skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was young, the big mystery of pop astronomy was: are there any other planets like Earth?
And does water exist anywhere outside Earth.

At some point during my lifetime, exoplanets have been discovered and at some other point, the idea that planets, including earth-sized planets are almost as widespread (or rarefied) as stars themselves. At least 10 billion earth-sized planets in our galaxy alone.

So it seems like the Universe is full of Planets and a lot of those planets contain water.

The next logical step is that extra-terrestrial Life is just as common as water, planets and stars.

If that is the case, that means that life is a natural consequence of star formation/runtime, which is extremely interesting.

Which, if we now really think about it, is not entirely out of the question, in fact, it's quite probable.
Are there things you can be a professional at that don't involve skill?
NASA’s dark materials
Maybe this only matters to me, but my biggest gripe with IRC as a protocol is the lack of embedded newline ability. Take away newlines and now you've prevented atomic code snippets and killed newline sensitive markup suck as Markdown.

I deeply appreciate the history and communities available on IRC, but as a protocol, good riddance to it.
Campus Job (YC W15) Is Hiring Its First Senior Software Engineer
> it's taking a classic component of a watch and propelling it into the modern era.

That's a spectacularly marketing-y phrase. It's a scroll wheel. There's nothing wrong with that, but we don't need to dress it up as anything else.
Show HN: Sameroom.io
We wanted an easy way to connect #channels/rooms between different chat teams, so we made Sameroom. It's like plumbing for chat—allowing you to connect different services in interesting ways (e.g. Hipchat <=> Slack, Flowdock <=> IRC, Slack <=> Slack). Would love to hear what you all think about it.
> I do hope this is an extreme case of misdiagnosis: it's implying that the OP is not an achiever, and lacking ambition

Taking the first part of quote out of context makes it seem harsh, but the second half of the quote provides justification.

>> You will NEVER have the energy that the people whom you compare with have. Because they are being themselves, and are connected to the natural wellspring of motivation that comes from genuine interest, while you are the salmon swimming upstream, aping societal ideals and trying to be someone you are not.

The quote assumes that your peers are focusing all of their energy on being themselves. If you are spending your energy concerning yourself with the efforts of others, you arent spending _all_ of your energy focusing on being yourself and doing your best. Seems very much in line with your diagnosis.
Ehh? How so? It's possible for both his blog and podcast to make heaps of money, with the podcast simply making more.
Thanks for this. I also have this problem but haven't really recognized what the problem was until now, I think. I will have to try this.
Counts! My Mac SE at least had a handle and optional carrying case (which I sadly didn't have). I think they were originally advertised as portable.
No, it's not.

The Swiss just auctioned 10 year debt at a negative yield.

So, no, it's not 1999.
Physicists Zero in on Mechanism Behind “Geographic Tongue” Condition
Why is it hard to move from one server to another? An analysis
I have had several employees in their early 20s that would only communicate with suppliers over email - I had to force them to use the phone. It was bizarre.
Based on my own experience and others, being dependent on social security is the most stressful and time consuming work you can have thanks to the heavy dose of bureaucracy involved.

There are also rules against what you can do in the meanwhile, such as not being allowed education.
DuckDuckGo offers a great public XMPP service - https://duck.co/blog/xmpp-services-at-duckduckgo
Not sure why you are referring to the Z80? We compare against C64, which uses a 6510 (6502-derivative), not a Z80.
Have you had a chance to use the watch yet? This level of fine-grained criticism, which is about the phenomenology of using the watch, feels baseless unless you're one of the people who've been giving a review unit and have been using it for days. It's interesting to speculate, maybe, but confidence in any of these assertions, even formulating them as statements rather than questions, seems strange to me.
The Top Three Lego Guitar Videos
This is a very good list. I see huge differences in anxiety and productivity (time in the zone) based on diet and sleep.
Is this protocol isomorphic to bitshare's Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) [1]? Seems to have the same qualities.

*[1] https://bitshares.org/delegates
> Personally, I think zero rating is a good thing, especially as it operates in the Australian environment (or, at least, how it has operated previously).

It only feel like a good thing because Australia has an abnormal telecom market which includes such strangeness as quotas even on fixed broadband.

Without quotas zero rating is a non-issue.
Commentary and review from IRC: https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-wizards/msg/36135395/
(Thanks Andrew Dalke. You remember it after all these years!) Jonathan, actually, even in that set, OpenAtom is not a particle code. Its a quantum chemistry code where each electronic state is represented often by a large 3D array spread over processors..
For more recent examples of representative miniApps, see http://charmplusplus.org/benchmarks/ or our upcoming workshop (sorry for the plug: http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/charmWorkshop

The broader article deserves further though, and I hope to find time to respond. But it is clear that raising the level of abstraction beyond MPI is necessary.
Probably not. But poker, and many other forma of gambling require skill and/or knowledge of statistics and probability.
That's the scary part.

Planned economies at the national and corporate level don't work out so great, IMO. Imagine your life being managed by the same type of process that manages facilities at the Fortune 500 or big government bureaucracy.

Yuck.
The NSA is already being sued in at least 4 different cases that I can think of off the top of my head.
It's just a more organized way to use callbacks, but having spent several months on a project using CPS in node I will say it certainly helps add order and remove hellishness.
Contributing to OpenBSD
Given that the man had changed, and actually moved on to have a more civil life, can anybody explain the point of him going back to a correctional facility? What are they trying to correct?
The Ultimate Guide to Remote Working
The College Conundrum: Physical vs. Virtual Face Off
Countries that regulate automation will be eaten alive by countries that don't.

Unless you embrace industrialization/automation then the other people will have the maxim gun and you will not. Ask the Zulus what happens then.
Analyzing Intel Core M Performance
This is kind of explained away implicitly by pages 6-7. Each node has its own quorum slice, and they tend to point upward to a set of trustworthy financial institutions, not entirely unlike DNS.

i.e. FBA relies on a web of trust, not just on showing up and churning out hashes or whatever.
All those cases mentioned by the post you replied to came out earlier than the "worse" technologies that ended up winning.
These wonderful Apple employees moonlight at Ride
I think it is mainly supposed to compete with Macbook Air, which is only configurable to 8GB. If you need more you should consider something more like a mobile workstation like a MBP or the Dell M3800.
It sounds like you might have an anxiety disorder. You should seek out a therapist or counselor to discuss this. It's unfortunate that there is such negative baggage associated with therapy -- I have found it to be immensely helpful in learning more about myself and how to manage my own anxiety and depression (key word being "manage" -- these are aspects of who you are and can't be changed, but you can learn to accept them and deal with them instead of just wishing them to go away). Best of luck.
"The RTSJ should recognize the importance of 'Write Once, Run Anywhere', but it should also recognize the difficulty of achieving WORA for realtime programs and not attempt to increase or maintain binary portability at the expense of predictability. Hence, the goal should be 'Write Once Carefully, Run Anywhere Conditionally'."

or in simpler language:

#define WORA WRITE_ONCE_RUN_ANYWHERE
#ifdef RTSJ
#undef WORA
#define WORA WRITE_ONCE_CAREFULLY_RUN_ANYWHERE_CONDITIONALLY
#endif
Yeah; it skipped the most important 100 years by skipping from Monopoly to Catan. People like Sid Sackson, Phil Orbanes, Richard Hamblen, Francis Tresham and others created the modern era - and amazing, modern-feeling games such as Square Mile[1962] would sometimes appear out of nowhere.

edit: Seriously - German Family games don't even exist without Kohle, Kie$ & Knete and Acquire. Lastly, the influence of Gary Gygax on the landscape can't be overestimated. This is really not useful for understanding modern gaming.

edit2: I want to add so much more to this that it's better to just stop now - but a history of board games that reduces Parker Brothers to Monopoly (which they stole), Risk (which is French), Sorry (which is Parcheesi), and Trivial Pursuit but gives a paragraph to the Conan Board Game is not a good history.
Unfortunately (fortunately?) your rebuttal assumes that 1) companies can move easily from country to country and 2) companies are motivated entirely by profit.

As for 1, countries have many ways from persuasion to coercion to keep companies in their sphere of influence. There are plenty of business-unfriendly countries in this world that somehow retain businesses. In the real world, there's friction.

In my cursory research, I find 2 to be, once again, a liberal-democratic assumption which relies on our particular barrier between public and private. This barrier doesn't exist the same way everywhere: some corporations operate as extensions of nationalistic projects. Gazprom's relationship to Russia is different than Apple's relationship to the US. Samsung (and other Chaebol corporations) has a different relationship to the Korean nation than Google has with the US.
I don't understand why you can't block (or lockout) certain permissions for extensions. If an extension requests permission to browsing history, you should be able to install the extension by deny it access. this is the same problem that I see on Android.
Incredible article! I would not have expected that a 4 sided was an early die with it so uncommon today. I'm going to introduce my kids to The Royal Game of Ur.

I was distracted by an early sentence. Does the "That’s higher than Google, which sees about 20% growth year over year." lead resonate? Does it help others relate to the growth? I found myself having to restart my enjoyment engine after that line. Did the hook work on you?

What are related term for this pattern, so I can do further reading on it?

Thinking further on this. I'm trying to picture the relative growth between gaming and google and haven't figured out a way to stack Google logos and board games such that I think it would impress. What type of Google growth am I representing? For board games is it revenue?

For my own purposes I'm going to test if I can sketch such a comparison before I use it.

/me well down the rabbit hole
That's sort of my point. If we want the police to stop breaking the law we should come out and tell them that. I really doubt that law enforcement likes being forced to break the very laws they are supposed to uphold. The police are our employees. We are being bad employers by asking them to do things that are impossible. Like most employees, they will do whatever it takes to do their job.
How do you figure? They were given an Apple Watch - a real, functioning one - to review a few days early. I'm not sure how that means they are "republishing marketing materials".
> How can someone "exploit maternity"?

When they tell work that they need to stay home due to some "medical complications." while they hang-out with their coworker friends in evenings and show-off that they were exploiting the situation. Yes, people do that.

Family is the right priority. No doubt about that. In that case, such a person should say so to the employers. "I can't come to work for 7 more months because I prefer to take care of my baby. Please make appropriate plans." is very different from "My doctor said I shouldn't come to work for another few weeks. Continue paying me, and don't hire my replacement, because it's just a matter of few weeks." Especially if you then show-off to your coworkers in the evening how you were exploiting the situation. Who picks up that slack when the employer doesn't hire a replacement? Those same coworkers.

> Any coworkers that begrudge a maternity or paternity leave are themselves at fault, not the parent.

Oh come on! Nowhere did I say that her coworkers begrudge just because she took a maternity leave.
This is nice. I could see it with some sort of ranking system that people can vote on (like HN) to push the best tips to the top. Also, you might want to think about adding 1 field to the email subscribe with an interest parameter - because developers might have a specific tip-set they only care about (like ios, android, react native, etc). Good luck.
I've used paste all my life, but I never knew you could do

paste - -

to convert stdin into 2 columns (or "paste - - - -" to get 4 columns!). TIL ...
SyScan2015 Conference Slides
Can anyone explain the creators' reasoning beyond the existing string interpolation in Python? I never thought it was cumbersome, on the contrary I liked the verbosity of "My {name} is, I am {years} old".format(name=name, years=years) and I think there are good reasons (beyond dragonwriter's reusability argument).
I am sorry, but this looks insane
Machine warfare is something so anti-intuitive that my head spins.

How said that watever should be a crime, and why? (Those are much deeper questions than it looks like.) Also, machines can avoid deadly force much better than humans, and apply it better too.

I think after enough casualities we'll settle on some superb law enforcement. More "human" than anything we can imagine today. But the path through there is complicated.
Your entire download infrastructure needs to use HTTPS
Looks cool!

Do all the chat messages pipe through your servers? How is privacy protected?
> C'mon, remember ten years ago when people said all they wanted from a phone was the ability to make calls?

Actually, no. I remember people saying that the iPhone was too simple - that it only had half the functionality of a Symbian phone and even less connectivity.
On the contrary, people with a review unit tend to actually use it before the review. People who have to buy it on release date and then get a review out ASAP tend to do much more republishing of market materials.
> It would have been better to simply detect swipe-to-scroll along the right edge of the bezel (if not along the right side of the frame itself) to effect "scrolling without obscuring".
This seems to be the most advanced runtime for Node.js in Production
Ride (Uber for commuting) just launched yesterday. Given the size of their team and funding, I'm surprised that they'd pull something off like stealing an image from Apple's support page and replacing a logo.
"Overall, we’ve simplified our use of HTTP. For example, most endpoints always use HTTP POST, including those that return structured data."

Why? Why would you use a POST call for the first endpoint they demonstrate, users/get_current_account

curl -X POST https://api.dropbox.com/2-beta/users/get_current_account \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <access-token>" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data "null"

Why not implement that as a GET-call?
All messages in #channels/rooms you've connected, yes.

The great thing about Sameroom is it doesn't store anything! It's just a broker.
As a non-native English speaker "No, Totally" doesn't sound natural at all to me ("Yes, Totally" sounds better and makes way more sense).

I only understood what the author was really talking about when he introduced other examples (like to dust).
Something about this seems patently unpythonic. Also, the way the code is included reminds me of monkey-patching, which is a Ruby behavior I like to leave at the door when I'm coding in Python.
Any country that regulates the robots is doomed.

But regulating energy, land usage and other natural resources can be a way to make it work.
Hey Siri... No hands :)
Kinda both, right? Mathematics is a human-created formalism inspired by, and intended to explain, the natural world.

Mathematics is not the real world; it's a map, not the territory. But of course it's not surprising if a map resembles the real world...
It is not bigotry to assume that someone who self-identifies in a religious group believes the things that the community of that religion identifies as its beliefs. While it is true that not all religious people discriminate against homosexuality, most Western (and particularly Abrahamic) religions disapprove of homosexuality as part of the standard interpretation of their doctrine. Other people cannot be expected to know what exceptions you personally make to the rules of the religion you follow.
(if you try it right now, you can easily flick your wrist 3-4 times per second).

You'll also look very odd while you do it, which might have informed Apple not using it.
I'm a 25 year old, not a hot shot by any means, but I try to be aware of my motivations and ambitions. The thing that people seem to be debating here is whether determining factors are innate traits and traits that are by choice or are the result of discipline or history or experience or a combination of these. For my own sake, I'm hoping it is the latter, as I think OP is.

To be honest, I do struggle with procrastination, and it hurts me to think that by now, I could have finished that miniproject that I've been working on or that other one, etc, and I use some of that as motivation to push me back into the act. I'm an introvert (which has it's own downsides), and I leverage that to spend my free time on my projects and learning. I do however try to minimize the "souless fun" time and maximize doing things that I find fun but I see as productive. The reason I even try is I believe I can overcome my procrastinating personality and become much more productive.

If I believe you, then I give up on that desire to better myself. should I? Perhaps it is different for different people?

EDIT: My final statement sounds challenging, but if you think it is healthier for me to not fight that part of me, then that's fine. I welcome your point of view; I want a discussion, not validation or an apology.
This is not a story about programming. But it is a story about mastery, and surrendering that fear of not measuring up.

Back around 2000, I got my dream job: I started working at Spümcø, the animation studio responsible for "Ren & Stimpy". At one point I was working closely with Jim Smith, whose work is amazing - I normally don't give a shit about the big muscle dudes he loves to draw, but he does it with such grace and fluidity that these big beefchunks become beautiful.

I was in awe of his casual knowledge of every single muscle in the human body, and the ability to deploy that knowledge in his art. I would never measure up.

Then one day he brought in some old work. Kid work, teenage work. I looked at it and a lot of it was terrible - awkward posing, horrible proportions, a whole bunch of general classes of errors that I recognized from looking back at my teenage drawings.

I looked at the dates. These drawings were older than I am. And it was like a light was switched on in the back of my head: of course Jim could draw rings around me with half his brain tied behind his back; he'd started before I was even born.

Since then, I have looked at artists who are better than me at one thing or another with occasional envy in my eyes. And then it instantly dissipates, because I know I could learn to do what they do better if I want to spend a few years on it - do I want that in my toolset bad enough?

And that realization freed me. I was able to look coldly at my work and decide that, yes, I'm good enough to get hired, I'm better at cartooning than like 90% of the people out there. I had the confidence then to embark on a year-long art project (drawing a Tarot deck), and then to move on to a four-year project (drawing a graphic novel) that I'm almost done with. I can't say I've worked on the comic every day by any means. But more often than not, I make myself spend at least a half hour on it. There's always something I can do without having to load the entire story into my head to turn it over and think about the shape it should be. And if I've only spent a half hour at the end of a day, it's still a half hour closer to being done than if I'd just spent the day playing video games.

Step outside of the fear of failure, the envy of younger, more successful people. Look at them as things your brain is doing and ask yourself why; treat it as a programming problem if that metaphor works for you. And find a way to make time for your own projects, even if it's just a half hour in the morning most days.

Let go, slack off, unclench your brain.
> Also, please consider the new Hacker News guideline against gratuitous negativity.

I'm glad for that guideline, but I didn't read the parent comment as gratuitous negativity, but as a legitimately posed criticism.
That was my read.

As it happens I read the excerpted section differently when it was in context, but all that means is I disagreed with the parent's statement.

FWIW
On the flip side, it doesn't need to be upgraded every six months, because it's pretty much a dumb display for an iPhone.
Are they talking about computer verified proofs?
I wonder, are researchers able to prove the correctness of distributed algorithms the same way they would prove sequential algorithms (for instance, using some type of Hoare logic and sat solver/ proof assistant).
Yes, but you're not paying $400 upfront. Psychology is important.
I know about one well known tech executive who donates about half his income every year, and increases that percentage by 1% each year (he's been doing this for a few decades, since before he "made it.") Granted, not everyone is in the position to do this, but the point is that there are people who have managed to keep a serious long term commitment to philanthropy, but whose efforts are (probably intentionally), not so well known.
Read section 3 and 4 of the whitepaper - the whole trust a quorum model is directly aimed at Sybil-style attacks. The key argument here is that the way they do group membership prevents these attacks by using a trusted quorum. This seems like a key place to focus attention for outside analysis of the properties of this protocol. If the assertions about this are incorrect, then the whole thing breaks down. As the Sybil paper points out, membership is critical for consensus. As a common-sense thing, "we have agreed" is super dependent on who "we" is.

As for eclipse, the model is so fundamentally different that it's not clear that there is a direct analogy for those network attacks. What do you have in mind? I'm not saying that it's obviously safe, just that attacks on the network protocol would have a very different flavor.