skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tax the OP is talking about is not the iteration itself, it's the book-keeping required by the form of the `for` loop.

One example: if you want to iterate over the elements of an array `a` of size `n`, the header of the `for` loop will look like this:

for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
element = a[i];
...
}

The `i=0` part is related to knowledge that the first element of an array has index zero, and the `i<n` part kind of follows from it -- if `n` is the length of the array, and `0` is the first index, then `n-1` is the last index.

Compare this to

a.forEach(function (element) { ... })

Here, you don't have to know that the first index is 0 and you can't make the mistake of writing `<=` where `<` would have been correct.

So the "tax" that the OP is talking about is the cognitive overhead of having to know all these things about the array representation, and making sure to get these details right.
LRN database is kind of like the DNS of telephony. Since local numbers can be on any switch, LRN tells everyone which switch manages the number.

See: Location Routing Number https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_Routing_Number
Three pages with a lot of text talking about sole thing - earning money - yet, you haven't mentioned it at all.

P.S. I was trying to get rid of programming ten years ago and I talked to entrepreneur I knew, wished to switch to my original profession through the job he offered. He tought of me as overqualified, but we agreed very soon - after I confirmed I'll work 168 hours/month for starting 400€...

P.P.S. Croatia...
Fair enough. I'm mostly concerned with the visible ones.
http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/

No affiliation.
I wonder how many people here are currently browsing HN waiting for their models to train.

526/1816 [=======>......................] - ETA: 1123s - loss: 0.2013 - acc: 0.9386 - val_loss: 0.3690 - val_acc: 0.9122
Lean Startup.
Yeah, the technical question is "obvious". The socioeconomic, or "political", if you will, is not.

As you say: It's all about steaming ahead on the mainstream[1]! Woo! /s

[1] I wish you both luck and success if you do something away from the mainstream. Because we need that, at least occasionally.
If you have a baby, introduce them to watered down peanut butter or powder between 4-6 months [1]. Many healthcare groups are still advocating for parents to wait until 12 months before introducing peanut, but that is totally wrong. My friend followed this advice from Kaiser Permanente last year and his child is allergic.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/05/508348588/...
Because melted buffalo mozzarella doesn't hold up to a 15-20 minute car ride. Turning a good pizza into a bad one by leaving it in a car for 20 minutes is a waste.
May I suggest that owning a car in a medium-sized city is a bit different from owning one in one of the largest cities in the world? (Top 25.)

When the parking people patrol your car, specifically, every day, looking for any small mistake, you bet you'll get a ticket. The best is getting one for "illegally parked too far away from curb" when it's literally one foot away.

If you're arguing that tickets aren't a significant source of revenue for large cities, you may want to check the statistics. https://www.parkingpanda.com/blog/post/top-10-cities-with-hi...
A Short History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson
The second to last paragraph suggests it is a possibility though:

"To draw a firm conclusion, however, would take a clearer understanding of the direction of causation. While games improved since the turn of the century, labour-market options for young people got worse. Hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, have stagnated for young college graduates since the 1990s, while pay for new high-school graduates has declined. The share of young high-school and college graduates not in work or education has risen; in 2014 about 11% of college graduates were apparently idle, compared with 9% in 2004 and 8% in 1994. The share of recent college graduates working in jobs which did not require a college degree rose from just over 30% in the early 2000s to nearly 45% a decade later. And the financial crisis and recession fell harder on young people than on the population as a whole. For people unable to find demanding, full-time work (or any work at all) gaming is often a way to spend some of one’s unwanted downtime, rather than a lure out of work; it is much more a symptom of other economic ills than a cause."
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I love all the answers in here but please, please answer with more than just a title! I want to know why I should care about a book -- sell it to me, don't just throw it out there and ask me to do the work.

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Strictly speaking, Morpheus held up a battery at the end of his little talk. Humans make no sense as an energy source, obviously, but fat has a reasonably solid energy density for its volatility.

My personal headcanon is that the machines were laboring under something akin to Asimov's three laws, which required that they preserve humanity. The Matrix, then is a loophole, something which technically satisfies the requirements of their core programming, but in a way that is advantageous to the machines.

But then, once you've got all those people hooked up, you might as well make some use out of them. They aren't the most efficient battery around, but if you've got to keep them anyway, they might as well serve as a load balancer. The people of Zion just came later and mistook an ancillary benefit for the machine's primary purpose.
> Are you saying it would be better to just teach their customers the English words for these things?

Yes. It's the same amount of teaching and learning. Actually, it's probably less of both, because:

1. A fair fraction (most?) of the customers would already know some english, whereas zero know what those icons mean.

2. Knowledge of english words is valuable to anyone and is transferable to other domains. Knowledge of McDonald's icons is useless outside of McDonald's.

3. Deciphering english is a trivial peck at an online dictionary. Whatcha gonna do about an icon?

English words are creeping in everywhere anyway.
Learning a few words even if you can't speak them is pretty damn simple.
This is probably not an accident.

A good broadband connection is limited to a sustained rate around 13-18 Mbps.
No kidding, --he should get a bonus for finding a HUGE bug in their security lol.
Wasn't that going to rest on the tired old "10% of your brain" trope? Pulling that one out would have bothered me a great deal more than the battery analogy.
I can virtually guarantee Siri and your iPhone is not doing this. Apple would never allow it.

It might be possible that advertising plugins on your web pages is using the microphone, but you need to have authorized this on the iPhone. If you didn't I'm inclined to guess it's just pure happenstance that similar ads appeared near to your conversations.

But if I'm wrong, this would be easy to test. What are the web sites you've noticed this on? We could both go to that site and start saying specific phrases to see if we start getting ads that match them.
I just skip over the unreadable spines and the CDs produced by mystery bands, especially when confronted with a large selection.
The problem here is that accidents happen. We are humans and especially during travel we might not be at our sharpest.

If your attention slips in an airbnb and drop a mug and the handle breaks off, well, that's a few dollars and an apology to the owner.

If your attention slips in a car and get in a fender bender and even if no one is injured that's a mess with insurance and at least several hundred dollars of repair.
We're talking about two different things. I'm talking about OS components being written in managed vs unmanaged code. You're talking (I believe) about whether or not an OS has a first-class managed runtime for apps.

The article's author's assertion is that blindly using managed code in performance-critical components is a stupid idea, and I agree.

From the article, WinFS (the filesystem), Avalon (the UI compositor and renderer), and Windows Communication Foundations (networking) were all rewritten in the then-new/unstable C# for Vista.

Given that fate of the projects, I'd say history bears it out as being a stupid idea.
Education is a function of intelligence otherwise there would be nothing to educate people on.

Technological superiority is a function of intelligence as well or to put it the other way - systematic education and systematic technological superiority are a result of the exact intelligence superiority you claim we don't have.

We took ourselves out of the food chain, You have to be astronomically unlucky or really try at getting eaten anymore.

I'm actually going to stop answering you now because I see no way we can reach any kind of satisfactory conclusion given that you throw out statements like "animals are smarter than the average human" and that education and technological superiority aren't dependent on intelligence.
Can you expand on exactly what that means in practical terms?
(Please also explain the "modulo" if you can.)
Alternative explanation of the 1500 byte MTU given in the last paragraph:

https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/a/2964
Both the client and the server (warpd) seem to be in the repo. I agree there should be an explanation early in the readme because when I came to the part with IDs I immediately went 'wtf? does this go through their servers?'.

Edit: Reading through some of the replies here it might actually be using their servers at least for the ID resolution.
I would assume this was mocked to test if the intern could follow simple instructions, to provide a lecture for the huge consequences of small mistakes and to have a viable reason to fire consequently; but I'm wearing my tin foil hat right now, too.
If you found that article interesting, you might want to read Gregory Benford's "Deep Time" (978-0380975372). Benford was part of the same panel (though in a different group), and the first half of the book is in-depth discussion of the various aspects of the problem that they had to consider.
I never used xml. can anyone who used it at a time when it was vogue give a brief overview of "what happened"? I'd love to read it, if you have the time (or point me toward a good summary).
That opening story just broke my heart. As a parent of a child with a severe peanut and tree nut allergy, it has been completely drilled into me: If my child is exhibiting an allergic reaction, administer the EpiPen and call 911 for an ambulance immediately.
The article discusses a number of cheese production innovations that contributed to Leprino's ability to massively scale production and control the market. These advances are also detailed in Kielsmeier's patents:

http://patents.justia.com/inventor/lester-o-kielsmeier
You are falling for the framing. If something is 28% of your DV worth of calories it's not a meal. The line makes it seem that as long as each 'bad' item is under the line it's ok.

Sure the fries are over it, but the burger only 1/2 way their so that's probably ok.
Did you really think it was great? The subject matter is critically important, but the article sadly lacking in substance. These are three of the bullet points, "Recognize that bullshitters are different from liars," "Watch out for unfair comparisons," "Remember that correlation doesn’t imply causation" - ok, so are they now passing off middle school science as college learning? This doesn't add much ammo to fight misuse of big data.
I doubt it was silly. He likely offered you a deal that would have lost money if not for the financing.
> In other words, the (I'm guessing) relatively slim chance there is a complication with the broken leg is not worth it to the wealthy father to take.

In medicine, though, there have been a lot of recent studies recently that have shown that too much care can be harmful (especially in the orthopedic realm). Sometimes the best thing to do really is nothing, but when you're paying 40k a year, my guess is you, and more importantly your doctors, would rarely take that point of view.
There are so many awesome projects, but one that I recently learned about is GNU Taler. Basically it's an attempt to make "socially responsible digital cash", where all customers' transactions are private (you cannot tell who bought what or link their purchase history) but you can audit vendors and mints to verify that they pay taxes.

It's quite an elegant system and strikes the right balance (in my mind) between privacy and accountability for corporations. Also it piggy-backs on existing systems (operating through exchanges) and doesn't require proof-of-work. And the browser extensions are super easy to use (even easier than Flattr in some ways).

> I think GNU deserves much more support then it's getting.

I would recommend donating money to the FSF (if you have the means) and becoming a member. They are an incredible project doing awesome work and deserve the support. You also get free access to LibrePlanet conferences and a few other perks.
I don't understand people who rent their things out yet are surprised when folks treat them like a rental rather than borrowing something from a friend. The thing is, when I borrow vehicles or skis, or stay in a friend's house, I don't pay them. I may refill the tank or refrigerator, but otherwise, it's free. Once you demand money from someone, it's just a transaction and no you no longer get the friend treatment / stuff treated with kid gloves. Now I (obviously) don't go out of my way to trash rental things, but I certainly don't treat them with as much care as something I borrowed from a friend.

When I rent cars, I think it's fine to leave minor messes in them; it's implied as part of the rental service they'll vacuum carpets or recycle a stray bottle or two.
Upvote for The Master Switch. It's one of the few books that manages to brilliantly cover a large territory within a small number of pages (<300).
A big health insurer is planning to punish patients for 'unnecessary' ER visits
Those 0% loans often have costly penalties if you're late on a single payment. They're banking on the odds that you'll screw up and be late somewhere along the line.
How a Pregnancy App Saved This Woman's Baby
I wish as a kid I had access to the following:

"More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite" https://www.amazon.com/More-Money-Than-God-Relations/dp/0143...

Market Wizards, Updated: Interviews With Top Traders https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Updated-Interviews-Tra...

The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer...

Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...
Amounts are too small, I would guess. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MVLOAS Less then a tenth of the amount of outstanding home loans.
It's a little worse than that as you pay generally pay some form of sales tax on the purchase price not your interest payments.
You're right, I can't find a python library with the exact functionality you want. But a solution does exist, you would just have to write it yourself. It takes about 200 lines of python, less if you use a parser generator. But if you don't want to do that (nothing wrong with that! Why do work when you don't have to, after all), well then you'll have to either ask someone else to do it for you or just not use this project, assuming this functionality is critical for you. Or you could use sed or a templating system, up to you.
Augmented Reality Hand Puppets [video]
That's because their deal was hedging on the additional commission they'd gain from financing. It's rather screwy. Whenever I trade in a car I always negotiate price on the car alone first, then get a trade appraisal (usually have one in hand from Carmax prior) and if they start playing games I walk out. Past two cars, I walked out and got a call within an hour saying come back we'll do the deal.
It seems absurd that an article claims to disprove a hypothesis linking structure to communication patterns without even the slightest mention of trying to observe those patterns. But they go even further: they claim to have determined the direction of causality between two variables without even having measured one of them!
Delicious earnt $7k (total) from premium accounts
As others have said, you have to apply to the FSF to become a GNU project. And while being under GPLv3-or-later is one of the requirements, I just want to clarify something on this point:

> other than adopting a GPL

Despite it's name, the GNU General Public License is a license for any software written by anyone. Licensing something under the GPL doesn't make your project a member of the GNU project, any more than licensing something with the MIT/X11 license make your project part of FreeDesktop, or BSD making your project one of Berkley's projects.
The issue with English is not just orthography, it's pronunciation. The lack of a correspondence between spelling and sound means that pronunciation is free to change. And since it became different in each region or country, to enforce a writing system that matches phonemes would either cause the language to be written differently in each region, or people to modify their pronunciations in accordance to the new writing system. We're talking about Americans starting to speak in British English or vice versa.
Thanks for sharing the summary. Deep Work was recommended to me recently so this is super helpful. It seems consistent with common thinking that attention is a muscle to be strength trained regularly.

I've been gathering my own book notes in a GitHub repo [1] and added a link back to your post for when I read the book.

[1]: https://github.com/tedmiston/notes
That's exactly why it was silly.
> for those 2 people I know who still use SMS.

Interesting. I think I use SMS for more people than every other phone-based method of contact put together.
LinkedIn gave a tech talk some time ago at the SF NSMeetup. The LI app was written since Swift 1.2 and has had a good deal of growing pains since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9waDi787uo (14:15-15:30, 39:26-40:37)
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - this is a great book, I am lucky my Mom gave it to me when I was a kid...
Agree, can't delete my own comment :( Next time will check before posting, thanks.
Data Visualization shows the global temperature change since 1850
>they treated it like an ordinary rental car rather than borrowing a friend's car.

How is it different from an ordinary rental car?
Getting Real - got me out of the corporate grind
SICP - got me out of the OO grind

Each one had a significant positive impact on my life. And both a free online!

https://gettingreal.37signals.com/

http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/
Whilst spending $40k per month on AWS hosting:

https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/871113325089882112
"Farm this land, and make as much as you can, and give us the surplus, or we'll kill you and find someone who will."

"You mean I don't have to wander around the land responding to threats, you'll do that for me? If someone else comes around and threatens me, I can just point them to you? I can sit here and just figure out how to increase my YoY crop? Buddy, you don't have to coerce me, just swing by every month and we'll wine and dine the fuck out of you! I sure hope you brought all your horses because you're gonna need em!"

Warlords were like helicopter bosses. Annoying, but they don't stick around long enough to really mess with anything. It's those with misplaced senses of justice that really got a bee under their bonnet over it. Same as today.
Which is why contracts should include warnings, as Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed.

Dangerous equipment should have warnings so that you don't lose your fingers and financial tools should have warnings so that you don't lose your shirt.

A decade ago I bought a Fiat (in Brazil) and was offered financing at 0,99% a month. This was worth it, as fixed income investments were paying more than 1% a month. Except that the administrative fees made the effective rate something like 1,99% (which was not worth it). The salesperson argued that I could pay the fees in installments too. It made me angry that they are allowed to do this to people who can't do the maths.
Don't understand the downvotes. The 1989 WWDC was the best one ever, they announced System 7, how could I ever top that?

And I even participated in a panel and gave a speech!

It would have been all downhill from there for me.
One more comes to mind:

Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader https://www.amazon.com/Pit-Bull-Lessons-Streets-Champion/dp/...
I've never heard this. I always find relevant alternatives in HN comments as helpful, allowing people to compare and contrast different features and functionality.

I also don't see anything in the guidelines about this kind of thing, has a mod commented about it before?
You are incorrect and your magic analogy is flawed.
That's good :)

But maybe too obvious. Anonymous lottery, right? Suspicious.
I get an interrupt when I receive text messages too. I want it; it lets me know that someone sent me a message.
Seems to be using their server by default, but you can change it to your own instance using the environment variable. And yes, it looks like all the data passes through the chosen server as well.
Nope, because bottom-to-top all titles start roughly at the same height (the bottom of the spine), while top-to-bottom they start higher on higher books.
Eye-opening/shocking books:

"Science et Méthode" (Henri Poincaré, 1908)

"The Conquest of Happiness" (Bertrand Russell, 1930)

"The Revolt of the Masses" (José Ortega y Gasset, 1930)

"Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley, 1932)

"Reason" (Isaac Asimov, 1941, short story)

"Animal Farm" (George Orwell, 1945)

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" (George Orwell, 1949)

"Starship Troopers" (Robert A. Heinlein, 1959)

"The Gods Themselves" (Isaac Asimov, 1972)

"Time Enough for Love" (Robert A. Heinlein, 1973)
Yes. But spending lots of money in meatspace attracts attention.
Philosophy/Psychology:

The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind, / Julian Jaynes. Hard to tell if crazy or genius, but well worth a read. Read at 38, wish I had read this at 20 or so. Most of us take our inner voice for granted, but should we really? And what if there was evidence supporting the idea that there's another inner voice, but our modern upbringing suppresses it (but it does reappear with some illnesses, under duress, etc)?

Fiction:

Different Seasons / Stephen King. A collection of four stories, NOT your usuall King horror genre; one of which became the movie "Stand By Me". another became "The Shawshank Redemption", the third became "An Apt Pupil", and the fourth will likely never become a movie. All are excellent. I actually read it at 16, which was the right time, but I'll list it here anyway; if you've seen the movies and liked them, it's worth reading - the stories are (a) much more detailed than the movies, in a good way, and (b) related in small ways that make them into a bigger whole than the individual stories.

Management (software/hardware oriented):

Peopleware / Demarco & Lister - read after I was already managing dozens of people. Wish I had read it long before. This book is basically a list of observations (with some supporting evidence and conclusion) about what works and what doesn't when running a software team. Well written, and insightful.

The mythical man month / Fred Brooks - wish I had read this before first working in a team larger than 2 people. Written ages ago, just as true today; A tour-de-force of the idea that "man month" is a unit of cost, not a unit of productivity.