isn't it essentially a non-factor in the search market?
From that link:

> Non-commercial use is free.

Do you mean that not only the DB has to be open source, but it also should be free-as-in-beer?
I’m not a Musk fan. He’s held up as some sort of modern day Tesla but he’s just an eccentric rich guy who employs a lot of hard working engineers.
Isn't that the reverse effect? I could never watch football (soccer) as a child - why would I want to watch other people having fun when I can go and do it myself! Invariably I'd respond by going out to play [with a] football.
The point would be to save lives. With most accidents coming from drivers being drunk/distracted, a vastly improved cruise control could prevent many deaths.
Like politics (at least in the US). The similarities between fanatic sports fans and fanatic political party 'members'/voters are quite great. Voters generally want their 'team' to win, even if they know nothing substantial about the candidate on the 'team' they are voting for.
my point exactly! the "Fourier transform" is not something that you need to compute, but a trivial physical process that happens everywhere. You whistle a note, and the corresponding string of a harp nearby starts vibrating. The strings of the harp display the Fourier transform of the sound wave, but they are not computing anything. It is only when you try to simulate this process on a digital computer that it becomes somewhat difficult and interesting, but in the analog case it is a straightforward operation.
I'm happy I do not watch sports and have no desire to do so.
> but modeling a physical process computationally does not make the case that the process itself is a computation

IANA Mathematician, but I was under impression that it does exactly that, in a sense that if a physical process gives you results of an abstract computation, you can use this to get minimal bounds on energy requirements. Changing a bit has minimal theoretical energy cost in physical reality.
IPs arent marked as spam forever, its easy to get delisted from DNSBLs if you arent continuing to send spam.
I’d go for two or three close friends rather than a wide circle. I would describe close as those you spend time with and the contact is mutual i.e. you are not the one always initiating the get togethers.
My company migrated everything away from joi in favor of AJV. Joi isn't serialisable and the maintainers are hostile to the idea of adding that capability. There are some 3rd party extensions to add serialization support, but they are not feature-complete. I also find the declarative nature of JSON Schema preferable to joi's semi-imperative API which is occasionally quite difficult to debug.
What does this really contribute to the conversation, besides some holier-than-thou attitude about not participating in sports for whatever pseudo-intellectual reason there may be?
The Forgotten Soviet-Japanese War of 1939
I appreciate your excellent work. Google Keep, for example, exports both a .json and a folder of individual html files. I ended up piping the individual .html files through pandoc to .md files for idiosyncratic reasons. To be fair, I think turtl is so many leagues ahead of other solutions on the rest of its feature set that a .json export - which appears to be standard - is enough.

I suspect that turtl appeals to a lot of users with a large directory of plaintext notes who would be enticed to adopt the service if bulk textfile import were also streamlined. I hope the next release is a success!
The same happens when listening to a singing performance. Citation not offered.
It appears twice in the article, along with the words neurochemicals and neuroscience. Thank goodness clippy isn't in charge of rating scholastic merits.

Edit: also biochemistry, biochemical...
It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports.

It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
Are these prices for real? (Serious question)
I follow Musk on Twitter and I've never seen behavior like today. Yes, he sometimes insults people, but there's a huge difference between offhand insults and sticking to your guns accusing a rescue diver of being a pedophile.[1] It's utterly bizarre.

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1018513369404493824
This is excellent news for anyone nervous about vendor lock-in, which is a big problem in the notes space.
Hard working engineers who wouldn’t have jobs without Musk putting his entire net worth on the table

Until there is a better system then capitalism, capitalists are required to fund engineering.
It is one thing in Battlestar Galactica I found so intriguing (along with the cut corner papers): how they consistently deformed radio speech
What if you said that Bob and Alice have an agreement to send letters every 2 minutes (taking turns one after another). If Eve were to drop a message, Bob or Alice would know that the message was discarded because the next sent message would not arrive in that 2-minute frame. Therefore, they do not update their state. If a state change is requested by either party, if and only if, simultaneous/consecutive messages go through (a total time of 4 minutes: one send and acknowledge) - states are updated: except the catch is that the send note contains the future time both Alice and Bob need to perform the update - which is constant in this entire exchange.
This should be a Show HN.

I read the code, and I do not think this library is suitable for real-world use.

Consider `makeTestType` (https://github.com/imbrn/v8n/blob/master/src/v8n.js#L973-L98...):

return () => value => {
return (
typeof value === type ||
(value === null && type === "null") ||
(Array.isArray(value) && type === "array")
);
};

This means that null and "null" (as a string) are now numbers.

v8n().number().test("null") // true

It also means that an array of numbers is a number... something that is counterintuitive for the user of the library.

In addition to that, most of the time you want to deal with finite numbers. A validation library should have an API that reflects this, but this is not the case for v8n.
Show HN: Lup – loopy command execution
Oh yea I forgot that Musk's companies are the only places where engineers can work
Ha, amateurs. The Haiku operating system project is almost seventeen years old and still hasn't shipped a beta.

Finding excuses is vital, but it's important to have both excuses for not shipping the beta and excuses for why beta is almost here and there's no need to think the past history of delays bodes ill for the project.

Here's a HN comment back in January where the poster says Haiku's beta will be out "this quarter" (Q1 calendar 2018), I laugh at that, and another HN poster says OK, but definitely by _next_ quarter (Q2 calendar 2018).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149192
Ask HN: What do you first look for when diagnosing someone else's slow code?
I always look for a loop in the application logic over the result of a database query that fires off another query for each row (sometimes to the same table, even), instead of using a join.

How about you?
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> Hard working engineers who wouldn’t have jobs without Musk putting his entire net worth on the table

Pretty sure they could have found jobs elsewhere.
Yeah but do back of the envelope on how many people total that might involve and what percentage of them would buy something...and what percentage of the total that might be. I'm guessing vr is tiny. Even gaming upgrades might not move any needles...
The Constitution wasn't created by wizards, it's bad, and can be replaced. It's not a democracy if you're ruled by the dead.
Google's Data Centre literally generates heat. So anything we can do in this direction, is helpful.

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...
Residential may very well work best off grid, or better still with highly localised combined heat and power. There's probably still bumps that are better smoothed at grid scale than everyone having peak battery coverage.

Industrial use changes things. Take the grid away and there'll be some unpleasant knock-on effects to prices for everything.

Large industrial users are already smoothing the grid, either with cheaper pricing for off peak use, and deals for intermittently taking surge from the grid. With no grid and no daily varying residential and office loads how do you smelt your aluminium or cook your canned foods other than at normal price? Does every plant need to be local to power generation now?
Hucksters in combination with a massive game of Topper. The company that's honest and says they're 20 years away from door-to-door autonomy gets their stock downgraded and negative press because they're so far behind.

And, as you say, a lot of people assume the mostly unanticipated advances in deep learning in a short period of time carry over to everything even vaguely related to AI and cognitive science more broadly.
Well, all combinations of stimulants and depressants are speedballs. And in my experience, they differ mainly in intensity. And of course, in risk of death. Which I did make very clear.

Anyway, it's basically that stimulants prevent falling asleep, passing out, or (ideally) dying at high depressant doses. Which allows users to experience more intense effects from said depressants. And that depressants reduce anxiety, relax, and (ideally) prevent dying (usually from cardiac arrest) at high stimulant doses. Which allows users to experience more intense effects from said stimulants.

And re cocaine vs methamphetamine, I've used both a lot, albeit many years ago. And sure, they're quite different. But they both made me happy, and kept me awake. As I recall, cocaine was much better for play, dancing, and sex. And methamphetamine was better for working, driving, and just slogging through emergency situations.

For a few years, I basically lived out of a bicycle, and I always carried methamphetamine and morphine, in case of emergencies. It was standard issue for most all military services, so hey.
This mirrors a lot of what the guys who made Retro / Grade [0] said about how they made their game after quitting their day jobs. Although from this post it seems like he had a better time doing this, than they had.

[0]: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1017963/Obsessive-Compulsive-D...
"Chocky" by John Wyndham was quick/fun. A little uneven but enjoyed "All Our Wrongs Today" by Elan Mastai. Tough to get thru for me but many seem high on "The Three Body Problem" books by Cixin Liu.

Some others that are not scifi but enjoyed this year:

"Trick" by Domenico Starnone

"Such Small Hands" by Andres Barba

"Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata
Sure, but not doing work of the same value. At ULA landing and reflying boosters? At VW building electric cars instead of cheating on emissions? No.

Workers are sort of fungible, missions less so.
Yes, I totally agree. Many have died. It's very sad.
Super valuable, thanks.
It's fun to compare and contrast the games of the BBS era to mobile games today. In the BBS era there were countless time-regulated games such as LORD, Trade Wars, Usurper, and many more. By 'time regulated' I mean that you were given a certain amount of turns/energy/etc per 24 hours, and then had to wait to do more. It's literally the exact same model the seemingly vast majority of 'free' mobile games today use, except they did not try to coerce users into paying for more energy/turns/moves/...
Maybe this is why toddlers love to watch shows like Ryan's Toy Review on YouTube, which is just a kid playing with a variety toys with his parents.
yeah, you're in it mentally, at least you want to be
Good (and in retrospect, obvious) point!
With what? On a simple 50%+1 majority of those that vote?

There's a process for changing the constitution, use it.
My opinion, fwiw:

Financially, no.

Optically, yes.

(and, in fairness to the latter, in a manner which was diminishing longer term value creation also. However he totally does not deserve the reputation he generally has with developers. Like a lot of things, folks love to view them in black in white, when in reality it's a rainbow).
This of course doesn't allow you to lock the bathroom when you're in it from other people also in your hotel room. Although this is certainly much less of a concern.
It happened with me last night watching the movie Skyscraper, I could feel my body twitching during the fight scenes.
Ask HN: What are the best technical books you've read in the first half of 2018?
The books don't need to be new, per-se, as long as they were new to you.

Hmm. Why was this flagged?
List elements are of type t, and of course acceptable to pass to all functions which take t as an argument, so no false-positive warnings.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. I was a huge Jules Verne fan when I was a kid.
Asimov. Pretty much anything he has written.
I’ve become increasingly skeptical of appeals to “rationality”... the idea works when you’re approaching reasoning as a formal system with clear inputs that everyone agrees on, but that doesn’t apply to most of the decisions we make on a daily basis.

What’s “best” is going to be determined by the specific nature of your values. Rationality, in my opinion, is value-relative, and therefore it makes little sense to speak of rationality as an objective property of a decision. For toy examples where all of the variables are agreed upon, sure, but not much else.
Just a short story, but Asimov's The Last Question keeps popping up. FermiLab Cosmologist Dan Hooper recently posted to Arxiv a few conjectures on what it would take to survive expansion. And I can't help but think that looking for signs of Dyson Spheres and other star harvesting mega-structures may be key in detecting signs of intelligent extra-terrestrial life ;)

Another thing that really holds up over time is the Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes screenplay to the hit 1980s movie War Games. Not only does it talk about meta-learning and game theory. Its just a really great script!
I think the rescue sub idea is worth evaluating by studying the channel it would have to navigate to rescue the boys. It would have to be large enough at all points - larger is better, and it would need paths that this ~~9 foot?? long tube can go all the way through without the walls/floor/ceiling getting in the way. This is a rigid tube!! It is possible the locals knew very well there was no clear path.
vive la france ;)
The benefit is supposed to be that your technique will be better. Your muscles won't become stronger unless you exercise them.
While it may be less efficient, it seems like the rotation minimizing frame can be constructed more intuitively with quaternions.

Using Unity's functions, it looks like the rotation for the current point can just be:
```
Q(t) = Quaternion.LookRotation(P(t)-P(t-1), Q(t-1) * Vector3.up);
```
(where Q is the list of rotations and P is the set of Points)

Possible also with the method IQ defines in this article (accumulating aligning delta rotations over the course of the curve): http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/noacos/noacos.htm
Yeah, I misunderstood things worse: I thought doors opened inwards, and that the ropes were somehow rigid (basically rods).
After RTFM, I can answer my own question:

> In Arc, data structures can be used wherever functions are, and they behave as functions from indices to whatever's stored there.

(quoted from the Arc tutorial)

So

arc> (l 0)
1

and so on. So the GP makes sense.
DAEMON by Daniel Suarez.
I’m not sure this is what the authors meant by their title.
There are a great many celebrities whose lives are still private. They simply don't play the game: don't have social media, don't arrange for paparazzi to "catch" them leaving a nightclub, or invite a magazine through the doors of their house.

So it seems the confusion is two fold. People believing that their access to celebrity lives are anything other than arranged PR opportunities, and then believing everyday people should be subject to that incorrectly interpreted behaviour.
Yeah, I mean dense urban areas will need to have some unification infrastructure and to be able to get power from areas just outside the city. But I don't think that this means that we need a single universal grid across a landmass as huge as North America.

Also, cities (and all people everywhere) need to dramatically reduce power consumption no matter what the source is.
Oh, hey Mark!
If I understand it correctly, Lisp-2 is a way (not the only way!) of maintaining more intuitive semantics in the face of macros. If I write the following:

(your-macro
(let ((x (foo y))
(bar x))))

I probably don't want the meaning of FOO or BAR to be up for grabs based on the expansion of YOUR-MACRO, and certainly not LET. Lisp-1s often have hygienic macros to deal with this concern, but not always.
Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash were great. Others you might:

- The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (superb short story that Arrival was based on)
- The Three Body-Problem (Cixin Liu)
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- The Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler)
- Lucifer's Hammer (Larry Niven)
- The Kundalini Equation (Steven Barnes)
Modular would be great, that's a big part of why wind, solar, and batteries are doing so well these days.
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This is the result of deep insecurity (and maybe narcissism), not a bipolar disorder. He has always been like this, overreacting to criticism, rage outbursts, constantly having conflicts with other people, trying to appear smart.
I understood the post to which I replied to be arguing that LINQ could not be expressed in Lisp, not that Lisp doesn't have the correct syntax.

Surely you can write LINQ in any Turing-complete language.
Blindsight by Peter Watts

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
I think the list '(0 1 2) is behaving like the function — in CL syntax, sorry, I don't know Arc — (lambda (x) (elt '(0 1 2) x)). That is, the list is being treated as a sequence, which is a function from each index to the corresponding element.
Olaf Stapledon's "Star Maker" Is one of my favorite books of all time. Its pretty much a grand exploration of this universe and every other universe to ever exist, through the eyes of the main character. I'm rereading it right now again.
I had to pay hourly for CRIS BBS Direct's 1-800 dialup because everything was long distance to me, and keep detailed usage records so I didn't exceed my teenage income. 25 hours of Internet usage in a month was "a lot" then, now I think I use it 18 hours a day.

Dialing up every morning, exchanging QWK/REP files, getting off as soon as possible was my first forte into scripting things.
Ender's Game

But if you just want light fun, the Expanse Series
https://www.dreamsongs.com/Separation.html
Do inmates deserve to make wages?

They're not afforded the liberties of regular workers because they are criminals serving sentences.
Still wish the Linux kernel had zero-copy IPC with pipes. vmsplice(1) can zero-copy data into the pipe, but the destination process cannot vmsplice(1) the data out of the pipe without incurring a copy.
Except batteries aren't even close to where they need to be in costs to cover windless nights.
"Use of Weapons" by Iain M. Banks.

Edit: Overlooked the "fun" and "lighthearted" part. Let me change my answer to "Excession", same author.
To be honest it is usually what you mentioned and if any obvious indexes were missed on the table.

After that it is generally a more formal investigation. Recently a coworker massively (like more than 100x) improved a vendor's product when he found, using an automated tool, that there was a huge area for improvement in the generation of links on a particular page. You might have seen syntax like

reverse('app1.view.view1')

in Django

or

Html.ActionLink(...)

In MVC. Well this app had to do something similar, but at the scale it was now doing it, its analogous method was far too slow and was really taking up the most time on the page.
Didn't click through did you... the title is misleading, it is only rabid sports fans that display this not everyone.
Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series is great
I stand corrected, I did not give my due diligence to following the source trail and verifying the veracity of the website.
This is a pretty old list I put together--so nothing in the past 15 years or so. It does tend toward hard SF but it's a fairly broad mix.

http://www.bitmasons.com/docs/sf.html
just curious...how much do you have to watch, I don't seem to have gotten there yet.
Usually we add notes like (2016) to old articles. In this case it would be appropriate to add (April 2018) to the title given how fast the futures ecosystem is moving in Rust.
The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1), by Becky Chambers.

Really touching story, great character development, and some interesting questions about AI and sentience.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to...
OP said "fun, lighthearted and enjoyable".

Noted reviewer James Nicoll on Peter Watts:
"When­ever I find my will to live be­com­ing too strong, I read Peter Watts."

Which Dr. Watts put at the top of his About the Author page.

Watts is really, really good. And really, really bleak.
I'm fond of "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge, and its kind of prequel "A Deepness in the Sky", they both contain some great ideas and I love the fact they have some very alien aliens!

Oh and if you haven't read any Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is fantastic
I haven't skateboarded in more than a decade, but I've noticed that if I walk by a good looking handrail or concrete ledge, my brain still automatically starts picturing 50/50 grinds, different tail-slide combinations, and more. I didn't play football in high school, but I have to imagine it is something similar that continues on.
A good read.

Another popular hypothesis why Germans were so confident attacking USSR is the "Japanese unkept promise." It suggests that somebody in German supreme leadership was assured by Japanese diplomats that they will "surely will attack USSR," but personal opinions of their generals were moving orthogonal to their diplomatic efforts
It sounds like The Expanse is what you want. The TV show is also very good.
This article comes after one a few days ago on "The influence of railways on military operations in the Russo–German war 1941–1945" (the article's title, not mine) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17486415). At the time I thought it was just because the intersection of programmers and railroad enthusiasts is high, but I wonder if it also indicates a hidden cache of WWII / Russian war history buffs?

(Anyway, although I run the risk of the usual "it's whatever's interesting to hackers" retort by wondering about the place of this here, I don't complain! I think it's interesting, and certainly hadn't heard about the war.)