skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The authors do consider these issues (though perhaps not to your satisfaction). They say that the longbow was only really effective en masse, requiring the participation of the yeomanry, and that the duration of the period of English longbow dominance, and the number of against-the-odds English victories in that time, provided both the motivation and opportunity for its opponents to develop the same capability. They argue that the French were well aware of the threat that English archers presented, and frequently avoided battle on that account, preferring to recapture territory after the main English army had moved on. In the quote on page 703, they offer a contemporary account of the French beginning to adopt the longbow, but reversing the policy precisely out of a fear that it would enable insurrection.

From my limited knowledge of medieval society, I think the nobility would have considered archery to be completely beneath their dignity, and an affront to chivalry. Their proper place was on a horse, in armor and wielding a broadsword or lance.
The major difference appears to be the label's use of "salt" rather than "sodium" as in the US.

Using the data from my other comment, and assuming the potassium in the potato chips is also "salt", the 2000 Calories of US potato chips contain 7.25 grams of salt, of which 3.05g is sodium chloride and 4.2g is potassium chloride.
"Yet this OP disproved this. So I don't get what the point is."

From the blog:

"David and I are living proof that if we can upgrade and improve the way we think, and overcome our mindset inequality, then maybe we can help others do the same"

Yes the blog clearly states that its not impossible, the OP is simply sharing how he overcame hurdles despite the challenges he faced being poor. It's meant to help others do the same and share insight.
Yes: http://www.dmea.osd.mil/trustedic.html
I absolutely agree when the web site is a tech product/application. I was more taking a stab at major news/media outlets and other "content" sites, whose non-technical "executives" blithely dictate that their devs perpetuate this buffoonery.
And that was at least as much the key to the English victories as the longbow was: good defensive terrain that was unsuitable for the French cavalry charge. When the French did have room to charge, England lost. The longbow was only a single factor in a much bigger system.
Is there anything revelatory in this article? I didn't see any links or references to new papers/ideas, but some Googling returned this 2016 PDF[1] titled 'The Case for a Gaian Bottleneck' by Aditya Chopra from ANU.

There's been discussion in the past[2][3] about these 'Great Filters' that prevent life from occurring everywhere in the universe.

[1]http://adi.life/pubs/ChopraLineweaver2016.pdf

[2]http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html

[3]http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
http://www.customink.com/designs/nullisland/jmd0-00ae-ag03/t...
Don't forget also that for many of those black names, those people are celebrities and sports stars: they don't have to worry about getting a job interview at some soulless corporation. Beyonce, Oprah, Shaquille, etc. made their millions in the entertainment business and likely never had to deal with that. However, someone sending in a resume with the name "Shaquille" for a programming job isn't going to get a pass just because he shares a name with a basketball legend; he'll be subject to whatever bias about black people the resume screener has.
Or you could stop using the fact that someone is white, male, or straight as some kind of attack, insult, or excuse.

There are certainly issues in society, real problems but I'm tired of hearing it. Somehow all of my hardships in life are reduced to nothing, because I'm "privileged".
I was in a situation where angry clueless investors wanted to keep the software as an asset they were entitled to, but it was close to worthless without the engineering knowledge. They tried to shop the MVP around but got nowhere. If I could have kept it I would have tried to keep it running on the side.
Actually, the issue there is terrain. Llamas are very agile and can carry loads to areas that neither horses nor carts can reach. Smaller loads, of course, but still much more than a person can carry.

Even today, horses aren't really a thing in the Andes, compared to say, Patagonia.
And no company would ever create strategic business method patents at periodic intervals to keep their lock on an industry?

I can easily imagine the USPTO approving silly things like "A method to search case law using IPV6".
They did. It was in the article.

> ... dotCloud the startup pivoted to focus on Docker and changed its name to Docker as well. Then, in August 2014, Docker sold dotCloud to cloudControl.
> Early life is fragile

> The aliens are silent because they are extinct

> new life would commonly die out due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets

I'm not disputing the science or studies the article refers to (I'm far from qualified for that), I believe that models of plausibility are an important part of the process, but as with most science journalism they just can't help turning them into some sort of "absolute" statements.
No it is an example of the idea being bad to begin with. If your idea requires that you be able to out raise everyone else in a capital-burning death match then it is a bad idea unless you have a competitive advantage in capital raising. Unless you have amazing connections to people with battleship loads of cash don’t enter this type of market.
>cpu alone (Allwinner R8M) costs $16

highly unlikely, price point for entry level tablet SoC with PMIC is ~$5. $16 might be retail one off Gweilo prices.

https://usd99allwinner.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/launching-th...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/allwinner-5-dollar-64bit-ch...
I've been reading The Vital Question by Nick Lane, where he puts forth some theories about the origin of eukaryotes, and life in general. It does make it seem that abiogenesis and eukaryote-genesis are much more difficult than we give them credit for.

So in the Drake Equation, I think that F[L] is probably pretty low.

And because eukaroyte genesis is difficult and only happened once (and it took a billion years of bacteria & archea hanging out before we got a eukaryote), and eukaryotes are a prereq for multi-cellular organisms and thus intelligent life, F[i] is also really low.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Vital-Question-Evolution-Origins/d...
dotCloud did rename itself to Docker, but it sold off its original "dotCloud"-branded PAAS to cloudControl. cloudControl is shutting down the dotCloud service, but former dotCloud company (i.e. Docker) is still alive and well.
I think there are two more reflections on diagonals.

Plus you can switch colors (although with komi that's technically not the same position). But if we are thinking real game then for some positions there is one more dimension with information which KO cannot be played at the moment (I don't think they included that in the computation).
Yep ... but I wouldn't say it's a YC graduate shutting down. A company that bought a "product line" from them is shutting down.
"I think the hardest part is probably recognizing that when people talk about privilege, it's really not personal,"

Most times I've seen people talk about privilege, it got personal (as in, filled with obscenities, personal attacks, and thinly veiled threats) very quickly when others did not immediately agree with them. So your statement does not comport with my experience, at least.
The perks are also designed to keep you there as long as possible. If you leave at a reasonable hour, you don't need catered dinner or company-provided alcohol.
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Have you considered adding an option for saving/archiving the pages without cleaning them? Maybe utilize WARC somehow.
> it seems unlikely that interest rates will rise for the foreseeable future

Based on the past two weeks of the stock market? I'm not so sure. A choppy stock market may certainly slow down the Fed's plans for 2016, but Yellen seems hellbent on getting away from ZIRP (and the aforementioned weirdness it creates, like pension funds investing heavily in CRUD apps) before the end of this business cycle. If she doesn't, she's reliant on Congress to prop up the economy whenever it inevitably enters a recession, and given Congress's recent track record I doubt that's a gamble she wants to take.
Doesn't exactly help the case for the longbow.
<Real Estate is very momentum driven and pretty slow. Markets don't crash in a day, like stocks. The fastest price changes in 2008 were around 3% per month for non-distressed homes in Phoenix>

A home in a non-distressed market losing nearly a third of its value in a year is "pretty slow"? That's a scary use of the term in itself.
Didn't know about that. Funny shit.
Sort of.

Endlines have one role: They end statements, although there are potentially many kinds of statement that they end.

';' and '\n' are alternative equivalent renderings of line endings. ';;' ends blocks. And yes, the lexer does the usual longest prefix match.
Sure if your investors are going to be idiotic about the situation then this might not be possible, but it is an option worth exploring and in my case it worked out well.
Exactly :) Well not entirely exactly, since it turns out that we're quite different because we're in a low-volume, high-value market. So deals are not really done (yet) by purchasing straight off an e-commerce site.

What I'd love to do is make systems engineering, procurement and market analysis in the small-satellite sector a lot more transparent.
I think it's more likely that Page asked them not to hang a photo of him in the lobby and the headmaster would rather make a vague, dismissive comment than risk the perception that Page didn't want to be associated with the school.
Exactly. The longbow alone doesn't win anything. It has to be used in the right situation, preferably on defensive terrain, on a hill, with dismounted knights protecting the longbowmen.

Dismounted knights was a no-go for the French nobility, who loved their glorious cavalry charge. If you're going to charge, the longbow is a lot less useful. And in battles where the French charge succeeded (because the English lacked a good defensive position, for example), the French were a lot more likely to win.
I think that most people disagree with you about that. So it's hard to call the people working on that immoral.
Will you be expanding to California in the foreseeable future?
Panspermia is one solution to this.
What was that axiom that Red Auerbach was attributed with? "You can't teach height." Ricky demonstrated he was hungry to learn and succeed at a very early age, a quality that will always bring some level of success through life: "I had to bring my dad to the office the next day and told him to pretend to say some words in Mandarin while I just demanded that I get put in an honors-level English class."

How do you identify those who are underprivileged, but carry that quality too? It can be very difficult to identify.
Cry me a river. Honestly, you're not going to share interests with everyone.

I'm a white guy. If I go to lunch with a bunch of manager or sales guys, and they start talking about sports, I'm going to have exact same problem. I don't give two shits about sports, and I think spectator sports are incredibly stupid. So if I find myself in a group of sports fans, then I'm also going to feel that I don't have much in common with these people. Does that mean they're a bunch of racists? Obviously not; we simply don't share the same culture. If the conversation shifts to technology, or sci-fi, or Game of Thrones (a lot of people are into that these days), etc., then I'll be able to join in, but if the sports fans aren't into talking about that stuff over lunch, then I'm out of luck. I'm not going to whine much about it, except maybe for making some snide remarks about how stupid sports fans are, but I'm certainly not going to go on a crusade about it.

Luckily, I usually get along pretty well with coworkers this way, but I guess engineers tend not to be sports fanatics as much as the general population. But I certainly have found myself in situations with groups of people with very different interests than myself. I didn't make a big deal out of it; I know that my interests are a little more narrow and that I eschew many things that regular people like (sports, popular TV shows aside from GoT), so I try to find people I do share interests with.
I think it's a shame that so few people these days know what a smalltalk development environment looks and feels like. There is no distinction between learning and experimenting. It's all part of the same feedback loop. It's a shame that almost no modern programming language these days provides the same kind of workflow. If they did I think the author would have a different take on learning and experimenting all in one go instead of segmenting things the way he did.
This gets my vote. My hunch is that intelligent life like the kind we would love to meet happens either on the order of once or twice per galaxy during the galaxy's entire lifetime, or it happens SO rarely that, if the universe is infinite in extent, then any intelligent observer looking out from the "center" of their observable universe will most likely be in the only intelligent civilization in that visible radius.

Depressing, but it seems more plausible than things like "Great Filters of DOOM". It would predict that there is a lot of intelligence in the entire universe, but each cluster of intelligence is profoundly alone.
Aka "Preferrence shares", for those unfamiliar with the practice. In the example above, it makes the valuation virtually 100 trillions, except, like all valuations, it's virtual.
When preloads go sideways
The primary emphasis of this article seems to be: "Stop playing with code and start reading books". Reading a book is a great way to get a lot of theoretical knowledge but mapping it to a real problem or solution is what causes the knowledge to stick. Programmers have to balance theory and usage to do well.

You can't learn to be an artist by studying everything about paintbrushes first. Certainly you could, but it won't help you understand the motions to paint. At the same time randomly using any brush that can barely work probably won't get you the results you want. I hope the author someday realizes that almost everything is a continuum. Lamenting that "programmers of today" don't read enough books doesn't really tell you much - only that he wishes the people he see's would think more about theory.
actually that seems like a lie, it shipped with usual arrangements of allwinner crap binary blobs
Exercise for  Diabetics
You obviously have no idea what it's like to grow up poor. The fear, the guilt, the frustration, and the exhaustion that you learn almost as if through sheer osmosis from your parents.

The author is not arguing that you literally cannot compete if you're poor. But it's the very mindset from growing up in poverty that, through almost every interaction you have in childhood, leads you to _believe_ that you cannot compete, which prevents you from even trying. And even if you overcome that feeling (through constant hard work and willpower, such as our author's), say you do try to compete with the rich kids, then your lack of inborn confidence is so obviously apparent that you come off as inexperienced, or insincere. This is perfectly accurate in my own experience.

Mindset inequality is actually an incredible way to describe it.
Even if they compete in the same space, that's a harsh characterization (absent more data, anyway).

I'm hoping to see alternatives to the "I-saw-the-house-flipping-infomercial-at-2AM-and-want-a-piece" crowd.
I wonder what the value is for various types of "privilege"? As in, if you could pay so much and reap the benefits, how much should someone be willing to pay? $1,000? $10,000? $100,000? $1,000,000?
People always talk about how vast space is, but rarely about how vast time is. We've been looking for life for the last what, 60 years or so? It seems like not only is space so vast which makes finding evidence of life hard, but this is made even harder by the small volume of time we are likely to be around to try and observe in the grand scheme of things. Alien life has to be relatively close in terms of distance as well as time.

What if our closest alien life became discoverable (started emitting radio signals or other signs) a million years from now? Would we be around to see it?
You missed the whole section where he compared unikernals on Xen vs. Linux (or Solaris) on metal. Unikernals have to run on Xen so either way, the best you're going to do is have one-level of abstraction (OS or Hypervisor) between you and your application.
Absolutely. The French nobility loved the heavy cavalry charge. The English knights had to fight on foot to protect the longbowmen. It's a totally different culture and attitude. You can't just pick one element out of a different system and expect to copy the successes of that system.
Google/FB engineers make a heck of a lot more than 130k, that's pretty much base entry level before bonuses and equity grants.
You're confusing the number of reflections (4) with the increase in size from the cyclic rotation group of size 4 to the dihedral group of size 8 (a factor of 2). Note that any reflection can be decomposed into a fixed reflection followed by a rotation.
I'm sure I'm not the only person that had to check the year and make sure that there was a February 29th this year, and that this wasn't some sort of early April Fools joke.
I think that would be best handled by manually coding a set of language synonyms, rather than substring searches. Shorter language names could cause problems in the latter, such as C and Go.
> specs are not laws until they're candidate recommendations

To be pedantic; web specs are (almost) never laws (occasionally some specs for e.g. a11y are incorporated by reference into other laws, but that typically doesn't affect implementors). This is more important than it sounds because people are occasionally confused into thinking that if they can get something written down in a spec and drive the spec through the W3C process people will somehow be forced to implement it.

Even for specs that are implemented, the phases of the W3C process are actually mostly meaningless formalisms, and other bodies (e.g. WHATWG) work well without them. In practice a spec becomes "law" — i.e. immune from backwards incompatible changes — when there is enough content that depends on the existing behaviour that vendors won't unship it. For most cases this is more or less when there are two compatible implementations shipping, although of course the details very on a case-by-case basis.
Travel tracking iOS app
I have just created an app for iOS that is super helpful if travelling alone to someone's house, as you can create a route and share it with them and then they can view your progress instead of hassling you, let me know what you all think, and any features

On My Way - Route Tracking by FBeasleySoftware
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"Not sure that I would agree there. What if the "excess" production funds a cure for cancer? What if that cure requires additional resources?"

Production does not fund other things, and disease cures are not something that people willingly buy. Excess production just wastes resources on things people do not want to buy (unsold automobile inventory, etc.) and is enabled by access to too much speculative capital. Redistribution of that capital (in the form of higher taxes) into government-mandated and funded research programs to find cures for cancer is how you find a cure for cancer. Disease research in the United States is not funded by pouring water on your head (http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ice-bucket-challen...) or Tim Ferriss (https://www.crowdrise.com/timferriss), but by the $30 billion budget of the National Institutes of Health.
Test:

I want to say * nix, and then to *italicize * nix*.

Result:

I want to say * nix, and then to italicize nix.

That also left things in italics, which I'll close now.

Test 2:

I want to say * nix, and then to *italicize *nix*.

Result 2:

I want to say * nix, and then to italicize nix.

Again, this left italics on.

So there doesn't seem to be a way to do what I was trying to do. This is why I said "unix" rather than, you know...
>Good developers know how things work.

>Great developers know why things work.

I disagree. I don't think anyone who knows the how but not the why ought to be calling themselves a developer at all. Knowing why an application is laid out the way it is a key prerequisite for knowing what parts of the application you can change easily, and which parts will require careful regression testing.
The greatest lines of classic literature (in programming)
I'd like that survey. The lower class is completely unrepresented in tech. It's been one of the weirdest and hardest things for me to handle personally.
Ageism: a worsening epidemic
"Just trying things in production" is a serious problem.

"Trying things in development" is I think a necessary step in learning ... you have to get to that point eventually, and that comes I think before the "change" thing the author is worried about. I am concerned that the author's concern the way it is worded in that article may inhibit this desirable step in the learning process.

"Just trying things in development, if it works, push it down the line, instead of digging deeper" seems the problematic thing to me.
The idea of PaaS is great but if developers can't afford the services, they'll all shut down. It seems to be the norm these days to host your app with one provider and host your databases elsewhere. Imagine paying for MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, etc etc, I'd rather get a dedicated server and host everything on it. Far cheaper and great for learning.

One PaaS with developers in mind is https://nodechef.com It would be interesting to see how they do.
I would say no more than 10kyu (eg a14 a15)

The fact that it is 19x19 in base 3 is not that suprising. If you visualize all possible positons (legal or not) then you have 19x19 board of 3 states (black, white, note). So it's 3 * * (19 * 19). Which is 1 and 19 * 19 zeros in base 3. Only some of these positions are legal so the number is lower - quite a bit, that's why there are leading zeros in top left.
But they're somehow going to be smart enough to Google "how to reduce burn" ... and stumble upon this article? And then act on it?
How about no? If I'm in a group of sports fans, then no, I really don't give a shit about getting to know about how these stupid teams are doing this season. If you have an interest in something, great, but don't expect me to give two shits about it. If I have an interest, I'll let you know, if not, I'll just politely decline.

This doesn't mean that the minority person can't ask, "hey, does anyone follow XYZ?". He might be surprised. But if not, don't expect everyone to have or feign an interest.

And surely, in a team of technologists, they can find something that they're all interested in and can talk about. Maybe something to do with, oh, I don't know, maybe technology? I have conversations at work all the time like that (luckily I work with some really smart people at my current job), about future trends in tech, etc. But I've worked with some dullards in the past, and I didn't get butt-hurt that they didn't want to talk about sci-fi or whatever.