skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell, this is the reason a lot of programmers begin programming. Personally, this is the reason I started programming and sadly 90% of jobs that are in the industry feel like utter bullshit to me - I simply can't be passionate about that new sports webapp (I hate sports) or inventory management something something. Especially webdev, of which I did most commercially, feels utterly awful to me. Of course those projects are important to someone, they may be passions of many people - just not of me personally. This creates a lot of tension and unease for me as an employee, especially now that us geek programmers are outnumbered by 'professionals', who came here to do jobs for money.
Just one of those words with several different regional pronunciations.

If you can believe Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_s... - Mom is sporadically regionally found in the UK (e.g., in West Midlands English). Some British and Irish dialects have mam,[117] and this is often used in Northern English, Hiberno-English, and Welsh English. Scottish English may also use mam, ma, or maw. In the American region of New England, especially in the case of the Boston accent, the British pronunciation of mum is often retained, while it is still spelled mom. In Canada, there are both mom and mum; Canadians often say mum and write mom.[118] In Australia and New Zealand, mum is used. In the sense of a preserved corpse, mummy is always used.
I watched Ethereum for several months after the initial announcement and was really excited about it. I know the network went live recently and it surprises me how little it's been discussed at places like HN.

How are things going as far as tech, adoption, etc for Ethereum for those in the know?
Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for (actually thinking how to cobble up together myself). So I guess I am target audience :)

I want to add that sites look awesome and this is perfect for large number of people, I just want to thank you one more time for making this, it is also excellent starting point for photo sites.
There's a broad grey area which includes both "being legally within your rights" and "being a fucking creep".

If you don't understand that, there's a very good chance you are _way_ too close to the latter.
I think people have misconceptions about photography. I.e. the photographer needs permission --they don't.

If you want to go against sexual harassment do so, I have no objection. I do object to people thinking that photography is automatic harassment. It's not.
Twenty Questions: A logic puzzle (2000)
Clojure?
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari – Review
Update to previous post:

A study on diet and APOE genotype showed that fat content affects APOE 4 and APOE 2 or 3 people differently.

"No diet can be recommended unequivocally without knowing more about those being targeted. Even though a MUFA-rich diet increases LDL size compared with a CHO-rich diet, this effect is dependent on apoE genotypes. Thus, the replacement of a CHO diet by a MUFA diet increases LDL-size in apoE 3/3, whereas it decreases it in apoE 4/3 subjects"

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/134/10/2517.full.pdf+html
What did you expect to be able to do with it, exactly?
"The most recent paper to investigate the safety of ultrasound was just published [...] Of note is that this study used energy levels to tissue that were orders of magnitude higher than levels that uBeam’s system uses."

The abstract at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041624X15...:

"Demonstrated in vitro, 0.6 W of transcutaneous ultrasound power transfer to an implant.[...] with an average RF input to electrical charging efficiency of 20%"

So, at best, 3W is "orders of magnitude higher than levels that uBeam’s system uses". That will charge your remote, but not your phone.
Maryland Debacle Shows Why We Must Get Football Out of Our Universities
It's actually the law:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-snowpack-2015033...
HoustonTracker: a music editor/sequencer for TI calculators
Or as if I am a pacifist -- also having written frequently here against all kinds of violent retribution, including the death penalty.

Imagine that.
If it were an affiliate link, it would do that. But it isn't, so it doesn't.

See my other comment for details.
The Library of Babel
I care about solutions not others anger.

The top comment ATM is about punching someone in the face.

Do you think suffrage was solved by childish flame wars or hard work?
Agreed. There is not very much at all about the inspectors. It was a good read all the same.
> The decisions are being made by the same people who want the company's original 1970s COBOL application to keep running until the heat death of the universe.

Neither Google nor Mozilla have COBOL applications from the 1970's.

Given what I've heard from people who work on Chrome say about the people who work on MSFT's browser, MSFT has recently also become very interested in making software development for a web browser easier, better, and safer.

> The Web has the same problem with ancient deployments that management thinks should just keep working unchanged for decades.

We're talking about new features marked as experimental and unstable by the folks who write and maintain the browser that implements that feature. As I said in a previous comment, even Microsoft has the backbone to break in-the-field software that makes use of undocumented or experimental APIs.

We're not talking about changing or removing XMLHttpRequest. We're talking about changing or removing blink-experimental-webgl-blink-tag-over-web-rtc-ea59f01.
From my perspective - there was a time, when not every household had a computer. I lived in that time. And compared to today, I'd absolutely hate it to get back.

But I also hate how the world is different from what it could be if we as a whole cared about actually solving real problems instead of making money. The world could be optimized more. It's not. We've created lots of cruft and triviality. Even our tools of social interaction are designed to be barely working, the minimum amount of value that will still make people use it so that they can be monetized.

We've created really powerful technologies. And we're using them to like 5% of their capabilities for actually making the world better.
In photography there are all kinds of people. Yes, some people are creeps, some people like taking upskirt photos (illegal in most places). I get it, some people take advantage of telephoto lenses to take creep shots, I know.

What I'm getting out there is that people have a misconception that you need permission to take their (regular) photo. You do not.
Rennaisance Technologies as in mrsync? Good software.
How did we get from "unsolicited selfies with, or down-blouse shots of women at tech conferences" to "art"?

The problem we're talking about is creeps, not photographers, no matter what the creeps claimed motivation is - it's blindingly obvious to almost everybody that there is a difference (and posts like yours are really hard not to read as defending/justifying creep's behaviour).
Last-mile solution is exactly how they are marketing them on http://www.boostedboards.com .
Making assumptions based on state of the real-world is condescending?

Also, please present your thoughts instead of telling others what to do based on your world-view.
I think the software architect role is outdated by now?

I've yet to meet even a CTO that doesn't get his hands dirty with code from time to time.
In a word, "permission"

It comes from knowing street photographers and the flack they get. People ready to beat them up (occasionally they do get beaten). At times it's men "protecting" someone. At time it's men themselves who feel offended. Sometimes it's women themselves who feel offended. You also get people who feel flattered. But overall they are simply "subjects"
Universities are struggling to find balance between academic openness and the need for computer security across their networks.

Let's not forget cheapness. Perhaps a major issue is that most of the "academic have nots" are expected to buy their own computers and software. Disclaimer: My spouse is such a worker. As a result, there's a proliferation of computers on the academic network, with varying levels of security installed, and no incentive to secure them further.

My spouse's attitude is pretty typical: If they want security, they can buy her a computer, otherwise it's her personal property and they're not allowed to touch it. The research labs are off limits to the IT staff because "updates" cause old computers running lab equipment to stop working.
Off the electrical grid ≠ independent of society.
I wrote this article 12 years ago and it took me until I saw my own name in the comments to realize it was my own article. Now I want to take the advice of the commenters and make it work for YouTube videos our animated gifs - except have them play on a large LED array.

This brings back some great memories if trying to explain to my the girlfriend why I didn't want to go look at engagement rings, "Y'know that old computer under my desk with the noisy fan? Right now thousands of nerds are visiting it to read an article about how I used the printer system to play music."

Fwiw - the original is still up: http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandmp...
I spent a while trying to explain the purpose behind the numbers when it came up, but no, it really just kept coming back to the variance numbers being big. Not "why is the estimate for this so uncertain?", but more "Why is this number 100000? That's big".

This was actually not a time estimate. We were estimating the footprint for our production deployment for a very complicated distributed system. Most of the pieces were only in early development and the load model itself was uncertain by orders of magnitude.

It's a situation where statistics is easily applied, if you know statistics. If you don't, you'll never even realize it would have helped and keep saying that math is useless outside of school.
You derailed a few paragraphs ago.
Maybe I just had some substandard science curriculum. We got pretty much the 10000, or 100000 foot view of most topics.

I think the bigger problem is that US education is so overwhelmingly aligned with teaching to what is on the SAT. There are a hundred basic life skills that are scandalously neglected in favor of pushing everybody up to calculus (ignoring a lot of the geometry and trig that is useful to know if you end up working in trades) and finely tuning our abilities to churn out five paragraph SAT essays. Shop and Home-ec classes have been slashed. Everybody should be able to bake a cake, hem a pair of pants, balance a checkbook, change their oil, replace a lawn-mower belt, understand a loan agreement or lease, hang a shelf, etc.
Very well stated. The techniques do overlap.

I will make one point in favor of the author though, and that is the selling of ideas might be required for those who could benefit from them, but lack motivation or vision to see the implications.

Used wisely, this is a tool to get people engaged. Once there, it's back to critical thinking, etc...
It's funny to me because looking at the resume of the article op, you see she is in marketing.
OT: TI-83 should cost < $20 by now, based on costs of materials and that the r&d has been paid off for years.
Some interesting anecdotes on the placebo effect in games from the developers of League of Legends: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/36gop4/rio...
I really don't understand the appeal of these static site generators. Why don't people just toss something like CloudFlare in front of their dynamic sites and turn the edge caching up. I mean this is free, the bandwidth expenses are covered, and you now have a globally accessible site.

Unless you're just trying to get away with hosting your whole site as a GitHub page ;)
The Nobel committee would disagree: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/

Things change. For all intents and purposes, this is a nobel prize in economics, given that the winners are referred to as Nobel laureates by the Nobel committee.

If anything, I think we put a bit too much weight in these awards in general which leads to silly articles like this one.

This shouldn't necessarily be taken as support for the economic research selected for prizes as much as a response to attacking the prize on the basis of it being in economics.
It's not "complimentary", though. They're paying for every gallon, at the price that the utility has set.

I think I have to agree with those who have been saying that if the utility actually wants this to stop, they should change their pricing structure.
Not just that.. I didn't fully read it myself, and it ends with this:

> In recent decades, farmers and cities have both made strides in reducing their water use. Already, the agricultural industry has embraced techniques like drip irrigation. Farmers are using about the same amount of water as they did in 1960s, but they have doubled the amount of money they get.

> The argument for focusing urban conservation may come down to practical concerns. It takes time and investment to make farms more efficient, and the state has already put money into encouraging farmers to buy efficiency upgrades. During drought emergencies, water use can be curtailed faster by simply telling people not to water their lawns.

> Besides, the cities are growing. Unless wasteful practices (like grass lawns) can be untaught now, urban users will start to consume more and more of the state’s water.

Egg on my face, and apologies to anyone mislead by my being sloppy, that wasn't my intention.
> Actually, the person making those things could also have chosen to live a simpler life and only be working part time. It's their choice.

I did not interpret the point you responded to the same way as you. It's not about that individual's choice, but about the necessity for some person to be producing those products under those working conditions, in order for the off-grid folks to be able to consume them.

For some people, there's an implicit hypocrisy in visibly "opting-out" of a lifestyle if your new lifestyle necessitates that others have to fill in behind you. For others, yourself included I guess, it's just a market and anything goes.
"the "right" answers select for a particular political perspective, notably the question about banking."

No they don't. The article gave two nuanced answers from different perspectives:

"A simple answer might be ... just the outcome of a competitive labour market...."

“An alternative story is that the banking industry is not competitive ..."

My Oxford interview (>20 years ago, mind) had a mixture of technical-ish questions (calculate the equilibrium point of these two demand/supply curves) and more open-ended ones (is inflation good or bad, and why?).
>Building construction is also fraught with unexpected events and project management issues etc., but I'd laugh any building who would propose that I just keep paying them until it's done,

In practice, though, this is exactly how building construction and civil engineering works. After all, if the bridge is half-built, what's the customer going to do? Walk away? When was the last time you heard about any large civil engineering project coming in on time or on budget? It's to the point where we're relieved when the project ends up within an order of magnitude of its projected cost.
I believe you could have emoji in your terminal with an oh-my-zsh plugin, if you use the zsh shell.
Reminds me of how different people appreciate and create distinctions between "high art", pop art, lowbrow art, and outsider art.

Reading Yelp reviews makes me cringe at all the people who demand attentive service from restaurant staff, and all the attention to venue and atmosphere. Personally, when I go to a restaurant, generally I go to find some tasty food, atmosphere is always besides the point. Obviously some people factor in obscure details of food venue experiences to their reviews and they care about those things. As in music, some people love obscure subgenres of repetitive techno or metal, or specific renditions of classical songs played at a certain venue during a specific point in time by a regional musician, played at a specific pacing.

Reviews are always someone else's opinion, which is great if the reviewer can articulate the goods and bads of their personal experience for others to relate to.

What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/magazine/fine-dining-for-s...
japanese falls completely outside this generalization.
edit: on further investigation mama and baba are used very informally but it appears these are loanwords.
For what it's worth, the Boosted Boards in the bike lane on Market St in SF seem to get along pretty well with bicycles. I think it helps that they are pretty zippy and don't take up an unnecessary amount of road space (like an electric moped does). There is more of a conflict when the Boosted riders hop on the sidewalk...
The fact that you can do that in a plugin is one of the main reasons plugins are being dropped. It turns out that blocking I/O on the main thread is not a good thing.

Oh, and you can in fact do blocking I/O in JavaScript in a worker, if you're not talking about doing it on the main thread.
Most of your friends have children, then drink and drive? And "my idea" is what's wrong here?

I don't even know where to begin...
You've been on the site an hour. Lurk more.
You can use S3 to make hosting your site super simple, and super cheap.

I don't understand why people use a database for content that (for the most part) doesn't need one.
>>Do you think suffrage was solved by childish flame wars or hard work?

Actually, I don't need to just wonder. There's plenty of historical evidence to show that suffragettes not only engaged in physical violence, but vicious rebukes of their opponents. At this point you've really shown that you don't know that much about the topic.
Will this work with videos that aren't already subtitled? I haven't gotten one without subtitles to work yet maybe I'm just not waiting long enough though.
Bitcoin is a solution. Ethereum is an experiment. Both noble pursuits.
They can also lose $100m+ in a single hour. The math is so incredible, it's really difficult to get one's head around.
Sounds nice in theory, but I've never once been involved in a bike accident that was caused to any degree by my helmet, and I've been unvolved in two accidents that weren't of my doing (or even avoidable), both of which destroyed my helmets.

Accidents, by definition, aren't entirely avoidable.

I'm not for helmet laws, but let's be reasonable about the benefits helmets provide, with very little downside.
To your point about getting software out the door. I've run into a type of developer on more than one occasion that I call "refactoring kings". Invariably, they're on the hunt for commits and how they can make it "better". Of course any 20 lines of code has the possibility of being refactored infinitely to a better state.

That said, the post was pretty spot-on, if a little tongue-n-cheek. The trick is to know what battles to fight. I've recently come aboard a small team where the main developer is more of a DBA than "coder", so there's lots of best practices missing. But we're in a startup mode, and I don't have the time to refactor the whole damn thing. If I see something egregious, I'll fix it, but there's code battles that I'll defer for another day.
Good, but I was hoping for Intellectual Vultures to be busted.
Not really.

In terms of dollars they produce quite a bit of value, because they produce premium fresh vegetables at times when they're out of season elsewhere, but you say you don't want to do that.

In terms of actual keep-people-from-starving-to-death calories, California doesn't produce a whole lot (that would be the Midwest and the Canadian prairie provinces). No one is going to die if fresh organic artichokes become unavailable.
While you're right in the sense that it wasn't established by Alfred Nobel, most of the criticism in your article is nonsense.

The 'Economics isn't science' defence doesn't hold when you've got 'literature' and 'peace' prizes.
I'm interested in it, mainly as a tool of regulatory arbitrage. I chiefly find it interesting as a means of making decentralized prediction markets. Our governments don't seem to want to allow the innovation. However, if we can get a decentralized Prediction market liquid and running, then I think there will be significant pressure for the government to legalize centralized prediction markets, which will be much more efficient.
So it doesn't actually matter whether "they" (whichever "they" we're talking about at the moment) get more or less or the same amount of flak as everyone else? The ONLY thing that matters is that they are a minority, and that automatically makes them persecuted whether or not they're treated differently?
Wth people. Just set laststatus=0.
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> Can you elaborate on what do you think would be the great step forward?

As someone with little knowledge of the field or the science involved, my ideas are largely borrowed from others much smarter than myself. Steve Jurvetson, a VC from DFJ who regularly talks about this field, engineering solutions through evolution, and Gordon Moore. Craig Venter was a fundamental force in sequencing the entire human genome this research made companies like Anne Wojcicki's 23AndMe possible. They are the people who will likely provide the true merit of this endeavor.

My thoughts:

* Early diagnosis. This is one of the most obvious ones. With companies like theranos providing quick testing equiptment and the price of sequencing plummeting, having gentic evidence to compare for risk factors and real-time blood tests, the ability to diagnose things early would be amazing.

* Cures. Broadly, the ability to read, write and interpret genetic sequences would allow for personalized medicine and curing genetic illnesses one was predisposed to.

* Adaptation. If we were able to have access to a dataset so massive, we were able to uderstand and curate genes. Outside of basic gene therapy and medacine we could actively enhance humans. This could possibly provide electronic interface with our own wetware, the extension of life, or otherwise change aspects of the human condition that were not desirable.

* Creation. This is controversial, so I will leave it there.

There are so many ways even with current technology that would provide positive things if we had this data and the tools to analyze it. I am excited for this. Similar to AI which will bifurcate between extinction or utopia, this has quite a large upside but also some substantial negatives.
>I imagine because really talented folks are tend to be confident

It sounds like you make the same mistake as everyone else, thinking there is some connection between confidence and technical skill.

Appearing confident is completely unrelated to programming ability. confidence is a skill one needs to learn separately.
Can mods please add [2013] to the title.
A lot of people don't live in a climate that is good for biking / boarding year round.
Why does Ethereum help, and why do you believe Ethereum is invulnerable to the law?
What does rape have to do with this situation?