skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's rather obvious that people who find it more enjoyable will have an easier time making a habit of it.

The only way I've found to keep myself in shape is to find activities I enjoy. For me it's dancing and rock climbing. But I had to try a bunch of things to discover that. I never imagined I would like dancing before I tried it.

Also, not everyone responds equally to exercise. Some people improve much faster than others. Some people see no progress at all unless they exercise at high intensity. Understandably it's harder to get motivated if you see little progress. I'm lucky in that, while I'm not athlete material, it's not super hard for me to gain muscle and improve my cardio.

See: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/fitne...
I've lived in the UK 30 years and I've never heard any nostalgia for the empire at all

I have lived there for ten, and heard it all the time.
I don't know why you are grayed out. I found your post right on the money. Perfectionism is crippling and it seems to be increasing in our society. So people do nothing, which is infinitely worse!

I'm reminded of a little cartoon Fellini scribbled that I saw in a book about him once, and I have always found it funny and helpful. I'm paraphrasing from memory, but it was a funny little guy and he was saying "I can always do a poo" or something to that effect. One of the most creative minds that has ever existed seemed to be saying that no matter what, you can always at least do a poo.
So exercise is good, fasting is good, heat is good, cold is good. It seems all short term stress is good.

I'm waiting for the study that shows binge drinking is good :)
where do you live??
Not to argue with the other interpretations, but fraud was a factor too. Enron, MCI WorldCom and Lucent all perpetrated accounting fraud and put a lot of stress on competitors.

In a lot of ways all bubbles are alike, you could hear echos of the 1920s in the 1960s and of the 1960s in the 1990s. "The money game" and it's sequel "supermoney" tells a great story of the 1960s bubble that is better than anything I've seen about the 1990s.
> I've done a bit of blogging and this echoes my
> experience as well. One successful posts precedes
> another, then you start to feel like you can't put
> out off-the-cuff type posts.
> It's tough to follow up a rockstar post with an intermezzo.

I get this but perhaps we should all relax and just create some categorisation to show whether a blog is a full-size article or a small point about something.
The Reddit comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/60ffl6/apple_pa... mentions the following:

> That 0$ is their NZ income tax. Obviously they pay all other taxes for their properties and employees. It is just that New Zealand and Australia have an income tax deal

>> Apple's New Zealand operations are wholly owned by an Australian parent and appear to be run from there. A tax treaty between the two countries sees dual claims on income tax default to where the company is controlled.

>> Russell, recently selected as the Labour Party candidate for the safe New Lynn electorate for September's general election, said Apple's tax arrangements were totally consistent with the law.

> So Apples NZ income tax is paid to Australia. All other NZ taxes are paid to NZ. Hilariously the tax rate in Australia is higher than in NZ

>> The accounts for Apple's New Zealand subsidiary disclose in notes that income tax is paid at 30% - the rate in Australia - not the 28% charged in New Zealand. This reference has been in every financial statement filed by Apple with the Companies Office since at least 2007.

It provides [1] as its source.

[1]: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3515916-Apple-2016.ht...
Ok sorry, I thought the unit of generic'ness you mean is the message. You're basically just talking about generic custom collections. Yeah, it is a thing you won't get in Go. And you'll have to write it every time again.

I'm usually just writing custom ones for each case, takes just a little bit more work. If I need more genericness, as I said, I use Java/Scala/F#

EDIT: In theory you can hack this all together using interface{}, but I wouldn't do that, it's a hack and ignores the type safety of the language.
The output is currently rounded to six significant digits. In this case, the result is 1,000004.., which is rounded to 1,00000 and displayed as 1. I'm not sure what the best default behaviour would be. Typically, I would say that six sign. digits are more than enough for most applications..
I've had that result with some activities. No amount of distance running, it seems, will ever make it feel like something enjoyable and healthy rather than something incredibly boring that makes me feel like I'm less healthy afterward. Meanwhile, weightlifting and sports—even those with lots of running!—are fun and make me feel alive, but I could definitely see someone not feeling that way about any exercise.
Encrypted secrets checked into source control is an anti-pattern.
What taxes are purportedly owed? Do they have a physical presence in New Zealand?
My approach is very similar to what you suggest as key questions. I try to define the goals of the presentation and usually start with the "contents" slide in order to plan first. Another rule for me is to keep it simple, both for messages and for the content. I try to use visuals a lot and less text. I store all my slides from previous presentations so that I can reuse and I do this a lot.
New GTLD Registries Want Reduced ICANN Fees
New Domain registries want lower ICANN fees.

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/diaz-to-atallah-et-al-14mar17-en.pdf

Dry read, so I will sum up the best parts. :)

"the RySG is acutely aware of the need to focus on reducing the costs for registrants and end users"

"how could it [registry] reasonably be expected to compete on price with legacy TLDs?"

"operators believe ICANN fees have hampered their success and put them at a competitive disadvantage"
As someone who's still in the "dropped out" phase, this is tremendously encouraging. I can tell that I am improving in my concentration, discipline, catching myself procrastinating etc, but sometimes I worry that it's too slow and that I'll never develop to the point where I'll be able to complete a degree.
Let me know if you have any feedback about Nylas Mail :)
Something that's bothered me a lot through my research career is how much effort it takes to place any particular result in context (and fit all the different pieces together into a coherent whole). And how one can understand the full edifice much better once one has that context in which to interpret recent progress.

Of course, that layout only becomes clear only after the area has developed a little, but IMHO the most important education that can be imparted to newcomers in a field is that "context". It pains me to see that good expository material that share insight seem to be hard to find, particularly on front-line research. Broadly, I feel that research communities ought to do a better job of writing accessible review material -- otherwise they inevitably fracture into sub-communities which start talking past each other.
Which doesn't mean highly processed foods, just not living like hunter gatherers.
One first-hand anecdote: the women's track team at a university was given a generous sponsorship and all they had to do was wear free high-end Nike shoes. Unfortunately, the shoes caused physical discomfort for almost everyone, so the team collectively decided to only wear them in competition.

My impression is that Nike apparel is designed to support the brand, not the athlete.
You get a warning when you try to create one in PostgreSQL 9.6. Maybe it should have been stronger worded, but since the issue is fixed in 10 anyway it is too late to do something about it.

# CREATE INDEX ON t USING hash (id);
WARNING: hash indexes are not WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
CREATE INDEX
I wouldn't be surprised if anyone who takes four years to animate a film alone doesn't measure success solely in financial terms.
Many colleges in the US have (land) Quidditch teams. I've heard they sometimes have horrific injuries because the people on the team are not conventionally athletic.
Good synopsis.

Given the pedigree of scientists involved my money is on #4.
There are a couple misspellings of "Fourier." One example is the table about half way through the article which spells it "Fouirer."
Again take a look at CMS Qualified Entity program which provides identifiable data. In fact most State government health agencies have a special board which routinely meets to discuss identifiable data requests.

Finally their is nothing wrong in writing a paper about a politically charged topic, but completely dismissing existing standards to paint a picture of doom and gloom is ridiculous. E.g. just look at the references cited by that paper.
Greed is a response to insecurity and doubt. They don't want to fear the idea of a life where their exceeds needs aren't met by wealth, so they retain it.

This isn't meant to be calling out the "bourgeoisie" to put at best, but there is an emotional response to uncertainty here.
I run a large contract developer team that's globally distributed. The short answer is that US law permits hiring international contractors who are not subject to US jurisdiction provided they file a W8-BEN executed by that contractor certifying their tax exempt status. These contractors are responsible for paying taxes under their own countries' laws as part of a mutual tax treaty with the US.

Feel free to email me with questions. If you'd rather just hire one of our remote developers and not deal with the paperwork yourself, that's another option. We manage contracts with clients as a US company to insulate them from needing to set up 1-1 relationships with devs.
Last I checked about 2 months ago ... Huge issues attempting to edit SQLite db columns. You can use it to select rows, but not much else for SQLite.
This is really exciting! Chris et al: have you guys seen Keras.js (https://github.com/transcranial/keras-js)? It could probably be useful for certain interactive visualizations or papers.
I think if the EU had been really capable of improving itself in a big way the UK would not have voted to leave. Cameron tried that tack though and it blew up in his face. He toured the whole continent trying to put together a deal to address the concerns of British voters and the rest of Europe told him to stop being a crybaby and demanding special breaks, etc.

The EU was unwilling to budge at all because the idea the Brits might actually do it and the government might not ignore the vote was unthinkable to them. You could find quotes at the time along the lines of "we are so glad this whole British business is behind us" after they sent Cameron packing: the idea the vote might be lost simply didn't occur at all.

So he came home and told the country he'd got a great deal that solved people's problems. But it didn't and nobody believed him. It also killed the "we can stay in a reformed EU" argument dead.

There is no chance of constructively working with the EU. It believes in commanding, not compromising.
That's quite similar. I use i3wm, and usually keep most applications maximized. I have a bunch of keybindings to start Chrome, start new terminals etc., including some that start ssh sessions to specific servers and attached to a suitable screen session (my home server has several screen sessions with different configs and different coloured status lines running for different projects).

Every now and again I split the screen, but rarely in more than two.

With screen sessions running on my home server for most of my projects, I can also detach and close them and/or reboot my laptop and not lose state, so e.g. at the moment I just have one Chrome window and one screen session open (on separate virtual desktops).

I have a shortcut to bring up Nautilus to manage files, but I use it so rarely I often forget the shortcut (I've got a keybinding to bring up a help file).
I've not yet finished reading the whole essay (still intend to), but I already have found two points in which I find the whole side of the discussion to be rather flawed.

The identity of a game emerges from its mechanics and affordances, not the presentation that exposes them.

Translated to paintings, this would equate to the statement that the defining aspect of paintings like the Mona Lisa are that they consist of dried dirt on canvas. If you're not willing to consider a piece wholistically, you don't even need to start a discussion like this.

Also, with one of the first quoted statement, namely:

As long as there is a great movie unseen or a great book unread, I will continue to be unable to find the time to play video games.

Ebert pretty much disqualifies himself from the whole debate he created. If you willfully choose to be ignorant on the subject you're talking about, you have no say whatsoever in my book.

Also, one thing that struck me as strange so far is the idea that the addition of something should remove the art-ness from a medium. At one point, there was an agreement that painted pictures could be art, but photography couldn't. Then, those were included, but moving pictures weren't. Now, certain moving pictures aren't, because they interact with the audience? I fail to see the reasoning there.

The whole argument somehow reminds me of a text I once read, which explained that unwritten fashion rules about which dress colors should be worn during which seasons were used by nobility to "unmask" new-rich in their ranks. Sadly, I'm unable to find the source on that.

Edit: As for the mechanics-based comment: I could agree with that when applied to go or chess. But this statement fails to see the merit of many video games: They are no longer limited to being a simple battle of wits, but have the possibility to convey messages, insight, emotion, impressions etc. without the need for an actual "opponent".

Edit2: Thinking of it, a far more interesting point for me lies in the debate itself and where it stems from. I would be very much interested in the number of great artists that actually cared if their work was perceived as art. I would guess this number to be rather low, although I've got no evidence either way. That's why I find the more zealous participants in the discussion on the game-making side to be rather strange in an art context.
Except that in some Lisps where you have multi-methods or generated field accessor methods you'd probably would write it backwards. Maybe like this:

(. (bar foo) ...)
^ cursor is here
So, do you believe that the sticker was appropriate? Or would a PR statement from your university's press office have been more appropriate?

Ultimately, the lack of a legally binding contractual obligation with sufficient audit-ability is primarily what Julia Powles & Hal Hodson are criticizing.
I hope they're doing more than just arguing over whether it works or not.

Assuming there is enough information in the paper to replicate the experiment, then the proper course of action would be re-run the experiment and see whether the counter-hypothesis that this won't or can't work is true or not.

Of course, other groups should also do the same. I just hope this isn't another case of "we can't afford to do a replication of the experiment because that doesn't get us grant money" - which I have read about elsewhere is a big deal right now in scientific research (that is, new research is not being replicated - thus science isn't really being done properly).

This research, if it does turn out to be valid, could or would be world changing.
I think that this is the all-but-expressed motivation behind Lev Grossman's "The Magicians" series.

The VC pitch would be "First half is Skins set at Hogwarts, Second half is Trainspotting, except the rave scene is Narnia"
I did not solicit their help in any way. Their decisions are theirs. Why would I deny them the ability to participate and to do what their consciences apparently led them to do? It's not as if it is a dishonest debt, such as a gambling debt; if it were, then yes, I would return their money. (Though I certainly believe that in the totality of the debt, there is some dishonesty on the part of the providers.)
Wait... So Linux is under torvalds? It's not github.com/linux/linux?
...so if the GST were zero, Apple's revenue from New Zealand wouldn't be any different?
Does this take into account the time she could have spent learning new programming skills?

Serious question. With pre- and post phases (changing clothes, shower) and the post-sluggishness, the exercise that you are doing in your free time just to do exercise can be quite an extra time investment.

(no anti-exercise opinion here, but I find it better to combine exercise with commuting or real hobbies)
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n = 7 per group, no control, main effect p ~ 0.05. Nothing to see here unfortunately.
Text neck: how to hold your phone so your neck doesn't always hurt
>We're engineering new species, not resurrecting extinct ones.

I think this is way more honest.
>If you paid doctors less, there's no reward for spending your entire 20's and early 30s in training, already earning almost nothing. Nobody, especially nobody talented, will do it.

I don't think that's true. If you look at admissions to even second rate schools there are many times more students that there are spots. Students with grade point averages in the high nineties are being turned down and others are not even attempting it because the odds are so slim. Medicine as a profession is very prestigious because it carries a strong association with helping people and requiring high intelligence. Reducing wages might actually increase the quality of doctors because you might tempt some into other professions who are interested in it mostly for financial reasons and bring in some other people who are very passionate but might not have done it because of the very tough competition.
I currently work remotely for a NY based company, from South America.

AFAIK, what makes it possible is that we are hired as freelancers/consultants/contractors under what I understand is a pretty standard "Work for Hire" contract.

For the tax side of things, the company needs remote workers to sign a W-8BEN form (W-9 if the remote worker is a US citizen abroad), which states that the worker takes care by himself of taxes in his own Country.

Hope that helps.
Code Without Keywords: Lambda Calculus in JavaScript
Practical Data Science at Gusto and General Assembly
Brothers is a great example. It's not particularly special as a game: the puzzles and plot are relatively simple and generic. But the game's mechanics create an experience that cannot be matched in any non-interactive medium.
Edda also does this well: https://github.com/Netflix/edda
Not that you're completely wrong, but it's worth recognizing that experiments aren't exactly trivial to replicate. There's a (sometimes massive) cost in time and money, and expertise can get unbelievably niche.

It's really not as simple as "just replicate it".
That is the point of traditional academic publishing. So I don't believe it's comparable to blogging platform.
Yes, they are durable now in the master branch.
Ever thought about using an interpreting parser, which takes a grammar and parses a string/file according to it. (To parse the grammar you use the interpreting parser itself with a hard coded version of the grammar of the grammar.) Have a look at: https://github.com/FransFaase/IParse
I suppose Parsey McParseface goes in the same bucket: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/13/google-name...
What about V.A.T.?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/90613870/Q-A-What-makes-Apple-NZs-tax...
Those ADuni lectures are actually what I know him from. They're excellent, and I very much admire his teaching. The problem I think is either that I went too far in the lectures without attempting the problem sets, or that I simply didn't have the educational prereqs or a work / hobby application to ground me and keep me working at it. Nonetheless, I very much admire the work and enjoy watching the lectures. If nothing else it gets me in a better headspace when I program. Hopefully I can transition that into learning the actual methods and techniques over time.

I will definitely check out the MIT course. I bet that would help me retain it much better. I was also looking at the Math for Electrical Engineering & Computer Science that I think you mentioned in an earlier comment.
Did anyone else experience bizarre scrolling behavior on the desktop site?
You basically summarized today's new episode of EconTalk, on the perils of statistical significance: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/03/andrew_gelman_o.htm...
> There's a (sometimes massive) cost in time and money, and expertise can get unbelievably niche.

This being a potential trillion dollar business I wouldn't worry about expediency in pursuit of it's veracity
I'm far from an expert on art, but I would argue that "The Stanley Parable" is art. Ironically, there is also debate about whether it's a video game at all.
> Again take a look at CMS Qualified Entity program which provides identifiable data

From what I understand, this program has exactly the sort of contractual legal limits on use that the authors are asking for:

"Qualified entities may use the information obtained under section 1874(e) of the Act for the sole purpose of evaluating the performance of providers of services and suppliers, and to generate specified public reports".

> but completely dismissing existing standards to paint a picture of doom and gloom is ridiculous

The authors don't dismiss existing standards, but rather explain how the DeepMind agreement was particularly troubling in light of standard data sharing agreements.

And in any case, two wrongs don't make a right. If NHS hands health data over to private companies, there should be very strong legal protections governing the use of that data. PR statements and unenforceable promises are not enough.

To the extent that it is common for private companies to get access to identifiable health information without agreeing to strong legal protections, the authors of this paper are completely validated re: their doom and gloom tone.

And to the extent that this is not the case, the DeepMind agreement was exceptional and particularly troubling.

In either case, you're just strengthening the paper's thesis.
Pretty much this. I also have been hiring remote (outside US) for a US business and we do a contract with them signing a W-8BEN form. I did a lot of research and this is what my CPA recommended.

So technically/legally they are not your employees in the same way they will be if they were working inside the United States. In fact, my CPA calls them on our tax forms as "overseas contractors".
UK is in the EU until 2 years after Article 50 gets invoked, and EU data protection rules fully apply. This is a fact. The rude insult to another user, I won't even address.
This really cannot be overstated. When I was in college I always made it a point to schedule a fitness class of some kind in my credit load, most of the time it was just a credit to show up at the gym regularly. It was a great way to overcome my laziness and get regular exercise.

It was one of the most important lessons I learned at the time because I had gone through a year or so of no real exercise and when I started again everything became so much easier.
Why do you think 80% of software jobs will disappear? Won't there be many more new jobs for people in the industry to transition into?