skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't "taste" better on their own, but the fact remains that fresh yolk is firmer. Firmer yolks yield better results in some recipes, thus creating a better product, and tasting better. Also, texture wise, fresh eggs are better. Taste involves all the senses.
I watched the film Oddball with my son, it was actually pretty awesome. It's got Alan Tudyk, and the guy who played Kenny (Shane Jacobson), which is a guy who has a passion for portable dunnies (key movie quote "There's a smell in here that will outlast religion") [1].

Watch them both if you want to understand Aussie culture :-)

1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822389/quotes
> Maybe I should release my mobile game on desktop instead.

Don't. Add more substance to it to make it a desktop game, then release. And maybe not even then, since Steam is going the app store route.
This code was already difficult and confusing and the author obviously pokes fun at his own code by decimalizing the constants. No need to accuse him of elitist or immoral behaviour.
I haven't read the paper and IANABiophysicist, but I have read that fuzzy-logic-like non-linear functions can actually be computed at the junctions where dendrite branches come together... and there are quite a lot of those per neuron. Of course many components of a neuron behave non-linearly to some degree. So yes, quite a lot like a whole ANN.
There's a distinction to be made between rapid neoliberal deregulation policies which naively attempt for a full "shock therapy" solution in an economy already devastated by accumulated allocative inefficiency from central planning and oil shocks (in the case of the USSR), and the general concept of laissez-faire which is separate from a particular national policy and can emerge by counter-economic means (e.g. crypto-anarchism), or others.

Chile and the Chicago Boys is a bit disingenuous to regard as outright failure, it's a controversial subject. Keep in mind that the Chicago School are a unique economic position, but they've been oversimplified to "free market" in common discourse.
To add to your answer: mental illness isn't all or nothing, it's not either you're a normal person with free will vs. you're crazy and everything you say is crazy. People with depression, bipolar, many other mental illnesses could be completely normal when you meet them but still classified as having a mental illness. It's possible to keep a normal life, a normal job, yet be aware that you are, in some way, "mentally ill".
"The Rise of the Stupid Network" (1997) is the quintessential essay on this topic, and unfortunately still relevant today. http://www.isen.com/stupid.html
No problem. Just don't underestimate the importance of the iPod (or christian ethics -- not just as an inhibitor, as they are now seen, but also as a progressive and important force for centuries).
Deaths under Pinochet: 3000, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_of_Chile.... Deaths under Mao: 20,000,000 - 70,000,000, according to http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Mao. Deaths under Stalin: 20,000,000 - 50,000,000 according to http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Stalin. Deaths in 1990s Russia: I can't even find a source.

So if 1990s Russia and Pinochet's Chile are examples of extreme free market experiments, I'd take the human misery they cause over the human misery of extreme no-market experiments any day.
The worst phase of learning how to code
That would be one way to look at it. The other way is that companies can put their data wherever they like.
> Aside from the fact that much of the code that was “released” was sub-par, the very act of putting code out into the world implied (whether intentionally, or not) a willingness to participate in a social contract with those who chose to use it for their own purposes.

Not to disparage the 100:10:1 method, but I do disapprove of this implication. I don't want people to refrain from putting things out there, just because they don't want to feel obligated to support them.

I have a public blog, where I try to maintain quality, and a semi-private blog where I try to allow myself to post stuff I'm not sure about, stuff that's not interesting to anyone other than me, stuff I don't necessarily want associated with my public persona, and so on. I know others do similar things.[1]

I think there's no particular mechanism to do that with open source, but it might be valuable. Perhaps I could have two github accounts, one where I'll put anything I feel like, and one where I put stuff I'm proud of and want to remain proud of. If something's on my "real" github, I'm saying that if you ask for support I'll try to help you, if you report a bug I'll try to fix it. If it's on, let's call it my shithub, there's no social contract. Take a look if you want, and feel free to report bugs, but I might just say "yeah, that's a bug". Or even just "not interested in that project any more, I'm not going to bother confirming this".

Then, if you want to follow this method and also want to make most of your code public, you can write down the 100, put the ten on your shithub, and publish one to your github.

[1] E.g. http://slatestarcodex.com/ versus http://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/
IRC has unsung heroes in every room. Regulars in #ubuntu will each have answered thousands of questions over just a few months.
If the pressure cooker is inferior to boiling water, I wonder if that means the optimal temperature is actually below boiling. Perhaps a sous vide setup could be even better. Be a fun experiment for someone to run.

It also occurs to me that there is significant evidence of numerous "cooking myths" that lasted for decades or centuries before falling to the first person to finally put them to the test. Seems like fertile ground for some interesting high school science projects that could get some interesting results.
Maybe you shouldn't. The post is a description of one person's method and should not be taken as prescriptive.
Liang Zelich Theorem – Neuberg cubic to the Euler pencil of isopivotal cubics
Am I the only one who is constantly surprised that these treaties can be negotiated in secret?
This is exactly why the Baidu study is important. China is so big and data quality so poor that you can create your own version of ghost city narrative ("big crash" or "people moving in no worries" etc.) by selecting 10 cities. Even looking at things at a gross level ("cement/steel consumed") can only hint at the massive over-investment in property. Even the govt. is probably not sure.
What do you think business is? When it's overall cheaper to murder someone than pay them, it's good business to murder them.
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Rr in VMWare: Solved
Ask HN: Personal, local, (portable?) Knowledge Database
Is there an easy to use personal knowledge database you can recommend? I am trying to bring order to the chaos of ten years of putting reusable code snippets, infos on a specific weird API call, problems I might come across at a different customer (I am a consultant), etc. into text files, Word docs, PDF files, what have you. I tried to follow some sort of file system hierarchy, but tagging and categorizing would be better - do I put it under some code keyword, or under the topic? What if it fits more than one topic?

I tried TiddlyWiki and put it into Dropbox, but soon realised I cannot really add arbitrary attachments, which makes sense given the nature of the Wiki. The idea of just having one syncing file is still nice, though. Maybe something bigger, but following the same principles, like one file (maybe an archive or so), or a directory?

I know I could just put up some other Wiki software on a host of maybe some Atlassian knockoff, that's not the problem, but then in real life I still don't always have good network access everywhere (for some obscure reason many companies still restrict network access, have shitty proxy configurations, etc.). At the other end some local software that only works on a specific OS and the DB only on one laptop is also not convenient - and I have to overcome the urge to just add this new tidbit to the old file dump and get around to using the new way soon(TM)...
These people don't have control over their mental faculties; they aren't competent enough to make a choice for what is best for them in the same way that minors aren't allowed to go truant or to consent to sex with an adult.

If you are all there in the head, by all means live on the streets, stay filthy, don't eat and ignore people, but this man has a brain disease that makes him lose control of his mind.

If he was forcefully taken to the hospital, forcefully given medication, and recovered he would exclaim "Thank you for saving me! I had a disease in my brain that lead me to believe in crazy things: to be paranoid of police and even medical personnel. I spent 2 years on the streets suffering like this with no place I believed could help me, but you cured me."

If I had a mental disorder that made me go crazy--so crazy that it doesn't even enter my mind that I need help--I would hope that my government would restore my sanity (as I am unable to do so).
Some are shit; but there are some real gems out there too. The real problem is with us developers. In the beginning of the app stores we were all charging reasonable rates, but as the number of apps increased there was a race to the bottom in pricing. Everyone kept lowering prices until everything was 99 cents and then after that free...

This is of course in keeping with basic economics; when the supply is this high we approach marginal costs. In the app market marginal costs are zero.

I agree with the overall view of the medium article that it is easier to make money on the web (again) these days. If you aren't already a mobile big fish developer then enterprise applications and contracting are the only ways to consistently stay in the green.
Patenting an organism that you've tweaked, tuned and bent to your will is, in the end, no different than patenting a unique alloying mix or manufacturing machine.

They aren't patenting the organism per se, they're patenting the processes they've developed that make use of the organisms as the scaffold/factory. In the case I outlined previously of a yeast making a drug, you would want the patent on the cellular machinery that you've built to make the drug, which is the process.
that's in fact the way I learned it and ynab doesn't look like it.
however I didn't seen many people who use double accounting for their personal budget?
maybe i didn't seen enough people yet, since it looks like that a lot of hn'er using double accounting...
Why aren't there anti-stingray ROMs or apps yet?

In my, admittedly naive, understanding is that cel towers have signatures. For instance, using Tasker for Android, I can know when I'm near home by the tower it detects. When the Stingray overpowers that tower, can't I just have a tasker task or an app or something that would detect that and shut down my celphone?

*Note: I don't really need this, but if the law wants a tech fight, they should get one.
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Agreed there are many other fundamental issues with the program. However I chose to tackle rates first since it has strong examples and solutions. The other issues are more controversial and I haven't formulated a comprehensive fix for them yet. But I will in the future. :)
And we'd love to see more! Information and instructions for submitting your project are in the link above.

(I'm part of the GNU evaluation team.)
i like your sideprojectors project. One bug in comment system. It always says "posted one second ago" no matter how old the comment is.
I wonder if police will also harass congresspeople, guess we are about to find out.
This looks exactly like a hacktx Hack I saw
http://devpost.com/software/filter-me
Rather than add 0x3030303030303030, you could OR with it because you know there will never be a carry. This may save cycles on some architectures.
It's a good and common practice to keep the constants in the sanest form and not obfuscate them, see the collections of such functions, like the already quoted

http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/

or like

https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

By keeping the decimal constants he diminishes the chance to be attributed.
I take it you've had a bad experience with ActiveAdmin?

Even with its "DSL" (I wouldn't call it a DSL) it's pretty customisable and can do pretty much anything brought up in the article here http://activeadmin.info/docs/documentation.html
you don't need the auto balancing.

You could definitly write:
2015/10/12 Exxon
Expenses:Auto:Gas $10.00
Liabilities:MasterCard $-5.00
Liabilities:Visa $-5.00

It's still valid. However it would fail if you put a 5 and 4 here if your expense is 10.

I'm still not sure how it decides between active and passive (since Expenses and Liabilities could also be other words like the german ones: "Ausgaben", "Verpflichtungen" and the program works with them, too but It can't know if its active or passive. so I don't know what would happen if I make a transaction on two aktivas, like Bank to Cash or Bank to Fund)
Sounds great, will check out the documentation and try to hook it into our CD system, thanks for the update.
>The logs will show every web site you visited – for example, bbc.com – as opposed to the specific pages on that website, for example bbc.com/news.

>This information, especially when accumulated over a period of a year, would still be highly personal, potentially revealing your political preferences, sexuality, religion, medical problems, and other details that could be used to draw inferences about your private life.

Would there be any merit in people installing a script en mass to regularly access a list of legal URLs? If the logs show that everyone was visiting VD Clinic, Text-files.com, pastebin, Catholic News, Muslim News, Atheist News, 4chan, pornhub, and so on regularly then surely it must make the spying less effective and also offer some plausible deniability?

This may be a terrible idea, just thinking out loud.
Indeed. They are more like GUI faked by the command line.
I have worked n both academia and private sector. Its not really that big a deal wearing a shirt / suit. Its strikes me as kind of immature thinking you are really sticking it to the man by refusing to wear a suit. They are paying you to be there so essentially you are in a minature dictatorship anyway. Not wearing a suit you are only kidding yourself.
Mental illness isn't always that simple, though. I don't know much about schizophrenia but I know at least some mental issues won't always respond the same way to medication in different people - sometimes different medicines need to be tried, sometimes they need some sort of therapy e.g. CBT either instead of or along side drugs, sometimes they don't get cured at all. I'm not enough of an expert to talk in much more detail, though.
To clarify, is fracture toughness the ability to withstand a sudden increase in energy?
I didn't feel like it brought up any of the changes they wanted that ActiveAdmin couldn't solve apart from the auth-solution.

When it comes to alter anything within the MVC stack, ActiveAdmin does offer a lot. Maybe I am missing something here?
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They're at least annoying for some people to deal with.
I'd argue that most of them are the government's fault, but in favor of more regulation (and bigger teeth), not less.
No, if I read right, it would mean that the government cannot require you to store your data within your government's jurisdiction.
A Heap of (less) Complexity: Binomial Heaps
I would treat anything from Baidu with a grain of salt, mainly Baidu is not the most technical competent company, even among Chinese companies. There are other researches on ghost cities using methods like at night counting the number of units with lights on and do this for consequtive n nights, or measure the total power consumption over a period of time.
They have had an official government commitment to supporting biotech research for years and have built up a local biotech industry. Despite the embargo, they are doing a lot of advanced research in the areas of disease management, genetics, cancer and other biotech fields.
Not to be too rude on the matter, but I'm technically mentally ill by US standards. I have Major Depression, General Anxiety Disorder, and Gender Dysphoria. By your logic, I should be cloistered in some hospital until I "get better" rather than work (which I do in software development for a firm) and participate in society (Mostly online, but it's better than nothing, anxiety sucks).

When does this become a problem such that your naive views makes it impossible for people like me to integrate ourselves into society? Putting up in a soft version of prison isn't going to help us.

I can personally tell you that I have plenty of agency and I understand my situation. Please stop generalizing your naive views, okay?
Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers
The statistic you want for russia is the life expectancy. Russians are dying very young. The situation got worse after 1990s.
I think this is the problem left-wing/liberal/socialist thinking. It sounds great - nobody should be on the streets - we have enough resources to house everyone. And then a little while later it's some kind of totalitarian nightmare with people forced to live in institutions as you think you know better for them, and anyone who doesn't agree with your way of life must be insane.
How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less Busy
Published, 1986.
If Lyft could prove that Uber did this, shouldn't they be entitled to billions in damages?
The latter, of course. Novartis and other pharma giants are heavily behind the TPP because it would send their profits through the roof relative to currently.
Silicon Valley’s money-burning internet companies could learn lesson from China
Micro-optimization for UUID.fromString in 7 steps
It's widely assumed that these trade agreements are simply pro-hegemony anti-China agreements, so in that case it makes sense for the US to try and work two different deals to get as much out of each as possible.
> These businesses went kaput when industrialization came along.

You are equating a renaissance in labor to Walmart? Industrialization brought new jobs to the table as well. If you used to be a professional seamstress, and you were replaced by a machine, you can now go learn how the machine works and go repair them for all the factories, or help them install them. More than likely you probably got paid more now because of the increased productivity.

When Walmart comes into your town, and desolates your small business, you can go work for that Walmart, in a reduced role, with a fraction of the pay.

edit: basically tw04's comment.
> These businesses went kaput when industrialization came along.

You are equating to a renaissance in labor to Walmart? Industrialization brought new jobs to the table as well. If you used to be a professional seamstress, and you were replaced by a machine, you can now go learn how the machine works and go repair them for all the factories, or help them install them. More than likely you probably got paid more now because of the increased productivity.

When Walmart comes into your town, and desolates your small business, you can go work for that Walmart, in a reduced role, with a fraction of the pay.
15 official world records set by robots
The very concept of a leap second is flawed. Given two times (say T1 and T2) we need to be able to compute, accurately, the elapsed time. Time series data becomes difficult to interpret accurately.
What programmers can learn from economists: fundamentals and models
This is the clause demanded by some of the alcoholic beverage manufacturers, which is to say they paid for that specific clause to be implemented even though it has no real global benefit and may harm smaller local groups in NZ producing similar goods. This should not be seen as a surprise to anyone.
There's a way of thinking about things like "Tennessee Whiskey" and "champagne" that makes good business sense: They're basically shared regional brands.

In Europe, many traditional kinds of cheese, alcohol and meat are covered by a system known in various countries as AOC (France, Appellation d'origine contrôlée) or DOC (Italy, Denominazione di origine controllata). Conceptually speaking, the idea goes something like:

1. Large-scale producers can always just create a trademark and market it. Customers will be able to recognize the product and evaluate it based on its reputation.

2. Small-scale producers, however, lack the reach to advertise and be recognized on their own. But what if they're making a traditional, high-end product for which their region is famous? Well, we could set up a shared "brand", where anybody from the right region can agree to follow traditional recipes and have their quality judged. And eventually, customers will realize that Parmigiano-Reggiano means "a certain kind of really good traditional Parmesan cheese from Italy."

Under this system, the right way to think of things like "champagne" and "Tennessee Whiskey" is to treat them as a particular kind of brand. Any company can sell products under this brand, provided (a) they come from the right region, and (b) they meet a certain set of quality standards.

The system of AOC/DOC seems to work well for both "foodie" customers (who want to be able to recognize a high-quality traditional product), and small- to mid-size producers (who get to pool their branding efforts). The only cost of this system is that names like "Tennessee Whiskey" essentially become international trademarks under the control of a regional organization.
We are suffering, but we won't give up so easily.

I am in the top 1-2% of Android developers [1], and while I've found it relatively easy to reach decent traction with a few apps (say 1000 downloads a day, or say $1000 a month), it is very challenging to keep an app in the very top (25k downloads a day, or making more than $15k a month) for very long.

You can put a good fight during your first month, since you can make it very high in the "Top New" rankings, but after that you are against the big guys.

As the article says, paid promotion is a prohibitive channel. At the usual free to paid conversion rates, making ads pay off is extremely difficult.

These two points the article makes are flat out wrong:

> The search function is unusable unless you know the name of the app you’re looking for

Absolutely no. SEO (we call it ASO in the app store) is important, and keyword search is a definitely a source of organic installs.

> This means that unless you actively manage your reviews, expect to have a 2–3 star average.

No way, a high quality app can have a 4.5+, and many decent ones have at least 4.0+.

[1] Not me personally, but the small company I cofounded
They can compel your neighbor's landlord to let them in though.