skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that all browser based solutions have been nothing more than a nicotine patch for me.

The root of my issue is that I'm occasionally bad at managing my 'working memory' and worry too much about letting things go from it. I worry that if I let this cool new thing leave the forefront of my consciousness that I will never see it again. This fear causes worry and sadness.

I've been working recently to overcome this knee-jerk tendency.

At Work.
I limit myself to one browser for the internet. This includes work research, news, and also HN (cant' quit). It is closed completely at the end of the day. If there really was some work related site i need to follow-up on. I simply leave myself a note to follow up on the task and not the specific website. If I need to find that, i trust my future self to remember, or look it up in the history.

At Home
I'm less strict but still try to maintain one Chrome instance. I won't necessarily close it every night but I will review my open tabs before leaving. I try to make reasoned decisions to keep open, bookmark, or let go each tab. It's been a pretty successful project so far.

I consider in-built browser bookmarks to be all I need. If I bookmark anything, I assign it to some logical grouping of sites so I feel better about finding it later.

If I had some sort of magic button to whisk away my open tabs, I feel I would be missing out on a crucial activity; letting each thing go from my mind. I need to trust myself that if I really need this new framework for a future project, i'll find it if it's actually useful. I need to make decisions on whether to buy this thing or not instead of waffling and letting the tab rot.

At it's root, this is a human psychology problem and not a technical one.
-my 2cents
It's important to be explicit about this. If you're contradicting negative generalizations and stereotypes about age, then you shouldn't counter with another generalization.
Are those the only backups you take? I have all of my code stored in git, and my database (and assorted files) get backed up each night to aws. I figure a snapshot is my first line of defense, and aws is my backup in case this doesn't work.
No, jsonb will still update the whole value when you edit it. For now at least.
Except that's not what the evidence suggests...so Occam's Razor doesn't apply in this instance.
Flight MH370 'has been lost'
>They give estimates of days versus hours for even the simplest of asks, and when outsiders hear how long it took for our team to fix a bug or add a new feature, they are shocked.

Unless you're a developer who is familiar with the codebase, then you literally have no idea how long it should take to implement these changes.
PostgreSQL jsonb has the same problem in the actual document storage, with repeated keys. I believe it does better in the index, when you use the correct operator, but the table storage has the same type of overhead.
Huh? There were signals: That's how we know the plane took an extremely unexpected course and flew essentially until its fuel was exhausted. How does that imply a mid-air explosion?
Like I said, lesson learned.
I think this is largely a new internal storage format that is more performant.
Your Art Teacher Lied
Evil? Creepy? One of their employees was using hotmail to leak trade secrets. One of their own employees.
Basecamp DDOS blackmail attempt
Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer (2007)
One important difference is that you don't need to extract the values to create an index. E.g. in Mongo I believe you still have to decide which keys to index. A GIN index on top of jsonb in PostgreSQL will make it possible to do an indexed search on any key, not just those that are specified at create index time.
Solutions looking for problems
I've also noticed how very common it has become to find questions in the format "How to do [task]?" rather than "How do I do [task]?"

I strongly suspect that this has arisen from Google searching, where people naturally write their queries to complete the sentence "I would like some information about ________."
Hey I can understand one would like that service, but the price at which they are providing it is really high! As a swiss citizen, I'd never subscribe :s
Another important part about gist is that GIN has much higher overhead for tables that are frequently updated.
6 years. That's my favourite part. Kudos for sticking at it throughout when I'm sure there were times it felt less than certain it would work out.

Been working on my own startup for (what feels like) too long, having to actually earn a living in the meantime, so appreciate seeing another business go from seed to growth in a similar time scale.

People always laud the internet for allowing ordinary people to do all sorts of exceptional things. This is an example of one of those things, and it shouldn't be taken away from its creator for any of the infinite trivial reasons that could be imagined.
Normal based upon what? Normal reaction for families with relatives on a flight missing for two weeks with no news about what happened to it?
And did Microsoft read the recipients other messages? Do you think maybe they only looked at the ones from the leaker? Do you really think they had a person manually thumb through every one of the journalists messages?
> Why the ban on pursuing managers from Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and Sun

Because the agreements quickly expanded to include those companies.
Asking the news networks to stop talking about what is, in fact, a massively intriguing (albeit tragic) mystery is like asking water not to be wet.
Ha. I wrote the blog post mentioned in this article that started this. As pointed out, this is an old repost(1), but perhaps interestingly (at least at a meta level) is that this is all actually HN's fault.

When I first saw this thread on teamliquid, I thought "Oh man, proggit and HN will love this" so I wrote it up. And sure enough, it was near the top of both, for a day. Next came the random news articles (like this one). And here several years later is an HN repost of a blog article that only exists because HN and proggit upvoted the original blog post. You guys created the article that's being reposted :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856390

From the last time around, the most common criticisms were:

1. Without any form of crossover, it's just hill-climbing/gradient-descent, it's not really a "genetic algorithm".

2. BFS would work better (maybe. IIRC people tried BFS and there's a bunch of subtle things that make the BFS search space huge (e.g. putting workers on and off gas at certain times). Of course since we have a goal state, something like A* might win the day).
Does Adding Many Tags to an Instagram Photo Maximize the Number of Likes?
Am I the only one who thinks "interactive" oversells this a little? It's essentially a slideshow with a little animation. Most "interactives" have various ways to look at the data. Or am I wrong?
Probably it was given at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California, where Feynman regularly gave lectures:

http://books.google.com/books?id=j42RD66g72oC&pg=PT384&lpg=P...
I think the greatest thing about older developers is that they understand bureaucracy and office politics. The truth is that there's more to being a great developer than just writing code with your headphones on. Some of my bigger productivity gains have been from learning how to hustle in the office. That said, I'm still pretty young and I feel I have a considerable amount to learn, both technically and professionally.

As an example, during my first year out of college, I often found myself waiting upwards of a week for someone else to get me something I needed to complete one of my tasks. I didn't know the right way to prod a coworker--or in this case, actually, boss--to get you what you need so you can get stuff done. Examples like that abound.
This email talks about how the indexes are 50% the size of the data.

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5323D45F.1080503@agliod...
Do you have a source on that? I mean I saw a cracked article claim that but it was severely misrepresenting the various uses of moot and I could not find any references to 'mute point' being a real phrase.
The Finnish postal service is at least testing this as well. I don't know about the current status of that effort however.
Probably the most important difference is that the old JSON types preserves whitespace and attribute ordering, whereas the new one doesn't. If you don't care about those, the old one is also slightly smaller on disk - but I would say not worth it based on the simple fact that you might want to search it in the future some time...
So, she's non technical and somehow has a website that someone presumably set up, installed on a server and maintained etc? Or she's 'solo'? There's talk of a founder being cut out early on (cannot confirm or refute)... In short, there's parts to this story that are missing.

You can't just throw up your favourite flavour of CMS with a theme from themeforest and magically hit it off, there's technical considerations that need to be made.

3 Options really.

1. She is technical and knows all about web development (no idea why she'd lie about that though)

2. She did indeed have a founder she cut out.

3. She wasn't solo on the project.

Something doesn't gel here.
I wonder if the NSA might start promoting this technology to close the 'snail mail loophole' that Jimmy Carter uses? [1]

[1] http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-president-carter-uses-snail-...
A greedy algorithm seems to be successful with the graphs in this game. Pick the node with the highest degree, connect it to the other nodes with the highest degrees, repeat.
Inmarsat is used for in-flight broadband, sometimes branded OnAir. But not on Malaysia Airlines flights as far as I can tell. See http://www.inmarsat.com/press-release/inmarsats-swiftbroadba...
> They never had positional information, except by virtue of the timing signals for those data points to their satellite.

Does anyone have any more insight in to this? Was the protocol a one-way ping, or a ping-pong exchange? Previous reports have inferred that the data from the hourly pings were incredibly basic. Obviously timing signal propagation is the basis for GPS, but is it normal or even feasible to collect millisecond or microsecond transmission timings for engineering data fed via satellites like the ones operated by Inmarsat? What other variables would have been used for ranging?

1 millisecond at the speed of light is close to 300km.
RR: lightweight execution recording and deterministic debugging
That is where all this talk about "what will the Post Office do in the age of ..." goes - they will help me manage all this stuff and rubbish. I will trust the post office to open and scan my mail, far more than I will JRandomStartup.

And then they can handle a one stop bill payment service for me, and as I trust them, they can generate a CA and I will put it in my phone and suddenly they own the customer experience for everyone.
True, some highways in the Netherlands already use a system like this.

Worst part is, in a stretch of road with for instance 15 camera's . they won't take the average speed between camera 0 and 14, they'll fine you for the most expensive one.

So:

if you average 100 Km/h from 0-14,

and average 115 Km/h from 0-5,

and average 117 Km/h from 8-9.

You get a fine for the 117 km/h
I realize I've been confusing, for which I apologize. I change my law of physics to: Two free test particles each moving toward destinations beyond opposite sides of a LIF, as measured in a global frame containing the LIF, recede from each other as measured in that LIF. I have always accepted that the particles move in one direction as measured in the LIFs.

I've given this a lot of thought to try to see where our major disagreement is. It's hard to tell from your walls of text. I now think it's this: You disagree that any prediction for a global frame can affect experiments in the LIF. Therefore you ignore such predictions and draw spacetime diagrams as one would in SR. Of course when you do that you find no difference between two LIFs. I say you're not seeing the forest for the trees.

Forget about black holes and light rays and especially complex GR terminology. Focus on the simpler skydiver's frame. Let the analogous prediction for the global frame be this: any particle below 1 km above sea level must fall inexorably toward r = 0. Let your first probe be launched just above the 1 km mark. It doesn't need to be escaping, just always moving away from the Earth during our experiment. Let the second probe be launched just below the 1 km mark. As measured in any LIF containing both particles, they'll recede from each other. As measured in a global frame, the first probe is moving toward a destination beyond the side of the LIF that's facing away from the Earth, while the second probe is moving toward a destination beyond the opposite side of the LIF that's facing toward the Earth.

For the record I still believe my argument using megaparsec-sized frames was sound. Your counterargument didn't explicitly show that any sentence in mine was false or didn't follow from its premises. Also I still don't know from this discussion how the argument in the blog isn't sound.
whats the "preferred" way nowadays? commit source using git to server and let it autodeploy?
Suggestion:
Perhaps you should let people get a taste of how valuable the cheat sheet could be.

For example you say "You can even start creating it after reading the first page."

Maybe give that page away for free with no strings attached.
If that first page is really that valuable, they are likely to be consider forking over cash for the rest.

You could also consider giving away an additional page (or 2) in exchange for an email address to further sweeten the pot as well as providing another opportunity for the person to judge the value they would get for paying for the rest.
“It’s an awful thing, solitary,” John McCain wrote of his five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam—more than two years of it spent in isolation in a fifteen-by-fifteen-foot cell, unable to communicate with other P.O.W.s except by tap code, secreted notes, or by speaking into an enamel cup pressed against the wall. “It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment.” And this comes from a man who was beaten regularly; denied adequate medical treatment for two broken arms, a broken leg, and chronic dysentery; and tortured to the point of having an arm broken again.

A U.S. military study of almost a hundred and fifty naval aviators returned from imprisonment in Vietnam, many of whom were treated even worse than McCain, reported that they found social isolation to be as torturous and agonizing as any physical abuse they suffered.

And what happened to them was physical. EEG studies going back to the nineteen-sixties have shown diffuse slowing of brain waves in prisoners after a week or more of solitary confinement. In 1992, fifty-seven prisoners of war, released after an average of six months in detention camps in the former Yugoslavia, were examined using EEG-like tests. The recordings revealed brain abnormalities months afterward; the most severe were found in prisoners who had endured either head trauma sufficient to render them unconscious or, yes, solitary confinement. Without sustained social interaction, the human brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...
Let's set the record straight. NYT Bin Laden Article Censoring in Pakistan
Is it just me or are these attacks becomming more and more common? I hope we can get some more details on the attack like the origination of it, type used, and what steps were take to mitigate it. I always use information like this as a learning opportunity :)
The Secret About Online Ad Traffic: One-Third Is Bogus
Chrome on iOS adding what looks like a per-device GUID to useragent string
Non-tech just describes the founder (although in this particular case she may have actually had a cofounder.)

Any kind of success by a nontechnical solo founder can be an inspiration for other nontechnical people who want to build their own companies.
Would CloudFlare help here?
They knew based on the satellite data that it was either heading to Kazakastan or the Ocean.
Taking Red Hat Linux to the next level
Netflix. For Lego
She was running an agency before, it's possible she just just hired people to do work for her but they weren't a permanent part of the team.
I think it is more that the media have gone crazy in covering the story. There was so much misinformation being published that had no solid evidence behind it. I think it was pretty clear that something awful happened and that plane was lost after crashing into the ocean. All of the stories of it being hijacked and then flown and landed somewhere were all pretty crazy theories. Possible sure but only a very small possibility. It was far more likely to be some kind of failure in the aircraft and/or pilot error similar to the AirFrance crash a few years ago.

The pilot suicide theory is probably the most likely after a failure/error IMHO.
This is nice! I got stuck and gave up when there got to be nodes with 6s on them, but that's just because I'm in class.

Given that the only reason to select an edge right now is to delete it, perhaps the delete action could be mapped to a click, rather than a click plus a backspace. Also, a reset level button would be nice.
Disrupting money transfers – TransferWise wins FT’s Boldest in Business Award
Another suggestion that's not a book:

Ted Nelson made a bunch of videos [0] recently telling his story. Not a lot of technical details, but I found it enlightening nonetheless.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTI2Kz0V2OFlgbkROVmzk...
Why You Are “Stuck” In Your Career
I really like this setup, I think I'll go with it. Thanks!
The problem is not so much identifying problems based on symptoms, but in getting the computer to understand the symptoms. You need humans to talk to patients, to assess the patient's physical appearance and behavior, to look into noses, throats, eyes, and ears and judge what they see, to feel joints and organs and muscles, to understand the hundreds of ways patients might describe their own symptoms, and to recognize symptoms the patients themselves may not.

The humans required to perform all of these tasks could then quantify all that data into something a computer can comprehend and let it make the diagnosis--and that's perhaps not necessarily a bad idea--but if the human is appropriately trained, they too will already likely know the problem.

The risk of bringing computers into the process is that you will inevitably teach doctors and nurses to ignore their own training and instincts and just do what the computer says--the insurance companies, the health care providers, the lawyers will all insist on it implicitly or explicitly. But when AIs get stuff wrong, they get it waaay wrong. And in the 5% of cases where the computer is waaay wrong, you will find outcomes get worse, not better.
For what it's worth, for anyone interested, I used this service for years, and they're great.

Really nice if you're nomadic and want to have a steady mailing address.

In the U.S., https://www.earthclassmail.com/ provides the same service. I think it is (or was) Earth Class Mail's backend software that is/was powering Swiss Post Box, when I was using it.

Also great for having a U.S. mailing address for your business, if needed.

You can use either of these as the billing address for all your credit cards, bank statements, tax returns, etc.
Well, isn't that the whole point?

You're not sure because you _can't_ be sure. Because there's no competitive offer to help price discovery.
Is there any reason the NSA can't open snail mail?
Conducting sentiment analysis on your employees
Anything but folks arguing sex politics.

Did anyone even bother to look to see how this site compares in their market? Who's their closest competitors even?
Although a smaller service, we were in a similar situation a couple of years ago. We assumed it was a competitor because there were not monetary requests, just a massive DDoS via torrents that lasted almost a week. Data center didn't help us in any way... it was crazy. Worst thing is that 90% of customers have no clue what a DDoS is and how hard it is to handle.
Mammoth: convert .docx documents to simple and clean HTML
They can, but the recipent will see that the package has been opened? It's pretty obvious.
Using Scala Will Make You Less Productive
15% actually seems low. Today Apple takes 30% gross receipts for anything that goes through the app store. A lot of developers seem to find that acceptable.
+1000 this. Having lived in both countries, I now think that the core model in France (like in most european countries) is basically good and needs adjustment at the margin to allow / stimulate risk-taking and entrepreneurship.

The US model on the other hand has a few good side effects, but is so meaninglessly violent, stupid and wasteful that even then more is destroyed than is created.
Robot "Hand" Made of Coffee and Balloons Picks Up Anything (2010)
Very nice ... Ractive.js looks like it has a lot of potential, and I'll definitely give it a try.
Gwar Singer Dave Brockie, a.k.a. Oderus Urungus (of the band GWAR), Dead at 50
The phrasing entirely bogus seems hyperbolic. She may have left out a (key?) piece of information, but does that invalidate the summary of what the team achieved?
One thing is to keep ongoing tech (servers etc) costs low so it can simmer. Shutting apps down just destroys value.
Interesting feature and interesting (tho limited at the moment) app. Will be interesting to see it mature.
But I do so hate their (cult of mac) website when viewing on an iPad. Top and bottom of the screen taken, pop ups (add this to your springboard), and side swiping.
point taken, but it does seem very extreme. did this happen during 9/11?

edit Also, are the families of NZ nationals, Australian, French etc behaving the same as the asians?
No it was in the kitchen fridge (fruits, veggies, pasta, a bit of meat, tea).

Interactions existed but are twisted, and I try to avoid them whenever I can. I agree that even bad interactions may be a little better than no interactions at all.

When living at night, I could see the sunlight around 5pm throught the curtains bottom.

It's true I do have control, that's what I tried to say above. I realize that even going to pee or shower is some kind of leasure time in that setting.
That skill is actually very useful if you are researching/developing format string vulnerability exploits.

There was a presentation I saw where a guy was able to extract a private RSA key from memory of a novell login screen by using typing in machine code using alt key combos in the username or password text field, exploiting a format string vulnerability.

This is the video of that presentation for the interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv0adeL4x1U
OMG THANK YOU! I had one of these as a kid, but couldn't remember the name! We used to have competitions to have it go from the living room, out to the kitchen, through the table legs, and back again. I was 5 years old, and wouldn't have another programming opportunity until 3 years later when we got a C64.
This is interesting, but it would help if you could provide .wav files for others to hear and see for themselves.