skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums?

Um, Graham is more than a little off here.

Like, by a country mile.
Some discussion in The Millionaire Next Door about this as well.

The conclusion, if I recall correctly, was that there was an inverse relationship between the financial success of the child and the amount of money they were provided from their wealthy parents. More money from the parent generally just meant more consumption by the child, while depleting the assets of the parent. Thus less is inherited and the child has not learned to save and spends it all.
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I don't have access to the actual paper, but my first thought on this is to wonder if they factored in the idea that people who specifically exercise are obviously interested in being healthy and may be doing other things that are "healthy" that would affect whether they get cancer or not.

I wonder if it'd be possible to get data on people who are active, but not for the reason of being healthy, things like working construction, and compare that to see if it's the activity itself or just the mentality that comes from wanting to be healthy.
Please don't comment like this here. It makes the signal/noise ratio even lower.

> Of course, this fact doesn't stop HN's legions of nit-picking boobs

Dissing a community that you're part of, as a rhetorical status move, is particularly associated with low-quality comments.
Who cares if their LinkedIn account gets hacked? In my case they'll be able to see 500+ recruitment agents I've never heard of as my 'contacts'.
Managing expectations, I think. Google tends to release early and with sometimes experimental products where the quality/UX is not super great. I expect this will have some rather rough edges.
Chromebooks in general don't seem to get that much attention. I'm not sure why, maybe they're not as ground-breaking as... another messaging app... that isn't even out yet...
When looking through the logs index.htm will look like index.html and may be missed.

But, I have no experience exfiltrating files or gaining access to servers I don't own.
In the early 00's I worked for a company that had a Bloomberg chat killer too.
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I'm not sure that a comparison between bootcamps and college is viable.

College is not just about learning to code. You also learn to deal with professors and how to get the best grades out of them. You figure out how much you can drink without the glaring hangout that interferes with your morning philosophy class. You sign those forms to get credit cards that haunt you till you have a job. If you're smart, chose a good college and get really lucky, you might actually learn something and get a job after graduation.

Boot camps are about learning to code, creating networks and passing interviews for tech jobs. You can't pledge, or hang out with the furries, paint your face with your college colors for the football game at the weekend, or struggle figure out if your summer course fulfills the requirement for your social science elective.

These two places of learning can peacefully co-exist and each one has its purpose.

I even think that it would be good for some CS Degrees to walk into a bootcamp to explore something new and expand their knowledge.

Bootcamp replacing college? I don't think so. Not till bootcamps have long lines of students trying to change their course selections at the registrar's office.

There are some options that lie somewhere in the middle...
Raising tax on income is regressive by its very nature. The wealthiest people in our society pay almost no income tax at all and raising it would not affect them.

If an old couple is barely scraping by on a pension but sitting on a property worth millions that could be converted to an apartment housing hundreds of people, why shouldn't they be encouraged to sell or at the very least rent? In their present state they are a net drain on society, paying no income taxes and squeezing everybody else into less available land.

Land value taxes[0] are the answer to this mess.

[0] http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-val...
I can attest to that. I had weaker health a few years ago (lack of activity mainly) but I could kick a regular schedule of activity to get back on track. An accident broke my health below the self help threshold. When you're worried you can't jog, even walk, it's hard to bootstrap the exercice-health cycle again.
Please don't create many obscure throwaway accounts on HN.

This forum is a community. Anonymity is fine here, but users should have some kind of consistent identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we might as well have no usernames and no community at all, and that would be an entirely different forum.
Poor John Resig!...IIRC, his streak goes back 3+ years https://github.com/jeresig
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Yglesias consistently strikes me as someone who was told they were very clever far more than was actually warranted.
I didn't get that the developers were switching to something new, but that the developers were shutting down and the distributors (people actually working to get TeslaCrypt onto PCs) were switching to something new - presumably because the TeslaCrypt folks were going away.

The Bleeping Computer article has much better information (and comments) than the TechCrunch reporting of it.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teslacrypt-shu...
Whilst a bit rambling and somewhat repetitive about the film, the article does introduce some interesting perspectives on today's millennial culture. I think it is signalling an exciting future...
Targeting police? Really?

How about we start targeting the corrupt officials instead that employ them. More Panama like leaks please.
There is no serious hyperloop project. Just pie-in-the-sky projections from someone who isn't really that serious about pursuing it.

If Elon Musk seriously cared about the Hyperloop project, his FEA simulations would have looked better than the crap I pulled in an optional class from college. His "proposal" was the most modest of sketches, and should be treated with only the same amount of rigor that Elon put into it.
If I were stranded on an island with the laptop I used in college and a power source, I'd have a pretty good idea of how to stumble through:

- A multithreaded UNIX-like operating system with user programs, system calls, and a filesystem, with reasonable (if not entirely optimal) caching strategies.

- A TCP/IP stack for that operating system.

- An authenticated encrypted channel over my TCP/IP stack with forward secrecy by building a pseudrandom function up to a stream cipher, RSA with OAEP, Diffie-Helman, etc.

- Network services from the RFCs in C (we did a router and IRC).

- A high-level programming language with support for both functional and OO idioms based on the typed lambda calculus with recursion, lists, records, tuples, ref cells, subtyping, etc.

- A lexer, typechecker, and interpreter for that language using parser generator tools, a recursive descent parser, or a shift-reduce parser in a pushdown automata model.

- A formal specification of the evaluation and typing rules and a type soundness proof for that lanugage.

- A distributed KV store with Paxos, Raft, or Byzantine Generals running on my encrypted channel and written in my language (we used 0MQ and were given a 0MQ broker that could be told to drop messages for testing purposes).

- Greedy, dynamic programming, network flow, and ILP algorithms with proofs of correctness and efficiency.

My class work repositories put me about three quarters of the way there.

I'm sure bootcamps can teach people enough to tread water in a dynamic language web framework, and that meets real business needs and adds real value. But college is a chance to go deeper.

I know nobody is paying us to build our own lightsabers. But - and call me old fashioned if you'd like - I think a professional ought to be able to build his own lightsaber anyway.
> conservatives seem to be less prevalent online than liberals

Expressing conservative views tends to be a social liability among the groups that tend to be active internet users.
Older Chromebooks, including the original Pixel, won’t run Android apps
I think password reuse is the big deal. Lots of people use the same passwords on more important accounts, which they would mind losing.
Yeah it's an interesting perspective. Thanks. I'm looking at it from a product UX perspective. It's a good challenge. Thanks for the insight.
I guess hobby / less experienced programmers dont count in this answer.

My way of phrasing the question was: after how long should I quit debugging if unsucessful?

My answer to your question: a day or two, and not talking about advanced programming.

I havent read books about debugging yet but I started to track reasons for why things go wrong and I'm perplexed. Answering this question makes me feel like I tried to reinvent the wheel. That will determine me to read a book about debugging. Right now I want to find out all the reasons why bugs occur. I dont know much about other programmers, this is an interesting topic to read.
> As someone in favor of squashing, I can say that I don't want to see things like "oops, reverting last commit" popup in my git history

There's a middle ground between squashing and leaving a load of disorganised crap in the history. Rebase before merging. It gives you a chance to clean up the rubbish, but it doesn't force you to squash an entire feature's work into a single commit. You can preserve the logical changes without letting the crap into your history.
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I think there's an inherent tension between your style, and the style that prefers pushing new branches immediately.

I personally like to create a new branch locally - sometimes I'm experimenting and get ahead of my commits, and then I'll make 3-4 commits in bite-sized concepts. Other times I'll commit something that seems like it will probably work, and then I realize it doesn't, so I'm able to revert/reset the commit (so the commit is deleted rather than seeing a commit and then a revert in the log). And once I'm close to done, I can even rebase so my clean commits are all in a row. Then I push my branch.

I lose all that flexibility as soon as a team's process demands I push my branch as soon as I create it. I can no longer rebase (I still don't understand the guides that explain how to use rebase after pushing), reverts add noises to the log, merges from master interrupt the flow, etc. So in that sense, I can see the allure of a squash-and-merge to master.

I just don't think that pushing an empty feature branch takes advantage of the benefits of using git.
Natively. In most cases, faster than the phone version.
definitely slow farts
(it is not emulated, but runs inside a linux container instead, so it won't have that emulation overhead)
For my work laptop, the same ~6–8 apps are always running. No need to quit anything ever.

At home, where I do a wider variety of things (coding, photography, video stuff) I do quit apps, but there's still a baseline of ~2–3 apps (Chrome + Music + one more) that are always running, which I would guess is pretty typical for most users.
I wish it would show contributions to branches other than master.
Russia may be one place this technology makes sense. They have to rebuild the Trans-Siberian Railway anyway to get it up to modern standards, so why not skip ahead to something faster than a subsonic flight to Vladivostok? Additionally, an elevated tube might be able to take a more direct route, as the pylons could better deal with permafrost than a continuous roadbed.

Paying for it is left as an exercise to the voter.
Then why remove the numbers? Counting squares is a pain. They should at least let you see these numbers on your own profile. Mind you, someone could easily make a browser extension to do this, basically.
I do believe I would enjoy that parable because I think it happens a lot in the US culture. You know like listening to, ahem, certain anti-vaccine people simply because they were in a nudie magazine and on the TV for a while.
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Definitely same here. I started working on some personal projects for Github this winter and ended up getting a long streak of about a month from it. Since then, I've been in the habit of getting long streaks and try to do 2+ commits every day, but as soon as I fall off that streak it takes me 2-3 days to think about contributing again. Not only does it motivate me to write code (almost) every day (which I'd argue is important to developing programming skill), but it also pushes me to share code I was already going to write, which I think is a win-win for everybody.
Pretty good read, it's not what you think it'll be about at first. Super rambly though, hard to read, but wade through it for the last few paragraph where the actual take away is and it's a reasonable assessment.
>No matter how much we automate there will always be work for people to do. The more important question is how equitably they'll be compensated for that work and whether or not our education system is adequate for the world as it exists.

And if it isn't, then those people who've been automated out of a job will find something to do, such as crime.
My thought was similar: how long ago was the most recent common ancestor of Florentines (barring immigration)?
I just mean that I feel like the terminology obfuscates something that could be more simply explained without using it.
As a Python learner, very excited to try this out on my code. I'm aware of other tools that can generate these visualizations but figuring out how to use them has seemed like a daunting task for someone like myself who barely understands what bytecode is; hoping this tool will serve as an accessible learning tool!
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How are bootcamps any different than vocational schools?
Probably for similar reasons to the ones people have expressed in this thread about not wanting to have to re-learn backspace. ;) Perfectly doable; doesn't solve the problem of not mapping to what one is accustom to.

I'm an emacs user. If Ctrl-c does something different from starting a chord, I'm gonna have a bad time.
The guy leading this project is someone that willfully changed his name so it has at least two "bros" in it.

That's enough to call it off.
Can someone who has read this TLDR; it ?
Let's discuss text editors. Anyone?
My first attempt or two learning Rails ended up this way, but I really got it once I had SQL down. In a/A we built our own stripped down, minimal versions of ActiveRecord and Rails. This ended up connecting all of the dots for me.
Your comments have unfortunately been breaking the HN guidelines quite a bit. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
No, I'm objecting to the use of terms which I feel make communication worse, rather than better. You're free to disagree.
I remember the chemo and it was exactly like this. 5 days of shit every 2 weeks, and a slow tumble up the next 9 days, waiting for the new round.

I got the luck to have a "gentle" lymphoma, but the chemo is hard nonetheless. My 2 last rounds, I couldn't bend down to grab a pan without sweating, starting to tremble and having difficulty breathing.

Let's hope that he gets all the love he needs to pass through gently.
My bad, I didn't say it very well. The point is, in de Broglie-Bohm theory, it is assumed that particles are material points that exist, have trajectories. The motion of the particles is influenced by \psi, kind of like motion of charged particle is influenced by electric field in EM theory. These particles and the \psi function are the subject of the theory, so they "really exist" in this theory.

In Copenhagen theory, \psi is understood to be mere calculational device the main purpose of which is to get probabilities of results of measurements. There is no idea that particles actually are there moving along trajectories; the subject of the theory are results of measurements and \psi is only a theoretician's tool to get their possible values and probabilities.
If this was detached, why is it still viewable on the thread?
year of the linux desktop?
Best part of the article:

"Mr. BamBrogan’s real first name is Kevin. This is just one of many aspects to this undertaking that makes me feel that it will all be revealed as a breathtaking piece of performance art."

Is entrepreneurship sometimes completely, or partially, performance art?
... and there are those of us who work (or have worked) on building it, are long-time HNers, and are always happy to answer questions and clear up FUD. It's a lot easier to have empathy when talking to a person instead of about a company :)
I disagree with regards to a CS degree not making me a better developer, but if I was reading your post three years ago I might have agreed with you. It's interesting--much of what I learned in college was of at best marginal utility when I was starting out, but a ton of it's come back around to be useful today. Which is kind of to be expected, in that a junior developer's not likely to be dealing with much that's particularly challenging (in an absolute sense--of course, it's often going to be challenging in a relative sense). In particular, I spent this morning studying Raft and the Paxos family of distributed consensus algorithms to better understand the tools I'm using so that I can more effectively reason about them for the problem I'm working on; in my adventures I ended up digging Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigm by Tanenbaum out of my closet. (Guess why I had that? ;) )

To this end, I'm generally leery of bootcamp classes, and have not had good success working with bootcamp graduates for more than "line programmer" roles where attention and hours are sufficient to achieve a goal. Of those I can think of, none of the ones I've worked with have been dumb, far from it, but they haven't had the underlying theoretical education (even, generally speaking, something as foundational as a first-year discrete mathematics course) through which to filter whatever length of practical experience they've had. I find both to be extremely valuable, and to make me much better at my job.
I'm curious, in my region (greater Seattle area) almost all the hospitals have birthing centers that are attached to the hospital, but aren't "the hospital." They are nicely appointed rooms with birthing beds, baths, exercise balls, bars etc. They have hidden doors that can "transform" the room in to a hospital room at a moments notice, and if needed the NICU is down the hall. We needed the NICU once, so I was glad for the option.

Is this not commonplace in the larger hospital markets (where I would assume most HN'ers live)?
Please stop posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments to HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724830 and marked it off-topic.
I don't think most people come out of bootcamps claiming they're "on par" with CS grads, but rather that they're good enough to be given a chance for some subset of programming jobs.

Also the time based argument strikes me as misleading - bootcamps are much more intensive than university curriculums. University students aren't studying 10-12 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week every week; most Bootcamp students are. That said, I recognize that the University student undoubtedly takes in a greater volume of material, but the ratio is severely distorted by referring to it as 4 years.
I switched from using a Mac keyboard to using a Windows one when I was still a heavy emacs user; I think you'll get adjusted much faster than you think.
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> Although we have “very good data” from animal studies...

This is a pretty important thing to keep in mind. There are a lot of studies that I've seen, extending connections to humans from mice [1], even though understanding of the suitability of these mouse models has just recently (or hasn't) been studied [2].

So... "In humans, the data are more limited. Researchers have drawn links between gastrointestinal pathology and psychiatric neurological conditions such as anxiety, depression, autism, schizophrenia and neurodegenerative disorders — but they are just links." [3]

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867415...
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3427216/
[3] http://www.nature.com/news/the-tantalizing-links-between-gut...
I have heard, but don't know whether or not to take seriously, the argument that the proposal is designed to derail CAHSR in order to sell more cars. If that's the case, it seems to be working.

What part of CAHSR do you find underwhelming (other that it will take too long to build?). I disagree with some of the routing decisions (I think it should go SJ ->SF -> Oakland -> Central Valley -> LA ), but what would conceivably make it better?
perhaps cortona doesn't exist locally and they do all the parsing 'in the cloud'.
Oh snap, I could do that ;) Non-functional is a secret specialty of mine, although I normally don't release it.
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I just read that! It was a very interesting read.
They need to upgrade terminal itself, not the keyboard. Anyone who works at BB will tell you how outdated their stack is
Yep. I don't think we need to even talk about JS, and I'm happy to point him to a few baking forum flame wars that are epic.

And his comment about the problem being a threshold for expertise is equally laughable. People feel perfectly happy to comment on anything catching their fancy, expertise or not. (Add to that Dunning Kruger...)
BetterStop [1] restores the old behaviour well.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/betterstop/
Depends on how rigorous the curriculum is. The problem here however, is that although colleges typically are overseen and expected to let c students graduate, bootcamps can set as high a standard as they want.
Read Piketty's Capital; there's a great discussion about how wealth has been held across several capitalist countries for the past 200-300 years.

What's striking is that the value of agricultural land in the US around 1700-1800 was, if memory served, something like 50% of aggregate US wealth, whereas today it's <1%, with the dominant portion being residential real estate and business equity (which includes commercial RE, I think). According to the book, US wealth is about 50/50 between those two categories.

Which is all to say, land hasn't been that great of a bet growth-wise for the past 100 or so years in the US. I don't know how one would've fared over 700 years of Italian history, though.

More broadly, I think the biggest determinant of wealth is one's attitude toward generation of income. In a capitalist economy, long-term wealth is generated by the acquisition, improvement, and operation of assets; it's the same deal whether you're a business owner/founder, investment banker doing leveraged buyouts, landlord, miner, whatever. Get assets (build/buy), work on them, then use them for income or sell them to buy other/more assets. Very different attitude toward income than "Get a job". I wonder how correlated attitude is with wealth?