skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same deal. $850 and $1000 pretty much both equate to "some large sum of money" in my mind.

Now if the sums were $8.50 and $10.00 instead, I'd likely make the more rational choice (90% of $10), because such choices with smaller amounts of money come up far more often in my life: the sample size will be large enough that the mean approaches the expected value.
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measure yourself, with innovation, product launches and how successful they are. Worrying about measuring yourself is a factory mentality.
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What? It's not just merging the different datasets into models, it's an complete accurate 3d model of terrain from C3 Technologies (now owned by Apple, btw), they take thousands of low-altitude photos and do a photosynth-esque reconstruction.
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A thousand dollars is not a life-changing sum.

There are many many people who would argue with that.
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Freedom of the press... to do whatever the fuck they want.

I propose they lose that freedom and instead we burden them with the "Responsibility of the press".

That should grant them the same privileges and protection, but also makes them accountable when they pull crap like this.
If claimed adherents don't post their personal information (credit card info, date of birth, etc) then I doubt their sincerity. Kopimism and privacy are clearly antithetical. The first information a sincere Kopimist should seek to share is their own information.

If a person claims to be a Kopimist and only copies pop culture ephemera, then I think they're bullshitting.
License? Did that change in v7? I've been running various 6.x versions of NetBeans, and they were free.
Sure, check wikipedia on medical tourism. An order of magnitude more people leave the US than enter to seek medical treatment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism#United_States

My point in finding one was that sensational stories about fund raising for medical treatment make easy news filler. Linking to any of them is meaningless!

America has a medicore health care system. We excel in some experimental treatments, and have some great medical centers for those with money.

Meanwhile we rank equal to Cuba on life expectancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...
It came pretty close actually. If the south would have had better leadership the US would be at least two countries now.
I have written Java in the past, but I don't use the language now. I use exclusively vim features and plugins to do all that things you asked in other languages though. For example I navigate around with HJKL, gg/G, gd, and "".
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15 points by nreece 1022 days ago | 8 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470

pg 1022 days ago | link

No, someone else created that
I reserve the right to be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure in your example outer will be be null on the onclick.
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Ya, my theory holds for negative sums too -- I'd rather have a chance of not losing [large amount of money] than lose [almost as large amount of money] for sure. A $900 loss could be enough to bankrupt me -- I need to take the 10% chance.
Sorry to hear about your setback, Paul. Glad to hear you're getting back in the saddle!
That has been my experience as well... very few conversions but... I'm wrestling with the idea that it is similar to impressions of an ad ... maybe a 'bad' ad?
This is the "12 resolutions for programmers" guy.
The funny thing is that it's nearly impossible to evaluate where you stand before you've reached the next level or even the level after that. You think your solution is clever? Wait 6 months and you think it stinks. You think you have a nice abstraction? Wait until you need to do something you didn't think of and you find it's useless/too complex/unnecessary and so on.

I find that the best way to evaluate yourself is to look at your code all the time and think critically. Be careful not to overdo it though, maybe take a closer look in between projects or in some interval is fine.

What should you work on? What do you find interesting? I think you're a lot better off working on something you find interesting than forcing you into something that you don't find thrilling. As always you should do stuff you're not comfortable with: do some low/high level stuff, try a new framework or do something you think is hard.

I wouldn't obsess too much on how good you are compared to others, there's always someone better, period.

Instead focus on your relative improvement. If you read your old code (which you should) you should think "this is awful, I could write something better" or at least "this is ok... but if I did it this way it would be much better".

And finally read code, read books about code, try to code with other people and try to make something useful.

Some book tips:

The Pragmatic Programmer:
Read this!

Introduction to Algorithms:
If you don't know algorithms, here's a nice book for it

Effective Java, Effective C++, More Effective C++:
Just good practices
<pre>
When I was young, I dreamed about building a “nerd cave” full of fast hardware, big monitors, sleek software and cool gadgets.

I see now that technology can only nip at the margins of happiness (...)
</pre>

love his conclusion
As long as you don't switch language on your website based on the location. I hate when a website does this, and some are even horrid enough to use google translate. If I wanted the page translated I would translate it myself.
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ is the main site, but the videos there 404; I found this one as being one of their mirrors. Its more of a follow-up, but its very entertaining both for those that remember, and those that haven't seen it before...
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Matt, for irc you should check out Limechat. I just switched from Colloquy and am loving to so far. I set it up with the three panel view, and was at first confused about the lower window (which is like a "everything you can't see in the main room window" view), but i've found myself using it a lot just to glance at conversations in other rooms.
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Amazing how well the software renders thousands of objects. On close inspection, I find the post-apocalyptic aesthetic of the rendering geometry very appealing. http://i.imgur.com/dNYer.jpg
Clickable links;

https://neko.io/
https://www.mepin.com/
> I currently face a similar problem, as I want to pick up playing the guitar again. How to get into deliberate practice mode?

OT: Try WildChords (http://www.ovelin.com/) :)
That bookmarklet comes from squarefree (and looking at his about page, Russell Beatie should learn to credit other people): https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
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I'm not sure if this helps you out or not, but I've found working through practice problems, such as Project Euler, to be helpful.
An author (who does yoga himself) on the Knight Science Journalism Tracker argued that this story is sensationalized and somewhat unfair: http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/2012/01/05/ny-times-unfairly-trash...
Ok I tested it and you have access to outer here. I must be thinking of something else. Asynchronous web requests?
Start keeping journals.

When you start a new project, start a new journal. Record your thoughts. If you have to make a particularly hard decision, write out your thought process and what you ultimately decided.

Then review those journals every year or two. Ask yourself if you would have done anything different based on the experiences and knowledge you've accumulated.

Also, seek criticism. Learn from others. And read as much as you can! :)

I don't think there's any one litmus test that will give you a grade. It's a process of practiced introspection. Know thyself! :)
How should I be evaluating myself?

The only metric that matters is the delta between what you know and what you need to know to build what you have to build. How do you find out what this is? By building that which must be built. When you get stuck, you will have to find a way to get unstuck: by getting educated, by consulting others, by finding others' solutions, or just by old fashioned figuring it out.

How often?

Continuously.

How should I decide what to work on?

Work on what needs to be worked on, not what you need to get better at. Any other approach would be backwards.

By definition, the "Competency Matrix" you cite is a bad goal. Every entry has different level of importance for every person and every situation. By trying to aspire to this flawed ideal, you will be wasting time on things that aren't important and missing things that are.

(Aside: When I reviewed the Competency Matrix, I had to laugh. Many of the items were so important that you couldn't help getting better at them just by building lots of stuff. And many will never be important at all.)

The best way to get good at what you should be getting good at is to build what needs to be built. Then trust the process and yourself to fill in the gaps.

Does my ability relative to others matter?

No! There will always be many people better than you. There will always be many people worse than you. You will probably be the best at something (or some combination of skills). You will probably never get very good at something (or some combination of skills). And you know what? It doesn't matter!

All that matters is whether or not you can successfully build that which must be built. The ability to figure out what that is and how to do that is the most important skill of all.

Moral of the story: Go find out what people need. Then build it. The more you become concerned with their needs and the less about your own, the sooner you'll take care of both.
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And sadly the second one on your list is not only non-technical but also non-business mathematics savvy :)

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/23/technology/groupon_revenue/i...
Has nothing to do with "Halal". NOTHING about Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) makes a mention of anything but edibles when it comes to Halal. If you hear some autocratic douchebag call something Halal or Haram when speaking of non-food items, you know you're being bullshat.

This is nothing but good ole consolidation of power. Iranians call it Halal, Americans call it counter-terrorism and intellectual property, others call it enforcement of rightous morals, upright character, national concensus, surprise non-consensual posterior-sex or whatever label one assigns to power-grab. This is it.

Fuck the ruling Mulahs and fuck the business, political and military-industrial engines that are conspiring against the People everywhere on earth.
outer will be 2

A closure is created for the anonymous function, allowing access (by reference) to the non-local variables in the containing method.
Right but which metric is reasonable can (and I believe should) change with scale. I'm risk-preferring when it comes to small amounts -- opportunities to make such decisions come up all the time, so I'll be likely to realize the mean. But I'm risk-averse when it comes to large amounts -- I may only get to make one such decision in my life. Better to minimize the variance here.

This not only explains why people play lottery and buy insurance (playing the lottery non-compulsively involves risking only small amounts of money; not having insurance involves risking large amounts of money), but it also explains why those close to retirement should have risk-averse portfolios, while the young should have risk-preferring portfolios (those close to retirement have few "samples" left to take as it were).
Yes it is.

So I take it you don't believe people have freedom of speech?

You can have freedom of speech or the freedom not to be mocked. You can't have both.
I hear you. After a few years of Eclipse's goofy tiled interface, I switched over to NetBeans. I much prefer the undockable windows (make the editor use most of the screen, thank you very much), rather than having to pop up an extra Eclipse Window and then strip it down to edit, every time I started Eclipse.

http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.09.html

The vim (key assignment) editor NB plugin is kind of useful as well.
Outer is (implicitly) typed as an int, so it cannot be null under any circumstances. The default value for ints is 0. However, outer will be 2 in this case. Environment capture makes it do what it looks like, just like javascript.

I don't know what you mean by "has closures but not when evented."
People could still get rewarded for contributing through flattr-like schemes. Also, there'd still be contract work.

But maybe what's really needed is a basic income system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee
I second your edit. I'm in Iran right now and I'm having an excellent time.
I think geolocation using an IP address is known to not be particularly reliable when you try to drill down to the city level - having said that, it was spot on with my city.
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If you're based in London, I recommend taking up Rob Fitzpatrick (robfitz) on his offer of free 30-min office hours - http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2011/10/open-office-hours-...

I did it last week and found it to be quite useful just talking him through my ideas and marketing strategy. Rob's been working with startups for a while, so he's got a lot of data. He is a great listener and gave me some good actionable suggestions.

Even if you're not based in London, he might be up for a skype call.
dumb question - how exactly can I try this? I went to the site, but didn't find relevant information.
Phones definitely have zero influence on the plane, I think it's more motivated by the same reasons as a movie theater, to discourage use of electronics in general and prevent a bunch of people confined in a small space to get on each other's nerves, especially when babies and people with phobia of flights could be more unnerved by a ringtone during landing than missing a line of dialog in a movie.
"honestly I would pay for such a service if it comes with a nice little dashboard and some decent stats"

Do Chartbeat/Google Analytics/etc not provide that for you?
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Yeah, that title is linkbait, especially in the NYT who's readership is more likely than others to practice yoga.

In other news, overexertion risks injury.
I an interview where he discusses his biggest mistakes and such, they pick out and focus on a lame joke.

Shame.
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Thanks for providing the example, this thread was very entertaining and made me become more interested in learning more about how C works.
A big green stamp on the side (closed pages) of the book saying "BUDGET BOOK PROGRAMME"?
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I'd be very interested to see that, thank you.
That's the point - you're willing (we all are, usually) to pay a premium for that certainty. In the book he uses all sorts of figures or probabilities (I remember one case, when it was like 99% chance to win one million dollars, or 100% chance to win ${800,000, $600,000, $400,000} -- starts getting a little tricky there, right?)
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Any one using Mac Mini colocation? Any suggestions? I mean which service is good and more value for the buck, from this search result.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+mini+colocation
Navigation? Use ctags to create a cross reference file for the editor. Press ctrl-] to jump to definition, press ctrl-T go go back.

Having said that, I sometimes use vim for really quick edits to known code, or use the vim plugin for NB, so I get familiar quick keystrokes AND all the outline (navigator), javadoc, debugger and other windows available.
So if I find a video of someone being executed in the US, that gives the world enough basis for justifying the "liberation" of the USA?

Why don't you btw demand the liberation of the US? Or perhaps you think the US is "spreading and expanding its joyful way of life throughout the world"?

Millions of dead civilians would disagree.
For PHP script, the key is:

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and decrypted evil script is here:

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I didn't look at perl script.
Plus geolocation almost always fails on a phone in my experience, the IPs generally come from the datacenter of the carrier (my old Alltel phone always said I was in Alabama, almost 1000 miles away).
How come he has two brothers and three sisters-in-law?
I used it some years ago to bring traffic to trendgal.com and I was disappointed for the quality of the traffic even if it was targeted to our niche. There was a lot of visits but little stickiness. I guess it is based on the web surfer pattern and the tacit promise that maybe there is a cooler site on the next click.
The most infuriating device I own when it comes to this is my Kindle, I'll pull it out and start reading on the ground, I usually tuck it away under my arms on my lap when the attendants walk by to do their checks.

I've honestly debated explaining in detail how e-ink technology works to flight attendants because they can't grasp the idea that just because something is showing a picture doesn't mean it's consuming power.

To top it off... I don't think you can even power the damn thing off, screen saver mode, yes, wireless off, you bet, but when you flip the switch and a picture pops up to replace the words on the page the flight attendants stand there waiting for it to go blank.
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Look at code that others have written and make sure you understand it. Once you have some basic proficiency, there is a tendency to do things the way you know how to do them. Looking at real code written by others can really open your eyes.
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Okay, so first off as a person who's had experience with an actual Himalayan Yogi, most of what Black says is true.
These Yoga classes are usually a contracted form of what the Yogic monks practice and therefore if carried on unchecked can be quite dangerous.

Yoga (for a first timer) starts of primarily with simple postures and more importantly breathing, and there are absolutely NO difficult postures for at least the first six months. Then he/she learns two new postures over a period of two months and adds that to their usual routine, and this iterates.

So, in about two years the person should be in good physical shape. That is how Yoga should be done.
I'd recommend an immensely useful book on Hatha Yoga, but I can't find the link. I shall add it as soon as I do.

Yoga is a quite like going to the gym, except you don't need a gym and it affects your whole body within the same time, not just whatever body parts you work out.

EDIT: Here's the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Hatha-Yoga-Manual-v-Samskrti/dp/089389...
Those are some great data points, thanks for doing this research.
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Stage fright is an excellent point. So excellent that I wonder why nobody else made it before, and instead went for BS reasons like "I need a debugger". Maybe due to stage fright...?
I've been reading that we're about to go to war with Iran, any time now, since 2004, and it keeps not happening. I would be very surprised if we attacked Iran during the Obama administration.
If you view http://www.visitorjs.com/visitor.js, that JS already has your data concatenated with the script. Why is this?
Although it is annoying to have to turn off devices, the goal many airline attendants say is "to avoid distractions during the most dangerous part of the flight."

I get their logic, especially when listening to music, but when simply reading books on ereaders while the person next to you is using a book, is kinda illogical.
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After having a long conversation with a close friend in Iran, and also reading this post guess post on Juan Cole's blog [ http://www.juancole.com/2012/01/jahanpour-as-us-and-iran-con... ] I'm starting to realize more and more that the way we have treated Iran since Carter (read: 1979 revolution) is completely wrong. Instead of finding ways to pressure the Iranian government we are hurting the Iranian people. The sanctions we place on Iran hurts the Iranian people and their small businesses much more than the Iranian government and it's abundant(for now) oil resource.

Obama really tried at first to bring in a different approach. First off he understood the structure of power in Iran and so wrote a letter to Khamenei directly. Then he tried to talk to the Iranian people in parallel by sending the message for Norooz (Iranian New Year). Next he offered to sit and talk with the Iranians without any preconditions, but what messed everything up for him was the Iranian elections. That was (read: is) a big pile of mess that no one really knew (read: knows) how to deal with.
On the other hand, I think Sikhs make a small concession in that they wear smaller-than usual kirpans, only a few inches long, which often qualifies as a pocket knife and is legal.
I wonder if they will continue to remain silent if this happens: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429145
That's all well and good, but will we see a "Sophail" style tell-all analysis of Norton AV? See: http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/103727/Sophail.pdf for Tavis Ormandy's revelations.
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flagged as it's off topic, misleading (mobiles do affect navigational equipment (ILS) and screens, particularly when far away from cell towers, see
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=33&pagetype=...
), ill informed (a plane during descent or takeoff can get into emergency quite quickly and FAs need passengers to pay attention, which is more of a reason to switch it off than the interference) and duplicate (see
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3406167
) blabber
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Sure, there's a million ways to make better quality or more desirable goods. That's why the monopoly part of copyrights is undesirable from a consumer's standpoint. Goods of lower quality command higher prices when they're copyrighted or patented.