skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does this for very good reason of course.
If you are trying to build a C library, you already have freestanding issues, this is nothing new.
You forget about the cloud thing. Your phone can be used as an authenticator (partly not all) and if your data is in the cloud then whatever is sitting there will work just fine. What is it about the hardware you are carrying that requires it to be used as the desktop computer?
Is it a common utility within the dev community or rather it varies?
The picture in the article fits perfectly, not only because of Neo stopping time, but because, more importantly, at least to me, this looks like if the Universe has its own Garbage Collector. Which could mean that we are living a simulated reality [1], something like the Matrix!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality
I think it would be prudent to reword this quite a bit.

"We match people who need blood with those willing to give it."
Admittedly, it's mostly lots of little things over the course of iOS updates, small changes in the behavior of specific SDK packages rather than full-bore failures. I may have overstated that point and it certainly pales in comparison to FB. Still, you get the gist right?
Oh, so I have to check another calendar/date display device. Right.
This is good criticism, and I bet you'll like http://lift.do

But here's our response to that: http://blog.beeminder.com/lift
I wish I could write rants as poetically as this.
Nitpick: the backgrounds are a whopping 992 × 624, ~180 KB. This makes loading and rendering not as smooth as it could be.
Computers were large established market once, but you could not buy one home.

I don't see meal replacement drinks in food stores around, don't think those would be off-the-shelf no-brainer anyway.

It creates a new market.
The time zone problem is indeed the cold water here. Even when folks are working remotely, it's faster and easier to work with people who have similar office hours. "Remote" could be a time zone over and worth an email. "Remote(India)", however, means project questions sit unanswered because I am asleep. If more information is needed to provide clarification, even a simple matter, normally settled in 60 minutes across roughly aligning time zones, can take 36 hours to work out.
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My startup is all about solving this problem! http://beeminder.com

It's specifically for lifehacking data nerds (so probably most people here on HN) and the idea is to combine a quantified self tool with a commitment contract. Specifically, you pledge (actual money) that you'll keep all your datapoints on a "yellow brick road" to your goal and if you don't, we charge you.

We integrate with various gadgets and apps like RescueTime and Trello and GitHub (also fitness things like Fitbit but I guess this thread is more about productivity-related motivation) so, for example, you can force yourself to waste less time on Facebook or commit to GitHub more often, or enforce a steady rate of moving Trello cards to the Done pile.

[repeated from a very similar Ask HN thread the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6121572 ]
> > If your site gets no traffic then it doesn't run at all.

>...is a huge problem.

Why?

If you are relying on things to happen at an exact time, them you should know not to use wp-cron. However, for the scope of internal wordpress tasks that don't need to happen every load, I don't see any problem with it happening when wordpress is prodded eventually, and the time it was scheduled to run at has passed.
It's Wordpress' built in analytics. The first time I turned it on in a responsive design (images set to 100% width) I was in for quite a shock. That little smiley looks creepy at full width.
Tag line: "All the Code That’s Fit to printf()"
> The "flip over for CVC" worked for me on Firefox, and that was an elegant solution.

What problem is it a solution for?
How strange should the item be in order me to call for "authorities"?
One memorable day at work a POS Kodak system decided that it wouldn't store a particular record. Nothing worked. This happened a few times until it became clear that the only things these cases had in common was that the people's first names started BRE. I can remember a rather sad looking IT manager nodding with agreement having tried everything when I suggested we just get them to change their names. Bug is still there. It's just a historic archive now, thank god. Worst software ever.
Oh god. That's an artifact of the idiotic VB-style, non-generic event handling "pattern". If event handlers used normal functions like everything else this just wouldn't be a problem (those types just wouldn't exist).
I haven't tried FocusBooster, but lately I've been trying Focus@Will, which plays music mixed in ways to keep you focused. Seems to be working pretty well for me.
The Schemaverse - space based strategy game in postgresql
Access Total Commander Path with Shortcut
> In any given instant, the arrow has to appear motionless. If it wasn't motionless, there would be two instants, one in which the arrow was at one position and one in which the arrow was in another position.

I don't follow. Why can't the arrow be in both places at the same time? With the probability of one vs the other dependent on the velocity and the size of the time slice.
The next time you feel like wanting to procrastinate, have a look for that :

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Overcoming_Procrastination
But it has subscription via circles. It was disarming the joke.
Reminds me of how Bletchley Park broke some of the Enigma ciphers. The operators were supposed to abide by certain rules when making the 3-letter "keys" -- but they inevitably picked letters next to each other on the keyboard, used the same letters repeatedly ("AAA"), used the same key "pairs", used words, names, etc.
Dropbox to Chromecast app
Both good online editors have it.

(Ace and CodeMirror).
Is it Thor's hammer?

I guess it could be some spy satellite or drone they had.
Where these projects tend to fail is in being designed with the assumption of needing to be as decomposed and abstracted as textual code. Suddenly the components become "syntax" again and you're just doing regular old coding with more clicking. On the other hand, the most popular implementations in the historical record - projects like Pure Data - have relatively weak coding abstractions and instead gain strength from staying tightly focused on their domain and never deviating - they are big libraries with a very tiny language, not the other way around.

NoFlo is building on the existing legacy of what has been shown to work, and is most progressive in the sense that it aims to have libraries for many different domains, rather than just one.
> it's starting to really gnaw at me

Good.

One concrete suggestion:

Develop the following habit. Whenever you are confronted with an unpleasant task X, there is a moment where your mind starts searching for other, more pleasant things to do. This is the moment where you have to implant the habit of asking - not yourself, but an imaginary judge:

"If I defer task X, will it become easier later?".

For some tasks, this may be true (e.g. taking out the trash is easier when you're heading outside for work anyway). For most, it's not.
Use this question as an arbiter and follow its verdict.

And when you completed an annoying task, rejoice in the feeling of relief and accomplishment (maybe not the task itself was hard, but overcoming the unpleasantry was), and remind yourself of this feeling the next time.
Rinse and repeat.

One more abstract suggestion:

You have probably heard it a thousand times from your teachers, parents etc. - "You could accomplish so MUCH, if just you would STRIVE for it..."
You believe it yourself, talking about your "full capacity".

But it's not true. Or at least it's the wrong perspective, allowing for wishful thinking.

The current state you are in - that is your full capacity. More you do not know, because more you have never tried. Or, more drastically: More you do not have, because more you have never proved.

Maybe that's even the reason you are not improving your chore-handling abilities after all (if you allow me this unfounded speculation): You are afraid of hitting your limit (a.k.a. failing) to soon, realizing that you're not that capable after all.

Luckily, there is no such thing as a fixed, inate capacity. Your capacity will definitely improve when you start taking yourself seriously and stop generously sparing yourself the chores. Prove it to yourself what you really can do.

It always risky to advise a person you never met, so take this with a grain of salt. Hopefully it's useful to you.
> Every time you check on it, it will revert to its "original" measured state, and the clock will start over.

This makes me uneasy - I feel like there is a violation of thermodynamic laws in there somewhere. Decay is not the only thing that is probabilistic, tunneling is too, and if you can manipulate things so it's more like to go in one direction vs the other, you can reverse entropy.
That sounds nice. Unfortunately, knowing nearly nothing about any of this, I'm having a hard time imagining what it means to "check on" an atom and how that could influence its state.

Sometimes it seems to me that every day words become mere metaphors when applied to physics.
Genericons, an icon font for blogs
Because we all need to, and you have to count to one on the way to 350 million.

I suppose it's the same reason a lot of people vote: I see it as my civic duty as a US citizen.

If only criminals use the 5th, then using the 5th becomes reasonable suspicion. That sucks. All US citizens have an individual responsibility to prevent that.
Facebook Platform isn't the only offender.

Occasionally I found basic features on Facebook website just don't work. For example: 2-3 days ago, I can't put description on my newly uploaded photo. I have to complete the photo upload workflow, and then click the newly uploaded photo on my album and edit the description.

Regression on basic feature.

I suppose Facebook is just like any other companies with sharp growth: you don't want to know what's inside it (or how the sausage is made). That boils down to ship features and ignore everything else (documentation, good design, good habit, better architecture, better quality, etc).

I'm not saying that's a very bad idea for them because I've seen this practice a lot in our industry.

Having said that, this is one of the many reasons why young startups want to hire the brightest and smartest engineers out of college: they need warm bodies smart enough to move forward, to deal with legacy codebases and figuring a clever (but may be dirty) hack to workaround the legacy design decision, less on solving complex new problems. The latter may be reserved for the infrastructure teams where people develop back-end infrastructure component like Haystack or something along that line.

The recent "rant" stories/articles of the quality of Facebook Platform showed us the same repeated story we've read before in the past and to confirm that Facebook engineers were not way much better than Googlers or Yahoo or Microsoft engineers.
Like ibogost said, it seems to be more of the little things with Apple. One random example that affected me (somewhere around iOS 5) was modal views not being able to pop themselves anymore via parent (ie [self.parentviewcontroller popViewControllerAnimated]), they have to instead call that method on themselves.

Nothing terrible, but back on topic, I too dislike touching 3rd-party stuff, FB or Twitter...
This reminds me a bit of something a chess teacher named Richard Shorman said. In the late '80s and early '90s, Shorman was at the LERA chess club in Sunnyvale where each week people would bring their games and Shorman would go over them and advise them how to improve.

Shorman was particularly good at getting players who were stuck in the 1800-2200 USCF rating range moving again. One of the big reasons people get stuck is that they are trying to play too good. They are trying to apply deep positional concepts they learn from reading annotated grandmaster games, or reading books with titles like "Play Like a Grandmaster!". They are planning openings developed by grandmasters for use against grandmasters.

That's fine for grandmasters--because grandmasters UNDERSTAND what is going on. All of those deep positional concepts that shape grandmaster thought are ultimately designed to lead to a tactical advantage over their opponent, or to prevent bad tactical things from happening to them. To understand the positional stuff, you have to thoroughly understand the underlying tactics.

Shorman would steer these stuck players toward a more aggressive approach. Play the most aggressive move they can (that you can't see an outright refutation for). Open with gambits that give you a good attack.

This worked. As the stuck players got used to the sharp games that arose from this style of play, and came to really understand how the pieces worked tactically, they'd start understanding positional play, and be ready to move toward playing good chess.

The way Shorman put it was something like this (paraphrased since I can't remember it exactly): before you can play good chess, you have to get good at bad chess.
Because, aside from Python and its One True Way to format, different people have different ideas of what "formatting it right" means.
Saying that this effect "stops the world" doesn't seem right to me. It just "appears" to have stopped only for the observer, who observes the world at very very small intervals.
The name of someone if a delicate problem, but all of these are straightforward questions.

There is an "official name" and it's on your registration certificate.
That's the one that goes in the 漢字名 field and that's the one that the bank will accept (my registration had both the double with latin character and the katakana in parenthesis: no questions asked, they both go, parenthesis included).
The validation of the kanji name is not done on the exact range of the characters ('is it really a kanji?') but if it's double width or not, double width latin characters are OK, you could use emoji the validation would pass. Half width katana would get rejected.

Protip: if you have a shitty registration name, have it change, that's easy and that's for you own good.
Respectfully, that's nonsense. I don't even work in their department. I've been online for 20+ years, blogging for like 12 years and I've worked at MS for 6.

The blog is a blog. This post is just a post. I get in trouble for blogging a few times a year, and that suits me just fine. It's just a job.
Bit of a wierd question as the site doesn't seem to index on Google atleast. Can you tell me what the site does and why you want access?

Ultimatley, find out for yourself what the password is?
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-45/pr...
Remember, the arrow is one of Zeno's paradoxes. He's not describing reality; he's trying to impose a conceptual-only understanding of reality on the thing, itself, and ending up in a logically impossible situation.

His description of the arrow's motion, or the runner's traveling half the distance to the finish line, and then half the remaining distance, and then half the distance left after that, and so on, and thus never actually finishing, are exactly that: descriptive, not prescriptive.
You should checkout this book - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95708.The_Now_Habit
I always just assume these things are pieces of space junk that lost orbit. Is that even viable? Or is the junk all small enough to completely burn up on re-entry?
What must be done, and by who, to solve the latency issue? Can it be improved at all? It seems that more folks rnning relays and contributing bandwidth increases available bandwidth, but what can be done about latency, anything at all?
I guess http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/11/3 isn't serious enought? Oh, right, it's just in some third party code WordPress passes unsanitized data to.

I also find it interesting that you as a core dev narrow down possible answers by using "serious" and "lately" in your question. Of course you specifically ask for "WordPress exploits" as well, maybe because themes and plugins run with the same privileges as WordPress core code, and there's no review process for official plugins hosted on wordpress.org? Not to mention from other sources..
Well, if it's a turkey, I wouldn't bother[1]. Otherwise, all bets are off.

[1]: http://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-awa...
This at the end of the article made me chuckle

> The truth is out there here and here. ®

Linking to http://www.wvec.com/news/local/Package-discovered-neighborho... and http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/norfolk/suspicious-p...
I have never understood why Zeno's paradoxes are considered so profound.

Consider what an instant of time is. Is it a non-zero chunk of time smaller than any other finite chunk of time? In this case, we are defining an instant as an infinitesimal chunk of time. If we posit that such a thing exists, then why can't an infinitesimal distance (which the arrow travels in that time) exist?

The other option is to define an instant of time as no time at all. Not the smallest, simply zero. Saying that since you cannot move a non-zero distance in zero time is valid. However, a chunk of time is not composed of an infinite series of zero time chunks, just like 0.00000...1 is not equal to 0 + 0 + 0... There is a gap between zero and infinitesimal that cannot be bridged by zeros alone.
Brian Harvey's video lectures on Scheme using SICP:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,s,Spring_2011,EC3E890...

along with the home page for the class:

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp11/

I'm going to use it to complement the PDF version of SICP posted above in this thread.
I am pretty sure my grandma has a desk calendar that has the same system like this one
Coinbase delays the disbursement to keep you from chargebacking. Same thing happens in Dwolla. If you send a money order over snail mail to an exchange, you can get your funds available same day (they receive it).

It isn't anything bitcoin can change - it is moving money from a chargeback system to one without a way to reverse transactions. If they allowed chargebacking, they would be exploited and go bankrupt.
BART's free-ride program among Bay Area's most generous
If something non-human comes out of it, that may be a good reason to call :)
This is the best comment I have read on HN in quite a while!

It reminds me of a story from one of Malcolm Gladwell's books. I forget the point he was trying to make but something went wrong with a patients surgery so he approached a lawyer and said he wanted to sue the surgeon. After reviewing the details, the lawyer said the surgeon is not at fault and that his family doctor should be the one that the lawsuit should be directed at for a poor recommendation.

The client responded "But I don't want to sue my doctor - I like him."

Personally, I don't find anything ethically wrong with what they did. And I think a lot of people on this thread have not lived in other countries that aren't completely over regulated.
It's a marketing ploy to get you to buy larger (wider) monitors in order to avoid line wrapping.

My only gripe about developing on a 13" MBP is not being able to have 2 buffers side by side without wrapping the snot out of half the lines.
Uruguayan here.

The state has multiple monopolies on products including refining gas (there is one price for gas all over the country and its set by government), telecommunications (all phone and internet goes through Antel the government agency), water (OSE) along with a couple of others.

I think the main population concern is what this will mean for the price, quantity and quality of the product given that most of the other monopolies are known for their mediocre service, squandering of resources and mild internal corruption. I say mild because in comparison to the rest of South America Uruguay has the lowest corruption level but there is still clear favoritism within government agencies, very lazy workers (they can't get fired). The main argument against the current legislation is that allowing private companies to produce the product (like tobacco) and applying high taxes would be way more efficient and that there is little belief that the government could efficiently pull off this operation.
Mainly it's that you don't want to mix both spaces and tabs — you want to use one or the other for a given file or else the indentation will be an incoherent mess from one machine to the next — and it's easier and more compatible to standardize on spaces than tabs.
This is a good point, why doesn't he crowdfund Armadillo?
What that article describes is exactly the philosophy behind Beeminder. Now I'm dying to know what made you conclude that you don't have that problem (known most generally as Akrasia, btw) and what lifehackery you're now using.
Google as monetary superpower — a parable
I refer you to the statements made by the DNI to Congress, or Obama to Charlie Rose.

Furthermore, the media concocts completely fabricated narrative hung upon zero to minimal facts all the time, to devastating effect. I refer you to the whole Snowden's girlfriend thing, or the Martin/Zimmerman thing, or the recent "google something and feds arrive" thing.

It's all made-up bullshit that people buy into en masse. It causes them to become so passionate about their adopted stance, even contrary factual data later will be ignored.

Public opinion _will_ be managed, and policy _will_ be changed as a result. This is the playing field we stand upon today, like it or not. (Personally, I hate it - but I do not deny the state of affairs.)

The enemy has demonstrated a willingness to lie endlessly to obtain and sustain illegal power over us.

The path is clear. I vastly prefer to be effective than unimpeachable.
I thought a full-stack (web) developer was more something along the lines of this post: http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-...
And causes the "of" misspelling.
Volumental - 3D scanning in the cloud
They use the term 'observe', which typically means to shoot photons or electrons at it. A laser is a common option.

This is a pretty reasonable use of the term, as when most people observe anything it's typically by capturing photons that previously bounced off it.
> I have found paracetam to be super helpful but it only works for a week or two before khans to cycle off it. I was on it about 2.5 weeks ago and did in 4 days what I normally have been doing in a month.

Try one of the many other racetams. Also noopept, closely related, helps a lot of people.

For me, ALCAR and Stabilized R-ALA (R Alpha Lipic Acid) help a ton with focus.

If you drink caffeine take l-theanine along with it, it dramatically boosts the effectiveness of caffeine and gives me a good 4+ hours of straight focus.
> Consider what an instant of time is. Is it a non-zero chunk of time smaller than any other finite chunk of time?

Here's how I think of Zeno's paradox: it is saying that if time/space are continuous then there are no such things as finite chunks of them, therefore they must be discrete.
Argentina to take Snowden's Case to UN Security Council
Erm, the rational usual understanding is that you refer to "weekend" as a period and not "week ends" in two separate words. Weekend = the end of the week, i.e. Saturday and Sunday. Isn't Sunday called the 7th Day of the Week in the religious tradition? Therefore Saturday should be 6th and Saturday and Sunday are both at the same "end".
I don't think there is a bubble. What I mean is that there probably won't be a huge crash or anything like that. But there may or may not be a gradual cooldown coming.
Tabs are visible in my editor. And so are the spaces at the end of a line it's sweet:
:set listchars=tab:\|·,trail:·
Ditto apart from Backbone and Flatiron.

But, after seeing the talk by Bret Victor am going to go back to logic programming and try to use as much Elixir (Erlang) and Websocket as possible.