skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is a good example. She absolutely refuses to drink water from the tap -- and we live in Portland, Oregon, which arguably has some of the purest water in the USA.
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​OpenOffice is dead. Long live LibreOffice
LaCroix is the methadone for the soda addicted.
Flutter a new cross platform solution
There is a characteristic not mentioned that can determine if someone will reach a high level or not. Self gratification or the ability to delay self gratification. The "marshmallow kid", even a gifted kid that cannot fight their own human condition to seek a dopamine reward from eating, entertainment, etc can't reach their potential. If you got a reward from problem solving and knowledge acquisition then it wouldn't take much to focus.

Why can we focus for hours gaming, but when it comes to solving a math problem, most of us will never start or stop shortly after.
It is one thing what I personally dislike (for example what happened in Romania) and what I'm vocal against (Communism, Socialism) and what my country is responsible to fight for. (especially if the adversary was the Soviet Union)

You are not going to convince me that the West is responsible for what happened in Romania unless you prove that the West forced you into Communism and actively helped to keep this Gulag system running.

The only case you seem to make is that countries like Romania and Lithuania are no real sovereign nations because they are too weak. Am I right? What's your suggestion to solve this? You submit to someone else who is not the Soviet Union? Or you hope you'll find someone who will risk his safety for you for free?
The trouble with competition is that it creates an order of magnitude more losers than it does winners. Yet it is the foundational element of nearly all school systems in the world. Students don't just get accepted to every school they apply to; they have to compete to "get in." The basis of that competition is grades.

If you want to fix competition in education you must first do something about grades and how they influence outcomes rather than learning.
Yes, and Spain's is only 32.48[0]. What is your point?

[0] - http://fortune.com/2015/11/11/chart-work-week-oecd/
>Shouldn't your goal to be to make great games?

That was an implied sub-goal. The verification criteria I gave was merely to illustrate what the concrete results of my endeavors might look like. If I said flatly "I want to make great games," then someone might reasonably respond "how do you know you're succeeding?"

>For goals like yours, politics and personality can matter as much as the work itself.

This is quite true. But Paul Graham has a great quote which I think might be applicable here: "Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are... And so there is a great temptation to work on problems you can treat formally, rather than problems that are, say, important."
People buy bottled water for the taste, not for the cleanliness.

If you have bad tap water, it's not like you can just shop around for another provider. But bottled water does actually compete on taste; I do prefer some brands over others when given the choice.

But I've gotten lucky with fine-tasting tap water, anyway.
When a person works as a writer they might be sent to many places and events to write about them. While that might sounds luxurious, the reality is often otherwise. A couple Instagrams from a given location don't mean she was on a 2-week vacation.

When I was working as a poor tech consultant's assistant, I traveled to Vegas several times, New York city several times, Boston, and a few other places. I got a few nice pictures along the way but 90+% of my time was spent either in windowless conference rooms or in my cheap hotel, writing.

I find it distasteful to try to write the story of a person's life from a few social media posts. Do you post photos illustrating your life hardships to Instagram? Does anyone?

I know professional musicians who travel the world playing concerts, but have no retirement savings and share cheap houses when they're at home. Guess which side of their life you'll see on social media.

If you want to talk about why you disagree with the ideas in the article, let's do that. This social stalking you're doing is borderline witch hunting IMO.
If you are interested in discussing your work, go ahead and submit it. It's interesting and it's been a while.

Good luck.
Your analogy is incomplete because you forget rotating the cannon about its barrel.
FWIW: The article did address this. It claims that bottled water sales are low margin. Therefore, not equivalent to soda sales.
With a couple high-profile exceptions, it's all human-ready. We all just have different preferences, and complain when we move somewhere where the water doesn't taste like "home".
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To be exact - It smells like water from a swamp. Hard to satisfy your thirst by drinking that nasty smell
I set up my own mail server. It took me a few hours with a few minor hiccups along the way, but after contacting Microsoft and AT&T to get my IP removed from their block lists and asking family and friends to mark my emails as "Not Spam", I am now in control of my email and it feels amazing.

I have also taken the time to run my own calendar and contact services.

For mail, I run Postfix and Dovecot over SSL and access email from my iPhone or web browser using Squirrelmail.

For contacts and calendar I use Baikal.
I didn't realize Dash uses cooked mode. That's actually kind of surprising; every other shell I've used always uses raw mode to give them more control over line editing. Is Dash just trying to be as minimalistic as possible?
Excel. Going on 30 year strong.
No one thinks intelligence is irrelevant to getting a PhD.

The question is, how do you know that getting a PhD relies "heavily on intelligence"? How do you know that intelligence has a strong or weak correlation? Or that there isn't some sort of threshold, where an effective IQ of at least 90 is important, but 140 is no more important?

What other factors have you considered, and why have you concluded they are less significant to getting a PhD than the intelligence that can be measured by the SAT?

jsprogrammer has, I think, a different point. Let's suppose that everyone has an equal chance of getting a PhD should they be admitted into graduate school. Let's also suppose that the selection committees believe that test scores are correlated with intelligence, and that only those with a high test score (and presumably higher intelligence) should get into graduate school.

This would end up with PhDs who all had good test scores, simply because of the selection bias. It would not reveal anything about the underlying population, because it confounds any association between intelligence and getting a PhD.

The people who get a PhD this way become members of a selection committee. They know the process worked for them, and repeat it, making this a stable system.

How do you know that PhD students now aren't selected in part because of a cultural belief which places a higher weight on test scores than is justified? How much of an effect does that bias have on the correlations you keep pointing to?
You have no idea what you are talking about. How exactly does GS manipulate the markets to its will? You'd think their balance sheet would look better if that was case..
That's because the last time it was this hot would be the end of a warm cycle with the earth heading towards cooling. We're seeing the opposite end of the curve.
I thought it looked familiar! I briefly experimented with using Blockly to simplify testing at work.
4 things to keep in mind when implementing Industry 4.0
Companies need to evaluate the loss of man-days when they demand or even suggest on-call duties for engineers. Also the effect of these duties on number of sick days taken, and overall health. Because when I'm up from 3-3:30am fixing something, I'm going to be less useful and emotionally testy that day at the office. When I'm a Good Marine and am up eyeballing a problem from 1am-6am, the same will happen but over a 1-2 week span. And I'll probably get sick.

I really think engineers end up on-call because companies give short shrift to documentation. Maybe if you afforded time to document systems and processes, you could outsource on-call duties, or trust sysadmins to remediate without developer intervention.
S3 because I am essentially tethered to the AWS ecosystem after receiving AWS credits from Y Combinator Office Hours. This is no complaint, I love the ecosystem.
Don't many use some kind of pre-processing or analog tricks in their products? It's what A/V people often told me.
Yeah this new marketing speak is really confusing sometimes. :/
It should be noted that Fleming discovered Pencillin and the statement is especially prescient coming from him. He spoke countless times around the world trying to raise awareness that antibiotic resistance would be inevitable when used improperly.

The nightmare scenario is medical science gets rolled back by a century as non-trivial infections return to being a death sentence.
If you find this interesting, you might also like the embedded.fm podcast she was on: http://embedded.fm/episodes/141.
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I was asking why one is more meaningful than the other. Your response is basically "it's possible that one of them is more meaningful than the other" which doesn't help much.
This is great news. Thank you for being responsive to the bootstrap community :).

How long do you expect the beta to last for and I couldn't see a CTA for bootstrapped startups. But I'd rather send an email for consideration to whoever is running the program / support when you guys have opened the program.

Thanks
You consider having kids by IVF to be... a... hobby?
How about just......make that policy about not permitting outside snacks go take a hike?

People are made to throw food and beverages in the trash, if they haven't been purchased at the theater's concession stands.

When the ushers take your tickets, they make you throw away anything that's obviously not sold in the theater, thus monopolizing local refreshments.
in part this is because whenever something relevant comes up, it gets a name that is not philosophy.

Also because we're still shaking off perception of philosophers as useless navel-gazing victorians; post WWI, the field has become substantially more akin to formal math and logic.
Science studies the dogmatic internet commenter
The verses and the wit from the Irish-Princetonian poet Paul Muldoon on YouTube never fail to bring a broad smile to my face. https://m.youtube.com/results?q=paul%20muldoon
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Android Nougat Gets Rebuilt Media Stack to Defeat Stagefright-Like Bugs
I have no love lost for this guy - or his company - but to be fair, why can this not be thought of as a strategy to acquire (a mother lode of) future (paying) users? Kind of bait and switch? I would say the investment of 3 or 4 months of free service is negligible as compared to the long-term revenues that this strategy would bring in.

Any benefit/s derived via possible deep data mining would only be the icing on the cake.
His stuffed bear, Jimmy. Dave the Dolphin was working at the Pillowsville investment bank and brokered the deal.
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> Whereas Europeans are lenient to typo’s or faulty grammar, Americans are not (...)

> the main reason they don’t succeed to scale is because European startups fail to recognize that they have to confirm to the rules...

I have been punished for this before, but I can't help notice when someone starts lecturing about typos, and can't proofread their own prose.
Operational work is often not considered as important as feature development for promotions, so you feel like you're wasting your time when doing it.

Which is why developers need to be on call, otherwise they don't build operational support into apps (monitoring hooks, useful logging, etc)

At my company devops is primary on-call, with a developer(s) as backup, if devops can't fix the problem quickly, they escalate to the developer. If they can't reach the developer or the developer can't fix it, then the entire release is rolled back and then the developers bear the brunt of the release schedule changes.

Without developers in that loop, it's hard for devops to get the tools they need to diagnose and fix problems.
As I understand it, the closest thing would be something like writing your application for MSSQL. You have a cluster that is storing your data, and with a complex set of triggers, views, queries, etc, you're re-calculating things live.

Unfortunately you program SecDB mostly in proprietary internal languages (not SQL), which while I understand they are moderately capable, they lag behind the 'state of the art' in programming by quite a long way - I wouldn't image it's even on a par with Python, I think somewhere like Lua is probably more accurate.

Caveat - this is based on chatting to people from GS, I don't have experience working with any of this first-hand.
Where do you see ANYthing about trespassing, and how do you interpret ANYthing that either I or the OP stated as condoning it? It was simply stated that trespassing is clearly defined as illegal. Lobbyists have cornered winning in the political process so all we have is our voice, which it sounds like you're trying to take away.

Even as a country of laws (which I support), you still have to be able to admit that said laws are absurd when they are, in fact, absurd. This goes beyond absurd and endangers the populace. You seem more interested in ensuring that we definitively prosecute thought crimes rather than work to change the system which, at face value, appears to place the government as accessories to the wrongful deaths of many of its citizens (keeping focus on this particular topic). As such, doesn't OP have the right to criticize and suspect the government, especially when the government is ostensibly blockading one of those "inalienable rights" of "life ..."

Keep shilling, though!
Sorry to break it to you, but the most influential video game designers were born in the 70s.

They've made Doom, Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1-2, Everquest, Master of Orion and all the other classics in the 90s and very early 2000s.

Most games released today are either donationware (WoT) or completely derivative works (think long running series like CoD or sports games), or survival-game clones like No Man's Sky (and about 500 others)

Your best bet would probably be to join Valve and get them to release Episode 3 if you ever want to get any renown and not just endlessly try to push your games on Greenlight.

Sorry if this sounded harsh.
They both use reverse osmosis to filter the water, they could be locally bottled and end up tasting quite different than the tap water.
Mine comes from my well! 110 ft down
You don't need grep for that, ss can already filter by state on its own. Use: "ss -o state LISTENING"
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Well, my favorites are:

* DS18B20 - One-wire temperature sensor that is cheap

* Generic PIR (motion) sensors - you can find simple motion sensor boards for cheap and they are pretty fun.

* Capacitive sensors - you can make a touch sensor/button out of anything conductive that only uses a single wire (not even ground, just one wire)

* Ultrasonic distance detectors

* Hall effect sensors - detect presence of a magnet, especially useful with stepper motors

* BME280 - temperature/barometric pressure/humidity, one of the best all around sensors for weather monitoring as it's all on one chip. Also supports both i2c and SPI. Note it's BME280, the BMP280 doesn't support humidity.

A good bet is to buy a kit that gives you a random bunch of sensors to play with. You can find them cheap.
Even in Flint you can buy filters with lead reduction. I recommend the KX Matrikx 06-250-125-975, it costs about half a cent ($.005) a gallon.
There's another good reason to buy bottled water: water is heavy. If you're walking or cycling somewhere you might not want to carry water when you can buy some at your destination. If you remove this option you might do more environmental harm than good by encouraging use of motor vehicles.
I didn't say "only" genetics. I'm just saying that your genes are enormously responsible for what you can excel in.

Are you really suggesting that genetics don't play a role in who can successfully play football? If I'm 6'5", is that because I practiced at my height for 10,000 hours?

By the way, to act like genetics are "suddenly" king because of some pop-science trend is ridiculous. Genetics have always been king, it's how we evolved from a single celled organism to what we are now.
That's why in my theory (and experience) mathematicians and afghans are by far the best football players. Ha!

In all our university football tournaments mathematicians beat the hell out of all other faculties. Not on the big field, but in the hall, with 3-5 players. They expected where the ball would flow, and how it should flow best.

Afghans? This happened with street ball, a super small field like basketball, with 2 players + goal keeper. The Afghan teams I know in the homeless soccer worldchampionships became top 3 of the world a couple of times already. They are small, not athletic. They have athletically no chance against Nigeria or Ghana, who just push them around. Or the traditional European teams. Or technically against Brazil, who are masters to play alone, but together with a partner they struggle. But they are fast, and they play like mathematicians, they know exactly how his partner would react, and vice versa. They love to play, even if on the big field they would have no chance, athletically.
Chile, Mexico and Afghans are the best actually. Maybe because they are small, but mostly I think because they train a lot on the streets, for fun by themselves and know how to play together.
Show HN: Ship Your Side Project 2.0
Hey HN - I put together a bootcamp in January of this year that got a bunch of tech professionals together from all around the world to work on their side projects. We ran it as a 6 week program where there were short assignments and video interviews each week plus weekly group hangouts.

My partner Amanda and I are doing it again this fall. This time, we're introducing mentors who are assigned to individual participants and will offer weekly office hours to share ideas and feedback on people's side projects. Plus we're putting more emphasis on the community aspect, using MightyBell as our hub.

We're accepting applications through Fri 9/16 if you'd like to join. Program costs $650 and kicks of 9/24.

http://shipyoursideproject.com
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It would be good if Spain could get in with the 20th century and use air-conditioning

(but yes, it's a cultural thing)
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Is it?

I drink tap water in the SF Bay Area. It's excellent. (Hetch Hetchy). But even in the south bay, it's quite good.

San Diego water is also very drinkable, as is Los Angeles.

Most recently I was in Vegas and Ohio, and in both places, while the water was not as good as it is at my house, it was perfectly fine.
I didn't read the article closely enough, but I'd be interested to see if this methane is released from a stored source or if it is from rotting vegetation.

Much of the permafrost area is a frozen swamp; when it thaws, the swamp plants rot.

In other words, this may be a one-time outgassing of a limited amount of vegetable material, at least in this case. We still have the clathrate gun to worry about.
> Unless you filter it at home with some effort.

It's not that much effort. If all you care about is taste they sell kits for under $100, and then you don't need the effort of lugging water.
As it is, such products already exist, in physical form:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JQL2HM

is a first aid kit that has pre-packaged pouches for "bleeding", "spine", "burns", "bites and stings" such that the individual pouch can be replaced upon use.
Serious discussion has started here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12443678
One of my further goals is to disabuse people of notions such as this.

As it happens, though, I'm already too late to be the initiator of this sort of cultural shift. Universities like NYU and CMU already offer MFAs in game design. There are conferences and journals dedicated to game studies. So the wheels are already in motion.
So don't buy those? Buy an actual, normal, carbon filter?
NET Core MVC Thread Pool: Sequential vs. Async Performance
I'd start by saying characterizing my responses as "chastising" is a bit disingenuous. I find the notion that the extension was removed without any clear reason equally disingenuous.

The reasoning was provided in the included email screenshot. It's not a grand leap to suggest that not repeating the precise reasoning for the extension's removal would likely mitigate future action. The OP fundamentally resubmitted the app without addressing the complaint. How to fix a trademark transgression seems pretty straightforward, doesn't it?
Apple approved "Cleaner - for Facebook" when the author had gotten a complaint there. No reason to believe that Google wouldn't approve of it. The two companies are after all still under the same laws.

Also, are you seriously telling me that making a different suggestion once, which still contains the trademark is spammy? Any reasonable customer service would have just responded that this still isn't alright either, maybe even suggested a few names, which would not infringe the trademark.
There's a patchset that's been under discussion for a while.
Hire anyone that lives in the EU with very little restrictions or paperwork.

Hiring anyone at all is a significant hurdle in much of the EU, whether it's from your home nation or another member state. If we're talking about startups just starting to grow beyond the founders here, you're not going to have anyone on board yet who is dedicated to dealing with HR, legal and payroll issues. Those won't necessarily be a full-time job with employee #1 either, but they're already a significant overhead the moment you start looking to hire that person, and if anything unusual or adversarial happens it can quickly become an actual full-time job.
Yes that's what it looks like.
I only list it because someone else brought it up. I'm not witch hunting, just providing evidence for my original theory that someone questioned.

Yes, obviously, it's impossible to paint the entire picture. Maybe she was in Miami for work and the pictures of her sun bathing on the beach was only a small part of that trip. Maybe going to bars in New Orleans was just for an article, and skiing in Lake Tahoe for Mashable's twitter page, and riding an Elephant in Thailand was research for an investigative article she's doing about animal cruelty. She's such a hard worker, it must be so difficult to do all this for work. She's living the struggle. I should give her more credit.
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Well, don't they say that to do a PhD you have to be smart enough to be able to do one, but dumb enough to actually do one?
No. My assumption is that it takes more than one flag for a post to be "flagged." Meaning that there needs to be some consensus to draw it to the attention of moderators.

Once it is flagged the reason for flagging should be obvious to moderators. If there are multiple interpretations, or flagging is not obvious, perhaps the flag is not valid.

The last/only thing I flagged was something that appeared to be a thinly veiled advertisement. With Show HN I think veiled advertisements undermine the overall integrity of Hacker News.