skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how many excuses people manage to come up with for how it's impossible for them to follow this kind of advice. Turns out, it's impossible up until the point that you just shut up and start doing it.

Sweating is only a problem for most of you because you're unhealthy and overweight. You're overweight because you get no exercise. It's okay: I was too. Then I started cycling to work and lost 50lb. Now sweating's not a problem, and I can go significantly faster without showing up to work drenched.

On my old commute (7.5mi), I ended up getting it down to 20 minutes once I got in shape. Time to drive? 20 minutes. Except instead of arriving to work tired and pissed off, I would show up alert, awake, and having enjoyed some time out in the sun doing something fun. It completely changed my mindset at work, and got me off to a much better foot every morning.

Showering isn't a problem. Again, go slower until sweating is no longer an issue, then increase your speed to a point that you can still get to work without being drenched. If you still show up wet, or if you're wet from rain, bring a change of clothes. I infrequently had to, but it's not that hard to ride in wearing cycling clothing (which will, incidentally, keep you much drier) and bring a change of clothes with you. Go into the bathroom, change, and be on with your day. It takes less time than it would to find a parking spot for your SUV anyway.

Weather is, again, not a big deal. We as humans have invented clothing for all sorts of weather conditions, intersected with the requirements of all sorts of physical activities. Cycling is no exception. There's cycling clothing for rain, for cold, and for rain _and_ cold. It costs equivalent to about a week's worth of driving for you 30-minute commuters. Less if your commute is longer.

I mean, come on. Hacker News is a site supposedly full of entrepreneurial go-getters. And yet this guy gives you a way to save hundreds of thousands of dollars, your time, and your sanity, and all I hear is griping about how minor inconveniences make it completely impossible. Yeah, some of you are trapped between a rock and a hard place. Some of you are already owning impossible-to-sell property forty miles out in the 'burbs. But for the rest of you, quit making excuses and just give it a try — it's seriously not as hard or inconvenient as you're making it out to be.

Who knows? Maybe the next time your apartment is up for renewal you'll find yourself moving closer to the city rather than farther away for once. And you won't ever look back.
In the comment section on there someone pointed out that they knew someone who died the same way and it was a peaceful death. They just stopped breathing while in a coma. I do hope he went peacefully.
I just installed it, and this is definitely not designed for iPad. It's an iPhone resolution app that you'd have to run at 2X to fill the iPad screen.
We are definitely trying to improve the DOM API with Dart, but, for performance reasons, ditching the DOM and starting over from scratch in Canvas doesn't really fly, at least not in the short term.
So that's at least $55mm/revenue PA.
That seems to be a strange rule; how would they know where I'm from? As far as I know, Paypal doesn't normally release that information.

I could see how they might have to adhere to some sort of policy, yet I don't see how it could be enforced.
Why is this being down-voted?

Paul Graham wrote a very well though out article on why debating politics, even with the best intentions, is extraordinarily difficult.

More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants. What makes politics and religion such minefields is that they engage so many people's identities.
Nice to see the names of the Sofa guys show up in those screenshots!
I think you have underestimated how much culture determine people's attitudes.

Consider a normal guy from my home country a few hundreds of years ago. He believed that he will only go to Heaven if he dies well in battle and is hence really scared of dying from disease. He wasn't a psychopath; he loved people and would die for his friends etc. He is normal for a clan society.

The same genes sit in me, which sincerely hopes never to have to maim or kill anyone in my life. Those human genes program us to be very programmable with the present culture. A powerful tool can often be misused.

The trick is to make the culture stay "nice". And to not have neighbours from clan cultures.
The interpretations of certain parts of the law are secret.
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thanks! already was told several times about more feedback, will try to improve this :)
i've been using the older releases of the app just for that very reason. the latest version simply does not work on my account, for whatever reason
>but you cannot make it one

Why not? It makes no difference whatsoever. Make it so that the only constructor in the system is Object.new(), and so everything else that inherits behaves just like a method.

>Without it: in var foo = Bar(), is Bar a type or a function?

That's easy. Make it so that only classes and consts can be capitalized.

Blammo!
22 things to do in a year
I found the article I summarized here: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/whats-really-behind-the-net...

I think it explains the facts in the simplest way.
Just another day of Bush in office... oh wait.
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Apple's app sandboxing and privacy protection means that 'Facebook for iPad' will not be able to mine as much user data as Facebook would like.

I suspect that this was the main reason why Facebook wanted users to use the browser instead of a native app (and why the app is being launched more than 18 months after the iPad was first launched)

However, the proliferation of native 3rd party apps meant that users weren't using the browser to get to Facebook and that may have led Facebook to finally decide to release the app.

[edit1: To the downvoters - I didn't say that sandboxing provides 100% privacy protection. However, it does prevent Facebook from knowing which other sites you've visited, it prevents them from telling search engines who you are etc.]

[edit2: To Xuzz and others: login to facebook on your iPad browser, log into a website that collaborates with Facebook, you'll see that Facebook is aware your visit to the website. This won't happen when you're logged into the app (instead of being logged in on Safari)

Regardless of the downvotes, this is a matter of fact.(in fact, it was recently discovered that Facebook can track some of your web-browsing even if you had logged out)

Btw I made no assertions about "attacks" and I have no interest in debating emotional outburts such as "Please stop assuming everything Facebook does is out to personally attack you or your data".
The iPhone app passes you through Facebook's web interface whenever you click an offsite link. There may be enough to track you via that.
I can't remember where I read this, but I believe one the partners has said it's unlikely they've looked at earlier versions of your application.
Sounds like you've installed the iPhone app - it seems the iPad app isn't live just yet.
It's worth noting that when you demo a product, you get to pick phrases that you know the program will respond favorably to. While I have no doubt that Siri is impressive, it's a little premature to judge its NLP capabilities based on a marketing demo.
The problem lies in how will you define the other parameters over here.

First up is the question of defining that 1 KG itself and the configuration; how will we define the parameters of the copper wire? (edit: to clarify after reemrevnivek's excellent comment the configuration of the solenoid is important because the strength of the magnetic field generated is directly related to the configuration of the coil) We can't use the radius, length of the copper wire accurately because as it gets heated up it will expand not only longitudinally but radially as well.

Second, how will the magnetic field be measured to the precision needed? If you use induction of current in another coil then according to lenz law that will create a downward force on our coil leading to inaccurate measurements (I'm assuming that it will be constantly measured) , this means that the coil needs to be strictly constrained, by how do you constrain it without adding/rubbing material on to the surface of the copper wire?
10Gen CEO Dwight Merriman Still Writes His Own Code
in some countries spotify doesn't work
The screenshots clearly show an iPad-friendly UI. Sounds like you got the old iPhone-only app - likely the app hasn't propagated to all of the App Store yet.
Japanese Aesthetics
Maybe I'm wrong but it looks like Andrew is taking an old interview, converting it into an eBook, adding the interviewee as an "author", and selling it?
I find the thought eerie that Apple knew of his certain demise before the iPhone 4s Pressconference.

Maybe it was his wish to do it normally.
The magnetic field in a coil is dependent on the number of turns and current in a coil (as well as, to a lesser degree) the position of the wires in the coil. It is almost completely unrelated to the number of copper atoms in the coil.

Read up on the Biot-Savart law if you want to know more about calculating magnetic fields.
Goodbye Bit.ly - Twitter to Reformat All URLs With T.co
+1!
We're also scaling up a data team for some interesting machine learning problems. Experience with any of the following helps: R (lm, gam, gbm, randomForest, caret), Python, Ruby, MapReduce, Hadoop, large datasets.
We don't. I'm simply answering the asked question - how does one securely transmit the user's password to a web application.
Facebook: Bringing Social App Discovery to Mobile
Just out of curiosity, what's so awful about WebRequest? I've been using it for years for various things and never really had a problem with it.
On a side note, why is there a spot for "occupation" on a death certificate? It seems like such an arbitrary thing to have your most recent job on your permanent record of death. And how do you sum up a career like Jobs'? "Entrepreneur in the high-tech business" does not do justice to what he accomplished.
Innovation: Perez vs Thiel (Optimism vs Pessimism)
Amid administration complaints, Rackspace spins off OpenStack to a foundation
Gamification has always existing in large companies, though historically it's been more subtle.

At 5 years you get a nice pen.
At 10 years you get a larger carpet in your office.
At 20 years you get a silver picture frame.
At 30 years you get a nice retirement party with free shrimp for your friends.

Yes - really - I knew LOTS of people at old Ma Bell would hang on underpaid for several years just to get the free shrimp for their friends at the retirement party.

All of these come at the expensive of opportunity, interesting work, and money.
Well at least using OpenStack should lessen the pain of switching cloud providers.
This happened to me too. The 'Get the App' button on facebook actually links you to the iPhone app. Funky.
It's by the definition of psychopath as someone who lacks empathy that my argument follows. It is not a normal human condition to feel empathy for large/abstract groups of people. Most people I know do not feel deeply and profoundly sad for millions who died during a war or a famine, while most of them do experience intense sadness when a person close to them or one they identify with dies. Any empathy expressed for large groups of people is typically of an intellectual kind, a political/machiavellian tactic undertaken only when observed by others, something quite close to what a psychopath would do.
Its awesome when things like this are put out into the community. I hope it gets very specific. Paul's experiences are most similar to where an early stage startup will have. A couple years back most of the information on this topic glossed over angel investing, which was the first step an entrepreneur needed to know about. Without understanding how to get past that part, knowing how to raise a series A didn't matter.
The Ira Glass sex-tape
Here's the table on contents in case anyone wants to get a better idea what they're buying: http://i.imgur.com/pzjj7.png The eBook is around 20 pages long.

In other news, Kindle.app only allows copy & pasting 33 words at a time... hence the screenshot.
> What sort of democracy are we living in when the government can refuse to even say how it's interpreting its own law? That's not democracy at all.

I really don't get his point here. Democracy has nothing to do with the legal structure of elected governments, nor does it have anything to do with the clarity of the legal system.

Democracy is to do with every "citizen" having a fair and equal right to vote. Of which freedom of political expression, freedom of speech and freedom of the presses are considered essential tenets.

The US is currently suffering Majority Rule in that the majority is shit scared of anything and everything, especially fellow human beings with head wear out of their traditional social or religious norms. This means the majority in the US is fully willing to sign away rights and freedoms for the mere assumption that they're "protected" by a piece of paper stored in the library of congress.

I'd feel safer if we armed the clowns with shotguns, you know as a surprise attack thing.
I promote mine right here: http://policyanswers.com. Haha!

In other words, any where I can.
Thanks! It's similar, but it also builds & submits the custom-branded client app to the app-stores.

Indeed, it can work with any CMS or HTML-creation pipeline. It's one of the great strengths of the model.

Will have a look at Tapatalk, wasn't aware of it.
I would usually use Akka for that kind of thing: http://akka.io (I've rolled my own before, too)
I know it was a tongue in cheek comment but imagine if the roles were reversed in this presentation.. It's an easier life to put the male in any sort of negative or dumb role, for sure. Though I'd prefer robots.
Let me be a little more helpful than just yelling "Scary Monsters! Beware!" :-)

Flags to wave:

1. RRSPs? Form 8891.

2. Still have bank/etc. accounts in Canada (including RRSPs)? Form TD F 90-22.1.

3. Mutual funds inside those Canadian accounts? Form 8621.

4. Own shares in a Canadian company (not public)? Form 5471. Partner in a partnership? Form 8865.

These are common foot-faults. I don't know about your particular situation. And all of these will apply whether the CRA thinks you are still a Canadian resident or whether they think you're a nonresident for Canadian tax purposes.
Microsoft has been incorporating RPG-like elements into their review/promotion system for a while. By developing certain skills and finishing achievements, you can "level up" getting increased pay and responsibilities.

/not a MSFT employee - but that's how my MSFT friends describe it
Sorted now - the binary is updated for both platforms.
Good idea. At some point, we'll probably harvest a bunch of this and put together a FAQ.
It's down? That's not a good start. Try to find your target audience, tweet, try getting some blogs feature your site.
Then it works for you. Congrats! I really enjoyed it whenever it worked for me.

But most of the time it did not.

And no, I'm not too conditioned to take the driving problems for granted. I really, really, really hate them. I go to great lengths to avoid them. But my solution to them wasn't a bike: It was living somewhere that didn't have them.

There's no traffic to or from work. There no problem parking, as everywhere near my work and home has free, open parking lots. There isn't much cost, because I don't drive far. (Remember that I need the car for shopping and errands anyhow, so that cost is sunk. It's also well-kept, low-mileage and cheap.)

So in trying to refute me, you haven't proven me wrong. I was refuting the article, and proving that every situation is different. You came along and proved the exact same thing.
The app is supposed to be "universal" and display the proper one for your device, but yeah, it's not actually gone live on the App Store yet it seems.
I'm genuinely curious why you prefer a paperback, could you elaborate? Also, wanted to ask: have you tried the Kindle app on your Mac/PC and mobile device yet?
> you will see that nothing outside of that loop will ever be executed

Yes, that is true. Maybe I wasn't clear, but I tried to point out that every "thread of control" must yield as soon as possible to the event loop in JavaScript.

Since Go is not single-threaded, a real goroutine doesn't need to yield.
Countless Galaxy S2 manufacturers, you mean?...
> Apple's app sandboxing and privacy protection means that 'Facebook for iPad' will not be able to mine as much user data as Facebook would like.

Sandboxing does prevent developers from accessing files that don't belong to their apps but developers still have unfettered access to users' calendars and address book. Facebook has already been known to grab users' address books from the iPhone version of the app.
Green Flashes - an optical phenomenon
For epidemiology studies. And you're right--they're notoriously unreliable. Public databases for healthcare research are absurdly bad. Half the time I publish using Medicare's SEER database I ask myself, "is this worth anything at all?"
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From the Atari article someone linked to a few days back about Steve Jobs, his boss said he contracted hepatitis when he made a spiritual journey to India. If it's true, it explains all the health issues Steve dealt with later in life. Hepatitis is linked to increasing the risk of pancreatic cancer. It also attacks the liver and was very likely the reason for his needing a liver transplant in 2009.

I'm living abroad and put on my to do list to make sure my vaccinations are current. For those of you traveling to third world countries, make sure you do the same. =/
Too Soon
Coderdude (I like HackerThings, btw). I'm not anti Facebook. I'm just tired of the complacency the company is showing towards it's users (and FB app developers) at the moment.

More than happy to trade karma to express my view, neg vote away...
That one's gonna keep me up at night.
I commuted 27 miles (straight line) via commuter rail and it took me 1.5 hours each way. Rent was free (I lived at my parents) but it was tough. I was surprised by how long it took, and by the number of service interruptions that made the trip even longer!

I am now happily working 1.2 miles from home.
My interpretation of democracy is that it needs a legal system that works, and I believe that means it has to be fair and transparent. If the fabric of a legal system is corrupt, what's the point of politics?
it's not as clear-cut as that -- it's mostly a combination of a traditional "you should work on these things and get better at having X, Y, and Z desirable qualities" conversations with your boss and Microsoft's love of creating systems with jargon that is inscrutable to the outside.

(disclaimer: I'm a Microsoft employee with about 3 years served.)
We need to both change the way we think about what "mass transit" is and spend more $$$ advertising it.

I live in a rural area about 40 miles from Minneapolis, the largest city around here, pop. about 400k. Normally it would take me well over an hour to get there during rush hour, but I recently discovered that there is a bus that can do it in 22 minutes if the schedule is to be believed. The buses can drive on the shoulder, and of course, use the HOV lanes to get there faster than we can.

I found this out purely by accident because it's really not well publicized. I had to go to Mpls and didn't want to deal with parking, so I looked into the bus route and was astounded that it could do the trip from bus depot to downtown in 20 minutes. The bus stop itself is about 15 minutes from my house, so I could be downtown in less than 40 minutes. I can't believe Metro Transit isn't screaming this from the rooftops!

Of course, life being what it is I made it to the bus stop late, missed the last bus in and had to deal with the 1.5 hour drive into the city anyway :-(
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Do you consider Krugman a voice of dissent though? In my opinion he chimes in once the issue is already "safe" and rarely says anything that would endanger his status as a columnist or his relationships with powerful people.
Don't have any stats to back this up, but driving is probably just as unsafe.
TIL I am expected to be aware of, and follow, a law that I cannot see.

Someone stop this ride, I want to get off now.
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Sneak Peek at the Crazy Image Deblurring Feature That May Appear in Photoshop
>Moore's Law is only an observation of the pace at which this happens.

the gravitational "law" is just an observation that strength of the force doubles every time distance is decreased sqrt(2).

>Computers won't be twice as powerful because of Moore's Law they will become more powerful because technology marches forward and humans are a creative bunch.

the gravitational force won't be twice as powerful because of gravitational law the force will become more powerful because ... well we don't really know why, supposedly gravitons fly in a more dense bunches :)
Seems like it's finally gone live. The App Store page is showing version 4.0 and iPad screenshots now.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/facebook/id284882215
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Bureaucracy and government forms takes a long time to respond to societal change. We're moving farther and farther away from a person having a single job for a lifetime, but that's still the model used by many bureaucracies.
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Steve Wozniak Interview
N.B. The first FAQ (and its answer) should be on eggtweeter's home page.
Ho-lee crap!

Around here, $10k/acre is considered expensive.
It's good to know this kind of stuff, since we're heavy users of mongodb here...
Here is where I saw it:

"However, the contract Starz has with Sony has a subscriber cap with regard to Netflix. The home entertainment company now has more than 23.5 million subscribers, which exceeds the cap. Starz pulled the movies from Netflix so it wasn't in jeopardy of violating its deal with Sony."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/0...
Only after explicitly agreeing to share the information with a pretty explicit and huge warning message: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4352706085_5a6e467b50.jp...

Seriously, I am getting tired of these outright lies or unsubstantiated rumors being perpetutated against Facebook.
What box of highlighted code? The samples box with the run button?
Apparently you've never met Maven.
I am confused. Is it not the judges who interpret the act, the law, etc, not the fed or the government.
Steve Keen - The trillions spent on refinancing the banks has truly stuffed us
The apprehension people feel about killing others is a fairly universal thing that I don't believe to a purely social construct like "morals" (whatever that is).

Well, once you've thrown away morals, it's true that all you have left is the hope that others will refrain from killing others due to not feeling like it.

Morality is just the portion of goals that humans in a given culture share, but I'm not sure you should be so quick to dismiss it as a positive force.
Facebook’s iPad app is finally here
It's really not possible to launch something like this well: the app is progressively launching across the globe as the update propagates through the iTunes servers. There's no specific moment where it's available everywhere, it's a roll-out process that that Apple warns you can take up to a day.
Yes gp, LWP::UserAgent specifically. Never knew about HTTP::Tiny thanks.. I'll check it out.
A nation of precedence, however ironic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial