skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It seems like a lot of potentially false conclusions are drawn from the data.

Successfully completing a degree requires a significant amount of motivation and determination. Finding a good, high paying, job also requires a signifiant amount of motivation and determination. Perhaps motivated and determined people will earn more on average?

People in higher class families are more likely to further their education. People in higher class families are more likely to have more business connections. Perhaps people from higher class families earn more on average?

People who are good at and enjoy learning are more likely to go to college. People who are good at and enjoy learning are highly valued on the job. Perhaps people who learn quickly earn more?

When all you have is correlation, an infinite number of conclusions can be reached. Why is it assumed that the degree is what makes the difference? It seems more likely to me that the attributes one is born with are much greater indicators of success.
I'd second this notion, but with the added caveat that without a 'mathy' way to solve the problem, you can't get much beyond the first 15 or so (if you're good at math, great, if you just want to put down some code to solve a simple problem... I got frustrated :) )
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. "It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted."
I would really, really love to activate two-factor authentication for my Gmail account, but Google requires me to have a phone number as a backup in case I lose my phone, and I don't live in one of the countries supported by Google for the backup phone numbers.

I hope they expand the list of allowed countries for backup phone numbers soon, including support for the "less important" countries like mine. Or else allow activation of two-factor auth for people who agree to have only the list of printed one-time codes for entry and no backup phone number. Preferably the former.
How does this work? If I change my app on my local machine do I use fab to redeploy it?
I like all of this advice. The key threads running through it at which I nodded my head in agreement were:

1) Free software/languages
2) Cut corners (disqus)
3) StackOverflow. This was a super life saver as I never had someone next to me while learning to just ask a quick question. The response time on it is often incredible.

Focus less on your 'platform choice' or whatever, as that can actually be quite fluid. Programming is programming, so spend more time writing code in the beginning I'd say.
Fucking crimony do I hate OnSwipe. Loathe it. It's just such a waste. It looks stupid, its scrolling feels wrong and it presents everyone's content identically. It solves absolutely zero problems, creates new ones and is impossible to escape. (I have fantasized about creating a proxy at home to strip out its bullshit.)

The irony here being that the iPad is perfect for displaying very nearly everything on the web just as it already is. WordPress blogs look excellent on the iPad without any of this nonsense.

OnSwipe has become a perfect tool for preventing me from viewing content I'd otherwise happily read. This is a latter-day Expert Sexchange.

edit: ...odd, instant karma drop that affected everything I said on this page but this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2700241

Learn from criticism, folks, don't downvote it because it doesn't agree with your world view. It's how we all grow.
> is there scientific evidence behind this?

Doc here. Yes. Literally acres of it (measuring the floor space occupied by the National Library of Medicine).

Eat real food, not to much, mostly plants. Two entrees at most US restaurants will feed a family of 4, with leftovers.
This video made by Google is pretty good and covers many of the concerns people have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMabEyrtPRg
This on the flip side is creating an opportunity to optimize (if you have the land) to iterate in farming.
I hadn't run across OnSwipe yet on my iPad, but I went to slate.com and saw it. Not impressed and definitely not the browsing experience I want on my iPad. At least they put a link on the bottom to go to the normal desktop version. That should be the default, and someone should have to choose to go to the "enhanced" version.

Or, just make a native app for your website. People that want that kind of experience will seek it out. Most people just want the web, not a simplified version of it.

It'd also be great if OnSwipe had a global "opt out" so that your browser would _never_ get the dumbed down version if you set some flag telling them to go away.
the "last chance form" (or "account recovery exam") really is a hard and impossible to find thingy.
Also, I frankly have no idea about when I started using some services, and worst, no clue on how to find out.
Where'd you get this «less than four hours per day» thing?
While Ruby is a fantastic language and a joy to program in, if you are planning on heavy computation, python is a much better route to go. While everything can be tweaked and optimized in both languages, python is generally favored for performance and ruby for flexibility. Numpy and Scipy are both quite efficient and provide lots of functionality needed in scientific computation. Down the road, if you have a script that takes days, weeks, or even months to complete, python allows you to refactor the bottlenecks in your code into C without too much difficulty.

I spent a year working in high performance computing at a university and so much ugly and inefficient code was written in matlab. Had they written it in python, it would have been much easier to optimize and their research would have been much more productive.
Improvements to javascript would be great, but none are actually needed, the language is quite functional as is. Learn how to code or use coffeescript or develop your own new language to compile into javascript to support whatever language crutches you need.
Cool! Can you please describe how to get preexisting Django apps served with this in more detail.

edit:

reading the config file turns out to be a good place to start.
Focus less on your 'platform choice' or whatever, as that can actually be quite fluid

Yeah, but programming on Windows is a PITA so I found its simpler to just eliminate that from the equation :)
The CRA is a favourite scapegoat for some conservative types, but I have yet to hear any of them put actual numbers to their assertions. If you have any, I would honestly love to hear them.

For instance, I have yet to see any evidence that mortgages originated under CRA authority have had higher default rates than higher income mortgages, and in fact I have heard plenty of anecdotal reports that the opposite is true.
> It'd also be great if OnSwipe had a global "opt out" so that your browser would _never_ get the dumbed down version if you set some flag telling them to go away.

This is the only humane option. There should be a way to escape this scourge.
Just use a nickname. Like "nick", or "jsmith", or "smithy".

If you want to look professional, use "administrator" or "webmaster" or "admin".

You can use both.
Currently the script only helps creating an EC2 instante and setting it up for a django app.

I plan to add common "re-deployment" stuff, but is very hard to decide what to include because everybody uses django differently. We need to develop best practices and conventions.
I did my surgical internship at a hospital with a substantial bariatrics service. Yes. Starvation will cure type 2 diabetes. Overnight. Roux-en-Y patients often have normal blood sugars by the time they're out of the OR. We would watch them for 48 hours and their blood sugar didn't go back up. When they came in for follow-up, still down. It works. Like a champ.

I would like to reply to more comments here, but it's past midnight and my battery is dying. Maybe more tomorrow.

But, yeah, in general, type 2 diabetes is almost universally a consequence of over-eating.
I'd like to know what kinda coffee is carbonated, myself.

Then again, I've heard of some interesting soda flavors. There may be more of those than of ice cream.
Hi. Most of the advice in the comments already posted is sound, but none of them seemed to address HPC. Working on a cluster invites an entirely different bundle of conceptual and practical hurdles (e.g. parallelism, working remotely, industrial-strength shell scripting &c.) Even though I had been programming since I was a kid, I found my crash-course in HPC to be quite challenging; confronted with a new programming model in a new low-level language, it was the first time that I really appreciated what it must be like not to know how to program at all.

So: code as much as possible. As soon as you can possibly stand it, look into MPI4py and start parallelizing your code. Chances are you won't be working with python in HPC contexts, but learning parallel programming at the same time as C or fortran would be needlessly difficult. I would also try to get time on a cluster as soon as you're in a position to use it respectably. Most universities with HPC facilities have an online application for an account, and some sysadmin might take pity on you :) Otherwise, maybe Amazon has some kind of deal?

In the interim, become _very_ comfortable with bash and general command line fu, and a serious text editor. Good luck!
Isn't dropping trailing slashes a bit dangerous? They have different semantic meanings.
I think OnSwipe is in for a lot of acrimony without this, especially from tech savvy users who might otherwise be promoters in some spaces. They'd have an easy defense of "if you don't like it, click this button and you're done". As it is, almost all stories are going to have 90% complaining about how much people dislike it (like this post).
Just edit the config file and run the fab fab command. That will setup the server and create an empty django app in /home/ubuntu/webapps. After that just replace that app with yours. You still might need to install application specific dependencies.
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You (the consumer) are not Ticketmaster's primary customer.

Ticketmaster's primary customers are the venues and promoters.

The product is actually the best one available, which is a system in place designed to sell large amounts of tickets, in some cases very quickly.
Look, every interaction I've ever had with your product has been awful. Simply repugnant. Now, we all have a mission, and I don't begrudge you yours, and maybe making these obnoxious web wrappers will turn out to be the next big Amazon. I am wrong about so many things every day, it would shock me not at all to find out this is one more.

All I'm saying is this: You have a whole page full of comments here where people are talking about how much they don't like to use your product. Please create a global opt out for such folks, as has been described in a different thread. It really would improve my browsing experience on the iPad. I'm uncomfortable being in a position where I have to plead with someone to de-degrade my browsing experience, but here it is.
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There is plenty of good material on where to start with programming. Most of the links other people have provided here are very good.

A fairly good resource is Google Code University;
http://code.google.com/edu/

In particular you may want to start with Python basics;
http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ind...
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I wonder if that is a direct result of a more profit driven system in the west? There's no profit in good exercise and diet...
Unfortunately, there's no way to look up an item by ID using the HNSearch API, so it's not much use for building something to show points on all comments.
I'm still not convinced anything is actually broken.
Why hasn't it happened such that somebody just goes to a nation like India and brings modern farming technologies that yield such high growth products here?

This allows people to grow products a fraction of the price but at a similar market value. Thus eliminating that 5x increase in the cost of feed for the milker, allowing him to expand his supply to meet the new demand for milk.
They do this frequently in french suburbs (at least the ones I've visited near Tours)
Some people (eg, college students) have access to unmetered electricity, but we don't see such people dominating current mining efforts (AFAIK). I'm guessing this is because of the cost of hardware, so I think your model should also take into account the amortized cost of buying GPUs - though I don't know how significant that would be compared to the costs of electricity.
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Note that besides sending codes via SMS, Google's two-factor authentication also supports time-based one-time passcodes (TOTP) that can be generated from a mobile device. They also support a list of one-time printable codes. I kept a couple of copies of these in my wallet and at home.

TOTP is an open standard and the mobile app is open source:

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http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/

(Disclaimer: I worked on this.)
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Could you clarify who exactly was bitten in the behind?

It looks like suburbs are doing just fine and only inner city collapses.
This runs... incredibly well. Nothing short of impressed.
He goes over the top but so do you. Diet is a word usually reserved for a temporary alteration in the type and amount of food we eat. But of course it also refers to a permanent change in what we eat. The evidence that an evidence-supported diet in the latter sense (eating 'properly') can protect us to varying degrees from the onset of much disease is overwhelmingly supported by countless peer-reviewed studies.
Yes, because it was possible and practical for the gov't to do so. Governments have always devalued their currencies, and citizens are rarely happy about. Just because it happens doesn't mean "we" chose it.
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Bonus points for recommending a Linux environment.

Everyone should learn sysadmin basics. It's not hard, and in the long run it can be handy, especially in startups with small teams.
From the point of view of someone writing an IMAP client, Gmail's IMAP implementation is not awesome. It's not horrible either, but it does have quite a few quirks, some of which can be a real pain to deal with.
Isn't that what the Green Revolution was?
If you end up choosing python, a popular first book is:
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

A lot depends on which language is going to be helpful in your computational physics class: you should find out which language they'll expect you to work in.
They did - the green revolution.
This incredibly awesome! I hope it doesn't get taken down soon
I agree in principle, but the reality is that the majority shareholder in a private corporation, from what I understand, can nearly always screw minority shareholders.

My understanding is that nothing is stopping the majority shareholder from simply issuing more shares to themselves and diluting you out.
The reaction in all the other replies to your comment astounds me. I am reminded of a comment from PG earlier today, which he made in a thread on a totally different topic: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers."

In this case, Antonio made an argument a year ago about why starting a startup was better than continuing to work for a Wall Street bank. He made no claim that continuing to run a year-old startup was better than working for a large tech company. That of course depends on many other factors about the startup, about the large tech company, and about whatever offers were made. Nobody on this thread knows any of those details, but that apparently doesn't stop anyone from rushing to judgement.
Isn't this just the javascript gameboy emulator that has been posted here before?

Or maybe it's a different one: https://github.com/grantgalitz/GameBoy-Online

Gr, this link was hard to find, my Google-fu was weak. Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266701
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That button is there and has always existed there.

For Wordpress, that might be a great idea of making it a global opt-out. I'm actually going to suggest that to the team there and on ours.
I've seen not only drinks but food as well. Even soup and gold can be bought through vending machines.
I saw that in 3d in the theater. It absolutely blew my mind. It was so beautiful. It was the first (new) 3d movie I've seen. Seeing mammoth skulls covered in blankets of crystals jutting out in 3d was almost an orgasmic experience.
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The problem with this is that browsers that are older than IE8 don't support it, so if you're still targeting those users you're SOL on this method.
> somebody just goes to a nation like India

Norman Borlaug did. See: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-09-13/india...
The Python Tutorial (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/) is really pretty good.

Now, if you are doing more researchy work, then a lot of the web stuff is peripheral.

My advice would be to use scipy (the swiss army knife of scientific programming with python), matplotlib (for 2D plots), something for 3D (maybe Mayavi2?), NetworkX for networks, PyTables for storing read-only data, the inbuilt csv library, ctypes or weave for performance ... and domain specific libraries here: http://www.scipy.org/Topical_Software

But don't worry about all that yet. You can hack together a good demo with nothing but scipy and matplotlib.
Can you please create a feature so that I can universally opt out of OnSwipe for all sites and have that feature work reliably? I actually want to see things like the site's blogroll, the design as the author intended, and so on.

(Edited to say that the slate.com site actually looks decent compared to the same site in Chrome on the desktop. Kudos on the clean implementation. It's the clunky, glitchy monstrosity that has infected WordPress sites that needs to be exorcised.)
> This is one more reason why I love dynamic linking, fork/exec for static binaries is much faster than for dynamic one

Hm... huh?
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We think there's something new that can be done with the web on tablets. It's not for everyone.

That's a really reasonable piece of feedback and it makes enough sense to implement it on the WP.com version. Some people don't like it, a lot do, but that doesn't matter. Even if it's one person, they should have a choice. If you want to drop more in depth feedback, email me: j@onswipe.com

I will say, your comment above was way more effective than rude explicative ridden ones here and on Twitter. I understand you're upset, but keep in mind a lot of people have spent a lot of hard work on the product. I don't say this because it's my company. I'd say it if it was someone elses. We all work hard to make stuff and even if you absolutely hate it, a simple straight forward comment will go a long way and is way more human.
I tap a button on the side of a pendant sized device and say the name of the person I want to talk to and it happens. Not quite Trek, but damn close.
I was about to suggest you to "Learn You A Haskell For Great Good" :) Way too complicated. Listen to the other guys that don't suggest Haskell. If you then discover your calling in programming, go back and learn Haskell at your own peril.
Also try to stay away from LISP in your first lessons, and its ugliest kid, emacs. Use a simpler text editor that won't twist your fingers. gedit would be my suggestion.
+1 for Mr. Death. Another Errol Morris documentary.
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Maybe now that it has been pointed out, they will fix it.
Great question. I suspect that Milk production is held back because of the lack of larger "Factory Farms" - supposedly, milk production in india is 1/10th the yield that it is in the United States. I don't know if it's the animal breed, hormonal control, milking, manufacturing, storage, or shipping - but something is holding India back - particularly as they became the largest milk producer in the world over 10 years ago, and, of course, have been beneficiaries of the green revolution.

Google provides us with the following policy brief:
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Extended Paper: http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/pplpi/docarc/wp2...

Relevant snippets:

""one dairy cow in the USA produces as much as ten Indian 'dairy animals''. This dramatic difference can be explained by various factors such as genetics, feeding, management, technology, etc, about which a greater amount of scientific knowledge exists""

""Local Cattle: Original Indian 'milch' animals (mostly Bos indicus) which have a relatively low milk yield potential but are well adapted to local conditions""

The graphs, on page 11/61 of this paper also make it very clear that breeding plays a major role - with daily yields of local cattle being 1/5th of the cross bred cattle. The extended paper, as a whole, tells you pretty much everything you want to know about dairy production in India.
This is all true and correct, but I ran into a paradox when I had 2-factor auth turned on about a month ago. To save you all the long story, I was forced to use the backup disposable one-time passwords after I couldn't access my phone (signed out of the Authenticator app) and the backup number was a Google Voice number (stupid, I know) which required signing into the account...

For some bizarre reason, none of the one-time use passwords were working at all. This was shocking and I realized in an emergency, this would not do. As soon as I got net access and into the backup email address, I turned off 2-factor auth. I'm sure for others who didn't have this edge case paradox issue brought on by stupid me and actually working backup one-time-use passwords, 2-factor is a great choice. And I wish it were for me as well, but it isn't right now.
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