jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
According to the chart, the only thing that increases in late adulthood is ventricular volume. Interesting.

"An increase in ventricle size is associated with degenerative brain disease and gait."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/neurology-n...

Nice. Hopefully this puts to rest "your brain gets better as it ages" nonsense. There has to be a correlation between the physical changes of the brain as we age and the decline in cognition.

Edit: The researchers website with real time charts, male/female data/breakdown, etc

https://brainchart.shinyapps.io/brainchart/
Fresh install of Chrome. https://i.imgur.com/4ZyuSNN.png Notice how little "No thanks" and "Choose what to sync are". Nice anti-pattern.

And if you simply sign in and don't choose anything, this is what you get https://i.imgur.com/XQSxwu5.png
There can be no general technical solution, because it's a continual arms race of DRM and anti-DRM. As you say, it would have to be legal.

The EU did legislate against DRM in print cartridges, I believe, although I can't find a reference other than http://www.geek.com/chips/eu-bans-clever-chips-in-printer-ca.... While looking I discovered http://www.therecycler.com/posts/etira-lobbies-eu-commission... which implies they're about to break the cartridge recycling system entirely by conflating it with the WEEE electronics recycling system.
Planet Money just did a podcast on Pigeon.ly.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/03/13/392862778/episode-...

Fascinating to listen to the founder talking about the difficulty of starting a business as a former convict. Its ironic that because he was in prison he best understands the target market, however being in prison meant banks and other investors viewed him and his business negatively.

(edit: Planet Money did the podcast on Pigeon.ly, not another company)
The power of a pronoun is a great article, if anything him writing it should be a plus.

The only way it is a negative is if you feel gendered pronouns don't further sexism, but I don't see how you could support that argument.
Poor people get kicked out of their homes in China too - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/06/sport.china
There has been massive displacement of Chinese peasants too. By a decree. But indeed - if you look at rates of home ownership in Eastern Europe pre changes - socialist systems indeed seem to prefer affordable housing.
>Now I'll have to maintain markup/presentation/logic in the same place

Only if you're doing it wrong. Presentation logic and markup will be in the same place sure, that's a good thing, but any application logic not dealing directly with displaying dom elements shouldn't be in and among your presentation code. Your concerns are separated and your presentation code is in the same place, like you would logically think they should be.
> I'll write a thank you letter to the government when the future of our nation isn't tied to the bad judgement of a few irresponsible companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_financial_regulatory_refo...
I changed variable names and declaration order, the number of loops in that inner for loop, and other such things that could possibly change the bytecode (to what effect, I don't know - I'm not a JS VM engineer, obviously) without changing the operations actually performed.

I don't have an explanation for this, though (maybe variable initialization counts as "run up until here"?):

Runs fast (11ms):

--- tests/sunspider-0.9.1/math-cordic.js 2010-11-17 00:55:29.000000000 -0700
+++ tests/sunspider-0.9.1-deadcode/math-cordic.js 2010-11-17 01:42:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -56,12 +56,14 @@
var TargetAngle;
var CurrAngle;
var Step;
+ var foo;

X = FIXED(AG_CONST); /* AG_CONST * cos(0) */
Y = 0; /* AG_CONST * sin(0) */

TargetAngle = FIXED(28.027);
CurrAngle = 0;
+ foo = 1;
for (Step = 0; Step < 12; Step++) {
var NewX;
if (TargetAngle > CurrAngle) {

But if I assign foo after the for loop, it runs slow:

--- tests/sunspider-0.9.1/math-cordic.js 2010-11-17 00:55:29.000000000 -0700
+++ tests/sunspider-0.9.1-deadcode/math-cordic.js 2010-11-17 01:43:20.000000000 -0700
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
var TargetAngle;
var CurrAngle;
var Step;
+ var foo;

X = FIXED(AG_CONST); /* AG_CONST * cos(0) */
Y = 0; /* AG_CONST * sin(0) */
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@
CurrAngle -= Angles[Step];
}
}
+ foo = 1;
}

If I assign foo inside the for loop, it runs fast:

--- tests/sunspider-0.9.1/math-cordic.js 2010-11-17 00:55:29.000000000 -0700
+++ tests/sunspider-0.9.1-deadcode/math-cordic.js 2010-11-17 01:44:41.000000000 -0700
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
var TargetAngle;
var CurrAngle;
var Step;
+ var foo;

X = FIXED(AG_CONST); /* AG_CONST * cos(0) */
Y = 0; /* AG_CONST * sin(0) */
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@
TargetAngle = FIXED(28.027);
CurrAngle = 0;
for (Step = 0; Step < 12; Step++) {
+ foo = 1;
var NewX;
if (TargetAngle > CurrAngle) {
NewX = X - (Y >> Step);

Color me boggled.
In the user settings on HN, you can choose your own color for the bar at the top. I suppose these are the colors, sorted by popularity.
The concern is that these doses, which target the skin by design, may in fact be far more damaging to that tissue than the overall radiation dose would imply.
In the interest of full disclosure, Warren Buffett should have mentioned that he will probably make about $3.5 billion off a $5 billion investment (70% return) in Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs in turn received $13 billion via the AIG bailout.

http://www.bnet.com/blog/financial-business/how-warren-buffe...

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/21/business/fi-aig-gold...
Oh great, I guess that means I can expect to see more faces staring back it me when surfing the web now. Is anyone writing a "face blocker" browser plug in? I have a feeling I'll be willing to pay for one soon.
Yikes. At what point will people start backporting security fixes to an older version of Firefox, to avoid the forced bundling of unwanted browser "features"?
I'm not sure what discussion you mean, but the Winter War was, as the title says, in the winter 39-40. Finland and Germany only started fighting together against Soviets in 41 (Continuation War). There wasn't really anything strange about that de facto alliance; Germany wanted to attack the Soviets, and Finland wanted back the land lost in the Winter War. Naturally they would cooperate.
I call them the SVR, an agency formed from the FCD of the KGB. The first chief directorate was responsible for international espionage. The internal security responsibilities, along with everything else, was made into the FSB. There are some cross overs which reflect official Russian policy, such as the use of FSB officers to conduct espionage in the near abroad (such as Estonia) because the state believes they’re oblasts not sovereign nations.

That said, KGB is KGB. They call themselves Chekists, we call them KGB.
I don't see this as drastically different than the extreme push to force migrate everyone to SaaS on most software. Most business plans appear to be migrating to rent seeking.
And the bragging typically manifests by hanging the physical work on the walls of your home(s) so your guests can view it and be impressed as if they're at a museum or gallery. I'm wondering how the bragging rights for NFTs will manifest... 25 OLED screens decorating my walls with jpegs?
"A true fan is defined as a fan that will buy anything you produce. These diehard fans will drive 200 miles to see you sing; they will buy the hardback and paperback and audible versions of your book; they will purchase your next figurine sight unseen; they will pay for the “best-of” DVD version of your free YouTube channel; they will come to your chef’s table once a month."

I think the point is, people are fans so they want to collect and have a pride of ownership.
Not the poster you are replying to, but I stopped feeling empathy for people who complaint about lack of privacy, yet willingly give up their data to non-essential services that ask for it with all the proper disclosures.

If you agreed to sharing all your contacts to listen to “musical tweets”, I don’t see why you’ll be complaining. You willingly made a trade off.
Sorry for the pedantry: It will prevent live cellular tracking, it will not prevent malicious apps or libraries from vacuuming your Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, barometric pressure, or whatever else you've given permissions to a trusted app that is being used as an exfiltration vector.
FIFY: I would be willing to bet that the majority of Enterprise sales are relationship based, not based on technical wins.
Nevertheless, all standalone first gen TPM chips are such.
Surge pricing is great within limits (mostly monetary), to help with keeping an actual network effective. If regulations are set correctly (max surge price factor, max highprice interval in a pre-set time interval,...), and surge-pricing-aware devices are available (eg. water heaters that turn off at higher price, and turn back on at lower).

Going from a couple of cents to $9 per kWh, for extended time periods, without users actually having an alternative is well... pretty shitty.
...because humanity seems to have gotten a lot more intelligent in the last fourteen years?
novelty yes, but let's not detract from the man's prowess; writing a chess game in sed is entirely non-trivial.
Janus and all the other distributions share the same issues so Janus is only one of many, and the most famous.

All those distributions started life as personal configurations. I honestly have no idea what happened that made their authors entertain the idea of turning them into so-called distributions but personal configs are what they are. Those configs are someone else's config: whatever is there may or may not fit your workflow or needs or cognitive capabilities or even physical ones. The plugins featured in those configs are chosen by complete strangers according to unknown criterias. The same goes with options and mappings.

When you use Janus, you basically are walking with someone else's shoes. You'll get used to it after a while but they will never be your shoes.

Do you really need Gundo? Gist? NrrwRgn? Do you really need to interact with Git from your text editor? Are you sure that SnipMate is the best choice for a snippet engine? Are you sure that SuperTab is the best choice for completion? Are you sure that you need NERDTree when you have netrw built-in? Are you absolutely certain that you need an Ack plugin? What do you think of a distribution that comes with two plugins with overlapping features and even provides custom mappings that overlap with both?

Another problem with distributions is that, due to their very nature, they have a crazy architecture with many .before and .after scripts and weird directory structures that make the whole thing hard to debug or customize. Not only you are walking with someone else's shoes but that someone is the only person able to fix them or tie your laces.

New users should steer away from Janus and friends because:

* those distributions actively hide many default features/options

* they teach you how to use CtrlP and not default commands

* they hook you to plugins

* they hook you to options you don't know shit about

* they force someone's preferences on your

* they actively prevent you from learning Vim

Experienced users should avoid them because:

* well, they already have their own config tailored to their needs so why bother using someone else's?

* they already know how to find plugins (vim.org)
In the US, you can drive a vehicle with up to 15 passengers on a regular license.

The bus has been converted and should be registered as a non-commercial recreational vehicle, so it would be the same license for that... probably a Class A, depending on gross vehicle weight rating.

It's a slight step up in training from your normal vehicle, and would probably require a health certificate, etc... but not as expensive as a CDL (commercial driver license), which would usually entail a few weeks of training and ~$2,500 in costs.
I remember having to use special oils to use some high magnification microscope lenses in a process known as 'oil immersion microscopy'. I didn't read much about how it worked before but I assume it is the same process. There was no other way for me to get the magnification I needed to count the reletive number heterocyst cells in strands of cyanogenbacteria for my biology coursework.

I would suggest to the author that they buy some microscopy oils as they will have a higher refractive index to water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_immersion
I think a good way to do it is actions-measurements.

Let them write down what they have done and the outcome in different periods, help them prioritize what matters to them and what they want to achieve, then match the best consultant or advice for him. It's like how you mentor a real person in a company.
Absolutely useless metric, both mathematically and economically.

When a service has a lot of users, it has no room for growth and cost per user will be small.

When a service has a few users, but has potential to grow exponentially, it will have high cost per user.

Economically there's a large difference between services with respect to their monetization. A service where each user pays $1000 will have higher cost per user than a free service.
>Definitely going to read it, but for once I would like someone like that to have experience with programming before they start lecturing on what is "real" and the praising superiority of the physical experience. Not everything digital is a mere distraction.

You're absolutely right. These things seem to make the assumption that you can't get the same satisfaction from crafting something digitally as you can from say working on a motorbike.

I would be interested to see a study, if it's not already available, on the psychological experience between people carrying out both, and the sense of satisfaction received when they determine a "job well done" in either medium.

But that's not to say I don't agree with him in many ways. I'm a software developer and often, and as I'm getting towards my 30s now, feel like I've totally surrounded myself in the digital and have put the physical on a shelf that is only continuing to gather dust.

I find myself yearning for something more "substantial" and to be able to come to old age knowing I've done more than written a few programs or whatever but then I find myself so distracted when it comes to actually seeking out things of substance, often simply falling back on the comfort of the digital.

I've a massive stack of books I've been trying to get through and can see myself adding more to it with this, and probably some similar books like "The Shallows" and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

I'm glad to see this sort of content appearing on HN regularly though, as it's a sign I'm not alone in how I'm feeling and that others are working through the same issues.

Between things like this, the massive growth in interest in craft beers, the middle class worker fueling an interest in things like drinking in warehouses, farmers markets, etc. there is obviously a significant amount of people in the rat race who are grasping for something of "substance" and not the bland, mass produced, formulated and heavily marketed lifestyle we've somewhat fallen into in the last few decades.
Javascript is weird and the library you're talking about are all about trying to make it sane. The problem is they're libraries, with potential breaking changes between versions. You want to be sure your code runs? You pull in the exact version you wrote it against.

And by and large, this doesn't really get better with more centralization unless the centralization is good: if something doesn't work, then you'll still get 50 different wrappers which fix it in slightly different ways. Because you have to.
You can't wish for better advertising that this… "our deals are so great that airlines are trying to sue us out of existence!".
> Just look at this: https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/549268259871002624

"A pragmatic and intentionally non-abstract solution to JSON decoding / initialization that doesn't require learning about five new operators."

What's scary about operators? An API with five new functions doesn't cause the same amount of anxiety, does it?
You are right that air travel is more complicated than sandwiches, but does it matter? What law or contract has skiplagged broken? Bad business models are not fundamental rights.
You mean besides the fact that they will make less money off fares that people wouldn't have found if it was not for this site?
No, but not for lack of trying.

I can imagine trying to solve a problem like this in either; in theory, this is exactly the sort of thing the automation APIs should be good for...

In practice, you would get close and then hit a wall because something critical isn't exposed by the object model and the language itself offers no way around save for the ability to call down to components written in something else. At which point you're dealing with a lot more headaches.

The author illustrates something I think many of us too often forget: ease of use is often determined not by the intended use of the tooling, but by how easily they can be put to unintended uses - which in turn depends heavily on the ability of user to try stuff and observe what happens as a result.

I see more and more people - not programmers - poking around with JavaScript in their favorite web apps for the same reasons: low barrier to entry, low cost to failure, immediate gratification when they hit upon something that works.
I've always thought a lot of parents do it totally wrong...they give the misbehaving kid lots of (albeit negative) attention while the quiet, well-behaved one they ignore.

This is not uncommon now and is kind of the standard bearer for how to parent.

[1]http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/family-affair/200809/rew...
[2]http://www.fosteringperspectives.org/fp_vol1no1/articles_vol... (1997)
I wish someone would better explain Lie algebra.
Or philosophers, or linguists, or arts majors. Honestly, the whole view that only programmers know how to break things down is incredibly myopic, and somewhat ironic given the topic at hand.

The new literacy is the same as the old literacy. Supposedly new paradigms of thought are not new, but centuries old. Those who forget history, I suppose...
I see. Trying to detect keywords in an article could be nice improvement.

Another question, why did you limit the lower bound for the score w/ 200 ?

I assume you start indexing the HN submissions. In the long run you can create a context aware version of HN, e.g. 'Bring HN submissions with keyword X submitted during the last week.' This could be a brand new way to browse HN.
I have a cheese shop that I go to on a fairly regular basis, and for the life of me I can't remember seeing any cheeses that were not made in the US. Our FDA has a thing for destroying people's lives over raw milk (seriously, they go into full stormtrooper mode, kicking down doors, shoving guns into people's faces), which probably prevents most cheeses from around the world passing customs.
Yes, gotcha. That's why I have in parenthesis

> (finally going to be a thing)
From what I was reading Daniel Ek made tons of money before Spotify.

I heard that Spotify doesn't make a profit.
So almost all of the comments here are about bitcoin generally. While that’s not totally surprising, does anyone have any insight on whether or not this S1 reveals interesting data that might inform the public about investing in coin base (eg why they filed an S1)?
Hasn't that always been true? Their Pixel 4a kept me from buying a competitor's product.
At this point, I dream of a competitor arriving. One that that would be supported by the community and actually care about competent users, like Firefox once was.

AFAICT, Firefox (Mozilla Corporation) wants dumb users, an expanding platform they control and ad money.

There is no way to donate for Firefox development, nor can you pay for support, nor specific development or feature requests. People would throw money at them, yet they try finding creative ways to monetize their users in an effort to "diversify sources of income".

Meanwhile they continue to show they are in control of your browser - ignoring user preferences, hotpatching, A/B tests, dozens of requests without a single page open and no way to disable, numerous ways of advertising...

I still consider Firefox the lesser evil, but the stage is ripe for an uprising.
They’d probably steal your data and peek into it regardless.

My fatalistic outlook is justified by the amount of documented abuses they’ve committed over the years. Nothing is sacred to them, except the idea that “more data (in our servers) is good”.
They are quite literally not within their right to stop unionisation, as that is illegal. Also it looks bad because it is bad.

btw, the line between 'disincentivising' and 'forcing' is decided arbitrarily by you. If they send text messages, block traffic lights, and screw with people's mailboxes, i think amazon crosses the line.
> This logo, then the centered trackpad (are you serious?), huge clumsy bays and a non-centered displays. Worst a design that doesn't dare, that is afraid to go beyond the Macbook comfort zone, something that wants to be liked. Not that all of these are dealbreakers but IDK, let's says they do not make a good first impression.

Personally, I don't think they want to change too many variables at the same time. It makes sense to first create something that is familiar to users while offering the benefits they advertise, instead of alienating users right off the bat with a weird/different design that may or may not be successful. It's just unnecessary risk at this point.
1) I'm an idiot. It's "pip install -r requirements.txt". Don't know how I messed that one up.

2) Permission denied where? I'm not sure what scenario on GitHub could possibly lead to that.

I did try and install it myself and it turned out to be significantly more annoying than expected (on Linux, mind you, so it might be easier on Win). I didn't actually get it to run because after an hour, I had other things to do.
Thank you Digital Ocean! I've been a customer since the early days and had just a few problems, but they were quick to answer and address. I love the simplicity of their platform and will continue to use their services!
Same thing happened with me. I built this theme as an open source project and forgot it existed. People started to create different forks and port them to different platforms. One day I realized how big that was and decided to monetize. One year later 100k. Crazy!
Nonsense! Shutdown of existing product is a pretty common outcome for any acquisition

In some cases like Google acquiring Sparrow, it's because the acquisition was really a case of hiring an entire team. In other cases, the shutdown is so the acquisition can focus their efforts on a new product. This is clearly the latter case.

I know that in some circles folks make Apple out to be some sort of evil. Be careful that your bias doesn't lead you to make claims that are unsupported by evidence.
Sure, easy piracy is a part of reality and businesses should, as a pragmatic matter, adjust their business models -- that's neither here nor there.

When I talk about being able to honestly assess willingness to pay, I'm talking about the pirate who claims that they wouldn't buy a good anyway so they might as well pirate it. It might be true, but all we can really say from the outside is that they value the good at least $0 worth, so their willingness to pay is somewhere between 0 and infinity. You can't put an upper bound on their willingness to pay just because they didn't buy the good when they got the good for free.

I don't particularly care if people pirate, but I find that pirates tend to do a fair bit of mental gymnastics trying to justify why piracy is ethical; I think the "I wouldn't pay for it anyway" argument falls under that umbrella.
Jack Bogle goes as far as saying you don't need to own international stocks. If I recall he says that the US has a innovative and growth mindset, and is stable... So we would always be growing in the long term.
https://www.investmentnews.com/article/20170429/FREE/1704299...