skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My friends are mostly in the 1500+ range, and a bunch have perfect 1600s, so they're pretty hot commodities on the market."

I think that is mostly true for people who are younger and have less other experience. If you are trying to tutor in HS or College you will need exceptional scores. However, if you have graduated with a degree in Math, English, or Education you can likely parlay that into tutoring, certainly pro-bono, they can use all the qualified people who are willing to help
As I've been working on this I've been kicking around the idea of having a small run of these produced. The design is quite practical for this, but the economics are questionable. I feel like at best I'd make my contracting rate, and at worst lose my capital. But it would be fun. Any feedback in that regard?
I find this type of a diet rather off-putting due to the high amount of meat you have to eat.

Now I'm not a vegeterian, nor am I a PETA campaigner, but I do believe in animal rights. And the idea of promoting a diet that makes people eat copious amounts of meat sounds .... unkind (for the lack of a better word). It creates a grown in the demand to rear and kill animals.

I'm not trying to draw on a vegeterian vs meat-eaters debate here, but does anyone else feel this way when they read about this diet?
I've heard this dozens of times, and I know every time that it's crazy.

But I haven't really managed to figure out what part of this 'rumor' is actually true.

Do you mind explaining where this idea comes from, and whether it's remotely right, or what?
Yes, there's a problem with my original post; no, it's not related to federal transfers -- it's correct to exclude them from the calculation. The problem is that Texas (bizarrely) allocates its budget on a biennial basis. I didn't read the documents closely enough, and had assumed that 2009-2010 meant fiscal 2009-2010. Oops.

From the same Texas source, table A-12, the estimated total state revenue is $39.3 Bn for fiscal 2009. Thus, the per-capita revenue numbers for fiscal 2009 would be $1,617.30, versus $2,391 for California. So, I'm wrong. Texas takes in about 32% less per capita than California.
Once they actually have a compiler you mean?
I have. I'm courious as to what others see in it though... It's up high in the /classic view to so clearly it's not just a bunch of newcomers.
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Call me cynical but I translated "those who work in the tech sector are less selfish in bed and more open to using sex toys" into "those who work in the tech sector are more likely to bring commercialism (sex toys) into the bedroom, and thus generate revenue for the (broader) industry that commissioned the polls."
actually you can win by name calling and shouting. If you're side is noisy and unruly enough that the other side backs down you win. You are probably still wrong but you did get your way.
I know the term is somewhat vague in it's meaning these days but I don't think many people would consider "show the most common queries with this prefix" to be AI.

Besides, it's the content not the mechanism being presented here, I guess it does support some common biases which is maybe a reason people like it.
i'm not going to get into a long discussion about this as I'm sick to death of it. read some history. the joint-stock corporation has the best record of anything in human history of providing a better standard of living through voluntary means.
Do you have any better recommendations? I'm interested in cognitive science, possibly a PhD.
What happens when someone gets injured or killed because he or she was improperly using a tool from the tool lending library? What if the low-hours guys you mentioned were cutting corners on the tools' upkeep? Or is this really an issue?

I don't think that Philip is opposed to the idea of a tool lending library, he is merely questioning why the City of Berkeley needs to be running it. Why can't a group of citizens form a cooperative to do this, instead of involving the city government?
That's one I'm going to file away.
Downmodded? Really?

I don't care about the score, but I am interested in hearing the logic. Is someone mad that I think full-sized laptops are pointless?
The social benefits (including bottom-line contribution to the local economy) is freaking huge.

Most American municipalities get by without such services.

Perhaps the way to persuade them is by providing hard data to support your cliam about social benefits.
Except that he never mentioned anything about the budget of the City of Berkeley, he just lumped them in with "big government."
Yes it does, because if you can't bring it to market fast enough to meet demand, prices will spike reducing demand. When the prices spike, oil companies are willing to spend more resources to extract oil as quickly as possible in order to sell off their reserves at the highest possible price. This inevitably leads to significantly more supply than demand, and falling prices. At which point capacity is taken offline to prevent oversupply, and the cycle repeats.

If prices are high enough, the market will find a way to extract their reserves fast enough. There could be temporary short falls, but they'll be just that. Should the price remain high, it will give new entrants an opportunity to compete.
This article seemed misinformative to me. The experiment involved a very specific kind of driving, which could perhaps tell us something new about BDNF. Instead, the writer made inappropriately generalized conclusions about driving without any new information about BNDF.
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ugh, market research much?
I believe the question is sexist.

Boys like talking about things, girls like talking about people. So the "listening better" actually becomes "understanding an alien mindset." I feel that this fact actually makes the above question sexist, because the two sexes involved interpret the action "listening" to mean two completely different things.
This is an interesting article, well worth posting.

However, to all those saying it needs a "tl;dr": I agree with you. In fact, academic writing has included this concept for decades; it's called an abstract. And this article could use one.
Haven't tried Debian, but good to know. When I tried UNR, some of the function buttons didn't work (notably the one that turned off the wireless), and two-finger scrolling was really buggy feeling. I had similar problems with Easy Peasy.
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Nice. The PC boot sequence may not be as beautiful as the Mac's, but at least you get a clear error message when something goes wrong.

(My machine's motherboard even has a little display on it that displays diagnostic codes for things like "couldn't set CPU multiplier" and so on. This makes it really easy to debug the flaky hardware that all non-mainframe computers are built from. Easier than a flashing question mark, anyway.)
You're right that I'm wrong, but you're wrong about the reason. Federal contributions and local taxes have nothing to do with it -- the Texas budget is calculated on a biennial basis, whereas the California budget is calculated on an annual basis.
Considering the source of the study (a PS3 game site) I would say these "results" are worth about as much as the bits used to display them.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1043829
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Municipalities are probably the best form of government. They're small and in touch with their constituents. And they generally have to support themselves. Why should they have to provide hard data to people who don't actually live within their boundaries (presumably you don't)? Especially when the primary usage of that data is going to be to support some ideology that none of their residents would agree with.
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I don't have the time right now to slog through what is probably a very interesting paper, but this did catch my eye "We perform a key algorithmic step the iterative phase estimation algorithm in full, achieving a high level of precision and robustness to error. We implement other
algorithmic steps with assistance from a classical computer and explain how this non-scalable approach could be avoided."

It sounds like they claim at least part of it they did with real quantum computing. Scanning the paper I think they did some calculations on "real" one and two qubit systems.
It seems that 'art' vs 'craft' shares the same relationship that 'computer science' and 'programming' do. Not they're equivalent, but that they both share the same kind of higher vs lower distinction. Mildly off-topic, but I think it relates well to your 'pollution' sentiment. Universities have certainly been using the name 'Computer Science' while teaching 'programming.' And not teaching it well. But that's another discussion.

> In an environment such as programming, this doesn't seem possible, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

Not that anything can be proven, but I do think that code can say profound things. It might just be that it's because I'm only (almost) 24, but I feel that code helps me to understand myself, and has managed to change my opinions on seemingly unrelated topics. I'd agree that art has a higher calling than 'pretty pictures,' and that it "say[s] something profound." I didn't say much about this in my post, though.

To fully relate how I think about this would require a whole essay. So I'll be a little short, and sum it up with a small example.

I've been programming computers since I was 7. That's 17 years of coding. Yes, it's not like I was writing anything amazing at that young of an age, but those silly little games that I wrote certainly affected me personally. In a very stereotypical way, I was drawn to libertariansim, even though my parents are pretty staunch Republicans. I discussed a lot of political philosophy with a friend of mine who has very different views than I, and she remarked how much she saw a similarity between my thought process and the workings of a computer, and it really made me think about my views on the world. I realize that I tend to view the world as a system of equations, or a function with inputs and outputs, that I have pretty simple heuristic functions by which I make decisions, and that most people _are not like this at all_. Which came first? Do I think this way because I've been programming my entire life, or do computers work that way because they're a human creation?

This realization causes me to compare and contrast code and life on a fairly regular basis. When I go to write an API, I try to think in terms of communication. Connecting two applications is like connecting two people, and you have to bridge the gap between the two. When I'm naming functions or writing documentation, I think about how I'd explain my understanding of a problem to another person, and how the pieces of the puzzle fit together. When I see language wars, I think of how they're similar to real wars; no matter who 'wins', _everyone_ loses. Also that sometimes, quantity (of users) is it's own kind of quality (of design decisions.) When I think about Open Source, I try to resolve the cognitive dissonance that makes me say "socialism can't work" with the fact that I participate in something that's socialist in nature on a regular basis.

At this point, I'm rambling. Sorry. But I hope that I've at least started to make you think about the topic a little. The medium may be a bit strange, but it's not like modern art "say[s] something profound" to John Q Public, either.
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The city government IS a cooperative formed by the citizens of the City of Berkeley.
I'm loving this library. I'm having a ton of fun messing around with it.

Here's a script to play basketball at http://www.onlinegames.com/basketball

I'm having trouble getting calculate_shot_pos right given the ball pos and basketball pos. My trig is pretty rusty, so if anyone wants to help me out (even with some strategy) I would love to hear it! I've learned the library, so getting it to actually play the game well is just a bonus.

Anyway, here goes:

from pydroid import mouse, bitmap
from math import floor, sqrt
import time

rim_color = 15474
ball_color = 10440243
basket_pos = (143, 365)

def is_ball_on_screen(screen):
return len(screen.find_every_color(ball_color)) > 0 and find_ball_pos(screen)[0] > basket_pos[0]

def is_basket_on_screen(screen):
return screen.get_color(basket_pos[0], basket_pos[1]) == rim_color

def average(xs):
return int(sum(xs, 0.0) / len(xs))

def find_ball_pos(screen):
coords = screen.find_every_color(ball_color)
xs = [coord[0] for coord in coords]
ys = [coord[1] for coord in coords]
return (average(xs), average(ys))

def calculate_shot_pos(basket, ball):
x = basket[0] + (ball[0] - basket[0]) / 3.0
y = basket[1] - (ball[1] - basket[1])
return (int(x), int(y))

while(True):
screen = bitmap.capture_screen()
if is_basket_on_screen(screen) and is_ball_on_screen(screen):
ball_pos = find_ball_pos(screen)
shot_pos = calculate_shot_pos(basket_pos, ball_pos)
mouse.move(shot_pos[0], shot_pos[1])
time.sleep(.5)
mouse.click()
time.sleep(1)
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This is an example of quantum simulation, which is considered significantly easier to achieve than general quantum computing.

Several quantum systems can be modeled with other, unrelated quantum systems, to solve the dynamics of those systems. The cannot unfortunately be used for general quantum gate operations that you hear about.

And as usual, for QC stuff, I'll defer any real comments to Michael Nielsen, if he happens to see this submission.
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Really? Where in the work force do you get to learn about GIS software, play with expensive photography equipment, sit with scientists, philosophers, historians, literary critics, etc., to discuss their fields, not to mention chatting over dinner with all kinds of diverse 18–22 year-olds who in a decade or two will be actors, politicians, artists, diplomats, company founders, and so on? What job do you have whose members are all involved in myriad dance troupes and music groups constantly putting on $5 shows and concerts? What job dumps a stream of free co-worker–written literary magazines, political and scientific reviews, and a daily newspaper in your door box?

I don’t know any work place as diverse as the most boring monoculture of an engineering college.
homeowners who otherwise would have to buy under-used equipment from Home Depot

I'm always impressed at the variety of tools Home Depot rents.
You don't have to provide it, but if there are benefits, you may be able to support this in some way. If you can support it, then you may be able to persuade others into following course. Your response seems overly defensive, considering what the GP was actually asking.
You can hold down a key when you turn a Mac on to have it switch from the default "pretty" screen to a normal wall-of-text booting screen. The problem for the author was that he'd locked himself out of these options when enabling some security feature previously.
Title is misleading. The article says that geeks are most likely to "consider your partner’s sexual needs above your own?".

This may or may not lead to a more satisfied partner (Wealthy men give women more orgasms):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article5537017...
Anybody here know if Apple + Intel own a patent on the LightPeak connectors? Like, maybe, they want everybody to use LightPeak, but more importantly, pay Apple and Intel for LightPeak licensing?

If I'm wrong, and they're really promoting a standard for optical transfer from PC to peripheral that's awesome.
Upvote for Philosophy in the Flesh. Need to read the other.
I'm surprised no one's pointed out the obvious. It's difficult to pull any interpretations out of this based on gender. Remember, there are girls who have girlfriends and boys who have boyfriends too.
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> Art is something created purely for its aesthetic appeal and to evoke emotions.

What do you think of things like obfuscated Perl, Perl poetry, the Underhanded C Contest, obscure langauges like Brainfuck, 'joke' languages like Intercal or Malbolge, or even, say, Ruby on Rails? Sometimes code is created for a reasons other than functionality, or is functional while making commentary on the world or the way things should be.

Also, languages themselves ooze philosophy. We talk about not 'writing Java in any language,' or how Rails is 'opinionated software,' or how Python is 'batteries included.' Every language expresses its authors viewpoints about the world.

> It also requires far too much prior knowledge to be appreciated by most people.

I didn't think that accessibility was a requirement for art. In fact, it would seem that among certain crowds, work that's too accessible isn't seen as art. My art history is admittedly really poor, but wasn't pop art looked down upon for a while? Besides, you can't possibly tell me that, say, modern art is accessible, yet it's still art.

> The article also assumes a false contradiction between art and science that makes me suspect the author understands neither.

I'm not saying that they're contradictory. As someone else summarized earlier,

> I don't think the author's comparing a bit of C code to a Rembrandt painting in the visual sense, but saying that programmers should embrace those same ideals of creativity, innovation, and fluidity of thought that many artists do.
Really? It seems like at least 4 out of every 10 Greenspun posts are transparently ideological and sarcastic.
I wouldn't go as far as throwing an exception. A notice maybe.
Jared Diamond drew an analogy between New Guinea tribes and paleo diets. If modern hunter-gatherers are similar to paleo hunter-gatherers, the women gather most of the calories (tubers, some fruits, grain) and the men hunt a little meat if they are lucky.

Colder regions might have had more meat consumption (look at modern Inuit), but those were the last holdouts of the Neanderthals (by some accounts). Humans won the cold regions by becoming smart technical hunters, not Spaaaartans.
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Yes we can digest fructose. And when people found honey (basically pure fructose) I'm sure they gorged on it. But as a few links on the front page of this site have explained in recent days, fructose is borderline toxic.

Anthropological research in conjunction with modern medical research convincingly indicate several foods cause disease. The fact that we can digest all kinds of things is irrelevant.

It pretty much all boils down to avoiding sugars, grain products, and certain oils. It's a very easy case to buy if you read into it.
Hmm, autopy looks a bit to much like autopsy to me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy
While I understand (and agree with) the change to try and standardize PHP behavior, I think that in this case the parent comment is the crux of the issue. Seems like returning NULL violates the principle of least surprise to me.
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Symbian, the most popular OS on handsets of 2009 (according to http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/27/comparing-smart...) lets you run any software you want (unless specifically locked down, which I've never seen) and even allows you to install Python with a built in on-phone interpreter.

A lot of people seem to act as though the iPhone is the second coming but it's not. The main reason the iPhone does better on the net seems to be more about the quality of the built-in browser than anything else.
Berkeley doesn't owe Cleveland hard data.

dasht owes us hard data if he wants to be taken seriously.

Saying "The social benefit of X is freaking huge," with no support, is just a way of making "I really like X" sound more important.
This would be much better if speed was a function of |current_bpm - target_bpm|. Rewarding you based on how fast you're pedaling makes no sense.
... I'm personally put off by both, but I agree with both you and the parent. These are both libraries that try to show code from a different perspective. Good links, both.
Right, but when you don't know the BIOS password on a PC, it says: "Enter supervisor password". If his Mac had said this, there would never have been any doubt in his mind as to what was going on.
You are correct, no matter how much universities seem to want them to be.
Regular blood donations? Yep, that's crazy. People who lost a lot of blood tended to get infections, then die. Which is why the average life expectancy was about 30.
tens of thousands of dollars is not serious loot?
I know this sounds insignificant, but the first thing that jumped out at me was the JPEG artifacting in the logo. You'd do well to replace the logo with a PNG and replace that orange text-in-an-image with actual text.
Actually, I've hated all the smart phones I've used. Typing on a cell phone is, to me, a really inefficient time suck that people don't notice because they're used to it.

Fundamentally, I just want to make phone calls on my cell phone - for everything else I want a laptop with a 3g card.
> cheese

Cheese is OK as long as you have no casein allergies, which you probably don't.

Wine is low on the list of things to eliminate. This article painted a picture of some wacky lifestyle built around a paleo canon. I suppose with this sort of thing a lunatic fringe is inevitable. That stuff in the article about giving blood was just nonsense.

It's really just a short list of diet recommendations. Eliminate sugars & sweeteners and cut grain & potato products as low as feasible and you're doing 90% of it and getting 90% of the benefit.
You must be joking.