skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment at the bottom about the US weekend tickled me. I never really thought about it, but holy guacamole, is it weird that Americans have the week starting on a Sunday, and consider it part of the weekend. Why the HECK are calendars printed with Sunday at the front? This doesn't even need any kind of "restructuring of the Gregorian Calendar or adopting a new more sensible one" (as the rest of this thread seems to be all about), just stop printing/displaying calendars in a disjointed, retarded fashion...

I'm sure it had some meaningful significance in the past, but really, I doubt anyone will get mad if you started printing the calendar from the Monday on the left, in America too.
Not the first of its kind. There was http://fastblood.com/, which kind of does the same using SMS.

But in any case great initiative. All the best.
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"He believes it could work either below or above ground." (From Wikipedia.)
We are much better off in the State with our well working democratic republic based on a advanced enlighten populous!
The dying art of computer viruses
The complexity and spagetti will just end up inside those nodes rather than between them, the same discipline required to refactor and rearchitect as requirements change will apply. This just seems like a visual wrapper on a much more functional programming / actor model style approach.
> We have only found out few years ago, that the official doctrine of the Soviets was to nuke my country(Poland) to hell to make it impossible for any forces from the West to move using the shortest path to Russia.

Which is the 'buffer zone' doctrine taken to extremes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/so...

> Twenty million Russians died during the Second World War, so Stalin said he wanted a buffer zone of friendly states around Russia to make sure that Russia could never be invaded again.

And, of course, pre-Soviet Russia had been invaded multiple times, often by people who did a lot of damage before they realized they'd forgotten to pack for winter. It's part of having large land borders.
Some misconceptions about Hacker School
I had this idea a while back, didn't execute well: https://github.com/asselinpaul/cc_validate
Adderall is an amazing drug for people like you. Also, try getting a job in a field, say programming for banks, or management consulting, where you can't procrastinate.

As for procrastinating life stuff: outsource everything. Get a maid, etc.
I find it amazing how you share your know-how so freely. This is the first app I ever saw that made me think of an iPhone as a potentially desirable thing... not enough to make me get one, but a big compliment to you. Never change (unless it's for the even more generous and clever of course :P)
That "waiting for the flash" problem still exists, you know; the modern "flash" is the one that comes soon after the birth-moment of the world's first self-improving AI, unless that AI is "Friendly" to us humans. Could happen at any moment, if some dolt gets all the math right without also deducing the consequences.
The best way to get into Computer Science is to start doing something specific that interests you.
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it was more impressive last year, when he was talking for 3.5 hours while the most of the group stage games of quakelive tournament was played. there was only one quakecon stream allowed, so those games had to be democasted later.

i had a very mixed feelings: on one hand, listening carmack is very interesting, on another - i am a quake fan and wanted to see great games.

this year they have a separate stream for games, and it is great btw. absolutely top notch work from the faceit team: http://www.twitch.tv/quakecon
Don't Plug Your Phone into a Charger You Don't Own
Going by your username, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one simultaneously fascinated and deeply horrified by nuclear weapons! :-)
Django was released a year after Rails.
The Bomb Squid is one member of the Suicide Squid:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squiddy_Awards

http://knowyourmeme.com/forums/meme-research/topics/9343-sui...

http://everything2.com/title/Suicide+Squid
Weird. The site has both a www- and non-www version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6141702.
"We don't know, therefore aliens" is, perhaps, not the most solid of logical chains.
Weather balloons, bomb squad. Reminded me of World War II:

Japanese Balloon Bomb attack on the US
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/balloon.html

Also MeFi:
http://www.metafilter.com/60948/WWII-Japanese-Balloon-Bombs
That is actually a crazily innovative solution to a hard problem. I wish China would adopt something like this.
The increased safety in future car cannot save his already dead relative. So it was selfless, it didn't alter his past, didn't make anything better for him.
I love USB 3.0, but the problem is the (now) fat connector. Lightning would be a much nicer physical interface.

Aside from the connector, there are no slim USB 3.0-capable flash drives a la Cruzer Fit.
Human names are an excellent illustration of the reason that you shouldn't use 'real' data as a key in a database. If the key is arbitrary and meaningless then it doesn't need to be mutable.
That AI would also need the ability to act, not just to think.

A "dot with math" is unlikely to also have the ability to make a machine that can move.

Everyone is worried about unfriendly AI - all you have to do is put that unfriendly AI in a computer without the ability to affect the physical world. (Also no network.)

Give it only a screen, and a video camera. It can be as unfriendly as it likes.
>I tell people this, and the younger ones never believe me, but I genuinely believed that I would never live to be an adult.

I don't expect to live past my twenties. It isn't hard to believe that somebody on one side of a two sided prelude to a nuclear war could be nervous about their survival prospects.
link to google maps of a bit of the track (I think): goo.gl/uxGxUs
I'd be interested to hear more on this. At the minute I'm not sure what dire circumstances you mean, or how having a leader implies a threat of war. It seems like a lot of what you wrote could be applied to any leader of any nation.

I went through a vehement anti-monarchy phase when I was younger, since then I'm starting to appreciate the idea of a head of state who isn't a career politician that campaigned or even bought their way into office.
These days I'm hearing a lot of talk about Angular, not much about Ember. Is this because the latter is too "opinionated" or is Angular really taking off now?
> LLVM [...] don't give a shit about getting llvm/clang to build linux.git.

The LLVMLinux project is making good progress towards this goal. http://llvm.linuxfoundation.org/
I think most people do make that assumption subconsciously. Hard to blame them, the signal to noise ratio is awful so it's probably easier to not bother.

Relatedly, my experience has been people demand cheap if you're from India even if they do think you're skilled. It's the geographical version of the "but it only took you 10 minutes" argument. This does bug me.

My advice to you is to hide your location at least until they see your portfolio/github first. And be firm about pricing. Maybe a modest discount so you don't lose tiebreaker decisions, but don't fall into the trap of anchoring your worth to geography.

For context, I spent a decade in the US before returning to India and have freelanced in both places. I do have degrees from a couple of fancy US universities that partially address the signaling issue.
Kim, like Hilary and Evelyn is a traditional boys name that has somehow become exclusively female over that last half-century or so.
That's a direct result of being social creatures. You have to take the good with the bad.

If we were all loaners things would be much worse. You might not have war, but you would have lots of individual killing, and very little progress.

Your best option is not to fight it, but rather to use it: Get people in various countries to consider themself all part of one group. (One of the reasons I think the Olympics is a huge impediment to world peace. I almost never think of MY country as better than YOUR country - except during the Olympics.)
Giraffe, a dashboard for Graphite
This is a great mind trick. I use e.ggtimer.com to help me manage my tasks/time.
Not anyone can - only those who can get the grades. And while grades are an imperfect measure of academic merit they're the best one we have.
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N Korea has a tablet. There’s no WiFi connectivity but it comes with AngryBirds
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In my experience gcc has fewer bugs than icc or xlc.
Security disclosure about a Bluetooth toilet
Unfortunately, we're still quite capable of annihilating the world several times over with nuclear weapons. We just don't seem to be threatening to do so, these days, at least not so openly. The nuclear cartel, for lack of a better word, has shifted its focus towards maintaining exclusivity on the possession of these weapons, and will wage war to accomplish this.

To be a bit more on-topic, that this speech was even considered necessary gives me a bit of hope. We see it as a bit antiquated, fears of a time that is now largely behind us, when our rulers were willing to sacrifice most of us in their global power game.
Just compared our SSL config (https://www.theticketfairy.com/) to the one at the end of the article (based on HN recommendations) and pretty happy that it was already set to pretty much exactly that (apart from us having 100m for the SSL session cache rather than 10m) :)

One more thing I'd advise is adding this directive if you're running Nginx 1.3.7 or higher:

ssl_stapling on;

The tech behind this is explained here:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/ocsp-stapling-how-cloudflare-just...

Lastly, if you can be bothered to build Nginx 1.4 (1.4.2 is the latest version at the time of writing), you can enable SPDY support as well.
4.2.1 is from 2007 and it hasn't been S'd for a LT by anybody.
You don't need to explicitly support them if you just treat "name" as a freeform, unicode text field.
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We're growing rapidly and want more people to join us in our office that is two minutes from the beach here in Barcelona!

The position:

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* Works well in a agile environment

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If you also like to play tabletennis and would like to spend some lunches on the beach, that would be a plus.

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Long-term behavior-change is extremely difficult, but the strategy that I have been experimenting with recently and having success with is context-sensitive rules (commonly called "implementation intentions" by behavioral researchers). The form of these rules is "if-then," although I often phrase them in a way such that the "if-then" is implied.

For example, like you, I was procrastinating far too much at work. This was driven mainly by two problems: 1) I'm somewhat addicted to the Internet, and 2) there are many things with my job that I'm either bored with or just uncomfortable doing. The result was that I would procrastinate by going on the Internet.

I finally decided to make a rule: "No non-work-related Internet at work." Or in the "if-then" format: "If I am at work, then I will not use the Internet for non-work purposes."

This rule has worked for me. It forced me to confront the discomfort that I was having with the task at hand. I also try to focus on completing only one particularly challenging or distasteful task that I have been procrastinating on per day, and I try to do it first thing in the morning. The positive feeling that it generates is amazing.

I have adopted other rules as well, such as to lose fat. I have a rule to only eat during an 8-hour feeding window from 12PM to 8PM (intermittent fasting). While I am at work, I also only eat a huge mixed salad (with grilled chicken, hard-boiled eggs, and tuna salad) every single day. I don't allow myself to use the vending machine or to eat goodies that people bring in or eat pizza on Fridays (pizza day). When I'm not at work, I'm a little more flexible.

I try not to design rules that expect me to be perfect all day every day. My rules are designed in a way that help me to be perfect only during specific contexts.

I think the reason that setting rules for ourselves is so often successful is because it eliminates the need to make decisions. Every time you allow yourself to make a decision, you give yourself the opportunity to make a bad decision, which you will do at times of low willpower, which pretty much everyone goes through (willpower is an exhaustible resource).

So my recommendation is to try to design some context-sensitive rules (i.e. rules that you will follow at certain times or certain places) and adapt them as necessary so that they work for you. Remind of yourself that your rules will make your life better and that you are free to change them if you find that they don't serve you, or else your brain might rebel at the perception of the pain of discipline.

If your rules take a lot of willpower, they will eventually fail guaranteed.
It's politically very hard to study the first hypothesis scientifically, and practically impossible for the second. So we don't know, and won't until society has matured to the point we can face these questions.

(I understand what little evidence we have points to maternal health/diet/wellbeing as the single biggest causal factor. Handouts of food - or simply money - to mothers in the latter part of pregnancy are the most effective intervention we know. But again, we know very little and it's very difficult to find anyone who can study these effects from a position of neutrality)
Thanks! Just to note, Carmack doesn't come out until 15 minutes into that video.
Very good point, I just spent 20 minutes reading all the comments, checking links, etc

Now, I can fill a pixel in one of my remaining boxes :-)
Leaving aside the AI-Box experiment (http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox), the existence of side-channel attacks puts strong doubt to this argument. I would consider it unlikely that there isn't at least one way to do calculations on a modern CPU that results in arbitrarily-tunable EM emissions roughly in the radio (or wi-fi, or bluetooth, or...) band. Giving access to a screen makes this even easier; those emit EM by default.
The best synopsis I could find for the dubiousness of the government's approach is from bradleymanning.org [1]:

"The government says that Bradley Manning used the automated downloading program Wget to retrieve hundreds of thousands of State Department cables from the Net-Centric Diplomacy database, and that use of Wget alone constitutes exceeding his authorized access to data, a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act."

...

"The Government has not introduced any evidence to suggest that PFC Manning was not permitted to view the cables in question. The Government has not introduced any evidence to suggest that PFC Manning was not permitted to download the cables in question. The Government simply asserts that PFC Manning was not permitted to download them using a certain program, Wget. (Sec. 6)

The Government is simply incorrect in asserting that the use of an unauthorized program to download information automatically converts what would otherwise be authorized access to that information into “exceeding authorized access.” Whether or not PFC Manning used Wget to download the information he had access to is irrelevant; under the language of Section 1030, as well as this Court’s ruling and all legal authorities, PFC Manning could not have exceeded his authorized access because he was authorized to obtain the information he obtained. That is, “exceeds authorized access” is not concerned with the manner in which information to which one has access is downloaded; it is rather concerned with whether the accused was authorized to obtain or alter the information that was obtained or altered. (Sec. 8)"

[1] http://www.bradleymanning.org/featured/incompetent-overprose...

EDIT: clarified
There is another thing to consider: if he's putting so little time at work actually doing work, odds are his employers will not be so keen on continuing to pay him that much money. "Just being who he is" is not an excuse they will accept, nor, really, should they.

That's the ruthlessly-pragmatic reason to not "accept this side of who he is": nobody else is going to, especially not the people who pay him.
I wasn't aware the connector changed dimensions, just that some pins were moved around [1].

Care to explain?

[1] http://images.techtree.com.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/t...
> Give it only a screen, and a video camera. It can be as unfriendly as it likes.

Please read [0], [1], and [2] (good story with very relevant ending), and let's talk about it again:

[0] - http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power

[1] - http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox

[2] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
Don't get greedy.
I did this recently and it helped me somewhat: I created a little tool in which I enter what I'm currently doing, the time I started it and at what time I think I'll finish. Another script I wrote checks every minute if I'm doing something at that very moment. If not then it turns my desktop background a solid red. So its keeps bugging me (especially with the OSX translucent menu bar). I enter a new activity or expand the old one, my desktop background turns to a nice grey and I continue my work. Rinse repeat.

This for me was step one.

Another thing thats supposed to be good for you is exercise. So I recently started doing what this guy does: http://youtu.be/ok6VLDFerMw?t=4m54s
I can do this in my living room so the hurdle of going to a gym or something isn't there. And there isn't a large group of pro's here to see I still suck at it. I've been doing almost every day for the last two weeks and I'm already getting stronger.

Hope this helps!

Programming is a challenge for me (and I presume for you). Try to see life as such a challenge. You can hack at it. You can improve on it. You probably try to be better in programming than the people around you. Try to be better in life than the people around you, thats a real challenge!
Sure, killer AI, alien invasions, the coming of the Antichrist, Planet X etc., people have never found a shortage of imaginary flashes to wait for.

But the Cold War was real. Real life has a quality that's hard to appreciate unless you've lived through it.
Were any details given about growing it for your own use?
Transactions in person and Bitcoin ATM's will be the bread-and-butter of exchanging fiat money for BTC as it gains widespread adaptation.
There are two fundamental problems with CompCert: 1) there is no formal, machine-readable specification of the C language, and 2) there is no formal, machine-readable specification of the target architectures. CompCert may be formally verified, but it's not necessarily a C compiler (even ignoring that it implements only a subset of C), nor does it necessarily compile for the advertised architecture.
Heaven or Hell joke-very funny (WARNING: not politically correct)
It's the standard racial theory of Scandinavian social order aka 'We would be like them, except better, if it weren't for those stupid, violent, harmony-disrupting minorities.'
Yes, that's why I chose yellow and green, obviously ;)
The human proclivity towards cult behaviour is what I'm talking about. The UK Royals have no real function other than to promote the English personality, as a cultural artifact, to their subjects. In that regard, it functions as a cult, one of the most effective in the world, for promulgating collective reality.

This, after all, is how wars get started.

Edit: the dire circumstances being, of course, WW3 - the subject of the Queens' speech.
"Hello" he lied.
.. so you can flush without touching the toilet? .. brilliant :P
why is everyone taking this thing so seriously? correct me if I'm wrong but it seems so vague as to not deserve the current hype, regardless of who Musk is
Sunday has always (FSVO) been the start of the week - it's not an American thing at all (indeed I've found Europeans get more confused when you don't start a week on Sunday). The Sabbath - the seventh day of the week referred to in Genesis - was Saturday, and Jews still celebrate it as such - Christians moved a lot of the way it's treated to Sunday.

"Weekend" is just a catchy name; "weekboundary" would be much more cumbersome.
I do care about these people as persons, but not as interwebs citizens, not at all... that is, those of them who have something to say which they actually care about have a website, and with the inane nonsense many post on facebook, I am not "connected" either way.. if anything, that made me think less of people, that's one big reason I stopped paying attention to it.

Hmm, I guess that means diaspora wouldn't change anything there, for me. I'm not going to be another human TV for them, no matter the protocol.

But the fact that alternatives* exist and people don't use them just because they don't want to do the first step and actively pull their friends with them, is just sad? That's basically admitting Facebook can do whatever the it wants, since people are (or rather feel) trapped.

(and more than that; many of these networks allow you to sign up for updates of people on other pods of other networks.. Facebook isn't even thinking of playing in the same league, it's just that the UI is similar and has words and photos in it)
on the subject: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-fixes-threat-fr...
I think magoon is talking about the Micro B connection [0].

[0] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71sFrK-H7ZL._SL1500_.j...
I was on a BA Boeing 777 the other day and the seat back entertainment system had a USB socket on it for me to plug in my own device.

All I could think was (a) why would I do that? and (b) that looks like a security vulnerability.
Just stop beeing depressed.
Just stop beeing sucidal.
Just stop taking drugs.
Just stop drinking alcohol.

Would be great if the world would work this way.
That sounds like it is working, but you don't like it.
It's definitely not homogenous. It's getting "culturally enriched" by Somali Muslim "refugees" over time. The enrichment includes street harassment of Swedish women, no-go enclaves of illegal immigrants, increased rape rates, female genital mutilation, and other nice things.

If you get an ethnic Swede drunk and ask him about third world immigration and its effect on his nation, be prepared for an eye opener!
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