skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a bit darker than the other quotes, but I wake up everyday thinking "At most, I've only got X years left before I die." When you appreciate time/life as a limited resource you'll spend it more wisely. Typically people don't realize this until they're too old, but this is something 20-year-olds should think about.
The entire history of the human species is an inspiration and motivation, depending on what you choose to read into it. We are practically an infinite collection of case studies in creativity, innovation, perseverance, adaptability, beating the odds... your question is actually very hard to answer because so many great examples come to mind.

As for reading, a few things popped into my head in no particular order:

The Greatest Salesman in the World, by Og Mandino

Emerson's Essays, particularly "Self Reliance"

Biographies of people like James Clerk Maxwell and Tesla

If, by Kipling

Any of Bucky Fuller's books

And really, just look around at what people are doing in our industry. Our peers are a constant source of inspiration. I see what some of my friends are doing the field of IoT and it makes me want to get up every day at 4am and hack until my fingers fall off.
Granny Smith apples promote growth of friendly bacteria in the colon
How can a bug in software affect math?
Key factorization is not the correct term here.
> why bother

I'm mostly working on software for ARM and since all the tools I need for work run well enough, why not? I still use x86 at home.

> which ARM machines have you been using as desktop replacements?

The ones I've used most were IMX53QSB, then ODROID-X2, ODROID-XU and I'm now switching to ODROID-XU3.

> What advantages do they have over x86 machines?

I was able to get rid of the x86 desktop while only using ARM hardware I would have used anyway. Also, the boards have a tiny footprint (you can tape several to the back of a monitor for example), they're very low power and can be passively cooled. They're very cheap too.

I've also used some RK3188-based mini PCs dongles for their portability. You can carry a reasonably fast GNU/Linux machine in your pocket and don't cost much more than Raspberry Pi, which I find way too slow.
I just want to play Mario
/r/books with its 3 million subscribers is really, really bad.

/r/literature is much smaller and therefore better. Way more interesting content, but still extremely entry-level though. And plagued with stereotypical redditisms (one of the top posts right now is Tao Lin translated to Latin).
What do those stored annotations point to if members are providing the books?

This isn't RapGenius where all of the lyrics and annotations are shown on the same screen.

If the data structure of the stored annotations includes "pointers" to a specific book, what does it "point" to? A page number? Many epub/mobi books don't have absolute page numbers. For dead tree books, even the page numbers can change between the printing of the 1st hardback cover to the 2nd paperback edition.

When I think of "shared annotations", I'm thinking of virtual comments written in the margins of a book that anyone else can see. How would members "provide" books for that scenario? Upload epub & mobi files?

I guess it would be easier to quote (copy&paste) a particular passage a book and then follow up with some commentary but that type of thing can already be done today in any book discussion forum. To me, that's just quoting/citing and not annotating.
A great introduction is "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by Irvine

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/019...
James Allen - As a man thinketh
I had one course each year in 1-12 that had me reading fiction, that was English/Language Arts. My math, science, history and other courses focused almost exclusively on non-fiction. Where did you go to school that they only provided fictional science and math texts?
If you don't want to use a bank account you can use https://mycelium.com/ or https://localbitcoins.com/. Or just use https://bitpay.com/getbits and check if one of your friends on Facebook is selling coins.
OpenWrt BarrierBreaker 14.07 is now available
I appreciate the spirit and the knowledge that you wrote this blog post with BUT -

The extra few seconds to put this in a .sh file in the first place ... priceless. Even for the basic case of debugging it and getting it working.

I don't think in the 20-25 years I've been "doing" unix that I've ever done this (I doubt anyone that has worked with me considers me ocd fwiw but this is beyond the pale).

Behaviors like this lead to "magic" work environments and are just pants on head places to work at/with.

I would be really mad the first time I found you doing this and I'd look for a different work situation for one of us the second time :)

Thanks for the cool post.
Exponential curves have a constant derivative. Logistic (S) curves have a decreasing derivative. If you look closely, you can begin to distinguish the curves at around the 25% mark. Maybe even lower, if the data is really clean.
Do things that scare you
Why are we upvoting this? Is it because it has buzzy keywords like "OpenSSL" or "RSA"? Did anyone follow the link at all?

A guy says he's found a bug, but he's not going to reveal details to anyone, never. He also claims that an Argentinian guy found it 6 years ago and no one accepts him at any congress because they don't believe him.

This is just BS, there's nothing of interest to anyone, stop upvoting it.
I know what you meant. No, there is no delay after signing up before you can buy Bitcoin on Circle.
No. He said that it was the 'default' way of doing it. Yes, it has happened X times, that does not mean it's the default way of doing it. Maybe there's some other method which is done a lot more often and hence should be considered the 'default' way.
http://gassend.net/spaceelevator/breaks/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_safety
Saeed Malekpour, programmer and political prisoner in Iran
You don't need to verify a bank account. Just link a debit or credit card - instant without verification.
Yeah, that's what I suspected: just another arrogant piece of shit doctor who thinks s/he's too important to be bothered learning anything about his/her patients. This patient neglect by way of physician arrogance is endemic and far more dangerous to the health of all the individuals in this country than most of the ailments for which patients initially seek treatment.
I tend to shudder when people talk about bitcoin being "cheap". There's a massive amount of energy wasted to maintain the public ledger. It became much more clear to me how this impacts the cost of transacting bitcoins after reading this article: http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/how-many-bitcoins-does-...

...and particularly after seeing this graph: https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction

I'm more excited about proof-of-stake, as there isn't this arms race to throw more and more computing power to generate bitcoins. I'm not sure why it hasn't seen more adoption, but I will admit that I don't pay a lot of attention to the cryptocurrency space...
For those catching up. Updated Ebola News Timeline http://newslines.org/ebola/
I once went to see Maersk's largest vessel in the Copenhagen harbor. After driving up and down the docks for some time without being able to find the ship, I realized I was driving next to it.
I once went to see Maersk's (at the time) largest vessel in the Copenhagen harbor. After driving up and down the docks for some time without being able to find the ship, I realized I was driving next to it.
I for one would like to see IRC based book clubs flourish. Real time conversation without being limited to 140 characters
The original article was about books people discuss with friends in real life, not online. How many of these books do you actually talk about?

Although it's commonly recommended, I can't remember ever actually talking with someone else who's also read *The C Programming Language" about the contents of that book, though if they're a programmer we might discuss something about C if it comes up.
I am a fan of biographies. Here are a couple of people in history that inspire me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

He started as a slave in America and ended up an ambassador of the U.S. to Haiti.
Paul Graham's lecture recently really cemented the idea of having a good life is just work on things that interest you and maybe something comes from it but it doesn't matter because you are still doing what you enjoy.
I've curated my list of Facebook friends to be something like that. The list of real-life friends who make up a core part of my list of Facebook friends includes a lot of people from a membership organization gifted children, whose parents then form a mutual support network. This, to be sure, is a hard strategy to replicate exactly, but over time I think that your professional or other affinity groupings will help you find people who like to discuss books you like thoughtfully.

I get good book recommendations here on HN all the time, most recently a set of books about German history,[1] but we hardly ever have extended book discussions here.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/01...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143037900/

http://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Reich-at-War/dp/0143116711/
Tandem Computers actually did implement files on top of a database.
Their OS didn't have files. Their system was a replicated database running directly on the hard disk, with no file system.

There's something to be said for this. Your files get ACID properties. If we were serious about file integrity, we'd have file systems that worked like this:

- Unit files. The unit of data is the entire file. Files are written once, and when closed successfully, the file transaction commits and others can read the file. Any update replaces the entire file as an atomic operation. (Many applications need this, and try to do it with various move and rename operations, usually leaving files behind if things fail at the wrong moment.)

- Log files. You can only add at the end. Writes are atomic. In the event of a crash, the file is valid up to some recently completed write. (On many systems, log files can tail off into junk or contain truncated records.)

- Temporary files. When the process or process group exits, they're gone. Random access is OK. (You shouldn't have to clean up junk temporary files.)

- Managed files. These support a database or something with complex structure. There are extra I/O functions for locking, flushing and being sure a write has been committed to disk.

That covers most of the use cases for files. There have been file systems which did some of this, but not in recent years.
I didn't say they don't exist, I said I have never seen them. And I am not alone. Like I said, I have asked people. That's the point. I said 25-50% because that is the correct figure, not because someone else said a smaller number before. The snark is unnecessary.
I do have a github. I've got a few repos on there, all of varying scope and quality. It'd be cool if you could check it out here and let me know what you think: https://github.com/philangist
one of the most interesting points, though the writer didn't spend much time on it, was how the serialised nature of some of the famous older novels meant everyone was much more likely to be reading them at the same time, and how serialised television fiction plays the same role today. i'd add to that novel series like harry potter - it wasn't just that the first book was wildly popular, but that as the series progressed it swept up more and more fans who were waiting together for the next book. standalone novels don't have that sort of forcing function, and it doesn't seem to work for multiple books by the same author (e.g. no one talked about dan brown's novels after 'the da vinci code')
arrogant piece of shit doctor

Please, be civil.
Trying to be ironic? That page does not present an easy way to set up what I asked for.
I feel like bitcoin supporters, in talking about things like the convenience and simplicity of transactions, while not incorrect, are missing the critical issues that are going to determine bitcoin's fate.

If we look at bitcoin vs. US banknotes, a paypal balance, a pile of gold bars in a bunker, whatever, if we're looking at how bitcoin performs vs. all these things at the moment in time when we're transferring them to someone else, bitcoin is superior in every case. The problem is this window is brief. Non-transactional moments in the life of bitcoin is where the problem lies.

Looking at historic pricing of bitcoin, and seeing a peak at a little over $1k, what does the future price need to be for people to feel comfortable receiving bitcoins and just holding onto and forgetting about them, in the same way they could with, say, 100 bucks in their wallet? Being divisible down to 8 decimal places might rationally address the issue of how to spend something where the base unit costs as much as an Xbox. But even if bitcoin could somehow split at something like 300 or 500:1, to make a bitcoin roughly equal to a US dollar or a Euro, does that really solve the problem of perception? The historical chart, with the accelerated volume and insane swings in both directions, might never recede from the mind of the public.

I just have a hard time understanding what a path to acceptance as a legitimate currency looks like. Years of price stability would be a great start. But the beginning of that period hasn't even begun. In the past month alone, the price has moved by 30%, and daily volatility regularly sees the price change by 5%. I can sort of squint my eyes and imagine scenarios where bitcoin, the currency, wins. What I can't see is how bitcoin, the speculative investment, also does well. That these two things are at odds leads to other issues, too, but this is already unnecessarily long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_exchange_tether
No there isn't. I have no idea how they pulled it off, but it really is instant. In less than 5 minutes, I went from not having a Circle account to having a Bitcoin transaction on the blockchain transferring BTC I bought with a credit card to my own private wallet.

Circle is amazing.
My experience hiring for jobs on those site is most of those responses or bidders clearly have not read the requiements. You can distinguish yourself by giving clear evidence in your bid you understand the requirements, and importantly, note areas where clarification is needed. Also, a lot of bidders respond with, why not use framework or service X? Don't do that.
DFW always came across as a wanker to me because of these sorts of thoughts.

There is a lot more to life than DFW's conception of what constitutes a "pristine" or "authentic" experience.

Lifestyles and ways of making a livelihood are always coming and going in this world. DFW would make a religion out of a a particular time/place and way of living. That is essentially what his philosophy boils down to.--nostalgia raised up high like its the most holy and pure of feelings.

His command of English was so good, and his way of phrasing things so beautiful, that a whole generation of readers was seduced by his pretty simplistic view of the world.
Germany's not doing any better. My hospital's Ebola preparedness plan: Someone printed out a piece of paper with the number of the Ebola advice hotline, underlined it in orange, and stuck it up on the Emergency Room wall.

I'm reasonably sure we don't have fluid impermeable gowns AT ALL, and while we do have face shields in an operating room somewhere, I wouldn't want to have to find one in a hurry.

(That said, I'm reasonably sure that our actual inofficially-official Ebola plan is "Shut Door behind patient. Yell at people on Ebola hotline until they agree to come and take the patient away to a hospital more prepared to deal with this.")
> I didn't say they don't exist, I said I have never seen them.

Point conceded, possible if you don't watch news.

> Like I said, I have asked people. That's the point.

Anecdotes. Your original claim, "Most people don't know the issue exists", doesn't follow from "I have asked people" unless you've asked a thousand randomly selected people.

> I said 25-50% because that is the correct figure

Citation requested.
It's definitely a fun little toy...

http://node-os.com/

http://osjsv2.0o.no/
Jesus, I'm making 30k less than the minimum. Although looking at your profile you're an employee at Facebook, so it's possible your circle of friends are much more competent that the average coder on the street.
Any Googlers out there? Need help getting YouTube channel unblockedThanks
It's not just you, I'm in the same boat.

I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong but once I jumped on an enemy I couldn't do anything except click a link in the in-game popup. The arrow keys and spacebar didn't do anything at that point, I had to reload.
I have to assume this is satire, given alternatives like Square cash.

- Bitcoin wallets are under constant cyberattack and there is nobody to compensate you if the money is stolen.
- There is no good way to evaluate the integrity of bitcoins software for end users
- Even the most user friendly hosted wallets (e.g. Coinbase) are not faster or simpler than a well designed bank (e.g. Simple)
- Almost no ordinary merchants accept Bitcoin
- The Bitcoin exchange rate is like the Zimbabwe Dollar

I think all these problems can be solved, and I personally hold Bitcoins, but let's not be delusional about the current state of affairs.
While I agree that we should think twice about eating sentient animals like octopuses, pigs are quite intelligent too (more so than many dogs!) and few people hesitate in front of a hot dog. Unlike the pigs we eat, the octopuses at least had a nice life and weren't cramped into tiny, dirty pens. Furthermore, octopuses have a very low life expectancy, they die after reproducing, and eating them is ecologically more sensible than many other seafood, tuna for example.
Marriott Hotels Charged with Blocking Wi-Fi
Even if it was a software problem (which according to timr it apparently wasn't), it would still be 100% the fault of the medical staff. Its absolutely ridiculous that the people caring for a patient don't even fucking talk to one another.
Url changed from https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/518460637916446720.
I didn't know this technology existed.
At the moment Bitcoin is not better than other currencies because it is a layer on top of existing currencies and their related infrastructure. Because almost nobody accepts Bitcoins there is a constant need to convert back and forth between Bitcoins and other currencies. While I really liked the idea of Bitcoin when it came into existence I now tend to believe that Bitcoin will die slowly because it does not solve any important problem for the average person. Anonymity is not important for almost all transactions. Relying on banks is not an issue for most people. Transaction are executed fast enough and are cheap enough in most cases. There is just not enough incentive to adopt Bitcoin.
I wanted to like this article, but it didn't address or resolve the pig versus octopus debate adequately really.
Okay between this and the lobster story you guys and gals are really starting to make me feel bad about the seafood Christmas my family does ever year (we're each responsible for a different seafood dish). I'll surely bring this up at the dinner table and I can tell ya right now, grandma isn't going to agree! :)

Back on topic though, this was another good read. The debate about how to cook it was hilarious:

He insisted that there was an art to cooking octopus correctly. His includes a Neapolitan trick: a wine cork in the cooking liquid. Éric Ripert and Harold McGee dismiss this step as mere legend—to which Pasternack gleefully responds, “Éric Ripert is full of shit!”
While it is true that errors during care transitions are a well known and difficult to solve problem, they rarely result from people not giving a fuck.
Yes but this is our view as outsiders. When you see a dozen patients a day with "fever and abdominal pain" it's going to take something out of the ordinary to set off your alarm bells. Ebola has still affected only thousands of people in the world, and it's never been seen "in the wild" in the USA. It is legitimately almost the LAST thing a health care provider would suspect based on initial symptoms.

The first few cases are going to be misdiagnosed initially.

I think we have to look at this the same way the NTSB looks at airplane crashes. Not to assign blame, but to identify root causes, procedural/training problems, and changes to prevent the same failure from happening again.
Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to simple stupidity.

It was 45L of concentrated polio virus solution. 45L is about the upper limit of a human portable storage vessel for liquids. 10 gallon portable water coolers are common, and we're talking 12 gallons here.

My guess is someone was corner-rolling it to transport it a short distance rather than getting a coworker or using a dolly. All it takes is the lid being improperly secured and all that liquid is going down a floor drain.

The virus doesn't live long outside the body, with the exception being an infected person faeces.

This is likely not receiving much media attention because it's not a big incident. Aside from a few waste treatment workers who'll have to be extra cautious the city will simply cut back on workers going down into the sewers for a couple weeks.

Unless faeces are getting into the water supply, there's negligible risk. And if faeces were getting into the water supply, there'd be a bigger news story here than this incident.
I'm a Python developer and I still only write in Python 2. I'll sometimes release projects and make them compatible with both Python 2 and 3, but for any personal or professional (non-open source) work I use Python 2.

Python 2 still has too much pull. Lots of smaller open source projects and third party libraries use 2, as do little snippets and examples all around the Internet. I've never found a case where a project I wanted to use, modify, or borrow from supported 3 but not 2, but the inverse is unfortunately still quite common.

I think Python 3 is a better language over all, but it's easier for me as a developer to keep using what I know will be supported and compatible.
Buying a western union check and meeting someone in an alleyway to get a thumb drive is easier than just using a bank? I think not.
Closed minded people fear the free thinking. That is the only reason I can come up with.
No kidding. That argument is outdated, then. Thanks for the heads up.
This is art. I share this exact sentiment, but never could, and never have seen it so beautifully expressed.
Poem: "If" by Rudyard Kipling

Quote: "Everyone knew it was impossible to do. One day, someone who did not know showed up and did it."

Person: Alexis Ohanian - I know he's kind of goofy and perhaps not the most inspirational to someone else, but he gave me hope when I needed it most. I never actually met him. I discovered his story at a serendipitous moment when my father, the last person who believed in me at that time, had just passed away of cancer. I finally learned that, outside of my social bubble, exploring unbeaten paths was a value rather than a defect. I discovered YC and HN because of Alexis. I owe him more gratitude than I know how to express.

Curiosity: Future generations will wonder how we could endure the inefficiencies and unnecessary hardships we put up with. I want to discover why they’ll wonder that.

Fear: PG mentioned toward the end of "Before the Startup" that, "If you're absolutely terrified of starting a startup, you probably shouldn't do it." I am absolutely terrified of giving myself a reason in the future to look back and think, "I wish I had tried."
All wifi devices are unlicensed transmitters.