skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

--

He was certainly a flawed character; I sincerely doubt that I would be friends with him if I had had the opportunity to interact with him in person. But at the same time, I don't need to personally like somebody to think they're a fantastic author. Hunter S. Thompson had a way with words, with writing, with voice. Kids in college and high school like him because they think they're getting away with something naughty when they watch a movie that starts out with somebody inventorying a drug collection that looks like a pokemon collection, but don't let that stand in the way of reading some incredible American literature.
My cousin had this and forgot who her kids were for several years. It was brutal.
Prediction markets are being decentralized. They will be uncensorable.

http://www.augur.net/
OT, however, this made me think of Brandon Sanderson's book The Rithmatist where chalk and its formulation is an integral part of magic.

http://smile.amazon.com/Rithmatist-Brandon-Sanderson-ebook/d...
Yishan Wong: You are free to be an asshole on Reddit (but keep it there)
Kind of a brute force hack, but why not? A Kinesis Freestyle2 with Bluetooth and a 20" cable might work, except that you'd have to fiddle with the cable across your lap every time you got out of the chair.
I grew up writing on blackboards, so obviously this is purely my subjective preference, but I also find blackboards much better to think on than whiteboards. One thing I particularly don't like is that I tend to write quite fast; the faster you write, the more likely it is that a marker will leave a thin, washed out, barely legible stroke, whereas chalk is always nice and clear. I also tend to leave things up on my board for a few days, after which a lot of dry erase markers become a pain to erase, whereas chalk always erases nicely.

I have a whiteboard in my office, but if I could get it switched out with a blackboard without bothering my nice office manager who already has way too much work to be bothered by my weird requests, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
U.S. Will Still Have Double China’s per Capita Income by 2061
http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-sell-its-product-to-ot...
PDF/A to PDF Conversion, Enhanced PDF to HTML DOC TIFF SVG and Vice Versa in .NET
Usually it's more like %10 of vested earnings, which ends up being something like %2.5-%5 of their stock.
That's essentially mindfulness too -- you catch a negative thought and then you construct a counter-argument against it to placate the reptile-brain. It's like living with a little child who's prone to temper-tantrums. Whatever it can take poorly it will, and it's your responsibility to re-frame things in a good light quickly.
Ask HN: Should I mention my security clearance when applying to Google?
I currently work at a defense contractor programming computers that [REDACTED], but want to get a job at either Netflix or Google when I get my MS CS in December. Is having a security clearance something worth mentioning to them and if so how prominent should it be on my resume if I also want to mention my personal projects, my github, a programming blog, education, technical skills, and programming work experience?
Find a mentor who can guide you. I will be happy to help you get a head start (my email in my profile).
A web browser built on a single thread, a web browser I'd like to use.
Ironically, it's unclear whether you're countering the comment's argument, or the article's argument.

"Use vi, nothing beats it." == "I use x and I like it just fine."

If that was your intention, my mistake. It's just not apparent.
I know this one: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen
That is absolutely true, I had the same thought. I should add that my list was biased away from Windows applications, as I made the list by summarizing the output of:

pacman -Qi|grep ^URL|grep -i -e '\bsf\.net' -e sourceforge|sort -u
In essence the Linux kernel put on display what is on Windows hidden by proprietary device drivers.
While this is pretty novel (I don't recall seeing anything exactly like this in the past 25 years), I doubt that it's truly more ergonomic than a standard keyboard on a desk that's at the right height and distance from you.

With the keyboards at angles like that your hands are going to be pulled by gravity downward away from the keyboard at rest. Meaning you have to hold your hands in typing position. Additionally, those keyboards don't seem to have a lot of support and I foresee a bit of wobble, which is also not great.

When I was young (early teens) and a novice programmer/avid gamer I used to have wrist pain. It turned out this was mainly due to two factors; bad positioning of my arms and wrists while typing, and typing too hard. I retrained myself to position my arms and wrists such that they are truly at rest when typing (weigh resting on the heels of my palms) and to type gently, only using the amount of force necessary, and never pushing against the key while it is bottomed out, and in the following 25+ years of typing often >12 hours a day I never have wrist problems, despite a variety of keyboards.

Usually when I encounter people who are having wrist pain from typing, their posture and typing too hard are the problem. Sometimes changing out the keyboard helps induce a more mindful approach to typing and helps them relax, or adjusts their position such that it fixes the problem. But often times it doesn't, because the problem is their behavior, not the device.

Try typing more gently, and try adjusting your posture so you're not having to use your fore arm muscles to hold your hands in position. Those may help you.

Obviously everybody should do whatever works for them, but this is my experience. And I've typed a lot.
I would argue the point of Sarbox was to squish the IPO market. Not an unintended consequence at all.

It was done with the bigger picture of restoring retail confidence in the market. That could only be achieved by damping the oscillations.

I agree it's been a bad thing. What is odd to me is that I exepcted IPO activity to take off in a different jurisdiction, like London or Toronot or somewhere. That hasn't happened really. Instead it's just a case of some companies getting picked off by bigger ones, a couple of big home runs, and the rest sputtering along making a but if money but soaking up investors time and patience.
Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader targeted by U.S. drone strike in Yemen
Someone pointed out that it's really hard to erase white boards. While it's trivial to erase a blackboard. Better for top secret stuff.
I agree, this is one of my favorite tricks. I like to think of xargs as a `map` function over stdin lines.

As the article mentions, especially useful when combined with the -P flag for paralellism.

cat urlpaths.txt | xargs -I{} -P wget domain.com/{}

Another handy trick, is to use `sh -c` or `bash -c` to include multiple commands with xargs.

cat dirs.txt | xargs -I{} sh -c 'cd {}; touch file;'
Unfortunately depressive rumination can become self-referential -- that is, while you might be more analytical and capable of coming to extraordinary conclusions about things, that analysis can easily turn against you and become self-criticism about your competence to produce anything meaningful. It's a double-edged sword.
Thank you! :-)

I was actually inspired by one of my coworker's blog posts, which wasn't very pretentious.

...But I can see how it would be useful here.
'Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory'
How to Become a Successful Freelancer (Infographic)
I like whiteboards a lot more now that I've discovered the joy of fine-tipped whiteboard markers.
Yes Star Citizen may be the only other one that can be used as a benchmark.
I remember a discussion about this on MathOverlow http://mathoverflow.net/questions/26267/where-to-buy-premium...
Well, public health would seem to be pretty much the textbook definition of a governmental function even if you generally favor less government rather than more. As a resident of a high Lyme disease-incidence state who does a lot of outdoors activities, I find it annoying (though that's not really the right word) that we know how to make Lyme vaccines, and in fact give them to dogs, but there seems little urgency in providing them to humans. The previously approved vaccine (Lymerix) was admittedly not the most effective and possibly had some incidence of (never statistically linked) side effects. However, given the rapid increase of Lyme cases in certain areas, this seems like a case where the government could fairly easily make a vaccine available for what is clearly a public health problem.
At the teams I have managed at larger companies (Stamps.com, TrueCar) the technical track had official equivalents to management roles (Sr. Engineer -> Manager, Architect -> Director, Sr. Architect -> VP) for determining compensation, equity and any other role defined "perks."

Each of those roles also came with leadership expectations: Architects were responsible for the overall technical health of the systems they were responsible for, with Sr. Architects being responsible for multiple. They were empowered to reject system changes and were expected to review code and designs on a regular basis. Really good engineers that weren't system thinkers or didn't want responsibility for other people's code, could increase in compensation but weren't considered part of the leadership team.
What would be "fast" in your opinion ?
I've been struggling with neurological Lyme for years. The disease stopped my life in its tracks for most of my 20s and because of that I missed out on those years. During a time in which I would have been out in the world building a professional (and personal) life for myself I was living at home in my parents' house spending most of my time in bed. There are periods lasting months of which I have no recollection. The illness also altered my perception of reality to the point where I had a kind of neurological blind-sight - I lost the sensation of seeing. I was able to finally emerge from this delirium-like state and become functional again, but it is still extremely difficult to focus and think. While I am working, I still struggle a lot at work to be productive.

This is a very serious illness, not least of all because it is difficult to detect along with its symptoms. It seems the scientific establishment has a lot more rigorous work to do before they fully understand the extent of the severity.

Edit: I'll add that, unfortunately, it might take more cases like this - where medical professionals tell their stories about their personal struggle with the illness - before the full medical establishment accepts that they don't yet understand this disease. As of right now, the standard of care is to continue to insist that 15 - 30 days of antibiotics will cure it and that there is no such thing as persistent infection, which is fucking laughable. The worst is that supposedly respectable physicians are continuing to promote this myth, despite not having proved in the slightest that the infection is eliminated after 15 - 30 days of antibiotics.
It feels like Samsung used the Linux community here as a free testbed.

Samsung knew that only Linux supported queued trim, so releasing it without proper testing is just externalizing the disproportionately increased cost of testing to the Linux community.
V7/x86 [1] has both vi and ed, but ed is easier to get to.

"Of course, we are not absolutely compelled to use ed, since V7/x86 comes with the full-screen editor vi (as well as the related line editor ex), but getting access to vi in this context would involve mounting the /usr filesystem and changing various environment variables and settings to allow editing in full-screen mode. Some basic ed skills are particularly useful in the V7 world, and most of all when one is involved on system administration tasks." [2]

[1] http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/

[2] http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/doc/v7x86intro.pdf
>using it in an inefficient manner

Inefficient for whom?

For the people who are getting something in return for "other people's money", it's investing.

I'm not saying that it's cool. But, it is what it is.
They're common sense requirements.
Surely all these amazing people who were pretty much hired directly by Obama himself can fearlessly go talk to him about that. Or is he simply throwing hundreds of them into a volcano, knowing that nothing lasting and significant will be achieved?
Jurassic+World+(Movie+Review)
Only issue with that is that judges really don't like "cute" ways of using the law, so it'd be a very difficult job to have it hold up in court.
That seems like a non-sequitur. The existence of such assets does not entail massive wealth inequality. It obviously cannot, since such assets have always existed whereas wealth inequality has increased enormously. Purchasing habits are not really an asset, by the way, since a company does not own the purchasing habits of its customers.
The paper was straightforward on what mattered. I liked that your team did their homework on prior efforts, used object-based storage (I pushed it in late 90's), used most proven filesystem (one I'm using it now), kept data structures fairly simple for modern stuff, and wisely used compaction. All good stuff.

I actually do have ideas on where to go from there and that's general. I'd probably charge Facebook for the info, though, given the increase in performance and savings they might generate. I might contact you in the future on that.
Probably, unless you're running a kernel that was released within the last couple of weeks and includes this patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9a9324d
What a wonderful story. I wish everyone was this diligent at troubleshooting. Then again, that would put me out of a job.
Yes, you should list your security clearance. It shouldn't hurt. If Google is involved in any projects that need a security clearance, that will help you because it means you saved them money on needing to pay, and time in getting you cleared to work on a project.

It doesn't need to be prominent. Google should be experts at searching for keywords.
The problem with the idea of using supplements to solve depression is it's a bit like fine-tuning the octane of gasoline in a car to solve a bad air-fuel mixture. You could potentially make the engine run a little better, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem, which is usually emotional trauma.

Developing coping mechanisms is a much better approach, also coming to acceptance (reducing resistance) about things that make you uncomfortable (ie impermanence, fear of rejection, trust issues, loneliness, perceived lack of legacy, etc.)
In the present and future, whenever there is a human need for an integration point between multiple services, those humans will need to invest in producing a human-level intelligence to integrate the information. We are compelled to build secretaries for everything that was nominally built for us, but without our best interests in mind.
If true, that would be an epic burn of my comment. Yet, the only person's name that kept popping up has a LinkedIn that doesn't mention Google. He worked at Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Might not be the main inventor, though. Who are you referring to?
That sounds more like birthday paradox: like the surprise that two people in a crowded room have the same birthday.

Of course, that paradox is related to the Texas sharpshooter. Why? Because you find the pair with the same birthday (say Bob and Alice) and then form a hypothesis that it must be hard to find someone with the same birthday as Bob, so, gee, that is surprising.
> My guess is that in the end, problems will come when the established companies slow down in acquisitions and the VC companies and angel investors get tired of startups which can't show profit.

I think it's exactly this as well. The way I see it (and I'm a financial idiot so I'm probably totally off), the bubble pop won't be when "the stock market" decides the companies aren't valuable anymore, rather the game is up when the Big Corps (Google/FB/Microsoft/etc) stop buying.
Modern Node.js
We have an attention economy. You try to get my attention so you can sell it to advertisers. My attention is scarce, and I don't want to sell it so readily. I don't know whether your content is great until I experience it, and I have little power in negotiating my side of the bargain of what you do with my attention aside from taking more control over my attention.

The practical side of it is this: You want as much attention as possible. If I give you my attention but block your ads, it could still mean that if your content is good, I promote it to others and the net effect is a win for you.

I try to pay attention only to people who respect my attention and don't sell it to the highest bidder. However, I don't wish to be excluded from the common discourse of society around me, so if my attention is brought to a site that wishes to sell it, I may give my attention but retain as much control as I can. I did not agree to the sale of my attention. There are better and more respectful ways to build our economic support for creative work.
Actually, it really is that simple.

Save 50% of you income for ten years and invest it sanely and you will become rich. It's a pretty simple mathematical equation.

Most people don't want to admit that it works because they can't defer their consumption for a decade.
Show HN: Chrome extension to monitor the top Hacker News story in real time
> you can not dissipate the kinetic energy of a pod traveling at 900km/h just by friction without a brake fire.

Sure you can, just use water stored onboard to cool the brakes. Obviously the only case when you would need to use friction brakes in the hyperloop is in an emergency so we're fine with just boiling away the water into the steel tube. It takes 2,261 KJ per kg to boil water in the vacuum of the tube and assuming a pod weighs in at 1000 kg and is travelling 300 m/s that gives us 45 MJ of kinetic energy to deal with. That comes out to just under 20 kg of water to stop a 1000 kg pod moving 300 m/s. That's a decent size tank when considering the form factor of a hyperloop pod but still doable.
In part, this expresses a common public perception of startups: that branding and marketing are the critical early steps. It's the idea that everything starts with SEO and social media. Baseball teams don't have track records of disrupting industries...they have a fucking antitrust exemption and live off tax payer subsidized stadium deals. They all take the 3~0 pitch and don't bunt with two out. It's conservative money jumping on the startup hype and cashing in their star power
True, regarding JS.

Web workers will not show a loader indicator however. You could probably do a nice DDoS attack like this even. But it requires users to be on your site anyway. Might as well just stick 0day du jour on it.
Well, yes. But that dies to fit the narrative of markets bad! Capitalism bad!
Using SAS SSD drives on a server is a bad idea for many reasons. One should use PCIe cards, that sit directly on the PCIe bus, such as FusionIO or SanDisk. They have been tested and retested (e.g. by Facebook), without the unnecessarily added complexity of SAS/SATA protocols. The I/O performance is also about 20x.
I am wondering in the same thing, except I am working on Wall Street where it is less tolerate. I know there must be some gays in this industry, but it seems most of gay finance professionals are closeted, and you can't really tell who is gay and who is not.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Gives $100M to Cornell Tech
Creating passwords and such is never a problem for me. The problem is when I have to constantly reset passwords due to this, or that reason.
The $50B Question: Can Uber Deliver?
An attempt being developed for that, not ready yet: https://snowdrift.coop/
Hololens Looks Amazing
You may also want to take a look at beego (https://github.com/astaxie/beego). It introduces a lot of workflow features on top of routing. Also, you may have an easier time with it if you can read Chinese.
Discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714072
While betting on individual games is still tightly controlled in the US, Daily Fantasy Sports is considerably more open. Basically picking (and betting real money on) fantasy rosters on a daily basis.

It's the one form of online gambling in the US that's relatively open, its carve out in the relevant laws was an explicit choice. It's got the support of the pro leagues and the broadcasters, so its lobby is pretty strong.

It's an extremely fast growing market right now. Two major players have the lions share of the market, but there's a lot of activity around the fringes.
I really want to see this (google cache version isn't as readable without the graphics) but "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded"
I'm all for government funding lots of research for health, science, etc. My desire is for people to also figure out ways to also contribute in other ways to have more citizen sponsored research, for example. We have Kickstarter projects that need $2 million to be funded.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3

How about a way for people to sponsor medical research or basic science in an effective manner? A lot of money that goes into some charities is used for marketing to grow even bigger.
Hardly anyone makes more than $2M in ten years. Investing $1M conservatively and moving to the third world might get you a reasonable standard of living, but that's not what people mean when they say rich.