skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They may have had real benefits, but not scientifically understood benefits, and by now they are followed for religious tradition rather than because research has been done showing that it's a good idea. Pork is a good example, as far as I'm aware there aren't people recommending avoiding pork (while still eating other meats) for health reasons, just for religious reasons.

The person you replied to worded it rudely about religions, but I agree with his overally point in that I want to hear from scientists not religious leaders when it comes to health advice, regardless of how sensible the religious advice was when it first came into existence.
It's not so much specifically about the moving average problem. I would want to see that a candidate can reason about the performance of some code / algorithm. I would not expect them to be able to recite the performance for specific algorithms from memory, however.
The strategy of conflict broadly extends the game theory. It includes discussion of situations in which irrationality makes sense, and so on.
Robin Hanson's Great Filter Theory May Provide an Answer to the Fermi Paradox
I have to say, whoever at the FBI decided this was the right case to push their new doctrine, could have done his/her homework a bit better. Technically speaking, this is the last iPhone you can actually crack without assistance from Apple. They are making it harder for themselves. They only have to wait for another major incident, retrieve (or plant, why not) an iPhone 6 from the scene, and do it again, this time for real.

Unless they are trying to pre-empt something else (like the recently-touted shift to "devices even we can't access" from Tim Cook, which may or may not be simple advertising), they just picked the wrong time to stir this particular pot.
I've been doing Leangains style IF for the past four years. I'd like to share a few quick tips.

If anyone here wants to try intermittent fasting, do it for the sake of convenience. I don't eat breakfast or lunch, I just eat when I get home from work or after weight training. On weekends I break my fast earlier than on weekdays.

I wouldn't say you should do it for the "benefits" if it doesn't fit your lifestyle. Right now all we know is that it's not bad for you. It does work pretty well for hunger control, which can help if your goal is weight loss.

Also, don't live by the clock. It's OK to eat outside your feeding window, you might get hungry later during the day and the next day you might get hungry earlier.

Here's a guide if you're looking for a place to start: http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html

Here's a good article if you have general questions about IF: http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debun...
aaand drumpf wants us out. :: let the downvotes begin.
On traffic: it's terrible, but Seattle is now worse than Atlanta in my opinion. It wasn't like that when we first moved here, but it's like that now. Neither place is great.

On lack of character: we can just agree to disagree on that. I find the culture and character amazing, though it doesn't beat my favorite character-rich cities of New Orleans and Charleston, SC. I never wanted for things to do, and we went camping in the Appalachians regularly.

Full of transplants: that's going to be true of most recommendations on this list. Seattle, SF, Portland, Bend, Nashville, Denver, Chicago, and on and on. Not a negative for me, as I'm a transplant myself (I'm certainly never moving back to Kansas).
Crazy. I just downloaded this pdf off jwz.org less than 48 hours ago. spent all of yesterday looking through it. And now it's on HN. Bader-Meinhoff for the win.
Elucify (YC W16) makes sure salespeople have most current customer contact info
The machine in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
I've found, building Python binaries for Windows, the interpreter and standard library takes up a negligible amount of space (a few MB). Most of the space was taken up by dependencies anyway, e.g. wxPython something like 15 MB! (I think I got it down to 7 MB using UPX to compress the DLLs.)
I have previously used an e-bike for commuting to work. The goals were to get to work less sweaty and more quickly.

It had its ups and downs. I certainly wasn't fresh as a daisy upon arriving at work, even with the e-bike's help.

The model I chose was rather longer and heavier than a regular bike, and that was a definite inconvenience. Going up stairs, storage, etc. And that's not getting into the mechanical reliability issues I had (Chinese off-brand import).

It was an interesting experiment, but I wouldn't do it again. You'll need to carefully consider all the factors before choosing something like this.
Did a 48 (actually a few hours more I guess) water fast ending yesterday and haven't had carbs since, am quite low on calories yesterday/today and still feeling absolutely fine and not hungry. Definitely will repeat again in the future (and staying off carbs for at least a few weeks, hopefully).
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Considering all the other problems that have been caused by religion, I think being a bit critical of it is more than justified. I am not going around oppressing millions if not billions of people with bad ideas that are quite literally based in mental problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJM5mipwebw
Thanks for stopping by! What was the most memorable moment of the whole experience for you?
Also on OS X, † is option-t, and ‡ is option-shift-7.
Show HN: Materializecss for Yii2
This doesn't link to any URL.
I think I totally just bought your chandelier. Does it give really good light for the dining room?
I work for a coworking company that has a place in Raleigh. It's a nice town and close to major universities so I think it'll keep expanding. I'd be surprised if more people didn't move to the triangle in general.
Do you snack heavily? I can't get enough calories for the day in one sitting unless I specifically choose lots of super high energy density foods.
The graph in the readme is outdated, you can see the version with Torch/CuDNN v4 here: http://autumnai.com/deep-learning-benchmarks

And I don't believe the first point counts as deceptive; the bars are ordered by Forward ms, not by the sum of Forward and Backward. In both CuDNN v3 and v4, Leaf is faster than Torch by that metric (25 vs 28 for v4, 31 vs 33 for v3).
When you tap the home button on an iPhone, it shows you empty circles indicating how many characters are in the passcode. It also varies the entry keypad depending upon whether it's alphanumeric or numeric.

In other words, if you are holding the phone in your hand, you can figure out how many digits the passcode is, and whether it's alphanumeric or just numeric, without entering a single character.
Google’s AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion–But This Is No Game
You mean the experience of running tech for a "secret society" or of my going through the immersive/interactive experiences?
I grew up in Cupertino and live in Seattle now. I used to live in an apartment with very little natural light, that was awful. Now I live in a condo with tons of light and feel better. Also fly down to Bay Area once a month for work.

Seattle weather isn't that bad. During June through September it's the best in the country. Just gray in the winters, doesn't really rain much.

Some other cons. Negligible start up scene. The Indian and Chinese food stinks. Really homogenous for a coastal city. No NBA team.
I would say it starts becoming important for any application that has multiple concurrent users. If it's a single user running it on some device and there's no shared resource (I.E. back end), then chances are it's not going to be an issue.
How We Increased Our Return Visits Through Push Notifications
I have to disagree. Capital improvements and support services are very different investments than your typical school funding for supplies, teacher salaries, etc., which are the kinds of items the title implies. Improving infrastructure and community services don't even have to come out of the school's own initiatives - those can be funded via any of a number of community improvement programs that have indirect benefits to schools. The article failed to prove to me that giving the money to schools is better than giving it to other programs that would do the same kinds of things.
I have always preferred avoiding digestion when physical exertion is imminent. The harder I work, the less hungry I become.

People have mentioned to me that I may have a food allergy, or some other type of disorder that makes digestion a problem. Have you considered this?
> and it has few walkable neighborhoods.
Who doesn't want to walk in 120 degree heat?
The article doesn't have a single reference to a research paper. It's entirely possible to write a similar essay with an opposite title like "The research is clear, let's keep elementary homework", and it would be just as convincing.

edit: a typo
Hmmm... it's funny this. I think the pressure of completing set homework causes a lot of pressure for young children. My daughter is now in year 3, and I get her to do a small amount of homework but I've never pushed it and if she's very tired or emotional then I see how she's going, and skip it if things are too bad.

My son is in year 1, and he doesn't have very much homework (neither does my daughter to be honest), but after getting him settled at a desk he just tends to do it very quickly then run off and plays.

I found that for my daughter, I was able to imbue a love of learning when she was in Kindy and year 1 by buying a whiteboard and getting her to do her work on it. Also, my clear excitement and my own love of learning (I was and still am studying mathematics) rubbed off.

In fact, I was going through Trigonometry again at one stage and she was interested why there were circles and triangles on the whiteboard, so I explained what an angle is and that trigonometry is the relationship between angles and sides. I would say she was the only year 1 in her school who knew what trigonometry was - I think her teacher was rather surprised when she used the word, and even more surprised when she was able to explain what it actually was! :-)
If Austin stumbles and our market isn't based on Oil/Banking like Houston/Dallas then I'm not sure that bodes very well for either of those cities, unfortunately.

I think our failure if any will be due to poor public transportation and traffic.
While not completely abolished, homework should be issued much more cautiously. Most of the reasons against homework listed in the article are rather signs of bad homework. Homework should mean that the child spends a reasonable (depending on age) time to try to apply the (hopefully) learned skills on her own and without supervision. Failure to do so should trigger some interaction with the teacher, not punishment. For that reason, parents should also mostly stay out of homework.

While traditionally school time in Germany ended at 1pm, there are now models, where the children stay at school after lunch and working on their "homework" in special sessions where some teacher is present for questions and interaction, not taking any of the homework home.
Microsoft Integrates Visual Studio with Open-Source Eclipse IDE
This is really annoying. I wrote a blog post last week making this exact same point, posted it here, and it promptly got flagged to death, most likely by the same people who were commenting that I was "absolutely, totally wrong".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11199093

Nice to be vindicated though.
Authy is really good. https://www.authy.com/

They need a Firefox extension but its allowed me to do 2FA on my personal and work accounts without fear of being totally locked out if I loose my phone.
I grew up in the metro Atlanta area (moved there in 1999), and spent four years in downtown Atlanta at Georgia Tech. For someone interested in technology, I think there are better places to live.

- Compared to the downtown area of other cities, Atlanta is a ghost town. You don't see a whole lot of people walking around the city like you do in San Francisco, and to be honest, the downtown area has always been a little boring to me. Most people live in the suburbs, commute into the city in the morning, and then commute back out in the evening. The traffic is absolutely horrible. MARTA (the public transportation system) leaves a lot to be desired. The one time I used it, I was harassed and followed around by people asking for money, so I haven't used it again.

- Not a great food culture. At least when I lived there, the city didn't have any Michelin star restaurants. The south is known for BBQ, but in my opinion the surrounding states have much tastier BBQ.

- Not many tech companies. I think this situation is improving, but it's improving a little too slowly for my liking.

To its credit, Atlanta does have some great qualities:

- Has the world's busiest airport. Europe isn't nearly as far away as it is from the west coast.

- Has all four seasons (if you like that).

- Has the largest number of trees of any major city in the US. Atlanta residents go to extremes to keep the forestry alive; cutting down one tree can cost thousands of dollars.

- Georgia Tech. Lots of research opportunities with GTRI.

- Much lower cost of living (and housing) than other major cities

- Great high schools in the metro area

- Short distance to other interesting cities: Nashville, Birmingham, Huntsville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Charlotte, and Raleigh.
It's not like its a ton better, but there's at least a few dozen openings here: https://worknola.com/job-search/field_job_function/it-softwa...

Craigslist is barely useful here - even most apartments for rent on there have been rented out weeks or months ago.
I've been living in Mountain View for several years, but we're moving back to Boston in a month.

We can get a house 3x as large for 2/3 the cost and have a much better quality of life.
A day ago, I put this comment on their website but it hasn't passed moderation, so I'm posting it here:

“Groovy” is actually known as “Apache Groovy”. As a condition of joining the Apache Software Foundation via its incubator 12 months ago, its 5 Project Managers agreed to use the brand “Apache” with “Groovy” in its first mention on any page.

I notice you included a graphic of the Groovy logo, and wonder if you’d been in touch with one of their Project Managers about using Groovy. If so, and they didn’t make it clear to you that you should mention “Apache” with “Groovy”, then they are breaking their agreement with the Apache Software Foundation.

One of Groovy’s Project Managers seems to be regularly doing this behind the scenes, using others such as yourself as proxies in their agenda.
I'd love to read a blogpost/github repo with how you did it, if you ever write one.
In S.D., right to an attorney comes with a price
Facebook Is Building Its Own Maps Using Artificial Intelligence
Since we are the sysop team of a students council with very fluctuating members, we have to keep our whole infrastructure as simple as possible. That means: Very simple virtual machines with very few software packages on it, very detailed documentation and so on. The problem is that students are joining our team partly with very little knowledge. Configuration management would mean another system to figure out for every member.
Your iPhone Can Be Hacked with a Photo of Your Thumb
Am I reading a post from 2000?
Here you go, I wrote a post to answer this question:

"An incredibly brief introduction to JavaScript in 2015 for experienced developers."
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2015/05/an-incredibly-bri...

And FWIW my choice is ReactJS. Others seem to have gone with AngularJS.
Simply because it is quite difficult to explain the concept in writing. What does it mean to have an intense bootcamp just to prepare for interviews? What's the method? etc.

I want to take the time to talk to everyone who is interested in the course. Because the concept is new, people have all sorts of questions. Can't possibly address all of them in writing. I don't have a team of salespeople and haven't spent a penny on advertising.

If you still prefer email, please feel free to send one. It's on the site. It may just take longer to do back and forth.

Thanks for considering!
>>Feel free to apply again in 6 months.

I don't understand this. No company is so special that I would be throwing away hundreds of hours in pointless meaningless work every few months just to join them! Unless I'm in need of a job again.

And whats the big deal even if I join them after six months, I'd be working to maintain some code, fix bugs and may be occasionally do a big important project.

Its not like they are sending Neil Armstrong to the moon all over again that I would like to be a part of this history.
moul: care to comment about how things are at scaleway and how's the roadmap going ? Is VPC the next item on the list ? :)

Congrats on the steady advance anyway. It's been a pleasure to use scaleway so far.
I wonder how many of the people that say that actually are employed in a position where they get to make hiring decisions.
Thank you for clarifying that for me.

Can I choose not to leave, if I respect other people's natural rights?

My issue about leaving is that if I have done nothing wrong, I shouldn't have to flee from others who wish to violate my rights. Instead, they should respect my right to be unmolested.

Interested in your thoughts, if you wish to expand on this topic.
Yes, Fabian is a beast. While those older videos seem intriguing, he is definitely very talented. But like Lance showed us, you never can tell.
Why would you think that the effects of aging would all automatically disappear? Eventually, sure, you might be indistinguishable from someone born a hundred years after aging treatments, but that may take a specialized (or more advanced) treatment.

Just as one example, I think it is far more likely that an anti-age treatment would prevent the formation of wrinkles than that it would remove existing wrinkles.
This is not accurate regarding Android http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-now-requires-full-device...
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TL;DR: "they're asking the public to grant them significant new powers that could put all of our communications infrastructure at risk, and to trust them to not misuse these powers. But they're deliberately misleading the public (and the judiciary) to try to gain these powers. This is not how a trustworthy agency operates. We should not be fooled."
That's nice and all, but unfortunately the real world tests I've seen (and done) show something like Netty completely trumping anything available for Rust.
Guys at teleport.org are solving exactly that problem by pooling tens and tens of data sources for living costs, transportation, crime, recreation etc. Check them out.
But what can you really do with the Facebook login of, say Obama?
Not provoking WW3, that's for sure.
The only thing you can realistically create is a PR kerfuffle for Facebook, but considering the way to spread it would be (wait for it) on Facebook itself, there's not much money is this.
Any code whose readability depends on information stored only in your brain is bad code, sorry. Perhaps there are times when bad code is excusable, but there is no argument that such code is high-quality. The best code expresses an idea in the simplest way possible, which is not synonymous with the fewest number of lines possible.
> drumpf

Can we please not do this stupid stuff?

"I’m changing. We need highly skilled people in this country. If we can't do it, we will get them in. And we do need in Silicon Valley we absolutely have to have, so we do need highly skilled. One of the biggest problems we have is people will go to the best colleges, they will go to Harvard, to Stanford, to Wharton, as soon as they are finished they get shoved out. They want to stay in this country. They want to stay here desperately. They are not able to stay here. For that purpose, we absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country"

-- Donald Trump, GOP Debate March 3 2016
the most frustrating part of this whole thing is the multi-headed response by various agency chieftains. fbi says one thing. nsa says another. former generals say another.

am i crazy to want the president step up and say: "our position as a government is: x"? there's no/no way this has escaped his notice. isn't that part of the job description of "leader of the free world?"
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I think you mean it doesn't have a single reference to the paper.

This is why it's detrimental to have all these Journal articles locked away from public view. A researcher can make a claim that influences public opinion, but the general public must pay a lot of money to actually review what the claim is based upon!

The paper is, incidentally:

Cooper, H., Robinson, J. C., & Patall, E. A. (2006). Does homework improve academic achievement? A synthesis of research, 1987-2003. Review of Educational Research, 76, 1-62.

Luckily there is a copy of that article you can find here:

http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Does-Homework...

The abstract reads, in part:

No strong evidence was found for an association between the homework-achievement
link and the outcome measure (grades as opposed to standardized tests) or the
subject matter (reading as opposed to math). On the basis of these results and
others, the authors suggest future research.
We Googled it and picked the most likely one.
Attempting to scale a "secret society" has extremely obvious problems...
right... so your going to have full human level ai robots that can replace humans exactly when ?
Wow...

That "rogue band of developers" consists of the Python core committers - the people who have been volunteering their time and energy for years to bring you Python in the first place.

"nothing there is true technical innovation" - There is so much innovation in 3.x, I could write for an hour and not list everything.

"CPython3 was slopped together" - From my perspective, most of it has been extremely well thought out. That is not to say that everything turned out perfect. What software project on this scale has NOT has things that, in retrospect, turned out to be mistakes? Hindsight is 20/20.

It's like you are looking at all the many, many, many aspects of the change from Python from 2 to 3, positive and negative, and only seeing the bad things. If that's your mindset, I feel really sorry for you.

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/python-3-is-fine/
I had it there at one point. But the concept is difficult to understand and hence it takes a bit to understand the pricing. I didn't want random discussions on pricing flying online, by people who hadn't taken the time to understand what the course was, and what the upside is.

Pricing is also nuanced based on whether you're an experience engineer or student, whether you're taking the course remotely or on-site. Plus, there are recruiting firms who have access to our pipeline, who return a significant portion of our fees to you directly (we don't take a cut).

And those who are super curious, can always google it :-) In fact, most people who call have already googled for it before calling.

Rest assured, we're a real business, running classes every week. Batch after batch. Those who work hard, are getting their work rewarded.