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I was preemptively horrified before I clicked your Minecraft link. I taught a summer camp for middle/high school kids that wanted to learn how to make Minecraft mods. It was a disaster.

We specifically put that the kids must have programming experience in a Java-like language before beginning, but all the affluent parents saw was, "Get your kids out of the house for 9 hours a day for an entire week!"

Don't get me wrong: the kids were stoked. They even had some incredible ideas for mods. One kid's idea was that an entire building would generate based on the location of placed bricks, the type of brick, and how high you stacked the bricks. We liked it so much that we built it and gave it to the students to play with. Problem is that only 2 of 30 had any programming experience at all, and Minecraft development (at least back then) was not exactly beginner friendly. I just wasn't possible to teach Java development and Minecraft's library in a week.

I guess my point in all this is to say that I'm glad that they're taking the initiative to make programming more kid-friendly with Minecraft. I hope that they can expand the foundation built by Scratch (loops, conditionals, etc.) to allow kids to see their crazy ideas come to fruition.
The article talks about how jellyfish create areas of low pressure in front of them to pull them forward. I wonder if top human swimmers can do something similar.

Phelps, for example, has an unusual cadence in his freestyle stroke at the end of the 200IM. He takes two strokes and then pauses for a brief period; its like a polska rhythm. Maybe some part of this is creating a void in front of him. Its visible in this video (around 2:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cjwuJiwevo)
According to the below website IE has the largest market share on desktops. I'm not sure how accurate these stats are.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...
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OP here. Thanks for the feedback, I've tested with uBlock and AdBlock Plus, will give ghostery a go as well.
I'd argue that startup time is very low on the list of things you want from your development system. Sure, quicker startup time is better, so improve it if you can, but you being productive in it once it's up is a lot more important, for example.
Kayak does this. I think most of the flight search flights offer it.
I was curious about the list of conditions it can detect. I wonder how long it takes, how long between uses, what the maintenance is. When will I be able to walk into Walgreens and get my results?

"enables gold standard real-time diagnosis of any disease with a genetic fingerprint"
I'm the opposite. I think the e-cigs often smell kind of good and the scent is quickly gone. Also the smell doesn't instantly get into my clothes. Different kind of particulates I guess.
I agree. "Silicon Valley" is a step up from "Big Bang Theory", but we don't have a primetime show like "Grey's Anatomy" or "The Good Wife."
>If you don't want to see ads, you pay a small amount using bitcoins. I don't see it working unless it's forced upon you.

Reminds me of that Black Mirror episode. Spoiler: things go very badly if it's forced upon you.
Programming also seems like a pretty clear path to management (if that's your goal), which is one of the best upper-middle class professions there is. And once you've proven the ability to manage a team it is much easier to translate that into non-technical management, which opens you up to a plethora of different positions, particularly if you have advanced education (e.g. MBA or similar).
I did this also. You get all the benefits of deactivating your Facebook account, but without feeling like you lost something.
Books are not the sole property of colleges.
It all depends on the customer's relationship with the brand. The thesis here is that consumers will support brands they are loyal to and/or have an affection for. Even with it being forced upon them.
So let's put this fair - e-cigarette smoke is basically the same stuff we've been using for ages as the stage smoke. If you aren't afraid of going to a concert, you shouldn't be afraid of passive e-cig smoking either.
Interesting article. It mentioned James Rickard's book "The Death of Money" which I would recommend.

US economists openly mock using a gold standard for currency, simply because with our debt and need to generate fresh fiat currency, a gold standard is not a possibility for us. I believe that things will get 'interesting' with our economy but probably not until after the 2016 elections.

That said, I think that a hybrid approach with currency backed by (for example) 20% gold reserves would have much of the stabalizing benefits of a gold standard.
It doesn't need gravitas. But the onomatopoeic and just-slightly-this-side-from-awkward feeling of it has always bugged me a little.
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It is not clear how much of a genius he is or not. His NKS is just a bunch of repackaged ideas, mostly unacknowledged, with lots of pretty pictures, with some original work. It's borderline crank mathematics. The other things attributed to him are dubious, as he has a big problem attributing to himself the work of others. He has threatened to sue employees of his who try to publish mathematical results of their own without attributing them to his company. He keeps acting like Mathematica was all him, whereas in reality he got it from a bunch of coauthors after suing them into submission and silence. It's difficult to find any evidence of this other than oblique allusions, because, well, he won or settled the lawsuits in his favour.

Wolfram certainly has talent, but like Steve Jobs, it may be more people-talent to know how to manipulate and impress others than mathematics talent. He certainly has some of the latter too.
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Don't trust me. Trust link #2 (UK government research, Aug 2015, Public Health England, similar to US department of health). Repeated here for your convenience
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...

You can also rely a little bit on common sense: 'analog' cigarettes have tar and everything that results from combustion of tobacco and whatever it's "laced" with. Not the case with e-cigs. Not saying it's safe, but safer.

PS If you knew me without nicotine, you'd tell me to get back on it, like my wife did. :-)
And the influx of MBAs and tech-related MBA programs!
This is true. I almost mentioned the difficulties of estimating the kernel density bandwidth in my original post, but thought that would be getting too far on a tangent.
I've read elsewhere how in the earliest days of computers, men designed the hardware and relegated the programming to women because it was seen as clerical work, albeit advanced clerical work. Because of this, women, such as Grace Hopper, became well established in the field.

The advent of the Apple II and TRS-80 exposed kids (including myself) to computers, and with these machines, programming was the most accessible aspect. You could try to modify the hardware, but then you risked ruining the most expensive piece of equipment in the home. However, you experiment all you wanted with the BASIC prompt, and that's how I learned to program. There is something different about girls and boys such that this kind of tinkering with gadgets appeals much more to boys than girls.

I remember excitedly showing our new Apple II to my cousin who is 6 years older than me, and who had recently finished her CS degree and was working in "data processing." I expected her to have the same gee-whiz reaction I had, but she was not impressed. To her, the Apple II was a silly and expensive toy.

I think that in a way, when myself and other male "Micro Kids" entered the university and professional CS world, we changed the dynamic from a more professional to a more hacker-like culture. Not only did our numbers heavily tilt the gender distribution, but I think we also made the culture less attractive to women.

My cousin, now in her late 50s, is still in IT as a higher-level manager in a large oil and gas firm. Right now, she appears to be spending a lot of time dealing with the logistics of some major office relocations. It is probably the kind of work that many on HN would consider boring, but I am sure it is essential to the smooth operation of a large modern corporation. When I hear her talk about her work, she comes across as being more responsible and practical than her younger male peers, and I don't doubt that's the case.
When Yahoo finally dies, my main concern is what happens to the @yahoo.com email address I've had for a couple of decades, and which now lives next to my name in countless address books. Does it perpetually forward to an address I choose? Does Yahoo try to charge for this? Do Russian identity thieves buy the domain and make my life hell?
It's quite a different story now. You're looking at a ~14 year incubation period before you're making those types of numbers as a physician (bachelors, med school, residency, fellowship), plus having to take on significant debt. An overwhelmingly large number of physicians also report a low quality of life and urge others not to enter the profession.

I'm not sure how it is for lawyers, but I would imagine there is also a significant up front investment before you start making real money (if you ever do). Contrast this with CS where you can make 6 figures right out of college with significantly less pain during the training process.
Honest question, what exactly do you mean by your statement? Is it that, when you meet a stranger and tell them your profession, they judge you that way?
Of course, tech reporters everywhere yet again writing misleading headlines.

Google says it is that much faster, but only for certain operations, for instance, ones "involving nearly 1,000 binary variables".

It is unknown how this would translate to standard computer workloads/usage and what kind of performance increase would be seen in those instances instead.

Not trying to downplay the excitement, though, as this still could possibly have huge effects on being able to process certain data which could help with research and so on.
You can upload directly from Lightroom using something like jfriedl's plug-in. Works great.

I agree that galleries of some sort would be a great addition. I put a lot of photos up on flickr so they're available to myself and others. But I'd like the ability to showcase a more curated collection.
Offensive security is not just breaking into computers. In the information security industry, it means demonstrating flaws in security in a way that will help your client/employer/whoever defend against these techniques better in the future.
What do they put in those e-cigarettes then? :o. I've personally converted my ex-gf to e-cigarettes and I'm spending a lot of time around people smoking them, and not only I can barely see the smoke, I can't smell it even standing in front of a smoker and having them breathe in my direction.
Watching Mayer on CNBC right now. Really sad, she has that 1000 yard stare look in her eyes.
Flickr has direct upload from Lightroom...

Actually, I think that's built in to Lightroom.
This is cool, and it won't pester you about donating if you are using something like Google Contributor which is nice.
So?
So my kids don't live in a low wage country and will need to differentiate themselves to keep making the big bucks.
Ouch, that reminds me how much more my VPS is going to cost due to the decline in the Australian dollar. It's not a bad idea, though.
I just unsubscribed from everyone's feed. No need to be that drastic (deleting facebook). If I want to catch up on someone's life, I simply look at their page (like in 2005 pre-feed).

If you're so concerned about people's "staged moments", it seems you should create the life you want for yourself instead of assuming their moments are "staged". I'll never understand envy, such a childish emotion.
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of course he doesn't. That's why he wrote it that way. Trying to gain some moral high ground by being completely full of sh*t.
>There is something different about girls and boys such that this kind of tinkering with gadgets appeals much more to boys than girls.

There is something different about what our culture teaches and signals to girls and boys from the moment they are born such that this kind of tinkering with gadgets appeals much more to boys than girls.
Your analysis is sloppy on several fronts.

1) Medicine and Law are professions, programming is not. You could arguably compare to CS professors, but that's still apples and oranges.
2) It doesn't make any sense to compare (peak, median, whatever) yearly salaries when you have wildly different career paths (e.g. 0 years of school vs. 10+) , debt, etc. What you want is lifetime earnings.
3) Lawyers in general don't make anything like what you think they do. Doctors distribution is also lower than your range suggests.

You are right that some of these professions offer, for a smallish number of people, a clear path to a solid upper middle class salary (and few options outside of that).
> personally I'd sell the business while it's still worth something and move on to bigger and better things.

They're likely trying to do that and spinning off Japan may make that easier.
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I think the GP didn't mean "authorities" as in "the government", but more as in "Food Babe-type pundits" - the usual "non-organic stuff gives you cancer" crowd majority tends to read and believe. Hard to avoid, as it's the kind of outrage-inducing content that's so loved by mainstream media.
Entirely dependent on who decides to buy Y! Mail. Safe to assume it'll be around for a while though, since straight killing Y! Mail doesn't make much business sense.
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>no matter how much philanthropy he's involved in

Not even that, I had the fortune of glossing over this gem earlier today:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/12/zuckerberg-has-not-donated-...

EDIT: apparently the site I linked doesn't like linking from HN, sorry folks I had no idea.
Just to clarify, per the report smoking and physical inactivity more strongly correlate with mortality increase.
I choose to go to a concert. Choice is a very very significant thing here. Choice is the difference between donation and theft.
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Keeping sticky eyeballs from the first internet generation around.
"Are they standardized?"

Well, they have to respect the bounding boxes of various infrastructure requirements which they plan to use. It seems that the most of the largest ships ever built were scrapped and the current ones are limiting themselves to a length of up to 400 m, a beam of up to 65 m (Chinamax), and a draft of 16 m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...
I actually think that is massively cool. In particular for remote areas or for natural disaster response where local hospitals could be unsafe/unavailable.

I will say comparing it to a "tricorder" does the device a disservice. It isn't even trying to be one, it is trying to be something else entirely, and all it will get for being called that is criticism that it isn't tricorder-enough.
I would say this context is important to weigh the dangers of analog vs digital. The 'popcorn lung' issue doesn't present itself with smokers of analog cigarettes, with higher concentrations of the same bad stuff, so why would anyone mention it in the context of digital cigarettes, unless it's scientific click-bait prepared for unscientific journalists looking for an article.
Not clear why you are being downvoted. Many people start smoking with e-cigs. These are people who otherwise wouldn't smoke.
As an even older millennial (35), I have very fond memories of Yahoo.

I remember receiving a two-disk copy of Netscape Navigator from a local ISP at a computer show in early 1995 and setting the home-page immediately to Yahoo. At the time I remember seeing hard copies of "The Internet Yellow Pages" at the local Barnes and Noble, but most search was through Yahoo or Alta Vista. Back then AV had several fewer orders of magnitude web pages to crawl and SEO/spam hadn't yet taken off, but even still the AV results weren't always useful. Without page rank or a decent sorting algorithm, I remember often going through pages of results.

Yahoo had it all: games, continuously updated stock quotes (at a time when I would look up share prices in the morning's paper, priced to the nearest eighth of a dollar), weather, news, and hand picked results from around the web. It was all I was previously getting from CompuServe/Prodigy, but at no cost.

But now I haven't visited Yahoo in years. It's like when your favorite teenage band breaks up. You're a little sad, but you've moved on. The fond memories are for life.

Edited to add: we all used a home page back then because tabs hadn't yet been invented, meaning the restore previously opened tabs option that we all use today also didn't exist. One's home page had a much greater importance back then.
Very different concept. In Black Mirror, you're forced to watch media and ads every moment you're awake unless you pay not to. Here, if you choose to willingly visit a website to consume some sort of content but refuse to look at the ads that fund that content, you're asked to make a payment to fund said content.

This is, afterall, what the majority of adblock and anti-tracking proponents have been lobbying for. 'We don't want to have to deal with ads. We don't want to be tracked. We want to pay for content.' This simply gives them the opportunity. Note that it is also voluntary and doesn't prevent the content from being displayed. Heck, it says "would you consider" and has a suggested bitcoin donation equivalent to 1 penny.
OP here. Would really like to gather some data about what kind of conversions this would get on a site with some scale. Thesis is that for brands that have a loyal following, we might be able to get close to PPC unit economics.
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Artificial neural networks also go through predictable and repeatable stages of development as they train on a corpus.
A good therapist will be that reflector. Also don't discount the value of sharing with a person who has seen pattern-x n-times. Further keep in mind that non-professionals will cuddle when perhaps a spank is in order.

Wish you all the best and success and happiness.
I used to do this:

emacs --batch --eval '(dump-emacs "em" "/usr/local/bin/emacs")'

This would load everything from your .emacs file into a fresh executable that would then start instantly.

Unfortunately, since I've done it last, it seems that this feature has been 'fixed' with emacs now printing that it can only be dumped once. Never had a problem with multiple dumping before.
There's a breed of e-cig smokers that are doing what humans always do when they get a new hobby- take it to the extremes.

I walked down the street a couple of weeks ago and saw massive smoke coming from around the corner. And when I smelled it I thought "Someone's really hitting that BBQ!". It was a guy standing on his balcony vaping. Releasing giant clouds of vapor.

I'm all for vaping, but I imagine that the people who take it to the limits are gonna find out eventually that it can be unhealthy too (as anything done in excess)
I've got a list of maybe 50 accounts including a couple of relatively important ones that still use my Yahoo address. It's been on my todo list for months to get them updated. I guess it's time to bump up the priority on that item.
Mathics maintainer here.I'm glad you find Mathics fun to contribute to, I certainly do. Each function is a small independent part so it's really easy to get involved (that's a major goal of mine at least) Thanks for your contribution.
If your spouse wasn't on Facebook, would she not hear about the bad news, or would she hear about it from friends & family via phone calls and in person instead? Facebook might be more efficient, but people did communicate before it.
Same here. Deactivate when on a business trip a few months back and I found myself opening the app first thing when I woke up. Feel so much better about it. Still have muscle memory that makes me open the page once in a while, but it really feels better without it.

Of course, now reddit has taken over some of that time, but it is primarily in the sysadmin/tech subreddits, so it is less depressy :-P
I think the scaremongering is more to keep non-smokers from trying vaporizers.

If everyone who currently smokes traditional burnt-tobacco cigarettes switched to nicotine vaporizers tomorrow, the public health windfall over the next 2 to 30 years would be staggeringly huge. Cancer rates, particularly for lung cancers, would drop off a cliff.

But since burnt-tobacco smoking has already been on the decline for a while, those who monitor and care about such things are concerned that vaporizers are not perceived as dangerous enough to keep that trend line going all the way to zero.

The best course, really, would to refrain from prevarication or exaggeration with respect to the vaporizers, and keep up the pressure on burnt-tobacco cigarettes, as the health-destroying menaces that they are.

If you smoke, switch now. Statistically speaking, you will live longer. Use whatever vaporizer flavors it takes to bury your desire to touch flame to paper. It will likely be easier for you to switch flavors later, if any of them turn out to be significantly more damaging than the others.
> 76% of their advertising revenue and 68% of their total revenue comes from advertising on Google properties. Reducing their revenue by 76% surely wouldn't allow them to "run the ad business without it."

While I don't agree with the parent you're implying that search is the ONLY Google property that displays ads but that's not true. A decent percentage of that is coming from gmail. I'm not sure how much however.
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I have a feeling that the kid's frustration has less to do with deviating on move 11 in an open Sicilian than with not getting to play 1. a4, 2. Ra3, for example.
That site seems to block hotlinking from HN: here's a mirror https://archive.is/jjS21
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Respect, old boy Cringely actually got this one right: http://www.cringely.com/2015/11/30/soylent-green-now-made-wi...
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> these "scare mongering" articles are an attempt to provide information

There are a very poor attempt, and that is a very charitable interpretation. Instead of providing information, they scare people by stating that e-cigs increase chance of cancer by nonzero amount while failing to mention that the amount is both not very significant[0] and extremely smaller than what you get from normal cigarettes.

[0] - that's the usual problem with "X causes cancer" articles in popular media.
Well the biggest obstacle to getting good at chess is finding a solid reason why it's worth pursuing, as opposed to getting good at something else (or doing nothing).
Throw in Whatsapp too there then ;)
Then it wouldn't be the "right" gif.

Giphy is aweful in returning irrelevant, often downright weird or creepy gifs, even after "pre-screening" the phrase.

I turned it off in our company slack, but it looks like I'll be turning on this instead!
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