skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got to crawl around inside ATLAS while re-installing some of the muon subdetectors after repairs earlier this year. Of course I know exactly what is in there, but it was totally mindblowing to see it in person. It's like a giant spaceship.
Jack of All Apple Trades – Interview with Bill Fernandez
On iOS you use WebKit or you don't make a browser

Remember the days when software choice was a thing, and Microsoft were condemned for merely including a browser with the OS, not banning all software competition? Maybe in about a decade the competition authorities will wake up to this.
While both are indeed taxed, dividends are taxed as ordinary income, whereas gains from sale of stock are considered and taxed as capital gains. In the US at least, the capital gains rate is somewhere around 1/4 to 1/2 of the ordinary income rate, so it's much more "tax efficient" to do a buyback than to pay dividends.
I fail to see anything wrong with any of the issues you mentioned.
Change up your metaphor. Sometimes it's best to think of your "stuff" as a stack to go through sequentially, sometimes a library to collect and browse, sometimes transactions to be budgeted on some kind of ledger of your time and attention, etc.

When you find a metaphor that works for you, the "rules" become rather intuitive. Lately I think of my information consumption habit as something of a diet: Eat when you are hungry. Stop eating when you are full. Stock only enough food for your anticipated needs. Favor nutritious foods. When possible, share meals with friends and family.
Every now and then comes an interesting algorithm implementation in javascript alas always single threaded. :/
I've had this discussion with many folks, and I've come away with the conclusion: we each have a natural limit to the volume of information we can process in a day.

I personally find that if I read world events/news/major tech sites in the morning, I find my mental capacity a bit strained at work for the rest of the day.
If I limit my input in the morning to focused planning of the day, and VERY restricted reading (maybe one article/specific topic, or listen briefly to news radio on the way to work ~25min), I am much more productive and less stressed. It doesn't appear to matter the medium (read/listen/watch).

My theory is, there are only so many topics you can legitimately consume in a day, sort of like a quota system. It should be your primary job to decide in what priority you want to occupy your brain with.

Plenty of other posters mention sort of the same thing: decide what is of VALUE to you, not just interesting. The world is full of interesting information, but if all you do is consume it, what good was it to you? Reserve some time and mental capacity to put that information to use.
Other than ads. Find a couple of the most common questions/issues and those that get the most action and turn that into an ebook where you can offer advice, and show the various opinions and details around each different methodology etc.

If you are getting newbie's coming to the site that are either new to the language or new to the industry or just having common issues, ebooks, subscriptions and training are a fairly easy way to monetize.

You could also collect say 50 best useful tips and sell that as an ebook. Go through all the content on the site and collect these into an organized training manual basically. Its a FAQ in ebook form. Or maybe do a architecture practices, design practices and intro ebooks etc, all based on the content you have.

Also, you could give a small ebook away to increase conversions on getting people's email addresses. Then get a newsletter setup that you can offer services to the list, or use it again to sell ebooks, training etc. You may already have setup the email list, but just in case you haven't yet gone that way. You can work with partners then to monetize the list where you will not rent or sell your list but if someone presents you with a good solid topic or service you will market it to your list and you will get paid to do that. You just have to be picky about what you send to the email subscribers and not abuse that responsibility or your opt-outs will destroy the list real fast.

Last idea, going back to the newbies, you could offer a 3-6 month initial training service where they pay monthly for weekly tips, training and assistance while they are getting started. Of course I am making a ton of assumptions with this idea.

I am just shooting ideas out of my head, so they may be totally off base for your situation, as your question is pretty broad without a link to the site to understand what you already do.
I totally read the article; I'm very surprised it was written by a professional but it wouldn't have changed my judgement of it. I thought it was poorly written and meandering, but I probably should have kept that to myself. I guess we all have different standards.

> Maybe those guys writing software that does things have figured something out as well?

At this point, I really think the article should speak for itself. If you think it says something important or even coherent, then you know, it was for you, not for me.
This isn't really the issue. See my comment above, which in your example translates to the tax rate in company one's scenario being ~2x the rate in company two's.
> More seriously, any algorithm that doesn't do user I/O is expressible as a fixed formula.

This is probably true for some very weak definition of the terms, but not, I think, in any sense that a random person would recognise as a 'formula'. For example, what is the formula for the algorithm "on input `n`, output the first position in the decimal expansion of `pi` at which a copy of the decimal expansion of `n` begins"?
As I understand it there's a plan to produce stand-alone binaries downstream, with no compiler needed at runtime.

It's using LLVM on the backed, so it should be quite possible.
Advantages of CRT Monitors
I agree, bitcoin is still not as easy as paypal for a lot of people, so adding paypal itself may help.
Emacs is good at integrating with Git too. So good that there are four or five different Emacs-Git libraries, each with a different interface and feature set. I gave up eventually and went back to using the command line.

This is superficially true but fundamentally incorrect. There is one Git mode that everyone uses: Magit. Magit is incredible; it is one of a couple Emacs integrations that make the tool it integrates with better, in a significant and meaningful way.

I'm not a "use Emacs as my shell", "read my email in Emacs" kind of person. And I am nowhere nearly as effective in Git on the commandline as I am with Magit.

Use Magit.
> I'm still trying to figure out what nomth is so I can implement it

A 'nomth' is a month in which a feast occurs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feasts_of_Jesus_Christ).
electric, or some other zero or positive emission option, has to be the future

this is more than an issue of financial costs it is also a quality of human life cost

do you live in a city? i live in downtown sf and if i leave the windows of my apartment open for an hour the sill and any items inside will begin to have a coated layer of what i assume is a combination of exhaust particulate and dirt kicked up from tires

if you live in a city then the next time you are walking down the street rub you fingers on a leaf of a sidewalk tree and you will see what i am talking about

zero or positive emissions need to be here now

i am waiting with bated breath
Google have a very good track record in security and that's the reason why GAE-J is my system of choice. I am ignorant on their bounty offerings though, but I would have assumed Google are state of the art there. Can someone fill me in on the background and intentions of Security Explorations?
And the alternatives are... nothing beyond text editor + terminal, it seems. So does anyone have any plans?
The solution is simple - make a deal with Lyft and redirect the customers to them for a fee.
Same here.
Recently my Moto G broke. It would take 3 weeks to get it fixed and I decided not to have a phone in the mean time. I did this before, people will complain about your poor availability but for me it is only friends, and mostly via Whatsapp. At Work I'm behind my PC mostly and very reachable, I have a desk phone as well so I can call people and I use Skype out...

This experience is always eye opening. It always makes me wonder what the hell I was doing with that smart phone all the time. I just got it back (!after 7 weeks!) and I do 3 days on a battery because I hardly check it. I lost the habbit. I feel much better, when I bike to work I don't have a podcast playing (Twit, No Agenda, yes I miss it, I even burned two No Agendas to a CD for a long car ride, had to dig around the attic for burnable cds :)), I'm not whatsapping during work, not reading long posts on he toilet. I have time to think. Think about what to do, what to learn, how the day will look like. This alleviates a lot of stress, just having a clear and relaxed picture of what your day will look like.

In short: Just stop it. Just Stop overloading your brain. You know exactly what is wrong but you are too weak. Stare out the window, go on walks without your cell phone, quit facebook. The world will not miss you.

I have a very strong feeling that when we stopped being bored, stopped waiting, stopped doing nothing, stopped staring and replaced it with constant consuming of information, we lost something valuable. And indeed, those apps are shortcuts to dopamine release, it is hard to stop. I admit, getting my phone back was like getting a new gadget, but I try to restrain myself from using it. One small trick is to do most thing in the browser, it does not put notifications in your notification area.

By the way, you posted your question here to find an easy way out, to get a tip like: Scratch your left nut for 3 minutes once a day and feel better. But there is no such advice. There is no shortcut. You are going to have to do something radical if you really want change. If you really want change, delete all those accounts, get a dumb phone.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. -Henry David Thoreau

It is hard work.
GAE appears to be an evolution of Google's internal platform which does not use virtualization. Why invest in learning about a technology that is very different from Linux when such knowledge would not benefit 99% of Google's workloads? Given the number of kernel developers at Google, if they want security I would expect to see them improve Linux rather than adding virtualization.

Of course, Google now has virtualization (GCE) because some customers demanded it, but if GAE already works there's no reason to redesign it.
Delete until you have a quantity you can handle. Most articles collected over the web are too piecemeal or disconnected. A bookmarking tool ends up collecting a messy assemblage of to-do's.

Also, a lot of places signal golden information, but they're mostly junk. Nobody will ever admit that they deliver too much junk; everyone wants to say that they are worth your attention.

Pay attention to the gold-per-junk ratio as you read a textbook. As you move to a specific technical sub-Reddit. As you scan Hacker News headlines. As you look up questions on Stack Overflow. For my specific case, that mental exercise has informed me to ditch Reddit, and to only look at Hacker News when filtered to the top 10/20 (because Hacker News is only sometimes good, but majority distraction), and to save no more than a handful of authoritative or systematically comprehensive guides to information per subject matter. I don't read any news at all outside of this.

I also pay attention to what I know. I think about what information has carried over time as a tool in my kit, and how little that is. A lot of information over the web won't make it into your kit. This has guided my decision on what to delete from my life.
I love genetic algorithms. I wrote one for the 0-1 knapsack problem back in school, then used a genetic-ish algorithm (didn't have enough time for a true GA) to win a rock paper scissors tourney at work.

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.

Gives me way more respect for mother nature. ;)
Ask HN: If you open source some code, are you responsible for maintaining it?
This is something I have been wondering for a while. 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.

At the same time, I have a lot of projects that I open sourced but have no desire to maintain. Here's an example: http://github.com/egonSchiele/mdpress

This is a simple Ruby script I wrote that is now one of my most starred projects. 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.
ISPs Must Take Responsibility for Sony Movie Leaks
Continental philosophy is not just postmodernism, which I don't like either. It's also 20th+ century german philosophy which is generally fairly straightforward and also french philosophy until the 60's. And while this kind of philosophy is certainly different from the formal one common in the UK (or maybe US) I would also argue that it is more interesting.
I think it's worth clarifying what's meant by the "double taxation of dividends". This refers to the fact that the company (at least in theory) already paid taxes on its profits, which are then taxed again as ordinary income when passed on to shareholders in the form of dividends. Arguably, this second tax occurs even when the profits are returned as capital gains (which is the case with buybacks), but in that case a) the tax rate is much lower, and b) the shareholder can choose to defer the tax payment by simply holding onto the stock until a future date. Long story short, the preference for buybacks over dividends is not about avoiding double taxation per se, but rather minimizing the tax rate of profit distributions. Per OP, one way to fix this would be to tax them the same regardless of the distribution mechanism.
You have no formal responsibility. No obligation. If someone complains to you about fixing bugs, they are welcome to fix them themselves. That's what open source is for. Anyone can fix issues without having to wait for the creator.
Why should über have to bear the costs of Uber's 'business model'?

Clearly some of Uber's customers (and want-to-be customers) want to contact Uber this way. Instead, Uber enjoys having them deflected to some other business to deal with and rationalizes it as 'not in our business model'.

Obviously this is not surprising given the other parts of Uber's 'business model', whereby they attempt to absolve themselves of all kinds of liability by 'contracting' with their workforce (I mean employees) [I mean drivers].

I don't know if Uber has published its 'business model', but I wouldn't be surprised if it was short and to the point: 'Externalize all costs. Internalize all profits.'
You can always use emacs like Notepad until your curiosity takes hold. There are so many resources to learn emacs that it's easy to browse and learn. Reddit and StackExchange are "newer" communities.

http://emacs.stackexchange.com

http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/
I set a simple cron job to do just this. Weekdays from 9-5, Facebook, Reddit, and a few other sites are routed to localhost. Getting around it is more of a pain than just opening an Incognito tab, which is all that's required to get around a blocking browser extension.

Just having that schedule imposed on me for a few days was all it took for me to get out of the habit of opening a new tab and heading to one of the aforementioned sites any time I ran into a difficult problem. I've noticed an increase in my productivity, and I don't really even feel the need to twiddle away that time anymore.
I couldn't live without magit. It has really improved the way I work.
> imperative (or functional)

I don't think he's saying those styles are the same.
Fwiw, I thought Montier to be a well-respected behavioral economist where behavioral is in reaction to the failure of previous economic models in 2008 (the Global Financial Crisis).

Behavioral puts human psychology back into the picture.

Montier argues that SVM (shareholder value maximization) is the fig leaf that covers the change in incentivization of CEOs, and one assumes other corporate officers, away from salary and bonus to stock options. Which has been key in bifurcating the 1% away from everyone else.

Or as they say in finance, when a CEO says shareholder maximization, he or she is talking their own book. They're the shareholder they want to maximize.

SVM reframes the dialog in terms of what many people consider legitimate - return money to shareholders - and away from, say, value to employees or to society more generally. Which puts me in mind of another expression, "job creators."
Shapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing
Because a ton of phones in China shipped with a random 3rd party app store that specifically contains pirated apps with malware, you're going to paint all of Android with that brush? Because Android allows an advanced end user to disable certain security precautions and purposely install stolen software that contains malware? That's either disingenuous or outright misleading.

The simple fact it, both Android and iOS, when used as shipped an intended, don't get malware for the average consumer. They both pass the 'mom test'.

There are 3rd party app stores available for Android that include malware infected pirated apps. These app stores are not sanctioned or approved by Google.

There are 3rd party app stores available for iOS that include malware infected pirated apps. These app stores are not sanctioned or approved by Apple.

If your rather lame attempt at painting all of Android as insecure is due the fact that you can run a 3rd party app store with malware, then it should also be true for Apple.

The simple fact is that it's incredibly easy to avoid malware on either platform. Don't hack it. Don't install apps outside of the app store (Google Play or Apple App Store).
> So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good.

This is an invalid analogy if I ever saw one.

Let me try to make it more accurate.

For Knuth to be like Derrida his magnum opus would have to have been generated by just typing

cat /dev/random

and later claiming that MIX was somewhat defined in there as well as programs written in it. Then he would become famous Paris Hilton style and get a bunch of sycophants that defend his void verbiage no matter what (some because their entire carreers depended on it, others just because they are useful idiots).
Forgetting the Lesson of Cypherpunk History: Cryptography Is Underhanded
I don't think it's a strawman. A lot of academic work is much like creative work. You can't quite plan it in an hour over lunch. I've gone from academia to a very 'free' corporate environment, and in that context I found it hard to do the 'academic' things. To me, it feels much like creative work, where I might need a few days of nothing (leaving whatever it is I'm doing in the back of my head) before i can produce anything. It's really difficult to cram that into an hour here or there, or an evening after spending an entire day at work.
> I hear you, but if your assessment is based on XSLT 1.0 (which is likely, since 2.0 was not very widely implemented) you might reconsider.

Are there now any free, portable XSLT 2.0-compatible processors (ideally, that match xsltproc in ease of use)? Surely no-one is comforted by "this version fixes the problems of the previous one, but you can't use it"!

EDIT: OK, Saxon (I won't link to it because I've always felt a little skeeved out by their "let's make people pay for schema awareness" business model, however legitimate it is)—it's even available through MacPorts. I don't know if I just never knew about that, or if the XSLT 2.0 support wasn't always free.
Veer 2 – The Ultimate Gesture Challenge
Is this even JavaScript???

Man, I can't wait until ES6 is out. Get pumped.
There is one Git mode that everyone uses

This is actually a bit of a problem. Even with many things available out there, some things are more useable than others, and it takes quite a bit of digging to figure out which packages you want to install.

I think people who write up their experiences in emacs and give suggestions about which packages are genuinely useful, and which alternatives aren't, are being really helpful.
I left academia because of the politics involved, and opted for a freelancer existence instead. It works very well for me, as I have plenty of time to pursue 'academic' interests. But I do realized I'm very privileged as a developer, where I don't have to spend much time looking for clients and worrying about money.

But for those who yearn for freedom, are capable of building websites or web apps, freelancing might be the path you're looking for (at least, for now).
Please fix your web server - the connection is timing out on this URL.
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710147
Vicomi wants to revolutionize the ‘Like’ with an emotion-scale feedback system
Actually magit is the second most downloaded package from MELPA. It's kinda hard to miss it.
"That uncertainty reached a new high this week, as Google announced that 56.1% of ads served on the internet are never even “in view”—defined as being on screen for one second or more. That’s a huge number of “impressions” that cost money for advertisers, but are as pointless as a television playing to an empty room."

I don't understand the issue here. Unless things have changed over the years, the vast majority of Google advertisers would be paying "per click" (CPC) rather than "per impression" (CPM). When I was advertising it was quite difficult to pay on a "per impression" basis, and the offers to enable this were after considerable data had been calculated using the "per click" method. Switching to "per impression" was optional and appeared to average your existing "per click" spend rather than some program to hide your underlying click spend.

As a "per click" advertiser I don't care if my ad is only "in view" half the time it's displayed. I care that a person is clicking and they intended to click.
Fellow scatter brain here. I don't know if more anecdotal stories will help in any sense but at least we're not alone it seems :)

I also have tons of articles and books I have not read. But - they are all limited to few specific areas. I have this scatter brain mode and focus mode. As I focus on specific things I realize that the trove of stuff I've gathered from the scattery moments are actually really valuable since they usually cover material part of my current brief obsession.

I really did not see this going anywhere five years ago but now I realize I've actually built up a quite a good reference library and accidentally have an improved mental picture where all the bits and pieces fit.

So - my anecdotal advice - I've found it really reassuring to have a few specific goals in form of plausible future stories of self improvement and as I scour the interenets in search of trivia in my scattery moment I've succeeded in building this firewall to suppress my collector instincts. I ask myself - does this plausibly fit anywhere in my current "self improvement stories" - and if they do, I just go wild. But I file them with librarian pedantry and when the whim of focus comes I know where to look.

I've managed to collect plausible study paths in several unrelated fields and actually managed to follow a few of them - at a really slow pace, though.