skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Acceleration couch" at http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=443 is attributed to Niven's 'The Mote in God's Eye' (1974), but it exists in Heinlein's "Methuselah's Children" (1958); on p83 of my copy:

> Ford struggled heavily out of the acceleration couch he was in.

(This is as they are leaving Earth, accelerating towards the Sun, before they engage the star drive.)

The site does let people send in comments, and indeed someone already commented at http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content-Comments.asp?Bnum=443 that Heinlein's "It's Great to be Back" (1947) is an earlier citation.

However, that comment is from 2008, which makes it feel like the site is effectively dead.

Personally, I prefer the effort of about 15 years ago to collect SF citations for the OED, at http://www.jessesword.com/sf/list . That's specifically about words, not concepts, so it's not the same thing. But what I like about it is the curational decision to focus on terms which are used in more than one book, and to give a longer quote what uses the term.
I do not know if it is faster, I should add it to the benchmarks :)

The biggest difference here is the use of a syntax extension to parse the grammar. This is something I would like to do at some point, because it can make the code nicer. Right now, macros are good, because you can use nom directly without Rust 1.0, no need for feature gates.
When you access arrays by index do not use magic numbers. Define FIRST = 0 and SECOND = 1 for example.
I personally think this is super cool. Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see more.

Thanks!
Let's say we all agree that the global amount of resources are enough to support all of us without work, just for simplification.

Then what about distribution of these resources? I feel many people work to fight over that distribution, not just to produce. E.g., there might be no $1000/h lawyer who would think that they produce even $100/h worth of resources. But they might still work 80h/week (or make the impression) to get a bigger share of the pie that is already there.
As a European I wish EU would fight harder to create its own tech giants, rather than fight existing ones (e.g. Facebook, Microsoft, Google).

There might be some merit in better regulation privacy, data protection, natural monopolies in tech. However, so far regulations seems backwards (e.g. permissions to use cookie, VAT regulations). It would be awesome if more people at EU were a bit more tech savvy.
I'm a little confused where you are going with this. Could you elaborate a little? Its one thing for this to be possible using `coding`, but this is a macro builder available right now. Interpy just highlights the possibility of this, right? If there were a macro framework that used `coding` it would seem more relevant. Otherwise it looks like you're comparing apples and a knife. Am I missing something?
I have never used pyparsing, but the approach seems similar. Right now, the only real limitation is that I still have a few combinators to implement. Otherwise, anything complex you might want can be done by writing a simple function.
There is room for FirefoxOS:

- No performance regressions. Somehow, the blazing fast device I bought a couple of years ago now feels sluggish. Core apps should be timeless: the dialer, the keyboard, task switcher shouldn't be slower two years after purchase.

- Graceful degradation. Websites have no easy way to detect how fast a device is, so they are built for the majority with a bias for the newest and fastest. The result is that cheap and old devices get obsoleted even for the simple stuff. If a $25 phone is as powerful as a 2000 computer, then let the developer feature-detect it and design for it.

- Good permissions. I don't know the solution but there's a problem. Android's model is depressingly bad. iOS's is too dumbed-down to be trustworthy. Firefox's granularity is good to have but web developers seem to assume the user is always going to grant the permission. I always grunt at websites which want my position to find a store near me and display a blank page when I reject it.

- Timely OS updates. Firefox already has a fast release cycle regardless of the desktop OS. Why can't mobile be the same? I believe kernel patches are less of an issue with web apps because the kernel isn't the first line defense.

- Reasonably priced. The $100-200 range is already full of good Android devices. Just make deals with manufacturers to sell a Firefox version of those. They already sell dozens of different phones, so it should be feasible to convince them to add a couple identical devices with a different OS. FirefoxOS only needs one good device.

- Security. Better sandbox the blackboxes (drivers and radio).

Those were my pain points, but I'm willing to make sacrifices:

- 60 FPS isn't that important for me. I care more about response time when I tap something.

- Most animations/transitions won't be missed. Some add value but marginally so. Most are arbitrary and useless.

- Most apps won't be missed. I only use a few.

Apple is margin-driven. Google is ad-driven. They already cause pain to the consumer and market dominance will only make matters worse. They also are walled gardens so they cause pain to the developer. Mozilla is indeed in a similar position to that of the 2000s.
Not really a solution, but using NoScript helps in such situations. I was using NoScript and only after seeing your comment (and temporarily whitelisting the site) did I notice the issue.
git-annex is the engine behind this project currently, and a lot of bugfixes, feature-adds and work has happened as a result.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/
I once saw a susskind lecture about the firewall problem where he explained that to check if someone falling into a black hole was incinerated, you'd have to fire so much energy at them, you'd end up incinerating them. Physics is weird. And, apparently, kinda passive aggressive.

BONUS EDIT: here's a Greg Egan short story about transhumans diving into a black hole and trying to do physics on the way down: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PLANCK/Complete/Pla...

also here's his page explaining the physics in the story: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PLANCK/Planck.html#...
Because working hours are inhuman.
Direct links:

https://vimeo.com/14912890
https://vimeo.com/19447662
https://vimeo.com/25380454
https://vimeo.com/36881035

Additional videos:

Embrace the Remix https://vimeo.com/47322970
Case Study: the iPhone https://vimeo.com/81745843
Rise of the Patent Troll https://vimeo.com/91363809
Quick Quiz color recognition
Often lack of infrastructure, or communication about what needs doing. Traditional businesses are poorly documented, and not transparent, so knowing what you might do and how is often extremely difficult.
backed up with zero factual evidence

This is a recurring theme of these sorts of replies (along with cries of jealousy or ad hominem attacks by people circling the wagons). "Factual", when the things I am questioning are based upon no demonstrated facts at all.

patio11 gave advice on consulting which, as a long time consultant -- rather successfully (but still not enough to start doling wisdom) -- I found completely at odds with the reality I've endured, but it's a big world so maybe I just fly in different circles. It was advice being conveyed to people looking to enter or already in the game, and is purportedly based upon real world success and feedback.

My first suspicion is that it's a piece obviously intending to draw attention to his newest venture (Starfighter, just as so many prior pieces were driven to focus SEO and attention on BCC, though we've seen that the return on that was miserable for the time invested and opportunity lost). That's always a warning side -- people often tend to aggrandize when seeking attention and link juice (and to find pat, sure-fire success formulas, because easy solution posts do best), and coincidentally that piece was linked to far and wide for the extraordinary claims. The second is that it is building a reputation at the cost of just words, which you can see throughout this thread: "Well BCC [a project that has seen so little success most people would have abandoned it long ago] was just for fun. He's really a super successful consultant." Because, the story goes, he was picking and choosing among clients shoveling money at him. $30K per week? $40K? Why not $50K? Just keep those rates hidden and escalating, biding your time and soon enough the money truck starts dumping.

First they were successful for being an expert at optimizing a business. Now they're a high flying, top tier consultant that was so successful they hung up the hat.

Are those facts? The former we have empirical evidence to the contrary, and the latter is founded only in words. It does not matter how personally protective of him you may feel, this is being doled out as life proven advice, and it is critical that everyone, no matter how much they think someone is a part of the community, be critical and naturally skeptical. Advice founded in success needs to demonstrate that success, and there is just nothing there beyond hand waving. There are no "facts", but just claims.

Your demand that people shouldn't comment unless, effectively, they're a fan is simply outrageous and is the anti-HN. Someone donated lots of hours doesn't make their claims any more credible.
Have you read the book? That's solid science and contains good explanations on why things were done the way they were done.
Note that this approach should be compared with cryonics, which attempts to vitrify the brain and preserve it in a glass-like state at liquid nitrogen temperatures:

http://www.alcor.org/

Personally I have some reservations about the plastination approach to personal longevity. Depending on your philosophical views on the nature of consciousness, it may be that under this procedure you would die and cease to exist, while some future emulation of your brain thinks it is you -- i.e. biological-you and future-emulated-you are two separate people that just share memories.

It is however interesting science and may be a short-cut path to getting necessary scanning resolution for whole brain emulation.
Excess labor was traditionally consumed by planning grander festivals.
Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
Ah, I don't really use $_ for discarding variables, precisely because it is a magic variable.
>Communication about what needs doing

i.e. Lack of leadership
Not for Google or S3.
Most of theoretical science and science fiction is complete bullshit. They use some analogy and run with their wild imagination to create anything utterly non nonsensical. The space time fabric etc is just an analogy to avoid people from the real mathematical equations of relatively and what people did with it created whole shit load of theoretical science around that analogy.
Ignatious Sancho – first black Briton to vote in a British election
Charter Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for About $55B
Ask HN: How feasible is it to convert a petrol car to an electric car?
EDIT: The link below from the BBC clearly posits the question of converting classic cars to electric drivetrains. If you are unhappy with that or found a link where 1 guy once made an electric Metro from a petrol Metro and you think no more can possibly be said on the subject, please move along.
I can't downvote yet, clearly many of you can, it's like reddit rebooted in here.

still editing: for all the people focussed purely on "now", think ahead 5-7 years. 2nd hand parts are common, development costs recovered, manufacturing costs in decline. Petrol harder to come by making a lot a of classic cars too expensive for the average car guy - now a conversion might be worth it in both time and bank.

Original post:
From engineering and economic perspectives. Given that all existing cars have passed crash-tests etc and that the only real reason to go electric is environmental, does conversion make sense for many existing vehicles?

Inspiration for the question from here:

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20150521-vintage-gas-guzzlers-ripe-for-a-battery-powered-reboot
I agree with mikehawkins - if artists are not getting enough from the current distribution model, why not try out things like Patreon.. anyone here who has tried that and can share some numbers?
I currently work partly remote: I go to the office for one day a week (8hr) and work the other 12 hours from home.

I like this arrangement as the day in the office also gives me insight into what else is going on, besides my immediate tasks. For example I may pick up on something that my coworker is spending a lot of time on that could easily be automated or a client request that may influence my schedule.

On the other hand the time remote gives me a chance to focus on harder issues.

What I like about the part-time aspect is that I can choose to just work when I'm focussed. If things are not moving as I like, I just stop working. This is also the disadvantage, because that way work spreads out over more days than it would if I would sit in the office.

In general I think the jobs are there, but you will probably have to know someone at the company that is already aware of your skills. Maybe first starting out as a contractor on a smaller project. (Assuming you would prefer a long-term job over contracting)
Frustrating Revelations about Zero-Day Threats
Phone auto"correction" at work, I reckon.
Time Warner in $55bn takeover deal
Thank you for answering. :-)
Turn any part of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros
Forgive my ignorant question but why do their examples only work in REPL?
We have a guy at work who insists on using PP, including the company template. Well OK. But when you have only one slide, maybe just put it in an email as text (it's always a table of info) and save us the bother of downloading a PP with a lead in and lead out page with your one table of info there in the middle.
Elixir is more complex language than Erlang, simply because it has more concepts, similarly like Scala introduces much more concepts than Java. Yet to productively use Elixir you need to have basic understanding of Erlang, BEAM VM and OTP - correspondingly for Java it will be Java, JVM and some app server like Tomcat, Spring, Play, OSGi, etc.
Jenn Schiffer has done a few pieces on recreating certain styles in JavaScript: http://vart.institute/
Gaming Press / Blog contact list
Of course they didn't. I requested a document from them, they obligingly sent it. It's entirely up to me how (or even if) I render I it.
Using Gradle Plugin with Real Devices on Cloud
Does jai have a meaning? It's also Jon Blow's programming language.
Never too late to do this. Just keep in mind that you are competing with super high skilled and inexpensive web developers from Eastern Europe and Asia. I would go down this route, build up great ratings on freelancer.com for example and slowly raise my rates. At the same time, I would always try to work on my own web projects with the goal to make an income from these. There are enough ideas out there and only very few who have the skills to bring them to life. If you are not sure what to build to make a living from your own projects, just read growthhackers.com - lots of stories there on how to build something that has a shot at becoming big.
Siamese Cat Won't Let Humans Lay a Hand on This Computer Mouse
Ask HN: Foundation for Side Projects?
I remember there was some kind of digital incubator for side projects.
The deal was that you could contribute code (and/or other assets) of your (side) project to that "foundation" which in turn provides the legal framework to run that project as part of the foundation's business.

Unfortunately, I do not remember the name.

Can anyone help me? Thanks!
Yeah, you're given enough architectural rope to hang yourself with. That said, why make a DSL? It's very very rarely a good idea, says I, an armchair architect. I use Scala like Java with pattern matching, immutables and map/fold/filter. Works well so far.
Unless you have a lot of experience with power train engineering it will be very difficult. The primary reason for this is that Electrical Motors have different torque curves then Petrol. Petrol have their peak power/torque at a non-zero RPM (dependent on fuel type, air temp, moving speed, etc.). Electrical Motors have their max torque at stall, zero RPM, just starting.

Engineering an automotive transmission is normally a $1Bil+ over 10yr+ project. Normally automotive companies coolbrate on new transmission designs (currently GM/Fiat are, and Ford/BMW kinda).

:.:.:

If you just want a hobbityst project not start a company, then its fairly straight forward with basic Mech Eng/Mechanical experience.
Product Design Stages: From an Idea to a Beautiful App That Saves People's Lives
> The instant you entered the black hole, reality would split in two.

From the 3rd paragraph. However, yes the alternate universe comes into existence when you reach the singularity.

Still, if you can exist both inside and outside, then your ashes can exist in both places alongside living you without causing a paradox because you simply will not exist in the same space as you ashes that will arrive very much later anyway as time slows at the edge of the black hole. You are more likely, having read the article, to have a post-life crises knowing that outside the black hole you are dead.
Analysing CSV Data in Spark: Introduction to Spark Data Source API – Part 2
very cool and nicely done. I am happy to note that I am not completely color blind :)
One step closer to me being able to spin up multiple instances of my brain to work on my side project and play video games with.
http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_30.html

> He worked as a servant in Greenwich and then for the Duke of Montagu. Sancho taught himself to read and spoke out against the slave trade. He went on to compose music and write poetry and plays. In 1773, Sancho and his wife set up a grocer's shop in Westminster. Sancho was very well known and his shop became a meeting place for some of the most famous writers, artists, actors and politicians of the day. As a financially-independent householder, he became the first black person of African origin to vote in parliamentary elections in Britain (1774 & 1780).
Lem's "Invincible" is my favourite book of all time. It's very hard to buy it for my English friends though, as the only translation seems to be from German(already a translation)->English from 1971, so it's not ideal.
How Do Entrepreneurial Competitions and Awards Benefit the Startup Sector?
One of the main reasons why we consider electric vehicles to be so cool is their low center of gravity, thanks to the batteries being located near the very bottom (good to have them there, and also batteries are better not to be damaged in a crash). Can we find such a place in existing cars? Maybe we can use space under seats and in place of the fuel tank and the spare tire. But in this case batteries need to come in small modules.
I find this "new age" mentality annoying.

Yes there are things we don't know, but we should try to come up with precise questions, not to ponder about the meaning of black holes in philosophical way.

Start small, figure things out.
Great read and good take-away message "if your not enjoying your job, try something else" - it's a medicine that is sometimes very difficult to take.

Speaking of medicine - you were given a twice daily injection for six weeks, and you don't know what was in the injection?!

> I still don’t know what was in it but surely it was some really good stuff :)
I ran a site which earned a few thousand dollars a year, but closed it down a few years ago. Sites like this are not passive income. They require some level of thought and maintenance, even if it's only once a week to clean out spam. That can be distracting especially when you are able to earn a lot more by other means and don't need distractions.
> Then what about distribution of these resources?

The point is that this is an entirely separate question.

On a global scale, it's hard to find a worse distribution scheme than the currently used scheme, so any arbitrary distribution is better than the current one (in which the powerful take increasingly more).
I've only had a cursory introduction to Nash's work through brief flirtations with game theory, but this is the best explanation i've found so far on Nash's Equilibrium which i still remember vividly for highlighting why a "Socially Optimal Solution" is pretty rare in real life [1] (apologies in advance to the ted-talk averse).

Has anyone got any other good pointers to examples of his work?

P.S.
Can anyone recommend A Beautiful Mind, i'm kinda put off by the description in here which makes it sound very hollywoodised [2]?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILgxeNBK_8

[2] - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/science/explaining-a-corne...
What's an example of a proposed technological break through which can do the work of the adult population?
Laziness is just another word for having your priorities in order.
So it would be possible to produce a mass-produced replacement part targeted at specific models, at least at first, using for example the Leaf drive train and a conversion kit? I assume electric cars have standard axles++.
DuoCode and React: an incredible match I can't recommend highly enough
Corporate leaders already talk to each others. It's not often you have an idea that obviously will succeed and even then it will be hard to convince others to do it.
Partly. But there is usually no method of discovery either. In a software company there is an issue tracker and you can just go and fix bugs if nothing else, that doesnt exist in a traditional company.
Email is much better. I want a creative intro that makes me want to read the attached CV
God that sounds like the rut I am in.
The headline is a little misleading: the article isn't about not using web technologies in favour of native apps - Instagram, for example, uses HTML5 for most of it's UI (you used to be able to see the error pages) and has great UX - but rather a call to stop making 'native app like web sites'.

> Our working assumption has been that all web sites should be app-like, and therefore tooled up to the hilt.

I don't think that's true. Some people create horrible scroll jacking functionality for whatever reason - maybe they thought it was more 'native app like', maybe they just thought it was clever. But many other web developers already consider that bad perf is bad perf and aren't willing to put up with it.
I don't mean to be a jerk or anything, but a burnout is something you better not blog about or write about on facebook or speak about in any way that can be traced back to your real name, if you ever want to find another job again.

Potential employers will google the names of applicants before an interview, and if the first thing that comes up is your name and photo on a story about your first job burnout, you're going to have a very difficult interview, if they don't cancel it altogether.

It depends on where you live of course, but where I live (Western Europe) a burnout on your resume can be a career death sentence. It's illegal to fire an employee who is home sick, and people unable to work because of a burnout can stay home sick for months or even years at the employer's expense.

If it happens, you try to hide it on your CV. 'Stayed home taking care of children', 'Went back to college', 'Took a sabbatical', 'wanted time to travel' even a serious but purely physical illness (that was cured), all make good excuses. If there's a hole in your CV that can't be explained in such a way, they will assume burnout, and will likely not want to take the risk.
The problem is the information is encoded in the arrangements of the neural connections. Once your brain has reached the grey mush stage all those connection are lost.
> Why not spend these 2 hours doing some small miscellaneous tasks?

Because managers get a malus for allowing too much non-accountable hours for their managees.