skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend "The Now Habit" book. I particularly like the "unschedule" trick. Instead of scheduling works and ending up procrastinating, schedule for fun activities instead and fill the unscheduled time with work. I'm not sure about you, but I have flex working hours (I'm a freelancer) so I can get this trick work for me.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Now-Habit-Procrastination-ebook/dp...
A Step by Step Guide to Migrating a TeamCity Instance from One Server to Another
Space junk mostly burns up on reentry.
We don't actually know that though, considering how quickly government forces swept it away. The information came from the government.

I'm not trying to say anything, I'm not a believer and I really don't care about this stuff.

All I want to point out is that there is no way for anyone here on HN to know what it was for sure. There is only trust in the media, who trust in a press release, from the government.
Almost all of it is small enough. And orbiting junk is monitored really closely (so we can time rocket launches to avoid it), so when anything large enough to reach the ground comes down (most prominently Mir: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit_of_Mir), people know in advance.

Hey, there's even a schedule: http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/upcoming-...
I'll celebrate with you on Friday the first when this is actually implemented.
OT, but on the .NET Framework versioning, the support lifecycle of 2.0/3.0/3.5 is a mess that needs to be cleaned up:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2696944

The lifecycle policy of 3.5 SP1 should also be applied to 3.0 SP2 and 2.0 SP2, for example.
As soon as I saw the picture of it on their linked sites (see rangibaby's comment) I was like "that looks like every homemade space camera I've seen on youtube."

May have been a "weather monitoring device" rather than a homemade space camera, same difference. Definitely human-made (polystyrene, circuit boards, string.)
You really think gangs will buy legal weed, including all the taxes?
Ask HN: Corporate vs Startup Programming Jobs
Has there been any programmers here that have worked in both a corporate and a startup setting?
If so which did you prefer and why?
When you say extremism in the US do you mean regarding social or economic policies?

(looking at things from the UK)
> So you're saying that a woman posted photos of firecrackers

M-66 explosives that look like firecrackers.
You don't need an special "regulation" to not put arsenic into anybody's food. Arsenic is poison, and poisoning one's food is attempted murder. Laws against murder existed well before Iron Age, so there's no need for lawmakers to sweat too much about how to regulate such thing.

If you go to a restaurants where only thing that is preventing them from being rat-infested is government I suggest changing you patronage to a better place. Your home, I suppose, is not rat-infested, yet how often the government checks it? Somehow you manage to keep rats out of your home without the government, don't you? Why do you think everybody else can't do the same? Are they, unlike you, lack some important parts in their brains that allow them to function independently? I doubt it.

>>> At the same time it needs to be the good, useful type of intervention that protects citizens against the abuses of the marketplace.

Marketplace is by definition a voluntary interaction, and participants in voluntary interaction can claim abuse only in one case - when one of the parties were fraudulent and did not deliver their end of the bargain. In this case, indeed, the government needs to step in and enforce the deal - or provide some other satisfactory resolution. But that's not what current law code is doing, it is very far from it. It actually tries to mold the marketplace into the shape and form that politicians prefer, and that's where most of the abuses come from.
Thank you for this! Brought some perspective on why I have an intrinsic push to want to fail.
Unable to edit this any more, but the patch has been applied http://bugs.python.org/issue18472#msg194144
Nope, he's asserting that the founders come from privileged groups. Punching up is acceptable, punching down is not.
That's not true though. Zeno's paradoxes are all pretty easy to resolve using first-year calculus. They certainly don't prove that time or space is discontinuous.
> the cost of signing the contracts with a million little players would be too dificult.

Isn't it entirely up to the patent holder how the licensing process works? You could make it as simple (and cheap) as buying software online. So what if some people wouldn't pay? As long as most do, you're fine.
Looks like the (very impressive) editor on their Try F# site (which serves as a great introduction to the language, providing you with a scratchpad/REPL and output window for in browser coding): http://www.tryfsharp.org/
I mean text that approaches natural language if not natural language. I think something like Inform 7 is far more likely to be adopted by that audience than a visual graph that is just an abstraction of loops and functions. I think the benefits of a textual language matching a domain are much greater than a general-purpose visual programming language.

If it targets, say, a visual learner, I think a graph language won't help unless they are already visualising the program as a graph.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/07/31/samsung-sma...
Some rather old perl I wrote to address this problem when naming things internally:

https://github.com/sneak/Generate-Codename/blob/master/lib/G...
Well, gosh, your life is meaningless drivel unless you fill those boxes with stuff! Produce! Nevermind what your wife and kids think of you, nevermind the laughter of your friends, the beauty you saw, the wonders you imagined. All those times you helped out a bum, cooked dinner, played with your niece: meaningless, if it got in the way of putting an achievement into a month-box! Produce! Produce! What are you going to have to etch on your tombstone if you don't have a dozen github URLs?
Get another job, with smart people equally smart or smarter then you. Work for a company that makes a product you can relate to. And work at a place the works as a team and follow the work hard and play hard way of thinking. The best place would be an agile environment where there is pair programming, stand ups and a real we do it together feel is , a place where you can learn from your co-workers and they can learn from you. The thing is is that you are not challenged so move to a place that challenge you. You are doing stuff that is to easy for you so you get bored.
Thing is this seems to completely ignore certain things - ASP.NET did not come out for a while - for a long time PHP (or, god forbid ASP) was the "reference architecture" - PHP3 was released in the late nineties, with 4 not long after. Django also came along time before Rails and did all that full-stack stuff.
A lot of swear words and superlatives.
bomb squid: best typo I've seen in a long time. the story provokes the imagination as-is, but gets a lot better with the addition of a bomb squid.
If you're using MySQL then to get real UTF8 you need to declare the column as some other funny name (UTF8MB4?).
Apple acquires battery-free Wi-Fi outfit Passif Semiconductor
I'll go along with "deliberately sensationalised." That's her job, after all. "Dishonest?" I think she believed what she wrote, when she wrote it.
$39m makes it an average-sized microVC/super-angel fund, likely to focus on seed investments in the $100k-400k range as part of a syndicated round.

For comparison, you have a host of small funds like Data Collective ($10m) and Crunchfund ($20), some mid-size seed investors like 500 startups ($30m) and SV Angel ($40m), and larger seed investors like OATV ($85m), Harrison Metal ($85m?) and Baseline ($100m).
I freaking love c9. But I will try out the MS thing.
I think so, too.

We have gaps in reality, the planck length, planck time etc.

Also, we have Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which tells us about the gaps in theories we can't fill.
There exist a NOx tax (since 1992) for polluting the air with nitrogen oxides when burning garbage. But how much a furnace pollutes when doing that, not sure at all.

The amount of polluted nitrogen oxides to the level of produced energy unit has dropped some the last few years, but not much.

The general nitrogen oxide levels in Sweden has been reduced since the 90s according to this source

In Swedish http://www.miljomal.se/Miljomalen/Alla-indikatorer/Indikator...

"Från 1990 till 2011 har utsläppen minskat från cirka 270 000 ton till cirka 145 500 ton. Det är en minskning på 46 procent."

"From 1990 to 2011, emissions have been reduced from about 270 000 tonnes to around 145 500 tonnes. This is a decrease of 46 percent."

Google translate http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

The source is from Miljömål (Environment Goal),site runned by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
I think it better to paraphrase Hanlon "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by lack of imagination." or something similar.

1) I suspect Chinese(!) names would have been validated.

2) I successfully applied for the same card via paper form 18 months later with guidance by a sales rep.
My technique: if it takes less than two minutes, just do it, then and there.

This is most effective when you split big tasks into smaller tasks.

Two minutes here and there really add up.
What about the young white dudes who are unemployed, or work in menial jobs, or dropped out of school and joined the army because they suddenly had to support a child, etc.? Do they deserve to be vilified because there is someone else who is successful and happens to be the same color and sex?
Integrating Instabug in-app feedback mechanism into your iOS Application
How well does that work with authorities and other entities that demand your birthdate? I mean, here they don't like it already when I give them a date in YYYY-MM-DD; I can't imagine what they'd do if one used FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=SA;BYMONTH=9;BYSETPOS=4 ...
Hiring, Like Dating, Sucks. Here's How Startups Are Fixing It
Sure, he's called Jacob Neilson and he wrote a shit tonne of books on the subject about ten years ago.

Although I understand that its the norm to ignore previous computing history for the illusion of inventing something, more so if it's pretty.
Norway mass killer wants to go back to school
This is not the only online IDE or the first :)

c9.io
codenvy.com
nitrous.io
This article is very low quality. The account of Zeno's paradox is wrong on pretty much every count, which makes it hard to trust anything else the article claims.
I wish you were right. The problem with successful people is, they think they know everything.
That article is biased and full of exaggerations (and possibly also outright errors). I live inside the city in Stockholm and have lived both in a suburb and a small town in another part of Sweden in my life. No one I've met spend much time "cleaning and sorting" their garbage. Sure, we might rinse out our cans and milk cartons before putting them in their respective bags underneath the sink, but that takes probably less than three seconds, and we do it mostly so that it won't smell. I've never met anyone that separates the paper from cans. Everyone I know would laugh at such ideas.

Furthermore, the kinds of things we recycle from day to day do not consist of more than 6 categories. Two colors of glass, metal (cans mostly), cartons, paper, plastic. Everyone I know collects this in their own home in paper bags, and then leaves them at a collection point close to their house when they get full. And of course, we don't normally take an extra trip to do this. I leave it on my way to the subway, other people might leave them when they take the car to work. It's really not much of an extra workload. I'm guessing I spend 15 minutes a month on my recycling.

Then we have more rare trash. Electronics, batteries, light bulbs, wood, paint etc. For the suburbs and small towns they have larger recycling plants in each municipality which you can drive to. They have shipping containers where you dump your old bikes, tv's, your large pine tree that you cut down to get some more sun in your yard, etc. A typical family might visit this place one to three times a year to dump some more hazardous or clunky trash.

If you live in an apartment complex (and possibly don't have access to a car) there's usually a room in the complex for all of these things. They have the plastic, glass, metal, batteries and electronics containers close to your own apartment.

For me who live in the city and don't have access to a car, there is actually a truck that comes around a few times a year for me to deposit these things. It has a few collection points close to me (within walking distance) and sends out a text message to my phone a few weeks before they're coming, besides having a schedule online.

Having been raised in this type of a recycling system, I'm always amazed by people, even in Sweden, who think it's too cumbersome. Sure, it happens that I forget to empty my recycling bins at the collection points some times, and then I do throw cartons and cans in my regular garbage (which from what I know is not illegal, btw). But in general there really isn't any noticeable overhead.
Willpower is a muscle, which uses the same resource as brain tasks (programming, arguing)[1] - let's call it "cognitive energy".

1) don't waste cognitive energy on silly tasks (games, arguing in comment threads, etc.)

2) practice exercising willpower - it's a muscle, you can train it to be better. Start by forcing yourself to complete a routine every morning (the trick with habit forming is to not give up after you miss a day.) examples of habits to form below.

3) look into mindfullness meditation[2] - this can help you identify distracting thoughts as they arrive and practice ignoring them.

Meditating is a good habit to form as practice, and it will also help you get better at habits. You could also exercise on a schedule (and record when you do, including how heavy you lifted/how fast you were running). Eventually, with a stronger willpower-muscle, you'll be able to choose the fruit salad over the cake, even when you've just spent your 7.5 hours a day coding.

I've not found pomodoro to work for me as an easily-distracted person, it's better when you're prioritising work tasks (e.g. 25 code vs 5 email) and even then, 25 mins is too short for good programming "flow".

This is a hard problem, everyone has trouble with it. Good luck!

[1] http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124462 )

[2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindfulness-practical-guide-finding-... (US edition: http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-practical-guide-finding-fr... )
> We don't actually know that though, considering how quickly government forces swept it away.

> All I want to point out is that there is no way for anyone here on HN to know what it was for sure

Take another look at the last sentence. :P
Edward Snowden: The 45th President of the United States of America
>>That fancy CC form will NOT sell a single thing. It will however stop people from paying.
>Citation needed.

I'm getting pretty tired of this attitude. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for healthy skepticism, but if you can't grasp the basic understanding that the biggest hurdle to conversion is friction in the purchasing process then your in the wrong business mate.

This isn't rocket science.
Peace Corps.
> My party decided not to vote the whole bill, but only some parts

how does this work? if some parts get enough votes they are turned into law, but the rest of the bill scrapped?
ECMAScript 6 Modules: What Are They and How to Use Them Today
Developer's notes about OpenGL ES programming on Android
today I would say both. Specially the republican party that has started catering to the extreme right wing conservatives. Having lived most of my life in Uruguay and only moved to the US 10 years ago I am amazed on how quickly the political system here has devolved towards the extremes.
Hyperloop speculation – launch assist for electric aircraft
With Xcode it's just as bad as it looks. If you have multiple names with the same prefix you have to type it all or scroll in a list to select the correct item.

It even fails to complete types like NSString correctly when part of a method call. Not always of course, just when it gets confused, and then I have to delete and type again because the case is wrong.
Interview with Robert Sedgewick
I think you're asking about Limited Partners (institutional investors tends to refer to larger VCs, like Sequoia, accel, or a16z).

Off the top of my head, I'd guess around 15,000, such as endowments, trusts, rich families. Basically, anyone with a few hundred million dollars to invest.

I believe that getting into the top VC funds is very competitive and difficult, which implies to me that it's not the same LPs spreading it around. However, there are also funds of funds, which spread tens of billions from 10-20ish LPs across a range investment funds, and they would typically invest in a number of VCs.
Do 14% of Americans Really Suspect that President Obama is the Anti-Christ?
> Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.

The quote is from Göring at Nuremberg, but it holds true regardless.
Block hackernews. Block reddit.
1) Nothing is free. We pay the most taxes in the world.
2) We don't accept based on academic merit. We accept based on government unemployment programs.

Edit: Spello
Calculus doesn't resolve the paradox. It's just a tool, and it doesn't involve any literal division of anything into infinities. You're making a map vs. territory mistake.

[edit] i can't reply to monjaro's comment, so I'll put my reply here: does calculus prove that there are actually an infinite number of positions between any two positions?
I was thinking of making a Facebook chat client as a fun project, but this post made me reconsider.
Great initiative. Just that the UX should be something a 12 year old or a 70 year old should be able to use. The target audience is only restricted by the need for blood.
I got a great answer but I will write it later :)

For me the only thing that helps is intensive physical training - I am productive when I am out of my comfort zone and being deadly tired and miserable manages to do it. After training session I am almost in the flow already.
Having never heard of Jet Cooper, I thought it was a cute way of saying Shopify hired a guy named Jet Cooper.
It's actually the other way around - if space AND time is discrete Zeno Paradoxes are paradoxes, because you cannot have finite sum of infinite number of elements, if the elements can't get arbitrarily small.

So if anything Zeno proved (by contradiction) that space and time behave like they are continuous, at least for events in human scale (because arrow does move so our assumptions were wrong).

Now we see that this breaks at quantum level.
I think it will take off when people will be able to use "NFC rings" as their wallets, and it would have an easy to use UX. But there also needs to be NFC infrastructure in all stores.
I've had Wordpress cracked thrice under my watch by automated exploits. That's why I pay Sucuri $400/yr, simply to tell me when it's happened.

The first one used an admin flaw to edit articles directly. The latest used the theme upload capability to write themselves into every theme in the system. (Partly my fault for leaving that directory as writeable by the server). I don't recall what the 2nd one did.

Wordpress bundles security patches and bugfixes with the releases. You can't have them separately.

If you need a fix or security update the basic mechanism is "fuck you, upgrade".

Otherwise I wouldn't have upgraded for the past dozen versions or so.

Basically I have to split the risk between security improvements and data loss.

As you can imagine ... I am not a fan of Wordpress.
Seems okay to me - what precisely do you think they got wrong?
I would rather suggest a physical CAPTCHA device for the visually impaired featuring a revolving braille writing sheet of paper. Or maybe just a huge red button they would press to confirm that there is a real person sitting behind the computer.
How did this shit get on HN?
This is not a line, it’s a time period.
Theory of education systems is really complicated, and something I tried to read a lot about, and hypothesize about. I used to think along your exact lines as well. However, this is a very instrumentalist [1] approach to education.

I don't think this is terrible, but it has costs associated with it that will become apparent further down the road -- similar to how the existing education system born from the industrial revolution's needs has proven to. The system you have suggested has a prominent lack of means to introduce people to advanced theoretical physics, economics research, astronomy, abstract mathematics, etc, you get the picture. A generation without a hint of knowledge in the non-practical fields will function fine in the short-term, but it will lead to a stagnation of advancement until an external trigger brings it back about.

Essentially, as I'm guessing you're a hacker-hustler-type, you see the primary course of education to promote passion in "doing," and that's my first instinctual priority for education as well. But classically, education has had a role to do much more than just that (albeit extremely inefficiently) for many generations, and it could be detrimental to focus on only one educational priority of "learn to do things well", with a potential to lose being able to gain exposure to other kinds of intellectual commitments. Maybe it won't happen, but it's a real risk. Who knows what we may have lost already from generations past?

Of course, everyone in the world agrees that the "sitting behind desks competing on test scores forgetting all the knowledge and then stumbling through relearning the real world from scratch" model of today's education is broken and pretty stupid, but it's not that straightforward to fix, unfortunately. Your suggestion is definitely something a single school could adopt (and broad institutionalized educational requirements should be abolished), and I would love to send my future kids there over anything that exists today.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentalism
It's harmful for health.
I would say that 3 tends to be better than 4. This is because it allows greater agency and self-determination to the people you help, which in turn means a greater improvement to their life.

The only downsides I can see are (1) a soup kitchen may become a place for social networks to be established, which is also a benefit for those helped, and (2) the food-to-money ratio may be greater if a soup kitchen can buy the food in bulk (though then one might think about setting up systems where poor people can buy-in-bulk together).

As for 2, this option is actually feasible and the best of all four you have listed. It may not be possible to find a job of the same productivity as the average currently employed person, but you don't have to. As long as the productivity is positive (no matter how small), you get a benefit to society. And, obviously, the benefit to those you help by giving them a job is many orders of magnitudes higher than if you just gave them money, let alone just giving them food.
While I wouldn't rank el Reg as one of the most respectable of online publications, they're usually better than this. I suspect this article was written partly as a joke (to be ironic or just "tongue in cheek").
They say it is a weatherballoon, but how do we know it was made on this planet?

It could be a weather balloon from another planet containing aliens.