skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved to Michigan partly for this reason. Plenty of water. Long term.

We wanted room to stretch out and grow a huge garden.

> going to be enjoying a hell of a resurgence

Its already happening. A lot of young people are moving here, buying a nice house for cheap and working remotely. Lot's of small entrepreneurs cropping up.
Ah, but this is my big fancy expensive Dell screen at work... I think it was a combination of the webpage and my brain flipping out.
Some Thoughts on Why Open Offices Ruins Productivity
Hi Eric,

Your first mass produced book was published by a traditional, 'big' publisher (Crown/Random House). Is this new book an independent effort or are you still working with a trade publisher? Do you feel they've added value to the process for what you got the first time (versus self publishing and retaining more revenue per sale)?
Thanks for sharing!

>With all of that said, is this something you are having trouble with?

Not right now, but I am looking into how to prevent such things happening in the first place
And here's a YouTube link for good measure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUCVYRGcUo
I thought HBO Now (I'm not a subscriber) allowed one to stream 5 minutes after air?
Is livestream really laggy? I can't get more than 20 seconds of video to play after initial load.
There's already a crazy scheme to extend the Apple Watch battery
astronomicalbodiesformerlyknownasthemoon.com was registered by someone on 2015-03-12.
Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
The author was recommended by David Allen, of GTD fame. A lot of his thought is leveraged and in the same school of Kahneman and Tversky.
Diamond Age is one of my favourite books. Alongside Cryptonomicon, American Gods and Rainbows End.

Reamde was a dud for me as well.
If you were going to start, it might be because the folks at the water cooler were excited about it - and this leak makes that more likely. People who'd dropped off might be reminded there's a new season coming and feel inspired to catch up. It's a great way to build hype for the "real" start of the new series.

I think accident is more likely, but HBO doesn't lose much - anyone who watches these episodes is going to want to watch the rest of the series and is going to pay HBO (or else would never have done so)
I'd like to see more startups and companies pledge to do this as well.

Having open-sourced a number of components and then seen them get better from community contributions with little effort, this is a good thing to do.
I casually started reading this, and then had this feeling that the style and humor was familiar. Then I realized this was by my abstract algebra professor! Rich Schwartz is a brilliant guy, and pretty much the reason I became a math major. If only all professors had his magical math-explaining powers...
Pretty bad ass, ill keep on reading.
It well below 50 before you all found it :(
No issues here. Maybe try a different browser ?
VFR exists, but would be very obvious in the metadata and would make the file unplayable on many devices.
No livestream of the dock ?
T-8 minutes as I post this now, at 2025 UTC.
He didn't list the last rule - there are no rules. I.e. various guidelines to creativity are useful of course, but it also involves the chaotic element. Trying to turn it into a very rigid system reduces its value.
Oh, for a post-apocalyptic world? There, of course, would be challenges to 're-do' the world to where we are now. Hopefully it never comes to that, but those people will probably be a lot different than we are now. Heck, we are a lot different then our grandparents are in terms of tech and what we think is obvious as a tech.

Also, I dont think most of the material will be lost. Take aluminum. It's nearly un'rust'able and really doesn't degrade over the time spans we are talking about. Making it from scratch is not obvious, you need electrolysis [1] and some other not terribly clear ideas. That said, you can do it in a garage; you don't need a foundry. And those ideas are likely to survive the end of the world, seeing as aluminum is so useful.

Overall, ideas are like genetics, once you get one great working thing it's hard to loose that mechanism. Give yourself more credit, you are smarter than you think.

[1]http://www.chemguide.co.uk/inorganic/extraction/aluminium.ht...
I usually just meditate for ten to fifteen minutes in the morning before I've had any coffee. I focus on my breathing, and when my mind wanders, I refocus. I don't notice much difference from longer meditation, and I'm always able to set aside ten minutes, so it is easier to maintain the habit.
My advice for getting back into meditation is to just force yourself to do it for the first couple weeks, even if it doesn't feel worthwhile. It is hard at first, but you will soon notice that you're getting better.
Here is a free online book for anyone interested in getting started:
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
The 16-page chapter "Toolbox" is an absolute must-read. The rest of the book (don't get me wrong, it's very good too) seems filler to make the volume a viable book.
Comparing the security practices of the presidential candidate websites, so far
I met Chris one time and he's super smart. Great job guys!

Some stunningly creative technology too.
IFR: 2014 was another record year for robotics
Sourcegraph's clickable code snippets—https://sourcegraph.com/blog/sourceboxes-a-better-way-to-emb.... You can embed them in any blog post FYI.
Demand destruction does not mean what you think it means. It does not mean that people will magically stop wanting cars because petrol is expensive. Rather, it means that because petrol is expensive, 95% of the market will suck it up and pay whatever prices is at the pump, but the poorer and most vulnerable 5% will face a financial crisis (on the personal dimension) because they simply cannot do so. So, they end up loosing their cars, their jobs and a bunch of other side effects. It's all simple microeconomics, allocation of a scarce good goes to the higher bidders.

In the short term this mechanism makes prices to self correct. If they rise so much that people cannot afford petrol and there's petrol to be sold, the price will have to go down and find another point of equilibrium.

The problem is that markets are rarely linear processes, and there are inherent delays between causes and effects. So signals take a non negligible time to move through the markets, and in practice this causes instability. And if the delays takes long enough, a business or industry can and do erode its own customer base.
Or maybe the onus should be on the male crowd to take action?
Hi Eric
Glad you are writing new books
So they will not be available thru Amazon or local bookstores?
Black holes were one of the power sources in Star Trek

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Artificial_quantum_singulari...
An Illustrated Guide to Today's SpaceX Launch
Here is a youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUCVYRGcUo

For some reason my ISP blocks livestream.com.
Yes! Someone should make a fan edit of the Baroque Cycle, or just a List of Best Bits. The cannon duel and most of the L'Emmerdeur parts would go in there.
From the SpaceX twitter account: "After Dragon and Falcon 9’s second stage are on their way to orbit, the first stage will execute a controlled reentry through Earth’s atmosphere, targeting touchdown on an autonomous spaceport drone ship approximately nine minutes after launch." So it sounds like if you stay tuned for nine minutes after the launch you can see the booster stage attempt to land!
I have stopped calling them "non producers" and started using the term "counter producers". Not only do these types of people not help, they are almost always a hindrance to the completion of projects.
What a terrible post. Every single example is simply security through obscurity. Once a leaker understands the ways in which a file may be watermarked, they will likely be able to circumvent it. An example of a watermarking method that does not fall apart when people know what to look for would make a very good article. This is not that article.
If you accept that engineering skill fits the normal distribution, it's less likely that they are "terrible" than merely average.

Amazing 10X engineers could still pull off shipping a working product even with all the organizational handicaps I mentioned in my earlier post. This doesn't excuse the deficiencies of the organization, nor does it mean that "average" engineers are undesirable or can't do good work. I agree with the theme of the cited article--rather than scapegoat the engineers and pay external consultants to "fix their mistakes", fix the organization and enable the engineers to do quality work.
That was worth a read to see him factorize Jupiter. I was wondering how flexible the language is, and that kind of answered the question.
For me, it wasn't so much the explicit ageism (though it was there to be sure), but more of not fitting in because since some time in my 30's, my social interests don't revolve around the consumption of alcohol anymore, and I've got better/more important things to do after work than hang around with coworkers.

Leaving the silicon-valley-flavored "startup scene" (though I'm at a startup, just not a "startup" startup, per se) where I get to work with grown-ups, while not as profitable, has been a nice lifestyle change, and I highly recommend it.
> "We demonstrated that a highly coherent qubit, like the spin of a single phosphorus atom in isotopically enriched silicon, can be controlled using electric fields, instead of using pulses of oscillating magnetic fields"

Isn't getting a qubit into a coherent state in the first place one of the biggest hurdles in quantum computing? The headline seems to be putting the cart before the horse saying we'll get "affordable" quantum computers thanks to this.

I'm not knocking the scientists efforts, I don't doubt the worth of their discovery, but if science news articles were true we'd have flying solar powered cars with batteries the size of a cell phone that can recharge in under a minute.
The struggle for me seems to be knowing how much is too little and how much is too much. Do you try to err on the side of doing too little at first?
I'd guess that extroverts are, on average, about neutrally buoyant in the open-plan environment. They don't get hit as hard as introverts but it doesn't energize them.

Introverts are drained by open-plan offices, extroverts learn to adapt and tolerate them, people in between the two extremes are slightly drained but blend in. No one really likes working in one, except for the psychopath (or the clueless 23-year-old who believes the hogwash about it being "collaborative").

The thing is that most decent extroverts still hate office politics. They have a greater need for social interaction than introverts, but they don't thrive on meaningless noise, environmental chaos, or a complete lack of privacy.

So while an extreme introvert is drained after 2 hours in an open-plan office, the extreme extrovert can spend 8 hours in one, no problem. He might be less productive but he doesn't go home exhausted. The psychopath, however, is energized by a politically intense environment. Most extroverts dislike office politics; psychopaths love that shit.
+1 on namespacing. You want to pick your own prefix and use in both places - for example:
gmd-dial and gmd.dial

'ui' is used by AngularUI: https://angular-ui.github.io/

Otherwise, once the dialer angular component explodes, and AUI comes out with their own competing directive, a client programmer using both yours and AUI's modules will have a problem.
That almost certainly won't be a live feed.
Video AMA with CEO of Dronecast dropped out of college – started a $M company
Wasn't this just posted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9130423
That's a bold claim. RPC mechanisms is one of those spaces - like IRC clients, text editors and parser generators - that there seems to be more implementations of than there are extant users.
That's a hard question to answer because it's hard to quantify, point of sale is a very large market. Along those lines, the central fact that drives me nuts is in stable times, $3,000 in advertising is worth about $30,000 in revenue.
I thought we were having a debate in good faith. It's clear that you're not interested in doing so, and instead are attempting to "win" on technicalities (such as your continued insistence that I claimed you thought all Apple users were brainwashed), and have now resorted to personal insults and gross misrepresentation of my words. I don't understand why you're behaving this way. I thought my question was fairly straightforward, but you seem to be doing your best to avoid having to answer it. If you don't want to answer, then just don't reply.
"What I don't understand is why does social life have to be tied to work?"

I hate to think of it, but it could be that so many people are simply working so long, that the office is really the only social interaction they have the energy for.
How is this really better than Office Open XML?
Sounds like the bozo explosion that a late leader of another hugely successful Cupertino company warned about.
ZStack's Scalability Secrets Part 2: Stateless Services
Ask HN: What Is Amazon Echo Using for ASR and NLP?
Nuance seems to be the leader in ASR, Apple Siri (?) uses it for ASR. Has Amazon built their own ASR? NLP would naturally be something developed inhouse, even if not from scratch. But anyone has any indicators to any research publications they did around this?
Show HN: Dynapack – a JavaScript module bundler
I've seen three or so pieces like this in the last month, they all seem to have been inspired by a (much more depressing) short narrative piece Adbusters did a couple of months ago.
"Hold. Hold. Hold. Weather is no go" @ 4:31pm EST
I admire your untraditional, lean approach to publishing your followup book, but know it doesn't work for everyone and certainly not for straight-up copycats. What promotional advice do you have for an author who isn't as well-known as you?
Damnit, scrubbed for weather..
T-3 MINS
And because this is an instantaneous launch window, that means no launch today.
> The line "optional 16bits characters strings" also makes me worry a little

Especially since the other option isn't 32 bits, like it was in Python versions before 3.3 (which implemented PEP 393: "Flexible String Representation"). So you can only choose between broken Unicode (no characters outside the basic multilingual plane) or no Unicode at all.
Today's attempt scrubbed due to weather at T-03:07 :(
Abort due to weather.
Cash flow is exactly the problem. We don't have enough in the bank to not be staying up at night it if there's two bad weeks of sales. and there's not enough infrastructure to disassemble to save money, especially with the burn-out we've accumulated over the last year.
Oh no, the mission is abort
Just called on account of weather.
Specifically, there's thunderheads within their no-go radius, so weather called hold. Since it's only a 1 second launch window, there won't be a launch today.

Edit: Next launch window is tomorrow at 4:10pm eastern time. However the weather outlook isn't much better.
If only there were someone working on high-accuracy weather forecast systems for convective systems using existing cheap networked sensors ;). I would love to know how much money I could save SpaceX by providing this forecast more accurately with much more lead time.

What is the cost to scrub a launch due to the weather at the last minute?
DC NO GO
Anonymous Targeting CloudFlare Seems to Go Against Anonymous' History
A forecast doesn't stop a popup thunderstorm from entering the no-go zone.
Anathem is one of the best reads in years. But Quicksilver and other book in the baroque cycle is impossible to get through.
That's a tough time to abort too... T-3:07.

Hopefully the weather gods are more forgiving tomorrow.
Can't agree with you more, both for refactoring code and editing prose.

I find it also sometimes helps to perform the revisions while in a somewhat altered state of mind (be it mood, setting, music, minor inebriation, or otherwise). It helps you look at the first draft with fresh eyes and see better ways of structuring things and removing excess. Make a version with your prospective changes, then compare the before and after copies a day or two later (this time sober if you weren't before...).
Of course not. But it would help SpaceX plan and prepare much more in advance than 3 minutes. There is certainly a cost associated with getting everything set up, and then postponing the launch. Could they have planned for this earlier and not got everything ready?
As of 16:30:30 EST, launch was scrubbed due to weather.

It's still fun to listen to their verbal verifications to each other about shutting down the system though!
Would you be able to quote a passage from the book where Joyce claims that that's his view? It's been a long time since I read Portrait of the Artist, but I don't recall that being in the book, nor does it sound like something Joyce would say.

At any rate, even if that really was the goal he set for himself, he failed. Ulysses elicited a wide range of responses from me.
How come that on t minus 3min there is a weather no go?
Anyone knows how this works...
Crossing the Is and doting on the Ts (2014)
I agree that deciding what's superfluous fluff and what's not is entirely subjective and that it should be an artist's freedom to decide how he expresses himself. However King's advice was written in the context of how to write successfully and I have little doubt that the average reader prefers brief rather than quaint wording that drives the story forward.
cmake, visual studio, eclipse, xcode, scons... basically every modern tool chain.
My Custom Standing Desk
The launch is a no-go because an anvil cloud (thunderstorm) entered the 10 mile radius around the launch site. Prior to the scrub there were a few comments about a cloud being close to the exclusion zone but not yet in it.
All of that sounds like it stems from management not doing their fucking jobs.
(not to mention the shameful use of timestamps to detect modifcation in make - leading to years and years of wasted time as people get confused by it when working with others)
Bad Weather Postpones SpaceX Launch 3 Minutes Before Takeoff
I think the same! It is k choices per scene for s scenes.
My first reaction to the linked excerpt was that Seveneves reminded me of Galapagos (thematically)
> Launch postponed due to lightning from an approaching anvil cloud
(https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/587715056432889856)

Anyone know how they detect lightnings? Is it just cameras, or do they have planes flying around?
You are thinking about CRO all wrong
Here's more info about the Anvil Rule for launches and why it causes a NO-GO: http://weather.about.com/od/thunderstormsandlightning/f/anvi...
This scares me a lot, especially living in Colorado. I hate to be one of those "No Vacancy" people, but our aquifers simply can't support any more people here. It seems crazy when you start diverting water from the other side of the continental divide just to keep Denver growing. Same goes for California; just because you want to live there doesn't mean you should, just because you want to farm there doesn't mean it makes any sense and isn't incredibly destructive. The land was never capable of supporting what they're doing out there long term, and when you start diverting water from else where, you need to sit and ask yourself, "am I doing something really stupid?"

For the amount of water and other resources we have in the West, I wonder sometimes if there just are way too many people living out here in general.
The tool many people use isn't always the best one. Most of the world runs on coal for power, but that doesn't mean it's a good choice, it's just the easy one. PHP is not a good choice for anyone, it's the easy one. The only arguments in favor of it are that it is easy to learn (I would say that it is too easy to learn), and that its easy to get set up with. Being easy to set up doesn't make it good, it just reflects on the state of shared hosting as of ~10 year ago when PHP became the amateur webdev standard.
Good coal, diesel and gas plants reach ~50% in power generation (and marine propulsion in diesel case), rocket engines 60+% (thrust).
Show HN: Hotjar – 'All-In-One' Analytics and Feedback Tool
Why? We're discussing long-term changes to how HTTP without encryption should be handled. I think an upcoming project with major impact on the availability of certificates should be a factor in this discussion. Besides, it's not like letsencrypt will be the first CA to offer free certificates - StartSSL has been doing it for years, although letsencrypt obviously has a different approach.
> Could they have planned for this earlier and not got everything ready?

Probably not. They were a go up until just three minutes before launch. I doubt any extant or near-future forecasting system is able to tell you that a specific storm cell will be in a specific spot at an exact minute all that far in advance.
Wow, what a horribly self-righteous way to tell everyone about your personal tastes. I feel enlightened already.
> ISIS's old name was 'Al Qaeda in Iraq'.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) -- sometimes called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) -- has had only one previous name, the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI). Arguably, even that's not really a previous name but just one of two groups that formed ISIL, though the other was itself an offshoot of ISI, so the point is debatable either way.

Among the organizations that came together to form ISI was the group formerly known as "al-Qaeda in Iraq", but even for that group, the name change in 2004 to "al-Qaeda in Iraq", was an opportunistic rebranding reflecting the currency of the "al-Qaeda" brand (and, arguably, also the simultaneous weakness of the actual substantive "al-Qaeda" organization, which made it interested in having in-name-only affiliates) in radical Islamic circles in 2004; it wasn't the original name of the group, which had been around for several years before affiliating itself with the al-Qaeda brand.

So the statement that ISIL -- or ISIS, if you prefer -- is "fundamentally different than al-Qaeda" is fairly accurate even if the main component of ISIL is a group that was for a few years affiliated loosely with al-Qaeda.
I noticed how even though your book doesn't exist yet, the graphic that you put up on Kickstarter looks very polished and enticing. But I've also seen startups dig holes for themselves by over-obsessing about graphic design.

On a startup's first MVP iteration, how little graphic design effort can you get away with? Does it depend on the product, perhaps? Should all iterations be visually polished?
I think a very large part of innovation comes from people who would do it anyway. Supporting them is great.

The current system is in everyone's worst interest. Getting there first shouldn't be worth as much as being able to provide an excellent quality of product or service - software or otherwise. You certainly shouldn't be able to hold up all of humanity's progress for the entire future because you can claim priority.
I think this is really important. It would be very wrong to dismiss it with tone policing or other superficial commentary. The underlying point is that there are a lot of women in the technology industry who believe - rightly - that they are being mistreated.

That's not necessarily to say that the rest of us are doing it deliberately (although some undoubtedly are). But it's important to grow our own awareness and build more inclusive cultures at our startups, and continue to be aware, work on improving ourselves, and, more than anything else, listen.

I'm down with Uber for cats though. Maybe with VR and drones?