skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting married to a women who drives me to be better person. Has improved every aspect of my life.
Those things eat your life if you allow them to. Yes, having self-control while gaming is really hard, but I've found succss in that area to some extent. I fix slots throughout the day for gaming. And I MOSTLY follow them.
More than a weekend long...checkout http://www.moupp.com. A mobile app for bands, musicians and artists to stay connected with their fans.
Yes! A close friend told me a few years ago: "life is chaos". At the time I didn't understand how this shed any insight. My immediate reaction was to think: "but life is a mixture of order and disorder – is not your statement obviously false?" A year later it hit me. Perhaps this is not what she meant, but I formulated it for myself as follows:

"The universe has absolutely no compulsion to be orderly or just."

Your life will be a mess. The world will be incredibly unjust. Billions do and will suffer. You are helpless to affect this in any meaningful way. Your task is to learn to cope with all this and find path to inner serenity.

--

Reading Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching helped form some structure around this idea for me by fitting it into a framework for positive action and providing a number of helpful mantras: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote...
Life: starting to exercise regularly, going on paleo/slow-carb diet

Programming: hmm, not sure. but the worse choices are 1) not blogging more, and 2) not learning a full stack backend language.
Could you explain what you mean by "its role in this era"? Do you believe academic institutions are becoming more or less relevant?
Having a kid was amazing for life and didn't affect my programming at all... they sleep a lot :)
Bond film tech is supposed to be slightly better than what we have. In the 1963 "From Russia with Love", Bond had a car phone. In Moonraker, Drax has a hidden space station. In "Die Another Day", the fight scene use robots with lasers that are powerful enough to sear steel and drill a hole through a head - in a fraction of a second.

I'm with Double0Seven in saying that the the server uses fan-less machines.
Life: Losing money in a scam. Disillusionment is the greatest gift.

Programming: Stopped being scared.
Everything in moderation. Video games can eat your life but so can anything else, it's all about how much self control you have. I still play a lot of games because, hey, I have to do something with my spare time (and having spare time is essential), and I find it to be one of the more engaging things I can do. Not to mention multiplayer games are the only way to do anything with a lot of my friends, as they live in different states.
For the first time I understood the physics of rainbows!

On the other side now it looks a little less magic...
The first six months will be over in ten days for my fiancé and I…and damn are we excited about her future!
No way. Ad-supported.
I don't like this because the amount an entity will pay to keep copyright is roughly proportional to how culturally valuable it is. The more Disney will pay to lock up Mickey Mouse, the more we want the mouse to be free.
The nameservers themselves are here in the us, which will hopefully help. But you have a good point.
I recently shipped WOPR, a subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with an embedded Game of Life grid. The GoL modulates the various parameters in time with an internal (or now, external) clock. It's for iPad 2 and up. I started it a year ago to learn a bit more about iOS and DSP. It had 9 months of sporadic evening & weekend development over a very busy year, with a 3 month hiatus over the summer.

It's had pretty decent reception so far. Beer money only, but enough that I could have a few every day if I wanted to! It's done better than I ever thought it would; I think because no musician can ever resist another synth.

Subsequent versions will increase in price as more features are added. Right now I'm working on a huge v1.2 upgrade with a ton of stuff people have requested.

http://www.omnivoresoft.com
Another common one is "strict mode", where you tell Android to notify you (via screen flash or log dump) any time your app makes a potentially blocking call (network, file system) on the UI thread. Very useful as a first optimization.
Although the lambda papers talk about Scheme, that's not what they're really about. They're really about... lambda. The takeaway is that many common features of languages can be thought of as disguised uses of the lambda operator. So lambda is actually the unifying abstraction behind many languages, even if they don't know it.

The original 'Lambda the Ultimate X' papers are very short, so no reason not to give them a try.
Improving Your Python Productivity
Amateurs have been running packet ax25 networks for years. Pirate packet radio might be the only viable form of net neutrality if these goons get their own way.
2013 is the year that I take the plunge and found the startup that I have been planning for the past year. My school requires all graduating seniors to complete a "Senior Project" of substantial quality and effort: I am using this as a runway to build the beta of my product. Then when I graduate, I'll have something to unleash upon the world.

If anyone is interested in NLP, graph theory, Python web development, and educational tech, definitely contact me. We could build something awesome together.
he is, who he chooses to be, instead of a sterotype
Never mind talent: Practice, practice, practice
This isn't the most compelling of benchmarks. It's still infinitely better than what most people do--the author actually measured something in a reasonable way!--but I don't think it's enough to make any interesting conclusions. I suppose it shows that there is a performance boost, which is great, but I'd really like to know where the gains really are.

Could somebody familiar with the changes to 2.10 explain where the performance boost came from and what code it will affect? Does this make Scala a more compelling choice for the discerning functional programmer?
I'll check out Mark of the Ninja, thanks.

SpaceChem is awesome, I played it a lot on PC and also now on tablet (it's more playable with mouse, though).

Also worth checking are all other games by Zachronics Industries (maker of SpaceChem)[0] - I particularly liked "The Bureau of Steam Engineering", where the goal is to route steam via pipes, valves, etc. inside a mech to make it fight other mechs.

[0] - http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/
Elasticsearch's JVM settings explained
> The day I learned to stop worrying and love the chaos.

That was the one of the greatest turning point in my life too.
Agreed that if there was a modern WebObjects it should support GCD, and be at least available on Linux too.
WebObjects back in the days was running on 4 different platforms: OpenStep, Windows NT, Solaris and HP-UX. so clearly the runtime was cross platform and it was relying only on the Foundation framework at runtime. None of the Cocoa framework was needed to deploy such app.

Apple moved away from different binaries per platform by switching everything to Java which solve the portability question, and additionally solved the database connectivity issues since by bring a java solution any JDBC driver available to talk to a DB will work with WebObjects.

Overall the move to java was a good move, but Apple stopped the investment in the software that NeXT created and went back to focus on desktop and devices... But they kept WebObjects internally for their own benefits I think.
> And India's progress is not a forced one like China's (which is "unstable" in an equilibrium way).

Other Asian countries whose economies grew rapidly under non-democratic governments, like Taiwan and South Korea, moved to democracies after the populace had attained a certain level of wealth and education. I would guess that China is headed down that same path. To put it figuratively, rather than being surpassed by the tortoise in the long run, the hare turned into a tortoise after it had sprinted ahead, allowing it to have the best of both worlds.
Are you having trouble because you're running a different platform that they developed their implementation on?

If so my way of dealing with this when I'm too lazy to deal with trying to get stuff to work on another system, is to using something like Virtual Box and work on the exact OS the library/language I want to work with was made for.
For web I prefer PHP or Java, for client side just JavaScript, but then that is because those are the two languages that I am more familiar with and know more about, in the end it will depend on language preference.
I would advice not going with Node, I have played with it but seems to be too hard to maintain on big projects. Speaking of that anyone has ever used Node on a large project? And how hard it is to maintain? I would like to know more opinions.
Never worked with Ruby so no advices for/against.
Python while nice I do not have much experience with it and none on the web, and I think I may never will, the forced indentation annoys me (yes I still like readable code, just don't like to care about it when writing).

I do not know how Java amount of libraries compares with Python or Ruby but it does seem to have a lot more.
Words like passé, or even ostentatiously using the accent on the "e" when writing passé, are all cultural signals describing who we are, what we read and write, how old we are, and what we find amusing.

Culturally archaic expressions are all part of that, and they have their place whether being used "ironically" or not. I disagree that this person sounds like a fool for using the expression. They may sound older, much as I must sound when I use words like "hip" and "funky."

In any event, "sounding like a fool" should be reserved for saying things that are foolish on the facts or content of the statement. I think there's plenty of room for civilized disagreement with that person's statement without worrying about whether they're signalling that they're part of your cultural tribe or not.
I think this should be:

7 books of a highly academic programmer.

A highly effective programmer probably should be reading other topics as to be honest, most of programming is laborious non comp Sci stuff.
You keep misusing the term censorship: asking someone to reconsider their choice of words is not the same as saying that they should not be allowed to say it. Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism.

I find amusing that you ended it with a quote which more accurately describes your own actions. I hold no illusion that cultures vary or that equality is far from a law of nature – that was rather the point in asking someone to consider how unconscious statements might sound to other people.
There is already http://purl.org

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_Uniform_Resource_Loc... also, this is a "protocol"
A kind of Google Now for Movies. Instead of searching for movies, new releases automatically land in your inbox once available as stream and you just need to sort them into "Want-watch", "Saw-and-liked", "Saw-and-disliked" or "Dismiss" folders (for later auto-sorting).
A beta version is available at http://exkino.de for all you native German speaker and learner.
Ferrite clips/donuts are recommended and easy to install. Put capacitors in parallel with the power, exact values vary. If you are feeling really ambitions, add ferrites in series with the power lines or give the dongle a solid metal enclosure.

The simplest is using a usb extension cable, the computer itself generates large amounts of broadband noise.

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/25951/

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/36040/
It owns French Guiana, so that's why that part of South America's highlighted. Also some of the country names are based on what the country actually calls itself, which is why Spain (Espana) shows up in the E section. Why the alphabetical name and the displayed name are different? That's weird.
If I'm going to diverge from read code, write code long enough to do this much reading... I'd rather start with the papers and books recommended for the phd qualifying exam at the top 10 universities.
Thanks! Us too – it's something that we feel just hasn't been executed in the right way yet.

We're focussing first on creating a platform for local producers & consumers to connect before we tackle distribution. We've got some interesting ideas on the cards though when the time comes. Would be great to hear your thoughts on it.
You'll find out in about 10 years.
Here's a thought: you probably have an awesome spouse.

Which is not to say your spouse is doing all the work for you (I don't know that. Maybe they are, maybe they're not.)
But when a couple works well together as a team, that's when they can be relaxed about having kids. Unfortunately, many people don't work well together (and don't know it until they actually have to do something major together.)
life: becoming a father, stick with it and try my best (i was twenty)

coding / professionally: just say yes, you cant fail - and if you fail its much much better than having said no from the get go. (oh, and know your pricetag)
Live: being honest

Programming: Learn how to program.
I really don't understand. I thought the planned ITU involvement was supposed to be limited to the ICANN/IANA bailiwick.
Kuwait Election Turnout Shrinks After Opposition Boycott
Not every resolution or action by the UN goes through the Security Council.

If it doesn't have a military angle to it the Security Council has nothing to do with it. This is an action by the ITU, the US's veto power in the Security Council means nothing here.
While the P5 (US, UK, France, Russia, and the PRC) have veto power on the Security Council, they don't necessarily have veto power in the body discussed in the article. Theoretically, the Security Council could pass a resolution to stop the lower body from doing this, but that resolution would be subject to P5 veto power.

The fact that is most likely to prevent this from being an issue is that the decisions of this ITU body are probably not binding, and the content providers will just ignore them unless governments actually try to enforce this.
And they're all comp sci books. Someone has a very narrow view of what it means to be a programmer.
Are you taking 61as, the self-paced version? I was under the impression they were either already using, or planning to switch to, a JavaScript Scheme implementation to ease just this sort of problem.

I know one of he people who is running 61as, and I believe he wants to move as much as possible into the browser. In fact, they might even use a JavaScript-based Emacs clone instead of Emacs proper next time.

I think using the browser should make setting up the environment much easier than using some old, unsupported Scheme implementation!
This is a great comment and I can echo much of its sentiment.

Another commenter wrote something very similar to mine.

There are three things that I consider to have had the largest impact on my life:

1. Learning to Learn - sounds obvious and simple but it truly isn't. There's a lot of un-learning that generally happens first before you can truly become someone that loves to learn on their own or with a partenaire dans le crime.

2. Crossfit - which introduced me to powerlifting and olympic lifting - the combination of diet (keto, paleo, zone), metabolic conditioning, and strength is basically hacking your body. My quality of life in a very physical existence has improved tremendously by becoming more athletic and much stronger.

3. Co-founding a technology company. This one most people here should relate to the most.

To elaborate a teensy bit on these points; none of these convictions/events/understandings happened at once, it was a gradual aggregation of different experiences and micro-choices along the way that ultimately culminated in these distinct three "pieces".

I also find it mildly interesting that I've after the fact identified these "three". What happens to be the most stable configuration in our physical environment? THREE! The tripod, three perceivable dimensions, blablabla; I might write about this now.
Infinite loops: http://purl.ly/tinyurl.com/qui3na

purly -> tinyurl -> baconized purly
What does predictable language advocacy flaming serve? Anyone who knows why Erlang or Lisp failed to gain widespread usage isn't going to be swayed by such an enormous assumption. Your time would be much better spent learning why few engineers use your language of choice and making Erlang/Lisp more competitive.
Those Bluetooth Mac keyboards are absolutely horrible, but so many people use them because they don't know that there are better keyboards out there.
More like just a project, but we will see where it goes:

I made http://tunesicles.com but am sort of re writing it and making it look better and have some more features using MeteorJS to learn in.

For now that one is at: http://tunes.meteor.com
You should write and if you do I want to know where you put your writing.
* Download and Install Node.js.
* Install Punch npm install -g punch

Seems so.
Is having a Libya based domain name really the best way to ensure permanent URL structure?
Well. You could always let the yearly payment grow uncapped. Assuming it grows faster than the rate of inflation at some point it would almost assuredly be in the interest of any holder to release a copyright.

Another idea. Letting cost rise uncapped would eventually cause any holder to not re-register but is bad for smaller entities that hold copyrights. Capping the long-term re-registration cost while still having a long time limit could be a decent blend.

Mickey Mouse is trademarked which is perpetual so it seems like the copyright on some cartoons would expire but it still wouldn't open the floodgates to any random person making their own Mickey cartoon series as Disney would vigorously enforce their trademark.

Edited: Added another thought.
On more edit: Trademark vs. Copyright
If there is no cap on the exponential portion eventually Mickey will be too expensive to protect and he will be free. The result would be the Government capturing all the value in later years and then the work would be freed allowing the public to capture the value.

I think the OP's suggestion is the best I have heard so far. It could be a simple formula like a fee starting at $10/year for each copywrited work after 14 years, then it doubles ever year. By the 24th year you would be looking at paying just over $5,000, but by the 44th year Disney would be paying $5Bn/year. Probably not worth keeping the rights on Mickey for $5Bn/year.
P.S. to my Hacker News peers : This is a one reason why I decided not to live in the SF/Bay area. So many people so like me that I felt pulled into all the in-person kind of stuff. I feel more productive & more balanced when living in a more remote place.
Reasons behind the U.S. manufacturing boom
You were born rich on video
I originally was going to write "I feel sorry for", but then realized I didn't actually feel sorry for them. I felt pity was a more appropriate emotion, and tossed damned in there to avoid the meme.
Design Lab: Codeacademy for Designers
We built from SignUpasaService.com from scratch, launched, won AngelHack New York, got featured in TechCrunch, got hundreds of beta users, got inquiries from investors all in 48 hours!

(http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/11/21/bizodo-launches-signupasa...)
The words "pick your brain" are virtually never good ones to lead with, by the way, because they turn off many people who have useful things to say, in addition to dsivers. (Close second: "Can you mentor me?") They suggest the interpersonal equivalent of the planning meeting from heck, with no agenda, no goals, and no way to safely declare failure and thereby avoid the next meeting. If you want a specific thing, asking for it is better. If you do not know what you want, a) strongly consider whether that problem will be alleviated with another person using cycles on it or not and/or b) figure out what you want, and how helping you get it helps them, prior to asking for anything.
Well....one such reward is getting leech access to a very "l33t" top FTP site. i.e. you get access to 0-sec (brand, spanking new) stuff before everyone else - to do as you please.

That type of access is rare and people usually get credits to allow them to download what they want. The best people get unlimited access.

So, just like any community, there are some perks that bring prestige and status within the community.

Don't underestimate how valuable that is.

The foolish people would take that access and try to sell it - that's how you get busted and get into trouble.
> The answer is a resounding no.

To you. Not necessarily to various governments around the world or the telecom companies that provide services they would like to get paid more for.

The only reason there is no need to debate is that the ITU will make whatever decision it's members allow it to, giving feedback from outside the ITU is somewhat a pointless action.
Its pretty old, but its hard to get better then Doxygen:
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
Good to know, but it's still a private photo that is no longer under their control.
I wish there would be more PR effort spent on making science more exciting to the average person than magic. E.g. submarine mentions in various companies' advertising and various TV shows of the form: "It's better than magic -- it's science," with excited, attractive faces on screen eating it up.
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And what books would you recommend instead?
Well...let me ask you something, which do you think is worse...making something no one cares about or making something so successful that you can't "monetize" every copy.

I guarantee you, if you make something that so many people want such that they go to great lengths to pirate it, you are in a good position and should feel flattered that they do it.

Ask Peldi from Balsamiq. He handles piracy in the best possible way.

Balsamiq is widely pirated, yet if you email him and tell him you want his software but can't afford it, he will likely send you a license free.
Life: {I'll put the family stuff aside, since its my wife saying Yes and the arrival of our kids is just beyond best, but probably not the intent of the question} Working abroad with an IT consultancy. After school I intentionally sought out a consulting gig in Germany. This produced 2 great changes that profoundly affected the rest of my life. (1) Working/living in another culture changes you forever in so many ways ... politics, patience, view of humanity. Big changes. (2) I encourage young programmers to get consulting jobs early on. Exposure to problems. Exposure to mentors. Exposure to systems. Exposure to corp politics. Exposure to business. Exposure. All these will make you less dogmatic and more of a problem solver. When it's time to leave (go contract, start a business, join a company/startup full time) your abilities and, importantly, confidence will be high.

Programming: Get meta. Whether it be programming languages or frameworks or methodologies, at some meta level they are all 90% the same. They desire to the same result. That 10% is for ninjas and specialists ... which is great. But the world needs more of the meta folks. Once you "get" it, all fear of taking on something new changes, and you feel totally cool with trying it out. Immerse in anything for a while and you start to get the other 10%.
John McAfee Plays Hide-and-Seek in Belize
Are you serious? I think he is a very strong man. He rose above petty concerns, like how his masculinity will be judged in a public forum, to forgive his wife and then share the fact.
Even if someone did take a nude photo, no one else would see it unless they shared it explicitly.

Or until Facebook once again changes how things work.

Anything and everything you give to Facebook is a candidate for public exposure.