skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a nice concept. Seeing how various seed images play out could be really interesting.
I believe that the numba compilation is planned for the coming year.
This is bullshit. Just continue to work 16 hours a day, increase your productivity and your startup will succeed. After that you'll be happy forever. And your investor too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKYXmjfQY4U [Good Burger movie soundtrack]

I'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude, we're all dudes, hey.
Adidas: the hidden hoard
805 million people on earth don't have enough to eat. 783 million don't have access to clean water. 1.9 million die of diarrhea every year. 176 million African adults can't read.

And this guy sits around the first world for a couple years with the back of his hand nailed to his forehead.

If he can't bring himself to do more than write a couple essays and snap some photos over a couple years, I would suggest a refreshing visit to Mozambique or Syria. People there could surely use help with the basic necessities of life.
virtual-dom may be faster than React.js in benchmarks. However the React example [1] that the author rebuilt with MVI [2] is much slower with many elements. What's the deal here?

[1] http://binarymuse.github.io/react-primer/build/index.html?6
[2] http://staltz.com/mvi-example/
Yea we have it the other way round.

Usually tests take quite a bit and you dont want to wait forever to finally see an obvious style violation.
The Gregory Hays translation is great. I didn't even finish Meditations the first time I tried because the language in my translation was dry and archaic to the point of being distracting. I basically had to read each page twice and couldn't get into the flow of actually understanding and enjoying what he was trying to say.

The original wasn't meant to be a dry treatise; it was a journal. I think a rendering that uses personal and simple language is more faithful than one that goes for the inscrutable ancient wisdom angle.
data and information is synonymous, isn't it? Of course, DRM data is not the information in which we are interested in the end.

DRM is a format, if you will. DRM data is what's formated in the format, retreival of data in a format is information. Information, like they say about security, is a process.
I'm kinda out of the Less loop of late, but plugins look like a nice new feature.

> Plugin Support - it is now straight forward to add AST manipulations (see less-plugin-inline-images), file managers (see less-plugin-npm-import) and post processors (see less-plugin-clean-css and less-plugin-autoprefix).

Quick NPM search:

https://www.npmjs.org/search?q=less-plugin
This reminds me of PG's essay - http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

Basically, I believe Author would be better off making the claim that many people (himself included) confuse the definition of productivity.
1) real emergencies should happen very rarely

2) if they do you dont want to wait until the tests pass - so it's outside of that process anyhow

3) the real root problem here is: "emergency deploys need to be fast and adhoc" - not "linting is part of the ci process"
Ukraine War 2014: Russian Troops Near Donetsk Airport , Coming Under Fire
JavaScript Promise
Study identifies protein which improves synaptic plasticity in animal models
Wouldn't you be using your time more productively by not reading HN?
I definitely wouldn't endorse this description - it's a bit secondhand.

What I'd say is that Urbit is not designed to be a darknet. It is not Tor and it's not Bitcoin. Also, it is not designed for external governments, or even its mysterious and sketchy founders, to govern - it is designed to govern itself. (Through user-level reputation mechanisms which have yet to be built, but are relatively easy to build - because the limited supply of identities controls Sybil attacks.)

In particular, Urbit should be quite good at enabling anonymous free speech beyond the reach of governments. A self-hosted node in your closet is quite practical and effective. There is no anonymization / onion routing (and you can't trivially route Urbit over Tor, because Urbit uses UDP), but someone could build that.

Although I don't want them to. I want to enable anonymous, or better yet pseudonymous, free speech. I don't want to help people buy drug$ or childpron through the mail. Fortunately or unfortunately, there are already much better tools for that.
I've followed the reporting that Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman et al. have put out fairly closely, but I've also watched the debates, watched several of the Congressional hearings, read both of the PCLOB reports, quite a few of the declassified documents, etc. The conclusion I've come to is that talking about nuances in surveillance law doesn't bring in advertising dollars, but you can't go wrong by stirring up hysteria talking about all of the things the NSA could technically do without showing evidence of them actually doing it. This is the Ebola scare of the tech community.

So to answer your question, I believe it's an ugly system with a lot of warts, but I have yet to see it break.
Calling an opposing view a jerk if they don't agree, is poor form; regardless the point.
"A decade in the lab will save you an afternoon in the library."
Show HN: Robotic pour-over coffee
Fantastic piece.

I believe in similar things. Here, where I currently live, we spend so much time working and being productive that we forget to ask questions. "Why am I doing this?" "What is the meaning of it?" "What is really important?" Then we end up lost, depressed and what not. Not all of us do, but some? Certainly. We do it because others do it. Because we believe that pursuing a different venue is not realistic. Others have that? Hell, I should have it too.

"I should totally run a startup."

Anyways, it happened to me. Went to SEA for four months. Dreamed. Life is amazing. I can do whatever I want. I don't need money to live. yadi. yada. Then you come back, and no one understands you. You are a hippy. I'm not.

In periods of doubt, I write things down. Then I remember what I believe. Then I remember I'm going back soon. That it is what I should be doing.

Being productive is ok. It's fun. But, in the end, it's not important. People are. At least, that's the conclusion I came to.

I guess I'm just rambling. Carry on.

Note: when I write "We", I mostly mean "I".
I disagree. I thought that his book framed the larger issues of stoicism well, so I could better understand the source material as the next step. (Particularly since some of the translations use language that's not particularly accessible).
No - he'll probably have got a small proportion of his stake left.

If they were able to repay their seed capital, then it's a self sustaining business - there's a very thin line between success and failure here.
A Calligraphy Master's Album
Only loosely related but for lovers of weird programming texts, there's a bizarre gem called "Elementary Basic - Learning To Program Your Computer In Basic With Sherlock Holmes" by Henry Ledgard and Andrew Singer.

http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Chronicled-Learning-Compute...
Thank you! I brought it closer to the top :) http://ellekasai.github.io/purplecoat.js/
My primary care physician had 2 receptionists and a biller.

Supposedly, EMR would replace the biller. The reality is, they replaced the part-time IT died with a FTE, kept the biller and picked up a big "software maintenance" bill.

Other than electronic transmission of prescriptions, the whole process has taken a step backwards from paper.
Thanks for pointing to the original article.
The anonabox is back again :/
If they want to get a crowdsource campaign going, better to do it ASAP so they can cash in on the general public's feeling about the shutdown and arrests (and before everyone forgets). Similar to how the heartbleed bug caused a major donation drive to the ssl project shortly after it happened.
22 tips for better data science
Is it just me, or is anyone else reminded of the story of Project Xanadu? (A great read[1], if you have an hour to spare.)

Especially this part:
> Shapiro also discovered that the group had been working together so long it had developed a kind of private slang. It took months to comprehend what the programmers were talking about. Most of them were book lovers and trivia mongers who enjoyed developing a metaphor based on obscure sources and extending it via even more unlikely combinations. For instance, the object in the Xanadu system that resembled a file was called a bert, after Bertrand Russell. With files called bert, there had to be something called an ernie, and so in the Xanadu publishing system, an ernie was the unit of information for which users would be billed. To understand the details of Xanadu, Shapiro had to learn not only the names for things, but also the history of how those names had come to be.

[1] http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu_pr.html
I loved how these brilliant astronauts can't see how loving deceased people could possibly have social utility or could otherwise be explained without resorting to "love is supernatural magic." That is a particularly strong example of how bad the screenwriting is in this film.
Supposedly, The Obstacle is the Way is in the vein. I haven't read it yet; it's on my list this month though. Supposedly a fairly good read though. It's written by a big PR guy though so who knows.

http://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph/...
Frankly, it always surprises me that people are willing to randomly run other peoples' C code! It's really quite plausible that I'm just out to steal your Bitcoin wallet.

The above are all data structures - not even functions. So we say "a pimp" or "a marl" or whatever. For precision, we might say "slam a gate on a pimp," but everyone will understand you when you say "call a function on a pimp."

Then, we refer to the comments (written in English) to see what a pimp, etc, is. Documentation is admittedly a problem, but it's not any more or less a problem than in any other language, I feel. Obviously, we could have more of it!
Reminds me of my employers Oracle Financials rollout, which makes submitting a travel voucher a 30 minute chore that takes 3x longer to process.

Sure, somebody could analyze our 150,000 annual vouchers and figure out some sort of insight. But that's unlikely, as the people who have access to the data care only about payment KPIs, and accessing any data in the system is a nightmare for anyone else.

The scenario you describe is problematic as well. The liability associated with drawing conclusions about the efficacy of a drug based on unscientifically collected data would probably make it difficult to use it to drive decisions.
I Did a Thing on a Hill: On Meaning and Purpose in Games
I've always been bothered by the fact that so few roles on the infrastructure/operations support side of things have an actual coherent job title. My team has developers, testers, and a business analyst. Their jobs have names. But my friends on the other side of the cube-farm in the rooms full of half-assembled PCs? They're all just "IT guys". They might have a proper title for their role, but nobody knows it.
It's too late for me, but this is quite annoying for folks as they ditch Apple. I'm guessing that even dealing with people calling Apple or heading into stores was becoming an issue.

In any event, it's a helpful move from Apple to help those transitioning away from them. I just wish Apple had this 18 months ago when all of us were trying to trackdown the issues on not getting texts in Android after switching. I'm happy too that when I explain to others migrating, I can give them a link vs. the ambiguity on how to extract yourself from SMS/MMS iSolation.
They seem to imply that no weave/tangle would be necessary with Outshine. At least I assume that's how it would work with the outline headings 'outcommented in the comment syntax of the major-mode language'.
Big Data, Underground Railroad: History says unfettered collection a bad idea
MUSE Reveals True Story Behind Galactic Crash
> I've studied Tor vulnerabilities for two years.

Is that academic research, or in what context? I'd be interested to hear what you have to say on that; anything published anywhere? Email in profile if you'd be into that :)
If threads can usually be summarized in a way that most people think is useful, that's an interesting question. I'm thinking it varies from discussion to discussion and thread to thread.
— Hmm, one area where summaries seem impossible, is jokes. Well unless one summarizes the thread with "A joke and funny replies".

Threads cannot be summarized? But I think I can summarize this thread?: "A suggestion to summarize threads, and a discussion about if this is doable and useful." :-) Couldn't that summary potentially save time, help people to know if they want to read this thread or not?
Tying the OS to the hardware is not exactly Apple-specific. If I bought a laptop with Windows preinstalled (an OEM license) I can't activate that on different hardware either. Saying "I bought that" to the support line would likely get me laughed at.

If you bought OS X for non-Apple hardware, it has never been able to run there unmodified. It would be like complaining that my PS4 game doesn't run on the XBox One.
Not if he convinces me that this article is a bit whiny and re-orients me towards industry for the sake of human good.

One short quip for renewed vigor. That's productivity!
There's a Push to Try to Release Debian 8.0 Jessie Before February
Elaboration of rule 7: you keep working until it either passes sanity testing or it's fully rolled back. I think anybody who has deployed to production has faced a rocky rollout where prod's behavior does not match staging and nobody knows why and everybody scrambles until it does.
Yeah, it's probably not one of our better decisions.
True, but anyone that can gain privileged access to the computer is already king of the castle. Why attack it offline when you can just keylog it? I think it goes back to being one part of an overall security posture. Encrypt your workstations and people can't just pick them up and own them.
Military Veterans and Startups
I resemble this remark. We're making progress more than twice as fast than Xanadu!
This ain't 70s. Russia and China are growing closer by the day. They just (as recently as today) signed massive gas and infrastructure deals.
Being a NYT piece, the author was likely heavily coached.
You are right that this is no good idea in the general case. But I think there are a few endpoints that have "pretty printing" outputs for developers enabled if text/html is in the accept list. At least the (internal) deviantart API did have that some time ago.

I agree that the whole thing can be solved nicely with content negotiation.
To be honest it sounds more like you haven't gotten to know them and their roles.
Reproducible SBCL builds – a month ahead of schedule
It's not ready for them yet. :-)
> how do Databases intersect ... Bioinformatics

You must be kidding. The whole field of bioinformatics was born when the biologists started to have large enough collections of protein and DNA sequences that working with them by hand was not practical anymore.
Check out pure data: http://puredata.info
Having division by zero being an unchecked exception is a terrible idea, as you say.

But that's not what I want. I want a paranoid language. I want a language where potential division by zero is a checked exception. One where "a = b / c" won't even compile if c might be 0. One that won't compile if it can find an example of an input to a function where an assertion fires. I want one where there is no such thing as an unchecked exception. Or rather, one where you can explicitly override checked exceptions to be the equivalent of (read: syntactic sugar for) "except: print(readable exception trace); exit(<code>)" - but you need to explicitly override it to do so.

Would it be a pain to write in? Yes. But at the same time there's a lot of software that would be best written in this manner. A language where the language itself forces you to be paranoid.
Dr. Frankenstein Needs His Own Hippocratic Oath
That's correct. :-)
$88 is not a lot of money for a professional software person, especially if you can get your employer to pay for it.
How much productive effort goes into solving these problems versus other less necessary problems?

Let me define productivity: conscious effort to re-organize the world's energy and matter.

Am I honour bound to re-organize the world's energy and matter until it's in the ideal state (which of course is never obtainable and not even definable, since it's different for each person)?

The author has an issue with productivity for the sake of productivity. Spending time helping people in need is obviously a valuable and wise use of time, but you shouldn't feel guilty for not spending every waking moment increasing your net worth.
A week with the Retina iMac: Closing thoughts on Apple’s newest desktop
Probably, the whole paper is written in that terse tone. If the title doesn't appeal to the reader, reading on wouldn't make sense anyway. I.e., I can tell from the title that I'd be better of returning to the other book on data structures.

I'll download it for later(tm).
If you were ever looking for a coffee table book that may ensnare a guest's attention if they choose to pick it up and 'glance' through it, City of Darkness is one of the best. Unfortunately, it is now a collector's item now (hundreds of dollars)

http://www.amazon.com/City-Darkness-Life-Kowloon-Walled/dp/1...

Note: There is a 2nd edition coming out soon (via Kickstarter)
Chalk it up to new money and not knowing how to spend it. I'm sure China will develop better taste eventually (goes for ad agencies, their clients, and the customers being vied for).

Until then, we'll have things like this: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-11/09/content_188894...
Cool! Are you going to sell this to other businesses? If that's the direction you're going, maybe try to throw some numbers on the speed, consistency and reliability so a business owner can get excited about the investment? Really cool product though - it's certainly has "theater" to it.
Tenant could be an LLC registered in a jurisdiction that doesn't require disclosure of ownership or directors.
Could also be useful for interactive walkthroughs of interfaces.
Also, if you went to that link, your session (?) is now tagged with the affiliate code "mushavproboo-20".
It makes me want to know more about the writing process for pieces like this.

Does she write it alone, and send it off to various publications who might edit it slightly but otherwise run it as written (or not at all)?

Is she paired with a ghost writer who complements her amazing story with similarly amazing writing?

It seems unlikely (in general) that the people with the best stories also happen to be the best writers, so I would assume there is a lot of ghost writing and editing going on, but it would be great to know more about how this particular sausage is actually made.
this is only going to go away if people use gender neutral terms naturally... its sad but true.

i've always used guys to mean 'people' because there is no natural slang alternative. i'm now rethinking this, but its hard to retrain years of doing what i thought was correct in this manner.

although in hindsight its so obvious i should have seen it :/

but at the same time nothing jumps to mind as an alternative. this is definitely problem, but i'm not sure how to actually fix it.
BrowserStack was hacked
I just received a very strange email from the support account at BrowserStack. I cannot, however, verify the information.

The contents of the email: http://pastebin.com/RQXd2Au3

Can anyone else verify if they've received the email, or what the official word is?

If there's any information from the email itself that I can provide to verify the authenticity of the message, please let me know. I do have a BrowserStack account that I use regularly, and as such find this email to be quite worrisome.
Karoshi – “death from overwork”
It sort of seems like you've spent a lot of effort to re-invent a less good version of scala? Why not Scala?
Original article : http://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/

Which was posted here before : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010247
Increased Pareto is a better thing to aim for than increased productivity.

Doing the one very important thing, the one thing with huge returns or leverage will outweigh all the other probably also important things that really hard working and productive people can do in a day

It however takes wisdom to know what is important and courage to trust your wisdom.
This is an excellent post because it focuses on a central topic: mankind's behavioral predispositions.

The world today runs on profit and productivity. Morals, ethics and philosophies are irrelevant hindrances, as SV and Wall St. have demonstrated repeatedly. This is all well and good, as the last century apparently demonstrated that all ideologies and philosophies are the devil incarnate (Nazism, Leninism, Maoism, etc.)

But I do wonder one thing...did we quit on ideology prematurely? An ideology which I've always held as my own mission in life is the relentless pursuit of knowledge through science.

Throughout history, there have been times where mankind has focused intently on this goal, and the results were incredible. Sadly, most of these periods were spurred on by major wars.

What I really want to know is this:

Is it possible to built a society whose goal is the advancement of mankind's knowledge?

The profit motive and the free market are undoubtedly the best motivators for mankind, due to our evolutionary predispositions for survival and inherent need to establish status hierarchies. But could we not harness these energies, and direct them to positive-sum endavors such as science and engineering research, rather than a pure profit-driven battle to the death?

Keep in mind, the historical mean society throughout history has been oligarchy. It appears the last century was a brief respite due to massive wars and resultant existential threats. We now seem to be heading right back into the oligarchical paradigm of rich get richer, and poor stay serfs [1].

I can envision a society built around the pursuit of knowledge. The market exists and is regulated to produce needs and wants efficiently, yet without negative-sum behavior (regulatory capture, corruption, anti-competitive conduct, wage fixing, etc.) Education and research are a prime government mandate in addition to infrastructure, defense, healthcare and a social safety net. Citizens are incentivized to hone their skills and education continuously without massive financial downsides (student debt). State sponsored research institutes exist throughout the country similar to Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, JPL, etc. and serve to stimulate the economy through constant research projects, both large and small. The projects provide jobs for low and high skilled individuals (e.g. ITER, LHC). Those who enjoy pure research have a plethora of opportunities to move the state of the art forward. Those who don't, have excellent and rewarding employment.

The challenge in creating this society is a very tough one: humans are not motivated by knowledge. We are motivated by status, sex, and power, though few ever understand it or admit to it. But I hope that one day, knowledge of our inherent weaknesses will become common enough such that we can fight our destructive natures in an effort to transcend our limitations.

Till that day, I remain a dreamer.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Cen...
this is a nice story, but i think something much more important is missed here... application of the scientific method.

all of this logical deduction is worthless unless you verify it with experiments. this is very much not what Sherlock Holmes does... but it is exactly what enabled the deduction in the story to be cemented into a reliable conclusion.