skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask yourself why you must be so productive and ambitious in the first place. Your self worth is clearly tied into that list of accomplishments; why is that so? Maybe try writing down a list of reasons why you believe accomplishment is the greatest measure of your own worth, and see if they make logical sense to you when you think deeply about them.

At the same time, ask yourself why you procrastinate. Come up with a list of reasons for that as well. Probably a strong reason is that you're afraid of failure (since you need successful accomplishments so badly to feel self worth). Only when the anxiety of not finishing anything outweighs the anxiety of failing something do you not procrastinate. This is what happens when your primary motivator is anxiety.

Thirdly, ask yourself why in particular minimizing (age/accomplishments) is so important to you. If you live an average lifespan, you still have 2/3 of your life left to accomplish what you want. If you started from scratch now, you could still make major contributions to most fields in under 10 years time. If you're worried about declining brain health with age, do things which minimize the decline (avoiding excessive anxiety is probably a good place to start).

Consider that most people regret not spending enough time with friends and family, not fully appreciating life, and not communicating how they really feel, when they die. They don't regret not working more.
Uh, it's completely acceptable to "discriminate" against people based on factors that relate to their ability to succeed in the job. I don't think it's controversial that people's social skills or style of social interaction has a bearing on their job performance. You can argue to what extent and so on, but it's bizarre to think that it's not relevant.
Wait, really?

Why not? Storage is cheap. Do you use something else to get historical visibility into metrics?
Why We’re Creating Pulse
That's a classic.

Best I can claim is zmodem transfers of uunecoded packages over a PLIP link as I tried to get ethernet support up on an old but fairly reliable box.
The government has to operate like any other insurance company, otherwise it will become bankrupt. Because it's impossible to gurantee that any straight health person will never have children, i.e you must be a member of the group. Much like car insurance, where you can't promise to never crash your car - you can have a lower premium for not crashing but you can't have no insurance. These are the simple financial facts of insurance.

While individuals do have a choice of whether to procreate (and it's not always a choice), society as a whole does not. Without procreation the economy and society would quickly collapse and the human race would eventually come to and end. So there's tremendous societal benefit to procreation and it should be supported by any government which society chooses to put in place. What you're suggesting would insentivize large numbers of people to not have any children, which is harmful to society and the wider economy. Indeed, without parents, you yourself would not exist.

A world in which you don't have to incur costs for others's children, is a world in which the benefits of those children should arguably be denied to you: no pension, lesser pay because you can't sell to children (or adults once those children are grown up), expensive services because you won't be allowed to use young cheap labor, no universities, larger tax and medical burdens as your own generation becomes older and more sickly, no hip young music or art, no interactions with people more than 25 years younger, no younger workers at your company as it grows, no technologies invented by or provided by those children in their adulthood, etc. Since you didn't contribute to raising the children, it's only fair that you don't get to reap the rewards, right?

The fact is that as a member of society and our economy, you derive a huge financial benefit from other's children which is inescapable. No man is an island.
units(1) was in V7, and systems that aren't a superset of V7 are objectively wrong.
Some of the examples in that SO post are outdated. However, list joining is faster that string concatenation, but not by much. Assembling a 110 MB string:

from timeit import Timer
try:
from StringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
from io import StringIO

nr = 1200000
data = "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog: Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz.\n"

# contruct a list first, then join
def dolist():
s = []
a = s.append
i = 0
while i < nr:
a(data)
i += 1
s = "".join(s)
print("%s chars (joined list)" % len(s))

# string concatenation fest
def dostr():
s = ""
i = 0
while i < nr:
s += data
i += 1
print("%s chars (string concatenation)" % len(s))

# use a string as a file
def dostringio():
buf = StringIO()
w = buf.write
i = 0
while i < nr:
w(data)
i += 1
s = buf.getvalue()
print("%s chars (cStringIO)" % len(s))

if 1:
tlist = Timer("dolist()", "from __main__ import dolist")
print("the joined list took %.2f seconds" % tlist.timeit(2))

tstr = Timer("dostr()", "from __main__ import dostr")
print("the concatenation fest took %.2f seconds" % tstr.timeit(2))

tlist = Timer("dostringio()", "from __main__ import dostringio")
print("the cStringIO approach took %.2f seconds" % tlist.timeit(2))
else:
@profile
def callall():
# For use with a profiler (eg, kernprof.py/lineprof)
for i in xrange(2):
dolist()
dostr()
dostringio()
callall()

Result:

(user@air) /Users/user/Prj/python $ python3 stringplakbenchmark.py
109200000 chars (joined list)
109200000 chars (joined list)
the joined list took 1.12 seconds
109200000 chars (string concatenation)
109200000 chars (string concatenation)
the concatenation fest took 1.76 seconds
109200000 chars (cStringIO)
109200000 chars (cStringIO)
the cStringIO approach took 1.45 seconds

(user@air) /Users/user/Prj/python $ python2.7 stringplakbenchmark.py
109200000 chars (joined list)
109200000 chars (joined list)
the joined list took 0.99 seconds
109200000 chars (string concatenation)
109200000 chars (string concatenation)
the concatenation fest took 1.33 seconds
109200000 chars (cStringIO)
109200000 chars (cStringIO)
the cStringIO approach took 5.21 seconds

(user@air) /Users/user/Prj/python $ python2.6 stringplakbenchmark.py
109200000 chars (joined list)
109200000 chars (joined list)
the joined list took 0.95 seconds
109200000 chars (string concatenation)
109200000 chars (string concatenation)
the concatenation fest took 1.39 seconds
109200000 chars (cStringIO)
109200000 chars (cStringIO)
the cStringIO approach took 5.54 seconds
That's how it basically seems to work, judging by videos. The video reviews I've seen have shown the user using one finger to operate the crown, rather than pinching it between two.
Just as the risk is much, much higher. People just hear about those few who became bi/millionaires out of IPOs, not the thousands that never made it.
While this is true, most people don't realise it. I often hear people saying they have a free upgrade to use, but haven't got around to it so may get something for a child. Or even get something free and sell it on Ebay... nuts I know!
> EDIT: Can't reply to the guy below

You just need to wait a little. The HN implementation apparently tries to slow down flamewars this deep in comment chains :)

Read something else for 15 minutes, then you can reply.
isn't this still sort of pseudo-centralized? my guess is that most people will trust the same handful of nodes.
Bobcat Catches Shark Off Florida Beach
Looks interesting, but isn't it just like Slackline? http://www.slackline.io/
Good to see Krishnamurti mentioned here!

I warmly recommend The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, both books that affected me deeply and improved my life.

Here is the table of contents (from a PDF) from the latter. I recommend getting a hardcopy — it is a short book, to read once a year.

Authors's Note 3
1. The Function of Education 4
2. The Problem of Freedom 12
3. Freedom and Love 19
4. Listening 28
5. Creative Discontent 35
6. The Wholeness of Life 42
7. Ambition 49
8. Orderly Thinking 56
9. An Open Mind 64
10. Inward Beauty 71
11. Conformity and Revolt 79
12. The Confidence of Innocence 87
13. Equality and Freedom 95
14. Self Discipline 102
15. Cooperation and Sharing 109
16. Renewing the Mind 119
17. The River of Life 127
18. The Attentive Mind 135
19. Knowledge and Tradition 144
20. To Be Religious Is to Be Sensitive to Reality 153
21. The Purpose of Learning 161
22. The Simplicity of Love 169
23. The Need to Be Alone 179
24. The Energy of Life 188
25. To Live Effortlessly 197
26. The Mind Is Not Everything 205
Even the very first digital video game (Spacewar!) used something very much alike (Dan Edwards' outline compiler). Movable and rotatable – think of advancing by unit vectors –, compiled just in time from directional encodings.
Read more at: http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-pt4-oc...
> The game gets it’s name from it’s founding within the Royal Tombs of Ur in Iraq.

A very good article, but boy do I find these typos grating in an otherwise well-written article.
Comment on job posts
Would be nice to comment on the job postings that show up here
Windows Explorer, Finder.

The DOM in DevTools to a lesser extent.
Yes, similar, but with two major differences:

- there is support for services other than Slack (and more coming)

- no webhooks are involved, you just click some buttons and it's on
I wish I could upvote this response more than once.
Complex Organic Molecules Discovered in Infant Star System
Wonderful and inspiring.

Thank you for sharing.
Is the CGA snow bug deterministic? Or at least model-able?
When the extensions are removed from the Chrome Web Store are they removed from everyone's browsers automatically? I didn't see it mentioned here or in the article.
Replace Make and Jenkins with Haskell
Not practical for most people, of course.
You don't have an age problem or a distractibility problem, you have an anxiety and neurotic problem. Who cares what other people are doing, at what age? There's always someone better than you. And almost everyone would rather be lazy, that's not unique to you.

Just work on your project and be happy with your accomplishments. Find something to give meaning to your life like volunteering for a charity. It's vanishingly unlikely anyone will care about your (or the vast majority of peoples') legacies 100 years from now. Honestly, just enjoy your work, help others, and stop thinking it's a competition.

edit: I'm significantly older than you, so 1) I have some perspective on this and 2) sorry if this was less sensitive than what your generational peers might say or lacked trigger warnings.
A Dark Night Is Good for Your Health
Honest questions: How people can write such long articles? How many hours they might have spent in writing? Does anyone read it from the top to bottom completely? Is it not possible to express the whole thing in a small article without losing the gist?

EDIT 1: Gruber's articles have lot of useful information,analysis and insights but I feel, current article is too lengthy.

EDIT 2: Anandtech's reviews are also detailed but they are easy to select to go to required part of the review. Hope interface of DF may change in future.
You can't even make it to level 0 unless you use an IDE. I guess you're level -1 if you're an experienced old person using "vi" and "make".
NASA scientists say we’ll find alien life in space in the next 20 years
The $20,000 Xamarin Programmer
Why? I honestly don't understand this.

You stuck your penis in someone (assuming you are male). That's all you did. And then did all the exact same things that billions of other parents do, feed, burp, clothe, ship 'em off to be educated by someone else. Statistically speaking, you're probably not a fantastic parent, just another average Dad. One of literally billions of parents.

So why are your kids 'better' than anything you've done? Almost anyone can do it. It is probably one of the least impressive achievements any human can do, yet a large amount of parents list it as a major lifetime achievement, often as their only achievement. It's another one of those 'zombie' phrases, there is nothing at all, absolutely nothing, remarkable about raising a child. It is one of the most ordinary, banal things, a human can do. And yet so many people are proud of doing it.

I simply can't understand, looking from this side of the mirror, not having kids. But can you understand just how utterly unremarkable and unimpressive it is having kids? From this side of the mirror?
Microsoft Announces Nano Server
That's the way it's always been. Perhaps so it doesn't get over-used? I never asked pg about it.
I think Awesome Screenshot is "bad" extension too, but purging from the store is too much.
It's not even complete, see the last reference to the interface.

Oh and don't look up John Siracusa ;)
Automatic mesos/docker clustering
Android Wear watches have a low power ambient mode, where the screen always diplays the watchface at a low luminosity. [1] Apparently it took quite a bit of tinkering from the manufacturers but even the Moto 360, notorious for its problematic battery life, lasts now a day with ambient mode.

[1] http://developer.android.com/design/wear/index.html
OP -- thank you for having the courage to put your story out here. You've sparked an important conversation, and it's clearly resonated with so many people. There's a lot of advice here. Some conflicting. I trust you'll continue to build your mental filter and sort through the good and the bad.

Two favorite piece I like to re-read when I have these moments.

+ The Secret to Success (this one is my all time favorite): http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/5/30/secret-to-succes...

+ Daring Greatly by Brene Brown (http://www.amazon.com/Daring-Greatly-Courage-Vulnerable-Tran...)

I can already see that you have so many of the skills described in Brene Brown's book. Keep fighting the good fight.
Why does it even need to be a dial? Why not a touch-strip along the side that you slide your finger along for scrolling?

The whole idea of a dial seems backwards. I've always hated dials on watches. They catch on everything.
> find a therapist you like and go regularly.

In England the BACP are the registration body you should look for if you go private.

Short courses of CBT for anxiety should be available on the NHS - either see your GP (and you may need to push this) or self-refer. A web-search of your county and terms like "IAPT" (improved access to psychological therapies) or "talking therapies" should return your local number.

You might find good results after a short course - 8 to 14 weeks.

Here's the NICE guidance for anxiety disorders: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs53

It's easy to think of anxiety as being a mild disorder, but it can become pretty severe. OCD is an anxiety disorder and that can hospitalise people.

I like your list of lifestyle interventions.
Ambalaj Fabrikasında İş Kazası 1 Ölü – YALIN OSGB
Microsoft announces (docker) container support around Nano Server
I think Monotone was an alternative to BitKeeper and BitKeeper was the inspiration of Git and Mercurial. It even seems to suggest that in the link you posted.
"For one, if everything goes sour, the folks taking a hit can very much afford it."

Really. Where do people think this private capital is coming from? I guess the investment banks and fund managers who are dumping hundreds of millions into late-stage companies are doing that exclusively with the investments of wealthy people?

The fact that people aren't investing in Uber via E-Trade accounts doesn't mean that it won't hurt regular folks when the bubble pops. When this all goes south, we're going to find out that grandma's pension was tied up in it, just like last time. It's just a bit better hidden in 2015.
I'm getting very frustrated by this presentation, it's all "This is so amazing, it satisfies so many criteria, there's a big problem with financial institutions"

I can only read those lines so much before I get the feeling of being whitewashed. How does it work? Where is the data?

I'm reading the white paper now, but I felt compelled to post this comment after I read through yet another 10 paragraphs of exactly what I described above.

Something that takes on distributed consensus is a fantastically interesting project, this is so frustrating!!!
(disclaimer: I had early access to the white paper for review)

Sybil attacks are not really directly applicable here since each node in the system picks its own quorum slices (basically the set of nodes that it trusts). There is no notion of global reputation and nodes do not need to know every other nodes to participate. Looking at the definition of quorum intersection[0] section 4.1 should give you a sense of the conditions that are required on the choice of quorum slices for the network to function properly (quorum intersection ensures safety)

The proof exposed in the paper guarantees safety and liveness for the network provided a certain number of reasonable conditions are held true. What that means is that an attacker cannot force on intact nodes (definition p14) invalid transactions nor prevent the network from making progress.

That being said, (at least in the version I reviewed) there is no guarantee provided with respect to ensuring that all valid transaction will eventually make it into the network. Indeed a set of highly trusted nodes (present in a lot of quorum slices) could attempt to preempt a specific set of transactions X (originated by edge nodes) by opportunistically broadcasting valid transaction set V_i for each successive ledger entry i that explicitly do not include the targeted set of transactions X. Under raw SCP as described in the paper and for certain topologies this preemption could be real and this is the closest I can think of a Sybil attack. It's important to note that we still have liveness and safety in that case.

I believe the same kind of attacks to be plausible with the Bitcoin network and I know protection mechanisms against it are currently being evaluated by David, Jed and the rest of the team. I will let them share their progress when they think it's right. I also hope they will correct me if I stated anything inaccurate here!

[0] https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd...
Wait a year for Watch 2.0 and see how many kids get the earlier version.
The X1 Carbon X1 (2nd gen) starts at roughly €2,200 in my region versus Dell's roughly €1,300 for the XPS 13 (3rd gen). That's a _big_ difference, it had want to be worth it but wait...

The Carbon has the good ol' Windows tax, the XPS comes with Ubuntu pre-installed.

The Carbon has an i5, the XP3 an i7.

Carbo has a res of 2560x1440 (QHD), the XPS has a res of 3200 x 1800 (QHD+).

The Carbon has a 180GB hard drive, the XPS has a 512GB.

Thanks, but no thanks. I have the previous version of the XPS 13 and it's a sweet machine. Granted, it may take Dell a while to get the BIOS tweaks just right but it's not like the machine is unusable otherwise - it just goes from nearly perfect to perfect.

---

[0] http://shop.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...
[1] http://www.dell.com/ie/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
I feel you. I am on a line (RER A) where morning trains get 10~15 min late by default. One of the train slot just gets cancelled every now and then for no reason, and the main cause of problems are "exploitation accidents" (= we screwed up).

And still there seem to be efforts to cut costs and all the money might be going to building new lines instead of making the existing stuff work correctly.

I the SNCF/ratp doesn't get it's back on the wall I feel they'll never do anything to make things better.

BTW commuting by car also seems to be an everyday mayhem with crazy long road works, incidents everyday and overall aggressiveness from the (motor)bikes, delivery vans and inraged drivers.
> Most discovered planets to date are...

It's possible to do better than lump all of the discovered planets together and complain that the set is biased. For example, Kepler can detect a planet iff there is a chance alignment of its orbit with our line of sight, so for each discovered planet, it's possible to compute the probability that its orbit was correctly aligned, and divide by it to compensate. That way it's possible to make unbiased statements about the distribution of planet sizes and orbits, the fraction of stars with planets, etc.
It's just over half of what some Android Wear devices are doing, and I'd characterize them as having short battery lifes.

It's 15-20% of what the Pebble gets.

In my book, that adds up to extremely short.
This is such a terrible rubric. Where's the points for "doesn't write vulnerable software that an 8th grader could trivially exploit"?

Oh wait, India? My experience with India has led me to believe the country sits at "largely incompetent, with a few great folks": https://scott.arciszewski.me/misc/Linkedin/Fail.html
The question is not really what the "natural state" for humanity is to be happy, but what would you choose?

Would you rather be happy or productive?
This sounds about right for me. I had the same problem as OP and still do, but I've come to realize that the points you've mentioned above are really important.

I actually never realized how anxious I was, I just never knew I had it. It was really crippling. I've been trying to elevate my anxiety and as a result I've been more productive. I use my github page as indicator, it was empty for 2 years until recently. Almost two months now of me working on new frameworks and my projects.
Selling on Experiences – How Apple Infiltrated My Living Room with HBO NOW
As humans, we created mathematics

That depends on whether we are talking about mathematics, the method of rigorous notation or, mathematics, the inquiry into quantities without reference to quantities of what (i.e. numbers). We created the former but discovered the latter.

I'm neither mathematician nor philosopher, but there seem to be some a priori truths in mathematics (I hope I'm using that term correctly) which are not defined or created by us: the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter (Pi), the distribution of prime numbers, etc.

If you are bugged by where those come from, then I don't think you're alone!
Azure's new NoSQL document database, DocumentDB, is now Generally Available
A max 40 Wh/kg is ridiculous. For comparison, I have some Li-ions that are 260 Wh/kg. They say that the main advantage is the 7x number of charge cycles, but if your aluminum battery weighs seven times more for the same capacity you could literally carry seven equivalent Li-ion batteries (!) and just change which one you use to get 7x the charge cycles.
This and the story of Mel never get old.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
I think this page should answer your questions: https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-...
Am I wrong in saying this is a web interface that wraps PCP? So you can't really compare it to inspeqtor or collectd since those actually do the metrics collection.
How to break the internet
> It falls short on bluetooth music player.

That's the #2 function (next to accurate time/timing) I want from my smart watch: bluetooth music without the need for my phone. Dealbreaker without it.

A decent heartrate monitor that works with at least some accuracy when sweating would be amazing and I would pay a decent amount for a watch that also included that, but it isn't a dealbreaker like the bluetooth music without the phone.
I'm generally with the naysayers and the skeptics, but this point makes sense to me:

This though, is why concern one — the lack of access for retail investors — is arguably a firewall against this truly being a bubble.

This seemed to me one of the key necessary factors to the dotcom bubble and the housing bubble after it: online brokers allowed people who previously didn't have a lot of experience to buy stocks and even daytrade. (Count me in!)

Similarly, ARMs and the various other exotic mortgage tools opened up the housing market to lots of people who traditionally wouldn't have had access. (Thankfully learned my lesson with the NASDAQ bubble.)
Standards?