skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The integral evaluates to 2012.93.

Wouldn't that be November 11?

Or perhaps September 3...
When I type in 'modules' at the help prompt, the program hangs. Same with 'modules spam'.
Tangentially, I don't understand why so many articles/diets get written about weight loss. At the end of the day, everything boils down to "eat fewer calories than you expend". Given enough time, this regimen will reduce your weight. Period. End of story.

Why must people continually try to create new weight-loss fads all the time?
I was kinda skeptical as well, because I actually don't speak much Chinese (even though I learned it at a young age), so I think in English, yet I was very good at math in HS (competitive).

Yet, looking back, I realized that I did think of numbers like "four two" instead of "forty two", so doing calculations like "[four | two] plus [two | eight] equals [six | ten] -> 70". Hence, faster.

It’s actually interesting — I kind of see this article as more of an analogy. I'm don't think it's the main cause of a performance gap, but it definitely could contribute.

Imagine: what if this article was about developing a typical business app with C# vs. C++ — instead of “you can count from 0-10 faster”, it’s “you can manipulate strings faster” (measured in dev time, not CPU cycles).

Developers will switch to newer languages that make it more efficient. Eg, Paul Graham's arguments about how LISP made Viaweb successful.

So, I'm curious. Developers will switch languages because they're more efficient and expressive. But it's hard to switch languages. Not impossible, though.

Will English evolve to become more efficient over time? Or will we all switch to a newer language because it's more efficient?
>Interesting, but your ability to memorize sequences of numbers is almost completely irrelevant to your ability to do higher-level math

Your digit span does affect your ability to do mental arithmetic, and mental arithmetic is an indispensable tool when meditating on equations and algorithms so that you can understand their behavior.
Die and you lose it, and your enemy (or his enemy!) gets the spoils.

Which creates incentives to cause player deaths. As they say, it's all about what you incentivize.

An insurance system was added later (2005ish?) where you could pay a certain amount per item to not lose it, probably also as an attempt to make the game less harsh.

A band aid.

The problem I have with a lot of MMOs is that the power of your character is simply how much time you sink into the game. Essentially, MMOs are games that reward wasting time.

Most MMOs are structurally the same as resort casinos. There's pretty scenery and distraction which all serves to dress up the primary mechanism of addiction through variable schedule of reward.

Someone should make an MMO where your power is related to what you build, how smart you can work, and how cost effectively you fight. How about a space MMO with a procedurally generated universe of billions of worlds? Allow macro-mining and even provide players an API to write their own scripts. (All in-game resource limited, of course.) Building infrastructure (warp gates) would allow you to exploit resources more efficiently and to charge others a small toll, just like building a railroad would. Server-side execution would allow scripts to have DRM that actually works, so players could license scripts to one another for a fee. I would also have all ship designs be originated by players and licensed. A given design would "auto-nerf" through stat decay over 8 months or so, so there would be an in-game industry of creating new designs and licensing them.

PvP would be entirely be RTS-mode through drone ships purchased by a player or through a mercenary-hire mechanism which lets players participate in RTS battles in hero-class ships. (Which can either be provided by the mercenary or the employer.) Targeting would be done by the computer, with an API provided for players to write their own targeting algorithms. Tactics would depend on dodging and optimal positioning for the given weapon.
I used OpenResty as the core for an experimental HTTP routing service at my previous job. The idea was to maintain host:port pairs for HTTP services in Redis and use a small bit of Lua code to look up the right place to proxy a virtual host to. It worked well enough, but never got deployed because we were concerned about the Redis SPOF. Now-a-days it wouldn't be that big of a deal.

That said, the nginx/lua combo is wonderful to work with. I got the core of that thing working in just a few hours.
Got it. Thank you! :)
The same applies to all of the link shorteners too. I've often wondered how much of the web would break if TinyUrl and Bit.ly closed.
> I really like that HN still has such an old, simple interface.

You having the interface you want shouldn't impact my having the interface I want.

An API allows everyone to have the interface they want.
If you read the article carefully, he talks of an opposition who "offered themselves as alternate protectors and arbiters of justice" and set up a road block, all this to push the mob to execute the insurgents who attacked a bank. This is exactly what you are proposing, mob rule to attack any "destroyers".

I struggle to see how the solution to violence is more violence.
Ask HN: Is S3 with CloudFlare(Not CloudFront)?
I'm thinking to use cloudflare instead of cloudfront. Does that really work?

Your suggestion. Thank you
http://docs.meteor.com/#quickstart
While this is highly non scientific and very subjective, my personal experience is pretty much exactly mirroring the article. A high-fat, low-carb diet makes it easy to lose weight and and fat at the same time. While running/pullups/... help with muscle definition and make me feel healthy in general, the weight loss for me seems to be 80% related to the food I eat.

Here are the graphs:

http://i.imgur.com/y0CJJ.png

I lost an additional 4-5 kilos before starting to use the withings scale that generates these graphs.
Cool concept, but I don't know how appealing this would be to non programmers.

Also how would a game like this mitigate griefers and trolls who introduce harmful code?
Astronaut Explains Why We Should Return to the Moon
It's Not Getting Or Downloading A Copy. It's Making Or Manufacturing One
I'm trying to think of what the good people of Afghanistan can do to create good regions of Afghanistan. It seems clear that good people need to band together, get some serious firepower, and create a safe haven where the One Rule (no destruction) is strictly enforced.

It's a fascinating problem because it's almost like dealing with a zombie apocalypse. Too bad that it's real.
I'm really pleased to see n+1 appear on hacker news. This is a great publication. Sometimes the writing can be a little obtuse, but in general I think many hn'ers would enjoy finding out more about them.
When I read the size allocation for the static arrays, and they set the size in hex 0x10 rather than just 16, my mind always blows up because it is amazing how people in the emulator / virtualization world work so much with hex they probably can think it like decimal.
The Irish Famine was caused by a mixture of a routine crop failure and awful policies both leading up to and during the blight. Ireland's population was not extraordinarily large compared to its production capacity at the time.

Crop failures haven't stopped happening, populations have risen quite a bit since the 19th century, but mass starvation still happens or doesn't happen entirely due to policy not a literal shortage of food.
This is to the point. To me its interesting as an outsider (Australian/European) to see arguments over social welfare and working conditions happening between America (which generally prides itself on being 'not like those socialists in Europe/Canada/etc.') and China (still officially Communist).
If you are doing exercise for which you need energy, the fact remains that carbohydrates can give quicker access to energy than any other macronutrient.
Because it's not just about the calories.

Among other things, insulin spikes caused by carbohydrates influence how the body stores/doesn't store fat/sugars.

You can eat the same amount of calories in fat and carbs and your body will decide to do different things for both cases.
Bill Burr has a comedy bit about exactly this, I was just watching it on Netflix.
Now if they would just fix the black-box browser sync...
> If I had to pick a second fondest aspect of the game, I'd probably say Rune Books. You could "mark" runes in the game with a spell, which coded that rune with the location you were standing in when you marked it, which you could then place in a book. You could then travel back to that exact location at will, at the cost of a spell and its required reagents

I'm glad to read this. I thought of a similar system for a space game involving "beacons" and "quantum entanglement." In a space game, one could have billions of procedurally generated locations, so exploration could become an ongoing industry. (And I have a clever user-generated content mechanism for why people would care about exploring countless locations.)
Ironically, French tend to be good at math (they told me so when I was over there). Zero through 69 uses forms similar to counting in English (inferior to Chinese per the OP), and then it goes all wonky. 70 is sixty-ten, 71 is sixty-eleven,... but then 80 is four-twenty, and then 90 is four-twenty-ten, -eleven,... Ouch!

The rational is that they get very good at adding, multiplying, and then simplifying funky numbers in their heads (e.g. 73 + 92 would be sixty-eleven + four-twenty-twelve = hundred-sixty-five). Or maybe they get really good at memorizing addition tables, which would enhance their memorization skills. Or maybe they were just bragging over beer (good beer, excellent wine, très bon food ;-).

Ref:

http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/ss/numbers_3.htm

http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/ss/numbers_4.htm
This kind of already happened, in 2009: the URL shortener tr.im closed. Once in a while I still run across a broken tr.im link.

https://www.macworld.com/article/1142188/trim_twitter.html
On a large-scale rich webapp, input elements don't have to have unique names, because you're not posting forms directly to the backend.

Instead, you identify your input elements with classes, use something like jQuery to read the values from elements with certain classes from inside a specific DOM element only (not globally), and then POST to the server using AJAX. Nowadays, user interface elements have no need to be tightly coupled with HTTP parameters.

ID's worked in the era of non-JavaScript. But for large dynamic sites where JavaScript is required (webapps, etc.), I haven't used ID's anywhere for years, thank God (like I said, an antipattern).
I've done similar.

Bayesian filtering seems to work great on HN headlines. I trained mine with about two years of data scrapped from http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ (apologies to whoever runs that), then just basically wrapped that with some code that grabs hacker news's main page and displays the filtered headlines to me. It nails politics and startup crap with stunning accuracy.

The only problem is that now I find myself using both that system and the website itself.
First, I think you misread the piece. That anecdote was clearly facetious. The roadblock was an empty show of force and was nothing more than more violence. There was no way that was an effective response. It was just a bad excuse for the gang to extort money.

Second, my proposal cannot be imposed from the outside. It would take a group of like-minded individuals to band together and protect a geographical region, imposing this rule on all within it. It's a safe harbor where peace is enforced with violence. Pockets of peace could arise, and then connect, and grow. If they are peaceful enough, and productive enough, their ability to sustain and fight wars will improve, naturally turning them into more powerful foes.

This, essentially, is what happened in the West. And I think that's what could happen in Afghanistan.
So I'm not the author of that but I am the SSF engineer in charge of that network and was present while that story was unfolding. Funding is in fact one of our biggest issue these days. We've discussed doing various fund raising efforts including Indiegogo but it does not solve the real needs.

The problem is that our expenses for that network are all recurring. We can get occasional injections of money for things like gear and generators, but it is hard to find someone who is willing to pay for the bandwidth or Afghan salaries on an ongoing basis.

All of us in SSF have no income from our work over there but we all continue to support our friends in Jalalabad in every way we can. For an indiegogo campaign to be successful it actually takes a fair amount of effort and is only a stop gap solution to the problem. So we are all focused on trying to sustain ourselves while actually solving problems. I can't speak for everyone in our crew but most of us don't have the time, energy or heart to do a full fund raising campaign that we know is only a temporary solution. What we really need is a sponsor to take over bandwidth costs and the salary of our fantastic Afghan crew who works on the ground over there.

So on the off chance anyone reads that and knows of someone who might be interested in becoming a sponsor, I can be reached at trevor.ellermann@gmail.com Feel free to direct any inquiries my way.

If there is any question of my identity and involvement in Synergy Strike Force, I have ways of authenticating I am who I say I am. Also, I would not ask for any money directly. There is a large, well known, non-profit that everyone knows that would be the entity dealing with any financial transactions.

Also, if you just want to nerd out over a cool network we run outside the barbwire in afghanistan hit me up.
It is not illegal to have a website that's not accessible. It's illegal for the government to use or mandate software that's not accessible; and thus anyone who wants to sell to the government must make their software comply. But of course, in many cases this means that people either find some exemption or workaround, or do a cursory and not very useful job of making it accessible.

I am not arguing that you should ignore accessibility, or that it's not a good thing. What I'm saying is that there's a certain group of people in web standards who put accessibility over everything else, and refuse to adopt newer, better technologies for providing accessibility because some older, broken technology was already standardized on years ago.

For instance, there's the whole fight over longdesc in HTML5. longdesc has been standardized for a while, and lots of accessibility standards require or recommend it. It's supposed to contain a link to a page containing a textual description of the image; it is intended for cases in which you can't fit a full description into the "alt" attribute. But so many authors use it incorrectly; some just put the long description right in the longdesc attribute, some had broken links, and so on, that most screen reader users either ignored it or didn't even know it existed in the first place. One reason it's so badly broken is that normal user agents don't provide any way to access a longdesc attribute, so you never see that it's broken unless you try to use a screenreader and specifically test the longdesc.

So the HTML5 authors decided to deprecate longdesc in favor of newer solutions that were more likely to provide working description, like aria-describedby, which refers to another element on the page. That element is much more likely to work as it's already there on the page, visible to people using ordinary visual user agents, unless it's explicitly hidden. If you still want to provide a link to another page, you can just point aria-describedby at a link.

But many of the accessibility crowd complained loudly at deprecating the severely broken longdesc attribute, merely because it had already been included in so many accessibility guidelines like this, not because it was actually technically the best solution.
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Kyoto Protocol extended to 2020
There's also a ceiling around the integral (⌈...⌉), so it evaluates to 2013
I'm using nginx+lua as the backend to http://typing.io, and I've found the combination to be a fast and robust alternative to more full featured web stacks like Rails.
i wish there was an easy to use NeXT emulator for my Mac — it's somewhat sad to me that i'm running Windows in VMware yet trying to emulate NeXTstep is major pain (i tried to find the OpenStep CDs on eBay too!!!).
Feel free to shoot me an email (address in my profile); depending upon the languages you know, I may have some work for you.
summary: I am hoping for some clarification

>>>Can I ask you a favor? If you do truly care about "responsibility" of "improving the world," please stop using exclusively strawman arguments against vegans, a group which adapts their entire lifestyle and existential place in the universe toward positive change. This is far more than most meat eaters. You have a really patronizing tone and make little, subtle suggestions that vegans are just idiots. This crosses the line.

It seems to me that you are offended. If you would like to give me some specific examples of what offended you, I would love to read them and potentially change the way that I post comments here.

Disclaimer: The rest of this comment further explains my confusion and desire for specifics, it is not necessary for you to read it. If you choose to read it, note that it is likely written in a tone that will offend you. I ask you to be as civil as you feel you are capable of being, as you are posting this on a public forum, and Poe's Law is in full effect :D(this smiley face is to indicate a lighthearted mood as opposed to some sarcasm that may offend you).

Until you can help me understand what offended you, I can not intentionally stop offending you, since I did not intend to write anything offensive and you have not cited specific examples about what was offensive to you. I honestly don't know what you think needs changing. I would recommend not reading the rest of this comment since it will likely have the same tone, and serves only to offer some academic frameworks designed to explain why we are having conflict.

-------academic communications issues---------

It is interesting that what I meant to say (thingA), what I actually said(thingB) and what jicksta2 voluntarily chose to infer(thingC) are at the very least two completely different things, related only by the pixels that jicksta2 saw on their screen. It is unfortunate that they were not all identical. The relationship between thingA, thingB, and thingC has been studied by many very famous academians, and is often lumped into a field known as "communications", more specifically "linguistics." More specific to the issue at hand is "semiotics", which concerns the relationship between the "signifier" (pixels on a screen) and the signified (what I actually meant).

Obviously the relationship is very complicated and there is another issue about the relationship between what I said and what I meant(thingA & thingB), which opens up a bunch of epistemological, existential, and quite frankly solipsistic waffling that Dagmar :D Descartes famously reduced to 'cogito ergo sum', Latin for "QED - Trust me, this proof proves it :D." Lojban and other engineered languages are attempts at alleviating some of these issues. There is a conversation about Lojban elsewhere in this thread.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
> (2) "Stalker" downvoting, which is when a person retaliates to a comment by downvoting that person's contributions en masse.

This is why downvots (or upvotes) are not registered if you vote from the user-page.
I do hope there is another Banjo Kazooie - not the nuts and bolts kind but a classic platformer even if it is not published by Rare I would still love to see it!
Tsuru - An open source PaaS platform
By all means provide an RSS feed on your site. But Feedburner can help get your pages indexed in Google (and other search engines).
I'm not quite sure why my comment about asian parents hitting their kids when they don't learn their math was deleted. The culture of corporal punishment in asia is totally different, and the ends to which it is used is totally different. There is a lot more riding on asian kids getting good at math than for american kids.

Does it help delicate western sensibilities if I point out I'm asian?
Uh, this is a terrible article. I don't even know where to begin.

I will say this: don't drink two boullion cubes a day. Don't eat bacon and eggs every morning without consulting your doctor and getting your blood tested, and carbohydrates are not satanic but actually beneficial if you eat them at the appropriate times.

Whoever is voting this stuff up, please get a clue.
Incredibly moving. I hope these guys all come out OK.
Deterministic Parallel Programming with Haskell
Most Asian counting systems are similar to the Chinese.

>How does pronouncing numbers help with anything more complex than counting?
Majority of the population don't use much beyond very basic math. The ability to do simple arithmetic on a day to day basis for most is an important skill to have.
Is anyone from the States still in Jalalabad or is the security situation too risky? Also, how did you guys get started?
You will learn a lot with a tandem coder
Writing is hard, so do it
CoLabel
My human computation experiment for an end of the year project in machine learning. It would mean a lot to me if you could take a look at it! (until you are bored)
If you boil down what Taubes is saying you get something like the following:

Consciously counting caloric intake and expenditure and trying to target numbers generally doesn't work for losing fat and keeping it off. A good way to lose fat and keep it off is by restricting carbohydrate intake, which in turn will cause your body to spend more calories than it takes in. The first approach is more difficult than the second, and the second one will also help to keep one healthy in other respects.

...

So basically, it's a weight-loss/health strategy that tries to focus on what you're taking in as opposed to how much food in general you're taking in.
RSA - Science Of Persuasion based on Robert Cialdini's work
This exactly, I don't really have a way to save tweets with interesting content for later consumption, RSS does that for me by default.