skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even tall poppy syndrome, because if you dare to talk about how something went horribly wrong (aka you're a short poppy), people react in the way you describe above.

It's the crab bucket:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465278

If you succeed, people have to tear you down (to feel better about themselves). If you fail and dare to be honest about it, people have to tear you down (in order to feel superior). People are terrified of failure because if it could happen to e.g. patio11 or you or me, it could definitely happen to them so they must immediately distance themselves by giving themselves the feeling of superiority, and because just telling themselves they're superior in a quiet room alone isn't good enough, they must perform it in public for an audience to get an extra hit. Clack clack clack go the claws.
Probably community discussion, vast catalogs, and extensively curated metadata.
sample distribution

processes and measurement aren't ideal. learn to live with it.
Cool, thanks. Good point about Prolog.
>not understand what they are saying but they can be trained to say words.

Not necessarily true.

http://blogs.thatpetplace.com/thatbirdblog/2011/06/10/do-par...

Edit: fix link
I thought replacing 'quite difficult' with 'difficult' was unfair because I have always supposed quite to mean very or extremely when used in this manner.
You know, I get that it's a holiday and all, but what's with all the bike shedding threads?

What's next? A discussion of knot theory, as pertaining to balloon animals?
> Yet when it comes to employment, it's bizarre than some consider an individual with maybe $10,000 in the bank is somehow on equal footing with a company with over $10,000,000,000 in the bank.

I didn't see anyone here say that.

Furthermore, the existence of a power imbalance does not mean that the particular set of regulations imposed on Uber by Seattle are a good idea. It is entirely possible in these kinds of situations that the power imbalance is bad but the proposed solutions are worse.
> Ironically and amusingly enough, I was my happiest (and seemingly healthier) when I was a little boy running around all day outside eating candy or chocolate to my hearts content.

That's a dangerous thought that everyone has. You were indeed happier and healthier, because you had a new body that could heal more faster, and your metabolism was through the roof.

After 25, wear and tear starts to become noticeable, metabolism slows down, physical damage heals slower, pain lingers for way longer, you get less endorphins.

But these days everything is over-sweetened, fucking bread is sweet as hell for some reason. So cutting down on sugar is more than just not putting it in your tea/coffee and not eating cookies.
Light flashes... Of all the times to have epilepsy, this one is the worst. Sighhhh
Love this! English is my third language; I often fall for using passive voice, adverbs or fillers. Much like this script, I found Grammarly to be extremely helpful in forcing me to rethink the above when composing.
> please leave quantum mechanics out of it

Would you explain why?

Many things were considered magic and witchcraft in the past and people were burned alive for being slightly more intelligent and/or intuitive in their approaches to life or various objective problems of the age. A good part of these "witchcraft" practices are now commonly known "life hacks", or "tips and tricks", etc.

Quantum mechanics is something nobody on this planet actually fully grasps. Isn't it our duty to be skeptical not only to the religious believers and meditation practitioners but to be skeptical about us being too skeptical as well, so to speak?

For all we know, there might exist a soul, consciousness, or a "hollistic wave front" as Dan Simmons in Hyperion / Endymion calls it, and it might as well operate exactly on one of the quantum fields of reality. (It might be a very fine and huge collection of mega-complex algorithms that work on a quantum plane same way our machines' code works only on certain silicon-derived dies.)

So again, why should we leave the quantum mechanics out of the spiritual/meditative/what-you-wanna-call-it experiences, exactly?

The objective truth is, for now both sides don't know for sure if they are right or wrong. No?
I agree with this, but this isn't what I was referring to. I was referring to things like CVE-2016-7989 which says:

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, a malformed OTA WAP PUSH SMS containing an OMACP message sent remotely triggers an unhandled ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Samsung's implementation of the WifiServiceImpl class within wifi-service.jar. This causes the Android runtime to continually crash, rendering the device unusable until a factory reset is performed, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.

Note where is says "Samsung's implementation", and specifically mentions that it affects Samsung devices. That's not an android interaction with the hardware platform, that's a completely different company altering the software to market a customized device, and those alterations included vulnerabilities. It's almost like Adobe's vulnerabilities in Acrobat reader being attributed to Microsoft because it runs on Windows.
I tried out https://github.com/swaroopch/edn_format some (in Python). Will read up more on EDN, try things a bit more, and then reply here with any comments or impressions.
When Too Much Concurrency Slows You Down (Golang)
> eating a balanced diet from a variety of food sources while also maintaining a decent exercise regimen

Now you're talking crazy shit, son, how could that ever work?! /s
Olive oil is good for you! 1 tbsp/day minimum is recommended.

Your body needs lipids -- cell walls are made of them! An extremely low-fat diet increases cancer risk substantially. And some lipids are better than others. Polyunsaturated oils are easily oxidized, creating free radicals. Saturated animal fats -- well, this is debated, and there is some indication they may have been unfairly blamed for problems that are actually caused by sugar, but I still avoid them. Olive oil, being mostly monounsaturated, is the best.
> I also remember various questionable vote counting during the caucuses.

The caucuses were heavily skewed in Sanders's favor. Caucusing requires a large time commitment, which favored Sanders supporters over the poor minority Clinton voters. You're probably thinking about the Nevada Convention, which I explained in my previous comment.

> I wasn't personally paying much attention yet, as I'd already assumed Clinton had the nomination in the bag.

She certainly had it in the bag, which makes the claim that she would resort to rigging the primaries even more ludicrous. She got almost 30% more of the popular vote than Sanders. Despite the media wanting to make the race seem close and interesting, it was obvious to even a casual observer like you that it was a landslide.

> You can see Bernie supporters getting blamed here, though:

The people quoted in that article are actual Bernie supporters.
I don't think it's true that if a company is successful then you will make them two dollars for every dollar you get. I think many large companies are profitable due to rent-seeking or externalizing costs, and the marginal gain from the N-thousandth employee is negative, but they can't lay off employees or even stop hiring because of legal or political reasons. If you get a job with one of these companies, then you are wasting their money, which is a good thing to do against an evil company.

Noam Chomsky has been repeatedly asked whether capitalism is a good thing after all because the average quality of life has improved under it. His reply is that average quality of life improved under slavery too, but that's not a justification for slavery. You can see him discuss this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QAqU2KpaY.

You and I are having the reverse conversation, which is whether it's better to participate in a harmful system for the sake of making any progress, or better to opt out entirely. Actually, because humanity is currently headed off a cliff due to climate change and the worldwide rise of authoritarian governments, the choice is between participating in the harmful system or allowing large-scale catastrophe.

I agree that libraries fit the criteria I laid out, but I guess that like other do-good organizations, they are poorly funded and have a glut of trained specialists and willing volunteers. It's a sign of our dysfunctional times that the more directly helpful an organization or job is, the less well funded it will be.
How can you know? The only way to really compare two lives would be to live them both.
I think it was at a time when the original maintainer kept silent for a while. When he came back online, gitea stepped back.
The calories are easily adjusted for by reducing carbohydrate intake.
First of all, this isn't written by Paul Graham; it was written by Matt Might and posted by someone else entirely. Just because it got upvotes on Hackernews doesn't mean that PG was involved.

Secondly, there is a difference in context, timing and tone in an article like this. Here, a PhD supervisor is speaking generally about the sorts of errors his students tend to make.

In your situation, you were "attacking" a single person publicly. If you had had the social grace to make your comments privately and in person (rather than in a chatroom) they probably would have been better received.

If your takeaway from this post is just to "ignore the haters" then I'm afraid you're missing out on some real opportunity for self-improvement.
Compare:

pay + benefits - cost-of-living

Even if your biases about each company are generally accurate, they may not be accurate for the wing of the company you will work in. I'd give priority to your personal wealth.
>Its only downside is the calories from it.

How is that a downside? Deriving calories (and nutrients) from food is the entire purpose of eating.
So it is. I find it a good option for alternating with a standing desk.
This is a good 1000 foot overview but they leave off some specifics that could burn you bad.

Blog content: they say writing anything is better than nothing and there's some truth to this, but compelling content is far more important. One thing that can happen (seen it) is you hire some content monkeys to make you "content". The result is bland and reads like stale Cheerios. Google will knock your site ranking badly if users don't like to read your articles.

When I started writing content for this client my first article got more organic traffic than their whole site with hundreds of pages of "content". This continued with each article I wrote until 99+% of organic traffic to the site came from around 10 articles I wrote.

Biggest thing with content is it needs to be good quality. Long form articles with pictures work the best. The other extremely important point is to tailor the subjects to your readers.

If you sell can openers write content about cans and cooking with canned stuff. Write about ways to open cans when your opener breaks. Write about what to look for in good can openers. Write about how canned food is made. Become the one and only website about anything can related. Google questions your readers are likely to type and get links to your site on the top search results for those questions. Even if you have to pay some site owners it will boost your rank tremendously.

Make sure a human visiting your site would think it was well made and google will to. Use cdn's to make it load fast. The latest and greatest TLS certs. Fully verified email addresses linked to you domain with all the bells and whistles. Make your site seem legit enough that users would feel okay using their credit cards there.

Email: make sure the emails you send are things your customers want to get. Know the demographic of your customers and tailor your message carefully. It goes far beyond subject line content, if you annoy your customers your emails will get binned as "promotions" and nobody will see them.
As someone who falls in the "Beautiful Mind" end of the spectrum I find it insulting and abhorrent that people would do anything OTHER than cure us if they could.

Beneath superficial success and contribution, my life is a nonstop Munchian scream. I find it less insulting when people say everyone on the spectrum should be exterminated, than when people say some of us should be allowed to continue existing because our particular end of the spectrum happens to write pretty code / invent pretty theorems / etc.
Emergence is a broad term for when things with definable, reproducable, novel, and predictable behaviors, which can be studied, quantified, and have math rules written about them, arise spontaneously from the lower rule-sets they are built on. It's like when you can identify a separate and distinct set of behaviors in the causality chain, but yes the word 'causality' encompasses 'emergence' in a very vague way, and so vague that it's indistinguishable from 'time' itself.
P+41 spiral is absolutely fascinating. [1] I really want to know why they cluster there.

http://www.numberspiral.com/art/14.gif
I would say it is relevant if you used different methods for each sample, but I understand why the author would omit "various" - it's too ambiguous.
Yeah, I think thought he was basically saying that the records come from COBOL, and the pointers come from Lisp. So then C/C++/Go are derived from BOTH COBOL and Lisp.

I think he is being a little imprecise there but the meaning gets through. The point is that Go programmers can structure their data so as minimitze garbage collection overhead, but Java programmers can't. I'm pretty sure this was mentioned in some of the recent Go garbage collector design docs, so it's a pretty relevant point.

I always thought of C/C++/Go as ALGOL-like languages, but I guess that refers to the syntax (block structure) and not semantics (the data model, which I prefer over "memory model").
Alcohol is the tough one for me. I love micro brews and wine. Beer and wine are a frequent enough part of my diet to know that alcohol is a significant amount of my calories. When I'm not drinking alcohol, I'm drinking water. I enjoy beer and wine too much to completely cut them out; but this month, I am going to try to abstain from alcohol.
Until 1968 the US had a completely batshit insane standing order to launch a full scale nuclear attack on the USSR and China in response to a conventional attack on the USA, even if the attack was an accident, and even if the USSR and China were not responsible for it.

Then we have JFK, who was prepared to start WWIII over a tiff in Cuba, Eisenhower who threatened nukes over Korea, and Reagan, who thought it was hilarious to joke about signing a law to bomb Russia.

And let's not forget Dick Cheney, who wanted to nuke Iraq, a decade before 9/11.

I dunno, maybe nuking people is less of a big deal for some American leaders, having already done it twice.
>3. will have no effect on other systems that you did not modify.

I think you can be sure of the opposite, without even testing.
How did Comey let her off easy if she didn't break any laws?
So I know 6 programming languages, maybe 600 libraries, devops, dozens of tools.

So I could go back to math class and learn some more formal proofs. What part of my programming knowledge am I going to drop to learn that? Will it actually help my career?

I have found little to no use for advanced mathematics in 10 years of programming. I am not saying it had no use, but I have not needed it.

Most academic types majorly overestimate the usefulness of math in programming. I can code circled around people who rock out at math.
2016 Has Been a Golden Year for Strategy Games
Hello, I wrote similar script to do the Belcher diagnostic test in LaTeX documents. This test consists in highlighting parts of the text with potential problems (e.g., vague pronouns, weak verbs, and passive voice, among others).

You can find the instructions to do the test (and some good examples) in the book Writing your journal article in twelve weeks: A guide to academic publishing success.

The script and its documentation are here:

https://github.com/carlobar/BDT_latex
https://github.com/carlobar/BDT_latex/blob/master/docs/docum...
> Sample bias: I feel that so many subtleties are lost because people don't generally realize that their observations/anecdotes/experiences are biased.

This one is so odd to me. There's plenty of logical errors and shortcuts the brain takes that I had to learn to consciously think around, but the idea that my experience isn't necessarily representative of the entire world was something that was blindingly obvious when I was literally a child. I'm still taken aback for a second when I see people say things like "most of the people I know do X" or even "everyone in my family has Y", without giving any thought to whether their sample even approaches representativeness.
I did a month with significantly-reduced sugar last year, and for the first few days I caught of glimpse of how heroine addicts feel. I remember spending a full afternoon just thinking about the single cookie I was going to allow myself in the evening.
I am at Walmart right now. I looked around.

Other Americans do not make the same good choices I make.
The spectre of famine ended in the US around 1800 with free market agriculture, long before anyone heard of the Ogallala Aquifer. It also ended for every other country that adopted free market agriculture.

Non-free market agriculture, on the other hand, has a pretty sorry historical record with no evidence that it was more sustainable or equitable.
I too have a great fondness for Noether's First Theorem! However, just a slight technical correction: the theorem only goes one way. A conservation law alone doesn't necessarily imply a (continuous) symmetry of the system. For example, there's no symmetry prescription for baryon or lepton number conservation. Of course, that doesn't bar them from arising from symmetries of some awesome future theory...
I've tried it once. It got interesting only after about 45 min, but the session was only 60 minutes. Not enough, in my opinion.
How might someone with only software experience know what motor, encoder, power supply, etc. to buy? Would this be an easy enough project to step into, or should one start with something more basic for a first project?

Btw, awesome work OP!
Somehow sweetened tea doesn't sound good to me, always left a bad feeling in my mouth which could lead to more cravings - I would not recommend it.

Half a year ago I tried to stop eating all candies suddenly. Was feeling little uncomfortable at times so then I realized it is better not to give your body such shocks. So I decided I would indulge in some sweet curd (and some plain black chocolate) in the afternoons. This worked quite well, I removed 90% of junk from my diet, got to eat more protein and fruits but still got the sugar gratification I needed. Getting rid of so much sugar surprisingly did not hurt as I had imagined. Perhaps drinking lots of water helped as well - it is surprising how refreshing a drink of chilly water can be.
Unfortunately, then I got some other health issues, had to revert diet back and am back where I started.
The Crimean invasion had many reasons. First, it is an attempt to keep Ukraine as a Russian vassal state. Ukraine is essential for Russia to rebuild its empire and restore its power. Ukraine served as a big agricultural and industrial resource for Russia for long time. Also many prominent Ukrainians made significant input into building the tzar Russian empire and later, the USSR.

In order to keep Ukraine in its orbit, Russia systematically undermined Ukrainian government and security using corruption (which was extremely effective). However, when a significant number of Ukrainians became more and more convinced with democracy (and here the strong political and cultural Western influence is apparent, nothing secret about it) they finally protested against corrupted politics provided by then-president Yanukovich supported (and controlled) by V.Putin.

With the occupation of Crimea and Donbass (Eastern Ukraine), Russia tries to keep influencing Ukraine in a military way, since the old way through corruption is no longer possible. It also played well internally and ensured electoral support for Putin as Russia economy started declining following the fall of oil prices. The occupation also intentionally demonstrated that the existing international law has no power it claims to have which implies that the global security system should be redesigned.
That's because there's an argument to be made here that the blog poster here is misusing the comprehensions syntax.

While what he does works, it can just as easily be written as

list(itertools.chain(*[[x for x in sublist if x%3 == 0] for sublist in nested_list]))

Which uses a bit of magic to massage the end result, but it is much clearer for the inner portions, and much similar to your 'lispy' style. (`itertools.chain(` is equivalent to a 1-level flatten)

You can do the same thing in the bigger case, and you end up nesting your structures such that you get something like

results = [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[(a, b, g, d, e, z, et, th, i, k, th, mu, n, xi, o, pi, r, s)
for th in range(1, 27) if (2*(th**2) + o**2 + r**2 == 1000) and ((th**2 * z**2 * (s - z) + s**2) == 7225)]
for o in range(1, 27) if (b**3 + z**3 + n**3 + o**9 == 1997)]
for r in range(1, 27)]
for z in range(1, 27)]
for n in range(1, 27) if F(a, k)**2 + F(b, n)**2 + F(d, xi)**2 + F(e, pi)**2 + F(et, mu)**2 + F(i, s)**2 == 6]
for b in range(1, 27)]
for e in range(1, 27)]
for s in range(1, 27)]
for (a, mu) in ((4, 1), (2, 2), (1, 4)) if a*(a+pi) == 4 * g]
for pi in range(1, 27)]
for g in range(1, 27) if (g-1)**2 + d**2 + xi**2 - xi == 600]
for d in range(1, 27)]
for (et, i) in ((xi-7, xi-11), (xi-11,xi-7), (xi+7, xi+11), (xi+11, xi+7)) if 0 < et <= 26 and 0 < i <= 26]
for xi in range(1, 27)]
for k in (3,4)]

Which admittedly isn't better*, but you can build up over time (ie. you can start with [f(k) for k in range(3, 4)], and then provide f(k) in a closure, and repeat, to build this up over time.
Watching calories is important, but not all calories are equal. I think "calories in Vs. calories out", is over simplifying the problem. I think modern science is proving that calories from sugar are especially bad because they trigger insulin production that signals the body to store fat.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
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Strong point there. I'll have to do a little research to make a good decision.
1. Get Leads. (get a good trigger signal)

2. Send Emails

3. Build Landing Page or other.

4. 1-3 Repeat and modulate landing page and email template as you get more customer conversations.
Sounds a lot like what's been happening in Melbourne for a decade now. Lessons to be learned there.
Before people get all excited: OpenStreetMap barely contains any 3D data. You can get a layout, and guess the height of the houses, if not tagged/stored in OSM, and they usually are not.
I think the US would benefit from better labeling of food.

Here is a comparison of EU vs. US labels:
https://www.foodlabels.com/nutritionfacts-examples-5.htm

Some differences:

- sodium vs. salt

- 'per serving' vs. per 100g (in the US candy is often specified as multiple servings per container, deflating the numbers)

- fiber included under carbohydrates

(granted, there are issues with EU labeling too, but I think it has some advantages)
Relevant comic (punchline at end)

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
Later he cautions against adding 'very', so he's consistent at least.
Or maybe most people do care, and your extrapolation is an example of sample bias :)
> Why can't the same awareness be achieved by simply reading the nutritional summary posted on the back of all food items before putting them in your cart or basket while grocery shopping?

It can be, and I've done so, but I can see that some people may benefit from focussing on the issue intensely for a month.
Ergofip: a brand new mechanical keyboard
Must..write..in..functional..style..to..be..l33t....

From the article: "Don't do this at work, adults!"