skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been compiling a list of these things which "set us apart" from most other mammals: the "ones I'm more sure about" column contains: we can form complex vocal patterns, we walk upright, we don't tiptoe everywhere, we're essentially naked, we have large brains, we bleed when we menstruate, our causal intuitions have come detached from their immediate objects. (There's also a "less sure about" column which contains things like "we sing for the hell of it" and "our hearts are distinctly on the left.")

The tiptoeing one comes from when I was trying to discuss evolution with some intelligent design enthusiasts in the US (shudder). So the point they were making was, you can't possibly say that we look similar to dogs. And with my laptop I started pulling up skeletal diagrams of us and dogs, and showing that pretty much the entire logical structure of dogs' skeletons is identical to that of humans' skeletons, from shoulderblades to legs, if you think of them as standing on their tiptoes. It also points out a clear parallel between our arms, which have the same logical structure as our legs, and common ancestry suggests an elegant solution -- once, there was no difference between arms and legs, so of course they had the same structure -- natural selection just stole the recipe for one leg and used it four times.

Anyway, it's very interesting to see that these observations about our nudity and non-tiptoe bipedal walk come from such a simple, easily-expressible underlying story. Thanks.
...of course, the introduction of LiveServerTestCase in django 1.4 puts another twist in this discussion - and a pretty awesome one, if I may say. The possibilities for testing the request / response cycle with varying levels of comprehension and veracity have never looked so sweet.
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Huh, I wonder why they did that.

Here's what appears to be a third party uploading all the Algorithm videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2TwK3fED8A&context=C4809...

If you'd like a copy of the assignments I can send them to you.

My guess is that they'll iterate over the material and open again next "semester." I'm at a loss as to why they're still operating under "semester" paradigms. Will likely be removed after a few iterations of the course.
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Try joining the job market after fifteen years away from it. He might be lucky enough to land some immediate work, but the transition to a new role will still be extremely difficult.
I quit white sugar for some time and I am not sure if sugar is really toxic but I can say:

- Coming through the day w/o white sugar is a completely different experience: no more downs (or "sugar crashs") through the day and work motivation is always up

- These sugar crashs or downs can be severe especially if you are under stress; then the stress is multiplied which leads to depression and more white sugar consumption

- Eating now fruits because of the fructose regularly, before I've never ate fruits (there was no reason because anything with white sugar was much sweeter and tastier than fruit)

Now when I accidentally eat something containing white sugar I immediately "feel" the white sugar: my brain is getting a high like with alcohol or caffeine—it's a difference compared to fructose. It's a subtle feeling and you probably won't feel it if your are used to white sugar. Before I related the downs to the heavy lunch I had before, that I haven't slept well or that the work is just so boring, etc.

Another observations regarding "white sugar could be drug": Look how many shelves with sweets you find a grocery store and compare the amount to other foods and with alcohol (where you usually find similar quantities).
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OSX also has both of those, although I'm not sure if you have VB support in osx, but I'm guessing that if you're using calc you don't need it anyway. If this set up works for you that's great of course!
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I work for multiple clients. After messing a few years with "I need a postgres for this one, a mysql for this one and sometimes, things just break on the live server because Mac OS X is almost linuxlike", I switched to a fully virtualized development stack and haven't looked back since. So the answer is not metaphysical, but true.
Are you able to explain the term "lambda user"?
Could you explain what the issue is? I've never had to reset my password but am intrigued.
Duplicate : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786624
I don't understand. If "theia" hit earth and formed moon, why would the istopic signatures be any different. Now both earth and moon come from same pair of different objects.
The answer is to do both. You can have a political debate about freedom and come to sane conclusions. Ten years or one terrorist attack later and you're back having the same debate with a possibly different conclusion. And don't forget, every country in the World would need to have this debate. And I'm pretty sure, countries will always consider the surveillance of people in foreign countries fare game if they can get away with it. The US and the UK (my home) certainly will.

We should strive for technical solutions which make mass surveillance either impossible, or more realistically so expensive it becomes infeasible. Money talks.
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I don't see value for money in osx other than ui awesomeness ...
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Considering Python's place in web development, it's surprising how bad its basic http client capabilities are.
I do miss cmd-`, toggle through currently focused app windows from Mac, one of the few features that I did not get in my switch to Fedora 3 years ago.

Of course, so much more was gained, the point of no return has long been reached ;-) Now the question, to Gnome 3 or not to Gnome 3?

Am I going to freak out as a gnome-do + compiz + dual monitor (laptop + external) user, or, with time, one adjusts, and, like an arranged marriage, learns to love the other?
> Aren't the macbooks over-priced ?

No? I mean is a Panasonic Toughbook C1 "overpriced"? It'll always depend on what you value and what your qualitative and quantitative metrics are.
> even though these currencies are much more likely than bitcoin to be around in 5 years.

How so? As bitcoin is a p2p network, it is likely to be around whatever happens. The only thing that could happen would be that internet breaks down - pretty unlikely, I think. Even when internet breaks in several pieces, each "local internet" will just use their own bitcoin - the block chain will be split in to several. After the two "local internets merge", the blockchain which has more computation behind it, will win.

In discussion, you should separate two things a) bitcoin's economic value/utility b) bitcoin network itself. I'm pretty sure that bitcoin itself will be here about forever, however it is pretty unclear if anyone will use it.
I'm sorry to hear that. It was a genuinely terrible phase of my life, and caused a lot of personal re-evaluation for me.

I actually adored high school. There were 330 people in my graduating class. I graduated third, only a sliver of GPA away from salutatorian. There were 6 National Merit Finalists in my class (including myself) and one of the things that always drove me to excel in high school was the sense of competition with my very intelligent peers, along with the support of some amazing teachers who actually cared about us and would be actively disappointed when one of us didn't live up to our potential. Many of my advanced classes in high school were very small. We had 12 people in our AP Chem class.

Then I got to college and I was just another number. I lost my peer support group and any meaningful feedback on my work from my instructors and with it, my motivation.

Until that point in my life, I'd always had my sense of self and identity tangled up with academic achievement. I was a "smart kid". Doing poorly in college didn't just feel like a failure to get a particular grade, it made me feel like I was a failure as a person.

It took me years to get over that. In fact, I'm not 100% sure I am completely over it. But at least I don't let it consume me anymore.

You're more than your grades, you're more than college. There is so. much. more. to any single person than a single facet. If you think you'd do better in a smaller school, try to transfer before it's too late. Or if you decide that college isn't for you, don't beat yourself up about it. You can still well, especially in technical fields where skill is more important than a sheet of paper.

And get help for the depression, if you aren't already. I spent about a year on Effexor (and Ambien for the crippling insomnia that piggybacked onto my depression - it was terrible, I used to get auditory hallucinations of alarms clocks and phones ringing in the distance) and it truly made the difference. True clinical depression is a chemical blackhole in your own mind, and the drugs can give you the foothold you need to find your way back out of it.
I don't know much about Python, but how does Request/WSGI solve async/long-polling/WebSockets? It would be a shame if they re-did the HTTP stack without solving these issues.
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I'd rather say Linux hacker then, Linux in 1992 was pretty basic.
I wonder if Sony is basing this decision on negotiations with Valve.

Think about that possibility for a second. What would be the motivating factors? Sony has gotten the shit beat out of them relentlessly in terms of multiplayer/online gaming. PSN has been shuddered for weeks at a time. Partially outsourcing this component to groups like Valve will fix many of their problems, but in return Valve probably would like their whole portfolio of content to be accessible.

If Sony goes x86, it'd be a shame to make such a dramatic shift and not capitalize on a content neutral platform.
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I spend blocks of hours every day in front of a dev machine, but aggregating all the hours I spend in private or inbetween work, including weekends and all using my phone or the ipad, iOS is my actual primary OS.
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"Even nature’s best animal distance runners — such as horses and dogs — will run similar distances only if forced to do so, and the startling evidence is that humans are better at it, Lieberman said. "

That doesn't seem to be true for sled dogs though, who can easily outrun humans over long distances and are very eager to run.

Then again, they've been bred and trained by humans to do that, and they usually run under conditions where overheating is not a problem.
If theories could be "proven" in the mathematical sense then they wouldn't be falsifiable and therefore it wouldn't be a "theory" in any scientific meaning of the word. So yes, I completely agree with your being picky about this!
WINE works too ;)
There's already some pretty good results here, broken down by age: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3662838
Until I got my first iPhone (3GS), the Palm V remained my favourite and most used PDA (and I've had a Psion, an iPaq and a BlackBerry).

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Like a Mac-book charger...? Or universal laptop charger...?

Brilliant!

Somebody, out there... Hack that shit up, and post your details online for free, and make some $ like the PwnPlug for a pre-made option...

So! That's what the big boy spies are using... Normal universal Laptop chargers...Switched with peoples normal one...

Oh, snap...There goes your corporate VPN protection...

;-)
Law.

I spent most of my time where I had to the choice of study on intellectual property. If in 5 years time things don't work out for me, I would have just one year left to qualify as a solicitor.

But saying that, I have at least 10 years worth of startup ideas so the liklihood of that is looking pretty slim!
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The red meat study from the nytimes article you link received a lot of criticism, for example: http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2012/03/red-meat-mortality-the-us...
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>usability might be their top concern and they may be willing to sacrifice freedom for usability

While some argue that this is the current situation, I want to point out that's a false dichotomy. Freedom and usability aren't orthogonal concepts like some make them out to be. I fundamentally disagree with the idea that we need to lock everything down to make it "usable".

Also, Freedom of software (and hardware) ultimately has greater implications on society as a whole, which is why I raised the issue. It's not merely a feature, a pro or con, it's something which at least people like here on HN should be greatly concerned about. Computers play an incredibly important role today, and will only become even more important in the future. It's important to retain control over them on a fundamental level, and that requires Open Standards, Free Software and Open Hardware.
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A number of people lead normal lives with hearts on the right sides of their bodies - there is dextrocardia (just the heart reversed) and situs inversus with dextrocardia (most internal organs reversed). Pretty neat.
Preaching to the choir, I've been paleo for three months and lost almost 40 lbs. I'm just talking about the physics involved: caloric energy used vs. caloric energy consumed. If you could measure them perfectly, there would be a loss.
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It's cool, but makes Chrome laggy and slow to scroll :/

(Latest version on OSX Lion)
"To say unilaterally that it's better for all people at all times in all use cases is, at the very least, an overstatement."

Yes. Just better for hackers who want to alter anything about the code they are working with.

"While being free is a top concern for you and many others, for some (perhaps many) usability might be their top concern and they may be willing to sacrifice freedom for usability"

False dichotomy.
Yeah, good point, live usb has been a life saver beyond os install and preview.

I've intentionally been sitting on the fence for over a year now. Once Fedora 14 goes EOL, going to have to make the move.

What I have now is a dream setup (gnome 2, gnome-do, compiz, emerald theme mamnager), so have been in no rush. Was hoping Gnome issues would get sorted out; i.e. they'd listen to the power users screaming bloody murder. Apparently not, or not entirely.

I'll take gnome 3 for a spin, it can't be thaaaat bad (I hope); if I'm appalled, check out XFCE, and then, if need be, KDE (KDE felt complex/clunky compared to Gnome 2 when I made the comparison a couple of years ago, maybe things have changed)
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The author of the linked-to essay is incorrect, which led to the mistitled HN title précis. The time.com author wrote "Unlike batteries, film, food and beverage, bulbs apparently don’t have a limited shelf life. Or if they do, it’s more than a century."

The GE description is at http://www.gereports.com/ge-opens-edison-era-time-capsule/ . It states "Among the items uncovered were five light bulbs. Three of them appeared to be in working condition."

Thus, bulbs do have a limited shelf life of under a century, and this HN title should be "a light bulb GE buried ...".

I now return you to your regularly scheduled pedantry.
This is obviously an excellent representative sample to make that claim literally.
I use OSX and love it. For personal use its awesome and feels a lot like linux when I need it to, but when I actually need linux for work, I can just ssh through the terminal and its awesome!

I love how its very easy to develop on OSX because it comes with a lot of dev tools preinstalled. Not that it takes any effort to get your own personal environment set up, but its just nice how they package that all together.
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It would be very interesting to cross correlate with age. Some programmers were exposed to code at a very young age. IMO, programming for 10+ yrs by age 20 is far more fascinating of a statistic than say programming for 15+ yrs by age 50.

I ticked 10+, and I am 26. I was designing 'web pages' when I was in middle school, albeit geocities html, but then had my first programming class (C++) when I was 15. Curly braces do not phase me.
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The graphics are indeed a big deal, but C++ compilers and libraries are not unified.
My understanding of the theory is that Theia hit the earth, that most of it was absorbed into the earth's surface/ molten core, and that the rest, along with some of the earth was ejected out into space.

If that's the case I don't see how there is any way of 'proving' that the isotopic signatures we are matching with those of the moon are 'native' and not already part of some Earth/Theia mix - in which case they'd match with a Moon that was already part of an Earth/Theia mix. Without knowing the composition of the earth 4.5 billion years ago, I'm not sure you can say otherwise?
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For desktop use I'm migrating back to Windows after having used Ubuntu almost exclusively for the past five years.

It's a shame, because Ubuntu was soooo close to surpassing Windows from a "I just want to get stuff done without mucking with the machine" standpoint. But then Windows got much better with version 7 and Ubuntu took a nosedive into crazy UI fantasy land.

The final straw was when text started randomly disappearing and reappearing in emacs and xterms in Unity. I don't know why it happened, just that it was too much trouble to diagnose some weird bug for the millionth time. If I can't trust my desktop to run emacs(!) without glitching, see ya.

I'm getting older, and after about 15 years playing around with config files, I just want something that's stable and consistent, and OS X was never to my taste. Windows is leaps and bounds better than when I heavily used it last.

And Linux runs fine using Xfce in a VM where you can count on the host to have all the hardware working.
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Very interesting. For some reason I considered myself a veteran at > 10 years... clearly not!
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Linux user since 2002.

Now I have multiple machines running linux. I use linux at work too. I am an embedded developer and use Linux in most of the projects. Using linux machine makes life a lot easy.
Heh exactly the opposite for me. OSX for work and Linux to customize all day.
I first learned BASIC on a Sinclair ZX81 which I got for my 7th birthday. I'm now 37 so I just scrape into the 20+ range.
I disagree. You are entirely correct that fanboism is detrimental to any healthy discussion. But sweeping any discussion under the rug as fanboism isn't much better.

I use all three operating systems, and one major argument for me when doing development is the terminal. I know there are emulators on windows, but I have had moderate success with them. Ubuntu and osx give me much more power in that area.