skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Netflix for books" - you mean the public library? I'm astounded how few young people seem to have any clue what their libraries offer.

FFS, our local library lets you "borrow" e-books and audiobooks online, you never have to set foot in the building.
Yes, I think this is a philosophical question. The way that I've always come to terms with this question is that humans are a natural outcome of pattern in the universe. We are, after all, just atoms observing other atoms. Fortunately, we're rather complex patterns, so the emergent patterns that form from us are also complex. Math is just a language for describing pattern. The further you go into math, the more patterns on patterns you discover (that's the point of abstraction). To answer your question, I think it's some amount of both. There are basic patterns in the universe that allow for emergent patterns/behavior. So the mathematical equations that we create are just eddies in abstract, emergent pattern.
I agree with that, but they are small scale, and not very democratic.
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I think the point was that current hiring practices filter out many autistic people due to the behavioral testing.

Currently autistic people generally have to be good enough at social stuff to pass as "normal" in the interview. The more socially challenged don't get a chance to prove they could do the job.
Sounds surprisingly similar to some of the worst meetings. "Nothing to report" is just as meaningful as the assumptions about the knowledge of everybody else it builds on are not entirely wrong.

I guess we are drilling down to the similarly fundamental yet pointless truth about communication: it's easy when it is working well.
Writing stories for a technical audience is tricky. I've been doing it for going on 10 years now, and I'm still not very good at it.

A critical rule, however, is to omit detail, (a reader is unlikely to question an explanation they make up themselves) and most importantly, to omit details you know to be wrong. (It is impossible to nitpick a statement that is never said)

An odd feature of our campus network at the time was that it was 100%
switched. An outgoing packet wouldn't incur a router delay until hitting
the POP and reaching a router on the far side. So time to connect to a
lightly-loaded remote host on a nearby network would actually largely be
governed by the speed of light distance to the destination rather than by
incidental router delays.

He knew this was largely wrong, and didn't really improve the story, yet he said it anyway. It should have been summarized in a single sentence, leaving out all the problematic assertions that the slashdot trolls leaped on.
The more mind-share electric cars get, the bigger the electric car market will be. So this isn't a "Watch out", it is more "Tesla is very happy that electric cars are getting more support from automakers."
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The Overview Project
This is a very interesting article, and I like how it's written in the perspective of a functional watch user instead of being about fashion or watch collecting.

I couldn't help but laugh at this part:

> Also, though it sounds trivial, I enjoy the perfect 60 FPS smoothness of Apple Watch’s second hand — a smoothness no mechanical watch could ever match.

Isn't a mechanical watch hand ∞ FPS by definition? Real life has got to be at least better than 144hz :)
Assuming you are working with a team, you can always just ask others for feedback on how you're doing.
Why isn't there a row for "figuring out how large, poorly-documented legacy systems work"? That's what most of my daily development tasks consist of, anyway.
Better yet, disable all of them.
His description of a video call being an image rather than a direct view, and the equivalent with voice, helps put the touch features in perspective. They go from gimmick to potentially the start of something.

I wonder if that small postage stamp portal to your wife's wrist will be the notable precursor to larger contact features and eventually touch-featured clothing or (ooooer) playsuits?

He has a fairly flowery and gushing writing style with Apple topics, but it's obvious he thinks everything through and looks for a deeper angle.

I wonder if many people will buy a pair of these watches as something to experience with their partner? Touch or smooth/personal gestures are certainly a bit more personal and emotive than blue and green text bubbles.
Tech Time Warp: Return to a Time When Nuns Loved IBM's Flop of an OS
To print the pdf, go to a business center in any 4 star hotel. You normally don't have to be a guest.
Do you live in one of those few countries on the planet that do not have regular mail service? Otherwise, why not use the local post office to send a certified letter containing your return? If you're overseas on April 15th you automatically get a two month extension. Even surface mail should make it to the US within 60 days.
Its a pain in the arose when people can interrupt you constantly. And a complete productivity killer in many circumstances.
I've been using Monal <http://monal.im/> on iOS - decent UX, supports groupchat, doesn't put a "proxy" between you and your server, etc.
Yes, sites have necessary customizations in sendmail.cf. These do not have to be rewrites that use shiny new syntax.

My biggest problem with the author was not that he uses his admin blunders as a basis to call himself a good sysadmin, but that he assumed that the stats people were idiots who don't know anything about `puters or networks.

I was not surprised by the 500 mile claim. It strikes me as obvious that the 500 miles has to do with some combination of network topology and propagation delays, those being approximately the same in every direction.

Yes, networking does work "that way": farther places take more time to reach than nearer ones, broadly speaking. (Of course, it's faster to reach something 12,000 km away with no packet switch in between than something 50 miles away with switching. That doesn't eliminate the generality.)

It was also obvious why they didn't report the problem instantly; you cannot instantly know that mail isn't reaching beyond 500 miles without gathering data and correlating to a map, which takes time. Instantly, you can only know data points like "I can't mail to users@example.com". You know that if a stats person gives you a number, it was based on data, and not just a couple of data points. The head of the stats department isn't going to give you a number that isn't factual and backed by science. Of course stats people pride themselves on their data analysis; they are not just going to relay a couple of data points with no analysis attached.
Maybe you can elucidate what about Python's syntax is broken or not DRY?

EDIT: To me, seeing this is Python code anywhere would seem to violate principle of least astonishment, which I think is somewhat more important than being DRY, if that's even a problem here.
It's pretty easy if place where you work and place where you take a break have a different money scale.
One of my observations is that people procrastinate because it is entropically favorable, not necessarily because they want to procrastinate or because procrastination is fun. The Internet does not help with its vast potential for incessant context switching.

The obvious solution to this is to reduce entropy, and slow things down. Stay without the internet and television for a week, since these are the primary ways in which you procrastinate, think of it as rehab therapy. Eliminate all sources of deviations, and try to systematically lengthen your attention span. I would suggest meditating every day for an hour[1].

Secondly, stop reading the news. It's a complete waste of time. The set of all thought sequences you can have between time A and time B should be small. Watching the news, or reading HN greatly increases the number of irrelevant thoughts you can have. A perfect Bayesian with a utility function like "maximize knowledge gained" would not read the news at all. It is always a good idea to ponder about what a perfect Bayesian with your chosen utility function would do.

It's true that the only thing stopping yourself is you. And it's also true that you can do amazing things if you spend long enough on any particular thing[2]. I would suggest making an Excel sheet with the time spent doing productive work per day, and optimize for that.

I went from averaging around 30 minutes a week when I started measuring my productivity (I'm a college freshman .. so I'm free the entire day) to around 4 hours in the last week.

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[1] Music I find helpful for meditation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPni755-Krg

[2] Einstein spent an entire decade on General Relativity. Andrew Wiles spent 7 years trying to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Persistence is the most important trait anyone can have.
A good therapist can help you know yourself better and better manage thoughts and behaviors that cause you distress.
So how long until AdBlock Plus and uBlock are "bad" extensions?

Enjoy your walled garden. Soon enough the walls will be so high you wont even remember what a free browser felt like.
"Does anybody else have this problem? How do you deal with it?"

Yes -- it's human nature. All you can do is focus on one thing at a time. If you are focused on what's important, then you are allowed to not feel guilty. A great man once said "take so much action your conscious brain doesn't have time to fall into its default patterns of worrying".

For help on focusing on one thing at a time, and taking so much action you don't have time to feel bad: http://focusr.co
I'm a big fan of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. But revolutions are supposed to be hard, as are changes to the Constitution, etc. But I'm thinking an open trust network can actually support revolutionary research: acceptance/rejection is not limited to the small subset of scientists that control journals. Fringe scientists can provide positive peer review to something, and add supportive research, allowing a gradual growth of support. And if this fringe that went against the grain early, and are ultimately proven right, they gain a lot of trust in the system for being early.
Libraries (at least in the US) have an artificial cap on the # of books they have. Which means it doesn't satisfy that "I want to read this now" craving that Netflix has. A popular book can have a multi-week wait in the SF public library.
> Why are you trashing a product review?

Because reviews are not above criticism and he obviously saw something stupid in it ...
Mechanical watches, think Rolexes, have smooth second hand movements but they are acutally still ticking, just about 6 times a second. The Apple Watch, on the other hand, has a second hand with 60 ticks per second so that the second hand is about 10 times smoother.
BeOS was great, but compare Steve Jobs' NeXT presentation (1992) to the BeOS video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk

NeXTSTEP is the predecessor of OS X, the rest is history.

BeOS filesystem "BeFS" had extended attributes (metadata) with indexing and querying features similar to a relational database and Bill Gates' vision of "information at your fingertips". Though Microsoft failed to complete Cairo-OS as well as WinFS. The BeFS main developer wrote a book about it, as it is out of print now he released it as PDF for free: http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System

Check out HaikuOS, an open source BeOS reimplementation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) . And there were two BeOS inspired OS: ZETA-OS and SkyOS with some shady history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnussoft_ZETA , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyOS

Some of the BeOS vs. NeXTSTEP history is documented in Apple Copland OS article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)#Canc...

Another interesting video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg (In 1991 Steve Jobs' company commissioned an head-to-head programming competition to show how much faster and easier it was to program a NeXT computer vs a Sun workstation. The NeXT operating system went on to be the foundation for Apple's Macintosh OS-X about a decade later.)
There may be "good enough" parallels in other languages though, for example structured-haskell-mode for emacs.
its too easy to bait and switch with chrome extensions. Authors can sneak malware into their code at any point and you have zero chance of stopping it
The police broke the law. Whatever equivocations you want to offer in their defense, they broke the law.
Only one in X people who start a Ph.D. become professors. What is X?
Pick an open source project that interests you, preferably one you personally use, and become active in their community. The issue/bug tracker of almost any open source project has a list of feature requests and bugs to work on. You get to add open source contributor to your resume, and become a "subject matter expert" by virtue of that.
Typeform launches form building API called Typeform I/O
I'm a big fan of my local library, unfortunately their ebook system is very annoying. They've partnered with some service that only allows you to access books through an iOS app (so I can't read on e-ink) and it seems that each book is just a pdf delivered to the app, so you can't change font size or the way the words flow. On top of that, if they even have the book you want you often have to wait several weeks before it's available for you to actually download.
How to Practice Deliberately
Don't forget worrying about hackers.
This may be interesting reading for you if you find this question compelling.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...
Looks fun but it doesn't seem to support unicode in python2.
I'm not so sure about that, 60fps means that every single rotation of a second hand has 3600 individual steps; does a mechanical watch with a sweep second hand have that much precision? I'm inclined to think not, even from the perspective of backlash the digital version is going to appear significantly smoother to the eye.
When you say you were anxious and holding to the side of the cliff with fingernails, were you also particularly busy?

I ask because I can recall several times in both school and career when I was much more productive because I had to be due to time constraints than when I had ample free time and was not as burdened. I'm wondering if you are describing that as well.
Do you know, how was the video uploaded to the YouTube made, if the emulators don't work? Was it really recorded with the plain camera?
The `codecs.register` approach is interesting. I hope Ruby has something similar. Unfortunately I could not find such thing in Ruby.
Well, that's their idea, but that's also not legal.
Cassandra Architecture
Show HN: UnSend.it Beta, modify / unsend any email after it's been sent
The Old Guard problem is far worse when the gatekeepers are the small subset of scientist that control the journals. An open network of peer review allows for fringe, revolutionary or controversial research to gain a foothold among some scientists, and then gain support as people who respect these vanguard scientists take a first or second look, and so on.
Evidence that Facebook does collect the text you decided against posting
Look, No Hands
> [...] the archives didn't look like the mailing lists on Google and Yahoo.

IMHO, this is a feature, and an important one, not something bad.
“You’ll still be able to do with Apple Watch what you do with your current watch: tell the time (and if you want, the date) at a glance and trust that it’s accurate.”

...if you return your watch to a charging station daily.

He goes on:

That said, compared to a traditional watch, daily charging is terrible.

Before entering into the smartphone market, I charged my cellphone less than 100 times per year. Now, I have to charge my smartphone at least once a day. It's a tax on my lifestyle that I don't mind paying.

I hated the daily charging of my smartphone at first. Now, I plan my day and commutes with respect to a battery to ensure I have enough charge for me to interweave the technology in my pocket with my experiencing of the analog world.

I suspect I and others will make the same allowance for a smart watch and the Apple Watch will be a very profitable device for Apple.
The best thing about Apple Watch
I have a prediction based on 50 years of empirical, hard-won data...

Old and Unattractive.

:)p
Ask me anything
Hi Pat,

I am Jackie Brown's father. I wanted to discuss with you the Emerging and Frontier Markets Association, covering law, finance & tax for multinationals, which I am creating. I am also running a conference in DC with PWC and Baker & McKenzie on Doing the Deal in Africa.
Plus aluminum cells only carry 40 watts of electricity per kilogram compared to lithium’s 100 to 206 W/kg power density. “Improving the cathode material could eventually increase the voltage and energy density,” said Dai. “Otherwise, our battery has everything else you’d dream that a battery should have: inexpensive electrodes, good safety, high-speed charging, flexibility and long cycle life. I see this as a new battery in its early days. It’s quite exciting."

I found that almost hilarious. "Yeah, five times less energy density, but otherwise perfect and totally going to kill lithium ion."

Yawn.
Dwolla scores first big-bank partner for real-time payments
It only works in Safari for OS X
Network Solutions Reaches Settlement on FTC Charges for Misleading Customers
Continuation-passing style in JavaScript (2010)
No. No, you are not.
Apple Watch Review: You’ll Want One, but You Don’t Need One
CGPGrey on this same topic: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply
Dear Diary: My Week Wearing an Apple Watch
Good riddance to jobs.
Sometimes this is called "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics"---if you want something to Google for. I feel like the order of the world is vaguely miraculous.

You might also want to read about Euclidean and Non-Euclidean geometries and the history of the parallel postulate for how humans have grappled with this question in the past, and how our thinking has evolved in the last 150ish years. This is a fantastic book with a mix of math, philosophy, and history:

http://www.amazon.com/Euclidean-Non-Euclidean-Geometries-Dev...

(I'm sure you can find a used copy for a lot cheaper than that link!)

It's sort of an open question whether mathematics is invented or discovered.
The robotists will be the new capitalists. The robotists will not only amass wealth but also disproportionate power.

It'll be up to the people to decide how this unnerving issue is resolved.

Will the power of robotics be devolved into the community and be community commons type property or will it remain in private hands thus ensuring a widening gulf between robotists and the rest.

It was back in the seventies with Nixon in power when the specter of a widening wealth gap led to serious consideration of reverse income taxes (the old basic income), we'll have to revisit those ideas.

I also wonder what a more leisure driven lifestyle will lead to. With more time to think, meditate and reflect, will people feel more depressed, will people impact the environment more when it's cheaper, easier a d you have the time to travel anywhere? Will such amenities be rationed so as to minimize impact on ecology?

On the other hand, more time for " mobilization" and such time consuming social engineering schemes.
And what do you think of the social benefits? Is there anything positive to say about AI? If we fully subject ourselves to the machine, will we be happy?
Thanks for posting this on HN! I'm a Developer Evangelist at Typeform and one of two people responsible for building this API. This is a very early version of the API so it will contain bugs and some inconsistency. But if you find anything you don't understand, write here and we'll answer as best as we can.
O Clube Da Meia-Noite: #sessão Da Meia Noite – UMA RISADA PARA VAN HELSING
You cast your vote at a github-hosted source code repository?

As René Magritte might have put it, "Ce n'est pas le logiciel". You haven't seen the software - you've only seen source code that may resemble what is running when you cast your vote.
This looks like the perfect laptop for me at this moment. I just worry that a ceiling of 8GB of RAM means it won't be the perfect laptop for me next year. And I'd like my laptop to last me 2-3 years.
Why I’m Not Buying an Apple Watch
‘Well if I drop out I’m still going to get the same income as everyone else.’

We can observe an experiment we're running in poor areas without jobs, inner city, deep south, appalachia, and around half the students will eventually graduate even if there's no vocational reward for anyone, grads or not.
How does this compare to Forever?
Actually we (most of the XMPP network) switched over to mandatory encryption last May and IMHO it's been pretty successful so far. Google is welcome to join the party anytime! :-)
> I somehow doubt an Uber driver would have been giving me the same gratuitous negativity.

Why?
Google’s New Mobile-Friendly Algorithm
Charleston shooting: Police officer charged
What's so original about the Slack ui? It's channels on the left and conversation on the right. A lot of irc clients look this way.
XEP-0357: Push
Here's a direct link to view the paper online in case people don't want to download it: http://static.druid.io/docs/radstack.pdf
The "mov[ing] from one part of a store to another" was how the article characterized the kidnapping charge. I would imagine that forcing someone to the floor and threatening them with a gun would be part of the aggravated assault charge. Otherwise, what's the difference?
First of all, it's not a race. Statistically speaking you aren't number 1, and that's OK. It doesn't mean you stop trying, but you can stop competing.

I'd say find out what is important to you. What is important to you is not what you'd rather do or even what you love. What do you think is important for the world, for your life? Do you want to raise a child? Do you want to help society communicate? Do you want to solve a problem? If you couldn't do any "thing" what idea is the most important to you?

Idleness isn't a weakness. It's a response. Idleness is what your mind craves when it is under too much stress. Stress is mostly internal, you can be idle and still be under a lot of stress because you hate the fact that you're idle, this can be paralyzing.

However, if you didn't feel that idleness was bad, you would not feel that stress, and you wouldn't be trapped in idleness. You'd still be idle, but it would be easier to take action.

You focus on what you haven't done. This is the worst. You aren't excited by the cool things that those programmers have done, you are disappointed that you didn't do them.

Instead you should focus on the things that you are doing. Don't "force yourself" to go and work on something, that only reinforces that feeling and will cause you to retreat from that stress as soon as you can.

One thing I do in this sort of circumstance is try to do nothing. Simply be idle, but don't go and distract myself with the Internet, just do absolutely nothing, get a tea and stare out the window, do this for a few hours. Any feeling of things I have to do, I just let them go away. Pretty soon, there will be things that I really want to do. When I'm at that point then I'll go to work.

TV and Internet are terrible though, you go to them because you're looking to be idle, but they're just stimulating enough to keep you from relaxing. But it's not idleness that's bad. The desire to be idle is a response, and it's healthy, just learn to do it efficiently. Don't do it in front of the Internet or the TV because they distract you from actually being idle.
Poll: What's your favorite conference swag?
It's not extremely short. This reviewer is an exception.
Chain your validators, elimate if-else block
On the other hand, it's much easier to reroute a cell phone number through social engineering than to steal TOTP secrets.