skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind reading outstanding non-tech work on a news rating website for hackers once in a while.

If it disturbs you, think of it this way: it's a successfully executed exercise in data mining minds.
I have found to stay maximally productive and creative I have to switch it up.

If I just get in a routine it seems like things flag. The best thing for me is to laze off and sleep for 10 hours a day... casually poke around at some stuff for awhile. Then, have a burst of output and sleep 5 hours for a couple/few nights while spending the remainder in a flurry of concentrated activity. Then, back to a regular normal routine for a stretch. If I try any one of these for long it seems my productivity and interest flag though.

I don't know if it's just me or if we evolved to have periods of rest and stress.
Unconvincing.

The proof of convergence is also not correct.
The inequality at the top of p.7 (ever heard of equation numering...?) should be reversed, which effectively establishes that convergence probability is smaller or equal to 1.
xdg-open works for me with the GNOME-configured default application.
> if you want to convince an anti-vaxer, you can't treat them like they're crazy, even if you have an impulse to judge.

> You run the risk of creating a serious blowback effect, where your condescension drives them further away from accepting what you're trying to tell them.

This is exactly what I am coming from too. In my few years in the programming community, one thing I have noticed is a large population of people who pursue science as a religion. (I mentally tag them the r/atheism crowd.) When you treat something as canon and go up on people's faces as to why they are stupid and wrong, you are not creating a productive discussion.
Wistia – Turning Your Conference Room into a Video Studio
Great work man :D will try it out when i get home
Koler.A – to fear or not to fear?
I really hate Yahoo. When they bought Geocities they changed my user name that had 64 in it to 63 automatically. What a stupid number. Then, because I didn't log into it within a certain time frame, they up and deleted all my content. It was the first (and only, really, besides school requirement...) personal website I ever built, in 6th grade. It had all the cool images, gifs, midis I had gathered on the internet and I even created custom gifs for it. I even copy pasted some javascript code to make my gifs animate when moused over.

Even though I only used the email account they automatically set up for me for junk registrations (my main mail was already @home/attbi/comcast before they bought geocities, then gmail when that was created), I ended up making a second yahoo account with a name that wasn't lame (which I still used for junk registrations, and other random things, but moreso than the one automatically created). One day the password on that second email account suddenly changed. I used the same password on both the accounts for years with zero sign of infiltration. I still continue to use accounts tied to the one with the mysteriously changed password. I did everything I could to get that one back with no luck. Maybe I was compromised by some hacker? I do recall during my efforts being asked by yahoo support something along the lines of "is this your main account?". There was never anybody that I could talk to, only text support, and most of my attempts/ticket submissions went ignored. Maybe they think I'm a hacker.

In the end, nothing but bitter feelings toward Yahoo for me.
QR codes used on ballot paper for the first time in the EU Elections
I see a few people in this thread saying you would need an amount of luck to actually get one of these, can anyone shed some light on why?

And possibly what someone might do to actually get one shipped out to Australia?
When I visit the new page and upvote, it doesn't increment either even after upvoting then refreshing the page. But did it always do that? I don't think so - I think that, in the past, it would have incremented even without a refresh.

I wish we could view the new page at the same time and then both could upvote the same story to see what happens. It could be that all stories on new are shown with a score of "1" yet they really have a score of "0". If that was the case, the first vote just moves it from a fake "1" to an actual "1".
Should you use open source code in your product?
Now You Can Text 911 In An Emergency
Eve Online And The Big Game Hunters
Wow, thanks for the tips! I'm not sure how feasible cutting out caffeine would be though :-(
It's plain lobbying. Legal in US but not in UK and most other countries.
If you happen to see this reply a week later: thanks for that recommendation. Found the audio version on sale on the Great Courses site and bought it. Looking forward to listening.
More or less.

Patrick seems to be advocating making your everyday work public, repeatable and enduring. That's ideal. But, for people that are working in a silo or otherwise not going to take that step, this seems like an accessible step.

In fact, a carbon copy of this seems like a good template for a UX person to follow. Pick a topic (not on boarding). Do the research. Make a dozen examples easily digestible for someone who needs to implement the thing you are researching. In-app notifications, advanced settings, in-app tips (Clippy!), profile pages, email drip marketing, commenting systems, badges, profile pages…. Almost any UX topic could use teardowns like this.
Pre-Day Planning: Make Tomorrow More Productive Today
Politician and paedophile ask Google to 'be forgotten'
No City Desk from Fog Creek?[1] :-)

https://shop.fogcreek.com/default.asp?sCategory=CITYDESKINDE...
Yeah, honestly, my favorite coding monitor is 37" 1080P cheapo Vizio TV placed a like five feet away. The eyes are most relaxed at far distances.

4K to me sounds useless, but hey, maybe it will drive down prices and if I'm stuck with one I can half the res. or scale I guess.
No, it's as Go is to Java.
Fog Creek City Desk used to do this - 10 years or so ago.
Xiaomi MiPad (7.9" 2048x1536 Tegra K1 $240)
What Lightroom features is the most meaningful for you? What do you think?
Usually that can be achieved with a cache like Varnish. One of the biggest benefits of static site generators is that the only software you need on your server is a web server. As soon as you want to start adding things like search and comments, you lose that benefit.
How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved Into Serious Weapons in a Year
Still happens in the UK behind the scenes. A lot of the political elite have links with the businesses.
Duplicating Spheres and the Banach-Tarski Paradox
Defense tech in 2039: The robots are coming
Paypal Manager Account Hijack (.pdf)
It's UTF-8 being interpreted as raw bytes: "a-hat" is the 0x80 marker byte. A common fail is forgetting that Microsoft Word auto-corrects straight quotes (which are in ASCII) to curly double quotes (which need Unicode), and serving the resulting text as CP1252 or ASCII or some such.

UTF-8 / GMT / ISO8601 people. It's (should be) law.
Anyone want to write a browser engine that skips all the modern BS and just does a good job delivering mostly-static webpages?

This is one thing I wish more people would try (as I am), and quite honestly don't think is as hard as the big browser vendors make it out to be; my view is that the complexity in mainstream browser engines appears mainly based on how they were designed and implemented, and not as a consequence of the web standards they need to implement. The massive numbers of abstraction layers certainly contribute, as is the notion that everything should be extremely flexible and extensible (Web standards don't change all that often, and when they do they tend to do so incrementally.) It would certainly be interesting to see the limits of how simple (in terms of lines of code, binary size, etc.) and/or fast you could make a web browser and still e.g. have it pass Acid2, which probably makes it quite usable for much of the non-webapp part of the Internet.

text, images, video, audio, animations, 3d graphics, etc.

One only has to look at demoscene productions to see that providing a rich multimedia experience doesn't necessarily require all that much in the way of computational resources, and that's partly a reason why I believe web browsers could be made vastly more efficient than the norm today.
Awesome! I'll look into merging this.

Do you have a full version of your bytecode analysis code as well?
I use a 39" 4k Seiki, and I've been very happy with it too. Paid $420 about a month ago (it's $500 from Amazon right now), and it's a pretty amazing amount of real estate without a bezel. 30hz is a little annoying for some tasks, but for coding and other static applications, it really doesn't bother me.
Visualizing The Frequency of JVM Thread Call Stack Frame Depths
A new innovative visualization that displays the cumulative and recent frequency of method invocation at various call stack depths across multiple threads within a JVM. In the demonstration a number of web containers are visualized including Oracle Glassfish, Apache Tomcat, Vert.x as well as the Scala Compiler.

https://vimeo.com/95332184
+1 for middle school website-building nostalgia.
Improve your terminal
> "it warns about lots of things ... like documenting the public methods and classes in their APIs"

Only if you're switched on the Generate XML Documentation switch `/doc` (in which case I think it makes sense).

Most places I've worked have /warnaserror as a standard part of the build so that the build fails if there are any warnings (and they can be `#pragma nowarn`-ed out)
I cant recall a luckier, more overrated CEO in my career than Marissa Mayer. She shows up right before Alibaba (and wild valuations) takes off. Dan Loeb gets involved to turbocharge the stock, which has done well solely because of Alibaba. She makes a bunch of expensive, terrible acquisitions and insists she didn't overpay for these odd non-revenue generating assets in the midst of a minor tech bubble, while providing no evidence. Yahoo itself, meanwhile, continues to decline and is regarded by most as a structural mess. Management is overpaid beyond the point of reason, the former COO being exhibit A for all that's wrong with management comp and corporate governance. I hope this company goes down in flames.
One of the first things I do after installing firefox, in the about:config page, is setting 'browser.tabs.animate' to false.
I'm being semi-facetious, but when it first started out it did all this stuff and deployed it to your website as well via FTP.
They are looking upon success of Google, and failure of Yahoo.
AFAIK these 3D-engines was specially prepared to be ported to JS. We have abit another specific than just moving 3D objects, creating scenes and blend textures.
Sure, its very similar, but our "textures" is bigger and we should know about more than one pixel per time to do correct demosaic process. Its not the same to create cool WebGL 3D effect and do JPG decompression for example.
The only thing tying me to Yahoo at all anymore is Flickr, and I somewhat hope it goes under just so I get some sort of archival download of my content and a reason to finally find something better.
Since you say that code reviews helped him the most can you give some details on how that was done, who was involved, how much time was devoted to it, etc?
"An Introduction to Programming using Go" better reflects the purpose and the tone of this book.
I tend to agree with you but every once in a while I wonder whether she's so much smarter than me that I just can't comprehend her strategy.
Does this have a TV tuner? I thought a tuner was the difference between a TV and a monitor.
Did anyone else here get their start on expage and funkychickens?
I won't say it's not possible. It is. But it is difficult and scary, even if you're not poor.
Octopress runs just fine without github.
That headline seems misleading.

Perhaps the OP should find an article more in line with that editorial view and post it?
It's not only a matter of compatibility but a multitude of security issues as well.
Without reading the fine article except for searching for "calculus", I'll note that I've confirmed an accusation at the other end: the Common Core does not even reach precalculus by the end of high school.

No student in a school solely based on it will be taking AP Calculus, let alone be able to attend MIT or Caltech (the former requires you to be ready to learn the calculus, the latter demands you've already learned single variable calculus). Students interested in STEM majors, or anything needing serious math, will join the current legions who didn't learn (enough) math in high school taking remedial classes and be that much behind in graduating.

Perhaps America has too many people in STEM careers; absent supplementation by school districts that e.g. already teach AP Calculus and don't want to stop, this will help fix that....

(Well, outside of the states rejecting it; it was implemented in my home state of Missouri without the input of the legislature, and they're about to zap it, joining another state who's name I forget.)
Upvoted for being so sad. ;(
Their asinine policy against package managers (yes, let's go BACKWARD. Everything was better in the good 'ol days!) is keeping me away from it. I don't have time to deal with more self-aggrandizing douche bags.
A separate yahoo finance app launched recently. I like it a lot.

I think yahoo.com is a great 'portal' - there's still a place for that I think
The proprietary software is unaffected by the GPL so long common sense (ie in layman terms) tells you that they are a separate program with the GNU/Linux parts.

The problems comes when people want to stretch the definition of separate programs. In those cases, contacting lawyers and seeking out the authors intent seems to be the only viable option (for example, the case with Linux modules).
My understanding is quite the opposite. There are a number of trivial differences between MacPorts and Homebrew - for example, MacPorts recipes are written in Tcl, Homebrew's are written in Ruby, MacPorts puts things in /opt/local, Homebrew puts things in /usr/local/Cellar, MacPorts gets its metadata with rsync, Homebrew uses Git. But there is, as far as i know, only one non-trivial difference: MacPorts links everything against versions of libraries that it has installed, whereas Homebrew links them against the ones supplied by Apple.

The Homebrew maintainers think that linking against Apple's libraries is better, because you need to install less stuff.

The MacPorts maintainers used to agree, several years ago, and used to do just that. Then, Apple released a software update which changed some libraries and broke everyone's MacPorts installations. So then they changed their mind. Now, they think that linking against their own, coherently managed, set of libraries is better, because Apple can't break stuff.

To me, Homebrew just looks like an exercise in reproducing others' work without learning from their experiences. I don't see any advantages to it myself.

Less fundamentally, there's also quite a difference in the number of packages. MacPorts's homepage indicates that they have 18530 ports. An ls|wc in Homebrew's repository indicates that they have 2802 formulae. That said, i suspect that 95% of what people actually need is in the collection that Homebrew has.
While xdg-open also works well for me with KDE's default applications, when I used to use Openbox or LXDE, it was much less successful. The breadth of the group of tools that respond correctly to KDE settings as opposed to the less-common environments has been one of the reasons I've been so happy to switch.
If you talking about lossless DNG compression — yes we support it.
If you talking about lossy DNG compression — no.

We already added Exposure Compensation to http://raw.pics.io, and we think about upcoming features. What features are the most useful for you?
I've been using Octopress for a while now. It's super nice except for one major gripe which is that as the number of posts grows it slows down to a crawl. Other than that I'm totally happy, but a 5 minute wait to fix a typo gets old quickly.
Such as ex-PM Tony Blair and the BAE Systems deal with the Saudis.
They don't have built-in "archival" downloading, but they allow other apps to do it for you. The free version of Bulkr will grab your photos, and the paid version will include tags etc. https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/72157622874451890/
I've have heard many people say not to nuke your users data. I guess big companies lose sight of their user's wants and needs.
HTML 5 online BPMN editor
Interestingly thought it's easy to find press releases and related material from the Icelandic government itself which uses Icelandic patronyms as surnames. E.g. [1] from the Icelandic Minstry for Foreign Affairs referring to the foreign minister, Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson as "Mr. Sveinsson".

1. http://eng.utanrikisraduneyti.is/news-and-publications/nr/77...
We love DNG and I personally always recommend it. Unfortunately there are lot of manufacturers doesn't support DNG, thats why we support CR2/NEF.
Don't take it as a very profound observation. I just meant that a cure for cancer from a genetically-engineered variant of the measles virus is the way that all the population in the US ends up turned into zombies in that movie.
In art, we worry about the viewer not understanding our work. It comes down to shared culture. A reader or viewer doesn't understand the work because the work does not communicate to them in a language they understand. Is it because the work is too forward thinking? Or is it just gibberish?

It tends to work out that the artists who spent the most for their degrees will lean towards it being "too forward thinking" more often than the rest of us.
But how many of those have been shuttered?
Which you have to host yourself. Not the same thing.
Does this display offer a 60 Hz refresh rate at 4K via either modern DisplayPort or HDMI 2? As I mentioned in "4K is for Programmers" [1] and its follow-up [2], the 30 Hz refresh offered by the current generation of 4K televisions is the principle deficiency when using them as monitors.

30 Hz is of course workable, which is precisely why 4K is for programmers, after all. :) But all of us would take a 60 Hz option in a heartbeat if it were available.

That said, I prefer the 39" form factor offered by Seiki for 4K. Around 50 inches, a computer's display should be 8K+.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers

[2] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers-redux
OK, this is a silly question but I have to ask

Is there any likelihood that measles, or a similar virus we have held at bay with vaccination, was actively fighting cancer 200 years ago, thus pushing up the incident rates that apparently have gone up and dismissed with "well we weren't dying of cancer because we were dying of $INSERT_DISEASE_HERE"
Compliments on making it a deal for the "whole piece" instead of per-page. The latter invites a scam where sites would break an article into many small segments, and when the vistor finds out, he/she has paid for at least one already.

There are some other problems tho. A participating site won't show anything unless it sends the visitor's data to (a) the micropayment company and (b) google (at least, the demo won't work without requests there)? There's too much tracking on the web already. Of course, not everyone cares about this and it may become popular with the non-privacy-conscious public.

Other problems are more subtle. Sites using this would be likely to tailor content to maximize revenue - attention-grabbing titles, sensationalism - while some readers prefer qualities that are found where the motives are less commercial.

And of course, this is not likely to reduce ads. A site owner might try to go with this alone, but soon would be subject to economic pressure to include ads as well.
> What boggles my mind is how a group of smart people decide that having her join the board is even remotely a good idea.

On the merits, it's a really smart idea. She has connections and gives dropbox credibility in government circles (irrespective of political leanings)
Actually my computer is only four years old, and supports up to 2GB of RAM.

It is hard to find a working niche browser when Mozilla and Google are doing everything to make sure the web depends on their behemoths' complexity. They are pushing for the Web Platform. They are constantly adding new features.

I used to use Links 2 as my primary browser until about a year or two ago. I would have preferred to keep using it (actually I still do, but it's no longer primary), but one day, a few years ago, Google said let's kill IE6. I can't remember the date. But I know web devs had a party and since that day, the amount of Javascript on the web has skyrocketed, and it's gone from an optional "experience enhancer" to a requirement in many cases. So I'm not given much choice.

But this isn't just about me personally; I could buy a new computer today if I wanted to. What people have pointed out elsewhere in the comments is true -- there are people who still have old computers, much older than mine. And people (parents too) who cannot afford much else besides aging second hand machines.
With a metre or more of snow falling, assuming he'd be right next to the road isn't logical, he could be any distance from it.

When I was in Iceland I was told that tarred/paved roads are a relatively recent thing, given the volcanic landscape and the large number of fissures and caves, it's easy to see how you could wonder away from the "road", stumble, fall or just try to find shelter somewhere and succumb to the cold.
Anyone put its traffic through Wireshark to see what it's up to yet?
The whole deficit thing is interesting. I've felt that I do that too, but I've also heard people say that sleep doesn't work that way. It definitely could just be that any time I'm sleeping more than 8 hours I'm just being lazy.
Xiaomi is a really interesting company. This TV announcement is just one in a long line of recent products that promise high quality devices for low prices (recently announced Mi Pad, Wi-Fi Router, etc).

I own a Xiaomi MI2s phone which cost me about 200 euros to get shipped from a Chinese webshop and it's been working perfectly. They even update their phone OS (MIUI, based on Android) with weekly builds that are installed OTA.

Lei Jun (their CEO) really wants Xiaomi to become the Chinese Apple. Not sure if wearing black turtlenecks and hiring Hugo Barra will get them there, but I'm curious to see what they'll do next.
That was what I thought was the case, but wasn't 100%.

I worked for some folks who were making an ubuntu based network-monitoring appliance a couple of years ago, one day they freaked out about the GPL and decided (absent any legal advice) to make us port the project to NetBSD. They refused to consult a lawyer because it would be too expensive apparently, but would have been far cheaper than all the developer time... I suppose at least I got to add NetBSD porting to my cv :)
Sure, you can test and compare it:

http://raw.pics.io
http://people.mozilla.org/~vladimir/demos/webraw/
http://dev.tag.is/rawson.js/rawson.html
How Silicon Valley Feeds the NSA’s Global Dragnet
The infamous Angular learning curve
ΑΝΘΟΠΩΛΕΙΟ ΜΠΕΛΙΑΣ – ΓΑΜΟΣ – ΒΑΠΤΙΣΗ – BELIAS FLOWERS
Ask HN: members of distributed teams, how do you cope with the loneliness?
Of course you're collaborating on a day to day basis using email, skype, IRC or whatever, but how do you handle the physical loneliness throughout the day?