skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, you're saying that Vyvanse doesn't have the potentially neurotoxic effects that Adderall has? My doctor prescribed me Vyvanse and anecdotally it seems to be the preferred treatment for ADD these days.
The results are compatible with "risk homeostasis" or "risk compensation" theory. People who use unit tests have an increased sense of safety, so are more comfortable living with less-safe designs and code-bases.

"Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to the perceived level of risk, becoming more careful where they sense greater risk and less careful if they feel more protected. Although usually small in comparison to the fundamental benefits of safety interventions, it may result in a lower net benefit than expected"
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/4/2/89
"What I do find interesting however is why the Russian hackers picked wikileaks"

Assange has implied that it was Seth Rich that took those DNC emails and that's how they acquired them. Assange has flat out said the Russians did not give him the emails.

We have seen no hard evidence from the DNC the Russians took those emails.

We're left to choose what to believe about it, or wait until something concrete comes out.
10 Python Classes [Santa Clara] Nov 28 to Feb 13
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* Homework is: Build Projects with Python

Lecture Topics:

* Python 3.x
* Anaconda Python
* Jupyter
* Pycharm
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* Simple Linux
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* Common type conversions
* Pandas
* datetime
* strftime(),strptime()
* pdb
* matplotlib
* Lists, Loops, Comprehensions, range()
* Strings, "Python Dunders"
* CSV files
* Python Class Inheritance
* Functions vs Methods
* Flask web-apps
* Simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript
* Jinja2 template engine for Python
* Web scraping with Requests and BeautifulSoup
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* The "os" package
* Team collaboration with github.com
* Flask-RESTul web-apps
* Intro JSON
* Intro Machine Learning: Scikit-Learn
* NumPy + Pandas + Machine Learning
* Keras Machine Learning
* SQLAlchemy + Postgres
* Selenium
* Data Visualization: Bokeh
* Data Visualization: Seaborn
* Natural Language Processing (NLP): Word2vec
* TensorFlow Python API + Machine Learning
* Python Collections Package
* Django web-apps
* Python + Regular Expressions

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I confess, most of what I consume via the internet is of little use to me. Sure, some of it might be interesting; some of it my present itself as relevant; but most of it (the truth is) life would go on without it.

Don't take this the wrong way, but push come to shove, HN falls into this low truly impactful life nutrition as well. This is not a critique. It's just that despite my semi-best attempts the signal to noice ratio remains suboptimal.
It's not happening because of forks per se. I think the weak link is Tether. There are already signs of a lot of shady shit going on with disappearing funds, essentially capital controls, etc. The exchanges are the ones perpetuating this and once people find out the whole crypto market might crash - which would be a shame because it could set back crypto as a whole by quite a bit
In a way yes but who is actually using bitcoins to buy things? This seems to be 80% speculation and 20% illegal stuff (drugs, money laundering etc.)
https://github.com/sebmarkbage/ocamlrun-wasm

reason == ocaml
Oh?

This is interesting.
Is this "compiled memory image" the pseudo-JIT output of the HotSpot?

Or is it output-ed of the Jikes already
The sticker price for games has stayed rock steady for decades now while budgets have only exploded (not to mention inflation). AAA budgets, $60 titles, and no microtransactions or subscriptions is absolutely a 'pick two' scenario, and will continue to be.
If you reread some of Neal Stephenson's novels right now (namely Cryptonomicon and Reamde) it's remarkable how well he conceptualized cryptocurrencies long before their arrival. He obviously got the specifics wrong - his cybercurrencies always rely on an authoritative 3rd party, for instance - but he got the use cases, the culture and the impact spot on.
I just used this tool recommended on the DSLReports forums, to check DNS reliability: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

100% across the board with an SB6190 (HW ver 3, SW ver 9.1.93V, service from RCN). So… either the test missed an issue, or my SB6190 has been fixed. (Latest posts in the forum [1] seem to indicate that at least Cox is working with Intel on a fix.)

[1] http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31122204-SB6190-Puma6-TCP-U...
> I also dont get all that hate either.

Well, start with reading your list. That's a nice list of reasons to hate Facebook. People shouldn't have to tip toe around abusive data harvesting and dark patterns... Your list sounds like a symptom, not a solution.
Just to clarify, a vector space is defined over a field but vectors themselves do not form a field.

Also more importantly in mathematics vectors aren’t really growable. When you change the number of elements you change the dimension (and thus the “type” for that vector). It is then ill-defined to add two vectors of different dimensions.
I pronounce it as "coke", for fairly obvious reasons :-).
https://github.com/sebmarkbage/ocamlrun-wasm
> Ask yourself, do I really need and care for this contact? Remove people that do not add value to your life.

I do a different test. It's called "Do you care about me?"

If I got in a car crash over the weekend, would you even know? If you found out, would you visit me in the hospital?

If the answer is yes: but they're family, I already have their contact info. For non-family, that group fluctuates, and more often than not, it's zero. I'm fine with the number staying there. Benefits include: Less drama, breakups, regrets, and more time to get work done.

If the answer is no, which it mostly is: I feel I save time and am more self-honest not connecting with them.

But as I get closer to 30 I feel less interest in connecting with others. The only exception is when I travel abroad and the surroundings are more intriguing.

On the other hand: Social media is a great marketing tool. I'm fine if people use Facebook however they choose. And I also agree with pruning boring content in favor of subscribing / liking manually.
I would like to add that I only invest 10% of my assets now. 2 weeks ago it was only 3%, then I realized the halve year test of investing was succeeded.
Doesn't matter what your personal definition is. Retirement means not needing to work.

He still needed to work to support his lifestyle as far as he explained it, he just did a different job. At very best you might term it semi-retirement.
Shortly after I moved into my current place, I wanted to switch to the most basic copper-based landline service available, and I had to work through a series of six service reps and managers before someone would even acknowledge that such a plan was available. Since then, I get monthly mailings and quarterly phone calls from them strongly encouraging me to sign up for some fiber-based service. So far, I've resisted, but I fear this ruling may signal the beginning of the end of my inexpensive, reliable, phone line.
I'd buy SALT tokens

https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-SALT
I want to believe that there are many differences and ideas of gender, but I feel this tug from science that there are really only two.
> they forgot the byline

No, they didn't. The piece is attributed to Cory Doctorow.
So, this is only to explain how to do so in the safest way. This is not to encourage people to do drugs, buying drugs is illegal. First, find a market. There are many lists of markets with reviews. I think the news site deepdotweb (dot) com maintains a good list. Then find a quality vendor. Most markets will keep track of a vendors number of sales and their reviews. The reviews should be 95%+ positive and you should read the bad reviews. In the case of LSD I'd suggest finding a vendor that sells just LSD. These are typically people who are really into LSD not just drug dealers and your interactions with them will tend to be better because they're often (not always) ideologically motivated rather than financially motivated, as such they often have better prices and service. Your prices should fall between $2/tab and $4.5/tab depending on how much you buy.

Warning: Do lookup how illegal possessing LSD is in your area. Often times the laws are somewhat insane (25 years for 1 gram of material including the weight of the tab). While it is very unlikely that anything would happen to you while buying online (it's kinda hard for the post office to detect 100 micrograms embedded in a piece of paper in a paper envelope) and LSD is perhaps one of the safest drugs to buy online. Make yourself aware of the associated risks before doing anything.
For SVG, stripped filesize is actually a fairly good indicator of complexity.
Say goodbye to Diets and feel slim again eating all that you want at the same time!. Yup, I $€€ potential here.

Or maybe we could eliminate enough matter from the moon to make tides less strong and compensate the effect of the climatic change.
Also Saddam Hussein decision to sell oil only for euros.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeur...
To me it's more like 50+ image formats.

Yeah, 50 might be more than is really needed, but there is no reason why several or more can't happily coexist, each specialized in their own way.
Is there an easy way to generate SVG icons from image files (.png, .jpg, etc.)? Or are each of these SVG icons created by hand?
For everyone interested in learning about these types of things, check out Make-A-Lisp project [0]. There's more lines of code, but also more features. The guide is awesome and split into several self-contained steps.

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md
I would argue that those people are wrong, and defeating the purpose of object oriented programming, by braking a couple of basic principles like encapsulation and abstraction.

Also, they are wrong in that they also defeat the whole purpose of unit testing, which is being able to refactor with confidence that there won't be any regressions.

If you "unit test" the private implementation details of a class, you'll need to fix the tests every time you want to refactor it. That's an unacceptable tax.

Instead, classes should encapsulate and abstract away a problem for you, from the outside, you shouldn't need to know how it works. It should expose a clear interface ideally as loosely coupled to other classes as possible. And this interface is the bit that needs to be unit tested, the "contract" with the outside world.
Reads very well, as far as psychological articles go. Explains everything comprehensively and clearly.
Reminds of this book[1] I’d read a couple of years ago.

[1]: http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
There are more than a thousand chemical compounds in anything you eat that came from nature.
That completely ignores the fact that audience and number of sold copies had grown as well. Games that have once sold 1 million copoies now sell in 5-10x as much. If anything the profits are now higher than ever.
I might be nitpicking but in Haskell and typical lisps “lists” don’t have efficient append. They are basically singly linked lists. A structure with efficient append and prepend (sometimes called a deque) is implemented as a finger tree in Haskell (with logarithmic random access), and as a vector of arrays in C++ (constant random access).
For what it's worth: alcohol is a carcinogen. Remind yourself that you are consuming what is basically an industrial solvent. You really don't need it.
What a tremendously poor argument.

NeXTSTEP never caught on and was a commercial failure. macOS is based on it.

Netscape Communicator was open-sourced after it fell to Microsoft and later became Firefox.

Not everything that dies deserved to. Successors are not their predecessors. BeOS provided a good base for developers to work towards, so the project wouldn't get bogged down in trying to be "something new".
Tanstaafl
A quote from The Four Pillars of Investing:

"Of the four key areas of investment knowledge — theory, history, psychology, and investment industry practices — the lack of historical knowledge is the one that causes the most damage. In finance, there is no controversy: the same speculative follies play out with almost clock-like regularity about once a generation."

A whole lot of investors have come to believe that history is obsolete, and later regretted it.
Does anyone here know why these modems even care about TCP/IP or ICMP or any other protocol higher than the network and physical layers? I could go read the DOCSIS spec in detail, but thought these operated at a similar layer to Ethernet (OSI layers 1 and 2.)
In the eval the dynamic intern("if") ... for all interned symbols should be moved to compile-time global storage of those interns.
Otherwise it looks good.
In reality one would use more tag bits, no just one. Typically 3.
Another difference (which, as I recall, mattered for us) is that class objects in Ruby take up quite a bit of permanent space in memory.
There isn't really. Any of those things could be used as proxies (plus file size, number of XML elements, rendering time, and more), but the thing we are really interested in is subjective anyway.

File size after rendering to bitmap and lossy compression, like JPEG, might actually be one of the best quantitative proxies for simplicity, because lossy compression algorithms are designed to compress visual data that's interesting to humans well. Maybe an interesting experiment: take a whole bunch of logos and/or other images, let people rate them on a Likert scale or something on simplicity, and see if there's a correlation with JPEG file size.
"Is factory farming doing something that makes factory cows produce more methane?"

Unequivocally yes,by increasing the number of cows as a result of their being more affordable.
> I assume this behavior came from somewhere

I have no idea to be honest.

> Pro tip: Get a scrubber with soap in the handle like this, can't recommend them enough: https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Dishwand-Non-Scratch-Friendly-....

Thank you! I appreciate the recommendation!
That's a different discussion. Whether they were actually swayed by it is a very very different discussion.
This. If only 10% people had such goal (and did half-decent job at it), maybe it would spread like a virus and transform humanity for the better?
Seems very unlikely that for the foreseeable future, any Moon->Earth threat of kinetic bombardment could stand against an Earth->Moon threat of nukes and cutting off supplies. There is a fundamental asymmetry in that rendering Earth completely uninhabitable to humans would almost amount to terraforming a planet, whereas a Moon colony is rendered uninhabitable by, among other approaches, making a small number of strategically-placed holes in buildings.
Well, maybe if I was able to provide New Yorker levels of quality, but I make no such claims.

If I were able to do anything with it I would have since it was largely based on my misunderstanding of the scale and logistics of the campaigns, but by the time that was clear I was no longer able to edit and I think the followup comments are better in context anyway.
Just to pick on the one I know best, the Y Combinator logo is way off. The corners shouldn't be rounded, and the Y is too big and its top branches are too thick.

Correct version: http://www.ycombinator.com/images/ycombinator-logo-fb889e2e.... this project: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/08ae881e8ce6d8f2278fa20d7...
Buy real estate overseas. You need to do some research though to understand which location to invest.
> I see you are unfamiliar with the Daily Mail
Not necessarily one, but as crypto matures I fully expect consolidation down to a few with each specializing in some aspect. 50 feels too large except for some niche uses, but again this is a bit of uncharted territory.
I have personally discussed this issue with a couple of people who worked for the big dev-tool vendors in the 1990s. The consensus is that open-source has almost completely destroyed the commercial viability of the dev-tool market. Eclipse is an example of open-source tooling that now has support from former commercial tool vendors.

There still is a small market (in terms of volumes) for dev-tools sold to enterprise clients. But AFAIK enterprise clients prefer to buy from "enterprise strength" vendors. Which makes it very difficult for a smaller developer to compete.

The biggest stumbling block to being a tool vendor is the demand for support. Even if you can make money on selling the tools in the first place, the on-going support is likely to cost you more than you can charge in on-going fees.
It looks like import password is only available on Windows.
Leaning on the Stars to Make Sense of the World
In most other engineering disciplines, “one strike and you’re out” is the norm, because of the amount of damage that a single uncaught error can make. As software takes on more and more important duties in the world, it starts approaching this point as well.
Agreed, the first point reads like the OP is evading the Stasi

>Dont use your real name, gender, nationality, etc. Just create a random identity
Of course not, but one of the two major parties has absolutely made such things one of their policy planks. Don't make a false equivalency.
I am guessing people were off-put by a combination of grandiose goals (can sound crackpot-y to some people) and advertising.
Yes! Contexts are the equivalent of building a greenfield rails app with a bunch of properly namespaced and isolated Rails engines. You end up with some really awkward names and boilerplate code that just doesn’t feel right. You can get that sense while reading the Phoenix context documentation.

The Phoenix story should include an area where the app can evolve, and as it matures and becomes more well understood, pieces of it could be moved into contexts.
We may be surrounded by aliens right now and just not know it. Perhaps alternate life forms are nothing more than laser beams or cosmic rays with specific encodings being beamed back and forth from some a distant transmission station or central "brain" and they take host in various organic creatures through manipulation of brain chemistry. Philip K. Dick has a novel called "VALIS" (Vast Artificial Intelligence System) that delves into these ideas -- the plot involves a satellite that essentially shoots down information to various living creatures in order to accomplish its ends.
There's an apartment tower near my house, and I've toyed with the idea of renting space on their roof to set up a small local cooperative ISP. The demise of net neutrality has caused this idea to bubble back up to the surface. Of course I need to compute the business case -- how many neighbors do I need to sign up, in order to make it attractive.
Wrong, greentext user.

* The lunar surface only has traces of carbon, but we don't know what lies under the top layers. Earth's also has very low carbon concentration (0.073% of the crust).

* Doesn't really matter. We don't require a large amount of carbon. Bootstrapping a mechanically self-sustaining lunar colony requires shipping large heavy equipment, biological bootstrapping is negligible in comparison.
There's no "wise" people in this type of speculation, only lucky ones.

There have been plenty of crashes until now, and those who "smelled it" and sold (I did) lost lots of paper profits.

There will be other crashes for sure, and it will be impossible to know if it's the BTC Apocalypse™ or the BTC Yearly Crash™ until late in the process.

Unless, of course, one belongs to the BTC-illuminati.
The widespread belief in astrology, and the respectful tone of this NYT piece, are evidence that we don't live in a truly modern, reasonable society. We're surrounded by superstitious fools.

My lesson from such an article: The scientific, technological, artistic, and social achievements of the last few centuries are a frail exception -- they could promptly be toppled by irrational people, who remain a majority.
Risk correlates to expected returns. The higher the returns the higher the risk.

To get the sort of returns you seek, you will most likely need to use leverage, which means you could lose more than your initial $100k, lots more.
In my experience there's stark difference between those who got into the cryptocurrency culture at large, and those who just trust some specific platform/service to make them rich riding the Bitcoin wave. The latter group certainly tends to have MLM mentality and the services they use usually have all markings of a scam.
> negative influence it's having in politics

Read, negative toward my side of the politics.
One thing conspicuously missing from that article is why there are food deserts to begin with. People love to decry food deserts but nothing will actually be done to solve them on a large scale without addressing the causes as to why they arise.

In my town the cause of the food deserts was the theft rates. There used to be groceries in the poor parts of town... It simply wasn't economical to keep them open because they couldn't make money doing so. I'm not blaming poor people for stealing per se (it's at least partly a symptom of poverty) but people make food deserts out to be some grand conspiracy on behalf of food companies when it's really caused by more emergent phenomena that are very hard to fix
Organizing your life to minimize "drama, breakups, [and] regrets" and maximize "time to get work done" is a good way to end up unhappy and lonely.

Work is important, but your work can't love you back.
I do, I think it all boils down to the team. I'll admit Rails apps are a bit harder to untangle but poorly written code is poorly written code.

A lot of clever metaprogramming tricks can make that poorly written code a lot more painful though. :)
GBP inflation is around 3%. However, due to the way inflation is measured with CPI, I think the actual figure is higher

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bull...
I wish it were modern enough to have a proper mobile site...
>Our thoughts have no real impact on the underlying operation of the train (brain).

You mean your experiences have no real impact. Your thoughts are not necessarily qualia.

>Though this view is certainly odd, I've always struggled to see how it isn't true. How could our behavior not be entirely determined by the physical state of our brain?

Who says your consciousness isn't physical?
The main interesting thing about a high-precision measurement of the proton's magnetic moment is to compare the result to the magnetic moment of the antiproton. Depending on your string theory of choice, you should be able to see a difference between those two values. So far, they are identical within the measurement uncertainty.

The proton team (Mooser et al in Mainz) and antiproton team (Ulmer et al at CERN) are collaberating very closely, so any improvement in one apparatus leads to an improvement in the other.

The same groups are closely related to a group (Sturm et al in Mainz/Heidelberg) that measures the magnetic moment of the electron near a nucleus. The measurement precision is even higher, and QED gives predictions of similar precision, so these measurements are used as tests of QED.