skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I found about hardware is that the prototype is only 10% of the effort. Sourcing components for mass production, government regulatory hurdles, and then that damn enclosure are 90% when everything goes right.

I can build all kinds of things with my arduino and all of those awesome little one-off function boards you can snag on ebay from china theses days. I can't build 10000 of any of them.
I once read something that Tim Ferriss had said in response to a similar question. I'm heavily paraphrasing, but he was basically asked how he had so much more discipline than most others.

He responded by saying that he doesn't have more discipline - he just creates environments that decrease his opportunities to fail (ie. get distracted) and increase his likelihood to succeed (ie. finish the work).

The idea is to not trust yourself and not give yourself the opportunity to fail. A concrete example of how I've personally put this to great use in my life is how I made it a habit to go to the gym:

When I was in college, I wanted to go to the gym regularly. Unfortunately I found that when I was in my dorm room and needed to get ready for the gym, I lacked the motivation to get out of a comfortable situation. What I began doing was taking my gym clothes to class and going straight to the gym after class. This required significantly less motivation on my part because I was already walking around campus, sometimes even passing the gym by on the way back to my dorm. The step leading up to that also required very little motivation - putting clothes in your backpack. The result was that I created a sequence of events that each had a small likelihood of failure. 10 years later, going to the gym is my favorite hobby.

Another example related to getting work done came about when I was trying to work on my side projects from home. It never worked. I'd always want to browse the internet, watch tv, play video games, or spend time with my girlfriend. Starting work when my Xbox was in the next room meant summoning a monumental amount of motivation. Instead what I started doing was going to a local coffee shop or coworking space. It doesn't take that much effort to just go to a public space with wifi (and if it does, you can use the advice above). Once there, you have put yourself in an environment where everyone else is working. Aside from noise, there are fewer distractions. In addition, you'll look like an asshole if you're sitting in front of your laptop playing on Reddit for 4 hours while everyone around you is getting shit done.

If you can make a habit of completing those small triggers that lead to bigger outcomes, you'll eventually have gained a much more significant habit.
Live upgrading 1000s of servers from ancient RedHat to 10 year newer Debian
Did you read the article? Yale not only attacked the authors of the site, they used their web content filtering software to block it as malicious. Not much can be done about that and still retain you users.
I'm not trying to be snarky here; but systemd is hosted on freedesktop.org,
is it not? That is its primary place of development as well, no?
Admittedly, I've always associated systemd as a project as part of this
nebulous "effort" to bring linux on the desktop forward. I also assumed
that's why they went to the trouble to integrate systemd into dbus so heavily.

I have read some of Lennart's essays -- but I generally strongly disagree
with his conclusions, so I haven't been paying attention for a while. I
think his solutions are over complicated and rely on too much impenetrable
technology to actually save me any time. The arguments have been made
elsewhere, so I won't go into it that deeply, but I think departure from
the "unix way" is folly and will only make administration more difficult.

As far as getting used to it goes; this is still unix. I can still
install whatever initd I like after the fact. Which I do. Yes, this
means I have to do more work than I would have to do if I relied on vendor
packages, but we generally use custom packages for all our critical services
anyways. Since we're going to have to deal with it whether or not we're
using systemd, and we're already rolling out a non-standard initd to our
distributions, we don't feel we have to make any investment in learning
systemd.
> And the iterative approximations do not converge for more complex systems in the lifetime of the universe

I'm not arguing computational efficiency, here. Just "possibility". For the most part, say, a chemist like me (if I even resorted to a computational package) would do one or a handful of rounds, take a look, and say, 'that's good enough for me'. In the end, on the scale of things like microtubules, a first order approximation of whatever 'quantum effect' needs to be accounted for will probably suffice because randomness from just about everything else (e.g. brownian motion) will drown things in the noise.
As a recent nyc -> sf transplant, i think the best short term solution to making living in the bay area more affordable is to run one track of bart back and forth from 12am - 4am. SF needs a brooklyn, a real brooklyn, that you can get to when your shift at the restaurant/bar/other-service-job ends at 1am.

Public infrastructure is a public good, and service industry workers can't be expected to cab it to oakland when their shifts end. Heck, the bikelane on the new bay bridge segment ends before treasure island. I could NEVER have lived in brooklyn if the non-auto infrastructure was the way it is between sf and oakland.
Maybe that is the reason why Clojure has growing industry adoption while scheme does not. Clojure used to have automatic promotion and all this stuff, but it was taken out in 1.3. BigInts are usful in a very small domain and Project Euler examples, not in many real applications.

If you could start fresh and reprogramm your VM, JIT and GC, it would probebly be good idea to do full numeric tower, but in the real world you have constraints and you cant be pure.
IBM to spend $1.2 billion to expand cloud services
define('OH_MY_THOSE_FLAG', FLAG | FLAG | FLAG | FLAG)

But then again, my name gives me special powers.
Excellent post. When you say "false positive" you could substitute "confounding effect" to use a more specific term for what you've described, by the way.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were indeed spying. But it might been pure coincidence. Can anybody from Spotify or Rdio shed some light?
I remember when "SICP in X" was a thing some years ago. I thought I might as well do a version in a language I use, so I found a text version of the exercises and got to work. I lasted all of 1.5 chapters before passing out from boredom. If translating a bunch of examples of what you can do with lexical scope and singly-linked lists is your thing, go for it, but I'll pass.
You're ignoring the crux of the issue here.

The issue is not "I want to move to San Francisco", the issue is "I've lived in this neighborhood my entire life, and now I can't afford to any longer." Let's not even get into how expensive it is to actually move, all of the complication and complexity involved in moving a family with children to a different school district, all of the paperwork that needs updated... it's nontrivial.

You shouldn't be surprised when people who are currently being colonized against their will and having their entire lives thrown into upheaval without any upside are a little bit upset about it.

(I live in the Mission.)
I've picked up side gigs from Hackathons. Typically if you win you'll get a few business cards that can turn into leads. Sometimes your teammates hire you for their own projects.
They can build families and lives somewhere else if they can't afford to live here, right? Do people have a fundamental right to raise a family in San Francisco rather than Omaha or Austin? Are other places so horrible that we should use taxpayer money to ensure that the largest number of people possible can live in SF? And we should make it easier for the moderately low income to live here rather than people with higher income because ... why? Because people who work in technology don't deserve to raise their families here? Because despite education and hard work we really should make the ability to raise a family in a great area a random selection?

I actually think the car analogy is useful. Not subsidizing housing in San Francisco does not deny people the ability to start families. They can still start them in many other fine places that they can afford. Not driving a BMW or Tesla doesn't deny people the ability to get to work. A Honda or Toyota does that just as well.

NOTE: "Affordable housing" does not apply exclusively to people who have lived in the area for N years previously as far as I know, and even if it did I don't see why that would be fair. If you rent, you rent. When your lease is up, if the price goes up, that's how rent works. Also, there are already rent control policies that would serve this purpose.
I believe you are missing a fair amount of logic...
I read the headline. I thought "Penrose." I clicked the link. I thought "Yep".

In some respects, the internet never changes. If only there was quantum corroboration for objectivism.
Whatever you think of their theory, Roger Penrose is most definitely a physicist who has done meaningful work in various subfields of physics.
Also I would add a simple: "Login as user xyz"
Hackers attack home appliances, including your refrigerator
I used an ad blocker until I started showing ads on one of my websites.

Now, I click ads on blogs I read frequently and tools that I use and support. Gittip and Flattr (and Bitcoin) could replace this behavior if they had wider adoption.
To my recollection, most people disagreed with said statement. The thought was that any kind of quantum coherence would not hold for a nonnegligible time, because hey, decoherence. This was before we started seeing proof of quantum effects biology at all.
Seeing the type of content, the character in question might very well be a BOM.

You can identify them by pack("CCC",0xef,0xbb,0xbf), encoding to "&#65279;"
How does this website relate to this repo [1]? I was going to contribute some fixes to the page, but when I cloned the repo, I found significantly different content. I'm also confused as to why the website [2] says that it is based on itself [2] at the bottom of the page.

[1] https://github.com/braziljs/js-the-right-way
[2] "Based on a work at http://jstherightway.org"
Perhaps the person should have bought a house instead of rented? If they're renting (I still rent) they should understand that rents go up and they may not be able to afford to live there.

Let's say they can't buy. I am not indifferent to their problem, but I don't see why having lived in a place for a given length of time should mean that person has a right to live permanently in a place they can no longer afford. And I don't see why it should deny someone who can afford to live there the ability to do so.
> Now instead of publishers losing revenue to AdBlock, it's advertisers.

But if one simple trick thinks that I'm going to click on their ad, they're simply making a bad bet on me.

The problem is striking a balance between ads that are appropriate to a site (based more on site demographics) versus ads that spy on your browsing habits whilst within their ad network fence.

I don't mind an ad for adafruit on a diy electronic site. I do mind a dvor knife ad following me around to every. goddamned. site. I. visit.
All of them.

Fine print: "fog" is also a type of cloud.
You are correct. However I don't know of anything he's done in recent years that could be considered legitimate physics.
Orbeus announces breakthrough in visual recognition technology today
Based on the previous success of the ReKognition API, Orbeus is proud to announce the official launch of a new feature today: concept recognition.<p>Concept recognition supplements ReKognition’s existing facial recognition technology with object and scene recognition capabilities, making ReKognition more powerful and accurate than ever before. We invite you to try out the new feature here: http://rekognition.com/demo/concept or download our demo iOS app here: http://orbeus.com/rekoeye_inhouse/<p>Using the deep learning algorithm, ReKognition is currently able to identify 2,000 objects and scenes in images. Have suggestions or thoughts? We would love to hear them! Please email us at info@orbe.us
Meet the judges of Static Showdown
Squatters struggle to create oasis in rough Detroit area
You can decide to build a family anyway. It's harder to move a family, especially an extended family.
Really, raags as molecular vibrations? Now I've heard it all. Which wavelength is thumri?

At the risk of a terrible pun, as they say in Hindi, "Whose raag are they chanting to (alaapna)"?

Anharmonic in this sense does not mean "pentatonic scale" (or 6 or 12 tones). Anharmonic means I add a perturbation term to the harmonic oscillator and my sums over oscillator strengths end up evaluating differently. It is a common beginning exercise in QM and QFT to calculate anharmonic corrections for simple cases like phi^4 [1][2]

[1] http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kyodo/kokyuroku/contents/pd...
[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=AeOaij02QcwC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA...
Nevertheless...
I am reminded of Xah Lee's page on all things keyboard:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboarding.html
> Perhaps the person should have bought a house instead of rented?

Choices like these aren't even open to people who are affected by gentrification.

> And I don't see why it should deny someone who can afford to live there the ability to do so.

I, personally, don't feel that those with money should be able to run roughshod over those who don't.
>As a recent nyc -> sf transplant, i think the best short term solution to making living in the bay area more affordable is to run one track of bart back and forth from 12am - 4am. SF needs a brooklyn, a real brooklyn, that you can get to when your shift at the restaurant/bar/other-service-job ends at 1am.

That... sounds pretty great. As a bonus, it would make public transit usable for recreational use, and probably keep a bunch of drunks off the road.
People believe witchcraft math because they don't understand things like e^pi*i - 1 = 0, so they have no faith in their own reasoning.
Can you build a useful algorithm without data? That sounds awesome, I just have no idea how one would create something like that (except by starting with something like this)
Yes, those things are BAD - for the USER. For the website, those things are quite lucrative, because users click on exactly those kinds of things.

The ad industry's bad ADs are in response to 1 thing - clicks. If they didn't work, the industry would not do it.

I run an AdBlocker myself, and do not like crazy ads, popups, etc. personally. But don't mistake OUR dislike for those things with the reason they exist, because they work.
Good point!

The world is often times more complex than "left" and "right".
They mention that anaesthesia targets microtubules, hence stopping quantum process.

Anyone else wondering whether psychedelics enhance quantum processes (although I remember reading that LSD mechanism of action breaks links between neurons).
I also wouldn't mind if they would add some extra cars so it isn't standing room only during commute hours. How hard is it to add an extra car to an existing train? Raise my fare, I'll pay not to have to be packed in like cattle.
In this case, "worse" applies!

How courteous they are!
Most are. http://coinchoose.com lays them out for you.
I disagree that it is stealing. That is their form of monetizing, but as you said, they can choose not to provide an AdBlock user with service if they want.

It's my computer, and I choose (well, for the most part) what I download to my computer. It's on the website owner to decide not to allow that behavior.

Completely different from downloading copyrighted material, for instance, or from walking into a store and walking out with something. Closest analogy I could make is maybe reading a magazine at the rack instead of buying it and taking it home.
"Viewing ads is part of the deal if users want content to
be free, says Freitas."

I would imagine that a log of ad-blocking users are fine with paying for content if the price is reasonable (i.e. equivalent to the revenue a site gains from it's advertising sources). Any site owners complaining about ad-blockers is missing the opportunity to detect ad-blocking and try to sell that person an ad-free version of their service. Ideally this service would be a pay per view model, where I pay a fixed amount (like 5 cents to 10 cents per article read) or where I pay a fixed subscription fee (like $1 to $2 a month for unlimited articles).

I did the math a while back with NY Times online advertising revenue and I remember the value gained from non-paying users to be around 70 cents per month per user. I don't know about you, but I would happily pay 70 cents or even a full dollar or two for access to the NY Times ad free. Unfortunately, when a site does introduce an ad-free paid version they try to extract like 5x or more of the revenue they gain from advertising. I don't know about others, but when I encounter that type of gouging, I just look elsewhere for my news.

So Mssrs. Publisher, please offer a reasonable paid ad-free alternative or quit your bitching. Every ad you serve is an annoying distraction that distracts me, irritates me and slows down my browsing experience both in terms of bytes download and lines of javascript executed.

I am completely within my right to block all outgoing requests to any host I deem negative to my web browsing experience via my /etc/hosts/ file. If you happen to serve ads from those sites and I can't view them because I block them, that isn't my problem it is yours. Want me to pay, give me the ability to do so and be fair with your prices.

So long as you don't offer a paid service that I can buy and you support yourself via ads, you are not really considering me to be your customer, but your product. You are not in a position to complain when your product doesn't consent to being sold.
I had mixed luck with that, sometime it works but sometime it picks it up and gives me the past the limit message
>Plus I've never had a tv ad infect my tv and stop it from going to any other channel but CMT.

Funny story...there's a regional sports network who shows a 5-10sec image of their logo at the end of ad-blocks. When the channel was watched through the cable boxes provided by our local TV provider, the box would freeze. Either the logo image would be stuck and only audio would continue or audio would stop and video continue.

Not exactly the network's fault (we figured out that the compression they used lead to a buffer overflow in the cable box's decoding logic and figured out how to encode crash inducing video) but it was still annoying.
Fail Often, Fail Well
I agree with most of your bashing. PHP is a fucking mess, and non OO strings is a hangover vomit from C.

That being said, when there is a problem, there actually is a solution. PCRE actually works. Javascript, for instance, has no collation support at all as far as I can tell.

Personally, most of the problems with UTF-8 are mixed content issues.

The best fix is not the Python route, but rather just deprecating a bunch of stuff such as utf8_encode/decode. Throw a warning when any database connection is not utf8. Throw a warning when the OS is not setup to return UTF-8. It is more important that people run php in a end-to-end utf-8 environment, than changing the internals. Once people have a good environment, they will stop talking about strlen/strpos which are really not much of a problem. Maybe they should be renamed bytelen/bytepos, but php has too many of that type of problem to count.

99% of the UTF-8 problems don't exist if everything is UTF-8. Counting unicode code points vs bytes is not the real problem. The real problem is bullshit like 'SET NAMES utf8' / setlocale('LC_ALL','en_US.utf-8')

BTW, what language do you think gets this stuff right? Go looks promising, but it is brand new. I have problems with pretty much every language I know well: javascript/python/Objective-C/PHP
> I, personally, don't feel that those with money should be able to run roughshod over those who don't.

What other method of allocating scarce resources did you have in mind? Random selection seems less fair than high income, because income is at least somewhat correlated with producing value. I mean, if you disagree with this, you basically disagree with the free market. I agree our current market is imperfect but I don't think randomly gifting scarce housing space to people is better.
I once worked with a programmer who stood up from his desk, walked to the parking lot, and then kicked every single window out of his car. I guess he was a little stressed! But who knew? When the cops arrived, I was the only one who stood up for the guy.

In order not to fire him immediately, the CTO elected me take him to a psychologist. Guy invites me into the session, the sum of which was "go home on time, leave the computer off, and every night, walk until your feet hurt."

Within one week, he was well-rested, smiling and happy. I won't say back to his normal self, because he was a pretty weird dude!

When I felt I was burning out, I tossed my computers, reduced my belongings to a bag, and moved out to a farm to learn goat-herding. It was a deep, soul-recharging experience. I found that in my old city life, I was weak, dumb and blind. I couldn't think and I couldn't hear. When I left there, I felt like Moses, with all kinds of deep insights and shit. And I was healthy as an ox.

Unfortunately, not everyone will make such a radical change. They will have a bunch of excuses, or are looking for a more convenient solution. You know, the same kind of fear, feelings of obligation, and other flawed thinking which gets us into these things in the first place.

My friend, you need good food, sleep, time where you turn everything off, and plenty of exercise. Everything else is just a band-aid.

If the shit hits the fan, all you have is your family and your health, so you get yourself healthy. Scrub toilets and be grateful for it, if that is what you need to do. Level your pride and repair. Opportunity will be waiting for you when you are feeling better and ready for it.
The comment I was replying to is gone, and now my comment is sitting as a comment directly to this post.

So, for the record. I think this is great. I'm also a WP8 user.
Reminds me of this: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/13372/how-to-...
> I mean, if you disagree with this, you basically disagree with the free market.

I do disagree with the notion that a free market (not that such a thing has ever or will ever exist) always leads to socially optimal outcomes, yes.

> I don't think randomly gifting scarce housing space to people is better.

Nobody is suggesting random gifting.
Fifty Years of Quarks
I'm the desktop client lead for Syncplicity. We are an enterprise file synchronization solution. EMC bought us in 2012.

1) Not only do we let you remove shared folders from a user's account, I designed our remote wipe feature that can go and delete those files from users computers. (It's a best-effort approach.)

2) We also support remote wipe from devices as well.

3) I'm not sure what kind of encryption you're looking for. In general, encryption with cloud storage introduces support difficulties, and makes it hard to do web-based access. We allow you to host your files on your own servers, so that might provide enough security to address your concerns.

4) We do allow reverting a folder to a known date, but you need to contact support.

5) Unfortunately, our APIs aren't public. Our management tools are in use at many large organizations, though.
Please, don't make any long range decisions like school right now. Try a week of walking out in the sunshine and fresh air whenever you have time, instead of just wasting the spare time. This will help you sleep, and sleep will help everything.