skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity
You updated your page in order to credit Roger... ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

Anyway, don't take it personal, its just that it appeared to me that it was very obvious when you even used the same seed image.
No it's not. Thug is a term of violence.
That's actually pretty great. One of the best books I have ever read is the Tao of Pooh. I forget Taoism sometimes but it does feel right. maybe it's time to take the Pooh book off the shelf again for another read.
Exciting! Just waiting for the adoption to be standard so I can try this for real, for example Chrome 39 on OS X 10.10 don't support recording.
Well, that would be a lot of redundancy. Good isolation is hard to achieve (as proven by this post), why bother doing it twice? Is there any upside?
The Calm app is great - makes for a really refreshing break during the work day.
You could set up an automated phone tree for this. I've seen multiple large organizations have phone trees where several paths down the tree leads to an automated answer at the leaf (sometimes you can't even get to a representative once you reach some leaves).
Technically it's quintupling, not quadrupling. Not sure why the writers chose to phrase it like that.
It's actually quite valid. I have taken vacations from work before with the sole intent of staying away from computers since I work on them all day. Guess what it never worked out. I always went back to the computer and spent the entire vacation on it.
My grandmother always wonders why the younger generations are always so tired or so that's what she sees. She of course was never as tired when she was younger but other than health issues she really is a clear mind. She knew what her husband wanted her to know and that's about it. Everything else is wrong and she sticks to it.

For example I like to bake bread as a hobbyist and do no knead from time to time. She also likes to bake but given her arthritis she can't do it anymore and she really missed it. I got her everything she would need but she wont have it.
infinitely recursive and self referent system of language

No idea if this is actually what he said, but when I say the word "dog" while pointing at a dog, the recursion of language stops. It's amazing how so much philosophy is almost intentionally incorrect.
#1 cost (mostly due to lack of upfront funding to keep costs down)
#2 it doesnt look/scound cool like those 'new' planes. it sounds great to have a cool new jet fighter with (some) stealth and can do neat loopty loops and use the latest and greatest air to air and electronic warfare systems, BUT

none of these new planes actually come anywhere close to fulfilling the close ground support role the A-10 offers. its much akin to wanting the best fantasy stat players on your sports team but come to find those metrics don't win championships / make teams.
GTD. GTD = David Allen's book GETTING THINGS DONE which has been mentioned below already. I've lived the splatter-gun-to-focus process that GTD can create, if you stick with GTD. I blog about GTD on and off. Here is my before/after with pictures: http://restartgtd.com/gtd-journey-after/ and, here is my 5 year GTD time lapse of refactored desks and trusted systems: http://restartgtd.com/gtd-time-lapse/
I kinda do this as well. I don't really use the phone from 6pm to 10am unless I get a call. Reading some fiction before bed does help me sleep better. Even so I find reading still tires me out as if it's no different than reading an article.
You should try David Allen's GTD system. I'm pretty angry at myself for not having tried to understand and apply it earlier (had been reading about it for many years before..) it really is a great holistic concept to give structure to your most precious finite resources (brain, time).

Also delete your RSS reader, loopback HN and other "educational" sites to localhost (subscribe to http://www.hndigest.com instead) and try to get back into reading books again.

Good luck!
I wonder if we really are the first generation to have this type of problem, though. It seems reasonable to me that people would be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of books published over the decades preceding the widespread adoption of the internet. There's just tons of material out there. Even in the academic world, the amount of papers published every year - even before the internet - would probably overwhelm anyone if they tried to keep on top of it.

I'd love to see some pre-internet articles complaining about the pace of publishing and strategies for coping with the onslaught of information at that time. It seems reasonable that it would exist, and I'm sure we'd all find it rather quaint :)
Getting on the Right Track
Sometimes it does feel like I serve them. That's scary. I am hesitant to let them go because there very well can be things that may matter in there. I've had conversations with people who I wouldn't have been able to had I not read that one article about something. But at this point it's getting crazy so I think you're right.
> It seems to me that one needs another genetic algorithm to manage all the variables (such as mutation rate, population size, crossover, etc) because they have such an impact on the effectiveness of the algorithm.

This has been tried in the literature -- usually by adding those parameters to the genome. Basically it's a wash.
> What if these ladies started pushing customers elsewhere?

I imagine no-umlaut-Uber would retaliate in some kind of distasteful, barely-within-the-bounds-of-the-law way and HN would have its anti-Uber story for next week.
Nor is "ausrotten", at least not in its literal meaning. I'm not sure about how appropriate its use for the figurative meaning is, but its connotations are pretty violent regardless of its Nazi use.
How to write a best seller and launch a successful startup before you’re 30
Learn your company's business.
Nice to see another spinoff :)
Great to see this post now since it is exactly 6 years since my EvoLisa post was released today :)
The best programming languages every beginner should learn
... until a later bystander asks you, "What is a dog?" and you now have to define it without the associated dog present.

Or someone looks at another breed of dog and asks "What is that?" because he isn't aware of canine taxonomy and thinks only that original breed is a creature called "dog".

Welcome to Derrida's version of the halting problem. These are actual problems of NLP today.
I just got this on my kindle since it seems to have pretty good reviews. Your comment doesn't really outright say that the book helped you become more focused and disciplined - would you say that it did or didn't?
>I think the Apache's are not able to take being hit nearly as well as A10s,

No, they definitely can't! But they are much better at avoiding taking fire in the first place.

>plus have less fire power and take longer to get places.

This, and the higher maint-man/hour per flight hour.

>"...the JTAC didn't feel safe bringing in helicopters in to evacuate the wounded personnel."

Thanks for that link, hadn't seen it.

>...the convoy's commander approved the pilots to engage "danger-close." The term is meant to clearly communicate to the ground and air forces that the need for support is so grave the ground commander is willing to accept the potential risk to the friendly unit for the life-saving employment from the air.

Scheisse. Gives you chills if you really think about it.
> Note – Before we get started, I need to be clear that the example we’re building only works in Firefox.
If you are "growing slowly", especially in today's market, you are going to have a very difficult time raising capital from Silicon Valley investors. Period.

The fundamental point you're overlooking is the fact that profitability does not equate to leverage in a negotiation when you are not in a negotiation. Thinking that you're negotiating with investors because they're talking to you is sort of like thinking that you're pursuing a serious relationship with someone because they allowed you to buy them a drink at the bar.

Professional investors look at a lot of deals and fund a small percentage of them. They have a number of motivations for talking to entrepreneurs who they have no immediate interest in backing.
Uber isn't a German word. It's (originally) a colloquial word in some (American) English sociolects. It's based on German "über" and started as a loanword, but like many such words it has taken on an entirely unrelated meaning of its own.

I'm pretty sure I've seen "uber" (with either spelling but pronounced in English) on the web and on IRC as early as the 1990s. It likely spread beyond the online use when the web became mainstream.

Disclaimer: German native speaker who used to spend way too much time around linguists.
I got a lot of value from A Field Guide to Genetic Programming[1] and Introduction to Evolutionary Computing[2] when I was studying this stuff.

I've heard good things about Essentials of Metaheuristics[3] and Clever Algorithms[4] too, I would like to read them some day.

[1] http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/

[2] http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gusz/ecbook/ecbook.html

[3] http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/

[4] http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/
Meditate, go on 5-10 hour hikes, and put down the screens.
Reminds me of the parable of the Emperor And His New Clothes.

All the smart people who understand math, physics, chemistry, and biology are just too dumb to understand this wonderful new science. And those that understand this wonderful new science can't actually produce anything useful.
> In the 1980s, though, it became clear that the USSR couldn't make their system work.

It was clear long before then. There was a lot of fear of the USSR's military capability, but not their economy. One obvious example was Kansas was shipping wheat to the USSR starting in the early 70's to make up for Soviet agricultural shortfalls.
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Those planes have ridiculously big knobby tires. It makes total sense, but certainly not something I'd have thought of.
My mistake--typo fixed. Thanks!
In the popular media the impression is that dividends are not taxed as ordinary income. The reason those evil rich trust fund guys pay lower taxes than the secretary etc.
Tonemapping is an essential component of modern video editing and rendering, and for that matter it has been common in photo editing (through the processes of "dodging" and "burning" the film as it was being exposed) since at least the '40s. Tonemapping is what actually lets you see the depths of light and dark in the same scene without the darkest and brightest parts of the image being completely blown out to black/white. Our pupils control global contrast (average brightness for the entire image) and our retinas can account for some degree of local contrast, so not applying the tonemapping and having i.e. the view from a window appear blindingly white makes things look more unrealistic.

(start at page 53) http://www.slideshare.net/naughty_dog/lighting-shading-by-jo...

http://mynameismjp.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/a-closer-look-at...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams

The Disney Research team purposefully exaggerated their tonemapping far beyond what was aesthetically pleasing in order to clearly demonstrate the artifacts of other tonemapping techniques that their novel approach avoided. In an actual film, the editors would use much more subtle parameters.
It's not at all a silly question, I've experienced the same and, reading the comments, it seems many others have too.

My own problem was being too attracted to novelty, every little bit of information that arrived in front of me was the most important piece of information in the world. But, before I could act on it, the next piece would arrive. This manifested in me having a long lists of books and articles to read, things I wanted to do, things I wanted to learn, and, eventually, dissatisfaction because I couldn't keep up with it all.

I "solved" my own problem by just routing every distraction as it arrived into a look-at-later list. Then when later arrived I'd scan through, decide what was actually worth following up on and just delete the rest. If you do this then you will realise how unimportant most of those distractions were.

Going onwards the key is not to have 10 books and 800 articles and 100 more articles, I'd suggest purging them.
Focus on one book, ignore the rest. After you finish that first book then pick one of the rest. If some of the books were just bought on a whim and you don't have the enthusiasm to read then just delete them, it's not a problem, no one will judge you.
Delete all of the articles, if they're important enough then you'll see them again.

Afterwards, don't buy any more books until you've finished the ones you have. Notice the difference between not wanting to read a book that you have and wanting to read the one you're thinking about buying. Is it really important? Do you need it now?

With the articles, continue to use Instapaper, it's a great way to avoid the immediate distraction. But only keep a limited amount of things in there. Notice how quickly you add new articles and how quickly you read them. If you're adding faster than you can read then delete the surplus. And if you notice the list becoming unwieldly then delete them all and start again, you won't miss anything, nothing is that important.

The same idea applies to many things, remove the impatience of "now!" and it's easy to view and prioritize them. You'll never be able to do everything, so just do the things that you want most and purge the rest. They're not important, it doesn't matter.
Terribad = double-plus-ungood. As opposed to plus-ungood or merely ungood. Don't think about it too hard.
German here. Please don't call them "Über" in German. It's an English word, so it sounds wrong to pronounce it any other way than either in English (i.e. /uːbər/) or English-as-if-it-were-German (i.e. /uːbɐ/ vs. über /yːbɐ/).
I've never seen a programmer be held responsible for maintaining code.

I've seen them paid to do it. I've seen them do it because they want to. I've never (ever) seen any of them do it because someone else told them they had to.
..or simply publish an encrypted version of a bitcoin wallet file - while the coins remain in your account your cipher is supposedly safe.
Neat.

I did one of these too, a while back: https://github.com/StoneCypher/canvolver
Because she failed to single-handedly reverse the trend in the context of wikipedia, she loses the right to express an opinion about how bad it is?
If she got calls like "I'll pay someone $1000 for a ride to the airport right now", that might justify Uber hiring people to answer phones. But she doesn't, she gets calls from angry harassed customers and people who don't know they can't schedule future rides. Guess what, Uber doesn't want or need to hear from these people. They've optimized to reach people who make them profit, not who are a time and money sink. Adding a phone number is only down-side for them and they clearly know it.
I assume harassment would not happen in the open source world since you can use an alias to hide yourself, however, why is the portion of female contributors so low? Tech blog writers, people don't read blogs because it is written by a man, why is there so much less programming blogger that are female? I felt the discrimination that is happening is the result, but not the cause of female leaving the industry
How to trace a cyber-weapon
The idea that the B1B will replace the A10 is crazy enough that is hard to know what to say about it. (Except that I'm sure the air force is saying that if it helps them get what they want)
How can you distinguish between two chiral molecules and two identical molecules one of which has been rotated 180 degrees with respect to the other?
Selling equity is a situational cost-benefit analysis, every time.

It all matters on how badly you want cash. They're not a shareholder unless you've already decided to sell them equity.
You don't have to be so self-deprecating of your code quality.
looks similar to https://vimeo.com/107544632
You are not alone, AFAICT everyone has hit this at one time or another. People like to think, and communications have made it easier than ever to think about a lot of different things. I expect it is the mental equivalent of 'free candy' which is to say that for many people if there is a source of free food nearby that is stocked with lots of things they like, they eat way too much and get fat. When we think too much we get distracted. Thinking about it that way helps lead to a solution, goals, and recognizing your distraction for what it is, treats. [1]

My technique is to set a timer and work on something while that timer is set, and when it goes off I can reward myself with a peek at the distractions. I fool myself into not being tempted by the distractions because the timer will tell me when I can enjoy them, that leaves me as focused as I can be on the problem at hand.

[1] He says while typing on HN while he should be fixing code.
Thanks, that's informative. I haven't seen it used much either; the only real use I saw (aside from viewing) was an XPS printer driver for a Canon inkjet printer. (I've also heard that it produced better results than the standard driver, but have no first-hand experience.)
Well they as much as admit that one of the demo scenes in that video looks fake because of the overuse of this technology. I personally think it's fascinating that they're finally hitting the uncanny valley from the other side.
>At my company, we depend on a lot of open-source technologies. We expect that someone will keep rails up to date, fix security vulnerabilities etc.

That's a pretty terrible, and indeed entitled, attitude to hold I must say.

>I haven't used it in a while (I don't make many presentations) but I still keep getting and responding to bug reports. What's my responsibility here? I am happy to open source my code, but I don't want the extra work of maintaining something I rarely use.

Then don't. Invite others to collaborate and submit patches themselves.
The temporary fix wasn't very user friendly. It was a plain text response "Please try again later" when trying to upload a resume.
I can completely relate, Often I find that I wish I had a minoritory report style HUD in my eyes/brain to allow me to sort, append and edit things I think about. My mind is racing. There is so much information available, so many people sharing things that I want to read, intend to, but never get to. It's hard, and I sympathize with the OP. The best advice I can give is that of all the things I've learned its dont be hard on yourself, take baby steps, and build positive habits... There IS too much information out there, impossible to consume in any normal manner. Dont be afraid to let go of some information (at least for me, it feels like I'm already letting go because of the overload/) A lot of the time, some of these things are more temporary than others. Try to start to focus on the things that are highest priority, most interesting to you, and have the most relevance to you as you are now. If this is troubling, the question becomes more of a priority focus than an overload of information. Otherwise, it just becomes a diligence and habit problem. Along with this is also a problem with letting go with information. The fact is, that its impossible to learn all the things right now. So focus on what is relevant to you, take baby steps, read every chance you get but dont burn yourself out. You can override this information overload.
I propose to call Laravel the PHP Rails equivalent, instead of Symphony

(cue the torchs and forks)
When I click "contact us", it gives me a page that says:

"How would you like to contact us?" and gives me 3 options:

1) E-mail

2) Phone

3) Chat

If you choose phone, you can have them call you, or you can call their number. It may seem convoluted, but since you are able to choose your order and issue you would like to discuss, the amazon representative calling you doesn't have to go through all the verification nonsense and looking up orders and such silly steps.
>If you don't plan to maintain your code what you did is not "open sourcing": it is merely a source code "release". "Open source" means "welcome", if you don't mean it, don't say it.

This is about as incorrect a statement as one could make on the issue.
It's possible I could do better by really narrowing it down but who knows. I am pretty good at what I do because of it I think. I'll have to think about it.

As for the POV's. isn't that what we all do, throw around others point of views? I wasn't educated in a way that fostered original idea.
Sir Kindly deposit $5000 in our bank account and we will transfer a sum of $1000000.0000 from the fortune of the high prince of gerkiministanian. /NigerianScamJoke. In all seriousness this should go a long way as Africa is not limited by many of the strict regulations or entrenched cooperate interests that can limit tying new things. Mobile payments taking off there long before here in the US being a good example of this in action.
If you had wasted as much money on strategic bombers as the air force has and still had to look the public in the eye, your ideas would be a little warped too. As nutty as this is, it's not as nutty as the way we've used the B2.