skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt a lot of people agree with this post, but I feel compelled to point out that he doesn't actually present an argument, just a claim. He simply states that a lack of superficial beauty is the best indicator of a lack of code quality and then says it is such basic advice that it needn't be given.

It may be true, but aside from preaching to people who already believe this to be true, what does this post give us? No statistics examining Github projcts and correlating inconsistent indentation with defects measured.

So while the claim may be correct, I can't support this post. An interesting post would present evidence or at least hypothesize a mechanism for the relationship. For example:

Does inconsistent code correlate with multiple programmers working over a long period of time, adding kludges and hacks tht dilute a design?

Are sloppy indentors sloppy thinkers on everything?

Does poor architecture have a social effect that repells good coders, until sloppy coders are the only people that will work on it?

Personally, I suggest that one (not necessarily the only) mechanism in play on some cases is that good programmers are interested in a wide spectrum of good practices, and there is a correlation between any two random good practices on this basis alone. I wager a dozen bottles of craft brewed beer there's a statistcal correlation between consistent code style and test coverage but absolutely zero causal relationship between the two.

A good case for one of these or any mechanism would find me far more interested. Until then, it's folklore. It might be true, but it isn't going to persude people as much as confirm what people think they already know.

Also, it's crucial to establish whether there's a causal relationship. Because if not, there's a danger that everyone will rush out and go cargo cult, formatting their code and writing style guides, with the result being highly readable dreck. If you want to write quality code, we can't settle for an ndicator, we need to know which practices create quality.
Enchanted Aisles: The history of Trader Joe's
I'm about to leave soon, so I'll make it quick:

In a previous post I already lauded the book "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work"[1].

The book is based on scientific results.

In the chapter "The 20 second rule" the author talks about the "activation energy" required to start a task and recommends reducing it as much as possible. Every 20 seconds (hence the title of the chapter) removed between you sitting on the couch and starting what you wanted to start makes a difference.

I have a nice pullup bar hanging from the wall that's staring at me and every other day I follow the simplefit[2]
program. Have been following it for weeks now. "Activition energy" being so low... even when I dread doing sport (yes, there are such days) I tell myself it's at most 20 minutes and I can start right away so the pullup bar is looking at me with a face and I shrug and do it. My energy and endurance has increased noticably.

Gotta run now (not to the gym hyuk hyuk), I'll be happy to answer any questions tomorrow.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Psychol...
[2] http://simplefit.org
Nir Barkat, mayor of Jerusalem is another example of the startup mayor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Barkat

In the states, Republican politicians often have entrepreneurial backgrounds.
Quoting from a forum thread:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=59896&...

So as I understand it in order to be able to access a public dataset I create a new EBS volume and attach it to a given instance for use.

So if a dataset were 200GB in size I'd be charged against my storage usage for 200GB / month.

Is this correct?

Is there a way to do a read-only access to the data from within an instance that doesn't count against my storage usage?

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Here is an answer from Amazon support, April 2011:

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Hello,

You are correct, in order to use a public data set you will have to create an EBS volume with the corresponding snapshot and attach it to an instance. There is currently no option for read-only access.

Sincerely,

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I've played around with some of the datasets and it ended up being fairly costly....
Not yet, we're focused on the provider workflow side of hte product at the moment. The discovery end will come later, when we have more momentum. We're only working with providers that drive their own traffic right now.
How exactly do we hold people in other countries accountable for US law? Isn't this US imperialist bullshit getting a little out of hand? And for what, to uphold the Entertainment Guild.

Next thing you know we're gonna be extradited to Britain for insulting the queen.
Surely not! That's the most retarded part of it all: people who can, and want, to contribute to the US economy are not welcome in. Now, someone who pissed off some small-time mafioso running some shitty movie studio? Oh yeah! Bring them in, try them here and spend a ridiculous amount of money and effort to punish them!

Tax payers should be breaking things over stuff like this.
It was implied that it was a tourist who acquired the infection in Spain, where the bacterial strains are often resistant to antibiotics due to lax treatment discipline.
Is there really a piracy problem? Is there not enough entertainment being produced?
'wtf' is a good search term when coming into contact with a new codebase; https://github.com/search?type=Code&language=JavaScript&...
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As the article does not appear to be directed at people who are on the fence or in support of SOPA, I can't blame him for not wasting his time explaining why it's still bad. Preaching to the choir is tedious.
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If you keep it up it can be triangulated, I suppose. Other than that, the tower would have to shift everyone to a different frequency.
"I think there are worst things in life."

Strawman. He never said that there were not.
Ditto, except for the group run thing or races. I run twice or thrice a year with my brother in law, but as a true misanthropic geek I simply prefer being on my own as much as possible :)

I started running 5 years ago, and once I've got the habit to put on running clothes every morning, it's really quite easy.
Yeah, we're invite only right now so our sales & sign up flow is only given to people we let in. There's an application form if you're interested.

The pricing isn't a secret though, just not advertised. Memberly takes 5% (like Kickstarter) and then Amazon takes their payment processing fee which varies according to volume but is typically 2.9% + $0.30.
I'm not arguing that the content of the article is incorrect, I'm arguing that the title and first paragraph of are misleading, and this didn't particularly encourage me to continue reading. Positioning the words "music" and "noise" as opposites is fundamentally incorrect. Since the article is about music theory, the author should know better. Anyways, I'm getting downvoted so I'll just give up my argument; it's okay for someone to be wrong about music but not about programming languages or physics. Noted.
grande!!! :D
Numbers 1-3 don't exist. It's very odd.
So don't spend two hours. Exercise isn't an all or nothing game. There's a TED talk out there somewhere (google it) which explains that you get exponentially more out of exercise from about the 15 minute mark, and it hits a peak around half an hour. The study showed that the single best thing you can do for your health (the closest thing there is to a silver bullet, if you will); and this applied to both average sized people and the obese, smokers and non-smokers, etc, was to get 30 mins daily exercise. But even if you can't get that much, 15 minutes isn't wasting your time.

Furthermore, exercise doesn't take up your time, it actually increases it. Not just in the years in your life and how much less time you spend in those years being sick; that's obvious. But every single day.

Tim Ferriss tells this story about how Richard Branson was once asked the single biggest thing most people could do to increase productivity. Due to the fact that he's one of the busiest men on the planet, every single person in the audience leaned forward with bated breath. His answer? Exercise daily. It improves the quality of your sleep, so you need less. It makes you more emotionally stable, so you're more motivated. And most importantly, it increases mental clarity, so you're more focused through-out the day. Branson said that it gives him multiple hours more productivity every day. It's bull to say you don't have enough time every day to exercise; if you're that busy then in fact you don't have enough time to NOT exercise.

Finally, just thought it was worth mentioning that half hour of exercise doesn't even have to be strenuous. In the study I mentioned before they recommended walking, because it's the best overall for your body (too many people run on concrete these days). Swimming is also very good. Neither of these have to be exhausting. Hence why I take the 30-35 minute walk to work every day. My other exercise is a bonus.
Or if you reproduce (does "reproduce" include downloading a copy, or only providing copies to others? Doesn't matter for bittorrent I suppose.) or distribute things worth more than $1000 retail value in 180 days (17.506.a.b) or you share pre-release works (17.506.a.c).

I'm pretty sure most "so-and-so discography" torrents would qualify for the first one.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.pdf
If you haven't heard me say it enough, note that bit about "Given the choice between buying X units one at a time or 2X units all at once for a modest discount, people will often buy 2X units and fail to use them all." That is very important to keep in mind when designing e.g. the packaging options of a SaaS business.
Their full response to the petition is here:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition-tool/response/combating...
I hope that the appeal _does_ go through. This is a dangerous precedent for our legal system to be setting. I do not like the idea that US law can be applied to me here in the UK despite having no business in the US itself.
Consonances are sometimes described as being inherently more pleasant to the ear and dissonances as less pleasant.

This is probably the only article I've read about harmony that properly uses ambiguity when describing the pleasantness of dissonance. As a (very) long time, die hard metal head that both appreciates and enjoys the musicality that dissonance can produce, it irks me whenever someone makes outrageously definitive claims that it causes physical pain, depression, et cetera.
Frank's response covers it for me. There's plenty of dangerous things you can do in os. Same goes for sys, etc. None of them are going to launch missiles at someone or cause elevators to stop working, but you could blow away a day's work, drop a directory by accident, or some such.
Obviously you have never worked on a code base with 1000s of developers. If you edit almost every file then basically everyone needs to stop writing new code while the change is made. Otherwise the merges others have to do is going to be a disaster.
Great post. It hits on one of the many problems I have with xfit. The workouts are so different every time it's hard to track progress.
I'd have to agree that if the example code in this article is the worst code you can come up with within a large complex team based project you should count your lucky stars.
It is quite an old article. As it says it may be in the archive though I did not check.
The psychological difference is that 70/month is an expected expense each month whereas the $5 tax is not.

You can't always argue logic with the way our brains work.
The most waiting you'll have to do is when someone is curling in the squat rack.
And what about the other side? If I apply every formatting trick, keep my methods short, and document everything (not including the "increment i" documentation), does that mean I have mastered software development? I think not.
It makes me furious that this is considered under US jurisdiction for a crime that should really be a civil matter, if anything at all.

We should only allow extradition of our citizens for serious crimes, committed in other countries when they have fled justice.
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I don't think it is a stretch to imagine a perfectly reasonable system of morals where "denying segments of the population access to modern culture" could be considered an immoral act.
Next: US Government to extradite Chinese dissidents for saying bad things about the Chinese Government on the internet.

All of this is just wrong.
Nice. A minor nit: it’s “ensure a fair game”, not “insure a fair game”.
what do you mean by "asymmetric"?
Prob a reg exp so matches any char...
what about the fact that most people fuck around in the gym and see no results?
Why does it always upset me when services like this (Geoloqi) don't have pricing clearly available on their website?

All that great marketing doesn't make me want to sign in and create an account if I can't see quickly how much this service is going to cost me.
And static analysis.
Think about it from the view of the consumer, who trademarks and the UDRP are meant to protect.

Let's say you registered Xbox.com 15 years ago and only now launch a gaming device there. Should you be allowed to profit from this name Microsoft spent the last decade associating with their product on the open market? Is there a likelihood of people assuming a relationship to Microsoft when they visit this site?

Yes, irrelevant of when you started working, it would be in the best interest of consumers to let Microsoft have that domain. You have to think of domains as something like a brand mark, not a single piece of personal property you own. If you disagree with this process you essentially disagree with the principle of trademark protection.

Of course, if you registered Xbox.com 15 years ago and today launched a cardboard packaging company there, you'd have no problem and the panel would not give that domain to Microsoft. Nissan Motors lost its dispute for Nissan.com because the site is a computer company, not an auto company.
I don't think the title is wrong or for that matter misleading and to be honest I don't think you thought that either. You just though the article was about something else.

If you really think the title was misleading then why not say that?
I'll look for more on this, but if you had something you would recommend as a tutorial, I'd appreciate it.
No, the $70 a month, once paid, is a sunk cost. You can't get that back if you decide to skip today.

But, if you get taxed if you don't go, then your choice of being lazy right now will cost you money.
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Congrats! That's some pretty big gains < 2 months. I have been lifting long enough now that those sorts of gains are a forgotten memory. My deadlift is at 525 now, and I'd like to say that 600 seems reachable, but damn it's just so heavy. It's to the point where I can feel a strength difference between 1-2 lbs of more/less bodyweight. I often wonder if there is a way to figure out my personal potential max in a lift. I love dead lifting, but it would be nice to know if I'm at 50% of my possible strength or 90%.

The hour workout touches on some studies that I have read that going over an hour often doesn't get you much with respect to strength training.

Another good book is "The New Rules of Lifting."
I actually have a lot of trouble running outside. You see, I can't pace myself for sh*t, so I always wind up running at like a 6-minute-mile pace no matter what shape I'm in or how far I'm going. I've discovered treadmills are useful in that regard.
I totally agree. We have pricing information coming out next week! We weren't expecting the SimpleGeo news so soon.
> People go to college and invest years in an education that they grind out day in and day out because they feel ... there is value in the long term effort.

Many go to college simply because their lives will not feel complete until they can study certain subjects at the hands of masters. Much like how entrepreneurs feel their life will not be complete until they try to build that product; even knowing the odds are against them seeing it become a success.

I would argue that the rest go because they've been pressured to do so, not because they see a real long-term benefit in their actions. There is a lot of negativity towards those who do not have degrees. Getting a degree is needed to fit in and not become a social outcast.

People who make poor lifestyle choices do have their own fair share of pressure and negativity, but, unlike those without degrees, we generally accept them in our society.

Nobody is going to pass up the world's best programmer because he has a few extra pounds on his person. Lots of people would pass over the world's best programmer because he doesn't have a degree.
Veto fucking everything until it gets shut down. That place is such a gross violation of human rights and everything the country once stood for, it is disgusting. Getting Gitmo shut down is without a reasonable doubt more important than getting anything else done.

Instead he just said, "Lets shut this down, mmkay?". Congress responded, "Nah..", and he said "Right then, next order of business."

Then he does a u-turn and starts supporting the damn place when he thinks nobody is paying attention: http://www.salon.com/2011/04/25/obama_guantanamo_rhetoric/si...
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Why software projects are always late (part 1)
Ugh, don't get me started. I have a t-shirt I wear on squat days and it reads in nice big letters:

"Don't curl in the squat rack!"
To get and defend a trademark you need to actually use the mark in commerce. Trademark exists for a specific purpose -- to avoid confusion as to the source of a product or service -- not just to sell off words and images for registration fees.
>Shoot a circle around the star.

Expressly prohibited at every fair I've ever been at.
The DNS provision has not even been removed, only delayed in implementation until "more study is done on its effects", its a farce, we study the effects of bills before they are passed, not after the fact, where they can implement whatever they want with no recourse.
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'Next week' being Monday? In the time it took you to post this response, you could have gotten pricing info up on your homepage. Well, ok, maybe another 30 minutes, but you get my point.

Something doesn't smell right here, I'm getting more and more dubious. It is clear you are just taking advantage of the failure of SimpleGeo to pimp your service on HN before your service is even ready to be pimped.
Say that to e.e. cummings' face!
Exactly. The biggest mistake most people make when starting a gym program is not tracking progress.
Ha! Maybe an exaggeration, but not much of one. Then again there's the problem of whenever operators create new capacity their customers just fill it.
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Pacing can be difficult. On a hard workout, I find I can go out way too fast. I wear a Garmin watch that lets me monitor my pace and adjust it. Some of the people I run with are really good at setting a pace, so I'll follow them. Getting a feel for setting the pace just takes some practice.
Yes, sorry it appears this way. We've had our release date set for our new developers website for about a month and are working fast to finish. There's more than just new pricing information coming!
I used to drink a Speed Stacks when I could buy them cheaply from a distributor friend. They were pretty strong so I would drink 1/2 and then switch to water. Then I would use the other 1/2 for the next workout.

Now that I don't have the hookup, Red Bull on sale seems to work pretty well for a low cost energy drink.

Each person is different and needs to find that balance to just enough energy to go 110%, but not so much that you lose focus.
The British goverment has drop its pants.

Dangerous precedent... You have to obey British and USA laws.
Better foundations? You mean utilitarianism? That's a dead end too.

Currently, utilitarianism does seem to have problems, but not every framework for measuring or improving social well-being will necessarily share the problems of utilitarianism. One promising approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach.

...we operate on some pretty common and predictable impulses. To manage those impulses we establish some premises and call them rights. Right to life, liberty etc.

If I understand you correctly, you are saying that rights are something separate from natural impulses; they are things that we use appropriately manage (or channel) those impulses. I basically agree. But: "manage" must mean some goal that is separate from the impulses themselves, and when we establish rights that we think will appropriately direct impulses towards some goal, those rights--whether inspired by science or theology--cannot be considered natural. They are human guesses, subject to scrutiny, discussion, and improvement--to call them natural is untrue and confusing.
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This case is a bit unusual; if you read the judge's findings (http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgment...) extradition depends on the fact that the judge is satisfied that his conduct is also an offense under UK law. It's quite similar to what happened to the NatWest Three (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatWest_Three).
I do convict conditioning for 4 months now. It takes me approx. 30 min every other day although I switched to more like 20min 6 times a week now.
The results are spectacular. The important thing in exercising is not to overresearch, eg. you can find all kinds of people on the internets telling you that convict conditioning sucks and you should rather do X. Lots of these people have a point but usually it only holds under specific conditions like "I want to maximize my expected strength gain." but ignores time, financial or risk adversity to injury.
TLDR: Just pick something that fits your constraints and stick with it. The results compared to doing nothing will blow you away.
When seeing the title, I was a little afraid this was going to be an article about Bloomberg making an MVP after going to Codecademy.
Honestly, do you really work on the same code base with "1000s of developers"? I find it really dubious.
I love deadlifting, if I wasn't in the offseason training for a sport I might be able to get up into your realm :)

There's something so basic and satisfying about picking up something really heavy.

It seems (from my reading) that once you reach weights like yours, progression gets much harder. There's lots of tricky assistance work you need to figure out, you need to eat like a friggin animal, and you need to work just hard enough to not overtrain.

In other words, good luck!
I love the d3.js data visualization framework, which is what Mike Bostock (the creator of d3, as it happens) used the create this page. Well done, Mike.

Does anyone have suggestions for an algorithm for me to use d3.js to illustrate visually? This is such an effective learning tool that I would probably benefit from some review. I was thinking of trying a graph or tree search algorithm, maybe's Dijkstra's. Any other suggestions?
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