skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exercise tends to be pretty self-limiting.

Depends on the activity level and all that, but in general, even a few hours a few days a week is the most a person's likely to do.

And I know some ... reasonably well balanced people who do markedly more than that.

One thing about dying during exercise: you're going out doing something you enjoy. And which I suspect puts you in a good place.

You could probably make the first argument in favor of, say, gaming binges, drugs, etc., but not the second.
I find it slightly odd when developers resist caring about UX stuff, because in lots of ways we're already doing it whenever we code. When coding we worry about how to communicate the code's behaviour well, and whether it will work intuitive for other devs. In UX's and in code we strive to build a shared, useful and elegant mental model of the world. An API is just a UX for devs.

Apart from that, the ultimate purpose of our code is to serve the people in the world. Well, kind of, often it's just for fun. But generally the aim is to have a user using something; to exist as an entity in their lives and minds. Surely this means studying the user doing their using is just inherently fascinating? (If a dev codes in a forest, and no-one is around to use it ...)

I'm all for specialist UX folk, if resources can accommodate, they've put the time into their discipline, and will obviously do a better job than those who haven't. But when resources don't stretch, developers' brains won't explode if they start thinking about UIs and UXs. There's enough transferable skills there (methodical approach based on evidence, iterations, model building, communication), that I think it's something a lot of devs could get passably good at and enjoy without diverting too much energy away from their principle specialisation. In fact I've found that my experiences with UX stuff has improved my dev work.
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Why? Android, Chrome, Firefox, etc have app stores and are still open. App stores are orthogonal to openness.
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Dude.

The question isn't whether it seems implausible.

The question is whether you have any evidence that that's not what's going on. Because otherwise that's obviously just what the government wants you to think.
I've only played acoustic and I'm still a beginner, but I believe I've encountered this with my (cheap) guitar - after trying a friend's higher-grade guitar I was shocked at how much easier it was to play. I've found that a capo mitigates most of the pain, as well as making it sound less "muddy", if that makes sense. Also, now I have giant finger callouses from pressing down so hard. :)
The other day, I was setting wifi on my Dad's old Dell Axim (PocketPC PDA). I was trying to hit the keyboard with my finger and wondering why the keyboard was so small, before I realize that, of course, I was supposed to be using a stylus. It's amazing how much the landscape changed.
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I don't mind the tutorials myself since I have 10 years of experience (mix of undergrad, industry, and grad school), but I was trying to analyze the language from the perspective of a beginner. I figured it wasn't totally fair to see explanations in the experienced programmer's tutorials, hence trying out that book.
Under US copyright law (Title 17 Section 107), "fair use" is defined as "purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research", and then only upon consideration of these qualifications:

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
I agree with the OP about special interests misleading people into thinking that a claim is valid because there are studies backing it up.

However, I think the OP is wrong about Feynman. Feynman was not one to blindly believe in other people's studies. In fact, as he learned from his dad as a youth who used to make wrong interpretations of birds, etc., people are fallible, and so are their assumptions. What he was saying is that you can't argue with validly collected data and valid mathmatical proof. You can obviously argue with their interpretation.
I sometimes worry about starting with such forgiving languages, but I suppose it really depends on the audience, and how well things are taught.
Does anyone know wether it will be good for python dev?
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They certainly do, if you can afford one. They start at $3,500 for a small one (20 characters wide) and swiftly increase in price from there.
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Actually the appstore itself is not "open", as in Google Play is proprietary. Unless by open you mean anyone can submit an app. But parent said "how open the software is".

I think Mozilla Market Place is (open) (?)
So, if I understand this correctly, it's like Johnny Mnemonic, but you don't have to store the data only in your brain. I bet if you used your entire skin instead of just your brain, you could store a whopping 500 gigabytes!
I don't think the Voyager probe uses IP datagrams, and as the furthest manmade object from Earth, it's not even outside the heliosphere. Perhaps I'm missing something?
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You have probably seen it but, in case you haven't: http://jacquesmattheij.com/Welcome+to+the+Pit+of+Despair

If it makes you feel any better: I am trying to develop and monetize my websites while homeless. Joy.

Take care.
More like some Homeland Security squad is making and posting dumb videos and claiming that they're "Anonymous". This in order to make people think that Anonymous posts dumb videos.
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One contributing factor could be that tech sites like ycombinator like to misogynistically shadowban any females that attempt to participate.
you mean ceo's like sean parker?
I don't think there is a tipping point. People are already trained to give up their data to Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. Governments will share this data eventually and amass a great deal of its own curated data. People in general don't care and I don't foresee a time where they will. The surveillance era is here and it's not going away.
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While I appear to be in a minority, I thought the first episode of the Mule Radio version of TTS was better than the 5by5 version usually was. Yes, it was still rambling, but Gruber was engaged and animated, and that gave the show energy that hasn't been there for a while. The 5by5 version increasingly came across like "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Phone It In."

I really do like 5by5 in general and at least four of their shows are in my standard rotation -- like everyone else commenting seems to be saying, "Hypercritical" is great, with "Back to Work" a close second. "The Ihnatko Almanac" is a fine not-tech show. I like "Build & Analyze" too, although I'm worried it may exceed my quota for parenting-related subjects. (As a childless middle-aged man, it's just so not in my bailiwick.)
Nice writeup :D
Good point about community. That's one of the things I really like about Scratch for the younger audiences (though I have also successfully used Scratch with adults as well!). Is there not much of a community with Python? I admit I haven't really looked yet.
Gruber used to have a lot of interesting stuff to say.

In the same way that Jay Leno used to be one of the funniest comics in the 80s and now resorts to Jaywalking to keep his audience, I find DF to be a little boring, consisting of mainly claim chowder, Android schadenfreude, and the occasional long winded rant essay that goes nowhere.
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If an experiment works, who cares how rigorous it was?

For the example of a society I think a good metric would be: "How many people enjoy living in this particular society and don't want to move away?" We wouldn't need to make any big changes right away because we could start experimenting with what we have already: cities and towns.

How about this: "Cities and towns can create some of their own laws (but only certain types of laws that have been pre-approved by the state and federal courts). These laws will supersede state and federal laws."

I think this would give countries the opportunity to experiment with the effects of theoretically harmless legislation (e.g. cannabis legalization, polyamorous marriages, the invention of new types of corporations) that might make people uncomfortable if they were instantly implemented on a larger scale.

There would probably be a long period of adjustment as cities and states got used to their new relationship, but I think in the end it could bring smaller communities a lot closer together and make places in general a lot more interesting and unique.
It also crashes my phone if I let it enter deep sleep.
Hmm, I live a bit far from the Bay area to make the meeting. I really want to have some sort of community, now that I know there's a couple of us. How about a facebook page? Would all of you contact me, shannon at rocketships.ca, so I can invite you?
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In a previous life, Gruber might have called himself the "Jackass of the Week" for posting such a link, given how he makes his living from preaching to the choir.
I don't think this is always such a good thing.

http://artificialized.com/2012/05/github-for-windows/
I don't entirely disagree, though I don't think that something needs to be difficult for the sake of it (I also don't think that's what you were saying). I happen to have a keen interest in teaching beginners about CS and programming, and know that it can be especially easy to lose a non-typical student early on. How you approach the first attempt at teaching a programming language really does matter.
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As a blind developer, I don't think my opinions on what makes nice code differ wildly from my coworkers, with the exception of indenting, equal-sign alignment, and other such white space issues. Those are the sorts of things I only do because I have to. They rarely provide me any benefit.
Yes, I couldn't find any API or technical information. Do you have any developer guide or something?
I think that's a really good point.
I actually wish we talked about LOGO more often. I personally don't have experience with it, and that's probably because it seems to be somewhat of a lost language. This post makes me want to see it make a comeback though:

http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/we-used-to-know-...
Author of the article here!:

You make a great point, but I definitely wasn't trying to argue that the constancy in phenomena ('natural laws') occurs in society. This obviously means that the nature of 'experiments' is different because social processes are more like complex adaptive systems which show indeterminate or chaotic qualities. This makes isolating variables, like a good scientist must try to do, very difficult.

The bigger point is evolutionary: the scientific method and evolutionary epistemology support that open systems of trial and error help us falsify bad ideas and evolve novel and more accurate explanations in the real world. It has worked wonders in science and is an anti-authoritarian stance, because any theory can rise and fall by falsification. Physical technology evolves in a similar fashion (see the work on 'combinatorial evolution' of technologist Brian Arthur for example).

The argument I am trying to make, as the whole website is arguing, is that we need a similar open system to evolve our knowledge of society (rules, institutions, laws, businesses etc.)

This does get complicated because of the points mentioned above. But fields like systems theory, evolutionary/complexity economics, and the work of thinkers like FA Hayek on spontaneous order in social science is where this perspective is coming from. There's a theory page on the site www.radicalsocialentreps.org/theory with more on this.

Thanks so much for your intelligent comment!
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Can you please explain this in simple terms? I am an engineer but found this hard to understand all of it.
Even simpler : Django + SQL in Heroku.
Something that I haven't mentioned in the article is that for me, Hacker News is a big motivation when doing this kind of small week-end project.

Obviously a site can get popular without HN, but having an audience to launch to plus immediate feedback feels much more gratifying to me.
Don't feel too bad. I'm an experienced screen reader user, and even I find it almost impossible to do anything with narrator. Well, to be honest, I've only tried the one from XP. Hopefully the newer versions are better.
A better question is, "How much revenue does the film industry lose because of restrictive licensing". More access == more revenue.
I once visited a Japanese night club in Kyoto.

All the beer & other drinks (coke, water, etc) in the club was served by vending machines around the edges of the club.

There was a bar but you only went there for cocktails or mixed drinks, and you paid through the nose for the pleasure.

It's one of those things that, when you see it, you wonder 'why isn't it like this everywhere?'.

The answer is probably something to do with responsible service of alcohol, which for some reason isn't an issue in Japan (even though you see salarymen passed out in gutters everywhere, I guess they don't tend to get into fights)
To me it's more about how to hook people (especially non-traditional CS students) rather than ensuring they can continue using the tool later on, though that is a bonus. But on that thread, I don't doubt that Python can be useful even though I haven't made use of it myself quite yet.

I can say that I use Processing all the time because it's so easy to make simple graphical programs. It has been particularly useful for prototyping little game ideas and making applets to explain graphics concepts to students. Depending on what sort of career path someone has, Processing might be really useful far beyond being a pathway to Java.
Right. I think this is the primary reason laws can be incredibly dangerous. To some extent every law assumes that the context in which it was made is going to stay the same.
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You're right, it's kind of asking the wrong question.

Because of the robustness properties of the median, it would be hard to argue that the first 1E6 samples weren't enough, and that you really need to hang on for the next 9E6 to get an accurate median.

In real problems, if you have that much data, you would more likely start to question the iid assumption anyway, and you'd start looking for drifts in the medians within sliding windows. Real problems being real problems, you'd probably find some drift, and this would point out the unhelpfulness of an "all-data" median. ("Since the data is drifting, what is this the median of?")
Ollerac is definitely onto what I was arguing in this article. Allowing people to 'opt-in' and vote with their feet in a system with greater policy experimentation through decentralized, competing jurisdictions is perhaps the closest we can get to scientific rigor (holding culture relatively constant, for example).

There is a section on "Exit and Voice" which discusses this on www.radicalsocialentreps.org/theory as well as a practical entrepreneurial proposal called "Free Cities" here: http://www.radicalsocialentreps.org/theory/free-cities/

Thanks for your thoughtful comment.
I imagine it would be hard for a blind programmer to program using Python, Coffeescript and other language where white space plays important part. Can anyone give more insight about this?
It's indirectly related. Binge gaming can lead to an unhealthy lifestyle, which in turn can lead to complications such as heart attacks.
Re social cues: See if you can find a socially savvy friend to kind of mentor you. By that I mean someone who might hang with you, critique what you do and help you find a means to bridge the gap. I have done a lot of that for my two sons. They are not literally deaf but are ASD, which I have described as "socially deaf" (in other words, they just don't read social cues well or instintively know how to react appropriately). It has made a big difference.

Take care and best of luck.
Heya, I'd like to start some sort of community for those of us who are deaf and work in technology. I'm studying programming in Victoria, myself. Want to contact me, shannon at rocketships.ca, and I'll invite you to a facebook page? If you have a better idea than facebook, let me know, too.
I'm sure it was, but now it says

"This website is offline.
No cached version is available"
"Zenmap"[1] to the rescue. :)

[1] http://nmap.org/book/zenmap-profile-editor.html
I don't think it's fair to say it's an addiction to money. That may apply to some professions but a lot of people working 40 hours a week are just making enough money to get by.
I'm reposting a comment from earlier to make sure you see it:

Heya, I'd like to start some sort of community for those of us who are deaf and work in technology. I'm studying programming in Victoria, myself. Want to contact me, shannon at rocketships.ca, and I'll invite you to a facebook page? If you have a better idea than facebook, let me know, too.
Perhaps also because there are still airlines in the world (almost entirely in the Middle East and Africa) that still allow smoking.
Reposting earlier comment to make sure you see it:

Heya, I'd like to start some sort of community for those of us who are deaf and work in technology. I'm studying programming in Victoria, myself. Want to contact me, shannon at rocketships.ca, and I'll invite you to a facebook page? If you have a better idea than facebook, let me know, too.
OTOH, if you know they're integers (as you assume), you might use a simple histogram. Not the same, because you'd have to range the histogram -- but we seem to not mind throwing out a lot of data to get in the ballpark anyway.

And if you don't know they're integers, you have to find a scaling rule for your increment that assures convergence. This is the same problem as bucket size selection for the histogram.
By liking them, you're advertising them. Your "like" factors into your friends getting an update saying "jlarocco likes the Super Sandwich Stall", and thinking "huh, I should go and try that place".

It's somewhat meaningless now, admittedly: I might not speak for everyone, but I've basically tuned out anyone "liking" anything on Facebook as white noise.
For the most part, CSS is ignored by screen readers. However, it can of course make a huge difference for people who are browsing your site with screen magnification or who have color blindness.
Great to see the large list of new features and improvements.

Get a copy and start scanning, don't just scan your web servers and Internet gateway. Have a crack at your Internet connected TV, WII and any other device that has an IP Address. If nothing else its fun. :)
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Isn't this usually called a toll road?
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That's interesting news to me. I did wonder why smoking paraphernalia continued to appear in planes that were covered in anti-smoking insignia. I always assumed that the bathrooms, seat etc were made in large quantities, and that there are a lot of countries in the world where you can still light up in a flight, not to mention privately owned planes.

I once flew on a Japan Air Lines flight back in the '90s. At that stage they still had the back 6 rows or something as smoking seats. The girl who assigned my seat at check in didn't realise this and allocated me there. I just sat there and took it for 8 hours - nowadays I would have loudly demanded an upgrade out of there - but I was somewhat meek in accepting my fate. The lady next to me had just been to bury a relative in a car crash and was on the way back home. She must have drank half a bottle of whisky and smoked two packets of cigarettes. When I arrived I smelt like a tobacco spitoon and felt as though I had sand rubbed in my eyes.

Allowing smoking on planes was and is a terrible idea. The fire risk alone should immediately discount it.
I agree that the first attempt matters a lot. Which is why I am against hiding the difficulty. Perhaps this stems from personal experience, though, because I had a pretty effortless academic life until I hit university, where work was actually required to pass. I floundered and wasted a couple of years before gaining the gumption to just sit at a table for hours trying to understand stuff. Conversely, a friend of mine who consistently did not do well when we were in secondary school even though he studied while I was playing video games breezed through university. I think having things too easy at the start leads to having less backbone when you encounter difficulties later, which is why I think an approach of convincing students right at the start that "this is going to be difficult, but it is going to be so worth it" might be better for them.

Of course, this is just my opinion, formed from a sample size of 2, so take it with a large pinch of salt. :)
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All the sharing in the world isn't worth anything if people don't actually buy.
Python is one of my favorite languages to program in, but the white space thing was an issue for a while. Fortunately, I found an editor that will work well with my screen reader and will tell me what level of indenting I'm at, so it's now just a mild annoyance. However, when browsing on the web or elsewhere outside my editor, I do find myself occasionally counting spaces if it's not obvious from the context what indentation level a particular line is at.
Very good observation. I've never paid attention to the ashtray in the airplane bathrooms and thought they were relic from the plane design in the old days.
I was thinking about this same idea earlier today: Buses in Philadelphia have a bunch of "No Eating and Drinking" signs and consequently no trash cans. The result is that the back of the bus is covered in trash. If they had just 1 or two trash cans it would be a much more pleasant ride.
Even if they would find anything incriminating, what are kids going to do with this? It's clear by the messages on the anon news site that a lot of them are teens and not activists. It may be entertaining but I don't get it.
I don't think the connection the OP is making is that binge gaming session == heart attack. I think it's that the person spent a lot of their time playing games. They spent too much time sedentary and this was the unfortunate result. It's something that can happen easily with games - some people find them very addictive (I don't have the attention span for gaming but I know people who have days where they wake up, play games, and go to sleep). The same result could happen if you sat and watched several movies every day and didn't exercise or eat well.
Couldn't they get around any problems by providing a way in which you could download and "recover" the original links?
"The sooner you can adjust your mental view to treating food as nothing more than fuel, the better off you'll be"

Better off how? Eating for enjoyment is one of the best pleasures in life. To quote someone else, if you spend your life eating no butter, no lard, no salt; you're gonna feel like a damn fool lying on your hospital bed, dying from nothing.