skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I lived there and we had swamp coolers, aka evaporative coolers. They're adequate, but not as deluxe feeling as refrigerated air.

It's basically a 3 foot wide wheel that spins in a metal box, blowing air. Water is misted through the air that comes through the box, cooling it and making it more humid. This works quite well in a dry place like Abq, but you can imagine what it would be like somewhere like Houston that is already very humid.
> A book that sells 100k copies is doing extremely well, whereas an album, video game, or movie that made similar numbers would be a disasterous flop.

I'd invert that. You can have many more authors succeed because they can be happy with 100k copies. Everyone can read different books in the same month, and that's fine.

Movies, not so much. Most of the time the only movie-going options are the same 50 movies, probably worldwide. If everybody reading a book had to choose between the same 50 books because those were the only ones available this month, most authors would die horribly and a (very) few would become super-rich. Independent movie-makers are dead because the economics of making a movie dictate that very very few can pull together the required talent, manage it into an actual creation, get it distributed, market it, etc. So all power is concentrated into very few hands, who need tens of millions of views or the movie is a failure.

I reckon publishing is probably a lot more vibrant than the movie industry. Heck, we're buying (tiny data) Kindle books instead of torrenting them. I reckon the movie industry are thinking "how the heck did they pull that off?!"
That is a very superficial conclusion, and I'm eager to expand on it.
The environment was there first, not language. Sure, language is not as fast changing as the environment, so there is some delay which people apparently interpret as "language makes you think in non-obvious ways", but the reality is, that language is pretty much exactly as efficient as it can be and it is constantly adapting to be an optimal fit for the surroundings.

Example: When I say: "You are a police man", then one might say that I'm technically wrong. There is nothing about you that makes you intrinsically a "police" man. You might say that your job doesn't define you.
But here is the thing: What you do, actually defines you very well in our society. It is very efficient to say: "you are a loser", instead of saying the 'fairer' version: "you are behaving like a loser" because in all likelihood, his behaviour will not change, and if it ever does, you can change if you ever see him again.
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The same co-worker has a Lucite perpetual calendar on his desk. I asked him how many different calendar options it had.

"Seven."

"Doesn't it beggar belief that one of those seven would only get used once every 800 years?"
Ahmie's time to run away is coming, it seems ...
I see, thanks. Since nginx would proxy gunicorn anyway, I don't think it would be any different, though, would it... It sounds like a good solution, I'll go with that, thanks.
He doesn't appear to be advocating using this as a practical coding style. It is simply a way of showing people whats really going on with new and the prototype chain by writing it out in javascript.

When I was learning js (ie getting over the jquery hump) I could have used this because the new operator is so damn unintuitive. This is a good article for learning how prototypes really work in js.
> When he came they all continued doing random things indicating none of the three had any flight training that they remembered.

Power + Attitude = Performance. Every PPL knows this, as did the three AF pilots that night. They deserve more credit.

We know the pilots received an audible stall warning the moment PFD's and STBY ASI failed and the A/P & A/T disengaged. That was a false stall warning, moments later they received another real stall warning.

They were flying at night entering turbulence with unreliable and conflicting data with flight control laws that went from Normal Law to Direct Law. The ASI is showing 25+ knots over the max limit while at the same time stall warning is going off. The plane is in direct law mode so any side-stick input could rip it appart.

I'm going to wait until more data is released before making a conclusion, there are too many whys.
It is comments like these that make it so difficult for some people to get treatment. Drugs should almost never be a first choice for any disease, but just like you wouldn't tell a cancer patient to forgo drugs, depression can become a fight for your life, and sometimes drugs are appropriate in that fight.

That is not hyperbole. Suicide is a very real potential side effect of depression. Notwithstanding that, life is so gray and dingy when depressed that it feels like one isn't living in any meaningful way.
I appreciate the response. I didn't mean to imply I would do this myself, only that I want to understand the issues going in. I have a reasonable company HMO health plan and would be following standard professional guidance. Advice such as you offer on choosing a professional is helpful.

this is the most important battle of your life, nothing else matters.

That's the part that's hard for me. I'm not sure that nothing else matters. My fear (mythic?) is that I'll be able to find a treatment that makes me happy, but at the cost of giving up my current and perhaps unrealistic goals of having a positive effect on the world. The new self will rationalize this as a worthwhile tradeoff, while the current one would lament the lack of purpose.
How about doing it the NodeJS way:

https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/util.js#L410

This correctly sets this.constructor on instances of any subclass.
Great sense of humor:

> Do not stand in your cargo bay when you beam up your
> neutron star material. I cannot stress this enough.
"just like you wouldn't tell a cancer patient to forgo drugs, depression can become a fight for your life, and sometimes drugs are appropriate in that fight."

No argument, did I ever say or imply otherwise? There's no doubt that drugs are sometimes the right choice, but the author was basically saying that drugs are always the right choice, which is moronic. People should make intelligent and informed decisions, it's part of being an adult.
That would be odd, if it happened. But it does not happen.

You are free to take the same public domain stories, and rework them into blockbusters, as long as you don't copy the changes Disney makes to the stories.

The article was basically bullshit.
Great article! Best advice for ALL companies! TY again for sharing your brilliant mind!
I just read a fascinating book, Gaviotas (http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn%3A1890132284), that describes an attempted reverse-engineering of the same thing (back in the 80s).

This was hot on the heels of the 1970s energy crisis and the solar technology boom; I wonder in what ways the drive to innovate appropriate technology has changed since then.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I had forgot we were talking about California where non-competes are not really enforced (from what I've heard). I can definitely see how there are some grey areas, but it's good to know that generally the employee is free to move on to other employment in the same field.
It should be noted that the latest expansion in US copyright term was to bring the US in line with Europe.
Regarding #9, I used to read a lot, and at most times i'm in the middle of 4-5 books minimum. The problem is when I'm writing code or working on tough problems and have a lot going on in my head, it's hard to have the patience for a book, even if I know it's one I'll like. Maybe it's because I read too slow? Anyone else experience this?
The book you should read on this is Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic. Whitaker's book goes the history of academic studies on antidepressants (as well as benzos and neuroleptics), and after extensive analysis of these studies concludes that over the long term antidepressants make depression worse. I know people are quick to talk about people who take antidepressants and feel so much better, but 1) placebo effect--note that many studies show antidepressants have very little benefit over placebo 2) this is in part explained by the analysis of when antidepressants start to worsen the course of the illness (which is ~2 years for neuroleptics...unsure about antidepressants) 3) people who do not take any drugs and don't have a "chronic" illness but rather a one-time episode (which Whitaker notes was the natural course of the illness before antidepressants) don't consider themselves "depressed" people and thus the sample size is skewed. edit: also, there's no control or comparison group. Because there's an assumption that the drugs just must do good worsening is assumed to just be the natural course of the illness.

The problem with this literature base is that its really difficult to measure outcomes in the first place, and especially when there are methodological flaws in studies (two examples of these skewing the literature base in favor of drug use are withdrawal trials and six week studies, an example skewing the literature away from drugs is that the longer term studies can be at best correlative with poorer outcomes because you can't keep people on placebo for 15 years). However I think Whitaker does a great job of analyzing the methodology and will help you evaluate the evidence.

There's alot of quacks in the anti-psychiatry literature base. Reading Thomas Szasz isn't going to help you feel any better. You can't trust CCHR and probably not Peter Breggin to accurately represent the evidence. But Whitaker is extremely qualified, has won alot of awards for journalism, and even the people who disagree with him aren't saying that he's a quack--Whitaker is straight up science, no ideological biases against 'drugs'--he just is looking at outcomes.

There's been several discussions of his work on HN, and several people here recommended it a 2010 book to read.

You can look at the annotated bibliography for his section on antidepressants here http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Depression.html
A good article filled with concrete examples. Anyone interested in how language conditions thought should read it. (It's good enough to amortize the annoyance of the pdf, linked elsewhere in this thread.) It has long seemed like merely a matter of time before piles of evidence for Sapir-Whorf come to light. Language is too big a part of who we are for things to be otherwise.

To take an example close to home, for me the most important factor in software design is to develop language for talking about the problem, translate that language into code, then evolve it as one learns more about the problem. It's surprising how small changes in one's problem language (like renaming something) can trigger a cascade of valuable ideas.
Hmm, it turns out that if I give exactly the required amount, I provoke theft? :)
Depression is as physiological as any other disease. And it's chronic. Drugs are probably the most effective way to fight it and they can help the depressed person energize themselves towards tackling their problem in other ways. Of course it goes without saying that nobody should be taking drugs unless they 've been prescribed by a doctor.
While I feel that cardio activity helps clear my head, I've never felt a "high" from it. What it does is makes me sleepy. After a run the thing I want to do most is take a nap. So I'm not sure everyone can even expect a "high" from exercise.
More about #7 - what makes you say a week? How much drinking qualifies as serious? (just curious)
Not a new idea. Just hard to program.
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there is rightfully only one definite version of Casablanca or Gone with the Wind

That's just assuming the conclusion. Should there "rightfully" be only one version of Snow White?
good point, my bad. I'm still learning here :)

Edited the post appropriately, though I can't seem to edit the submission title anymore. And ya they're not really 'tricks' more... discoveries?
oops, ok my bad! Thank you :)
I've found a nice new startup by some HNers that allows you to easily publish your book in pdf, epub and mobi formats just by putting it in a shared dropbox folder and pressing a button. I even converted a tutorial of mine into a book and published it in a few clicks!

http://leanpub.com/learn-python

What I like about this is that, if you purchase the book there, you can get all updates for free. That means that I can post the tutorial there now for $2, then maybe add a chapter and raise the price by $0.5 every time I add new content, but all the early adopters have already bought it and get the updates for free.

So far, I love it.
However, the Internet treats both as damage and routes around it.
The difference can be explained by potential energy. A neutron decaying in empty space causes a proton and an electron to wink into existence on level ground. A neutron decaying near a proton causes a proton to wink into existence on top of a cliff (the proton's electromagnetic field) and an electron to wink into existence at the bottom of a trench (ditto).

As far as what critical line is crossed, I can't really say. In fact, I'm not even sure if QCD / Electroweak Theory are yet able to calculate that.
Hm, well after reading the wikipedia article (link in my parent post) actually I am not sure as to whether it's been demonstrated scientifically that it is always there, so perhaps then one should go into it with no expectations whatsoever :) - but don't get me wrong on this, I do think it's great advice, and for the majority of people it'll do wonders. Just be careful not to place too many expectations on it.
Yes, every now and then in my life (and i've been fortunate for this), I've worked on teams that were just incredible. No other way to describe it, but you'll know it when it happens. It was just work hard, play hard and there was a lot of satisfaction to be had at the end of the day from what was accomplished. Everyone moves on with their lives though, and the older we get, the tougher it is to create those situations. For me it was college and then my first startup (which I did with my buddies from college. it was a success, all things considered; but man there is something to be said about riding a train on one rail with people that have your back).
I think it would scale fairly well, just buy a second set of pots.

The thing I think lost in the discussion is that the solution is not a great one in the general case and thats a given, so what. What it is is a way for lots of very poor people to have a better quality of life. Also they can do it on there own. This just might spark other very good local applications of existing knowledge to existing problems. There is plenty of knowledge out there that would improve the local living conditions, especially if that knowledge is in the hands of people who really know what the local problems are. Hopefully this will lead to other people boot strapping/rediscovering/stealing simple solution to local problems.

To the people who are saying that this would not work in a rain forest, or high humidity in general. A heavy winter coat is useless in the amazon, but I am rather glad to have it in NYC during the winter.
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In answer to my own question, it seems that you can't modify the hostname using this method, only the query.
I've been doing a paleo-style diet for about 7-8 months now. I basically cut out the sugar, grains, and most dairy. I still drink coffee (with whole cream) and my other dairy intake would be butter and occasionally cheese. I've lost a lot of weight but otherwise I don't feel any different, i.e. thinking not noticeably clearer, energy/motivation not noticeably higher, etc.
I work with Python 2.x on a regular basis. I have no cause to recommend Python 3.x at this point in the game. Depending on Ubuntu 12/13's choices , I may push my team towards moving away from Python altogether.

I don't see that the Python team really made the right choice here. I have no good transition path from 2 to 3 besides an intensive rewrite.
I m curious about reading: when I m moody, I try to read something that will take my mind off things, like a train of wikipedia articles. Does this also work with depressive people too?
Thanks for the comment. I have added big red (orange ...) boxes to let the user know that it is considered bad practice.

The objective of the article is to explain how prototypal inheritance works and how it relates to the new operator. The use of real prototypal inheritance was added at the end, just to note that it was possible.
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I'm 80% sure that 1 in 8 is correct as per recent studies, I remember it with the sentence "regularly take psychiatric medications." But I can't find the book to verify.
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Thanks for the comment. I have added big red (orange...) box to make sure that no one uses __proto__ in real code :)
Mode awareness

My opinion is that requiring mode awareness is a big chunk of overhead. It should be eliminated wherever possible.
What is important is to separate normal emotions (which can be plenty difficult, but shouldn't be medicated away) from actual mental illness.

It's that 'normal' part that's hard for me. From the inside, I'd say that my negative emotional state is decidedly non-normal, frequently counter-productive, but mostly rational. I'm in my late 30's, in a fine long-term relationship, and unhappily running a promising but struggling small company. Most days I'm miserable but quite productive, the mental health equivalent of a functional alcoholic. I feel I'd easily convince a mental health professional that I'm clinically depressed, but I'm not sure where this will lead.

That's the goal of treatment: not to make someone ridiculously happy, but to remove the purely biological objects in the way of happiness.

My base problem might be that happiness is not a primary end goal for me. I want it in so far as it's absence makes effectiveness difficult, but I'm scared by being distracted by pleasure. What I want is a purpose I can believe in! I worry that what I really need is a complete lifestyle change, and ideally a different world in which to live. I'm torn as to whether settling for greater satisfaction with this one is a good thing.
Actually I'd think refrigeration would be a more effective use of solar power than electrical generation. Refrigeration works by compressing/condensing/evaporating a refrigerant. Compressing a gas is the same thing as heating it, so it makes sense. Only problem with ammonia is that it's quite dangerous if inhaled, but it's commonly used in commercial/industrial refrigeration.
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Why should anyone build a business on an API that there isn't a contract in place to require uptime, with appropriate fiscal penalties for downtime?
Whitaker doesn't do as extensive an analysis of antidepressants as he does neuroleptics, but this is fairly similar to a program he supports in Finland that uses neuroleptics in very limited doses for the worst cases of schizophrenia, but their focus is shifting patients into a supportive environment with therapy.
Linguistic Relativity.
Google-the-title worked for me. If it hadn't, a pretty good way to avoid having to use another browser or mess with cookies is to use porn mode (Chrome's incognito for me).
Apologies. I didn't realise there was a paywall; I'm not sure why it works for me.

Can a mod edit the link?
"Drugs are probably the most effective way to fight it and they can help the depressed person energize themselves towards tackling their problem in other ways."

It's not an opinion question, there is actual research that's been done on this.
I think groundbreaking theories just aren't as obvious anymore because many of the big general questions have been answered and with these answers, disciplines are constantly dividing and subdividing. Therefore, the great ideas of today don't seem as far reaching. Take evolution, for example - pioneered back when the study of "biology" was mostly just taxonomy and natural history; it now has applications in the vast array of modern biological sciences, including ecology, medicine, genetics, and even computing.

There are some great movements in science today that wouldn't have been possible in the past. Bioinformatics, working with huge amounts of genomic data, is one example - how about the Human Genome Project, which was completed in the last decade? Another is James Brown's "macroecology," the idea of using statistics and huge amounts of data to learn about general patterns in the world at enormous temporal and spatial scales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroecology) and answer questions like "what effect would climate change have on the world?" And, depending on how old you are, the potential global application of immunology to eradicate infectious diseases such as smallpox and polio.
Maybe you could put it in yet another container with a dessicant to draw the moisture?
> How is it strange? When you declare your iteration variable

You're not declaring anything; PHP doesn't have variable declarations. In this case, you're either creating a new variable or using an existing one -- just like everywhere else. But I'll concede the point. While the code is technically correct, unsetting the loop variable might be a nice addition. But I fully understand why they wouldn't want to make this change.
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Then the word you're looking for isn't "plundering" but perhaps "adapting" or "borrowing."

plun·der
(v) Steal goods from;
(n) The violent and dishonest acquisition of property.

You can't steal that which is given away freely.
Yes! I have something similar like this too, and it's pretty annoying. I'd like to read (and finish) novels, but at the same time I'm too impatient to read them and focus. There are times when I can read for hours and times I can't and just jump up every 5 minutes and start coding some piece of software I was previously working on. Unfortunately, I can't define when these times are. Plus, I'm pretty hungry for knowledge, so there are still numerous books waiting for me.

However, I don't dive into too many books at once though. I have a rule for this, to restrict myself and keep reading what I began. I can only be reading one novel, a few (2-3) technical books (on programming/software engineering/...) and one/two books on startups at once. I don't know how to fix this, but I'm okay with it I guess.
It's interesting that the opposite happened in the past 5 years. The Revolution IS on YouTube. It is live-Tweeted, live-blogged, and live-streamed. It gets information past oppressive regimes, authors past publishers, and knowledge past editors. The Internet sped up The Revolution, and that's why Sazorsky wants to slow it down.

It's also interesting that there has been no Revolution. Politics are just as divisive and ill-informed as ever, and the division is live-Tweeted, live-blogged, and live-streamed. Disinformation keeps the same politicians in power, the same industries on life support, and the truth down. The Internet slowed down the Revolution, and that's why nobody needs to spend time controlling it.
Well, North Korea created its own Linux, so perhaps it's natural that Iran would have its own BSD...
http://rt.com/news/north-korea-cyber-weapon/
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You could also view this as a missing optimisation opportunity on Chrome. Firefox and Safari manage ok. Chrome has some excellent optimisations for new but I dont think it is the case that these could never be applied to native object.create.

Personally I like the prototypal style, and would like it to be optimised.