skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several problems with social sciences not just economics. Recently, I've read an interview by Yanis Varoufakis[1]. Here's an interesting excerpt:

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Mariana Mazzucato, University of Sussex – How has the crisis in Greece (its cause and its effects) revealed failings of neoclassical economic theory at both the micro and the macro level?

Varoufakis: The uninitiated may be startled to hear that the macroeconomic models taught at the best universities feature no accumulated debt, no involuntary unemployment and, indeed, no money (with relative prices reflecting a form of barter). Save perhaps for a few random shocks that demand and supply are assumed to quickly iron out, the snazziest models taught to the brightest of students assume that savings automatically turn into productive investment, leaving no room for crises.

It makes it hard when these graduates come face-to-face with reality. They are at a loss, for example, when they see German savings that permanently outweigh German investment while Greek investment outweighs savings during the “good times” (before 2008) but collapses to zero during the crisis.

Moving to the micro level, the observation that, in the case of Greece, real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped precipitously, while exports remained flat, illustrates in Technicolor how useless a microeconomics approach bereft of macro foundations truly is.

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I really don't know at what level of complexity someone must settle, in order to have a viable mathematical model to predict financial crisis... How many variables do you need? Then again a lot in economics depends on 'perception'. A FinMin will never discuss devaluation of his currency, the moment he does... The currency will drop. How can a mathematical model 'predict' such behaviours?

[1] https://theconversation.com/varoufakis-in-conversation-with-...
There is only one that allows for security exploits by design.
The main emotion involved in procrastination is disgust. A basic emotion that is as strong as fear, but is completely learned and can be attached to every kind of situation, activity or just the thought of starting them.

Procrastination is protecting yourself from feeling the upcoming revolting disgust these activities can bring. You avoid feeling it, like you avoid touching a hot plate, that's why the disgust never shows. Only when somebody forces you to do it anyway.

The (scientifically tested) theory for this is called Anstrengungsvermeidung (german for "effort/stress avoidance") and isn't widely adopted.
Yes, exactly. Why are you telling me this?

If we're talking about C, we should use the technical definition of "byte" as used by C.

Everywhere else, sure, let's view byte as a 8 bit entity. That's so predominant that everything else would be nit-picking.

But not in the context of the C language.
Researchers Wire Monkey Brains Together to Make a Super-Brain
I hope you realize your asking people to publicly commit a crime. Not making any value judgements, I just wanted to make sure you're aware.
I don't get why people always think that "programming for kids" has to be done with blocks and drag-drop interfaces. It feels like it limits the complexity of what you can build to what fits on a screen, and makes applying anything beyond basic programming logic (like functions) more complex. It also feels like talking down to them instead of letting them experience an actual challenge.

I think it would be far more pedagogically correct to build a simple scripting language than to limit kids to these interfaces. If it weren't for the sheer age of it, I'd still recommend http://tedfelix.com/qbasic/ as a way to wrap your head around the basics.
A System for Detecting Software Plagiarism
This is redirecting to the Nautilus home page.
My beef is when I read economists claims about perfect markets I think, 'Wow! With markets I should be able to solve the traveling salesman problem in polynomial time'
Complex or not, I don't care. I don't want to install node.js and npm and that's it. If I know the names of those two apps is already too much.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10092762
I think this article is much better at explaining procrastination: http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...
Asians Are Nearly Twice as Likely to Get a Higher Price from Princeton Review
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9944765
I'm an expert on this subject. I have something vital to contribute to this discussion, but I'll post about it tonight. Or maybe tomorrow. First thing, I promise. After breakfast. Or after coffee.
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There's a "Darmok and Jalad" xkcd for this phenomenon. Its #1217.

Maybe we should just shrug and say, "hmf, just another 1217".
Blowing the Whistle on Manipulation in NSE
So magnetic waves? Shouldn't those be called "electromagnetic waves"? What's new here? Just that they use a frequency that is transmitted well through the body?
Isn't this a different thing? Aren't you talking about links which the phone recognise as YouTube links and open the app for you? While the article is talking about popups.
http://licensecenter.ny.gov/business-licenses
I haven't looked at every state but I would be surprised if there was a state that had no business licenses.
Breaking the law, sure, but crime? Simple copyright infrineent tends not to be criminal. Other stuff is meeded - like selling the copyright material.
I never liked C.

Back when I got to learn it, around 1993, I had already used Turbo Pascal 3, 5.5 and 6.0.

C seemed so primitive and unsafe in regards to Turbo Pascal features.

However the same person that got me into C, also showed me C++.

There it was, a language that could be used as safely as Turbo Pascal, provided one made use of the language features instead of the C copy-paste compatibility.

When Turbo Pascal stopped being a possibility, I joined ranks with the C++ side, in the C vs C++ flame wars.

Even teached C++ at the university as a senior student.

Only used C instead of C++, when asked to do so by university teachers or customers.
How about a popup that tells you "get the fuck back to work otherwise you'll get fired and end up on yhe street" ?
Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /c++/: Nothing to repeat...

on query(['remote','c++'])
Did you call the front desk for assistance?

I used to work as a network analyst for a company providing high speed Internet for hotels across North and South America. The default network policies were quite aggressive (to limit network (ab)use). Other than opening up specific ports for various VPNs, the greatest number of calls received was to enable network access for gaming consoles.

Next time, give the front desk a call and ask. In an industry where customer satisfaction _really_ is a concern, they should be more than happy to forward your call to someone like me to help. :)
Citation? Maybe some sites do that, but I find it really hard to believe that Google issues keys with a CN of "*.google.com" to anyone else.
Somebody should create a CV with years of experience in all the worst technologies and circulate it through all the worst recruiters and see what happens.
Although I can understand your point of view, you must understand that creating a web based editor or IDE ( like Thimble ) has a ton of advantages. One being it helps people learn to code.

It helps them in this because they don't have to install and editor, they don't have to configure it and best of all the don't have to install and configure their development environment. All a user has to do is sign in, pick a language and start coding, it literally takes less then a minute.

Also the fact that they can collaborate in real time and get help from a friend, is not a small feature to have for them.

Although this may not sound appealing to you...their are many people where these features will make or break their initiative to start coding.

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It was the late '90s so it was probably the SVR4 port (I actually think a lot of those "ports" were little more than rebranding).
It's a genuine tweet I found, so decided to put it in there as a bit of a joke. Someone else once said to me they assumed the tweets were being automatically harvested and a bad one slipped in, so maybe I should take that one out?
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Nobody said micro services are meant "distributed" in the first place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10116783
wouldnt a cell evolve to find food from other sources?
Cycling to work boosts your mood and productivity
I simply close the page and move on: if they don't care about obscuring the content then surely they don't have much confidence in said content and neither should I.
It's not very easy for an average developer either. I have worked 12 years as a developer, know my way reasonably around linux, and find docker about as easy to understand as chinese.
This interview is almost incoherent.

Note the contradiction: "no involuntary unemployment and, indeed, no money" followed by "real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped".

The latter statement only contradicts Keynesian economics, which don't have relative prices (Keynesian economics has only real and nominal dollars of GDP) and uses money combined with sticky prices to explain involuntary unemployment.

But although in one sentence he seems to think the Greek experience contradicts Keynesian economics, he turns around and appeals to Keynesian economics a few minutes later: "the 3.5% primary target for 2018 would depress growth today".
Thanks, I'm currently working on some design tweaks in an effort to improve signups - currently around 2%
I got redirected too.

It seems this is the correct url:

http://nautil.us/blog/the-hidden-connection-between-morality...
Great idea, Erlang is very good for such tasks. Native communication between nodes, very high availability and fault tolerance (native as well) using "actor model"[1] and good performance. As an example, in one of my previous companies we built a message broker, which was able to keep 35K keep-alive connections on Amazon Medium EC2 instance and there still were reserves in CPU and Memory.

Plus it's easier to learn it than it seems first time when you see it. Most of our Erlang-developers came from other languages, but they learned basics very quick: 1-2 days until the first commit on production.

The only one thing, it's not so easy to debug it in the beginning. But it's a question of practice, I think.

[1] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/introduction#what-is-erlang
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Keeping Frank Clark Alive
Looks like some MS Access databases, and wow (for the bank)

edit: clarification
I don't want to be jack of all trades, I really don't have QA mindset and I don't like software testing as a black box, I prefer unit testing.
All of developers on my team hate when they have to do QA stuff.
It is like being hired to do plumbing, but being forced to do gardening :) It is all on the same property but completly different tasks and skillsets.
First i thought the title read "Google Will Soon Start Pushing Mobile Sites That Use Annoying App Install Ads" :)
So? If this is just a competition over how fucked up you can get per liquid volume, then pure grain alcohol beats everything else anyway.
Ask HN: Just want to make $1,000/mo from my SaaS, competing on price?
I aspire to be an actor, and I need a flexible job so I can audition anytime. I decided to start an SaaS startup. I'm currently a server at a restaurant, and the scheduling process is terrible -- excel sheets, manual paper schedules, etc. So I believe I can build a scheduling app that works and that restaurants actually use.

The market seems pretty saturated/crowded with little to no differentiation. In fact, it seems almost as if they're just competing on who has more features. As a solo founder who's just building a lifestyle startup, I don't want to go down the features route.

I plan to differentiate based mainly on ease of use (intuitive design, less irrelevant features that just simply don't apply to smaller restaurants) and price. Competitors now average $30/mo. I'd undercut them and take $20/mo for a simpler, no-bells-and-whistles solution.

There has to be an underserved market segment of really small restaurants (<10 employees) that would use my site instead, I believe. Or is this wishful thinking?

PS I once started an SaaS site that made about $1,300/mo at its peak, way less now though due to my disinterest (I took a year-long road trip, did loads of random stuff, had a YouTube career, wrote a book, etc. etc.).
I love how I'm doing support on this!

query(['remote',/c\+\+/])

The lack of quotes in the above example is 100% intentional ... copy and paste that exactly ... (js is kinda weird sometimes).

If you are really interested (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) will tell you more about it.
>Largest and best-funded social science program I've ever seen.

You should check out Facebook. There emotional manipulation studies are horrifying, but they certainly have access to many more person hours of time and collected data than Google does on end users.
I like Mark Blyth's brief summary[1] of this problem. Not only is it important to base your theories on actual data, it is also vitally important to remember that the map is not the territory. All models are an imperfect representation of reality, so they should always be viewed with appropriate scepticism, even when the math seems to work out elegantly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWbkPezgtU
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The content of the lecture notes[1] seem good, although I don't really like the presentation that much. Also, its difficult to follow just the notes without watching or listening to the lectures. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the online education websites (Coursera, EdX, etc.) Last year I took "The Hardware/Software Interface"[2] on Coursera and it was great.

[1]: Direct link to PDFs https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/AdvancedCompArchitecture/Lect...

[2]: Details: https://www.coursera.org/course/hwswinterface Course content: https://class.coursera.org/hwswinterface-002
Lucky for the drivers, it is not for the code that _goes_ in the car.
That's a pretty one-sided statement. One could easily argue the opposite, that good design is an art form, not a science.
WebAssembly
Alcohol at 20% ABV is absorbed more rapidly than alcohol at 40% ABV. The fizz in the beer will also help absorb the alcohol.

So in the short time (first few hours) vodka mixed with beer is going to hit harder.
Do you happen to know (I don't) if "caloric uptake" specifically has been studied closely?

No - I also don't know. I haven't seen it mentioned, but I also haven't seen reports about the amount of calories absorbed by the body change for no reason at all. So I'm not completely discarding the possibility, but I would like to see some studies and at least an attempt of explaining what might cause it.

The only logical explanation I can think of is a massive short term change in caloric extraction.

I can come up with some more:
1. The water retention, or the so-called "woosh effect"

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-sq...

What’s going on? Back during my college days, one of my professors threw out the idea that after fat cells had been emptied of stored triglyceride, they would temporarily refill with water (glycerol attracts water, which might be part of the mechanism). So there would be no immediate change in size, body weight or appearance. Then, after some time frame, the water would get dropped, the fat cells would shrink. A weird way of looking at it might be that the fat loss suddenly becomes ‘apparent’.

Now this article is not rich with links to science, so take it with a grain of salt.

2. As you lose weight, your caloric requirements naturally go down. So to remain in deficit, you have, unfortunately, revise your targets down from time to time, otherwise you reach balance and stop losing.

3. Somewhat related is the decrease in NEAT - Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. In short, you tend to be less active when you are in caloric deficit, and may not consciously notice it. Sorry for the same source again, it happens that this guy writes a lot on the subject.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-energy-balance...

For example, say you put yourself through 500 calories of hard activity but, due to fatigue, you sit on the couch more later that night, burning 300 calories less than you expended before training. The supposed 500 calorie deficit you’re creating is really only 200 calories because your SPA/NEAT has adjusted itself. You might expect one pound per week fat loss but the deficit is actually less than half of that

The whole article is a very good summary on the mathematics of weight/fat loss.
A counterargument: http://blog.codinghorror.com/i-tried-vr-and-it-was-just-ok/

TDLR; it seems as though people are excited about VR being exciting, instead of being excited about VR itself.
> When your site sends such a header, Chrome will verify if the current connection matches the pins, and sends a report to the report-uri if not.

Huh. I wonder if this can be used for exploits?
I'm guessing it doesn't have enough food stored (if any) to carry on dividing and mutating once you've stopped its food supply.
Why are you freeing b in foo?

It's confusing if you're mallocing in one scope and freeing it in another one (foo is especially confusing, besides being a disaster ready to happen). But if you write bar() like this:

void bar() {
char *b = malloc(123);

foo(b);

free(b);
b = NULL;
}

it looks all right.

Not that I'm advocating this kind of use. I have... mixed feelings about it. But I've seen it used and it doesn't have to be confusing.

Its primary merit is that it makes use-after-free cases immediately obvious, since they're going to trigger a segfault.

But there are better ways to achieve that.
Unfortunately, blip.tv is gone. There's no sure indication that all the content will be migrated, but the odds are low - there was a lot of content at blip.tv. Luckily, most of it is archived and being uploaded to archive.org and will be available sometime.
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Pure economics should be about applying abstractions to help us understand the world. The world is pretty sophisticated, so I'm fine with mathematically sophisticated abstractions. Even when those abstractions fail intuitively, they can be useful and extended for other subareas of economics or are simply philosophically fascinating. More often than not though, a lot of prominent theory seems impracticable or intractably limited. This is a valid criticism.

Noah Smith is slightly misdirecting his complaints though. If we're looking at applied economics or policy, the amount of math is not intimidating to anyone who has taken a couple of years of non-introductory statistics. The most important econometrics papers of the past few years apply basic regressions with only a few additional valid statistical techniques.
"But no allocations, that radically changes how one codes."

But this does not forbid implementing ones own memory manager that uses blocks from a huge continuous buffer.
The argument 'google says so' is addressed by the author in part [1]: Overall their argument for avoiding unsigned integers and sample code seems surprisingly weak for a company of the caliber of Google. The most important reason to use unsigned instead of signed is not self-documentation, it is to avoid undefined behaviour.

[1] http://blog.robertelder.org/signed-or-unsigned/
They are patenting what they develop.