jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia has something to say about this:

> Daylight may prevent myopia. Australian researchers had concluded that exposure to daylight appeared to play a critical role in restricting the growth of the eyeball, which is responsible for myopia or short-sightedness.[37] They compared children from other developed countries such as Singapore and Australian children spent about 2–3 hours a day outdoors which could increased dopamine in the eyes that restrict distorted shaping of the eyes.[38][39][40]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia

doesn't say anything about eye strain
That doesn't bug me, fantasy goes hand in hand with sci-fi and whilst it's a watering down of the station it's nothing compared to putting fucking wrestling on the channel.
Clearly popular, Vi has many more of these:

http://vihart.com/doodling/

We can tell she's popular because of the number of times these links have been submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013530

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974604

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948451

... and more. There aren't many comments.

I know Vi. She's brilliant. Her musical offerings are also wonderful:

http://vihart.com/musicbox/
1: Experiment

2: Observe

3: Think

4: Guess

goto 1

Start at any one of 1..4.
A dangerously wrong article.

Obesity is a hot topic because it is epidemic. There may be a genetic predisposition in some people, but there is no way the gene pool could have changed so fast since Reagan got elected.

Most likely obesity has become the new normal thanks to some environmental toxin. (Ex. Bisphenol A). So there is someone to blame somewhere.

As for the in != out stuff I'll say that scientists have been wrong on this so long in face of the evidence; for instance, based on that theory long term weight control could be attained by cutting one cookie a day from your diet, which doesn't work. Also if you look at the metabolic charts, there are enough alternate pathways that the efficiency of metabolism could vary by 10% or more.
xbox is msft embracing and extending the console market, if only to further their "3 screen" initiative. that's why you see xbox devs moaning about how msft is loosing touch with gamers... it's because msft was never in touch with gamers. they wanted the consoles to get into living rooms.
They have been trying to improve the exact specification of RPython since David Beazley sorta called the project out on the fact that, for a time early in the development of PyPy, RPython was basically whatever subset of Python survived the PyPy build process. The 2012 PyCon keynote gives and awesome explanation of the project internals and its promise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_HBRhcgeuQ
I'm also talking about cassandra.

Out of curiosity, am I wrong about this? Cassandra was developed by facebook, wasn't it?

(I was asking because this was downvoted. I thought maybe I was mistaken about cassandra)
I don't know for sure but my guess is that Oracle gets sold to managers in large orgs where such decisions are not necessarily made by engineers.
I feel that schools should be smaller, 100 kids at most. The teachers should be very specialised. For example in electronics, or music, or biology. Kids can quickly rotate into and out of these specialised schools.
The good news is fees are slowly coming down as it becomes clear most funds provide no value (in stability nor excess return) over an index. In Australia superannuation (retirement fund) fees were $30 billion last year, or 1.6% of GDP. Thats still a lot of money going to small number of people who are not providing much value over the funds charging 0.1%.
They can pin an older version and have it work.
Nobody forced the registrars to do so, no? Plus it was clear what they are getting.
No, like I'm saying there are actual issues.

If there were no issues I'd be very happy to let people upgrade.

Just a grab:

- Box Drive still doesn't work properly: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/01/box-drive-macos-big-sur... . This is our main online file storage. Edit: I meant Box Drive, not Box Sync, thanks a2tech

- AD accounts get completely broken after the update (can't log in due to an MDM profile intended for local accounts now applies to AD mobile accounts as well). Confirmed by Apple support but still pending a fix

- Apple keeps introducing bugs, I was close to push the button for mass upgrades with 11.2 but then they introduced the space bug which caused macs to be locked in a bootloop that can't be fixed without another Mac present with an older OS version: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/15/macos-big-sur-11-2-1-re... . This really should never have made it through QA.

- Our VPN still has issues with random disconnects that are still being investigated (they switched over to network extensions so this was a big rewrite for them)

- Our antivirus only supports Big Sur as of about 1 month ago. So this was a blocking point for a long time that's only just been resolved. This was also due to the system extension thing mainly (and yes they could have done this sooner as this was already on the cards with Catalina, absolutely)

All in all this is not at a level I call "stable" and that's not all third-party compatibility issues either, some of them are pure Apple.

When I say that it's slower and wastes more screen space, that's a matter of opinion (at least of the impact of these things). But these are not a reason for me to block the upgrade, it's just something I would mention to explain why it's not such a big deal that they can't have it yet :) I will allow it when it actually works reliably.

As the article explains, Apple's PR is not always aligned with reality. Updates are indeed slower and I often hear the fan running hard since Big Sur when it wouldn't before. Especially the WindowServer process uses a lot of CPU now for some reason.
In English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_test
Interesting, I got the sense that it’s the amateurs / lifestyle strivers who are the market for producing and consuming this content. Go being not very much fun kind of keeps these people away.
Brilliant framing of the issue. I can see the ads already. This framing is almost as brilliant as the death tax.
This argument betrays a lack of understanding of radiation physics.

Think of each cell in your body as a dice. When a cell is hit by radiation, the dice is rolled - you get cancer if any dice comes up 6 (these are billion-sided dice). The radiation dose is the number of dice rolls you need to make.

Now, under which circumstance is a roll of 6 more likely? If you roll 100 dice 1 time each (traditional x-ray), or 1 dice 100 times (backscattered xray)?
If you're running a syslogd then the logs also get stored there, so you can continue to use the tools you are familiar with if that is more important to you than possibly considering different tools that may work better.
> The consequence of this is that these fields are filled up with careerists - people who are socially driven rather than curiosity driven.

I think it's worse than this: school and academia is no longer the sole option for the ultra curious. Curiosity is better fed by the internet, which means we end up lacking a social institution which captures and unifies people like this.
Yes. It's a con and it upsets me. Entities like Wal-Mart basically conned the US Government into paying their employees.
Huh? What is specific to Linux in this post?

Also, the most popular Unix-like OS (far more than Linux) is macOS, basically the least “leet greybeard affectation” thing I can imagine. Your irritation is way off base.
I have a battery electric chainsaw that would have eaten that branch for lunch. I don't get the chance to use it very often, but it's a joy when I do. It won't take down mature trees, but I'd have to get permission from the city and a certified expert for that anyway. It will limb just about anything.

The best decision I ever made powertool-wise was sticking with a single line of tools for both construction and yard tools, so I have at least 10 or so batteries that fit in every tool I own. I have drills, saws, nailers, lights, leaf blower (that thing drinks battery), hedge trimmer, weed whacker, and the chainsaw all ready to take the exact same battery. One thing I've never had to do is wait for a battery to charge.
Not really where the author is heading, but I like to configure a backend for mathplot lib to render graphics in a terminal so when I am SSHed to a remote system I can get inlined plots.
Hm. No logic to be found there.
To make the 'Whatasapp web' option show on the latest Android version on my phone I had to do this:

1. Back up your data (Whatsapp Menu > Settings > Chat Settings > Backup conversations)

2. Go to 'App Info' for Whatsapp had to 'Clear data' (Settings > Applications > Applications Manager > Whatsapp)

3. Restart phone

4. Access whatsapp -> enter your phone number -> restore from backup

5. The 'Whatsapp Web' should appear under menu now
What’s genuine about it? It was litigated in nearly a hundred court cases, many of which had conservative political appointee judges. No evidence. No actual claims of fraud because the lawyers want to keep their bar and know the claims are fraudulent.

Trump’s base is upset that they lost the election. Nothing more.
I personally know of two companies that actively refuse to interview recent Facebook employees. Of course most companies see Facebook employment as a positive.
That's pretty much how I figured most small contests are done.
Replacing a currency beholden to people through government, fiat, namely world-reserve USD, with one that is beholden only to who owns it and who owns the most cutting-edge computing power, what could possibly go wrong?
Of course, the question is loaded. You're assuming that they will be adding developers who have no familiarity with the project. Project resources have lifecycles, especially for larger ones. If you have, say 200 developers on a project at the start and as the project reaches maturity, you reduce that amount to 50, those 150 other developers don't magically forget everything overnight.

So, if six months down the road, you need more dev resources because you're falling behind a little, adding some of those devs back will probably help speed things up. Notice that the company that added the devs in the story has 400+ heads already. What they could be doing is hiring new guys to take on some of the non-exchange related work they were doing and shifting some project-experienced devs back on.

Of course, that's the best possible scenario. What they're probably gonna do is just fuck things up.
One nice way to think about is to imagine a very light but strong door, and very massive particles. The energy it would take to move the door back and forth would be trivial compared to the energy of the system.

You can even use a reversible process (e.g. the doors on a spring so the energy put into it to close the door is regained by letting the spring's energy reopen it) to make it use effectively zero energy.

Then all the "energy" in the system is in the demon's observation of the system, and not in the actual mechanics of opening and closing the door.
I'm still convinced that Google's insistence on funneling all activity from their services into Google+ accounts (even in cases where it clearly doesn't make sense) is being done solely so that Google can go back to their shareholders and report a large amount of "growth" in their social platform. They don't seem to have any end game or plan beyond merely pumping up the numbers as high as possible. Maybe they are just aiming for the day when they can claim Google+ has more members than Facebook?
Quite right, and there is no shortage of more modern examples of it too.
Good questions. I will follow up with a blog post addressing these issues.
I worked on this tool at HubSpot. They acquired us (Chime - chimeapp.com) to help build this.

I think it may change the way we interact through email (starting with sales first, that's the target right now). I do think this will help salespeople to approach their leads without requiring a context change.

I recently left the team. As neat as a "read-receipt" is, I think tools like this encourage the fact that the consumer doesn't know everything. It didn't align with my vision for being fully transparent.
Well, the definition of fiber is pretty much: what is not digested

Now this: "In particular, beneficial microbes feast on fermentable fibers" look like a more interesting definition.
Just like how you were troubled by her being a 7 karma point naysayer.
This seems like a boiler plate criticism of an earlier D-Wave.

My quick read of the article gives me the impression that it and the most recent D-Wave render this criticism obsolete.

Shouldn't the higher rated comment actually related to the article at hand (I'm not very qualified to evaluate it but it seems to give specific points that address these objections).
>> Escalante's open admission policy, a major reason for his success, also paved the way for his departure. Calculus grew so popular at Garfield that classes grew beyond the 35-student limit set by the union contract. Some had more than 50 students. Escalante would have preferred to keep the classes below the limit had he been able to do so without either denying calculus to willing students or using teachers who were not up to his high standards. Neither was possible, and the teachers union complained about Garfield's class sizes. Rather than compromise, Escalante moved on.

When I say (to non-Californians) that teacher's unions have too much power in California and am accused of being a right-wing wacko, I generally call this example out.

Unions have been responsible for much good (better working conditions, higher pay, etc...) but that doesn't give them a pass to screw students over.
It's Flash Media Server, which supports more than just streaming to Flash. Soon, it'll do HTTP Live Streaming through HTML5.

http://blogs.adobe.com/ktowes/2011/04/sneak-peak-future-adob...
I suggest using syntax highlighting in code examples.
You really don't see that type of text appear until university these days. Most grade school, and highschool math texts that I have seen attempt to show you where most things come from, and attempt to show the steps. Now, this doesn't mean that they do so in an effective way (there's often that random ass step which doesn't make any sense at all), but they do try.

The struggle mostly comes from situations where a) people just can't follow the explanations at all, since the reasoning is not explained well enough, or there are jumps too large, or b) people who have trouble adapting past strategies and concepts to more novel situations. For example, they might know how to solve some class A of word problems, but once you switch the word problems to solving the equation in the other direction, they just get lost.

I think most of the 'left as an exercise for the reader' stuff appears once you get to a high enough level that you a) assume that the reader is proficient enough and b) that the reader actually cares enough about the subject to be able to do so. For example, my friends taking a bunch of pure math subjects get that crap all the time. "So we've proved X theorem for Y case, Z will be left as an exercise", and they eat it up (partly because it really is an exercise).

Now, I still think a lot of the time, it's inappropriate, and just used cause the writer is lazy, or has used up too much space on diagrams (especially in physics textbooks...).
Is the Android ad income growth just a result of more users/traffic? Or did you release more apps or do some more substantial marketing of your apps?
How smart are they really if they were sucked in?

The smartest people I know care much more about tickling their brains than about earning insane amounts of money. They are happy with their middling six figure salaries doing quantum computing research and the like.
It's easy to raise wages when times are good, but it's hard to drop wages when times are bad, because it results in the whole office getting demoralized and productivity dropping. So companies will resort to laying people off entirely when revenues drop, because the morale hit from cutting people off entirely is less than the morale hit from dropping everyone's salary.

Finance presumably solves this by paying out the majority of compensation in bonuses, which are explicitly tied to the firm's performance. If the company does well, you do well, if the company does poorly, you knew ahead of time that you'd be taking a haircut, so it doesn't feel as much like a broken promise as when wages are cut.

They're not completely immune from layoffs though - when a firm goes under entirely, most of the employee base is let go by the acquirer. And financial firms tend to blow up completely more than other types of firms, because they operate with more leverage. That's why luxury businesses in NYC took a big hit this financial crisis.
I'm bumping up for hostelling. I did it for a few days in Portland this year. As much as I love the couchsurfing concept, if I'm in a town to do work I'd rather pay for a service to let me sleep for cheap than feel compelled to entertain a couchsurfer host.

People usually recommended a Hostelling Internatonal hostel as you can usually expect them to be pretty clean and organized, although I haven't tried a non-HI hostel yet to justify this claim.

I'm considering working remotely soon, my plan is to hostel somewhere for a week or two at my destination, then hopefully find a good place to stay at for a few months.
I'm in the same boat. Near as I can tell I am the only person with my first and last names. If you put just my first name into facebook's search box I am one of only two people that show up. Googling first-and-last returns only me.
Here's a question: how do we know you haven't already been co-opted by your military establishment?
I think ones personal ethics are non-negotionable. Once I have set my limits, I will never work in a field that is off limits.

Additionally, I believe you can always get a job without dropping your personal ethics. The market is huge - just keep looking.

I once had an offer like you do. I declined, and I'm happy now I did.

Good luck!
OK, who installed the laser turrets in the server room?
That wasn't my intention. I enjoy seeing idiomatic solutions to problems in different languages and thought others might, too.
You're not responding to the argument Rand makes. I am not attempting to make that argument, merely mentioning how she gets there.

It's an interesting argument, but you have to buy the premise in order to find it remotely persuasive. I find it more persuasive than any argument invoking God (as most other moral philosophers do) but not completely persuasive.
It sounds like they weren't hiring white guys because the Chinese have an 'inferiority complex', but because the Chinese economy is export driven and successful companies sell stuff to Americans and they wanted to imply to potential investors and officials that they were already working on deals with American companies.

In short, they were committing fraud, but because their lie involved fictitious American customers, they needed some white faces to pull it off.
My first thought was "US" and "Halliburton", but then I suppose we fill in the blanks with the protagonists we know best. The one thing that has me stumped is the python angle...
Yes, we have the vacuum on a stick at work. It's a cheap plastic thing that looks like a sex toy for Buck Rogers and it doesn't perform nearly as well as the Numatic Henry we have at home.
I don’t understand why you are being downvoted because in my opinion you are right. Fiat money is the real trick that removes people from poverty and increases everyone's standard of living.

This is really easy to understand from first principles. If the total value of the world increases and there is only a fixed amount of either gold or bitcoin, or any finite thing to represent it, it's obvious that whoever has that asset today has to do nothing for it to grow. Just sit on it indefinitely and people will give you more value for the same amount.

On the other hand if the value of the world is represented in USD and the feds keep print more money, you can’t just sit on the money you have today and expect it to be worth more. You have to put it back in the value creation system for it to grow in value.

Bitcoin and gold suck at representing value.
Fiat currency is much better because you can print more money to keep up with the world's total value.
you said that you don't want any flask, but have you looked at Flask-Restless ?

Flask just gives you the routing part maybe you can even strip flask out of it and just use wsgi.

You can try http://python-eve.org/ too
I suspect, as someone early in his career, what you interpret as "asshole," pg interprets as niceness. From pg's perspective, those whip-cracking middle managers are getting the productivity they need to make his or Ron's investments increase in value. You're on the receiving end of some harshness, but the money-men don't care. Why should they?

Its amusing when we play the moralism card in business. I'm fairly personable and I'm sure would be considered nice, but if tomorrow I opened the worst sweatshop in Vietnam and turned $10,000 into $1m I would be praised. pg or my investors wouldn't care about the social issues of the young people working in my sweatshop, or if they cared, it wouldn't be enough to deem me a villain. They get to meet a fairly nice guy who can turn a little money into a lot. I'd brand myself a fashion entrepreneur, write some pretentious blog postings careful to never address labor concerns, and be done with it. The nitty gritty isn't on a level where investors and other money-men care about. They care about my workers as much as they care about the electrons in my CPU that powers my website. Its works, right? It makes money? Fine. You're "nice." No, I am absolutely not. I own an abusive sweatshop.

This is one of the problems of judging people by their forward facing personality. Its easy to be personable and charismatic when you have money or social capital. I have people below me who have to be mean. I don't need to be. The same way Putin kisses babies and tells jokes on TV while his troops murder civilians and annex land in Ukraine with impunity.

There's a meta narrative here that's concerning as well. Programmers tend to be INTJ males. We have bad social skills and are often naïve. What does this say about charisma and those who can use it effectively? Are we easy to game? I think so. pg's essays are usually top notch except when they're about soft social skills. These last two are questionable, at least to me. I feel the niceness question is a bit more complex than pg suggests, and often it fits not only into a hard game-theory framework but also a soft social skill framework that encompasses everything from salesmanship to how we talk to power or act when we are the ones with power.
Yeah box-shadow is the worst, especially if you scroll. So I wonder why the author doesn't mention this.
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Downvoted for that too. Someone's spiteful. Here, downvote this too.