skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As many have said, it is more complex.

But there are two great insights here:

1. Productivity is a system, not a sequence. Many things are interrelated and motivation is often generated by simple completion of tasks.

2. Motivation without other parts of that system may be insufficient to be productive.

Personally, I've found lack of productivity or motivation to come from unclear or disorganized states, and systems like GTD go a long way to clear that up. When you frame this inflammatory article in terms of discipline just being systems like GTD or just lists that work, it makes some sense.

But mostly, it says a lot of words that seem to be angry at abstract concepts.
No, tribalism is the reason we have both sports and stupid policies. The hope is that by condemning sports one can make a more general point about tribalism.
Aren't we, the people, getting tired of constantly having to work to thwart our governments attempts to erode our rights? Isn't something fundamentally wrong with the system if we must constantly do this? And to little avail, because slowly but surely they eventually succeed at whittling them away.
It's about as likely as police arresting you because they feel like it. Which I guess happens, but there is little that can be done personally to guard against it.

(I'm trying to draw a distinction between actions that protect an individual and actions that encourage a fair society there, it's the protecting just yourself against corrupt police that isn't particularly possible)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7537674
The Star Wars API was open sourced
Greetings to all the "Not available in your country" folks at major movie, TV and music companies.

The Pirate Bay is what you should do.
I entered my primary gmail address and got the error. Then I entered my secondary gmail address and it worked.
Ready for a super paranoid method which provides a tiny bit of protection against the tackle method?

A Tails (The AmnesIac Live oS) USB stick with a small persistent storage drive. The OS is read-only, the persistent drive is encrypted at rest, and it provides a number of utilities for viewing and creating different media files. The entire network stack runs through Tor as well, so your browsing habits while building your journal will be protected (and you can safely store hyperlinks to items without fear of them revealing your interest).

The minor tackling protection comes from Tails behavior when the media containing it is removed - it immediately unmount and overwrites the OS memory.

As for the journaling tool itself, something along the lines of a disk based wiki might work well (i.e. Tiddlywiki).
Why not make the Mailchimp archive public? Folks can subscribe if they want, get a feed, or view the archive. Content is the same either way. And that'd solve the "I'd like to see what I'm subscribing to" questions.
While I agree this is the best quick option for people on OS X I hate that the options for using multiple devices (laptop/mobile) are self-hosted and/or self-written software. Apps like DayOne are very cool (both OS X and iOS clients are a joy to use overall) but there is no encryption, all your entries are stored in plain text. I'd love a halfway decent cross platform encryptable journalling app using icloud/dropbox to sync encrypted files but I haven't found one yet.
This is absolutely hilarious. One of the things I talk about in my presentations is that the hardest part of "data analytics" and especially "advanced visualization" is that it's hard to know when you're sucking. It's actually pretty easy to come up with some basic interesting things, but then what do you benchmark against? If you don't do the hard work to evaluate significance, you can start convincing yourself that you're more insightful than you actually are.

What the business people don't appreciate is that the ML models don't know they're looking at DVD players and TV stands. They just know that vector elements 27 and 291 have the strongest correlation. It takes a human in the loop to say, "item 291 is technically just TV Stands, but we've done dimensional reduction to pool TVs, TV Stands, and Projectors all into cluster 14, which then correlates to cluster 12, consisting of DVD players and Xboxes".
Aren't all the mature WYSIWYG editors capable of 'semantic' markup now?

I'd like to see a specific example given of where the markup produced by WYM is specifically better than a properly configured install of CKEditor or TinyMCE.

I can think of a few places where the defaults probably give too much control to users to introduce presentational cruft (The TinyMCE 'insert image' dialog needs to have way less in it for example). But in most cases it's a simple case of "don't include the colour, font face or font size buttons if you don't want people to use them".
> You'll be exposed to so many new ideas and technologies and really get a chance to expand your skillset.

This will vary greatly by person and by company. For me it was the reverse - I went from a very small non-profit where I was the only developer to a large tech company and my skillset has expanded more in the ~6 months I've been here than in the 2.5 years I was at the non-profit.
There is a popular refrain touted by the Marine Corps: "Motivated & dedicated". Both are equally important in accomplishing a task, especially difficult ones.
Ruby on Rails or Python.

Ruby on Rails has a robust community around it ( tons of tutorials online). It's used mostly in start - ups.

Python is a bit easier and is used for the scientific community. Academics like it.

I think Ruby on Rails is the way to go.

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-resources-for-non-cod...

P.S. try to find the same thing in Python and comment back on here if you do.

Hope that helps!
And here is an answer from the developer. He does seems to be sorry about it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2u9zkx/dont_install...

I do however find this highly suspicious and I do not condone the actions of the developer.
Why would you want to transfer data between some two machines? You're inviting problems right there.

You have to have a totally separate machine that:

1) you never ever connect to the internet, even for updates or installation of a cooler writing app

2) you never ever move data in or out - disable all data ports, especially USB and WiFi, at the very least in BIOS, preferably by physically disconnecting them inside.

3) you need to be able to inspect and modify that machine yourself (see pt 2), so pick something serviceable, like a ThinkPad (definitely not a Mac or anything unibody)

4) use an open-source operating system

5) obviously use full encryption - you'll get plenty of others' advice on that; use strong BIOS password both for boot and config

6) you probably don't want to spend a lot of money on a machine that's just a diary, so get a used ThinkPad. Depending on your preferred size, an X or T family. The _20 series is the last with a proper keyboard. So my suggestions would be X220, T420 or T520. (Or something older, if you don't care that much about performance, which is reasonable for what's essentially a typewriter. I guess you could get a working T400 (last of core2duos) for like $150.)

7) you make an exception for the "no data in or out" rule at the very beginning when you set up the OS and all needed apps - since there's no data (diary entries) to lose yet
Great idea. I always thought there's a lot you could mix with solar. How about wind and solar? Surely the shadows of the turbines wouldn't be that bad.
Why do you assume that it's about discipline being for pushing through mindless tasks? What if my discipline is to do 3 hours of creative thinking each morning?

The point here is that you pick the things that are important to you (not mindless tasks) and start doing them every day no matter what and keep showing up even if you don't feel like it or know that the result won't be that great. Because the main goal is to build the discipline and then great things come out of it.
The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (2011)
I don't think you need to worry about that. We live in a world where web browsers implement prefetching to improve overall performance, which means your browser "clicks" links for you in the background all the time. This may or may not end up looking like you visited the website yourself. I'm not sure if they're distinguishable, but you get the point. Aside from that, I don't think visiting The Pirate Bay is illegal in the first place, the same way that talking to a drug dealer isn't necessarily illegal either.

Anyway, if you're still worried, I suggest you use the Tor Browser and stop worrying about these things all together.

https://www.torproject.org/ (no affiliation)
There was a very active thread yesterday (400+ comments), titled "Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8972179).

TL;DR: The article was basically a critique of people like the parent commenter. In the thread that followed, I came down on the side of those who agreed with the article.

So I would downvote parent for two reasons:

(1) Attempting to twist a thread about the Pirate Bay into a thread about the Super Bowl and "'Murica" is pretentious in the extreme even without Latin, and

(2) I disagree with the popular premise that downloading Game of Thrones and porn == "fighting authoritarian governments". I realize that this makes me a minority here, to the point of possibly being considered a troll for admitting it. Which is one reason why I don't bother posting more, which in turn is one reason why HN is so "hivemind-ish" on many subjects.
The bigger problem is being infected by a trojan. You have all the time in the world to get infected, but would only take a single time when your files are unencrypted to expose them.
Having to pay for many assets that are free for non commercial projects.
High-reproducibility and high-accuracy method for automated topic classification
I tried to download the Windows version to run it under wine and it gave me the Linux bin. I will have to put a bit more effort into it and give it now that someone has confirmed that it works :) Thanks.
I am amazed no one suggested a simple GPG operation.

Generate a keypair on an airgapped machine, keep the private part on a secure external medium (eg. CF Card in a bank safe).

Have the public key on your normal machine, write your journal in normal text files (use a ramfs if you worry about it being restored by forensics) and encrypt against the public journal key. Decryption is only possible with the private part, the public part can even be, well, public. :)
Ansible for Rubyists
The JRuby Blog: A Truffle/Graal High Performance Back End for JRuby
For alleged Russian hacker, a visit to Amsterdam is a costly trip
I highly second using smile.amazon.com to do your online shopping and selecting the EFF (or ACLU) as the beneficiary. There's no change in prices for you; as a result, Amazon only donates 0.5% but every little bit helps.
For me, there's no amount of equity that would be "adequate" - if a company wants to include some in an offer, great, but it's not going to be a factor in my decision.

Most likely the equity will be worth nothing or very little - I thus value it at zero so I'm not willing to give up any amount of salary for it.
There are already SWIG generated python bindings for CGAL: https://code.google.com/p/cgal-bindings/
Show HN: SwipeOut - 2048 inspired
What We Can Learn About Systems from W. Edwards Deming
This blog post states that community members are working on an integration, but is that work happening publicly? I'd be iterested in following it even if it isn't ready for use.
Ask HN: Version control for user stories?
What's best practice to create, store, change and expand user stories for SaaS apps? Currently using Evernote but not very happy with it (messy). Would Github be a good place for this?
There is. It's called a PaaS. You write the app, the PaaS providers handles the rest.
I use org-mode for occasional journaling and have it configured to automatically encrypt the entry with my gpg key on save.
I'd also like to add that if fountain pens are too much of a hassle, it's worth trying out some of the nicer ballpoint type pens. Rather than settling for a cheap, scratchy biro or whatever. Personally I find these to be very nice indeed: https://www.google.com/search?q=UB-157
One problem with pass is that you leak the names of your accounts. Or you encode them, and use random ones, which spoils the utility.
> I would say I am 3 months of solid work away from having a good beta. I do not see this as an option as it would clear out most of my savings, and leave me in mostly the same position I am in now.

That won't be enough. You have to count with at least a year, if you are very lucky, for your own start up to start generating revenue.
Huh? Are you talking about college? I thought the OP was talking about high school. We never had any private lessons. "Band" class was... 35+ kids in one room at a time, all playing at the same time. Band was almost always the largest single class I had, relative only to gym class. Sometimes gym was larger (40-50 at a time), but I think I had a year with more people in band class than in my pahys-ed class.
> But only for domains.

I would argue that currently almost 100% of SSH sessions would be started in a manner that has nothing to do with HTML or a browser. In that scenario there is no alternative to SSHFP + DNSSEC, and it's available to use today.

Given that the original concept proposed for HTTP auth over SSH is accepted as ridiculous, the number of use-cases for opening a SSH session from a browser is still minimal, and even then, those clients can also get the benefits of SSHFP + DNSSEC the same as regular sessions.

> That sshd that runs on that port is customized and might create, like you mentioned earlier, a dynamically-created remote environment for the user.

That wasn't at all what I meant - I meant that you might offer a web UI to create a new remote environment for a person to use, and then provide a shortcut "login with SSH" button - just a regular sshd process on a regular *nix box. A more common option might be a button in a VPS provider's control panel, to quickly launch an SSH session to an instance (particularly if the hostnames are reasonably long and hard to type)

> Basically, since the browser can understand the rest of the HTML/HTTP on the trusted page along with the ssh://name?fingerprint link, I think it makes sense to leverage it when wanting to open a connection to the same name, rather requiring the name to be a domain name and using DNS to get those values.

That implies a heavy tie between the browser and SSH. Technically, if you wanted to do this, one could write a small script/app that gets registered as the default ssh:// handler, parses out the FP and adds it to the known_hosts file before calling the regular ssh. But for obvious reasons this is dangerous without knowing the source of the FP. Which brings us back to a browser having to understand and integrate with SSH.

Im sorry but I just don't see the problem you have with using SSHFP records for this, or the specific desire to integrate with a browser and HTML of all things.

At best, you'd still have to have your fingerprints in both places (DNS and markup) to support a) connections initiated manually and b) browser/ssh combinations that don't support manually specifying a fingerprint but do support SSHFP records (which currently, is all browsers and any reasonably recent version of OpenSSH)

Frankly a better endeavour than getting a browser to understand SSH, would be to a) get more people using VerifyHostKeyDNS and SSHFP records and b) get more people using DNSSEC. Those are actual, real world things that are simply lacking adoption/usage, but do very much work.
That's what works for me. When the task is boring, the guilt of letting other people hanging pushes me to finish it. It doesn't quite work for personal improvement, though, at least for me.
Verizon's supercookie could resist third-party use with nine lines of code
I really appreciate the humor in Cap'n Proto. That makes the dev team seem like a fun group to hang with.
I see these articles a lot. They often present similar data and confirm the very long term trend. Without exception, none of the articles ever mention that humans without jobs forever, will simply die out. Humans without means to sustain themselves will simply die out. That is all. It could be different but it is not. This is where we are. And it is natural. Our parents and their parents died before us as we rose to power. Sure dying out and dying of old age aren't necessarily the same but passing your genetic code on is passing your genetic code on whether it is through a machine or a human. Humans are still much better at reproducing our code than machines but not for long. When this line is crossed the discussion will not be about dying middle classes but about massive human population loss through famine and wars. It's inevitable because no one simply gives their power away without dying. This applies to your parents. And their parents. Get ready to die and don't be a wimp about it. Your parents weren't. And neither were their parents.
Isn't more "Panem et Circenses" the practical result of something like the pirate bay? The large majority of the content there is entertainment of all forms produced by the high-class members of the powerful states.
Have you had a look at jrnl? [1]

It's a command line journal and has inbuilt (optional) encryption [2]. I keep my encrypted journal file in my ~/Dropbox folder so that it syncs between my different machines. It's so simple, yet it meets all of my needs perfectly. It also doesn't rely on any proprietary software and will be just as readable in 50 years.

[1] - http://maebert.github.io/jrnl

[2] - http://maebert.github.io/jrnl/encryption.html
Yeah right... this is not true at all.
The best way to win an argument (2014)
Ditto. One of her complaints is about the doors in Super Metroid, and I can understand it. Thinking back, I think they may have been going for 'someone's already been here' (which is done masterfully in Uru). But it's so relentless, that it never sets in. Eventually you just gotta blame the goofy space pirates. (In fact, I think this is lampshaded in Metroid Double Prime where the pirate logs make note of how inconvenient the door mechanisms are.)

But especially in the two Primes, it feels contrived. I absolutely adored the two games, but there's a feeling the whole thing is a setup for the character. Too many special circumstances in the ice or rock that somehow awaited Samus showing up at just the right time with the right weapon. The earlier games don't have that, I think, and I can see how Super Metroid starts the trend.
I'd still not be in favour of it, so long as it's MITMing HTTP (if it were simply a proxy service they offered and customers chose to use, that'd be different).
I don't have the motivation to stop thinking of myself as someone without self-discipline :)

(I'm only half-kidding)
Similar safety constraints as email, it seems. If you trust your email hosting solution, whichever it may be, why not just email yourself?
Unemployment benefits come come unemployment insurance. If the government is going to force us to pay the premiums, they best be willing to pay out the benefits.
Sunde and the guys haven't been affiliated with the site for years and they just want to see it dead.
What a dumb article. You don't have to like professional sports. There are other things in life that are worth paying attention to.
I realize that this makes me a minority here, to the point of possibly being considered a troll for admitting it.

You do come off as a troll, not so much because you oppose TPB, but because of the blatant straw man you use to characterize it.

The main advantage that permissive torrent trackers carry is that they serve as vast cultural archives. No, consuming media is not necessary for survival, but should poverty condemn you to cultural illiteracy?
Parker Vector quickly becomes scratchy, in my experience. Lamys are great.
The logo inspires me.
You sound like a complete snob.
re: "less tribal"

Baseball is... much slower than european football. I grew up as an american baseball fan, but could never understand the fascination with american football. Ever. It's just a weird game, but it tends to be faster than baseball, and certainly more physically intense (tackles, etc). And soccer, basketball and hockey are even faster. The speed tends to hype people up, I think.

It feels easier to watch a baseball game from the stands without getting "worked up". I can easily watch a bb game and be relaxed. I never felt able to relax at a basketball game (by comparison). I imagine it's easier to relax at a cricket match vs a soccer/football match too.
I thought I recognized your user name. I had looked at Conception a little while ago. It's a neat project and I'm looking forward to seeing more of what you do with it.

Yeah, I have written everything so far in plain JavaScript. I've been considering something else, but all of the available options seem a tad... monolithic.

If I'm going to not-javascript, then I think the answer is to go to something that is completely type safe and static, instead. I'd really like to be able to write-once-and-run-desktop-and-browser. I used to do C++, and now there is Emscripten, but I'd really rather not get back into C++ again. Go looked interesting, and there seems to already be a fair amount of work towards transpiling to JS. Rust looks particularly interesting, especially with the lack of implicit garbage collector, but from the little I've read, it seems Emscripten doesn't work that well with it.
The most fascinating part of all this is that the shutdown have had the effect of spawning a large number of alternative sites.

If the people going after TPB succeeded at anything, it is making the cost and effort to get rid of the now multiple Pirate Bays massively harder.
I too would advocate quality pen and paper for much the same reasons I would advocate a quality keyboard, better technology makes writing easier. Over the years, I've found that the ceremony of the pen (and to a lesser extent paper) improves the writing ritual upon which the habit of writing in general and journaling in particular depend.

Yet for me, a fountain pen is too much impedance. That much ceremony gets in my way. Today, I use a particular model/brand of gel pen. The ink is blue. The milestone of running another one dry feels good; throwing the husk away less so. But replacement guts don't exist. Ultimately, my journals are equivalently disposable once full but for the meaning that I attach.

Despite their costing more than I think they should, I go to the store and purchase four packs of replacement pens. It's a ritual that requires me to give myself permission to do something so frivolous as writing. Spending money on it reinforces the point.

I buy these pens for this purpose.

The purpose is not the pens. It is the writing. Technology facilitates it. I have a journal for which I purchased a particular instrument. The journal has a protective leather cover. It's too sacred. What happens when I fill it up?

I use Moleskine journals. Hard bound. Ruled in blue. They cost too much. Tools of ceremony are present, implemented without frills. The elastic band pulled aside, intimate contents exposed. The important page at the end of last use, indexed by the ribbon.

Journals fill quickly when writing regularly. The ending of one is a rite rife with anticipation of beginning the filling anew.
> "We have a 99.6 percent conviction rate in cybercrime"

I'm sure he sees absolutely nothing weird in that. The Spanish Inquisition managed to get similar rates. I'm very surprised the Dutch (as in: my) government is agreeing to this extradition. It's very well possible that this is in part because of the current animosity between Putin and the rest of the world.

It's quite possible the guy is guilty but Ari Baranoff is on the record as having said that he will not be given a fair trial.