skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC there are several posts on that blog just obsessing over how awesome static typing is. On the other hand there are probably more people who are ignorant about the value of static typing than that of dynamic typing.

Every time this is brought up I always imagine writing a complete library to support a super-type for some static language that has tagged unions and operator overloading such that the user will rarely if ever need to inspect the type tag. And the more I think about this the more I realize you'd get gradual typing on primitives for free.
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I hope and trust that members of CSM have no delusions that they need to be honest and fair when dealing with CCP, and Residents main focused on their goal of ripping off other players for fun and profit.
WhatsApp was there first. Network effects cemented their position.

iMessage doesn't work for non-iOS phones. Annoyingly, GTalk doesn't have an official client on iOS. SMSes can get expensive.
What you're describing is whitelisting vs. blacklisting. Whitelisting will always be the better solution, but it presents far more usability and "approval process" problems than blacklisting does.
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This kind of thing is one of the main reasons I prefer to do app development instead of backend work now. I don't get calls at 3am any more.
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Go after the cultural norms with celebrities. Get Oprah and Ellen and Kate Middleton and Cosmo and Glamour on board, and arrange for high-profile weddings to have manufactured diamonds and large charitable donations. Things like this can change pretty fast when it's made obvious that there really is a right side and a wrong side. Gay marriage is a recent example, and that has the extra hurdle of having to overcome strong religious beliefs.
Warby Parker's name has crossed my radar a few times in the past month, but I know nothing about what makes them special. Can somebody please enlighten me, because even after looking at their site, I still don't get what the big deal is. Then again, I've got 20/15 vision, and don't wear glasses, so I'm not their target market.
That sounds very conspiratorial. What evidence do you have that it was taken off the market via force / criminal means?
This is a beautiful post.

Here's the deal. As you get older, more and more people fall into mediocrity. Age is a number - it's also a responsibility. You will meet 40 year olds who you'll think - what the fuck did you do with your life? And you'll meet 40 year olds who you'll wish that - at some moment of divine clarity - you'll be half as smart as. The second hand counts with stunning accuracy. Don't judge yourself against the mediocre. Look at the people who rose to the top. Some were smart at 18 and drifted off of that cleverness for quite some time until it caught up to them. Others rose above. Rise above.
Wi-Fi is about 1/10th the speed of SATA, so no.
As a guy who lives in a tropical, humid area, bringing my laptop outdoors to work may not always be practical.
Taken at face value, the fact you can't have wisdom without age seems nothing more than a truism. The more interesting questions are: what age is necessary (since if old men can be utter fools, no age is sufficient) for a potential (realized or not) of significant amounts of wisdom (enough "to be dangerous" and acquire more on one's own), and is more age always better? I'd say no to the second, and arbitrarily 14 (with fuzzy boundaries) to the first. There are those in history (and right now) wiser in their teens than most others in the population above their 50s. "Whence wisdom?" is thus not answered with "age", even if people do in fact have to age to acquire wisdom given the nature of time. It is acquired through study and thought, and it is hard to come by in a vacuum. Personal experience matters to some degree, but I'd argue the experience of others is more important (and easier) to learn from. ("I don't need to try krokodil to see why it's bad", etc.) Those in history who were wise well beyond their years as a young teen usually had a wise helping hand tutoring them for many years. It's much like differential and integral calculus: a 7 year old can learn it without too much difficulty if they have the right instructor.
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You might be right, I was just guessing on what I knew, and I don't know Derek Jeter.
I would choose a day likely to have non heightened security.
There is a huge difference. Saying that the video is just about a person and not about a group of people is incorrect in this particular context. Muslims have a huge affection, emotional attachment and love for their prophet which you wouldn't observe in followers of other religions. Unfortunately western cultures don't understand these deep ties and consider mockery here equivalent to any other common mockery. Although there are some other sensitive topics, such as Holocaust, which are treated responsibly in the west, but for some reason the topic under question is always given free hand in the name of freedom of speech rather than classifying it as hate speech.
I think the value of that should not be misunderstood. Imagine the reverse: it would be quite damaging if something made you think that your ideas were less profound or worthwhile than usual.

(I am saying this as someone who has never taken LSD, so take my take on it with a grain of salt I guess.)
There are many different types of vitamin D synthesized in our bodies which require sunlight to form. The many varieties of D are used in an enormous amount of different chemical processes in our bodies- many of which are quite complex and not fully understood.

Vitamin D supplements consist of (mostly) one type of Vitamin D. People are typically deficient in that specific type so mild supplementation is a reasonable option. Just don't kid yourself into thinking that taking Vitamin D is a replacement for spending adequate time outdoors. Compared to the first 100 million years of our species existence, hiding indoors all day is a relatively new invention. It will be a while before science produces a silver bullet in gelcap form.
Keep pushing, don't stop. I have seen many people peak at 18. The key is to keep moving your feet even when it feels like you are not going anywhere. PUSH PUSH PUSH! Happy Birthday, Lad:)
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I actually have to avoid Vitamin D. I have a disorder (Hypercalcaemia) that causes me to build up calcium in my blood. Vitamin D can rapidly improve the body's ability to absorb calcium (hence Vitamin D enriched milk). Too much calcium in your blood can lead to various physical nervous disorders (I get facial ticks in the muscles around my eyes) but can also result in various psychologically similar problems like depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue and various other problems. In severe cases can lead to coma and death as it can interfere with heart rhythms and other central nervous functions.

It's a real pain in the tail as the number of food products fortified with calcium and vitamin D is remarkably high.
I am a huge fan of SENS too.

Here is another place with high value per dollar:

http://industrialprogress.net

Industrial Progress is a very important and practical cause, and this group has a very effective leader who is actually having some effect at persuading people (particularly people in industry) and providing them with better ideas. And it's cheap. SENS needs a billion. A few hundred thousand would be huge here.
> You get experience when things happen. The more you play it safe, the less happens. And you only get wisdom when you think about your experiences.

In some ways, yes. But just mundane everyday life teaches you a lot -- the hundreds of coworkers you've interacted with, the stories you've swapped about dealing with projects and bosses and clients and customers, your romantic relationships, etc. You pick up on the patterns of failure and success and, above all, good judgment, that can't really be learned any other way.

> plenty of people with widsom well beyond their years

Things like raw coding/product talent, pure drive -- sure. You can have these at any age. But wisdom beyond one's years? I wish it were true, but I don't think it is.

Running a whole product team, dealing with employees, stakeholders, deciding what to invest resources in, etc. -- that's where maturity and experience really provide their value, so you don't make all the really costly novice mistakes. Intelligence is very helpful, but it isn't a substitute.
I hate to break it to you, but everything NASA builds is built and operated by private companies. SpaceX is an incremental improvement on something that has been done for decades. That is a far cry from Musk's fantastic claims.
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Google already has a Terms of Service and felt that this video did not violate it. A position the Obama administration disagreed with. Ultimately, I'm glad that they had a broader view of free speech than the current Administration.

And for the record, delaying or shifting speech is "hindering" it.
So do it. (I'm sort of hoping a reply like this is enough to bump you forward)
What about early settlement tech. Not only the habitats etc. but procedures a.s.o. for the first years: in what sequence to create stuff, run explorations, have emergency routines etc. all under the tight constraints of an early colony.

Intelligent robotics as assistants and autonomous explorers etc. with a focus on space conditions.

Advanced space medicine (say, transhuman spaceflight), modifications for the body, brain-machine-interfaces etc., there are many non-trivial issues: gravity, temperature, light, acceleration, radiation, ...

Interested? ;)
FWIW, the West has similar savages, but they operate through a centralized military organization.
There is usually a little more indirection, like buying a fuckedcompany with a /16.
Well, UVB exposure is what causes the process of vitamin D synthesis in the skin, wearing sunscreen is going to prevent that.
I think we can cut the author some slack. He admits in the header to being a relative newbie. (Learned python less than a year ago, recently took Hacker School)
> If a coworker is belligerent to an 18 year old, they are assholes. To a 35 year old (at least to me), the first thing I think of is that I have no idea what their home life is like.

I'm sorry, but I don't care what your home life is when you're at work. You're there to do your job, and communicating with your coworkers without being an ass is part of that. It sucks that <insert bad thing here>, but your job should not be affected by that.

If we're out at a pub in a non-professional setting, that's different; feel free to pour out your soul. But when we're on the clock, just do your job.

I say this having had a very, very close friend die on the morning of my first real world product launch. I had been up all night hammering out every last detail when I got the call from my mom, around 7am. At that moment I knew that the right thing to do was to finish what I had to do, and go home and mourn on my own time; it was what was fair to my coworkers, working right along with me, and to myself. It wasn't their problem, and if I had lashed out at them it would've done nothing but impede our progress. Sometimes you have to step up and do what needs to be done.
The key here is the initiative taken by a few employees, to make something special for the company and it's founder. Tops!
Are there any /8 which can't be broken down to at least /16? I think you can often get down to /19 or sometimes /22.
When is Scoble not having dinner? Dude has dinner for breakfast.
As pop culture becomes more decadent in North America, Christian fundamentalism seems to have grown. So not sure if pop decadence leads to moderation.
Vitamin D has anti-cancer effects which apply more generally than skin cancer. In studies which assess all-cause mortality relative to UV-B exposure, higher UV-B exposure is correlated with lower all-cause mortality. That is, more skin cancer yes, but also less death because of improved overall health and lower overall cancer risks. Importantly, this is not an endorsement of artificial tanning, which correlates with greater all-cause mortality. E.g.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21297041
Could you provide some references? I'm really interested to learn more

EDIT: I'm looking for backup to the claim that sunlight provides something that you don't get in a vitamin D3 supplement. It seems reasonable but has a big impact on the solution.
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So dont go out at noon, but sunscreen turns out to be a bad strategy. Some (most) may be more carcinogenic than the sun they block.
That is obnoxious.

Here's a workaround: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheindustry.cc%...
I think for the same reason HN doesn't do DNSSEC or HSTS -- pg isn't a full-time sysadmin.
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Not any more. Within the ARIN region it's legal to straight-up sell addresses as long as the buyer is actually going to use them (people argue about this point a lot but it doesn't seem like a big deal IMO).
I have petition the Obama administration to "Uphold the United States Constitution. Make a commitment to not ask a corporation or organization to censor user content"

http://wh.gov/WfFk

Apologies if this is not appropriate for HN. I just find this disturbing and felt that I need to do something.
Lots of interesting podcasts (techie and also story and news oriented) + player + walk or run in sun = winning.
This doesn't seem right. My individual plan cost me $69/mo for an iPhone 4S with unlimited data. I just switched to a family plan with two iPhones and it's costing me $110/mo, before taxes and surcharges of course.
18.209.0.1 is still my default test IP (it was our internal router interface at Fenway, but it also is a reasonable remote test IP). Heh.
"The video strongly implies that Muslims as a group are violent"

Well, they walked right into that one, didn't they. Mobs rioting, setting embassies on fire and killing people etc.
His entire life seems to have been spent doing progressively harder things. I would be surprised if he decided what he is currently doing is as hard as it is going to get.
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what about http://www.sandboxie.com/ ?
The 'foundation' as you use it changes greatly depending on what you use programs to do. If you are working on a user interface over a very simple problem, then design principles and maintanable code are critical.

If you are working on data analysis, than Big-O type basics become more important.

The point of having 'foundations', is that when you go to do almost a type of problem that you normally do not, such as CPU intensive data crunching, you know where to look for the information.
Where is this done now? I would be happy to pick up a /16 for a project.
I supplement with 5000iu per day, and check my blood levels regularly. Even with supplementation far exceeding governmental recommendations, My blood levels have never exceeded 70 ng/mL, which is well within the health range of 30 - 100 ng/mL.

My advice is to get yourself tested, supplement, and continue testing. http://wellnessfx.com is a great service for minimum effort monitoring. Alternatively you can use cash-based services like this to order easily and without a doctor: http://www.mdlabtests.com/Vitamin-Tests/081950-Vitamin-D-25-...
What do you mean by doubling the AC voltage to decrease the weight by 25%? If I continue doubling, will I eventually not need a conductor?

The true power of AC is the fact that the energy is transmitted through the electric and magnetic fields (Poynting vector). DC needs to push everything down a little copper tube. When you start oscillating things though, the effective area of your conductor increases greatly (you start using the air as a transmission medium). This is why you can do things like this (http://hacknmod.com/hack/field-of-fluorescent-tubes-powered-...).
I'm 99% certain this is Microsoft trying to ensure that OEMs don't cheapen the Windows 8 brand by reusing hardware designs across their Android and Windows 8 tablets. Not all consumers understand the difference between software and hardware, and if they see the same tablet in a Windows 8 version and a cheaper Android version, a lot of them will chose the Android version without a second thought.

Since the chipsets lack Linux/Android support entirely, reusing the other parts of a tablet design will not be quite as easy as writing a different image to a flash chip. I'm no embedded systems engineer, but I imagine having to completely replace the chipset architecture (let alone the chipset itself) would be a significant deterrent to entirely reusing a Windows 8 tablet's design for an Android one.

Even if Microsoft chose to coerce OEMs into pricing their Android and Windows 8 offerings identically (or, on a cold day in hell, temporarily waive the Windows 8 license fee), competing for consumers with (arguably) superior software alone against an enormous incumbent with an established platform is a fight Microsoft has been on the other side of far too many times to want to start out of the gate.

Alternatively, perhaps Microsoft is subsidizing their OEM tablets, and they don't want savvy customers to buy subsidized Windows 8 tablets and flash their Android "ROMs" of choice onto them.

This sucks for regular Linux users who might like to see either of these chipsets in a new generation of netbooks, but I imagine we aren't too important to AMD and Intel's bottom lines at the moment.
One thing that I have not seen expressed very much is how people in other countries, especially in intolerant or oppressive ones, are not aware of the level of freedom of speech guaranteed to all citizens in the US. In turn, Americans are not aware of their lack of awareness. This causes no end of misunderstanding.

I remember seeing an interview where Chrisiane Amanpour is told by an Iranian member of parliament, "I don't think there is a place in the world where freedom means that people can say whatever they want, where they can lie or make whatever accusation they choose. For example, in the United States, can someone say or write something against their country's national interest and security?" Ms. Amanmpour replies, "Yes. Yes, they can".

Here is the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkHzljMtB4&feature=playe...
There is no 1st Amendment right to have your content hosted on YouTube. YouTube is a private, commercial venture that can remove your content for any reasons at any time. In fact, to say that YouTube must show all content and not remove any content and otherwise people's 1st Amendment rights are "interfered with" - would ironically take away the very basic right of YouTube to do as it deems fit in its own domain, YouTube itself.

YouTube is free to remove content, and others are free to ask YouTube to do so. To say otherwise is to limit their freedom.
Christian fundamentalism seems to have grown.

Do you have evidence for that? The polling data I have seen suggest that that is NOT how self-reported religious preference in the United States is trending. The United States Census does not keep official statistics on religious affiliation in the United States (thank God), but various private organizations do sample surveys on the issue from time to time.

http://religions.pewforum.org/reports

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-07-19/no-re...

"Barry Kosmin, co-author of three American Religious Identification Surveys, theorizes why None has become the 'default category.' He says, 'Young people are resistant to the authority of institutional religion, older people are turned off by the politicization of religion, and people are simply less into theology than ever before.'"

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1690/religion.aspx

http://www.barna.org/faith-spirituality/15-christianity-is-n...
I was a young entrepreneur. I started a web hosting company in 1998 when I was 16. A real one, not just a white-label reseller.

Here's something I learned: It takes years--several years--to come close to mastering anything of sufficient complexity to be worth mastering. That is just not possible when you're young. We've all had to deal with that.

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once. But I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

Be water, my friend.
OpenDylan (http://opendylan.org) has been using MPS since MPS was first created. (Both were created at the now defunct Harlequin.) We've been working on reviving OpenDylan over the last year as well and this MPS update is a big boon for us.
I'd never hire old engineers, they're stuck in their ways and insist on using SOAP. Software engineering is a young man's game as people on slashdot were apt to say. Old programmers are always complaining about being forced into management. Plus they insist on things like having time for their families. Old engineers can't focus %100 on the company like young geeks satisfied with foosball and beer.

Ageism cuts both ways, and it's never an excuse for winning an argument or evaluating a person. You evaluate people on their merits or you pass over valuable people and pay the price for it.

Older people can be full of hubris too, using appeals to experience and authority arguments to shortcut rational thinking.

Using the I'm more experienced than you argument is the same as people saying you insist on C++ cause that is what your comfortable and experienced with, and you'll cost the company millions in lost productivity.
Well... I'm a web developer, not a "real" programmer, and I don't code at night. I did until I got married, but no longer. Now that I have a kid, it's suicide to do it more than once a week.
OBL isn't the issue. The thousands or millions of followers, who suffered under CIA power plays, who think OBL's ideas are better than anything else not putting food in their mouths. OBL was a US ally before he was an enemy. The US supported th Taliban against the Soviets.
Have you read much about vitamins K2 and A with reference to your condition? Supplementation or otherwise insuring adequate intake of K2/A might be of benefit for you in reducing vit D toxicity among other things.

These papers are good references:

http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/pdfs/vitaminKarticle.pdf

http://cl.ly/2y3a3e3s0P43
Must we also kill the guests and bride at a wedding that took place kinda sorta near a location where we think a terrorist is hanging out? Do you see the problem with this approach?
I don't believe the case has been tried, yet. Last I heard, he was in Finland (to avoid arrest) and his lawyers launched a series of appeals, including one attempt to have the "religious provocation" law declared unconstitutional.

As far as I know, none of his appeals relate to the "scam" remarks, which even in the US would fall under defamation laws.
I know. That's why I said: the modern smartphone. I have used a couple of those you mentioned and they just weren't the same. I doubt they even remotely pushed the kind of crazy numbers Apple and Androids are seeing each year now.
I never said violence was the solution, straw man much?

My point is that freedom of speech doesn't mean your speech never has negative consequences.

Nonviolent, legal example: you insult a customer and your boss fires you on the spot.

What is the common thread? None of this really has anything to do with freedom of speech in the west. It's a massive red herring that people keep bringing up in this thread.
As a die hard McGyver fan, I'm offended you'd compare him to a subset of stay at home mom's pinning pictures of other women with flat abs as "motivation." Ok, occasionally they post some pretty cool stuff, but mostly it is the former.
They could export microchips and software, like Israel does.
Re: Production values.

Something that looks like amateur-hour to us in the West (and the video is amateur) might not look that way to someone in Egypt/Libya/Etc.

Have you seen any Middle Eastern TV? It isn't exactly high on the production value.

This might have some effect on how this film is being perceived as well.

And yes I'm being serious.