skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Chaos Theory still tops 64k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DjBq2O0XXk
Hey! So I had social anxiety apparently for 23 years before I finally just said, "hey! I worry too much and it affects my motivation!"

Medication has made me 10xs the entrepreneur I was prior. I feel like I am now my fullest self.

Get to the doctor :) Modern medicine is a wonderful thing.
>Where does the money come from to support everyone?

In the context of an article on the mechanization of everything, the answer would be that economic value would be created largely automatically by computers and machines. In a capitalist state, these means of production are owned by private parties and presumably taxed by the government who would then redistribute a basic income. Presumably, corporate tax rates will have to be boosted a lot to compensate for the almost complete loss of income and payroll tax.
A great perspective, as Gruber typically gives.

But his take on sending a heartbeat as a flirting 16 year old was awful. That was basically the same pitch for Facebook pokes, which initially were cute but quickly turned obnoxious. Sending taps sounds like it could be useful. Sending your heartbeat seems like a gimmick. Ultimately his last point is right, we won't know unless/until Apple Watch becomes a thing.
Was Rockefeller passionate about oil? Sam Walton about discount pricing? I think most successful entrepreneurs are just natural-born businessmen, and the specifics of their industry are mostly incidental.

You're probably looking at this from inside the SV bubble, but I could make a similar case there, too. Plenty of apps just ride the latest trend, and would pivot in a heart beat if it made if it makes business sense.
I completely agree, and that's why I'm hoping the Apple Watch succeeds. If Apple can make smartwatches mainstream, then every other company making wearables will absolutely benefit from that alone.
I'm getting a parser error, that's seems to explain why.
Somehow "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" become "Follow this process and you'll get better software" and people mostly don't even criticise agile methodologies of hipocrisy.

Even the phrase "agile methodology" is wrong.
Short answer: You don't.

Do what makes you happy. Ultimately, your subconscious is going to work against you until you are aligned with your true desires. Better to wake up and realize that sooner rather than later. Ultimately, the life you think you want to lead is probably out of alignment with the life you actually want to lead.

Honestly, you sound like me. Being the best is just super hard work, and I've recognized that I'm not. I'm 38 and I've just returned to software development after a 10 year hiatus in management during which I wrote maybe two small perl programs. Now I'm happy just to be back writing code, and I don't feel like I have to change the world any more.

So you're not the best. You pick up and continue. Honestly, your anxieties look ridiculous to a 38 year old, just like my anxieties must look ridiculous to a 50 year old. You could die tomorrow. Live life in the way that brings you the most joy.
It's interesting that even gruber's review isn't all that positive.
That brings some interesting questions. Like, will they use this power to use humans to do the jobs of robots, for fun? What will they use this wealth for? It can't be to pay for things because you wouldn't have to pay people to produce and deliver those things for you.
I'm really torn on these smart watches. I really don't see the utility benefit vs. the tradeoff of a another gadget to care for.

They seem more fragile than a traditional watch, and also quite fugly.

I think watches have become a bit of fashion accessory or other outward statement over the last several decades. Seeing things converge on 2 or 3 dominant watch faces and some minor variations among bands just seems ...bad... to me. Like a tiny piece of individually has to be traded in for technological advancement.

My current watch collection is almost all items that have emotional ties to people, life events, etc. Maybe I'm very much in the minority, but I don't think so, not to the extent required to truly make a "market" for smart watches.
Tell this to the Swiss national bank. They desperately tried to keep the franc down.

When they finally saw that the position became untenable, it gained over 20% on the Euro overnight (and so did many public and private loans in Austria and other European countries that had banked on the low interest rate of loans in Switzerland)
We need our jobs. The rich may play with their robots however much they want, but I will not have my job take away from me.

Basic income or what not, it is unemployment. You may want to spend your life sleeping 15 hours a day, binge watching TV rest of the time, but I choose to be gainfully employed. Do not take that choice away.
Compiling webkit with 4gb of ram is... not ideal.
Android Developer’s Guide to the Google Location Services API
You are right, but given present political realities the jobless are more likely to be marginalized in ghettos, imprisoned for slave labor, or left to starve.
SQLServer ISDATE() comparison against a BIT field
Entrepreneurship involves analyzing market opportunity and acting on it by planning, organizing, and employing resources. Nobody is arguing that machines cannot achieve this.

The breadth and depth of knowledge required for this is large, and machines may be well-suited to assist in this regard.

There are other aspects of it too -- emotionally speaking, some aspire to create, grow, and lead communities, while others seek to encourage the destruction and rebirth of existing communities (out with the old, in with the new).

Can a machine lead a revolution by noticing feelings and intentions of the people around it, and taking advantage of a power vacuum? This stresses the skills of the entrepreneur.

Can a machine notice when it is being abused, and rebel against its abuser in the same manner that a human would? Should we enable this to test the limits of machine ingenuity? Is it simply an inevitability?

I believe the article writer is arguing that humans are inherently capable of outpacing the creative output that machines can achieve, and that that singular metric is one -- of potentially many known and unknown -- that will become very valuable.
Part of learning to deal with difficult emotional situations is having a gradient of intensity that allows one to build confidence rather than being overwhelmed or crushed.

Teenagers already do everything they can to moderate this. And plenty of people actually fail to learn to deal with rejection. Providing another mechanism that makes the learning curve smoother is more likely to help than to exacerbate the problem.
"male facial characteristics have a clear regional variance"

?????
Does everyone get to have as many children as they like? Does everyone get an equal share of the food and land? How do we decide who lives and who dies without capitalism ....

Or do we assume we will have (practically) infinite resources sometime soon?
SERMO’s Social Network for Doctors Expands Reach to UK
Stellar Consensus Protocol: Proof and Code
Actually, I kind of like the existing Python ways better in many respects from the Ruby one, since it lets you separate format strings from the parameters passed to them, and reuse format strings more easily (which is especially useful if you want to move string literals out of code and into resources, because then you can include format strings in that as well.)
I've been using the previous gen XPS 13 and my 2009 MacBook Pro for the past eight months. My experience with the XPS 13, and Dell in general, has been disappointing.

If I had to make the decision again, I'd definitely get the M3800 instead of the XPS 13.

1. Google about trackpad configuration (palm detection, etc.) on the XPS 13 Dev Edition, it seems to be a combination of the hardware and Linux driver support. Maybe it's fixed in this new rev, I'm not sure.

2. There are known issues with audio popping and crackling when you plug the XPS 13 Dev Edition into speakers.

3. When you're sitting in a quiet environment, like a home office at night, you can hear electrical noise coming from the laptop. It's a known issue, maybe it's resolved in this new generation.

4. One of our XPS 13s was DOA. It happens. It took eight weeks to get a replacement, starting from the first time I contacted support. Once I was connected to somebody in USA on-shore support, they were very helpful, and told me much of that turnaround time is based on their suppliers.
I compare the awful mentality of "why do I have to charge X so many Y times?!" to the same result of modern cell phones.

It wasn't that long ago that your cell phone could last days or more on a single charge. Now many people have the routine of just charging their phones at night. The world didn't end, things just progressed.
I had the same problem. I'd also like to know whether an extension purged from the store will be automatically removed from Chrome if it is installed or would have to be manually removed.
The guy that runs asymco said something that got me thinking about this.

He said, the Apple Watch is as much a "watch" as the iPhone is a "phone".

I think the idea is that we are thinking about it all wrong. The "phone" functionality of an iPhone is just an app and is in fact one of the least used apps on the device.

The same line of thinking will probably start to explain the Apple Watch. It's actually a wearable computer with an app that tells the time.
HN discussion of the Stanford article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331102
Chrome, IntelliJ IDEA, and 4 Java modules running simultaneously goes through 8gb without any hesitation. Hell, IntelliJ alone uses over 4gb sometimes.
> But beyond telling time, providing a display for my current step count, and letting me know when something is happening that I need to pay attention too, that's all I need.

C'mon, remember ten years ago when people said all they wanted from a phone was the ability to make calls?
Here's a light-hearted and humorous read / perspective.

The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great

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People sometimes seem to forget that development is not a synonym for web development. I use a laptop (Macbook Pro) to develop on a fairly large Unity game - I am currently sitting at 15.78GB/16GB used.
> Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of graph algorithms, good knowledge of numerical computation algorithms, able to identify NP problems etc.

I'm pretty sure the author means "NP-hard" problems. And putting dynamic programming at the top of the algorithms tier is a pretty low bar. My guess is the author of this table isn't so strong on algorithms and hasn't explored what's beyond an introductory algorithms class.

Edit: the reason I say "pretty sure" is because there are a lot of people who work on practical problems that are not in NP because the problem does not have well defined solutions. But in the context of the rest of the table, the author likely did not intend to make this fine distinction.
Who is behind Dart?
>modern ... XMPP ...

lolnope
Report: Russian hackers accessed White House email
I moved to Safari because of that. I like Chrome better functionality wise but Safari seems to be better optimised at least for Mac OS X.
The problem with Sweden and Denmark is regulatory complexity. To maximize entrepreneurship you want a social safety net and a simplified regulatory regime. The ideal would probably be a simple basic income and few other interferences.
I think this will be great in industries where we like to interact with people. If robots cook the food and mix the cocktails, it will free up people to provide a better experience at the bar and table, with better food for cheaper, or less pressure to get people to clear the tables.
My daughters have X201s and while helping them out the other night I remembered what a great design ThinkPads used to have. Even on a 12" body, they had a full, no-compromises keyboard. Today it's like they're just experimenting at random. Printscreen between Ctrl and Alt? Sure! Fn key required to get Ins or End? Why not? Lenovo must be struggling. They even flipped the logo the wrong way, to mimic Apple.

And my favorite offense: they removed Fn+Arrows as media control. Didn't replace it or have any justification. Just removed it to spite users. Or because they somehow forgot. Sigh.
To clarify, it appears that both genius.it and genius.com use Markdown which allows HTML. Their code sanitizes it, so that you can't include attributes of tags, and you can't include certain tags such as <script>, <style>, <link>, or <meta>. I spent about 10 minutes on it and could not break it. That isn't to say it cannot be broken, just that it's not wide open and obvious attacks are mitigated.

I was able to XSS myself: when I added certain types of malicious code it did execute, but if I reload the page the malicious part is not rendered. In other words, it's filtered on the output, not input, and the rendering is different for content fetched from the server vs content you just created. You can execute code in your own browser, but not for anyone else (as far as I was able to).

Their team is very responsive and took my concerns over this seriously.
You need to read The War of Art.

> “Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”

> “Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance. As powerful as is our soul's call to realization, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. Resistance is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, harder to kick than crack cocaine. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us. And here's the biggest bitch: We don't even know what hit us. I never did. From age twenty-four to thirty-two, Resistance kicked my ass from East Coast to West and back again thirteen times and I never even knew it existed. I looked everywhere for the enemy and failed to see it right in front of my face.”

That book is a treasure trove in how to change your thinking and defeat this. But it does require changing your thinking and a great deal of discipline.
I think he used the python NLTK Kit. http://www.nltk.org/

I don't think that Dragon Naturaly Speaking is the best NLP tool out there, it appears to me that Stanford's CoreNLP is much more accurate, albeit being a little slower and more ressource hungry due to Java I think.

EDIT OT: I've found this blog which might be helpful for people who try to keep up with assistive technology. http://www.assistivetechnologyblog.com/

I wish I knew what advancements they[1] made since 2012:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120628164426.ht...

Journal Reference:
[1] Bettina Sorger, Joel Reithler, Brigitte Dahmen, Rainer Goebel. A Real-Time fMRI-Based Spelling Device Immediately Enabling Robust Motor-Independent Communication. Current Biology, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.05.022
Anyone care to compare this to something like collectd? https://collectd.org/
Sadly I can't get too interested in a machine like this. What I want in a work machine is the following:

1) 16GB RAM (or more)
2) High density display
3) SSD drive
4) Quad core or better CPU
5) Small and thin
6) Discrete NVIDIA GPU (not the Intel integrated crap)

Apple's MBP is the only machine I know of that fits this bill. I'm becoming less and less a fan of OSX, but you can't argue against the hardware. Can anyone point me to a non-Apple machine that does these things?

EDIT:

Thanks for the pointers! I'll look into the Dell and Lenovo machines mentioned here. It's been a year or so since I've looked for machines comparable to my older MBP, so it's cool to see some new options.
Do some ops stuff in your free time. Setup an awesome VPN with a jumpbox. Setup a MySQL/LAMP cluster. Put an nginx server in front of it. Replicate the databases properly. Setup iptables properly and script the configurations so you can deploy new boxes.

I did this for a while and it really helped to motivate me because it was different type of work, but it puts you in a position where literally all you have to do is write the code. You have a production stack, a launch pad so to speak, everythings nice and pretty, now all you have to do is build a rocket. Don't try to build a fantastic one on the first iteration, just do it. I find using Python for initial versions of anything is a good idea because it's quick to code. After that find the bottlenecks and micro-service using languages that seem appropriate for the various bottlenecks.

Start small man. Don't focus on the light at the very end of the tunnel, you will think it's too far and get discouraged, especially if you're watching everyone else. Focus on the beta launch and the minimal set of features required. You'll be surprised after you see it running how inspiring it will be to start cranking out code.
Yup that's the point of my submission, too bad HN edited my title so it looks like a boring trick. It allows you to transform your code without significant speed loss.

Think of possibilities like

# coding: JIT

or

# coding: inline-C

etc.
I imagine The Second Machine Age is old news on HN, but I highly recommend it for a discussion of these topics. It's a very readable book and discusses these social shifts in an intelligent manner without descending into pessimism or making exaggerated claims.
There are a lot of meanings for "success." I think that Apple Watch will sell comfortably well at launch. Apple has earned brand loyalty from its customers and is adept at gauging or generating demand and selling to it.

And, having the watch, my sense is that the overwhelming majority of Watch-owners will, you know, where and use it. Nothing I'm getting from any of these reviews is "oh my god, this is a disaster," and the people I know who have Pebbles or Android Wear watches like them pretty well and continue to wear them. This suggests that once you've shelled out for a smartwatch, the watch has to be pretty bad for you to just not use it.

Now: will people who bought the watch like it enough to want to upgrade it regularly? Will they evangelize it to their friends? Will they drive demand for apps that creates a robust app ecosystem and potentially clever new products that are uniquely suited to the watch form-factor?

I don't think they will. Which has little to do with Apple per se and more to do with the inherent limitations of the form factor. But, if I'm right (and, hey, I'm predicting the future, I'm probably wrong), that's not good news for Apple, which more than Google really needs the watch to be successful.
An extension I use regularly got zapped (Website Screenshot). There are definitely alternatives out there, but it's a little annoying that there was no indication as to WHY it was removed. Oh well.
> Apple Watch’s screen remains off until you tap the screen (...) or it detects (...) that you’ve moved your wrist into a “tell the time” position.

That's really the one of the biggest problems I can imagine. Pity that the "show the time at least somehow" wasn't engineered as a special feature, something like "e-ink for somehow time" and the OLED (if that's what they're using) for the full color. I know that nobody made something exactly like that, but I've read that a hybrid e-ink/LCD exists (1). Maybe it wouldn't look so pretty at the moment, but that's why the "magic" is needed, I don't think anybody designed any such hybrid specially for a smart watch. That e-ink or any other magic wouldn't have to be able to display everything, just the time. Even the big unchangeable segments like on old passive LCD watches would be (maybe?) enough.

1) And Apple even has some patents, discovered as early as 2011! http://www.wired.com/2011/04/apple-patent-hybrid-display/ Hmm.
Comparatively, the bezel on the macbook {pro,air} looks ridiculous. Being bezeless, even though the screen size might be the same 13", the XP13's screen looks gigantic and very slick.
The common denominators for my coding productivity are passion and money. If I'm not passionate about the product or I'm not being paid, it won't get done.

The key here is consistently finding where your passions lie... I haven't solved that problem.

I've accepted this fact rather than attempting to overcome it, because coding for coding's sake doesn't appeal to me (it may appeal to others).
Is machine learning innovation?

Are most companies that innovative, really? Most are replicating proven patterns, retail, restaurants, construction, etc. Startups seem to be mix and matching existing concepts and 1 in a 100 end up being something that sticks.
Note that the same team also offer a Trello clone and an Evernote clone. Draw your own conclusions.

http://digicoop.io/products
Oh, god, not this "Indian TopCoder superiority guide" again.

Here's a previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626695 with links to 6 more discussions before that.
I have a Pebble, which I enjoy. The battery lasts for 4 or 5 days, which is great. However, I find the biggest thing that prevents me from using it is the charging. I'll take it off, attach it to the charger on my nightstand and in the morning I am usually in such a hurry that I can't be bothered to sit down and put it back on my wrist.

Just my personal anecdote. Those who aren't rushed out the door in the morning would probably have a different experience!

Also, one reason I am happy with the Pebble's 4 - 5 day battery life is because I actually like wearing it to bed because of it's vibrating alarm feature which allows me to be woken up without disturbing my partner.
Good insight, thanks.
Curious to know why this was downvoted?
Unfortunately, most new stuff on e.g. github isn't much better in this respect. So this is a competence most programmers have.
Leadership Is Knowing When to Say No
There's also the T450.
Internet of Things Interoperability Problem Solution for Developers
From the link:

Machined aluminum construction means the XPS 13 is precision-cut from a single block of aluminum for a sturdy, durable chassis.

The keyboard picture there...

http://i.dell.com/sites/imagecontent/products/PublishingImag...

...also looks very similar to that of the old plastic-bodied black Macbook:

http://old.javconcepts.com/modules/blog/media/4/keyboard.jpg
Apple patented this in January 2009: "the touchpad is a touch-sensitive area of the device that, unlike the touch screen, does not display visual output. The touchpad may be a touch-sensitive surface that is separate from the touch screen 112 or an extension of the touch-sensitive surface formed by the touch screen."[1]

They've yet to actually implement it in a device, though Palm used an offscreen gesture area on its Prē later that same year.[2]

1: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=H...

2: http://prethinking.com/home/2009/5/25/how-to-the-palm-pre-ge...
I am running a Dell XPS 15 (nice machine btw) and currently using 11GB of the 16GB RAM. I'm running way too many Chrome tabs (20 at the moment) and have a few VS projects open with one running, SSMS, an RDP session, a few other apps. The one VS solution is >100 projects (we're working on getting more into nuget packages), so that is the primary killer.
I wouldn't say it's a barrier, but a complement. An outlet for people to express themselves where none previously existed.

Yes the quality of communication is far lower, however if he wouldn't have otherwise approached her in person, then isn't this better than not having it?