skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like decent habits. It's not all that hard to look at the bill, see your "Total balance", and then write that number on the check. I think you can even set up autopay to do it for you.

The folks who get in trouble with credit cards are the ones who look at the bill, see "Minimum payment", and write that number on the check. Up until recently, that number was a lot more prominent, so maybe people who had no idea what credit was could be forgiven for this. But they're the ones who get in trouble with debt. People who understand that having a credit card means paying it off in full each month usually end up coming out ahead (via cashback) of where they'd be if they always pay in cash.
Haaaa, Bana is a top bloke!

There is not exactly one Aussie accent; a posh office jockey from a major CBD will not sound the same as a country boy. Americans probably wont get Chopper (the comedian) but they should have no trouble with Carl Barron.
Really? I thought that book was lame.
It's not like it's the first time humans have begrudged another's success and completely ignored the risks that person took, and the sheer number of fellows who fell along the way.

Perhaps the best example will be war heros; one of these days, someone is going to complain about how there aren't enough female war heroes. Hopefully then, even the hero himself will be pointing out how many of his comrades didn't make it that far, and it will be clear to all that it's a question of risk/reward, not sexism.
Thanks for your feedback. I'll have a ponder about your email idea. Ta.

I think I'm up against a lot of tough competition in the time killing market on the web :)
Ya, the last 10% is where 50% of the work is actually done. That is the polishing. What you think is 90% is on paper only. In reality, there is more to be done..
On the matter of proving nonexistence, this is possible.
The problem lies with the definition of a god.

Whenever you try to proof anything, you assume the world is causal/deterministic. An omnipotent influence is therefore also deterministic. This makes any god equal to a law of nature. Define your 'law that is a god' and it can be proven to exist/not-exist in theory.
Don't change who your are.Take a Job and do stuff that fits you.You will be more productive and best at what you do like that.I am a completely dis-organized person.I sleep when I feel like it,I do stuff when I feel like it etc...So I chose freelancing which suits my style and I am a happy man.
"Its not becoming like someone else,its accepting who you are"
Good Luck
IF you round ML into "computerized statistics" you'll find endless success stories in scientific research. Particularly interesting might be f/MRI image analysis
This can be turned around ... maybe our brains aren't able to process the existence of God.
Could one draw the link between the printing press, the availability of printed Bibles rather than the laboriously hand-written copies, the subsequent larger availability of Bibles in the vernacular, and several Reformation ideals, particularly the German Protestantism notion of a direct connection with God rather than one that had to pass through the Pope?
You know if we all stopped pirating stuff and obeyed the very letter of copyright law, open source and free entertainment, software, etc would have a huge renaissance.

You know those bands that make their money from touring that are always put forward as the future? Their mp3s compete for mindshare with pirated Lady Gaga stuff.

Maybe if we all obeyed copyright then Elanor would have looked around for some other composer who gives their stuff away for free. Win-win. Composers who want money get money, composers who want fame get it instead.

The biggest competitor to Gimp is pirated Photoshop.

Etc.
Extraverts: happy, funny, creative, better suited to high-stress work
"Not believing" is not the same as "believing against". The first involves no claim, positive or negative, about religion except in response to a question or prompt. The second is an active disbelief or truth claim.

Most atheists do not go around saying "I know there is no god" but, if asked "do you believe in a god/something supernatural/things you can't see", they would answer "no".

Not many atheists are strong atheists (those who "believe against god", who believe the existence of god is objectively disproven). Rather, they are not convinced by anything they experience that there is a god and so do not believe in one, just as they do not believe in unicorns or pots o' gold at the end of the rainbow. (Surely you wouldn't say they are making a faith claim about unicorns just because they don't happen to acknowledge their existence.)

However, they often actively push back against encroaching beliefs that they have not, themselves, claimed as their own.

This distinction between "nonbelief" versus "disbelief" is subtle but important.

EDIT: The only faith claim I could possibly agree atheists have is a general statement about the nature of faith as it relates to them. Namely, most say "I will not have faith. I will only accept as true that which can be demonstrated."
What matters to me, is that books and music and movies continue to exist. That won't happen if we insist we deserve it all for free.

This guy is a composer, lyricist, and arranger, not a "sheet music producer."

Plenty of software developers wouldn't give away their core assets for free or like them to be stolen, but many give away/open source byproducts of their work (libraries and documentation, say). Opening up byproducts is a good way to increase your exposure and increase the value of your core products.

On the other hand, he totally has the right to defend his intellectual property. I just think it's misguided in the short term to do so at this level.
> Exactly how is this bad? What do music artists contribute other than catchy tunes to the grand sphere of what our nation defines?

I'm not an arts person, so I will not present an argument about how art is good or bad for humanity. My point is:

1: I want music artists to stay about, because I like their catchy tunes.

2: Presumably, people who download their music do too, or they wouldn't care about it enough to want to listen in the first place.

Ok, so being a pro athlete is not a good long-term plan, but how about if they didn't make a dime when they were still playing? Can you see professional football continuing to exist if the only livable model was for players to work graveyards to support their addiction to oblong leather balls? Kids would still play, high schoolers would still play, but we would have no NFL.

P.S. You don't think music plays a role in defining a nation? Then why is it the 2 biggest cues a movie uses to clue you in on setting is dress and music?
Ah breaststroke. It's actually harder to glide in breaststroke than freestyle because in freestyle you can at least have one arm fully extended ~95% of the time, keeping you longer in the water (and less draggy) for a longer portion of the time.

Breaststroke on the other hand requires constant bunching up and exploding into a glide, but it's alot easier to lose your momentum between glides when you have to bunch up again.

Cool trick with watching the side lane markers to time your stroke to your momentum. Hacking swimming ftw. Once you've got it down, you might be able write a post with all your hacks and get it posted on Lifehacker.
The problem with that is that it ruins the excitement from hearing that "a regular expression can solve problem X." I believe most regex implementations are actually Turing complete, so it's no surprise that a problem can be solved with them. But that's just another CS-theory person argument.
Lenovo: Apple is losing out in China
Isn't the question only meaningless if the answer is No? Assuming you're talking about the traditional Judeo-Christian God, then you would certainly be missing out on a lot of good (both in this life and the next) if the answer is Yes.
"No one expects them to create things, that's left to those nuts like me (someone said this to me point-blank)."

I distinguish the two types of students by whether or not they need calculus to proceed. The ones who don't are just serving time.
Her list is ridiculous. The male equivalent would be Alan Turing, Dennis Ritchie, Steve Wozniak, a guy who worked on TCP, and, I dunno, Guido Van Rossum's boss or something. The true founders of the internet.

The original list is kinda silly too. Three spots for PHP? Really? PHP is important, but not that important and shouldn't even be above JavaScript anyways.
That is exactly why iPHone app developers are so many in number and they are so popular. Google App Market is this stupid open, it brings no benifits for app developers!
Here is a recent blog post we wrote: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/maximum...

In a nutshell, IE doesn't respect TTL and caches DNS for 30 minutes.
s/django/scipy/
or I suppose
re.sub('django', 'scipy', the_above)
Ok, so being a pro athlete is not a good long-term plan

Being a pro athlete per se isn't a necessary dumb idea. It's just that athletes don't have any financial skills because they rather devote their whole energy to sport.

Frankly, it's simply the matter of earning several million bucks and then living off the interest rates. It turns out surprisingly hard as you have to dodge snake oil salemen and the urge to spend all your money on lavish vacations and other money drainers.
I always wonder about the argument that since I believe in a higher power I am excluded from a belief in science and medicine. It is mostly an argument to diminish someone's position and make them defend territory that 90+% of religious people don't believe or want to defend.

On a personal level, I am a Christian and I believe in the Big Bang (let there be light). I don't have any problems with evolution (1). I believe in pursuing science and medicine is good and fits in fine with that whole dominion thing (Genesis 1:26). One's faith is awful fragile if using the mind we were given breaks our world. I personally can't prove a lot of things (love for example), but I have faith. I don't follow everything in the bible (for example: Deuteronomy 23:12-14 and Exodus 21:2-6), but it is an inspired work not literal and some practices just aren't acceptable these days. I really think it is also important to understand that there seems to be an unfortunate separation between people's belief and the earthly institutions that are supposed to embody them.

1) if you breed dogs for ability (e.g. hunting) and don't believe in evolution or Darwin's writings on the subject, then I am really confused how you explain the whole adaption thing.
I haven't read every last comment yet, but this is the most civil discussion on religion I've ever seen online. Congrats, HN. I think you've passed the test for excellence.
Every time someone brings up "exclusionary language" or calls a word sexist, I roll my eyes and long for feminists to collectively declare victory and leave the field so humanity as a whole can move on.

Young women aren't put off by the phrase "founding fathers", not even the tiniest bit. Maybe the root cause of the gender imbalance is biological or maybe it's political, but the one thing I'm certain of is that pieces like this only serve to reinforce perceptions of inequality. Do something positive instead -- get kids involved in engineering and computer science.
And most of those things that you can do, you should be able to do. The exceptions are what need to be justified.

I don't see a lot of justification for claiming that piracy is wrong or bad. It's directly helping someone and not directly hurting anyone, and I haven't even seen someone claim credibly that it's hurting artists' pocketbooks. Certainly this girl's actions were a totally victimless crime.

I certainly don't see evidence that piracy is resulting in a lower quality of art, and it's obviously great in the short-term for consumers (especially ones like teenagers who have a hard time buying music and movies and books.)
Google Looks to Emerging Markets for Android, plans in-app-purchases & more
South Korea ends Microsoft's online shopping monopoly
It's more like: We don't know whether it's true or false, and we will never know it.. so why bother losing time with this question anyway? (I don't say that is my point, I just wanted to clarify a bit the "only matter if it's no".
I hate myself for being such a grammar nazi, I really do.

"Google employees on Reddit answer questions"

collapses in a heap
That's a big assumption. From another perspective, if one does not believe that any god (should it exist) intervenes in human affairs, then the question of whether it does exist would be not as interesting.
There really isn't testing per se for this sort of stuff... its more like you make a doctors appointment, meet with them 1-4 times to given them your personal history of all relevant stuff, and then theres a subsequent discussion about viable courses of action. (Is there really a stigma in talking to a doctor in general?)

If its just a case of having trouble doing the initial jumpstart of getting started looking into stuff, ask one of your friends who you're close to and comfortable being open with to help you get the ball rolling on looking into such, or just make yourself commit to at least making a appointment with your general practitioner.

(getting around irrational social anxiety issues which can act as obstacles is hard, and apparently the best adaptive approach is to reframe the ominous task by breaking it into lots and lots of smaller steps, and forcing yourself to only think about the current step and never about later steps, rinse and repeat)
Google integrating travel data into searches.
That's why some entrepreneurs in the "free entertainment and open source business" are just begging for the copyright people to do what they wanted in secret, while trying to convince everyone that a post-copyright world is a good idea.

Some of us are just convinced that it's good money, but some of us can't help but trying to tell people about the truth while being happy that they don't believe it. It's a weird situation.
> the result of mutually beneficial agreements made on the spot to secure wealth and power between the parties to the agreement ... Look at the list of grievances it's mostly about money.

This is a very superficial perspective, born of a bad recollection of history.

Christianity gained dominance and power during the fall of Rome, a movement born on the streets of a decaying society, with the Christians prosecution having the negative effect of drawing the attention of the public ... a public which was hungry for a saner sense of moral values.

The power grabbing taking place was only to secure their freedom of religion, at least initially.

Of course, as with all religions ... Christianity was used to control the masses and did ended being used for power grabbing. But that's mostly because uneducated masses are stupid as cows ... and you can credit the translated Bibles for people's willingness to learn how to read.
To be fair about the Biblical food and health mentions, it was more a health guide for the ancient world than anything else. Deuteronomy 23:9-14 are about cleanliness and Leviticus 11 covers the food.
"Plan to throw one away, you will anyway."
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I'll also admit that the existence of Santa Claus, who lives at the North Pole in some kind of cloaked fortress and has some kind of time-warp technology that allows him to deliver toys to boys and girls world wide in one night is possible.

Nevertheless, I think it would be stupid to describe myself as a Santa Claus agnostic as opposed to a Santa Claus atheist. We have a very good explanation for the Santa Claus story, so there is zero reason to entertain the notion that it might be true.

Same for gods. We have good explanations for how the god stories arose. We can observe that all human societies have these stories, but that they are inconsistent from society to society. We can observe the the believes are convinced that there is something special about theirs--but we see that for the believers from each.

Given that, agnosticism seems a cop out to me.
I would take the interview with a grain of salt because it could be someone plainly making up the whole interview. It hasn't been vetted like the IAMA interviews. Also this should probably point to the original post on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/clz1m/google_empl...
Been awake for 21 hours, going to sleep soon. Sorry. Also, english is not my first language, but that not really an excuse, just lazy writing.

(not sure if the above sentences makes any sense either.)
I tried Adderall for slight ADD for about three weeks when I was an undergrad, and found the initial effect very helpful, but I could feel it degrading even over just two weeks.

That convinced me was an extremely temporary solution at best, so temporary as to not even be worth it.

Later I was walking through Barnes and Nobel and found a book on speed reading in the bargain bin:

http://www.amazon.com/Evelyn-Seven-Day-Reading-Learning-Prog...

Bought it, read it, learned it (somewhat, I still can't read a page a second), and found it improved my focus and concentration (at least on reading and programming) more than anything I'd ever tried, even Adderall.

That may or may not help you, but I'm a believer now.
Amphetamines (Adderall, Vyvanse, Dexedrine) and methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) are powerful stimulants. They'll give you plenty of energy and ability to focus. This explains why they are rather commonly used by students and other folks.

The life changing aspect, for me, is that they can sometimes break me out a depressive episode. I'll have days sitting around, desperately wanting to work on something, but ending up watching TV, eating, and sleeping. This of course makes me feel bad about having not done anything, which just worsens the situation.

Stimulants can change that. Apart from the energy and focus, they often propel me into doing something. I've taken them, feeling pessimistic and resigning myself to another day of sitting around. But they'll kick in, I'll pull up my laptop, and code 8+ hours straight. That bit of progress alone is enough sometimes to break out of the depressive streak and get on with things.

But please, before starting any medications, make sure you have a psychologist to monitor you. Do not underestimate suicidal thoughts. The closest I've been to suicide is when I tried out an anti-depressive. Medication that can pull you out of depression can also provide you the energy and willpower to follow through with suicide.
For every figure you have to dig deeper.

You point out that divorce is initiated 70% of the time by women. However that has little direct correlation with how the divorce goes.

You point out that women tend to get over 50% of the assets. This is true. However women tend to keep the kids, and therefore take an undue portion of the future economic liabilities coming from the relationship. In particular this makes it more likely that they will be granted the house - typically the couple's biggest asset. Furthermore if you include expected future income, women are suddenly much worse off.

And we come to the more important point. It is indisputable that women are much more likely to be granted custody of the kids. However most of the time men don't actually want custody of the kids. When men choose to contest it, they usually wind up with the kids. (For the simple reason that, having a more dependable source of income, men are typically in a better position to raise the kids.) you have to look at what the couple wanted. Men who choose to contest custody usually wind up with the kids. Therefore the fact that the woman tends to wind up with the bulk of the responsibility for that liability isn't actually a sign that women are coming out ahead in the divorce.
Agreed. As Dawkins says, we are all atheists about most of the gods that were ever claimed to exist (Zeus, Apollo, Thor, Vishnu, etc). Some of us just go one god further.
There's some data in "Why productivity fades with age: The
crime–genius connection" by Satoshi Kanazawa:

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/Kanazawa/pdfs/JRP2003.pdf
Sounds like the Japanese system. Work your ass off in high school and nighttime cram schools to get into the best colleges, then coast through college, partying, drinking, recuperating from a hellish youth that sucked up all your passion for learning, then graduate and get a job based on your top college's pedigree.
Well, it did subtract the amount he makes off one sheet music sale.
Similarly, should artists who sample works from public content have to pay royalties?

Musicians and artists can claim IP when their works are shared, but what about mathematicians, architects?

Do I owe Pythagoras' estate every time I compute A^2 + B^2 = C^2?
I want to put French doors in my pantry, who do I make the check out to in order to legally use the design?

This man lives comfortably, I'm sure he's not living paycheck to paycheck. He deserves credit for creating the work, but the implication is that he's somehow suffering based on the 'trading'. Life sucks, I'd be pissed too but it's the way things work.

Grayson Chance was an internet sensation not too long ago for performing Lady Gaga's music. She didn't try to burn him for most likely stealing the sheet music, she applauded the kid and wished him luck.

Relevant, NSFW audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvq3Pf3j61c
It absolutely did not. The girl made it clear that she doesn't have a credit card and can't/won't convince her parents to pay, so there's no way he would have gotten a sale out of her.
1. I'm not sure why forcing yourself to believe in god (if that is even possible—I don't think it is) helps in times of tragedy. One, you know you're just telling yourself stuff to make yourself feel better. This, in itself, can't feel good. Two, it is not comforting to know that there's this benevolent god up there who exists but is doing nothing to stop your tragic situation.

2. I know of no documented miracles. In fact, such a proposition is unproveable, as is the claim that "miracles do happen".
Technology is allowing the pool to get larger. Amateur creativity is going to become increasingly more important and partially replace art that comes from the industry.
It looks like the article has been edited. Originally it basically said "Wikipedia is down. Twitter told us. See..."

Figure they just left them in as filler when they did the update. Not to mention they get that all important page 2 click so they can show you some more ads :)
Two examples I've seen recently are Road Runner in the US and Virgin Media in the UK. There are many, many more.
I'm mildly surprised to see the classic FSF lend-a-book argument in there:

"Would it be wrong for me to make a copy of some sheet music and give it to a close friend of mine for an audition? Of course not. In fact, it would be considered nasty of me to refuse. But to trade sheet music online is bad? "
Addition: Atheists can sound pedantic when it comes to word order, but this pedantry has a point. Compare the following two sentences:

"I'm asking you to not join the Navy."

"I'm not asking you to join the Navy."

The difference in word order is the same as the different phrasings between different atheists:

"I do not believe god exists." (I call this atheism)

"I believe god does not exist." (I call this strong atheism)
Yup, pretty much what the article is all about. Only a handful of schools, like Yale Med, don't have grades.
Lets not bring reason into a tautology.

The purpose of the post was to take a feeling and find facts that are tangentially related to the issue at hand.
Reminds me of KISS.
If the wager deals with only the Christian god, it's arbitrarily limited and has little value.