skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source? That's over 6 ounces of sugar per day, or 611 kcal. Are you including general carbohydrates?
Who said I'm trolling? I actually think this.
While I would love something that is not javascript, I have to disagree with the assesment that it is too hard to write a big app in.

That would be true if you write it as one would write a C++ program, or even to the sizes one would write C++ programs in.

If you structure your program as a set of responses to events (the user clicked this button, this field lost focus, post/get resquest to this url) you automatically split the program up in many smaller pieces.

In addition a program that would be a million lines of C++ might very well be a lot less in Javascript, since C++ lacks a lot of the features which Javascript has (first class fuctions being one of them).
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Also, as rapid prototyping picks up steam, this should also (eventually) help with sourcing equipment more cheaply. Lab on a chip (aka microfluidic tech) is a great example of Moore's law making it into labs.
I'm not sure what you find bizarre, having to write an essay or the choice of topics?
This type of question is pretty much standard on (high school) English exams in many commonwealth countries, even today.
Shoulders of giants and all that.
here are some ideas I had a few years ago. There are people working on them but no one has it the main stream yet:
1) anonymous peer to peer micropay. Ability to pay someone anonymously without a 3rd party intermediary
2) real time traffic - use tracking data from cell phone gps, GM onStar (this may be the best) or from GPS (garmin etc) to determine real time traffic data on all roads

3) automatic/real time insertion of product placement into videos (i.e. you tube videos). You tube videos can specify types of products and then blue screen those products (like a can of soda) so that google can insert them real time into the video.
They have duels in your country?!
The point of Latin was that it is the root of many European languages, so by studying it early on in education, you would later more easily be able to pick up one of its descendents.
Yep. Some are in transition from "too skinny" to "too fat".
I think you can safely say that is "traffic shaping" or actually, this sounds like packet insertion. Comcast does this. They insert FIN packets into your stream which makes the host think that the client has terminated the connection and the stream is dropped. It's really %^#$^^ stupid because then you just reopen the connection and try again from the start, using more bandwidth.

Obviously, their concern is not bandwidth usage, but file sharing, which conflicts with their own content services.
not really, fructose no matter the form is ot broken down in the gut so its shunted to the liver (much like other toxins). There it does all sorts of crazy stuff.

Modern fruit (due to selective breeding) is ultra sweet with what I can assume were pretty bland flavored fruit back in the day. Natures Candy.
What does "more refined" mean in this context, and what makes that bad? In other words, is flour simply ground to smaller sizes, chemically altered to remove certain elements, ...?
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http://loki08.mpi-sws.mpg.de//bb//glasnost.php?protocol1=eMu...

bittorrent - "no packet shaping" http://loki08.mpi-sws.mpg.de//bb//glasnost.php?protocol1=Bit...

This is run from my Sprint cell phone in a 4G area. Pretty damn impressive, IMHO.
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> For both of these roles, node.js is an ideal serving architecture.

Two "pro" points, no comparsions, and it is declared "ideal"?
> It should be noted than 25kW is 33HP. Though it's possible to make a useful car with that little power ...

Not only it's possible, but many successful european cars hadn't more : Citröen 2CV, Renault 4CV, Fiat 500 and 600, and most other economy cars of the 50s and 60s hadn't even that power, and sold by the millions.
""If we had any other major language in the browser, even c++, it would have died long, long ago. We wouldn't even be talking about it today.""

To say something like that, you must clearly not understand the premise of the language.

Javascript is not a play language - it's a very powerful hybrid of Scheme and Self, with a C-like syntax, which makes it easier for most people to get started with. Using functional programming paradigms, rather than class based ones, makes Javascript scale very well to large applications.
The USB Bit Whacker is also easy to use and available from SparkFun.
I looked at the Google Maps API for adding a simple map display to my web application. Since it's a commercial app I'd need the Premier API which starts at $10,000 per year. Waaaay out of reach for me right now. Does anyone know of a good, affordable alternative?

It would be fairly low-volume geocoding from addresses, movable/zoomable map display and maybe some distance/area calculations in the future. I'd rather not need to maintain my own geodatabase and the API must support SSL.
Not if they cant use it to sell him ads
Arty type here. I found the history/geography section way easier. But in saying that, I did get the feeling that a lot of the maths would have been trivial if I'd even just briefly studied it.
I doubt Twangoo will be around in SA for more than 2 years.Group buying will never catch in SA until there is one online payment system that EVERYBODY uses as well confidence in eCommerce.

PS
I read an article on mybroadband about false pricing by businesses on Twangoo.I feel that things like this will hinder the growth of the group buying model in SA.
If you don't need the real time element that NodeJS/NowJS offers, may I suggest you give http://www.akshell.com a go. Real time features are in the works, but aren't currently publicly available.

We're really keen to see people experiment with server side JavaScript on the platform and will instantly answer any queries you may have on our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/akshell
No, but they are still a topic in fiction / history.
What do you mean by "if you don't need the real-time element"?
There are way too many variables for that to imply "programmers get fatter over time."

1) Maybe t-shirts sizes themselves are not the same between 1999 and 2008
2) Maybe the average age of the attender has not changed, so there's really no age component
3) Maybe a different demographic is now attending the conference
4) Maybe all Americans are fatter on average and programmers are just part of that trend
I doubt you need that much($40 mill) funding in SA. Look at Mxit for example do you think they need that much?
What SA needs is younger people getting in on The Techscene instead of finding safe jobs at the Banks,Lawfirms and accountancy Firms.
I would put it more on par with Brasil, there is still a large amount of poverty in SA.
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You're persistently and needlessly inflammatory, which is sufficient to be considered a troll. And if you actually do think that, you're making a false dichotomy.

But really I think you just get a perverse thrill from pissing people off on occasion. Grow up.
Strangely enough it was doing that for the YouTube and SSH tests.
I generally feel the same way, but will make exceptions for things I really like. Generally the question for me is "if a conversation started about the message on my shirt, would it be a good one?" If the shirt conveys "I went to Spain" or "I am silly" or "I like this band," probably so. If the shirt conveys "I buy Brand X t-shirts," I can't imagine how that conversation would be interesting.
I mean that if you're building a typical web app that uses the request/response cycle rather than requiring real time push from the server using Comet or WebSockets, Akshell, with it's synchronous I/O, should be easier to work with.
Oh, I see. So it works as normal it just doesn't have server push yet. Gotcha.
Great comment... but am I the only one who is slightly bothered by the inconsistent capitalization? :|
I haven't read anything recent from Taubes but is he still peddling the Atkins diet or has he moved on to the Paleo diet?! I find it irritating that Taubes ends up cherry picking data to support his hypothesis.

But then I subscribe to the Lyle McDonald-Mark Rippetoe line of thought when it comes to nutrition-fitness ideology.

.

Edit:If it interests anyone, here's a transcript from a Larry King Live episode hosted by Joy Behar with Gary Taubes on to talk about his book and Dr. Mehmet Oz + Gillian Michaels and Dr. Andrew Weil (an "integrative" medicine evangelist)

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/19/lkl.01.html

My main problem with Taubes is that he dismisses exercise and portion control/moderation in favor of his Atkinsian approach
True enough, except it's also along the lines of memorizing the works of Cicero or knowing all of the books of the Bible off by heart: It's useful at developing a skill that the correct tools render obsolete (cheap books in the case of the memory feats, computers in the case of the arithmetical ones). Similarly, knowing Latin and Greek had a purely practical motive as well back then: It marked you as a member of the social elite, defined as people who had enough leisure to study objectively useless things such as Latin and Greek. Memorizing paradigms wasn't something a farmer's son could be expected to do, after all.

I suppose my point, which I expressed poorly, is that it can be interesting to examine how technology impacts coursework.
Are you asking because you are thinking of implementing a site with geophotos as a central concept? If not, why would it matter?
Read the mail again. He wrote that he got used to ignore corporate legal threats. What caused how to leave the project was not the threat itself but the fact that he got it from other members of the project whom he's working together with voluntarily in his free time..
Regardless of your stance in the editor wars, the 'first' key or key chord you need to know about is what it takes to leave the application. How to get in and how to get out first--- everything else second. The chord BTW is ^x^c I suppose you could claim that ^z leaves as well, but it is not quite the same thing. Although many never kill emacs, they just pause and return...
The options given aren't very well set up. I know C inside and out. For a couple of decades, it was my weapon of choice. I know it intimately, and I love it... but I don't use it regularly. These days I'd much rather use Java. Knowing the language inside and out doesn't mean that I use it for every task, which the first option assumes.
> Perhaps I'm preaching to the choir, but learning about
> entrepreneurship or practicing selling things would have
> been much more useful to me than many of the things I
> learned in high school or undergrad.

Does that have anything to do with your current life goals, by any chance?

You shouldn't argue from your personal viewpoint here. Sure, in retrospect it would've been great if school had taught me statistics and neurobiology from year one. But that is not what general, state-sanctioned education is or should be about. I suspect that for 80% all kids, entrepreneurship classes would have been a costly waste of time.
Yes, a LinkedIn shirt would be lame, because everyone uses that service, and (in my perception) people who talk about leveraging synergy were on it before geeks were. So it's neither a cool group nor an exclusive one. Whereas a Github t-shirt says, to other coders, "I am a coder who works with open source." And to non-coders, it means nothing.

Coolness is mostly about exclusion, I think. Or to put it more nicely, it's about identifying with people you like.

So if a coder can honestly say "I think Brand X is awesome, and those whom I want to impress also think that," he/she might wear a Brand X shirt to a conference. Otherwise, no.
I loved E. Super fast to develop in and pretty good performance.
On a tangent, I saw a designer use the text of the lipsum.com website (the English explanation of the origin of lorem ipsum) for the copy.

Sort of defeating the purpose, isn't it?
Students of entrepreneurship should learn the art of persuasion in all its forms, including psychology, sales, marketing, negotiating, statistics and even design.

Scott Adams just shared with us the ideal framework for an entrepreneurial curriculum. But more importantly, the article reinforces the fact that the whole is far greater than the sum of these parts, especially in the context of an entrepreneur.

I succeeded as a cartoonist with negligible art talent, some basic writing skills, an ordinary sense of humor and a bit of experience in the business world. The "Dilbert" comic is a combination of all four skills. The world has plenty of better artists, smarter writers, funnier humorists and more experienced business people. The rare part is that each of those modest skills is collected in one person. That's how value is created.

As an aside, this makes a compelling case for the pursuit of a co-founder with complementary skills.
I don't spend any time on Facebook, so I thought that may be a reason why as well, but I asked my wife (Who most certainly DOES use Facebook), and she had also never heard of it.
The choice of topics, really. This was for (I think) an entrance exam, and so the only topic I think even vaguely suitable to write about without forewarning is "English country life in the 18th century." The Battle of Blenheim and the character of Rachel Lady Castlewood can only be attempted if you already know about those (very specific) things, and duelling is broad, and odd.
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The loudness war is actually pretty much over. Lots of the newest dance music from popular artists (deadmau5, Justice, etc.) have lower RMS than mid-2000s rock, which is the genre and time when lookahead loudness maximizers were seeing the most abuse.

(The article is full of technical inaccuracies. Compressors, depending on how they are set, do not reduce the attack transients of a sound like a snare drum, they exaggerate it. Also, it's from 2009.)
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That reason is likely to be jQuery included in every other project on Github.
HFT provides liquidity to the market.
Wheat germ is removed from white flour in order to increase shelf-life and rising ability, which removes useful fatty-acids, oils and nutrients as well as fiber and protein. Whole-wheat flour is flour that has not had the germ removed.
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It's fascinating to think that in 1869 there were Transatlantic telegraph links. One could have sat this entrance exam in London while it was being sat in MA simultaneously, with Questions/Answers transmitted digitally.
If you want to test the average loudness of your files you can use libebur128. I found amazing differences between same album re-editions. I'm not an audiophile, I just have a High-Enough-Fi systems.

# cd /tmp
# wget http://www-public.tu- bs.de:8080/\~y0035293/libebur128-0.1.11-Source.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf libebur128-0.1.11-Source.tar.gz
# cd libebur128-0.1.11-Source
# cmake .
# make -j 10
# gcc minimal_example.c -I../include -L../ -lebur128 -lsndfile -o r128-test

# r128-test "t/Yann Tiersen/1999 - Black Session/03 - Life on Mars (feat. Neil Hannon).flac"
global loudness: -17.2 LUFS
I agree with regard to the payment gateway, but its been a very long time since I met someone who said they wouldn't use eCommerce.
Most people I know do a lot of online shopping, and I am not talking about my tech friends.
I can't wait till something similar happens in our country. This is pretty cool.
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The latest C++ should compile against the trunk.

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I would observe that modern emacs has menus so the getting started learning curve is no more difficult than Notepad.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

The command short-cuts are on the menus, so as you get tired of reaching for the mouse you can begin to use them.

A couple of good reasons to use emacs:

1. It runs on most platforms.
2. It's a gateway drug to Lisp. Emacs is really just a big Lisp interpreter.
People get threatened with lawsuits all the time. What matters is when they actually get filed.

This person is leaving the project not due to the threat of a lawsuit, but because of who threatened -- other project members. This isn't a case of a legal system run amuck, it's a case of overkill when asking someone to leave a project.
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Lisp, Fortran, Cobol have all been used and working, in one form or another, for more than 50 years.

Algol, on the other hand, has evolved into a great family of languages. Not unlike Latin, if I might say so.
I still hate what Clear Channel does to classic rock, though. Should be criminal to treat music that way. Ever heard Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" with no dynamic range? * shivers
FAO data shows US per capita consumption of sugar (raw equivalent) at 67 kg (approx. 148 lbs) as of 2007. I can't speak to the accuracy of the data, though, or how much of that consumption directly corresponds to diet.

http://faostat.fao.org/site/609/DesktopDefault.aspx
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Your response is to style, not substance.

But there isn't a lot of room to respond with substance because the article is, did I mention, nonsense.

There is a reason: Several paths led to some of the more central topics in probability and statistics. Such paths included gambling, astronomical observations, psychological testing, signal processing, control theory, quality control, 'statistical' physics, quantum mechanics, mathematical models in the social sciences, experimental design, especially in agriculture, mathematical finance, and more. In addition there is now a very solid, polished field of probability, stochastic processes, and their statistics,

Some of these paths got lost in the swamp on their way to some reasonably clear understanding. For the solid material, so far that is rarely taught: The prerequisites need quite a lot of pure math, and then the pure math departments rarely follow through with the probability, stochastic processes, and statistics.

Early in my career, I was dropped into parts of the swamp, but later I got the rest of the pure math prerequisites and good coverage of the solid, polished material.

So, at this point I see both the swamp and the solid, polished material.

Net, the paper is from the swamp, and I responded with just a little of the solid, polished material.

For the swamp, not a lot of discussion is justified. The best response is the one I gave: The stuff from the swamp is nonsense. That may sound harsh, but it's on the center of the target.
OK, thanks. (Do you have the right person? I haven't used OCaml for years now. Anyway, if so, glad I could help...)
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So you're saying that the current method of silencing those people without even notifying them is preferred? They keep posting and most times their posts add value. Yet these posts are invisible to users without the showdead option on.
I'm late to this discussion but I'm a bit appalled that no one has cited pg's Great Hacker's essay, which makes nearly the same point on platforms (it's a little stronger in that it was talking about delivery platforms as well): http://paulgraham.com/gh.html

Windows with an X server to the machine I'm actually doing the work on is just fine (there are still some important things that run best on Windows), but any company that otherwise chooses Windows as a software development platform is saying a whole lot about themselves and pretty much nothing good.
Why does it say "July, 1869" at the bottom?

Were they using the same set of questions for 30 years, or was it put in the library 30 years after it was used?
Yes, it's a matter of quantity, not quality. An Apple contains something like 7 grams of fructose. One can of soda contains 25 grams of fructose. According to the National Soft Drink Association, average consumption in the U.S. is nearly two cans of soda per day. (One can per day is enough to add 16 pounds of fat per year)

That's roughly equivalent to 7 apples, every day of the year. That's way, way above our actual fruit consumption levels.
Boston, NYC, Philly, and Washington DC could all be commutable with existing technology. It'll probably take 25 years before we decide to build it. This went live in 2004:
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I think it is important for one to be able to follow instructions even if they might appear counterintuitive. The rule for conversion is to divide by 100. It doesn't matter what percentage I give you; always divide by 100. It's fairly straightforward but many people are unable to do so in the case of 0.25%. They expect the answer to be 25.
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I used to feel this way for a long time actually. I had to have something to demarcate 'work time' from 'home time'.

What I found that worked for me, however odd, was the notion of 'work shoes'. I'd wear a pair of 'work shoes' when I was working, and swap them out for sneakers when I was finished working, and it achieved the same effect.

That worked well until I discovered Johnston & Murphy loafers anyway, which turned out to be actually more comfortable than my sneakers, but now I'm pretty much working all the time anyway, so it's .. okay?
This is the essence of what I was getting at. You've elaborated on what I was getting at.

It's somewhat pointless to ask on a test when the U.S. Civil War ended. A much better indication of intelligence and knowledge is to ask why it didn't end sooner.

Not too long ago people would spend hundreds of dollars (thousands in today's money) for a set of encyclopedias. Now, with Google, Wolframalpha etc. such a product has no use. The cost to find knowledge has dramatically decreased the past 15 years. Education has not caught up with this reality.
> that problem would take you hours to solve

I don't know, two Newton iterations are enough:

*GHCi> let croot f x = x - (x^3 - f) / (3*x^2) in take 5 . iterate (croot 0.0093) $ 0.2
[0.2,0.21083333333333332,0.2102957483409451,0.2102943717551532,0.21029437174614204]

Guessing 0.2 as a starting point is obvious enough because 0.2^3 = 0.008.