skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone must have a conceptual image of themselves - an evaluation of their self worth. Where that self worth is derived from makes a big different in a persons life. You are presently in a trap that it is very common for people to fall into. You are deriving your conception of self worth through social means - in this case comparing your accomplishments and skills with those it seems others have. People are often told to 'not care what others think,' but that is impossible to accomplish without an alternative method of evaluating yourself, and such alternatives are not usually provided.

A very beneficial approach to take is objectivity. The state of other people does not influence the objective reality of your worth. If you were a runner, for example, your ability to run a 4 minute mile remains regardless of whether other runners are faster or slower. You could either look at yourself and say 'I am slower than other runners', or you could look at yourself and say 'I can run a 4 minute mile.' One is contingent upon other people, and the other is an objective measure which can not be influenced by people.

An objective basis of self worth, an inventory of skills and accomplishments based on actual personal history, will also change your goals. Instead of setting a nebulous goal of 'I want to be faster than other runners' which you will never believe you have accomplished (as you get faster you will simply change to looking at another group of faster runners and feel you have made little or no progress), you will set goals like 'I want to run a mile in 3 minutes and 45 seconds' which is definite, testable, achievable, and which has a clear path towards accomplishing it. Concerning yourself with objective truth rather than relative measures is tremendously freeing. It builds your self worth from successes which nothing can take away from you. Chasing a goal like 'I want to be a better programmer' is fundamentally different from chasing something like 'I want to implement the LZW data compression algorithm.' The first provides no direction, and provides no sense of accomplishment because you can always be 'better'. The second is something you can work toward and accomplish and which will produce an artifact you can point to and say 'I built that.'

Make no mistake, this is not simple, especially changing your thinking after adolescence, but it is very rewarding. You would have to consciously fight against your intuition, which, rewarding though it inevitably is, some people are very uncomfortable in doing. Eventually, the tendency to judge objectively rather than relative to others or reliant upon their opinions will come naturally and make you happier.
Joyce from Stellar here. Thanks! As we were working on the white paper, we realized how difficult it was to explain complex concepts like federated Byzantine agreement.

We know it’s part of our jobs to make these ideas understandable. That way more people can join the dialogue and think of ways this infrastructure can be used to build services for their communities, which may be really far from the nearest computer science program. So we decided to add a lighter approach in hopes of making it fun for people to learn.
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Well, I did not want to defend the way .format() works now. That's why I asked for the reasoning. Your reasonable argument sounds reasonable to me, I would certainly use it. But then my initial question is even more important: Why is this not the one Python way. What did the initial designers think?
My hope is that it will somehow allow me to stop dealing with the walled garden aspect of ebooks.
Finally! I wonder why Apple didn't discuss this at the recent watch event? This is a huge feature that is a big selling point. Maybe Apple wants users to trickle in?
U.S. Tracked Phone Calls for Two Decades in Anti-Drug Program: Report
Agreed, but that's not what they did here. They didn't prove the program is correct, they proved the algorithm is correct. It remains to be seen how closely the program actually implements the algorithm in the paper.
Dissecting Turla Rootkit Malware Using Dynamic Analysis
What's wrong with the current social networks?
Skitbra.
>I guess it's a personal choice.

Bingo! It's going to be so depressing if we don't get basic income because people are worried about what about people will do with it, and (horror)disagree with those choices!
If you had a prisoner's dilemma game where people were trading and anyone could create currency then all would defect and create currency. By making substantial expenditure of energy the cost of defecting, the game loses its prisoner's dilemma quality. This is what makes bitcoin unique IMHO. Other systems have no structured way to create currency that doesn't rely on a particular party not defecting. There's tit-for-tat, but increasing the price to defect works so much more neatly.
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As I wrote in the FAQ, I decorated my own units.dat (units.lib in some implementations) with lots of stuff because I like easily editing units. (Nowadays I use Emacs Calc, but I still add a bunch of my own units, like the binary prefixes like mebi, gibi, etc.)

I suspect that a lot more can convert millilightseconds to miles out-of-the-box now at least in part because of the popularity of this story over the past 13 years.
Well, technically, the geostatistician (Did I spell that right?) was doing research that was orthogonal to the actual problem and its symptoms. In this case, the results were sufficiently odd that they sort of pointed in the right direction, but I've been sent off on wild goose chases by people skillfully applying their own particular set of skills before.

On the other hand, there's the word document with nothing but a screen shot showing half of a useless error message.
If I had to pick just one, I guess it would be happy. But I choose both. Fortunately for me I am happiest when I am productive, so it works out.
While there's certainly truth to this, it's also a little bit of apologia/marketing speak.

The iPhone is fundamentally a phone. While it does a lot more than just make calls, and is likely purchased for more than the ability to make calls, it is fundamentally a phone first (it's in the name and the hardware), most people buy them in conjunction with a phone carrier or phone plan, and on and on.

The Watch (again, right in the name) is fundamentally a watch. It also will do a litany of other cool things above and beyond a typical watch's feature set, but this doesn't change the fact that it is fundamentally a watch. At best, it strikes me as a secondary display, or peripheral device to the phone.

I think of how Jony Ive talks about the products... what their essence is, how they strive to make them the "inevitable" ideal object or iteration of a given thing. So, to my mind, if we're calling this a wearable computer that simply also tells time, it isn't more than the sum of the parts anymore, it's an amalgam of features, already done in other form factors, that still won't last on full day's charge.

None of which is to say people won't buy it and love it. They will.
I may not be with it, or hip, or up-to-date on the current feelings compelled by the zeitgeist, but I'm not at all interested in the Cloud features of this release. At all. In fact, its a reason for me to forget about the product - because if I know one thing, if an Apple product has cloud support, its going to be everywhere, and unavoidable. They'll be compelling me to use it at every step of the way - heck, probably its all enabled by default.

So what I wish I was seeing, instead, was a way for me to leave my computer online at home, and still have access to my media library, seamlessly, from anywhere in the world. Why is it easier for Apple to move all these features into their data center, and not just fix their operating system at the user level to make it safe, secure - and Apple-easy - to share content directly from the machine itself?

I've got an rPi at home, doing the job that Apple wishes I would do with its cloud. My rPi is available and accessible from anywhere on the Internet, with ease. Its got all my media that I want access to on the road .. and it works seamlessly with little fuss. If a $35 device can do that - admittedly with a modicum of tinkering on my (not in-experienced) part - then why can't a $99 'bleeding edge' operating system do it, without requiring that I just give all my content to a third party?

Because from where I see it, Apple, you're not competing very well with m $35 media-sharing device that just plain works.
Facebook Launches Messenger for Web
every planet, OTHER then this one.
It is a simple problem to explain, and the goal may be to use it to explore novel programming paradigms rather than to solve it optimally. I am sure Matt Might knows about the efficient solutions to this problem.

By the way, there are plenty of reasons not to use the closed form.
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OK, you have my attention. I having been working with ejabberd and openfire. I'll take a look at prosody. If I have time I'll get back to you.
As I understand it - and I am also not a lawyer - a judge generally does not have the power of disobey mandatory sentencing. I don't know if attempting to do so would be criminal, but it would not be a legitimate use of power and probably would not hold.

Perhaps you're right, but what happens when you "do the right thing", it makes it to the top, and what comes back down is "Congress was clear"?
I've had my own questions about "DFS". I really don't understand how it's a game of skill, or how it's significantly different than Vegas-style sports book betting. I've been in too many office fantasy football pools only to end up in second place behind the 19 year old intern who drafted her players based on how attractive they were and didn't touch her roster all season. Every week is a toss-up.

Furthermore, I'm equally doubtful that the NFL and the NFLPA are ok with companies making billions in profit off of the NFL's games and individual players' performances. I think that if anything kills DFS, it will be this. Sports leagues can't be associated with gambling in any way, but the teams and players involved also have to protect their brands.
Your solution is pretty good, but it has some drawbacks:

1. when you kick the mentor or vendor out of your main room, they no longer have a record of what happened. Since Sameroom replicates messages across channels, everyone has a copy (like with email)

2. If your mentor or vendor wants to involve someone else from their side, it's not easy (they have to ask you to send an invite). With Sameroom they would control access on their end of the discussion.

3. Your invitee is forced to use Slack, which isn't ideal if they normally use another tool, say HipChat. Even if they already use Slack, they have to switch teams, which... well, it doesn't seem to scale very well.
Is skit the parent of the terms shit and scat? Linguistics are so interdasting to me.
Apple has been giving away their Operating system for years I'm not sure where you get the $99 'bleeding edge' operating system.
Keep in mind that the German press has always strongly supported the ideal of a unified Europe. So, I believe as a tendency they would rather underreport problems (say, financial problems in other countries affecting Germany), instead of giving arguments to EU critics.

I can't remember reading about "lazyness" - maybe you read too much into it? However the press had a look into the financial conduct of Greece - I hope that's allowed when you're out 50 Billion €?
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This is actually a good point. Then it'd be easier to leverage a potential positive outcome from this case to put a fire under the NSA and other agencies doing this. I like it.
That referrs to Nano, not Hyper V virtualization?
IBM Offers Bluemix to Aid NASA's Global Hackathon
In that section it mentions ultra-thin notebooks, but you felt it more important to mention 2-in-1 and premium tablets?
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Ask HN: How do you bridge the gap between developers and product dev?
I'm a product developer and in my organization that means that I'm responsible for working with sales and customer support to determine which features are most important for our next set. Then I work with the developers and designers until the set is shipped.

I can communicate well with the designers and we usually get to where we want to be within a few iterations. I have a much more difficult time with the developers - we go through tons of iterations and my feedback never seems to get implemented fully. I've had several discussions the development team about what they're expecting from me and what they need, but we never get to a meeting of the minds.

Tips?
Microsoft creating their own version means the technology is viable? I think people have been using 'the technology' for years, without any input from Microsoft. It doesn't need to be anointed by Microsoft to be 'viable'.
The Intel graphic that recommends it for ultra-thin notebooks?

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9117/Slide%206%20-%20Choosi...
>I see absolutely no reason to believe that the natural state of humanity is to be happy (or, more specifically, content)

What about the fact that stress is tremendously destructive to our health? It is directly a threat to the survival of both individuals and the societies they live in. If being in an anxious state for extensive periods of time were the most advantageous to survival, then evolution seems not to have noticed it. The structure and functioning of our endocrine system heavily suggests that humans were built for occasional short bursts of high stress, not extended periods of constant high stress (as we have designed society to require of most people).
If one of your server dies you deploy another in 5 minutes with ansible, with a small number of servers that rarely happens though.
Nobody's saying that the best way to implement the fibonacci sequence is using CPS, but in this instance it is a great example of what to do when converting a function with multiple recursive calls into CPS.

Sometimes, if you want an example to be both small and instructive, you'll have to put up with some contrivances.
previously language syntax used TextMates xml based tmLanguage files for syntax highlighting.

Example: https://github.com/Benvie/JavaScriptNext.tmLanguage/blob/mas...
Everybody should try implementing a ray tracer at least once in their programming career. The math is well-documented, and the wow factor is pretty great.

It also is a rabbit-hole of optimizations and modularity; you can always add on yet-another-cool-thing, and so never become bored. :)
Apple wants this to work with anyone with a Mac and an internet connection. Directly connecting might have NAT issues, or you might turn your host computer off (or close your macbook without having power sleep on) preventing connection. These types of issues frustrate the average user since they don't know or care what's preventing it from working.
Could you please explain what kind of issues did you find running tomcat/jboss inside containers? We've been running several apps on docker and so far no problem. Thanks a lot in advance.
This advice is easy to give but difficult to follow in practice. Krishnamurrthi wrote from a position of pure arrogance, because he was told his whole life that he was a special person. He's not special; he's just repeating what others have said in a watered down package. That's what makes his philosophy so dangerous.
That is not a promise.
Ask HN: Has anyone trained themselves deliberately in unique skills?
Examples would be:

lucid dreaming

Visualizing/Imagining/Creativity (there was an article about someone training like Tesla, can't remember his name)

sensory - increasing the power of senses (a few years ago, I remember going for a walk blindfolded, in a camp I had gone to)

etc. How did you do it?
I've been in contact with someone from Google Security and this was their answer:

"I spoke to the team that maintains that list and they don't have plans to make it public, if you would be willing to share some ideas on how to better protect people from this unwanted software I would be happy to pass it on but due to the nature of the work (trying to stay one step ahead of bad guys) we probably won't be able to share anything back."

I'm the author of this anti-adware addon called "Extension Defender" and it would greatly help my users if I could use their list, because while they extensions were removed from the Webstore, does that mean it was forcibly removed from their PC? Probably not.

Plug: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extension-defender...
Nobody needed an iphone as well at the time it was launched.
I paid $99 for it back in the day. I guess its actually $25 to purchase a DVD of it here in Europe.

EDIT: I'm behind the times, and showing my age - but I've spent $hundreds on OSX over my experience as a Mac user. Its been an investment - small, but nevertheless significant.

And this: http://www.wired.com/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/

.. just fuels the fire. Because the OS is free, Apple are no longer putting as much effort into expanding its feature-set - instead choosing to make services for the iDevice market. Its clear to me, anyway: Apple are no longer a serious OS vendor. They're very definitely a consumer electronics vendor, though..
That "modicum of tinkering" is what sets you (edit: and I) apart from the other >99% of Apple's customer base and is why Apple has the cloud strategy they have: No tinkering required.
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There was also arguably much more connection between the tech industry as a whole and the dot-com bubble. When all the startups and web companies went down, they dragged companies like Cisco, Sun, and EMC--indeed just about everyone--down with them. (Admittedly those companies had profited handsomely by selling to all the free-spending dot-coms and had also over-invested in overhyped technologies as well.)

But if all the snapchats and instagrams--heck, even Facebook--come crashing to earth, it's not clear to me there's a huge amount of collateral damage outside of the companies directly involved and their (mostly non-retail) investors. Not zero of course. But a lot less than post-2000.
> Unfortunately I live in Scandinavia, but I wanted an English keyboard (Scandinavian keyboards are a pain to write code on).

I got my laptop from Amazon and shipped it to Colombia just because of that. I had no luck trying to buy it local.
A number of people have been successful with the DSI connector on the Pi, but the monitors you can use are radically different that what you'd find in a laptop.

http://elinux.org/RPi_Screens#Interfacing_to_non-monitor_LCD...

Oh and there is a HDMI to LVDS breakout board floating around somewhere.
> That "intuition" is what brought us Special and General Relativity

Yes. Intuition is a good thing. It just shouldn't be relied on for proofs. To compare, Mathematicians followed their intuitions to bring us all kinds of results (eg. ). It's a good thing. It just shouldn't be used to prone to making mistakes when but shouldn't be relied on for (Mathematical) proof.

> You can't expect to get Newton's second law and make it work with any kind of mathematical object.

That's not rigour, that's generality. For an example of rigour, compare the treatment of (infinitesimal) calculus in Physics and in pure Mathematics (eg. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus#Foundations ).

>> In Physics, there's just "="

> Scalar equality? Vector equality? Magnitude equality?

I would say the first two are "instances" of the same principle (in the same way that, for example, intensional equality can be "instantiated" for integers, arrays, matrices, etc.). Magnitude equality composes the absolute value operation with "the" equality operation, so I would call it a shorthand rather than a distinct equality principle.

> Also leptons are 'equal' following the Pauli exclusion principle?

What an excellent example of a non-rigorous statement ;) (ie. what is your model of leptons?)

For reference, some of the examples I mentioned are described at http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/equality
Facebook unseats YouTube as top spot for video advertisers
Apple has "thinned" the MBP line several times since then. I had a 2014 Nvidia model and it over-heated like crazy, in particular in Windows.
Right now extensions can provide a regex of the URLs that they will be enabled on. Obviously a malicious developer will just say "all" though.
Ah, religious metaphors. The fourth amendment is relevant in many instances, however it explicitly mentions preventing searches and says nothing about what to do if a government official decides to evade their restrictions.
so instead of asking me to leave my spreadsheet CRM, you make my spreadsheet CRM more powerful? Neat!
In implementation, yes, you'd (probably) use the closed form. Wouldn't make for much discussion of various fine points of recursion, though. The purpose of these examples isn't to discuss efficient mathematical computation, it's to examine recursion.

For pedagogy Fibonacci and Factorial are used so often because they're easily defined, often already understood by most with high school algebra under their belt, and pretty much the archetypical recurrence relations. Not a bad place to start exploring recursion.

If you want people to move on, you're probably going to need to provide a better starting place for pedagogical purposes.
The distinction made at the end of the article between a "valuation bubble" and a "risk bubble" seems entirely false to me.

"much of the media has adopted Gurley as the apostle of the “here we go it’s 1999 all over again” mantra, but that was a valuation bubble. Companies simply weren’t worth what they were priced at. Gurley is arguing that the private market with its limited information and oversight is producing something very different: investors putting too much money in companies without enough information or enough potential upside to justify the risk."

To me "investors putting too much money in companies without enough information or enough potential upside to justify the risk" == valuation bubble.
In my experience the Tomcat/JBoss tend to be a relatively large overhead, but since they can run multiple "war" files under the same overhead this is not as much a problem when running a single container for multiple applications. But when you containerize them you'd like to run one instance per application which will multiply the already significant overhead.

Not sure if this is what the GP was referring to, but just my 2 cents.
Why can't OSX just do all the tinkering itself, so that I can use my own computer to save media that belongs to me - this is the point. I think my OSX machine is more than capable of serving my own personal cloud to me and the few friends/family that I'd like to be sharing things with - at least, its perfectly possible.

I think the reasons this isn't a feature of OSX, itself, as an operating system is that its simply not profitable for Apple to do this - they're giving the OS away for free, after all, now. (So I've been informed.) So they can't profit from new features of OSX.

And so this whole cloud thing is to me, a distraction from poor attention on the part of Apple to the responsibilities they have as vendors of an Operating System - I get it, though. This isn't hip any more. Its far more profitable to be the BOFH's for so many millions of cloud-addled new users.
So this replaces iPhoto, correct?
Ask HN: What are you reading?
1 past, 1 current, 1 planned.
Have you tried out the new "Chrome Apps & Extensions Developer Tool" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-apps-extens... ?

It appears to log what actions each application and extension performs, view permissions, and debug the extensions' background pages
Consensus-as-a-service: permissioned, distributed ledger systems
asp.vnext is targeting Linux. My guess is those who will run on other clouds will likely use Linux/container*OS instead.