skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm relatively young and often fighting myself to get things done as well. I've taken steps to force myself away from distracting things and focus on stuff that needs to get done. For example, I've installed a website blocking extension on Firefox and blocked sites I'm drawn towards from 8am to 5pm, also uninstalled all other browsers (I have broken and installed chrome just to procrastinate, since uninstalled).

Right now I have a 1500 word paper to start but am stalling and finding a slow cooker recipe for dinner.

Nearly every day I am fighting myself to be productive, it can be pretty painful in its own way. I figure if I'm ultimately winning(being productive) then I am making some sort of progress in my personal growth.

What you said there is the main reason I know I have to push myself. I know if I don't then I'll just end up being disappointed in myself.

So, essentially, fear is what drives me.
And then we had lotus, outlook, meeting maker
I would love to see your take on this dependency graph, no matter how subjective and incomplete it turns out to be.
Chrome OS Invades Windows 8
Do you presume they won't?
What Irrational Games' closure means for the industry
The deleterious health effects of cigarette smoke is the burning plant matter and not the nicotine, so it wouldn't be surprising if marijuana were in the same ball park of dangerousness.

Related is the danger of smoke from ordinary wood fire, see: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion
I am sorry, I have a video game addict in the family and he is not very social when it comes to real life.
This seems to be a reasonable starting point:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/end-user-devices-...
use strict? jshint / jslint your code?

This doesn't justify playing a guessing game and skipping semicolons just because you think you know all the rules about not using them.
You can continue downvoting this comment, but I stick by it because it is an honest expression of my feelings.
While this would be the ideal, having too many options is kind of a hassle for third party developers.

I mean, you test on the latest version of Ubuntu, then the LTS version, then with Gnome3, MATE and Xfce, then with Kubuntu and Xubuntu, better test all of those in 32 bit as well as 64 bit, and with free and nonfree drivers for Intel ATI and nVidia graphics cards, and you're sick of testing before you've even got off the major Ubuntu variants.

Or you don't test like that, and I find I can't get Google Earth to work, or I get VPN software that can't disconnect properly if I use the Gnome3 network manager, or any of a dozen other annoyances.
Oh, yes, because showing the help entries first when entering the application clearly is the right idea.

And surely that is why all the text-entering applications in the world have followed vi's lead.
Days after Facebook deal, Whatsapp is down again
I don't think you will find too much argument from people that want it legalized that they would not like marijuana taxed at a normal rate.

I just think that it is a battle to fight another day. It is hard to argue that the poor are worse off buying marijuana legally rather than illegally, especially when the prices start to fall below what you would pay on the streets which it will as soon as the supply is able to meet the demand. Supply is pretty low because the only companies who have licenses are medical marijuana companies that already had a license, more companies will become licensed soon.

Added to the fact that in Colorado I think anyone is currently allowed to grow a small number of plants for themselves without being licensed and they can end up not paying any tax.
Ask HN: Are data markets a bust?
It does not seem like data markets are taking off despite the initial excitement around them. Where do you think this market is heading?
On Obamacare. My understanding is that the Obama administration originally tried to justify the law under the commerce clause, and when that failed used taxation as a (relativly) long shot strategy.
Looks like iTunes, which happens to be a product that I truly dislike. I'd rather see some differentiating features indicated front and center, and not a derivative-seeming screenshot.
> In Colorado, the first $40M in taxes each year are required to be allocated towards school funding, per the state constitution.

Won't this end up like lottery funding "education" in most states? [1] A guaranteed $40M in funding to schools means the legislature will simply reduce funding by $40M and move the balance around the general fund to other initiatives.

I'm not arguing additional tax money is bad, but we shouldn't pretend this will product a windfall of available money for the Colorado school systems.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/mega-m...
They provide a citation!

There are multiple uses of it in Google search results.
The first example won't crash if the rvalue preceding the IIFE is a higher-order function (specifically, one that outputs a function).

A relatively rare scenario, but a brutal one to debug.

As for errors caused by extra semicolons, they can be weird, but I don't think I've ever actually hit one in practice. They'd also be a little easier to spot, since you tend to develop a reasonable instinct for where semicolons belong.
Re #3. Dude - you broke my browser with that link :(
I love how he did the about page, it has everything I'd want to know, neatly done!
>> I agree that Yanukovich is a criminal, but he is an elected president, elected by the people of the country and is the lawful authority. What is happening now is an upheaval.

Wasn't he also lawfully voted out by his own people?
> Regarding the health aspects of marijuana, we of course lack the wealth of knowledge that we now have on the detrimental effects of tobacco on pulmonary function and lung cancer risk.

Knowledge is potentially unbounded, but I wouldn't say we "lack" anything. Marijuana is probably the single most well-studied substance on the planet. Most FDA-approved drugs have gone through only a fraction of the level of study and testing that marijuana has.

> The experts with whom I have discussed this (a few pulmonologists) usually ask about marijuana smoke in the same breath as tobacco smoke, and consider it a probable carcinogen.

I've done a lot of research on this topic; unfortunately it's on another hard drive at the moment, but thankfully it's a very easy topic to research yourself.

Marijuana itself is not carcinogenic - in fact, it has cancer-fighting properties in some cases, and could be used as an aid in treating cancer directly, not just symptomatically. Consuming marijuana in edible or vapor form possesses no risk of cancer.

Interestingly, there have been a number of studies on heavy marijuana users (who smoke marijuana), and by and large, they have failed to conclude that even moderately heavy use of (smoked) marijuana can be linked to lung cancer. This phenomenon is well-known enough that it has spawned its own set of associated explanatory theories, and studies investigating those.

Obligatory XKCD disclaimer: https://xkcd.com/882/
How is this different from Raptr.com ?
I'm going to speculate that this is a very strategic move from Facebook. Remember BlackBerry Messenger? one of the early selling points of the phone was that BBM let you communicate for free, instantly, with people all over the world. It was pretty revolutionary at it's time.

Facebook is already becoming the world's phonebook. Connect with someone and you have a way to contact them.

Facebook is also heavily pushing it's messaging app on the main Facebook app. I think that WhatsApp will be integrated with (or replace) Facebook messenger.

This combination builds a powerful base for an eventual Facebook phone with a free data/voice plan (the phone would have a base price, but service would be free thanks to the sale of ads ala Kindle Special Offers). Think about it -- if you could call, text, and message all of your contacts, for free, from within the Facebook app, why wouldn't you do it?

If Facebook follows that strategy, they will get their 19 billion out of this deal for sure.
Well then you really can't talk about a "meritocracy" with a straight face. Unless you define "merit" to mean "your parents have lots of money", which is a big part of how many people would argue "merit" is truly defined in the "real world" (along with race and gender).
Fully agree, I met quite a few of those egos already.
The only game I have played in the last year that wasn't on Steam is Minecraft, which I launch via Steam and get the Steam overlay.

I too don't see the point of this. Gaming has expanded to the point where "a social network for gamers" is called "Facebook" or "Twitter." "A social network for core gamers" is called "Steam", and as it happens they are also printing money and making little money hats with the money they printed because holy shit that's a lot of money.
And yet we build roads.
How about quad copter cat?

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2012/06/05/the-web-is-full-of-wtf-tax...
Don't assume that all gamers are the same any more than all programmers are.
And I have a drunk in my family. Does that mean that anyone who has a couple beers hates people?

Come on.
iPod 4g, 6.1.5. Vulnerable.
I find anecdotal evidence to be more valuable.
There are page numbering on every 2 pages in the top right/left corner.

But I am not referring to these numbers.

Here is the "12345" sequence on 49v: http://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f49v/0.5/0.5/2.50 (top left corner, read top-to-bottom)

Here is the "alphabet sequence", on 57v: http://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f57v/0.5/0.5/2.50

at least the second & third from outside circles have repeating patterns of symbols.
It looks a bit like a substitiution code key to me.

For reference, the page numbering you mentioned can be seen here, "57" in top right corner:
http://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f57r/0.5/0.344/2.50

However I have not managed to look through much at all of previous research on this document. Just sharing my thougts.
One guy that isn't very social and is 'addicted' to video games doesn't mean that all gamers are like this.
In all honesty, making something that can solve your own problems might be the most effective validation you need. Chances are there's others like you out there. And they're probably closer than you think.

Just a thought.
That's interesting, I didn't know about the "water tanks" code word. A fun bit of related trivia: those early WW1 tanks were piloted by navy sailors and, at least officially, were called "landships".
I would love to see an out of browser version of Hangouts, but this is definitely nice to have.
The interest on Harvard's $32B endowment could pay its students' tuition in perpetuity
Maybe makers can stop bundling so much crap now?

I'm glad there's enough heat to get the hold behemoth on their toes, but yeah, chromebooks are great because they are appliance laptops.
That's fine, but consider that perhaps your feelings aren't reflective of reality.
> I'm not arguing additional tax money is bad, but we shouldn't pretend this will product a windfall of available money for the Colorado school systems.

Nobody is - the point is that any attempt to repeal the law down the line can be viewed as a cut to the education budget.

The point of the clause is not to generate revenue for the school system; it's to create political friction against reversing the law.
Serious or ironic?
So steam is good, right?

Maybe, this is the social network aspect of steam, but for Playstation, Xbox, Wii etc.

I'm getting really tired of all this pessimism on HN. I wish pg would institute the "if you don't have anything nice to say stfu" rule.
That's awesome in a way. But this being Open Source you can just download the sources for Vim 7.4 in the future and use it on UnixWare 7.1.0.

While the rest of us (and maybe you, yourself) on Ubuntu 15.10 can use Neovim with all the cruft taken out.
Another one is just outbidding the competition, but that probably falls within #2 (via estimation what the acquisition of the company by the competition would do to your company in the long run).
Well, I have a background in both.

Before getting my first UNIX contact, via Xenix in 1994, I was already fully comfortable with the GUI world of Amiga and later on PCs. Including GUI alternative environments like Smalltalk and Oberon.

So, although I do master the CLI, I rather spend my time in the cosy GUI world.
I think it says "playing other games"
Gamers like to chat (and argue) with their friends about games a lot and I can see the value in this sort of service. I love to talk about games, but I don't want to clog my Facebook wall with discussions about it and annoy my non-gamer friends.

Having to manually update what you're playing is a weakness that could be fatal to this social network. There's so much good data about what people are playing on Playstation, Xbox, 3DS, and Wii U locked away and inaccessible. It's unfortunate that there's no easy way to share that.

My own friends and I have in the past attempted to start a sort of "game playing book club" where we'd write emails back and forth about our thoughts while all playing the same game. It was tough to keep going in an unstructured format via email however. Maybe it'd be easier with something like this.
It's a weird situation (urging for changes, meeting, agreeing on some terms then immediately breaking the agreement).

I guess I understand why they broke the agreement (keeping Yanukovich until December is, well, quite contrary to what protestors seek), but what I really fail to understand is why they ever agreed to that.
"We are getting 100 new registrations every second."
The opposition signed an agreement only to break it the next morning. How could anyone trust the new leaders of the country if this is how they ascend to power?

Maybe they can trust the elected new leaders after free and fair elections are delivered as Ukrainian MPs have voted to hold early presidential elections on 25 May?

It's right to be apprehensive and perhaps even suspicious in the case of the violent overthrow of a government, because things can easily spiral out of control or be taken over by a faction, but it doesn't always end in tragedy or dictatorship. I'd say the fact that demonstrators have left the parliament to pass laws and proclaim new elections is a good sign.
Are you comparing ChromeOS to a sliderule?

Edit: downvoters - I genuinely don't understand the analogy here - windows is a superset of ChromeOS that runs on similar hardware so I really don't see which is which. I picked ChromeOS for my question because it's simpler than windows, and so more likely to be the sliderule in the computer vs sliderule analogy.
If you're using C++ exceptions you're in serious trouble.

Sorry, but I'm going to call you in turn on that one.

Of course there are some unwise things you can do in the presence of the C++ exception mechanism, and 15 or 20 years ago plenty of us did them. I think probably Herb Sutter deserves more credit than anyone else for drawing attention to these things, but the point is valid in any case.

However, we've figured out a lot since then, and for a long time writing exception-safe code from scratch in C++ has been quite straightforward. Just follow the common idioms, which mostly boil down to "use RAII for anything that needs cleaning up".

The biggest difficulties with exceptions in C++, IME, generally come from trying to retrofit them into code that was written without exceptions in mind. If your existing code doesn't necessarily follow even basic good practices for writing exception-safe code, the WarGames rule applies.
Sorry, this should read "the anniversary of their birth actually falls on the day after or day before"

If you're born the year before leap year early enough in the day, leap year makes the anniversary of your birth move to the previous day.

Needless to say, time can make your brain hurt.
this pattern is structured to avoid the use of an additional stack (local) variable to track a condition, and to skip superfluous execution of code once that condition is detected.

i've used it myself to optimize inner loops of very simple un-accelerated graphics rendering code (which sped it up considerably, since it is potentially skipping many levels of unnecessary execution on the cpu, millions of times), but i agree with some posters here, using it in a security context like this is a bit daring.

still, having said that, this bug really is an indictment of the testing process and not really bad style per se.
It seems like he may be making a play to get this acquired by Google so that they can offer a desktop app. That's why the branding. I can't think of a better way to get Google's attention than to blatantly violate their trademarks - though it might be the legal department, not M&A, that reaches out to him :-)
"We all know that DNA and genes mean nothing for success."

Actually, in the Patriarchy, they do.

(ducks & runs)
Well, when users are doing that, you can be sure that the competition will be in a world of pain!
Would be cool to see!
The image files of the Google logo are copyrighted.
> The book goes through the studies that are touted as the most demonstrable difference in the sexes (tests on empathy)

Touted as such by whom? It sounds like just Baron-Cohen et al. Your comment gave the impression that "all" studies of gender differences have been refuted.

The most well-known, replicated, large effect study that I'm aware of I searched for and didn't find any reference to in her book. http://www.elainehatfield.com/79.pdf
Quite true. Real improvements to educational opportunity need to start much, much earlier.
OpenSSL was written by monkeys: http://www.peereboom.us/assl/assl/html/openssl.html
The point being that you have the option without facing felony conviction for exercising the option.
>I think the concern was that we're just replacing illegal cartels with legal cartels.

If that means fewer bear traps and less rat poison in our national parks, it's a win as far as I'm concerned.

>Second, vice taxes tend to be regressive, the poor pay a higher percentage of their incomes. Some of the "education lotteries" (state lotteries that benefit education) are basically mechanisms for transferring wealth from the poor to the rich(er). Poor people buy the lottery tickets and the tax revenues go to fund college scholarships for middle and upper-middle income kids. That's not socially healthy.

There's nothing wrong with taxing stupid.
I wonder how its doing in WA state.
Data Privacy, Machine Learning, and the Destruction of Mysterious Humanity
Outside of the US, texting across different carriers often cost money. WhatsApp is a better messaging service because it is so light-weight and provides users with exactly what they want. They just want to TEXT. Users just want the simplest app to just text. And WhatsApp is much preferred because it loads much faster than fb messenger and resembles the traditional texting experience.
So they did! Their first citation [1] from the American Lung Association even takes it a step further:

"Other common names for waterpipes include [...], and
hubbly-bubbly."

They even cite a study entitled "Hubble-bubble (water
pipe) smoking: levels of nicotine and cotinine in plasma, saliva and urine". [2]

This rabbit hole goes deep!

[1] http://www.lungusa2.org/embargo/slati/Trendalert_Waterpipes....

[2] Shafagoj YA, Mohammed FI, Hadidi.KA., Int J of Clin Pharmacol Ther 2002 Jun; 40(6): 249-55.
It's great that Microsoft finally feels threatened by something, but I wouldn't use Windows even if they gave away their machines for free.
to crab, you mean? :)
Tank #7, you are now known as tank #22347.

Tank #1 and tank #22347, report to the commander for the orders related to your suicide mission ...
The thing is that the president, that had just been overthrown was elected on "free and fair elections". I am watching the live stream from Maidan right now, and people from the stage say that the age of dictatorship is finally over. Noone seems to remember that at the first Maidan in 2004 people had similar euphoria. I am worried that perhaps in another 10 years we will see a new dictator being thrown over by the angered crowd...
No, Winer did not invent RSS. Please know your history before spouting nonsense. Winer pushed RSS into the mainstream no doubt. But he wasn't the inventor, in any sense of the word.
Microsoft VC++ has a -Wall warning level too, and it really does mean all warnings. Each major version of VC++ potentially introduces new warnings to -Wall.
This is constructive criticism, not pessimism. If a product posted on HN is totally worthless, should we all just be optimistic about it and praise it anyway? (Not saying DPADD is worthless, just using an analogy.)
It's basically like brewing beer. It's a skill with labor, knowledge, and experience required to get the desired output.

Outdoor requires less moving parts. Still a lot of variables, especially considering you can drive to the store and have your pick ;)
Totally agree. They can't do anything. Nobody is afraid of Russia in Ukraine. It's too big for them
Not a random guy. Just a guy that once said apple was dead, and called the iPad a complete failure when it was released. Not a random guy, just a guy that has no idea what he's talking about.
can someone tell me when "html 5" started meaning "javascript"
Google wouldn't need to acquire the project if they wanted a desktop app. It's just a client ... nothing Google engineers couldn't handle.
Now that the expectation of crapware has been set, manufacturers will probably pocket the savings instead of passing them on, while continuing to include crapware.
Am I reading that correctly? You are saying that poor people are stupid?
Enhanced IP: IPv4 on steroids, allowing for 2^56 addresses
It seems the trolls have arrived.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/52
Incidentally, the Steam API seems to let you pull that information. (I never really got a handle on the API myself, but I was just using it to find games that everyone in my group owned.)
Your Twitter Conversations Fall Into One of These Six Categories
Right - an embedded webview with some window dressing. But it seems like they don't want to handle it, as they've made clear. So why not shell out a few bucks for one that's already made?
Your first paragraph does not gel well with the idea of democracy: rule of the people.

> I agree that Yanukovich is a criminal, but he is an elected president

In my book that's on oxymoron. Not only is he a criminal, but he committed crimes while in office, abusing the powers of his office. Moreover, due process was followed to remove him. He was not dragged out and shot like some other dictators usually are. This is not an upheaval, this is correction. Once again, Ukraine does not have a strong judicial branch to oversee constitutionality of what's happening. People taking to the streets and demanding change is a part of the process, not an exception.

> Also, an entirely separate matter is, who is going take the power now. I seriously doubt that the new ruling class would be any better for the country than Yanukovich and his gang.

I think it is hard to do worse than him. In either case, if they are worse, it will not take a long time for the crowds to come back. Also, the change on Friday was to restore the 2004 version of the constitution where the parliament has much more power and the president has less, so whoever becomes the president will not be in the same position as Yanukovych was just in.