skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Once you have a few entries here, we recommend printing them out, sitting by a fireplace, and reading them in Morgan Freeman’s voice: "

Like a twinkie, like a twinkie.
As far as I can see, you'd have to have a pretty screwy sort of lifestyle, or an obsessive use of sunscreen, to not achieve this recommendation:

Dr. Holick suggests going outside in summer unprotected by sunscreen (except for the face, which should always be protected) wearing minimal clothing ... two or three times a week for 5 to 10 minutes

I'm pretty confident that I'm not going to suffer from Vitamin D deficiency. (Skin cancer maybe...)
maths can be like programming: it can seem pointless without a purpose. too much is made of proofs and too little of intuition.

so pick a project, something you'd like to know. then apply math as, and when, needed.

what are you interested in? (other than learning math)
if we know, then maybe someone can suggest a project related to something you'd care about :)
You might find Jan Gullberg's _Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers_ helpful - it's a big book, but it's fairly light reading. Instead of a dense book of problems, proofs, exercises, etc., it gives an overview of the different kinds of math, their historical context, what kinds of problems they're good at solving, etc. More the 'what' and 'why' than 'how'.

It might help you get a better sense of what you're more interested in learning. (You might really like probability and statistics but not trig, for example.) You can probably find a copy for under $10, and a decent public library is likely to have it as well.

I've had a lot of fun with Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/), a math puzzle website for programmers, though it's not clear from your post whether you're also into programming or not.

Also, another hard part of learning math is the notation. There's no getting around that. The Gullberg book will introduce it, but it won't drill it into you the way working through exercise problems will.
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Living in Europe, it's exciting to think, that I'm part of a conversation with people from the valley.

But maybe you're right; maybe working together with others (on an open source project for example), or helping someone on stack overflow for example is a better way to develop more meaningful relationships.
Here Here. I used to hate trackpads, so much so that I only ever used laptops with "nipples" (see ThinkPad).

The MacBook with two-finger scroll was revolutionary for me, and I've never seen any manufacturer beat that pad.

Well, any other manufacturer. The glass trackpad on my MBP is something else, and this is just a bigger version of that. Awesome.

Apple are unbelievably ahead of the curve on this, I'm not quite sure why the other manufacturers are failing so badly. The trackpad on my HP workstations are as-good-as unusable in comparison. I always have to use a mouse.
She's just mad because women suck at computers.
a copy of wacom bamboo touch ?

http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_touch.php
http://www.wacom.com/embed/player_inplay.swf
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this is an awesome idea.

I'm able to use both hands equally well (though I might be hinging a tad bit to prefer the left hand). This could mean that I can alternate my pointing hand here and then
When I was looking for a laptop to buy recently, it never occurred to me that Dell might offer an Ubuntu system over the phone without also offering it on their (UK) website.
You know, you could drop your comment directly into a Star Trek the Next Generation script and it would fit right in.

By the time I got to the end, I was reading it in Geordie LaForge's voice in my head.
In my experience, the first rule to learn about reddit is "when not to comment/reply". So what you say rings true to me: People know better than to comment on threads like that because the vocal "i hate this" types may decide to harass you, and who needs that?
I don't know where you're getting your data, but most sites use at least several dozen images for basic design purposes. You are definitely the exception to the rule.
Actually I dread this. Python is already showing signs of design by committee. Gaining niche new features/constructs/syntax. It use to all fit nicely in my head. That won't be true in a couple years at current bloat increase rate.
This is a great idea, it's one of the reasons I wasn't prepared to get a desktop over a laptop (besides the obvious portability).

I think in the future there will be more integration of something like the iPad or the iPhone as direct interface to the computer.
> does that make me a "boring tool" who can't "think creatively" and only relies on "lame rote repetition"?

I strongly disagree. It does make you such. Memorization is overrated.
It sounds nonsense to me to blame Wikileaks for making transparency opponents make more opposed to transparency. When you point out a problem, sometimes the people who don't want this problem to be solved will take even more radical measures to make sure it is kept secret. Giving up because of this is like giving up fighting terrorism because your actions can anger terrorists and they might kill more people. Also it's not clear from the current leaks whether they would have been prevented if there was less transparency between governmental bodies.
Syntax for Delegating to a Subgenerator in Python
"Actually, a better analogy would be African-Americans getting extra scholarships, to compensate for the relative lack of wealth their families accumulated. I certainly wouldn't begrudge this."

While I most certainly agree I've always wondered why they don't give the scholarships based on economic rather than racial conditions. Quite frankly, with the way that the US is right now, this would end up mostly benefiting minority families anyway and would be much more palatable to the general public.

That said, I grew up in a fairly well-off majority white suburb so I may not have the best handle on the situation.
Are Vitamin D supplements and Vitamin D obtained from the sun the same thing? What I mean is, are supplements good enough, or is sun exposure really required?
my point was that he should not trip about it, but instead be learning more techniques. in the future when he has sufficient skill, then OBVIOUSLY he should attempt to prove them on his own.
I suggest Project Euler http://projecteuler.net/. There are a series of (interesting?) problems to solve that will require you to learn a little math and a little programming.

For me, the hardest part of Math is the Byzantine formula. My brain just doesn't look at them and go "oh, that's how it works." Instead, I need to translate that into some nice executable code (Python, etc).

I stumbled through Calculus not really getting what it was about. Physics on the other hand, was real world, here is the formula; here is how to apply it. That made it click for me.

TL;DR:
Physics and Project Euler.
That's before the hypothetical backlash, though.
People complain when Apple makes non-user serviceable batteries, so they can never really win can they?

It's not a pocket portable so let's not get all hung up on saving space for packaging. It doesn't work that way with a Mac Pro either, why is there so much spaaaace in there?

There are so many chargeable AA's on the market that it's simple for someone to get a set of them cheaply and reuse them for a long time without having to dock their trackpad all the time. Wireless!

I already have something like 8-10 of them because I have a wii and a digital camera etc etc etc so I'm happy that I won't have to pay for a new battery in 2-3 years.
I actually think it would be bad for GvR to retire. The thing that I feel is python's strength is the fact that we don't see "design by committee" very often.
We humans can mind-meld too
I've been waiting years for this.
YAY.
'losing weight', 'paying off your debts' and 'implementing your best ideas' are monolithic, far away, abstract goals...The kind of goals humans are bad at attaining.

Get smaller, immediate goals and work from there. Stop drinking soda next week. Stop eating sweets the week after. Apply that to everything. Think in weeks and days, not in years.

Smaller goals have many benefits. They take less time, they are easier to do, they give you results faster, and the reward you feel for 'completing a goal' is the same.
You probably had a bad dedicated server deal.

I think you could get 75 of Dell R410s with 8 cores each and 16G of memory for under $300k. A top of the line colo will run you about $2k a month for a rack and a half with power and room to run all 75 boxes. Where you run into trouble is if the company you buy from charges you for the box cost every year. Getting charged as if you are re-buying every year would work out to something like $27k a month. Those boxes will easily last 3 years and if you span it out over 3 years you are looking at $10k a month. That is half what you are paying for EC2.
r/coding is not bad
The article recommends:

Asked for a general recommendation, Dr. Holick suggests going outside in summer unprotected by sunscreen (except for the face, which should always be protected) wearing minimal clothing from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. two or three times a week for 5 to 10 minutes.

Slathering skin with sunscreen with an SPF of 30 will reduce exposure to ultraviolet-B rays by 95 to 98 percent. But if you make enough vitamin D in your skin in summer, it can meet the body’s needs for the rest of the year, Dr. Holick said.

Personally I'd rather take a supplement than risk skin cancer later in life from sun exposure. There is definitely a tradeoff between the natural technique of acquiring vitamin D and the safe way. Getting vitamin D via sunlight on the skin was safer when we had more ozone and fewer ultraviolet rays.
I worked for GameStop back when they were having a really, really hard time. They were called Babbage's, had recently merged with Software, Etc (also a failing venture) and then filed for Chapter 11. They emerged when Barnes & Noble's Chairman rescued the embers of the company. Soon after, they bought up pretty much all of the competing stores around here (and from what I can tell, in other parts of the country) and seem to be doing pretty well these days. I jumped ship, but it was just a high-school job anyway. They're faring better than I would have imagined.

Acquire-and-grow seems to be their business strategy. I don't know what they do with their online acquisitions, but they seem to gut, revamp and re-brand their brick-and-mortar assets.

Wishing you the best of luck, Jim! I'm glad they're leaving you guys at the helm.
Something I find helpful is abandoning the idea of goals (at least for a while), and instead simply focusing on habits.

What do you want to be like? What kind of day would you think was a good one? (here you can include things like "think silently, with no distractions, for 30 minutes" - NOT things like "have 3 good ideas"; also things like "End each day by listing 3 things I want to do the next day, and make sure they get done", rather than "Get lots of stuff done - be incredibly productive")

Design an ideal day. Better yet, design the day you want your 27 year old self to have. Now, you know what your 27 year old self does with his time. You've got 2 years to become that guy.

This means you make gradual changes to your habits. The 30 day method works well for people. Pick one of these new habits that you're aiming to have - only one, seriously - and stick with it for 30 days. Then keep that one going, and add a new one.

If you can do that, you can introduce 12 new habits in one year, and 24 in two years. That's an enormous difference, and it's entirely achievable. Three steps:

1. List the habits your 27 (or 26) year old self has.

2. Pick one for August (but you can start early this month). Do it for the whole month and start a new one in addition in September.

3. That's it. And I don't mean that I'm done. I mean you're done. Stop looking for advice. Don't read productivity blogs. Don't ask any more forums for help. Don't try and perfect this system. It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and doing the good enough beats reading about the perfect. So just do it.

And come back and tell us how you're doing!
Most of the arguments made seem to suggest there is discrimination in CS education, and subsequently in the workspace.

Even if we assume this to be true, How does this explain the lack of women in open source projects?

Further, the author seems to reserve a special place for the Rockstar developer. Personally having been rescued a few times by such Rockstar coworker's all nighters, I have only respect and awe for such Rockstars.
He had me until the misplaced apostrophe in "client's".
It could work.
They could add a simulator-esque cursor without too much technical trouble.

That said, it shouldn't.
Why would anyone prefer indirect manipulation of a cursor over direct manipulation of the screen elements? If you've got an iPad in a keyboard dock, you're primarily writing and occasionally navigating. I don't see the use case.

Gorilla-arm would only set in if you were primarily navigating, in which case you'd just undock the thing.
In before "Write an app to help you focus".
Yes, the DC-Boston corridor is the one place where high-speed rail does make sense, and also the one place where there aren't any current plans for high-speed rail lines.

I'm guessing it's a land availability problem: the existing tracks aren't straight enough, and building new tracks through these densely populated areas would destroy tens of thousands of homes. What we really need to do is travel back in time to 1920 and set aside some nice dead-straight sections of land for future rail works. Or perhaps we need to wait another hundred years and hope that building a 300-mile tunnel becomes affordable.
There are some great tips here. I will stick to basics:
-Refined Sugar is bad, and even worse is fructose. Avoid it as much as possible. So avoid cola/pop (I cut it out years ago) and stop adding sugar/sweeteners to your tea/coffee.
-Eat lots of fruit and don't worry which has a low GI or not.
-Almost all unsalted nuts will be good for you. Almonds, Peanuts, etc.
-Unsalted/Sugar Free trail mix will be good.
-A blender, blueberries, banana (freeze it if you have to), and all natural (non hydrogenated) peanut, almond or sunflower butter should be your best friend. It is super quick to whip up a shake.
Once you make this a habit you will want to rid the other stuff. Exercise is advisable as well as that will further lower your cravings.
-Drink lots of water as it will sate your appetite.
On precursory first glance, I don't see anything that isn't done via twisted. Why would I use this as opposed to twisted's inlineCallbacks?

This isn't a rhetorical question either. I really want to know what the benefits are.
"Several factors had combined to bring about this sorry state of affairs. Services and rates were tightly regulated. Companies were obliged to run passenger services that could not make a profit."

Are you suggesting that rail companies should again be forced to offer unprofitable passenger services until again a "fifth of rail mileage was owned by bankrupt firms."? Why should passengers be a priority? The most economical use of the railways should be the priority.
Pfc. Manning's massive leak of low-level classified documents (assuming he is the responsible party, as alleged) was an act of inspired immaturity. He does not have the education or experience to make any sense of the trove of documents, let alone the time to actually read more than a fraction of them, but must have acted either on the assumption "classified equates to bad" or simply an impulse to get away with something.

No adversary is likely to learn anything they didn't already know (and apparently the press has not either), although it potentially gives large well-funded adversaries like Russia and China a great source for drawing case-study training materials.

The damage is to our own intelligence and diplomatic internal affairs, both in scrambling to do damage control and changing procedures.

The material is of great interest to arm chair intelligence analysts; plenty of blogging material.
Rail seems like it would be a win for someone who was mobility impaired (wheelchair, old, morbidly obese, etc.). The only other viable option would be a specially outfitted car or bus.

The times I've taken Amtrak (mainly for amusement value; Seattle-SFO and SFO-DEN), it was mainly old people (many of diminished mobility), some religious groups (mormons? menonites?), and foreign tourists. And mostly empty seats.
There are a number of online password stores where all the information is only decrypted on the client. Nothing new, just not widespread. Can't remember the name.
Portability Is A Good Goal
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Gamestop acquiring Flash game portal Kongregate
Jim, congrats - you were so helpful (you probably don't remember) when I was getting Dawdle off the ground. Just know that we're still committed to destroying your new corporate overlords and I hope you got all cash. :)
Back in the days, I always preferred the Trackpoints the IBM ThinkPads used and I never quite liked the trackpads. I'm even going as far as to say that I'm quite the trackpad hater - they never felt precise to me and required way too frantic finger movement to be really comfortable for me.

But when I moved to Apple hardware, I basically was stuck with the trackpads, but this time around, it was different. The bigger size meant less finger movement and with the advent of multi touch, it suddenly felt like a more "natural" way to control the machine.

With the newer Macbook pros came this "the trackpad is the button" functionality and while it took me a day or so of getting used to, I absolutely cannot work with the dedicated button pads any more. Seing how quickly this became muscle memory, I assume that they did something (no idea what) right when they moved to that design.

This is how I went from "I hate trackpads" to "trackpads are the only really natural way to control the machine".

With this in mind, this new Apple device really interests me and I can't wait to get my hands on one. At worst it'll be a companion to my trackball, at best, it'll replace it (still also having a mouse connected for the eventual UT match though)
I wouldn't know, I'm not a lawyer. I imagine it's perfectly okay to use the word 'Flickr' to describe what your product does. "Sell your Flickr photos!" Just not to name your product.
You're struggling with adjusting to life in the real world, stuck in the pattern of defining your life with your life's work. Perhaps your very problem is that you don't really want what you think you want.

I make no excuses for being a religious man, I just am. That view tends to be wildly unpopular in these circles, possibly because it treads upon the contemporary ideas of control and success. The same concepts causing you so much pain right now. Nonetheless, I'll happily plant this seed and hope for it to sprout. What you're missing isn't some quantifiable success story or achievement, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship with your creator.

This isn't an ode to mediocrity, but like someone else said choosing a different measuring stick by which you measure your life. And, really, a call for you to stop flogging yourself with that same stick.
If I wasted 1-3 hours each day I would be okay. Some days I waste far less than this and feel good. But some days, I have lots of stuff to do, and I accidentally spend like 5 or 6 hours on HN and then I feel really shitty afterwards. _That_ is why we are trying to fix this problem. Maybe this doesn't happen to you, and that's good. But it does happen to me sometimes.
Resolving the Fermi Paradox using quantum mechanics
Why wouldn't you? It's faster, it'll eventually have more support from the community, and has tons of improvements which should help with your productivity.
I don't know why I would do business with nationalist thugs, just because they might not be chasing me this time. I don't think Hungary can have a very favorable business climate on that basis and looking at their economy seems to support that hunch.

"bundes" means something like "federal" I think, so "Bundesbank" would be "federal bank", the german Fed.
Some of us still use our FingerWorks TouchStream keyboards :-)

(and keep two spares, in case the main one ever breaks)
The argument is not that WikiLeaks should stop what they are doing because of this collateral damage, but that we should recognize what the most likely immediate impact will be to this revelation: less information sharing. A leak of some sort would not have been prevented with less transparency between governmental bodies, but now State can say that if their classified data was kept internal this particular info would not have been released. If staff from one department leak information from another department it only reinforces distrust between agencies and slows down the progress towards openness within government.
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SnapGoods: A NYC startup where you can borrow goods from friends
Does 5-10 minutes 2-3 times per week actually represent a significant cancer risk?
So Baz Luhrmann was wrong?
Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan'
Google et al. do essentially run their servers on EC2. However it's their own version of EC2, in their datacentres. They have a whole pile of virtualised servers they can turn on an off by the minutes. They have internal accounting systems so that each team is 'charged' based on what they use. Google are so big, so it's cheaper for them to make their own datacentre than use someone else's (i.e. Amazon's).

EC2 only came about because Amazon run their servers on it, and they had so much spare capacity, so they sell it.
I posted this because I've been deficient for over a year and half now. It seems my body has stopped producing Vitamin D. I was on supplements for 8 months then went hiking for three weeks and off supplements. I came back and my levels had actually dropped.

In my case the supplements have literally changed my life. I sleep better, I don't get mid-afternoon drowsiness any more (which I had for years), and my wife can predict whether I've been taking my supplements based on my mood.

EDIT: I should have mentioned that the blood test is extremely easy and inexpensive. Though try to avoid Quest Labs as there have been reports that their results are not accurate for Vitamin D. I have little doubt that my grad school years - in the office before 9am and out after 7pm - hurt my skin's ability to make Vitamin D. I started having afternoon drowsiness then and for over five years. Within one day of starting the supplements it has completely gone away.
Watercooler talk is fine by me. I don't have a social network of people I can discuss HN-related news with, and I make a habit out of browsing for HN's discussion of a news piece I'm interested in to pick the users' brain about it - to see whether to make a big fuss out a Facebook story for instance.

The time spent on HN will always feed my guilty conscious, however, regardless of which direction it was and is heading.
> If women have the same potential both to succeed at computer science and to enjoy the work as men do, the underrepresentation of women in the field is a sign of problems that, if fixed, would result in more people leading more fulfilling lives. I think that is worth spending money on, and Google seems to agree.

If some _individuals_ have a potential to succeed at computer science and are currently not doing so, then I agree, helping them to do so would lead to people living more fulfilled lives. But such individuals should be helped equally regardless of such factors as gender, race, nationality, sexuality, etc.

If it happens to be the case that most such individuals are women, then any well-chosen but fair (i.e. genderblind) criteria will end up helping mostly women anyway.