skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primer is the best film featuring time travel that I've ever seen. And yes, the plot is highly convoluted, and there is virtually no explanation. Also, it was filmed on a very low budget, and some of the key dialog is hard to understand.
Let's not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort
Ben Christensen: Applying Reactive Programming with Rx
Thanks for the input Nitin. My main issue is I'm out of college. So, unfortunately, education cannot be my highest priority anymore and predictability in my study time has become a luxury. It is managing my lessons and remembering them in my erratic schedule that bothers me.
Wasn't when I submitted it. Sorry about that.

I insist about the story beign different. This story is about Charon, and the very first picture of its surface.
One of the Epic Games Forums has been hacked
Overcoming JavaScript Framework Fatigue
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9848448
You're off by about 200 years
How to Setup Android/SmartPhone Test Farm (STF)
Smartphone Test Farm (STF) is a web application for debugging smartphones, smartwatches and other gadgets remotely, from the comfort of your browser.
"The cost can be less than hiring outside consultancies."

It's probably ten times cheaper when you consider the per mile cost to the airline. United could hardly be getting a better deal.
Can I use this to send udp+tcp between clients and servers?
If you still want to play it, dosbox supports adjusting emulation speed.
I went there with Firefox without ublock and saw my public and local addresses (docker0, eth0 and virbr0 - VirtualBox). I installed Disable WebRTC https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/happy-bonobo-... and all the addresses disappeared.

NoScript mitigates the problem because WebRTC won't work with scripts blocked but I'll still have to disable the plugin to make it work on legitimate sites. It's annoying and I'd prefer a browser permission popup along the lines of what has been suggested in other posts here.
Most workers are employees, says US Dept of Labor
Is potato-blackhole distinguishable from same mass water black-hole?
Great tips, I too am a programmer with ADHD.

I have ADHD to thank for my self-education and following career, where by I cannot resist spending hours on things that are highly stimulating, such as the next interesting thing to learn in computing, which is pretty much infinite.

The tragedy is that once something is learned or done so many times it becomes routine and boring. It doesn't provide the same mental stimulation. Unfortunately, in most businesses, the types of problems are almost always in the routine category. This I've found is where my attention faulters.
Dark UX patterns are bad for your business
How Secure Are Electronic Safe Locks? [video]
You didn't like the movie because it showed something bad?
The Fast Mode
I don't understand why everything we do in society has to rely on capitalist concepts. The internet has shown that we can have a system that works without the usual capitalist market concepts that are somewhat needed in the "real world".

Via decentralized applications, we're seeing that we can build services that are not powered by hungry corporations which sponsor segregation, unethical behaviors, inequalities, competition and destruction. Instead they're powered by the people that use them.
> then you've done half of the work.

So that's why the last 20% takes 80% of the time.
The Squeeze Theorem in calculus [1] is also known as the "Sandwich Theorem".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_theorem
Reddit alternatives Voat and Snapzu video review (from This Week in Google 309)
The specs seem to list a standard RGBG sensor:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydscf717/2

It also doesn't produce a raw file so mapping the gamut of the actual sensor is much harder.
This made me wonder, how do they measure the heights of the mountains? Using data from multiple view angles?
PCB confirmed the "DIPSY easysolder PCB" deliver on 20th july, this is special downgraded version of the PCB, 2 layers, drill 0.15, trace space 50 micron..
A lot of Greeks probably regret having euro's in their bank account. Just of today they are sure their money won't vaporize into nothing, but their banks still restrict transactions. If there was a grexit, their money would have just been lost, and for the rest of Europe, the impact on the euro would be felt. That's the disadvantage of storing your personal value inside a central governed banking system.

Don't you think Greeks currently see value in a distributed currency system, that lies outside of anyone's influence, especially that of the government? Do you think they will trust their banks for the next decade(s)?

You say you rather have an ounce of gold in your hand, but what gives gold its price? As always supply and demand. The price of gold, the 'price' of dollars and euros, and the price of bitcoins is based on supply and demand. Bitcoin will only go to $0 if there is 0 demand. And in my opinion, the possibility of that happening is a big as the possibility that bitcoin will revolutionize the way we pay and receive 'money'.
I suspect a few more implementations of these are going to spin up. I just did the qotd in Go: https://github.com/kyleterry/qotd
Interesting technique. But I cannot help to think that it is good mostly for people who are already good (or at least not that bad) at context switching anyways.

What I mean is that many people, inherently are more chaotic, and over-structuring their lives is counter productive. It could make productivity constant but overall worse.

Thinking about psychology of this, I believe this might be good to "right brained" types, but it would be such a burden for someone who solves problems mainly via extroverted intuition - random thoughts that are generated so quickly and without any structure - you would need to write down something every few seconds basically, forget about actually doing something.
Also, identity thieves will always be asking for transactions to go through. Genuine customers will be arguing the opposite.

If the only ask is "please don't let that transaction go through," it makes sense for a bank to comply.
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A preview of PostgreSQL 9.5
French is also spoken very very differently in various regions of the world... Haiti, France, Quebec, Africa. German too has significant variations. Does that mean each dialect should be considered a unique language? My take is that if two people can communicate with each other in the same "language," regardless of where they are from, then it really is the "same language."
You are right, but he did have two teams develop in secret not knowing about each other, the same complaint that many Googlers have.
Non of the things you say, need to EU to work. You are setting up a false choice between central control and chaos.

I happen to live in Switzerland, and I know many people who work in Switzerland or Germany and work in the other country. This is perfeclty simple and workable. Countries can agree on how taxes work without a central control from brussel.

You can make bilateral agreements about Individual problems. This will get you 95% of the benefits and you avoid the majority of the cost.

You know like that little tiny problem were the hole of the Eurozone is suffering economicly and the society of greece is disintegrating. I guess fuck the problem of the greeks, let them suffer, its much more important for me to be able to buy cheap petrol on the other side of the border.
Don't normal sensors have a raw gamut that's pretty close to Rec2020 anyway? Is the innovation to do it in video as well?
Eclipse can colour or fold code within inactive preprocessor directives, but that may not be enough for this particular specimen.
ROT13 and Caesar Ciphers
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Well, if every colony will have it's own language - how many will you have for no good reason?
Additionally actual results are orders of magnitude cheaper. If you hire a consultant you still have to pay them even if they find nothing.
At least to me, symptoms you wrote sound totally normal and not necessary ADHD. Of course since nowadays everything that deviates from common character traits is considered ADHD...
You could take a look at MBTI character types and find out that this is very normal for some (e.g. INTP).
I'm not old! I'm still 24, the internet was invented 10 years ago and Nirvana just released their second album. ;).

Some time ago they announced on the radio that a rock band was celebrating their 20th anniversary. I laughed about the huge mistake they made because it was probably 10th anniversary. But after a few seconds, I said "damn!".
SmartSpot (YC W15) Is Hiring a Lead iOS Devleoper
I don't think a simple algebra problem should be called a paradox.
I dislike the comparison to IE6 because it's easily shot down with
the many ways in which the situation is different.

Inseparable from an OS version and falling behind the state of the art.

What else is there?
Uber hit with multimillion-dollar fine for refusing to reveal business data
Why choose assembly for this?
There is no lack of writing ability. The writing ability has almost no correlation with the genre. SAS is not badly written. Even in the worst collections (like http://www.harlequin.fr/collections), you can find books that have been written by students who became famous authors.
How to Use VPN Plus Tor to Get Double Encryption? Tails, Whonix, Privatoria
"Too little sleep can have serious health consequences"

"Too much sleep can have serious health consequences"
American English and Brittish are not different languages, 99% of the words are the same or similar.
The solution is much more intuitive if you use odds ratios instead of percentage probabilities. You go from a 99:1 ratio to a 98:2 (or 49:1) ratio.

In other words, it's another way of phrasing that it takes twice as much evidence to be 99% sure as it is to be 98% sure. Or that it's twice as hard to have 99% uptime than 98%.
Taking a quick look at http://www.united.com/web/en-US/apps/mileageplus/awards/trav... it seems 1 million miles ~= $3000-$12000 depending on destination, date, etc. It doesn't seem all that bad of deal, except plenty of people don't fly often enough to even make use of this, and you have to fly united, which for me would kill all the value.
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To elaborate a bit, almost all digital cameras take a single monochrome exposure but each sensor element has either a red, green, or blue filter over it, in a mosaic pattern. From the relative brightnesses of neighboring pixels color data can be reconstructed and interpolated to form a human-viewable image.
> MUMPS concepts (directly) underly two of the largest contemporary NoSQL tools: GT.M and InterSystems Caché.

Huh?
$450 a deducted per paycheck. Paycheck every two weeks?
Psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia are more likely to manifest in those already susceptible to them, if they are subject to sleep deprivation. This remains one of the few known correlations in long-term effects of sleep deprivation.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-a-lack-of-slee...
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Sleep-and-m...
Maybe UA get a kick-back from the agencies as well, since flying (international) would give the agencies identities, photos, fingerprints and a right to search the luggage of interesting hackers.
I doubt it. A more probable reason is the higher transaction fee charged by Amex (3.5% compared to 2%).
Ha! Great question, one that I get asked semi-frequently. 1) Because unlike many, I can, 2) Because contrary to popular belief, it is not difficult. :)
You can use United miles to buy tickets on Thai, Lufthansa and ANA, all of which are superb.

(I used my last lot on two first class tickets to Tokyo which would have cost a lot more than $12k each if bought for cash.)
> ...lest I add another compulsion to my list of OCD habits...

It's very tempting, but this is what prevents me from sharing :). Mine are all "reasonable" meaning that there IS a miniscule chance of something happening, so better check it N amount of times, where N is a number that follows specific rules. I guess I could only "contract" a "reasonable" one, e.g. some of the Tesla's habits "make sense".
Exactly, it's a dialect. How is this news? I thought everyone realized this.
I usually find that example programs are a good entry-point. Then look for real-world applications (e.g on github) that use the framework, and are preferably well commented. Look at how the framework affects choices about the application's code structure.
A source for that? I would be surprised it was actually 99%.
I didn't know that is the new way to get residence in the US...
Hey, FBI guys, next time maybe you send thieves like this one to spend some time behind bars in their home country, so they will truly get what they deserve.
Open Whispersystems Flock being shutdown
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.anhonesteffort.flock

[I tried to submit via the url instead of title a number of times but it didn't work. ]

I wonder what's going on? There's no news yet on the OWS blog or twitter.

I presume this isn't a business decision though it might be. Either way I guess it shows the value of concentrating the distribution / withdrawal method in the Play Store.

"Flock will shutdown permanently on October 1st, 2015. Upon shutdown, all active subscriptions will be refunded and account information erased. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for supporting the project.

Registration of new Flock accounts is disabled in the latest release (0.9.7), existing users may use the new 'Export data' feature to move their contacts and calendars out of Flock or install one of many available 3rd party export apps."
I'm sorry if you thought the post was self-serving. I can only say with sincerity that it wasn't. I have no motive beyond my interest in software.

If you don't believe my claim of selflessness, believe my claim of competence: If I was trying to build a personal brand, I could do much better than delving into Vim's codebase for a one-off snippet. It's not difficult to create insubstantial content that is widely-shared. I can think of a dozen topics whose mere mention can drive immense traffic and waste absurd amounts of time. HN's front page attests to this.

It's a shame that many people scrutinize others for selfishness. Purely selfish behavior is an extreme rarity, yet it takes much longer to refute such accusations than to make them. I wish it were otherwise.

Before deriding others, please remember: Almost no one is evil. Almost everything is broken.[1]

1. A quote from http://blog.jaibot.com/
It is probably even more.
A better title would be: Why didn't 'American' become a language?
The point of the article is not that there is an American language, but that there could have been one if Americans (and the British) chose to and allowed AE to diverge significantly more from BE. People often consciously choose what words to use.

In the end practical reasons - trade, business and mutual cultural influence kept the language from splitting up.
Previous discussion (5 comments) on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912397
Android is the new Windows.
At one Russian mall, at least. You can bet that elsewhere - and probably in 99% of Russia - this is not and will not be the case. But kudos to Dislife for raising awareness of the issue and getting some press.
There are so many market buzz words in this article.

I'm comparing this to https://medium.com/@samson_hu/building-analytics-at-500px-92...

That was a much better article. Look at me I can throw buzz words! Democracy for data!

The article for 500px is much more juicy and have great details on what they do.

Perhaps I'm mistaking these data science vocabs for buzz words.
I don't understand how they keep the price stable with waning interest. Is it mostly stakeholders trying to artificially keep it up? But presumably at least the miners need to sell occasionally to finance their operation?
No longer thought leaders, but doing homework well.
> - Since the shutdown of Silk Road I and Silk Road II and the related arrests, Bitcoin is no longer considered a safe way to buy drugs. This doesn't seem to have affected the price much one way or the other.

You gotta be kidding me. Are you saying that it is safer to go to streets, than to order online?
Yeah, this article is over two months old. Weird submission.
Sadly most people never realize that and so they root for nations, sport teams and so on as a supplement. Mostly to identify with and also (in this process) to put others down.

We (or most of us) need an identity and most of us never develop one for ourselves, that does not need an outside entity to feel strong/good/important/validated enough.
Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher (WW2)
Apple to Enter the Iranian Market?
not a thing, i missed out on the one g watch urbane they had in and then found it cheaper elsewhere anyway other than that there werent that many great deals to be had
That's not interesting at all. How do I downvote submissions?
So it's Erin who's going to market Starfighter, not Patrick?
The power of randomness (John Baez)
Its better to leave the "and 2% managers" part to make it a little complicated ;)
Huh. I do almost exactly this, but with an always-present vim instance in screen:

[ ] reply to comment
[x] mention screen
[x] what is that other one? -- tmux
[x] mention it? -- nope
[x] should I produce an example? -- yes, easy
[.] demonstrate '.' as current work item
[ ] hit reply
But that's not Vim-compatible. I have a ton of Vim plugins that I rely on. Switching to a brand new editor is rather untenable.
No thanks necessary. It all came out of my terminal obsession. Nights where I didn't sleep because I loved making cool shit happen in my terminal.
It's not that simple, as far as I know Hindi and Urdu are effectively the same language when spoken, with some small divergences but use a different character set. How would regard that?
You wouldn't be stuck on United - although it's a lot easier to use them for flights on United itself they can be used to fly on any Star Alliance carrier, including some really nice ones like ANA and Singapore Airlines.
My first computer.

I got it in 1992 (Eastern Europe was few years behind at the time). It was the version with shorter, thicker case. I only knew Polish. There was no internetm the manual was in German, and for a different version (video memory addresses or sprite registers were different I think - I tried to type in these few included programs with moving sprites hundreds times, and they did nothing - never got it to work). Still I've learnt a lot about programming, by typing the listed programs in and trying them out.

On saturdays my neighbor cut wood with electric saw, and loading games from tape didn't worked. I've had to wake up and load a game before he started, or the whole day was "wasted" :)

Also the power supplier heated up so much, that after +- 8 hours it stopped working. My uncle was an electrician, and he fixed that power supply a dozen times or so.

There was this blackbox cartridge, that allowed faster loading of games from the tape, had some programming tools (which I didn't understand at the time), and realtime multichannel piano (you could play chords no problem).

It's funny, that no piano on PC (or android) I've ever used was as responsive as that C-64 program.
> Be honest with your users and they will respect you, they will buy from you, and they will recommend you to their friends and family.

The golden rule for anyone building or selling something.
To the OP, you are definitely not alone. PG had a good article on the difference between a managers schedule and a programmers schedule [1] (Interrupt driven vs Focus driven).

Unfortunately as you become more responsible for the management of your peers and projects, you will experience this problem more and more. Some people cope by having a context switching role during office hours and after hours get a good 1 or 2 hours of solid dev work in, others book their own time out, and close their door signaling they are unavailable. Unfortunately this isn't always possible, you'll always get colleagues / clients that still bash your door to get some time with you.

But being in this transition phase between the two worlds is definitely one of the biggest challenges every dev faces. Best of luck.

One thing though, having more personnel will not solve this problem, only make it worse, as you now will have even more people reporting to you and which you have to keep busy.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
It's interesting, but I find peculiar the choice of the words which are overspaced. I would expect works like 'that', 'from', 'with' far more important for chunking than 'to' for instance.
Typo on Status Bar Counters:
waits 30 secodns

secodns does sound cool :P Maybe a new project in the future?
Might be a placebo-like effect for me, I'd have to have a really good setup to experiment with whether or not it helps or is really noticeable without knowing beforehand if it's been applied or not (or applied randomly instead).

This looks wrong. The extra gaps look like pauses and they're not in sensible places for pauses. That then made me think of someone doing a Christopher Walken impression.
Interesting. My thoughts were this was the weak half-rationalisations of a teacher taking out his anger at himself for his own career having plateaued on his students. I think that's a shame that just because the film doesn't explicitly criticise this viewpoint (apart from through the whole narrative of course -- he ends up dropping out of school when he could've been happy being a good gigging musician with a girlfriend -- and someone commits suicide) people internalize it. See Fight Club I guess.
Considering the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and "European" Portuguese, it makes more sense to ask "Why isn't Brazilian a language". Then again, there are recent efforts to make all Portuguese languages around the globe more similar
If you phrase it that way, the question becomes easy to answer, because you start looking at the engineers, subtract one, look back at the managers an instantly realize, that much more would have to go.

With the potatoes, you imagine a crumbled potato. You have in mind how slow a potato would lose water and how much weight it would retain, which is of course the wrong way to look at the problem.
Caching makes things more complex, but unfortunately, that's the nature of the game and there's no escaping it. If you plan things out and break your caching strategy down into more manageable pieces, you'll be able to work out a way to make it work as a cohesive whole. It's really easy to just ignore caching until you're almost done with a project, only to be stuck in the painful position of trying to make it work with a shoehorn. Just thinking about the basics in the beginning will help make it a lot easier for you later on.
Also featured in the Outer Limits episodes "Demon with a Glass Hand": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_with_a_Glass_Hand
Because realy, it is an exclusive either-or choice between shouting or pushing for better funding?
Password Live – alternative to LastPass?
0.0.0.0 where's the IPv6 support?
Admittedly I am no webguy, the webpage for it was very much an afterthought, was just happy to release it... I'll see if I can get the boss to edit the content before my next deploy :)
Import Songs/playlists from Spotify to Apple Music
When Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic, they also split the languages into two, even though they are virtually identical.