skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in general Uruguay has less extremes overall than american political parties. Overall Uruguay is social democratic country and has been that way since the end of the dictatorships (which were indeed run by the colorado party). I would say all parties find themselves either center right or center left, calling any of them right wing or left wing compared to the extremism we see in the US seems a tad off.
Not everything that is obvious today was obvious in the fifth century BC; for example, it took until the third century for Archimedes to point out that the number of grains of sand on the earth is finite. One could say that continuity and related concepts was not properly understood until the 19th century. In some ways, the knowledge of the average high school student today far exceeds that of the greatest geniuses of history.
> A line has got two ends.

A counterpoint of equal snark and uselessness: No, it has one "start" and one "end", especially if it's a one-way line.
Yeah I get the gist. Post definitely resonated for me and I've never written anything that's totally on Facebook's platform, like Cow Clicker was.
While the nerd in me wants it to be a crashed alien probe, the most plausible scenario is that it's a crashed military satellite, drone or similar.
You should probably have a copy of the Engineer-in-training handbook. This is a tremendously useful tome as it's written to provide the tools for solving problems, as opposed to theorizing about how problems ought to be solved. So while it's 'bad' from a pure math/physics standpoint in that it invites you to take things on faith rather than learning to derive them from first principles, it's great in terms of teaching you how to apply the fruits of these disciplines.

http://www.amazon.com/Engineer---Training-Reference-Michael-...
The problem with Quantum Physics (well, physics in general, but in classical physics it's mostly ignored) is that in order to make a measurement, you need to interact with the system thus changing it's state. You might for example measure perturbations in an electric field, but by applying the electric field you influenced the state of the system. This is also an important part of say the uncertainty principle. One way to think about why you can't measure position and momentum simultaneously to infinite accuracy is that perfect measurement of one would require shooting it with photons of zero momentum, while perfect measurement of the other would require shooting it with photons of infinite momentum. The real fun comes in when you leave a system alone for a while because then everything becomes probabilistic.
Successful programmer (let's just say I ride a bay-area shuttle bus to work) with the same problem here, but feel like I'm on the path to solving it.

The answer for me came (well, started: I'm working on it) through finally going to see a therapist and working through a bunch of other stuff.

Eventually, I got to the point where the next thing bothering me was my work. It was a relief to talk with someone who took my anxiety about it seriously: even my wife mostly just hit me with that "oh, you're just hard on yourself- I'm sure you're doing a great job".

I'm sure working through it for you will be different, but here's some of the things that were helpful for me...

- think/feel through what exactly is going on at the moment you start avoiding work: what are you feeling? What is going on? (There's probably something fairly logical going on, even if its solving a problem from 20 years ago)
- maybe you had a more adversarial outlook growing up, towards authority, school, imposed rules, some other kind of bullshit: perhaps you've reached a point where you've outgrown the need for that
- do you think of things in the classic Puritan-inherited good vs bad, reward vs punishment? Do you feel guilty? My therapist often sounds fairly zen, which initially felt vacuous, but I think I'm starting to get it: you can just be at work, in the moment, and start working on something instead of procrastinating, and not have it be a big struggle of willpower.
- In a similar vein, I think I grew up thinking of myself as likely to do the wrong thing: I'll make myself eat my vegetables, but left alone, I'd probably opt for sugar. I'll do what I'm supposed to in school, and be the smart kid, but really, I can't trust myself because if I drop my guard ill probably just go back to slacking. Perhaps it's time to explore the idea of doing things out of a positive desire for mastery, the challenge of contending with bigger problems, growth, rather than trying to marshal your feared negative attributes into positive outcomes through trickery, deadlines, etc. You can trust yourself more than you think.

My, that was long and navel-gazing... But I hope it helps. Hacker news is full of "self-flagellate yourself into beating procrastination" rhetoric, and I found that approach unhelpful, exhausting, and depressing.

One last word: take your dissatisfaction seriously: I know you are successful and smart, but it bothered you at least enough to post here. It's going to take hard work to rewire engrained habits and responses, but at least one anonymous coward here is cheering for you, and has compassion for you :-)
is the register a legitimate news source? The copy makes me feel like I'm reading a conspiracy theory rag.

EDIT: It also doesn't help that their site is utter trash.
Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds.
At the end of the day, it's evidence of the NSA having low-skills computer users rifling through your calls and internet. Make of that what you will.
Self signed certs, along with the handholding required to get your intended users to install them on their devices (probably not too big a deal for a tech crowd - perhaps not something I'd jump at for a "family and friends" targeted system).

At that level of paranoia – I'd question the appropriateness of relying on a "cloud VM". If you're worried about compromised CAs, perhaps a RaspberryPi (or similar inexpensive device) on your home net connection - with a write-locked SD card to boot from and a usb drive mounted with no-exec - and firewalled up the wazoo. Who knows how many guys have Snowden-like access to the VM hypervisor at n-random cloud hosting provider? Inside your "server", all the cleartext and metadata is readily available to root, and to root on the hypervisor as well.
There is a wide variety in the type and format of questions I'm asked.

Phone screen type questions might be stuff like fibonacci, find the min in an array, or find the intersection (shared duplicates) of two arrays.

In-person stuff varies: some companies ask me more practical/specific stuff like Ruby/CSS/JS implementation/coding/design/architectural questions. Others ask puzzle type questions that require me to use data structures in clever ways. Interestingly, hashes and trees are my go-to data structures. Do depth-first search and breadth-first search and that'll get you pretty far with trees. 90% of questions I'm asked require using hashes and/or trees in clever ways.

I actually find interviewing gets more and more fun as you get into it.
I thought that Zeno's paradoxes are still considered unresolved as of now though.
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I just finished reading Daily Rituals. It's a book about the work habits of famous writers, composers, artists, architects, and the like. One thing that caught my attention was how a lot of people we think of as great/prolific only worked 3 hours a day or for 3 hours at a stretch with a long break in between sessions. That number was very prominent throughout -- I don't remember the exact figure, but it was quite a lot of people. Off the top -- Sartre, Ingmar Bergman, Strauss, Mozart, Trollope, Thomas Mann, Carl Jung.

Trollope stands out for he had this to say, "All those I think who have lived as literary men, -- working daily as literary labourers, -- will agree with me that three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. But then, he should so have trained himself that he shall be able to work continuously during those three hours."

That number might just be a biological limit. You might be working at full capacity already and your brain "procrastinates" in order to recharge. It's very difficult to tell when the brain is tired since you can't feel it, but wanting to do other things -- specifically things that take less mental energy like reading blogs/forums and playing games -- seems like a good signal of fatigue.

One thing you can try though is to split up your day into different blocks and focus on recharging in the time between those gaps. Say, do 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the late afternoon and just completely relax and do whatever the hell you want in the meantime.
Thats a nice way to look at it - Zeno's paradoxes are proofs by contradiction that time/space are discontinuous!
There is a direct statement from the local police department.

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/screen-s...
A mathematician and an engineer agreed to take part in an experiment. They were both placed in a room and at the other end was a beautiful naked woman on a bed. The experimenter said every 30 seconds they would be allowed to travel half the distance between themselves and the woman. The mathematician said "this is pointless" and stormed off". The engineer agreed to go ahead with the experiment anyway. The mathematician exclaimed on his way out "don't you see, you'll never actually reach her?". To which the engineer replied, "so what? Pretty soon I'll be close enough for all practical purposes!".
So it is easy to become top performer: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2002-07-30/
Ugh - insert linebreaks at dashes in that mega-paragraph. Edit on ipad seems borked.
The art of asking
why not provide a post-commit hook enforcing a lot these styles?
I voted you back up. But the answer to your question is 'for the same reason you don't teach GR as a prerequisite to tying shoelaces.' Small children and shoelaces wouldn't be here without GR either, but it's just too abstract for most people.

The problem for the poster above is that if you read SICP outside MIT or especially outside college, you're not surrounded by a bunch of science nerds who can be persuaded to explain general relativity in return for beer and a pizza. If you're not swimming in a sea of science, then problems involving the behavior of fish seem much trickier to solve. I've seen this problem iwth a few other MIT books, eg Horowitz and Hill.
No because they put it in a truck and drove it away, therefore it is not Thor's hammer.
With such a lightweight framework as Sinatra, how much do you really have invested in it?
Is apple.com doing browser-based discrimination?
It's time to finally kill CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA tests, used almost everywhere across the web, are frustrating for all internet users. However, for me, and millions of other blind or vision impaired people, CAPTCHA tests prevent us from engaging with the web and government services, because they can't be read by screen reading software - which is why it's time to kill CAPTCHA.
So on the IQ thing, is that because they properly care for the physical and mental well-being of their children, expectant mothers and parents? Or is it because they are some kind of Aryan super-race?
Willpower is like a muscle. Work on it. Build it.

But then I'm here reading Hacker News too so......
To show that he wasn't fooling around with side projects when he was still full time at YCombinator?

The journalist wouldn't have put it had it not been emphasized by his sources. And if they brought it up it's likely because Harj giving less attention to YC is a sensitive topic for the other partners at the firm.
Spoiler alert: Was a balloon, and it was sealed off by the bomb squad to see what is was (they happened to be from a near by military base).

Events like these will likely continue to rise as the barrier to get to near space lowers. There have been several stories in recent years about students who have used these High-altitude balloons [1, 2] and there are even sites which teach you [3].

UPDATED: bomb squad from bomb squid ;)

[1] http://www.space.com/14397-teens-lego-man-space-stratosphere...

[2] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-...

[3] http://android.hibal.org/
Backspacing in the middle of a number triggers a behavior which is very counterintuitive, particularly with the examples provided.
It's best not to check out a meteorite that hit the ground near here, Han, old buddy.

Always let the professionals take care of things.
While I love me a good conspiracy theory, in this case, sometimes a weather balloon is just a weather balloon.
At my last work, the engineers who worked a 40-hour weeks explicitly chopped up their work according to '20 quality hours' - the idea is that you do 20 quality hours of work per week, the remainder of the time being taken up with minutae, or cerebral refreshment, or urgent this or that. 3 hours/day is not far off this number.
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really no one is answering to this?
That is in stark contrast to SICP: "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute"

Whom should I listen to... Hmmm, tough choice...

I mean, I've just seen Gerry Sussman in a recent video saying he doesn't know how to compute, so you must be a winner.
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Technically correct. Practically there is a tiny subset of Perl that the parser cannot decide correctly, which is used by virtually nobody. Almost all of the code on CPAN can be parsed just fine by this module: https://metacpan.org/module/PPI
鬼佬 (Gweilo). Or, where I live now, 红毛 (Ang Mo).
burning trash for energy is not really efficient. It's better than leaving it on a landfill but it is not the same as recycling. A one-off reuse is still far from perfect situation where most material can be reused (with let's say 10% loss of material in each cycle). Congratulations to Sweden for being better than everyone else but there's still room for improvement!
Since I turned this on at 6pm today, there's been 24 transactions for a total of 6.174 BTC.

There's been 4 donations of 1.0 BTC but none larger. I set the default at 1.0 BTC; perhaps I should increase it!
This reminds me of Quartz Composer[1] in a lot of ways: you wire the inputs and outputs of a bunch of different nodes together (called patches in QC) and each patch gets you a step closer to the solution. This seems to work especially well for graphics programming type problems where there are many different variables to tweak and you're applying many transformations to the image at each stage.

The problem is each component in the process still needs to be written in code. In QC I would often be frustrated when a patch didn't quite do what I needed and I had to keep trying to make my idea fit the limitations of the available patches.

So while this might help non-programmers understand on a big picture level what's happening, to go beyond that they're still going to have to learn how the individual components work which comes back to learning to code textually.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_composer
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Our team is three professors and a Ph.D. student, from CMU and Berkeley. We have a track record of producing great research, with six SIGGRAPH papers among us this year alone. This is a research project, not a company, but we do have a reasonable budget. If all goes well, we'll be presenting this project at SIGGRAPH next year.

If you write fantastic iOS apps, are interested in computer graphics, and (ideally) have some experience with video on iOS, you should get in touch!

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I remember awhile back here on hn, a guy did an experiment: hire somebody on craigslist to watch him while he works. That's all. It turned out to be pretty productive.

It's even more awesome if you can get someone who understands your work.

<programmer></programmer>

So find & _pair_ with a programmer you are compatible with.
That's a really good (and horrific) image. Thanks.
Excellent initiative and loved the concept. I really hope this picks up, we can do something similar for organ donors as well.
I am a lot like you, and I've tried so many things. Tips, tricks, to-do lists, whatever.

The one thing that sticks with me is to first truly understand the value of time. It sounds cheesy but time really is the most valuable resource in the world, and procrastinating is about the worst way to squander it.

Also, even after coming at that conclusion, it's still a struggle, every day. There is not a day when you can magically be not lazy. It will still be there forever, but you can choose to fight it. It's a daily struggle, but absolutely worth it, though.
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I agree - how many intrusions have you had on 'oldstable'? Not a problem? Then why rush off to 'newstable'? Let other people find the holes first.
Working more hours != making use of your gift

This is your 100% capacity. You may be able to work for more hours, but a combination of your life situation (age, salary etc) causes you not to.

Once/if you are fired, that will teach ya.

If you don't like how this sounds then grab that feeling and challenge yourself.
I don't get how this is different than an in-order register-based VLIW architecture, except that it makes branching more difficult to deal with because you need to synchronize belt-deltas between branches (which sounds like the dual of a register move to me)?

I work daily with a VLIW architecture and the only place I ever see a plain "move" instruction is in loops. Everywhere else, the compiler just churns through the registers as if they were in a belt anyway – just the names are absolute instead of relative.

I can imagine this might simplify the processor logic some – results are primarily read from one of the first few belt locations, and are always written to the first location. "Register moves" aside, is this the primary benefit?
You're now afraid you're not as great as you've always thought (and they've always told you).

By procrastinating, you avoid an honest reckoning of your talents and testing of your limits. You can hold onto the idea of a certain kind of perfection, in yourself and your potential work product, a little longer... and then scramble to do something half-assed at the last minute.

If others then accept your results, you get the thrill of almost-failing but can still entertain the idea you're so great you don't need to put in sustained, honest effort. The essential-you still has the power to get away with things that others can't! (You were probably very good at deceiving your parents and other authority figures as a child.)

If your results are crappy, well, they're crappy only because of the procrastination. The "real you" still has boundless potential and "could be changing the world", it's 'just' the procrastination that's a problem. You're already punishing yourself about that with your internal narrative, and perhaps you even secretly hope others will finally give you negative attention, too -- both for the thrill of actual-failure and the hope of a confrontation that might force improvement.

You do have some awareness of the cycle you're in, and have tried a number of things... but not with consistent follow-through or sustained improvement.

As a single 21-year-old making $130K, you could afford elective psychotherapy. It'd help with rooting out the reasons you enjoy procrastination, and with the follow-through on changing habits. (Much of the advice here is good... but will you have a sustained relationship with the suggesters that helps evaluate progress over months/years? For a price, a therapist can provide that.)

You might also eventually want a more competitive and intimate work environment, someplace where you can't "bullshit your way through most stuff", because others would notice and/or real project failure would follow, rather than just continual muddling-through. (This doesn't necessarily mean over-the-shoulder monitoring or no entertaining diversions... but high-enough demands and close-enough collaboration that clock-killing shirking can't survive.)

Good luck, and be happy you're not this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbjypn9JtKE
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They're not straightforward.

There is an "official name" and it's on your registration certificate.

The thing about official names is that I have so many to choose from! Alien registration certificate? MCKENZIE PATRICK JOHNATHAN. No kana because town hall called up the local immigration authorities and heard "'Nicknames' are not required for the administration of Japanese immigration law and accordingly should not be registered. You should only register him under the exact name printed on his passport." (This is official policy, but many local government authorities ignore it, including half of the clerks at Ogaki. I drew the short straw on my most recent visit though and "had to change.")

Mr. Short Straw did not, however, actually use the name written in my passport, because some genius at the US Passport Control Center thinks Irish people get an extra space in their last names and, after substantial argument with town hall, I was able to convince them that a lifetime of being addressed as Mc-san would be very inconvenient for my wife and I.

But wait there's more! As a result of marriage the McKenzie household finally exists on the books in Japan as a 戸籍, whereas before it was just little ol' me happily residing here as a foreigner. An hour of investigation with a totally different part of the Ministry of Justice later, Town Hall refused to register a 戸籍 with Latin characters, and was actually able to produce an authoritative Least Frequently Asked Questions At Ogaki City Hall internal guidelines document on what to do in the event of international marriages. So my "official" name in that part of the system is different: ミッケンジー、パトリックジョナサン. Mr. Short Straw remarked, direct quote, "Cripes, that seems like an inconvenient name to go around with. Have you considered just changing it? I've got the forms and I'm pretty sure you could be Tanaka Taro by the end of today." (Bonus points: We filed a name change for Ruriko at the same time as getting married, and hers is based on what's written in the 戸籍 and her　住民票, which gives us the wonderful circumstance where "Wife took husband's name after marriage but, important note, their names will still fail naive string compares... well, some of the time, depending on which agency and what data source we're querying.")

But wait there's more! City Hall is my single point of contact for Japanese Social Security, Japanese national insurance, and the Gifu prefectural revenue office. I think I count four different official names there unless one or more decided to change policies recently. Gifu extends its apologies but it is physically incapable of handling sole proprietors with given names which are 7 letters long because, quote, "Who does that to a child?!", so Kalzumeus Software is on the books as being owned by MCKENZIE P.
Most basic calculus courses clear them up by around the time they introduce students to the concepts of limits.
Good Sir! That's the fuckin' funniest thing I've read in a while.