skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't comment on hacker culture, or what would be of interest to hackers, or what the HN "community" might regard as being of "deep interest." For me, the list was absolutely pointless, but I'm not looking for a domain.

And if I were starting a business again, I wouldn't care about three character *.io domains. And go look at the discussion - is there anything there of interest to hackers? Really?

Since you ask me personally, that entire thread feels like hackers shooting the breeze over coffee, and it has no substance. You may disagree, I'm sure there are many others who will, and I'm speaking for myself, from my perspective, with my background and interests. I personally wasn't interested in it.

But I didn't flag it - I am pretty parsimonious with flags, reserving them for what I feel is of serious negative value.
So, fight inefficiency with fraud. Got it.

Each of those arcane rules was probably put in place because someone a long time ago did something they weren't supposed to do. "Working the system" by intentionally ignoring the rules begs two questions: who needs these rules, and how long until you get caught and more rules are piled on for the next guy to get jaded about?

At some point it becomes madness. Sometimes that's when your company gets its lunch eaten.
Peter Shankman: 'If Google Glass Fails, It’s Robert Scoble’s Fault'
1998 is far too late to be interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#History
1. Either cheats/is-lucky, is active in corporate politics and can get job done because of being in the circle of a higher manager's yes men. Gets out of turn opportunities etc. Or in short your usual cheating.

OK, lesson time. There are people who make corporate social climbing a full-time job. Their code (if there is any) isn't great. They don't have real software accomplishments. Yet they rise. It has nothing to do with what they build, because they don't build anything. They take a lot of credit and endure (or call) a lot of meetings. That's a fundamentally different game from building software.

2. Works very hard, gets stuff done. Solves problems which people want. Makes it rain and takes the rewards back home at the end of the day.

You don't have to work 70-hour weeks to make things that people want.
Autistic teenager tipped for Nobel Prize
Ask your $PROFESSIONAL.
Can Nvidia  sustain the growth of Q1 2014?
> For centuries, mathematicians have strived towards a single goal: to understand how the universe works, and describe it.

Um, no. Mathematics itself has absolutely nothing to do with "describing the universe". Mathematics is purely abstract. It has no inherent relationship whatsoever with reality.

That certain mathematical constructs can be used to model certain aspects of the real world is basically a lucky coincidence, but not very interesting to mathematicians - that's what physicists do.
Sure, the files are out - no going back there - but the defcad.org people are still subject to interference and possible legal issues, so they would probably still appreciate any support.
Reminds me of http://hackertyper.net/ -- several characters appear for each keystroke :D
How colleges are wooing the rich and sticking the poor with the bill
This is a great article. The writer has obviously spent a lot of time speaking to Mochizuki’s colleagues, and has explained the whole strange situation in a way that is layman-friendly without being wrong. It’s interesting that it’s part of an experiment in donation-funded journalism: I was sufficiently impressed that I donated a few dollars, but I fear that is not likely to be a common enough response to be a viable way of funding this sort of time-consuming journalism. I would love to be wrong about that.

There are interesting parallels and contrasts with Thomas Hales’s proof of the Kepler conjecture. In that case, as far as I know Hales did everything possible to help his colleagues understand the proof, but even so it was so long and involved that the referees declared themselves unable to be certain it was correct. Since then, he has been working on a formal machine-verifiable version of the proof under the banner of the Flyspeck Project: http://code.google.com/p/flyspeck/
This is one creative solution ...
> It's not that this style of parenting is inherently flawed (aside from the emotional abuse)

Uhm... yeah, aside from that.
Glass will fail unless it's price tag is $99.99 or less. Since, from what I've read, the fair minimum price at this point is around $499.99, they have a long way to go.
(ok, rant ahead)

I think mathematicians have a weird way of thinking about problems.

First-order logic for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order_logic

It's quirky to think, for example, on the natural numbers that 'exists an operation + and a null element under that operation 0'

This is "very understandable" by humans, but very difficult to compute.

As such as this conjecture is stated in a way that looks qualitative (but has a good definition), still, usually it seems that proofs are even harder for theorems defined like that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture
How often does it happen that the oldest person alive dies?
why, in Russia, on government sponsored Olympic village construction projects $2k for a few screws is strikingly cheap.)
Recommending this, for sure!

Some pictures needed more work than others, but the results were always great!
>> And the "everything is hopeless bullshit" attitude i've had many times. I've just concluded that, perhaps...everything IS pointless. But we can enjoy it nonetheless. Enjoy the pointlessness, since it's all we CAN do.

This is the core of my worldview really. There is no 'point', we just are, so lets be nice to each other and enjoy ourselves while we can eh?

I'm pretty sure I have suffered from various bouts of depression at various times. Not as bad as Allie by a long way, though some things from her last couple of posts about it are familiar.
> substances that indeed improve mood and well-being in depressed people (especially MDMA, but also LSD, Psilocybin, Heroin) ... I believe every substance that does this is going to be addictive.

Dude, you're misinforming people. There are indeed substances that help depressed people. They are called anti-depressants. The illegal drugs you listed above are not anti-depressants, and therefore you have no rational reason to believe that anti-depressants must have similar properties. Real anti-depressants are generally neither dangerous nor addictive. Please don't misinform people about this.
Just write a script that outputs "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" for 40 hours, see how that tickles him.
I would not expect so. Mechanized proof systems tend to require a lot more detail than one would put into a proof meant for humans to read. There's been a lot of work in automating part of the generation of a proof, but that still requires a human to look at what the automation came up with and intervene to guide it in the right direction.
Nothing new. I didn't know Emphasis, and I used these few lines of code in various projects, so I decided to take 10min to write a jQuery plugin. It is unit tested at least..
I'd love it if anyone could give a good head to head on Scratch 2.0 vs. Snap! 4.0[1] (the new name for BYOB, Berkley's Scratch spin-off). I realize that Snap is aimed more teaching high school/college CS, but they're seeming to converge a bit.

I don't have a CS class this year, so I haven't set aside enough time to dig into the latest versions of Snap or Scratch. If anyone has any insight to share, it'd be greatly appreciated.

[1] http://snap.berkeley.edu
My guess was confirmed by the post, which is that the customer is one of those "this didn't really take you n hours!" sorts, and the video is like a time log.
http://hackertyper.net can make you look good while all you are pressing is a space bar ....
The point is, it seems to only take one person to vehemently object.

> complaints aren't justified properly rather than there aren't a sufficient number of them

it's not that they aren't "justified properly", it's that they aren't justified at all.

From my submission: "I hate to be that guy who posts this sort of comment. Especially on HN. But still: Someone has to say it.

Pointless hipster-TLD is pointless. Utterly pointless."

Is it pointless?

Tell that to codepen.io, or card.io (who got acquired by Paypal).

"But still: Someone has to say it."

Did someone have to say it?

Saying something is pointless over and over doesn't make it pointless. That seems to be the basis of the argument.
Because it's rather inefficient moving two tons of stuff for (often enough) 80 kg of payload. I'd rather take well-functioning public transport than force everyone to own a car just to be able to go grocery shopping. It's wasteful, not only regarding the resources involved, but also for your own bank account.

(Also everything the parent of that comment said. Plenty of places are horrible to use without a car even where the distances involved are easily walkable or cycleable. We increasingly tend to plan for cars first, people second which I personally would consider a dead end and rather short-sighted.)
Dota 2 seems like it's something that would be a flagship title for Steam for Linux. Dota 2 already uses the source engine though, so maybe it is coming soon. One can only hope.
Don't get me wrong, but from what I've seen of the world of science, the only people who exhibit this type of behaviour are frauds and delusional pseudoscientists.

All the warning signs of pseudoscience are there: "I couldn't possibly explain it" as a response to lecture invitations, working on something for extended periods of time without sharing results, using lots of obscure terminology which is not standard for the field, one long and obfuscated paper instead of building toward the result incrementally, etc. Using the title "Inter-universal geometer" instead of calling yourself a mathematician is also strange.

The natural way for a mathematician to behave after seemingly solving an important problem is exactly the opposite of what this guy is doing. And the only rational reason to do so is if there is actually something wrong about the work.

I lack the know-how to arrive at my own opinion by reading the paper, but this situation is definitely fishy. And it's not like a bona-fide scientist losing it and becoming an pseudo-scientist obsessed about a topic is completely unheard of.
"Everything that could be lifted by a CBT is caused by ignorance."

I'm fully aware of dopamine-based theory of depression, but for some mysterious (for the theorists) reasons there are much less dopamine volatility in the East.))
The benchmarks are a little bit misleading for some types of code. They do not measure single run code well. In these cases pypy doesn't do as well as when the JIT has warmed up.

The interpreter is slower than the CPython one. For code which doesn't JIT well, it will go slower with pypy. The firefox JS engine now has a fast interpreter, a quick JIT, and a more optimizing one. This means the baseline performance is better in CPython, so if pypy manages to make their interpreter better baseline performance will get better.

The memory management in CPython is much more predictable and deterministic since it is using reference counting and not GC. The pypy GC may be faster in many circumstances however. IO in pypy can be slower sometimes if the GC is unhappy with the way you're doing it. Especially if you're leaving files open, or reading in different sized chunks of data.

The new pypy release speeds up a few different types of real world code however. XML processing, DB processing, and stackless async code (eventlet, and greenlet) are three areas where pypy has improved with this release. Numpy based code is another area where pypy has gotten better with this release.

In short, pypy still has many areas where it could improve... but with each release is getting better at more types of real code :)

For run-once, and latency or memory sensitive code the benchmarks may be a bit misleading.
Further proof tabs make more sense.
The human-powered helicopter challenge
1) How to know if you are depressed: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ao1aqb9vinfcwt2/Burns_De... (there are a number of other questionnaires, but I like this one)

2) How to deal with depression: book by Dr. David Burns "Feeling good" -- really good book, you should try applying methods of dealing with depression described in it. Available on kindle(but even if you don't have a device, you can read in your browser): http://amzn.com/B009UW5X4C

3) How to deal with depression if 2 doesn't quite worked out: find a good psychotherapist. I would recommend cognitive-behavioural therapy, but I may be biased, because I love Burns' books.
Anyway, CBT or not, you should find a therapist if you struggle with depression.
> We have shut down the site and will keep you posted.

Yeah... that's an odd reaction.
Because orchestral music is high brow. The melody in orchestral music, for cultural, acoustic and agility reasons, is usually written in the soprano range, and therefore it is given either to violins or woodwinds in that range.

Unlike woodwinds, a violin doesn't drip on the floor: if you are playing an instrument for social status not having a puddle of spit (or a damp cloth) at your feet is important.
I like this and could see myself using it, but think seconds are not really necessary - it makes it a little harder to read and I'm not exactly going to set my alarm for 06:21:57.

Also, perhaps when pressing 'I know my bed time' the text above should fade/slide out and be replaced by the other section? Something maybe like this: http://i.imgur.com/OZ8t6NI.png

Finally, not sure if it's intentional but good call on going for white on black: sleepti.me does the last thing I want to see when I go to sleep it a glowing white background!
Hitler learns about Adobe's new Creative Cloud model.
I'm a believer in the 3-hour work-day. "4-hour work week" is impractical for most jobs. 40 hours is a reasonable average, but expecting anyone to put in an 8-10 hour contiguous block (that often ends up being ~11, including commute) is inhumane. Why, on the one 55-degree, sunny day in January that (by the weather's lack of concern for us) lands on a Tuesday, should people be stuck inside during that four hours of nice weather?

At least, if I were running a business, I'd plan on a 3-hour workday. First priority: get us to a point where we can survive on a 15-hour time commitment from each person. Project planning is based on that assumption. This puts slack in the schedule and reduces the slippage problem, because people working 9 hours per day in a "crunch" are pushing at 3x the planned rate, yet still working at a sustainable pace.

However, I'd only hire people who had enough interest in CS and software-- and, as importantly, whatever business I was in-- that they'd naturally fill to 40-60 (based on their ability) hours. I think people should leave the office before dark, but I'd want to hire the guy (or gal) who spends his/her stray hours thinking about and working on technology, even if I don't collect direct benefit. Think of it as "65% Time". You're not obligated for more than 15 hours per week, but you really don't fit if you aren't constantly looking to learn more.

I'd also have:

* an expectation that people eat lunch together. That's not to say you can't duck out to have lunch with a friend a few times per month, but your default behavior should be to eat with colleagues, not alone in a hurry. Definitely don't eat at your desk. (This may be my "Ah, yes" New England ancestry showing, but I really dislike eating at desks. To me, it's like eating in a car. You do it occasionally out of necessity, but you're supposed to feel bad about it.)

* 4:00 Tea, with snacks and board games. This isn't because I'm a nice guy, but because it gets people sharing ideas and encourages extra-hierarchical collaboration and mobility, and that makes both project quality and communication better. The somewhat devious thing here is that, after Tea's over (of course, it would never be called "over" because people are free to go) they'd have a lot of new ideas to try out and prove, so a lot of people would want to stay late anyway to experiment with the ideas they discussed over Tea.
Roamer can save you up to 90% on roaming charges
Is one of his tips "make sure to use a tiny, marginally-legible sans-serif font in a layout that wastes 2/3 of the screen?"
Thank gods I used a separate AWS key for this. I wasn't even sure I had.

Let that be a lesson.
> is there anything there of interest to hackers? Really?

codepen.io and card.io (who got acquired by Paypal) may disagree.

Or people using them for "playfully clever" things -- to use a term I've heard Richard Stallman use to define hackers.
I disagree.

Going back and forth to reach a higher price, only to have the client say No, is a waste of time.

Even if they do agree to a higher price, money can only reconcile so much. Based on bad experiences I've had with a couple clients in the past, they couldn't pay me enough to work for them again.
I speak as somebody who had parents who pretty much neglected my academic pursuits and I emphatically disagree that a 'forceful hand' is in any way necessary for success.

I went to university and didn't do anything there, aside from sample the local herbalists' produce. I didn't do much of anything in school either. During all of that time, due to the fact that my schedule was my own (sans school-time), I managed to teach myself software development. Not because it was a good career move, or because I wanted to impress anyone but because it was interesting.

Fast forward a decade and I now earn more than pretty much all of the people I grew up with, lead software projects and have leverage and freedom up to my ears.

You might want to read about Stockholm Syndrome.
If a programmer locked himself away for 14 years and then emerged and announced he'd written a completely bug free OS, there would be skepticism. Code needs to be battle tested by other people to find the bugs.

Mathematics is the same, to an extent; one guy working alone for 14 years is likely to have missed ideas and perspectives that could illuminate flaws in his reasoning. Maths bugs. If he's produced hundreds of pages of complex reasoning, on his own, however smart he is I'd say there's a high chance he's missed something.

Humans need to collaborate in areas of high complexity. With a single brain, there's too high a chance of bias hiding the problems.

(Repost of my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4829806)
Adam the Ipad Killer from India is back in June
/r/atheism is lightly moderated by purpose.

If you want the quality content, try this :
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/search?q=flair%3Aquality&...
If no one agreed with them then theirs would be the only flag and there would be no effect. If several people agreed then there would be several flags, and that's what appears to happen.

Largely speaking, and with few exceptions, this is a community moderated forum. Enough of the community decided that the submission wasn't sufficiently on-topic.

If you feel strongly that the data you presented is on topic then perhaps you would fare better not simply to post a bare list, but write a blog post about why short names like this are of value to startups, and how having a short domain name can radically improve your chances, and how you wrote a script to create the list, and now you're sharing it because you believe it to be of value.

You claim the protester gave no reasons for claiming it's pointless, but equally, you gave no reasons for why it is of value.

And just in case I need to say it again, I'm merely providing my analysis of this situation through my model of how the community works. I personally am passing no judgment on how HN works, nor on the community's interests and/or actions.
> Make the client say no.

That's the better thing to do, but there's a problem, here : they already are in contract. Developer tried to do something that way (mentioned in update), arguing there must be an other contract for the video thing and making it way too expansive. But from what I understand, they've just felt back on first contract.

Maybe in that very specific case it would be a good thing to break the deal early, because as parent mentionned, there certainly will be other problems (and reputation may be hurted more badly than if breaking the deal).
Techno Viking is actually awesome! He should embrace his popularity. :D
Indeed. This was the e-mail they sent out:

---

Today we had a major service incident on our site. As a result of this incident some of our customers lost their virtual servers.

We are still investigating the cause of the issue and our service will be shut down until the investigation is over.

# Here is what we know #

- There hasn't been any signs of security breach or abnormal activity anywhere on our systems.

- All sensitive information is encrypted throughout the system, including cloud API keys.

- The affected stacks were across Digital Ocean, AWS and Rackspace.

# Here is what we are doing #

- We are working hard to find the root of the issue, but we need to keep the systems shut down until we are sure our customers are not exposed.

# Here is what you can do to restore your service #

- If you are not affected by this issue, you will not be able to redeploy until the service is restored. We will keep you posted.

- If you are affected by this issue, we can help you with your latest deployment Git SHA (if you don't have it), redirecting your traffic from our DNS.

- If you are affected and were running on Digital Ocean, they might be able to restore your server from an automatic pre-destroy snapshot they take.

We are very sorry about this and understand the disruption it has caused to all of our users, we are working hard to restore the service as soon as possible.
Makes me think of these lines in Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage":

You lock the door and throw away the key
There's someone in my head, but it's not me

That song was my "piece of corn" many years ago.
What's the price for your mental health?
It sound like you may be depressed. My usual advice boils down to these three things that I posted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685599
Or another version of this advice in one of the previous threads(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576320)
Node Blogger: a small NoDatabase blogging platform for Node
Not a bad thing for me no.. this time!

I don't think anyone is giving explicit permission to let the world know they have been snooping around other people's profiles. Although this information is not directly published it leaks through their "features".
Thanks for the feedback!

Yes I was on the fence about the seconds. I wanted to show that it was updating in real time. Sometimes I've left sleepyti.me on for a while and set the alarm only to discover that it's been an hour or so since I refreshed the page.

I agree about the content replacement, and will work on that. I made this in about two hours last night playing with ChaplinJS so I just finished it up quickly and decided to post it now. I like the button change too, if you don't mind me using that?

The white on black was a last minute change, my eyes were getting tired so I changed the CSS and it was quite pleasant :) Thanks again for the feedback!
3D Conway's Game of Life in a point cloud
But you'll still stop _most instances_ of would-be piracy - the 14-year-old kids hanging out at a park, unable to _easily_ send a movie from one smartphone to another. Not impossible - just hard enough to not bother.

You can't absolutely stop 3D printing of dangerous artifacts. But you can lower the appeal by increasing penalties, requiring the party to take more steps to avoid being caught, attaching a strong social stigma to the practice.

It's physically impossible to keep someone from barreing their car at 80mph down the wring side of the highway into oncoming traffic, but this is one among countless potential potential disasters we almost never see in practice. It is worth considering why such things happen as rarely as they do.