skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Assuming a relatively consistent body density, mass will be proportional to the cube of the linear dimension (say height of person falling) and cross-sectional area will be proportional to the square of the linear dimension. This is why an ant can make it to the ground without a parachute.

F_drag = K_1 * velocity^2 * Size^2
F_gravity = K_2 * Size^3

Acceleration will be zero when the forces balance so terminal velocity is:

v_term = sqrt((K_2 * Size^3)/(K_1 * Size^2)) = K*sqrt(Size)

So if an ant is say 10mm long and a human is 2m long (200 * the length of the ant) the human falls 14 times faster.

Furthermore, the forces on our bones at impact will be likely be proportional to the cube of our size while their strength will be proportional to their cross section, related to the square of our size. This give the ant a big advantage at impact as well.

Finally, I would probably die of fright on the way down, the ant wouldn't know any better.
"Market average" is generally based on salary surveys, which kind of have to trim the extremes. So it's the median (ish), which is often lower than the mean.
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In Wright Morris's novel Ceremony at Lone Tree, a fellow driving from Baja California to Nebraska stops off at a motel where the clerk notes him down as "Wake before Bomb", i.e. to be awakened in time to see a test. In the event, the test is canceled.
I found out about my daughters egg allergy while traveling abroad.

I have my own suspicion that it was the result of her having antibiotics when she was a baby. A blocked tear duct was causing an infection in her eye. Her pediatrician prescribed antibiotics.

When we eventually were able to get an appointment with an eye specialist, she recommended just wiping the eye out with mild soap.

I have seen a few articles posted on HN that talked about the lack of gut bacteria ( killed by antibiotics ) as the reason why children develop allergies.
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Sort of, more like, "our parsing is good enough for our use cases, we'd make more progress if we focused instead on getting closer to true AI"

We don't even need true understanding of meaning, even a lousy approximation would be an improvement at this point (or I should say, a slightly less lousy approximation compared to what we have now).
In any group of people sometimes there are going to be people who don't get along for whatever reason. That doesn't necessarily make that person an asshole.

An asshole is who someone who makes like miserable for most people they interact with. Or they make life miserable for a whole group of people (e.g. someone who is shitty to subordinates, treats women poorly, etc.).
Well I must suck then because there aren't companies lining up to just hand me a job like Joel says happens to all good developers. I have to hustle in order to keep food and a roof.
It's just a summary of the post. Are Facebook and other sites doing something wrong as well?
I think it's more accurate to say linear solvers drive internet ads. Which could arguably be characterized as machine learning, I guess.
There are other points of view?
Oh you sweet summer child, who never got to experience Suck.com or Plastic in their (respective) heydays. Your world is objectively poorer as a result, but least the Brunching Shuttlecocks is still online!
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"What if Barack Obama was a carrot?" http://imgur.com/WN86vIV
The failure of the Banqiao Dam in China in 1975 killed 171,000 people; 11,000,000 people lost their homes. This is many orders of magnitude higher than the casualties and damages directly attributed to the failure of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Furthermore, Fukushima Daiichi was an old design (more than a decade older than Chernobyl nº4 reactor) whereas modern designs are much more safe.
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Do you feel this way about all mind-altering substances, or is it a function of ubiquity?

Where do you draw the line? I actually agree with you in theory: I think most people should try most things. I think my line, though, is a function of potential for addiction and abuse. On that scale, though, alcohol looks as bad as amphetamines, and far worse than something like MDMA.

If ubiquity is your primary factor, do you feel the same way about cigarettes? Should everyone try them to see what the fuss is about?
Here is a new blogpost from DHH "Provide sharp knives"

https://m.signalvnoise.com/provide-sharp-knives-cc0a22bf7934
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It adds no value. It doesn't belong on HN; the original article on dotdev.co does, however.

The "ads by carbon" certainly don't cast this particular website in a good light, either.
> Since I started to eat breakfast 2-3 hours before training I never had any issues and I also gain more weight (muscles)

I think this is the important part. Breakfast (the morning meal) isn't the critical factor, it's having the nutrients (proteins, sugars, etc.) in your body when you need it. If you worked out in the evening, like me, you'd probably find that a decent sized lunch + a small mid-afternoon snack would be fine, breakfast optional.
Just slow for now.
The USGS would assay your samples. A relative who worked there once had the job of reporting to a prospector that while his sample was nicely radioactive, the radioactive chemicals did not occur in nature. I think the prospector may then have threatened to complain to his congressman.
chems: No. He makes the semi-funny mistake of listing "gold allergy" and nickel allergy as if they're separate. Nickel is a component of low purity gold and that's why people who are allergic to nickel are allergic to low purity gold. The gold atoms are quite blameless, they're just in a bad neighborhood. Kinda like the gluten free guy isn't allergic to 100 individual types of pasta, he's actually allergic to one specific wheat protein, that happens to be in 100 pastas and breads and beer and who knows what else.

Why: Kinda. Paraphrasing the article its a mishmash of the establishment view is it was an evolutionary adaptation that was a net gain until recent civil engineering, and now is a net loss. The mash of the mish is fairly standard inflammation and chronic exposure to a very large and complicated semi-autonomous set of analog systems combined with very close monitoring of a very large populations means all the weird system crashes where balances go haywire will be documented.

So something like eating a peanut in 1700 was OK because your fish diet was clean and the person who died from a peanut was not noticed compared to the bodies stacked like cordwood due to cholera and typhoid and the plague and lack of clean water in general and intestinal parasites and food poisoning. But in 2016 dude eats a fish diet which is contaminated by mercury from coal burning power plants and that combined with low level exposure to a zillion things simultaneously that we know are bad at high level which means his immune system is perma-inflamed into being half way to blowing up all the time, and when he eats a peanut and dies people notice because in 2016, at least in the west, civil engineering means people are not dying of plagues all the time, so it gets documented and wondered about.

Some aspects of the article are not controversial. Consider the accepted establishment theory of epoxy, urethane, or polyester monomer sensitization. The controversy is you have an enormously large complicated system (like physics, or the entire immune system vs the entire planetary industrial era environment) and fans of various gross simplifications and rules of thumb love to argue about which is righter than the other and the borders of acceptable application of those simplifications.
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It's not a summary of the post, it's just part of the actual post copied and pasted in.

Facebook and other sites make it clear that what you're looking at is a summary meant to lead you to another site - they don't disguise it as content.
In the case of articles like this one, it's because a lot of old propaganda, superstition, myths and common sense lessons deriving from apocryphal tales last forever, and are impervious to new information (or more often the ending of the suppression of old information.)

One of the reasons they are so hard to update is because these same media outlets and government agencies were the ones that foisted the myths on us in the first place, usually for money, and they are now telling us the truth about some things with the same tone as they told us the lies.
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Fasting before working out may be good for cutting. But taking some BCAA or protein is recommended anyway.
Bulking is unrealistic though.
I can highly recommend "The diet myth" by Prof. Tim Spector, who does a good job in explaining why there are so many myths about nutrition, food, digestion etc:

http://tim-spector.co.uk/
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Look how special, important, and better you are as a result of being 10 years older than a random stranger :)
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. I don't eat unless I'm hungry or going to be working out later (or have just worked out, which usually means I'm hungry). So Sundays, my lazy day, I sometimes don't eat breakfast until dinner. Sometimes not at all, because I just don't get hungry (on a particularly lazy Sunday especially). So when I go out with my friends on a Saturday or Sunday night it might be my first meal of the day. They're usually shocked.
The article is basically unreadable in today's attention economy.
Well the 99-problems were originally in Prolog, and many have to do with list manipulation, something that Haskell has built in. Additionally, Haskell will benefit from its lazy, functional nature, which makes dynamic programming, searching, and even some data structures a little cleaner.

I haven't worked with Java in quite a while, but I imagine that it still requires a lot of boilerplate and set up for trivial things in other languages. I'm sure if C were also included it would be the most verbose.
Could, but most likely won't. It will however most likely do the exact opposite, if our government makes the rights calls in terms of international trade.

If we leave, to become more global. I.e free trade deals with China, India, Brazil, the English speaking commonwealth, whom share much of our laws and ways of working. Then we'd be 'quids in'.
That's the one. I didn't realize Rusty put a "Disallow: *" in his robots.txt. It made me really sad to discover that Kuro5hin wasn't spidered by the Internet Archive.
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Yes, I've read and see the difference from schema.
The huge advantage with this, is that even though the approach is different, it supersedes schema's abilities and it will be a require away for every library and application author.
>The basic idea is that specs are nothing more than a logical composition of predicates.

This reminds me of this technique:

https://github.com/astoeckley/Eat-Static#going-further
I'd say it is at least a ways into adolescence. Understanding vitamins and trace minerals was a pretty big step forward.
Can a doctor write a prescription to allow a kid to play in the mud?
I'm not sure that "evil" is the opposite of "magic"
I would love a set of new levels once a year, as an annual tradition at the start of the summer. Whatever new add-ons they create, I'll be paying for and downloading immediately. Such a great game. I replay it every few months (enough time for the levels to feel fresh)
That "words have other meanings", like breakfast would be what you eat within X hours of waking up.
People who don't understand the concept of atomic CSS usually joke about it, but has no idea about the benefits. The new Twitter mobile site is fast as hell and use this concept. Semantic class names makes no sense when you think about it.
> No, you shouldn't be thinking about these things. Because you'll get them wrong.

"Magic" is good for beginners, because there's just too much they don't know.

Not thinking about all these things because the community of thousands should have done it better I did, is just lazy.

This is the kind of thinking that leads to unnecessary layers of abstraction and bloat.
I pretty much completely disagree with the implicit critique here. The codebase I work on now has largely transitioned from "semantic" CSS (classnames based on feature) to CSS with classnames that describe what they do, visually, and the latter has made writing frontend code dramatically more straightforward - it's gone from something I dread and try to pass off to a specialist to something I can do easily. A night-and-day improvement.

I mean, nobody actually advocates translating every single possible style attribute into its own CSS class. But what's wrong with padding and margin utility classes that use a consistent set of widths? Is doing calculations on "1x" and "2x" when you want elements to line up really worse than doing calculations on pixel or em values in your CSS just because it's "unsemantic"?

Let's take the examples from the "maintainable CSS" book that's linked:

<!-- bad [sic] -->
<div class="red pull-left">
<div class="grid row">
<div class="col-xs-4">

<!-- good [sic] -->
<div class="header">
<div class="basket">
<div class="product">
<div class="searchResults">

Ask yourself, in which case can you read the code and tell roughly how it's going to render? In which case do you think you'll be able to re-use the classes on other pages? If you wanted to make another, visually consistent page that shows, say, seller search results instead of product ones, in which case do you think you'll be able to figure out which styles need to change more quickly?

Here's the backend equivalent:

# "bad"
def cheapest_products_with_min_rating(rating)
products.
select { |p| p.rating >= rating }.
sort_by { |p| p.price }.
first(10)
end

# "good"
def products_for_category_landing_page(rating)
allowed = []
for p in products
if p.rating >= rating
allowed << p
end
end

# pretend I've implemented quicksort here

result = []
for p in sorted
break if result.length >= 10
result << p
end

result
end

Ugh, that first example - using all these "unsemantic" components like "sort" and "select"! How do I know when I look at the implementation of any of them, or the function itself, what the intent is? What business problem is being solved?

The second example - so nice and "semantic". If we want to change what products show up on the category landing page, it will be easy!

...

In real life, nobody writes backend code like that. Why should we tolerate it in the frontend?
No, just because breakfast is a compound word doesn't mean it must exactly match the two words it is composed of. Spearmint isn't mint leaves tied to a spear, Carhop doesn't involve jumping in any way, and understand doesn't involve standing anywhere let alone under anything.
FiveThirtyEight had an article about this recently:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you...
Not really fair to blame the end-user / victim, who bought a product. Requiring business-level IT policies and monitoring on home/consumer IT products isn't really viable for the vast majority.

Windows 10 might be a service, but previous versions were products.
I humbly request "ph0rque as a Service" for all longform articles on the Internet. I read through 60% of this thing and couldn't fully put together what it was about.
I am just so unsettled by those broken yolks (I like my egg sunny side up), that I couldn't read the rest of the article.
Ah that was the problem, thanks!
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Of course that's not what they taught us in school, which was that we were supposed to have a pile of carbs with more carbs sprinkled on top and wash it down with carb juice and milk. Bacon and eggs would kill you by clogging your heart with pan drippings.
you want to control your own borders and say who and who not can become Dutch? That sounds awful [buzzword] of you. You don't want people to think you're a [buzzword], do you? Support EU. Don't be a [buzzword]. National sovereignty is overrated anyway.
Expected this to be the top comment.

Nothing new DHH isn't widely praised for originality, but come on this whole article is like a total re-hash. And he doesn't even bother to mention Joel... to me that means he's trying to take credit, or he doesn't know about Joel... uh, yeah.
Objective-C has nothing to do with it, actually (despite that Objective-C technically is C with a superset of features -- all C is compatible Objective-C).

The issue is the build/compilation process for the different platform architecture via cross-compilation. Tends to be rather tricky, regardless of the actual language you choose to write your app with (this build process is entirely separate from any code you write yourself in any supported iOS language).
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Fukushima Daiichi was also subjected to a historically significant natural disaster, it wasn't exactly an "everyday" or even "every century" event.
There are more and less literal understandings of words. Breakfast, as commonly understood, is meant as the first meal of the day, and specifically the morning meal.

Referring to your first meal, at 8pm without having slept away the day, as "breakfast" is outside most people's understanding of the word, though it is, strictly speaking, correct.

It's like the various meanings and uses of the word "decimate". The literal and historical meaning is to remove 1 out of 10 of a group, such as in combat against enemy forces or as punishment of some group or something. Today, it means removing a large percentage. "The army was decimated" today means that a large percentage (subjective) was killed or wounded.

Subjective meaning: Some might say 10% is large, others might mean 80%. And it depends on the initial size. 10% of 100 is only 10, that doesn't seem large. But 10% of 1,000,000 is 10,000, that's substantial though the percentage itself may appear small.
I send out a test in between phone interview and face to face but it's very subjective, not really meant to weed out people who fail. The purpose of it is to create some technical talking points for the face to face interview in lieu of putting someone on the spot on the whiteboard. "I see you refactored this, but not this. Can you explain your thinking? Why did you decide this pattern fit the solution?" There can be many right answers, and especially many right reactions to wrong answers, and I like that conversation more than putting people through a whiteboard.

Also, agree on the 2 interview max. Technically we do 3, but the first is a 3 minute basic screen by the recruiter, not really an interview.
What's missing for me from this whole discussion is the allowance that both methods can be correct.

Use case: you're a solo developer and you need to build a proof of concept web application based on a fairly complex set of requirements. You probably want to use a framework like Rails and focus your time 100% on the specific project requirements, and use the framework to generate the common parts of the web app for you.

Another use case: you're on a large, multi-year project for a huge client where each developer has his/her own specialty area. Here it may well make sense to go with a Java Enterprise app and wire your own persistence layer or write your own SQL queries.

The mantra of Rails has always been "don't repeat yourself." Don't waste time rebuilding the same 90% skeleton every time you need a CRUD app with a postgres database.

Want absolute granular control over all parts of your application? Then almost by definition, you really don't need a framework. So great, don't use one and roll your own web app from the ground up. But there are many times it makes complete sense.
The 'all the time' part of my statement was quite an important bit.

Sure, ARAM exists - but like I said there's an always-changing array of free champions, so it's not like you'll never get them. And again - if you're just starting out, there's going to be some time before you even get around to trying every champion for the first time. Even if you go with ~30 minutes per game(below the average length in normal modes, slightly above average on ARAM) - you're looking at upwards of 60 hours of playtime just to try everyone once.

You can complain about F2P games all you like, but I don't think for a second we'd have had as many new champions released if they'd been on a pay-once model. I don't think that's exploitative, just different.

-edit- before my play patterns are criticised again, I should say I've been playing LoL to varying degrees of intensity for about 5 years. I think it's more accessible in terms of champion acquisition now than it was then.
Taking your question seriously, yes. Two major schools of thought are "prescriptive" vs. "descriptive". This terms are usually applied to the noun "grammar" but it works for vocabulary, too. See: http://amyrey.web.unc.edu/classes/ling-101-online/tutorials/...

Descriptively, breakfast is clearly an early-morning meal eaten within an hour or two of the end of sleep. There is also, at least in America where I can speak for it, a set of associated "breakfast foods", making it reasonable to "have breakfast for dinner" and most people know what you mean. (i.e., even my 5-year-old knew precisely what that meant when I first said it, so one should carefully consider one's internet-pedant options before claiming that makes no sense :) ) Prescriptively one could make a case for "the meal that breaks your fast", though I daresay it would be a rather weak case. The term "fast" is almost dead in modern American English, though it may be making a comeback via things like Intermittent Fasting: https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2013/08/06/a-beginners-guid... (Which, for the purposes of this post, I'm merely pointing out a word usage. Though I do it myself now, I'm not defending or advocating it here.)
Because there's nothing left to be learned from experimental prosthetics?
I enjoy using racket and contracts make it quite enjoyable to use - error messages in particular are much improved by their presence. Looking forward to this!
> It might just as likely boost the economy of the UK.

Pure assumption on your side or can you support this with sources ?

> We cannot control our own borders. We cannot decide how many immigrants we want to allow.

Seems to me much of this sentiment about leaving the EU is merely fear for being overrun by non-natives.

Talking about 'This fear mongering has got to stop'...
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The problem with coal as well, is that the effect of its pollution is known to contribute to many deaths a year, especially in the elderly, people with compromised cardiopulmonary systems, and of course, the asthmatic. It's not like a nuclear disaster though, where someone comes in "radioactive" with coal. The best we can do is explain the statistical link.

When nuclear goes wrong, it's much less lethal, but so much more easy to recognize and very dramatic. Then again, we live in a world of people obsessed with shark attacks and winning the lottery, but who drive around in cars all day.
Don't you see the read more link? The author is listed there, too.

Don't ignore all the things.
I have seen a fair share of Java web app hate posts.
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I'm surprised it's that simple. Then again, simplicity is usually surprising.