skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4096 Hexa – 2048-style game with Hexagon playboard, blocked tile,
A lot of the decline in happiness is related to starting a family. Average happiness is lower with kids (there are much higher peaks because of them, but also lower lows http://www.ted.com/talks/rufus_griscom_alisa_volkman_let_s_t...) because of all the chaos related to kids.
understanding the importance of "security through obscurity" is not equivalent to "tell everyone exactly how everything works, whenever they ask".

there's a difference between relying on obscurity, and publishing all of your designs of a private system.

the underlying design principle being promoted is to assume that your design specification has been compromised - not to compromise it yourself.
If you want to be independent, try to come up with an idea for a real business (not a funded tech startup) that you can implement with software, and spend 2 hours a night (or just a few nights a week) on it for a month. By the end of that month you should be able to sell it to someone.
As a website-building shingle-hanger, I love that "in 2 minutes" services exist. They are like a blowoff valve for my business. If a potential client isn't going to take advantage of the particular ways in which I could help them, vvvupp-PSHHHHHHH--I vent their project off to an "in 2 minutes" service or Squarespace. "Why pay more?"

I'm happy to recommend those services and glad my business coach convinced me to consider how valuable they are in communicating my market position. They also remind me to think about ways to differentiate myself and actively communicate value to prospective clients. It's a cliche but the goal is that clients--no matter who they are--all win, and I win too.
If grandma had balls, she'd be grandpa. So what?
It's caused by the "rewind" word. I never owned a VCR but still thought about one :). The software started to use other terms for the action, like "jump backwards" (VLC media player). Probably because the actual rewind action (show the movie backwards very fast) is not easy to do in compressed video (to show the last frame before a keyframe you have to seek the previous keyframe and recompute all the frames until the desired one).
This strikes me as a justification for your lifestyle rather than a solid argument that can convince other people. There's nothing wrong with you living your life the way you want, but saying "Getting rich should never be the goal." is just plain wrong for some people.

Your tone seems to me like you once wanted to be rich, but have since given up and are now trying to convince others that they should just give up too.
> I don't see how one helps with the other.

Why not? If for every SWAT team member there were 20 armed civilians, do you really think there would be such a cavalier show of force from police? I suspect there are towns even in the US where the police would think twice about occupying the entire town, arresting journalists, etc.
> running FreeBSD as the OS.

Presumably for ZFS
I agree that generics is bound to become a limitation as Go get more used in APIs and similar use cases. For now, if anyone interested, here is a way you can get generics like functionality with Go: http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/golang-has-generics/
The last tip, seeing it in a different context definitely helps. Another thing you can try is reading in reverse.

I find a context change helps when reviewing my code for bugs. I like to publish my commits to a web-based code-review (I use Gerrit, but it doesn't matter) even if I'm not adding a reviewer. Just looking at the diff in my terminal doesn't seem to be enough of a context change (perhaps because I use the same font/color scheme in my terminal and editor). Reading the diff in Gerrit, I often catch something I'd missed. (Embarrassingly, I've more than once caught a mistake after I've sent a patch to a mailing list.) I suppose I could just use gitx for the context change.
What about it sounds preposterous? Certainly happiness isn't easy to measure, but it seems like asking "On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with your life?"(or something like it) is a really important question... And as a society, we'd like that number to be broadly high and climbing as we move forward... No?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

Global fertility rate is dropping so depending on other countries sending new immigrants is risky.

US below replament rate:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/12/us-birt...

Note the chart, US has been below the replacement rate ~2.1 births per woman since 1975.

PS: It's a fairly well established trend across a wide range of cultures which might change over the long term as populations shrink. However, my point is not that it's currently an issue for us, just that discouraging births is probably a bad idea.
Avoid clicking this site's link! The landing page' malicious code prevents you from left-arrow leaving the page -- you have to explicitly choose another site.

It's either a very bad design with no evil intent, or actual malice.
ESLint – The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript
The technical explanations were (1) large sell order causes price depression and (2) ensuing margin calls.

Those aren't interesting. The first is expected behavior in any low-liquidity market. The second is expected behavior if foolish investors are involved in low-liquidity markets. In other words, this was expected behavior in the bitcoin markets.

Both factors are also seen regularly in traditional stock markets.
> Startups are tough and I am afraid...Seeing your future as an underachiever pains you. What do you do?

Complain about it until the pains of underachieving are greater than your fear, and then take action?
I think you should chill out for a while. Travel and experience other places, people and cultures. Read meaningful books which provide you thoughtful insight on the vagaries of life. IMO you will appreciate the smaller, more meaningful things in life, which is actually what makes people happy rather than materialistic endeavors (there's nothing inherently wrong in being materialistic, it just doesn't give people long term happiness. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology)
> > One has its price regulated artificially by creating more of it

> Not on these scales. Artificial adjustments to the dollar happen on month increments, possibly days.

To give you a sense of perspective, the FED was printing $55bn/month this year [0]. So the FED prints the whole Bitcoin economy ($6.7bn) every 3.6 days, ... day after day, month after month ... for many many years now [1].

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2014/03/19/fed-cut...

[1] http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/52e4250869bedd404cb...
Amen. I wish I had realized at a younger age the importance of investing in nice clothes. Not only does it make a person more confident, it is literally the difference in many cases between getting a good job and a spouse and being totally ignored. Despite what your teachers and parents told you growing up, dressing well is critical to success.

Besides, why does it even matter if we enjoy something nice because society tells us it should make us happier? Yes, when I go out I DO want society to notice me and reward me. That's the reality of life- people have more respect for those who present themselves well. If the respect of others is something we value, then it makes sense to do what we can to gain that respect. Pretending that you're somehow above the rules of society is both naive and counterproductive. The bottom line is that if it makes us happier or more successful then it was a good investment.
SEEKING FREELANCER London/Paris Remote is OK.

Looking for a full stack developer for a start-up in Digital Health based in London and Paris aiming at simplifying the access to healthcare. The start up should be backed up by a government program soon.

Knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, AWS (staging is on Digital Ocean), HTML, CSS, Javascript, Agile, Scrum are a must.

We're looking for an individual who has enough potential to grow with the company and who can deliver quickly and adapt to challenges (neo4J, may be on the way).

An MVP has been fully specified (Pivotal tracker and UXpin). Its development is almost completed and must be finished by end of September. The team now needs to be reinforced with an energetic and experienced developer who has the ambition to participate in a healthcare adventure. His first task would be to help us finish the MVP and validate the chosen technological options.

A position for a lead developer or a CTO will be open in the future. Stocks options / shares to be distributed to the right person.

If you have free time in the near future, please respond to this email, so that we can set up a coffee meeting somewhere in London, Paris or remotely. I will be happy to further my description of the project.

You can contact me at laurence.levy4 (at) gmail dot com.
I came across this post recently authored by a seasoned .NET developer that outlined why the author preferred Go over .NET: http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/why-i-left-dot-net/
> Was it a farmer in my home country who produced it, driving around in his comfortable tractor, or was it a hard pressed third world farmer whose children go uneducated despite his best efforts?

I love that even while stating this, there's still some bias creeping in. It could just have likely been a hard-pressed farmer whose children go educated in your country, or from some other country that treats their farmers better than your own.
Margin calls were one aspect that magnified the magnitude of the 1929 stock market crash.[1] After that, margin regulations (Regulation T) made the minimum margin rate 50% for stocks, though it appears some brokers may have been increasing margin requirements to near this level before the 1929 crash.[2]

1. http://stocks.fundamentalfinance.com/stock-market-crash-of-1...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_call
We can put 20k on a domain name if we really want to.

But from my experience, a domain name is a domain name and it's usually not worth that much of the money. 20k can be spent in a marketing campaign that will out weigth the benefits of having the "pure" .com
Focus the address bar in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox with ⌘ + L
This was on a single exchange. Bitcoin didn't really lose 10% of its value momentarily. If the same thing somehow happened at a currency exchange with such crummy controls as this one, a lot of people would lose a lot of money, but not 10% of the value of all USD.
You don't need product. You just need right Value Proposition.
Anyone have more insights into how this works?

The figure, deuterium fuel is confusing as deuterium is an isotope and am unsure what they mean 'extraction' (how?).
The Global Fossil Record
I wrote an app that does this on my pebble for the DC metro, I should probably get around to releasing that on the app store...
Very true, but all it takes is the 'right' compromised server and that seems to be quite achievable with APT types.
> Focus the address bar in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox with ⌘ + L

A "⌘" key, really? You could at least mention that you're sitting at a Macintosh.
The Betalist Bundle is an awesome deal for startups
Indeed - and one can eliminate determinism without resort to QM: Classical mechanics is also indeterministic, you just have to know where to look.

Read "Causation as Folk Science" by John D. Norton [1]. He sets out a very simple example of a classical system that behaves indeterministically, analogous if not in fact homologous to how the radioactive decay of a single particle cannot be predicted.

The apparatus to demonstrate this consists of a dome with a particular curve (see the paper for details). A sphere placed at the apex of the dome will eventually roll off, in a random direction. But we can predict NEITHER when NOR which direction. And yet it is a fully defined classical system.

(And see [2], recently discussed here, to see how relevant and frutiful classical mechanics remains to this day.)

(Note that a better word than indeterministic might be acausal, which is the word Norton uses when describing the dome. Either way, one need not resort to QM, regardless interpretation, to demonstrate that determinism does not in fact prevail in our universe. We can all behave in ways that are not predetermined.)

[1] http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/003004.pdf

[2] http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/the-never-ending-conu...
I believe that Bitcoin (or perhaps another cryptocurrency based on similar concepts) absolutely has the technical capability of and some desirable traits for being an important reserve currency. I don't predict with any confidence that this will happen, but I see no reason why it couldn't happen. Not sure if that makes you label me an extremist.
Because the citizens have been indoctrinated to not believe in public works and public goods.

Hence everything has to be privatized, and if something gives little or no incentive for profit, it should not exist (like municipal fiber or proper universal health care).

With the big exception of the army and the police of course, where it's handy that the multitide of common citizens fund the resource-grabbing and property protection of the few.
Some do. Unreal Engine 4 has localization support built in: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/creating-a-localization-re...

And I suspect any game engine intended for text-heavy games would provide something. Ren'Py is one example.

But I'm fairly sure that Unity doesn't.
Just another data point for this request.

I've frequently started to-do lists and have tried a million different apps for them. I have a watch with all sorts of fancy timers etc.

In the end, I come back to realizing all I want is what OP has requested.
Sweet work on the UI!
Historically, do you doubt that this is true? Certainly it isn't in modern times, but when we were shaped as a species? The people who worried about having enough food, a strong enough shelter, sharp enough weapons, loyal enough friends and allies-- seems like that worry would be a survival trait.
Try not to focus on yourself and inward. Focus outward. There is no right answer to "what should I do" but it is also the wrong question. Instead I would read Viktor Frankl and ask "what does life expect from you." Maybe it demands you work a job that you are not passionate about right now. This job won't be forever. Maybe the world right now demands you quit your job and work on a great idea and seize a great opportunity. Only you can answer these questions, but make sure you are asking the right questions.
"when I go out I DO want society to notice me and reward me"

reward you for what exactly?
Read the FAQ, linked at the top.
Well, the original article makes a claim that this was caused by a margin call feedback loop (thanks pash for finding the right term and some analysis).

There could be other causes. It's hard to untangle whether BitFinex caused the other exchanges to drop, or if it just dropped faster due to margin but had no real effect on the other exchanges.
The post includes a command for Windows as well, but yes, I use a Mac :).
Pack Xamarin in your Cardboard
It sounds like it's layered:

=========JAVA==========
==C (SDL)== ==Haskell==

Rather than:

===JAVA====
==Haskell==
==C (SDL)==

If that's the case, I wouldn't expect much of a performance hit from the layering given that (as I understand things)

===Java==
==C/C++==

is common for people writing games.

You'll certainly have a memory hit of the Haskell runtime (though I'm not sure how that compares to the size of other relevant things), and the performance differential between Haskell and whatever you would have been writing that code in otherwise (presumably C or Java) - which could be in either direction depending on the details.
A couple of points the author misses IMO:

1. High speed rail is an order of magnitude more expensive than interstate highways. The cost effectiveness of the mass moving people via train vs. via highways (buses, carpool lanes included) is still an active debate.

2. The author cites that many folks use interstate highways daily. That may be true but that vast majority of those commutes are 50 miles or less. High speed rail only becomes cost and time effective over much longer distances. Which fraction of the population need to frequently travel to cities greater than 50 miles away? It's a small subset of the population (and skewed towards wealthier citizens). Roads are much more democratic -- they are available to anyone with a car.

3. While his argument about traffic is correct... where is most of the traffic on interstate highways? Answer: around major cities. The traffic is mostly local commuter traffic that high speed rail would not solve.
Google should penalize the source of the links, not the target. That is, identify sites that are so poorly run that they allow themselves to be the source of large numbers of low-quality links, and give no ranking to any links emanating from those sites; moreover, delist those sites from the search index.

Those sites are as much a problem as the spammers themselves. They are analogous to open relays in e-mail.
It's probably just referring to the separation of heavy water from normal water, which is then electrolyzed to produce the deuterium.
$1.5 million is not much runway.
I was looking for Xrumer but I forgot the link...
I find that harder to read. It's just one long wall of text.
mlost - There are some great responses in this thread and hopefully you're feeling supported. The comment you made about it being a "distress call" really grabbed my attention and if you're in the SF area I'd be happy to buy you a coffee/beer and talk about this or whatever you want.

I've been in a similar situation and can relate to the cocktail of hope/anxiety/despair that come with entrepreneurship and the quarter-life crisis. If you're interested: david [at] moctopus [dot] com
No, that's not the overall point. The discussion went in the opposite direction: from singular debates over utilitarian charity[1], iq[2], race[3], etc to a meta level of isolated (selective) demands for rigour. The overall conclusion is in the title.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/08/30/military-strikes-are-an...

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/11/does-the-glasgow-coma-s...

[3] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/12/does-race-exist-does-cu...
Tracking job applications with Trello
Government intervention is only required when "The People" want something, but won't stand up for themselves to get it.

So instead they get their bully friend to force others to comply with their wishes.
The only difficulty is in learning the idiosyncrasies of the android ecosystem. Let me know if you have any questions.
Speaking of the northeast corridor specifically, there is a crap ton of bureaucracy inhibiting the construction of a high speed line.

Think of all of the state/municipal level governments and unions that have to be satisfied before any deal is struck. This would essentially mix NYC, Jersey, Philly, Baltimore, and D.C. politics into one huge pile of WTF.

We couldn't even get a riverfront project going in Philadelphia because not enough (of the powers that be) palms were greased.

Only way this could be possible is if some benevolent Palpatine-esqe dictator comes along and makes shit happen.
The Biggest Lesson I Learned as an Apple Designer
Lots of 'insane' people in the world. Makes it interesting.
That is a very cool visualization, one of the best I have seen.
this link redirects me to the wired.com article...
Increase your productivity with the Pomodoro technique
Its a 4th generation iPad.

1) depending on how you wrote this, it could be easy to implement. The easiest way would be to have each kernel be its own view, and then a touch makes it disappear. Then each view handles one touch each, but the result is a better experience.

5) This is the only app I have seen with an exit button. I did not even know that there was code to do this since there is a nice hardware button that does the same thing.

8) The splash screen makes more sense if there is a longer loading time. One option would be to have another view that is the same image and then hold it for 1-2 seconds. I have seen some apps do this.
Nice... 3 kids at 32! Sounds like you made that your "startup" instead. Happy to hear you've decided to commit to making that successful. :-)
Why is everybody too focused on the "public domain" part? I do not see any statement regarding the public domain books on Google Policies, unlike Amazon.

https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/166501?hl=en
https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A2OHLJURFVK57Q

Bookstores, not only the digital ones, are full of public domain books. What do we want here? Publishers not to publish those classics or to publish them but give them for free?

Why is this any different for companies who fill empty pets with natural water and sell it to people? Isn't that public domain too? Don't they just wrap the "water"? Do they say that indeed they simply put the the free water in those fancy plastics?

Beyond all my subjective views, there is one thing objective that it's not fair for Google to keep the money for themselves when there is no policy for it.
The problem European countries have with the high-speed trains is that they are not as cheap as normal (slow) trains, and by introducing the high-speed ones they retired many cheap ones - that were slower but still got you there. This reduced the number of travelers, forcing even higher prices to cover the expenses - so they are now not very far from plane tickets.
Linux-driven service robot on duty at Cupertino hotel
This is the entire premise behind Gumroad. If you have something to sell, all you really need is a page to merchandise it and accept credit cards.
another perpetual motion machine?
Very interesting to see what hard drives they "blessed".
Wow... they should have released this ages ago and participated in the renaissance brought on by Shopify/Squarespace et al.

As others have said, they're in lots of businesses and this looks like another half-baked example of too little, too late. Still, they'll probably make some money transitioning legacy clients to the more expensive platform.
That would be dangerous since most android wear screens are so small. I'd be scare to look at them while i'm biking.

Now if the wearable simply alerts me via vibration then that would be cool.
What can Python learn from Haskell? [video]
The "government" doesn't exist independently of the people (even when it fails to represent them equally, either through unequal interest or unequal capacity to exert influence.) It is a mechanism through which the people "stand up for themselves to get" things that they want.
The US got into air transportation with much more enthusiasm than Europe and this combined with our love affair with the automobile pretty much negated a need or desire for trains. For the longest time traveling between countries in Europe could be met with restriction or such, the distances most traveled were not that great. In the US, it wasn't uncommon to travel hundreds if not a thousand miles on the big family vacation and you had three ways to get there.

High Speed rail might have some applications in some congested corridors, most likely only in the North East, but for the rest - air travel isn't that expensive.
Seems like a fair question, one I'd like a thorough answer to. Not sure why the downvote. I can see why there are downsides, sure, but the slavery comparison would need more support.
If you're looking for a good read on some of the principles discussed in the parent, Early Retirement Extreme [1], is an excellent resource.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/145360121X/?tag=oildepletiove-20