skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might just be me, but I don't like wordsy apologies. I don't like apologies with intricate explanations.

Lehrer's point is that a lot of people try to soften apologies and remove some accountability, as if the apology is just part of a status quo, and he's worried people will think he's trying to do that; really, he's just trying to make a record of his actions.

But honestly, I think he's got it a bit wrong. People don't distrust verbose apologies because they're intended to be excuses, but because they are excuses by design.

If Lehrer said something to the effect of, "I fucked up. I'm sorry. I understand you may never trust me again and I'll have to deal with that." I would trust his apology much more than I do now.

But providing an explanation, however benign it is (especially in a highly media fueled instance like this where not much explanation isn't already known) garners sympathy from the audience and wraps the apology in something tolerable for the author.

I don't think it should be tolerable. But that's just my thought on it.
The last 'she' was the aid worker, who was indeed being comforted by the tribe woman in her last moments. I've edited it for clarity.
You're right, there does not seem to be a model regimen - there are just too many of them.

It reminds me of an article I've read recently on lesswrong about the limits of self-experimentation : the results are not transposable because of each person different situation.

Yet one has to take a baseline and work upon it (experiment, rinse & repeat), especially when considering the daily recommandation are of questionable quality. Proper experimentation to find them scientifically might be ethically objectionable.

IMHO the only valid evaluation is a self evaluation as described by how one feels and the lack of diseases caused by deficiencies.

Still, I don't believe my routine is optimal - from a nutrition standpoint, variety is always better than a routine (ex: vegans frequently have problems with B12).

I wish there was a known "good" routine, but IMHO even without it, the good outweight the bad - as in time and effort saved and put to some better use, not having to think about each meal individually.

Anyway, I spend some time reevaluating the routine every month or so, but that is nothing when spread to the number of meals covered, especially if the resulting default choices provide health benefits on the side.

[At the moment, I am worried about underdosing important vitamins and mineral, especially due to the low fruits & vegetables intake, even if there are also advocados and nuts on the weekends, so I'm considering adding a fresh tomato per meal.]

BTW, before the "important" weekly workout, I take milk and cornflakes (1 minute to prepare- and there come VitD too, thanks to the milk!) - a kid brand I had chosen for its content in B1/B6/B12 at the time I was using "usual" rice. It's light, but I noticed it improves the intensity of the workout (reps are stopped when they become physically impossible, with a 45 min deadline for the total duration of the session) It is supplemented by drinking liquid cane sugar + 80% water during training.

Anyway my routine is quite minimal and lack variety, but I'm not overtly worried, considering I have to eat outside at least twice per week, which should bring enough variety to fix any real deficiency.

I would be interested on your take - especially if you follow a routine and have identified potential problems in your own routine.
In other words, people least familar with the idiosyncracies of U.S. grammar, spelling, and linguistic differences...

This site is probably still worth it if you are aiming for international English, but it's useless if your audience reads and expects U.S. English.

Note that if you are U.S.-based, and your audience will primarily be U.S.-based, you can probably get better quality proofing and editing for not much more by posting Help Wanted's in your local college's student newspaper.
If by kernel you mean linux, then yes, it does do precisely that. Try this out on a large file:

time cat bigfile > /dev/null
time cat bigfire > /dev/null

Then wait a few minutes and try again. Linux won't evict the pages from the cache unless something else wants to use the space.
Pascal was the Mac OS programming language. The API had data types Str255 (Pascal string, maximum 255 character, in a 256-byte memory block), Str15 (same, max 15 characters, in a 16 byte block) and the like, and many of the higher-level calls used Pascl calling conventions (lower-level calls used a mish-mash of conventions for speed. For example, low-level file calls used a register to pass pointers to parameter blocks.

In the rather unlikely case you want to know, read http://filibeto.org/unix/macos/lib/dev/documentation/Carbon/..., which details how you (sort of) transparently could call 68K code from PPC code and vice versa.

The section "Special Case Calling Conventions" lists all special cases. You get such cases as "Parameters are passed to the routine in registers A3 and D7, and output is returned in registers D2, D3, and D4".
How to find the next Steve Jobs, by Nolan Bushnell
Read as "[...] your original statement that jQuery is not as popular as [I believe] it actually is."
At the Apple Store for Education, the base model retina MacBook Pro was priced at $1599. As of today, that model costs $1399. That's a 13% price reduction.

http://store.apple.com/us-hed/browse/home/shop_mac/family/ma...
The largest plan has 9 collaborators, which seems rather prohibitive.

As a dev I often had to tweak my designer's assets. For example, fixing the 9-patching for Android or removing bad whitespace. Could I offer these changes in a pull request?
>Ok, you checked your pointer to see it isn't null. Then you passed it to function foo. Which passes it to function bar. Do foo and bar have to check it again?

I guess not, what I'm saying is therefore: if you use a language that does a lot of stuff, you need to find a convention for your project. One may be: check for nil after assigning variables.

>costs runtime

By all means, no.

Anyway, looks like in need to try Scala and see for myself. (Scala installed: check, Hello World: check)
"The Mayfield story was so irrelevant to Lehrer's case, in fact, that I couldn't help but wonder if he had another motive for its telling."

I think the technique of anecdote as wingman is a fashionable way to make a piece more attention-keeping, and certain writers have so internalised it that it pops up where it's not appropriate. Gladwell is a master of this, planting his anecdotes early and making callbacks to them a key structural feature of his writing.

The slate article is spot on here:

"There was no mention of the many other instances of fraud and plagiarism and misreporting that have been uncovered in the months since his disgrace. What about Seth Mnookin's claim that Lehrer deliberately, obviously, and knowingly gussied up anecdotes from Leon Festinger's When Prophecy Fails, and then self-plagiarized his own deceptions? Or Daniel Bor's claim that Lehrer misrepresented A. R. Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist, then blamed his editor for the error, then repeated the error elsewhere? There are plenty of other examples to choose from; these two just stick out in my mind as being especially egregious."

The third paragraph of Lehrer's apology briskly gets his crimes out of the way...

"For those who do not know who I am, let me give you a brief summary. I am the author of a book on creativity that contained several fabricated Bob Dylan quotes. I committed plagiarism on my blog, taking, without credit or citation, an entire paragraph from the blog of Christian Jarrett. I also plagiarized from myself. I lied to a journalist named Michael Moynihan to cover up the Dylan fabrications."

...then there is no further mention of them. I feel this can't help but invite people to call him out on other instances of plagiarism unacknowledged in that slim summary.
I agree that this is most likely a scam, but just wanted to point out that the 'market name' is just a reference to a movie called 'Soylent Green': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
The idea that someone would read a ZDNet Violet Blue story and immediately create a petition to the White House about it is as good an illustration as any about why White House petitions are stupid. Can you get Obama to confess that he's a Muslim, while you're at it?
God speed aaron.
Care to share a little more? I've heard about it, but haven't heard from anyone actually using it.

Is it stable? Does it work as advertised?
You may be surprised and you won't know until you ask.

Where do you think the largest cost in an app like this comes from? Especially the onsite installed version? It's in support of the users.

Just name your budget to them and see if they meet it or not. Simple as a couple of emails. Maybe it could be $40k for 500 users… who knows?
Any IRC channel would work (##programming or ##python for example.) However, I wouldn't overthink it. There's really only two things you have to worry about when naming classes, variables, etc. That the name conveys properly what it's trying to represent, and also that it won't conflict with other names. A more minor point would be sticking to a naming convention (ie all_like_this or allLikeThis). Variables are the easiest, since they represent something specific at all times, even if the value changes (something like position.x for a sprite). Functions while harder, are still (if you're not overpacking functionality) a concrete input and output. Data goes in, data comes out, the name should describe what that processing is going on within (such as forierTransform). Classes are a lot like variables, they represent specific things no matter how they are changing inside (if your class is capable of representing a giraffe or an elephant for instance, then a broader Animal or Mammal title would apply better.) It's not supposed to be rocket science, so I don't think second guessing yourself on all your namings is going to do you any good. Learn more about what works and what doesn't and go from there.
Nice article - easy-to-understand analysis of the benefits of RubyMotion.

I went the JS route with Titatium Appcelerator for our iPad app, but I've followed RubyMotion since it appeared and always wanted to give it a try.
RTFA:

The closing of the psychedelic mind involved the weaving of a fine-spun stigma and the application of indistinct professional pressure. “A subtle microphysics of power guided scientists away from further work on these compounds,” says Nicolas Langlitz, an anthropologist at the New School who studies psychedelic science. “The allocation of funding, having to guard one’s reputation, approval of research projects, recruitment of test subjects — it all led to a near-total breakdown of academic hallucinogen research.” Before the end of the ’60s, two leading lights in the field would bemoan the fact that interested and capable scientists were “turning their backs on psychedelics for fear of identification with irresponsible researchers.”
My thoughts about PayPal and Lenovo trying to kill the password
Not a troll and no expound was not the right word. The OP has admitted as much.

"Making it hard to explain and present existing research"

Why would the current climate make it hard to explain or talk about past research? The OP wanted to convey that the current climate makes it hard to move forward with the research and undertake new studies. When you expound on something you are not conducting new studies and moving forward.
My only concern now is how do you find pure LSD/Psylocybin? As in, how do you know that you're buying what you think you're buying?

Obviously in a controlled, medical environment the problem is void.

NB: I am NOT advocating drug use/abuse of any kind. This is a legitimate question I've been asking myself for quite some time.
> Respect the Style

RubyMotion is Ruby, which is normally succinct, short, and sweet. The iOS APIs stick out like sore thumbs amongst what is normal Ruby code: camelCase usage is pervasive and reallyFreakingLongParameterNames can’t be tuned out.

When I first read the above paragraph, I was afraid this was going to be a case of someone using a great tool to enable willful ignorance, but:

> So far, I’ve ended up with staying in Objective-C style. All of the API calls you make into the various iOS frameworks need to be in that style, and seeing the different opinions of variable and method naming clashing ended up hurting my head.

I commend the author for being perceptive and pragmatic. There is also a reason why things are the way they are in iOS and Cocoa. Long Intention Revealing names document what's going on, and reduce the incidence of unwanted name collisions. It has a heritage from Smalltalk, so it's been around and developing for something like 40 years! That puts it in the same league as Lisp as a way of doing things with merit that stands the test of time.
You don't have to use an epoxy that dries as hard as cement. Many glues are springy, which could absorb shock without having to come apart.
Somehow I find that despite all the pretty graphs showing how fast Chrome/Firefox are surf (by suckless) which is an ~1k lines of code wrapper for webkit consistently manages to feel faster.

EDIT: Much as Chrome used to feel very fast on release, and has been getting gradually slower as far as I can tell. I remember when it used to have finished rendering a page almost before I hit enter.
> With a fully synchronous lockstep architecture! In a synchronous engine every client executes the exact same code at the exact same frame rate. Let that sink in for a moment. In an 8 player game of SupCom every player has an identical copy of the game state and follows an identical code path. Instead of transferring over per unit state information (position, health, etc) over the network only player input needs to be sent across the networks2. If all players have an identical game state and process the same input then their output state should also be identical.

In other words, if your game is a function, instead of computing the result of one iteration and transmitting the state between players, you just transmit the input and let each player calculate the following states in the same number of steps. If the game function doesn't include random variables, you end up with the same game between all players.

That's very useful not only for games, but pretty much any "divide and conquer" algorithm.
If you steal our words, how can we fight you? Maybe it's time to invent some new ones.

'Privilege' never used to mean 'wealthy' or 'rich'. It meant "a special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste."

The word 'freedom' has also been subjected to a subtle change in meaning. The word formerly meant freedom from coercion, from the arbitrary power of other people. People who share your opinion have changed it to mean freedom from necessity, release from the compulsion of the circumstances which inevitably limit the range of choice of all of us.
Can anybody point out which privacy laws are supposedly being wiped out and which portions of CISPA supposedly do this? Because I have never seen these concerns expressed in concrete terms.
I don't think RubyMotion exists because like Obj-C it was inspired by SmallTalk. Well maybe it is, but that doesn't mean it's an insurmountable barrier that would render a similar project in python impossible or "un-python like". C#/.NET got the treatment a long time ago, http://xamarin.com/. It's just that (it appears) no company or OS developer has taken on the challenge of creating the tooling for python.
So it's basically a disposable non-repairable piece of landfill fodder. Why do people accept this? Stuff breaks all the time either through accidental damage or otherwise. If it didn't, there wouldn't be literally millions of tech repair shops around.

Glue is just fucking lazy poor engineering if you ask me. It's an instant recognition of not being able to produce a durable mechanical modular design.

And for that price, they can fuck off as well.

At the end of the day you can get a ThinkPad for that which will last literally YEARS (the T61 I'm typing this on is 6 years old in March and still going strong with very little maintenance done).
Sounds interesting. What's the name of the documentary?
note: be careful about how you accumulate said cash. CTRs are generated if you withdraw too quickly.

This is very bad advice, as it's illegal in the US to intentionally evade CTRs by aggregating smaller transactions. It's known as structuring:

http://www.irs.gov/irm/part4/irm_04-026-013.html

Also, CTRs aren't inherently a bad thing, and they aren't generated behind your back. If you hit the $10k reporting limit, it's a simple one-page form, and you're on your way. Legitimate businesses are required to complete them all the time.

Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are filed at the discretion of the institution, are secret, and are independent of the transaction amount. Withdraw $9,990 and you'll probably have a SAR under your name instead of a CTR. Ditto if your deposit smells like drugs, or if you're dealing in large amounts of currency as an individual, and the bank staff can't determine why.
I'm not sure the fees are _necessarily_ useless. Banking is a service, and services cost money to provide. I suppose an argument can be made that the fees are higher than they need to be, but then, banks aren't non-profit entities either.

As for me, I've been a Chase customer since 2004 when they merged with Bank One, and a Bank One customer since 1990. I've tried a few local and regional banks, and brief stint with BOA as Bank One didn't have any branches in San Jose circa 2002. I've been quite happy with my Bank One/Chase experience to date. Far more than any other bank if tried.
The TSA needs to go. The security theater we have to go through every time we fly does NOTHING to make us safer. It's all just a big show.
Popularity is highly correlated with quality.

Given that A is 10-100x more popular than B, what are the odds that B is "better" than A? Slim.

Now, popularity does not imply that something is the best. Often times there is something better that isn't as popular. But generally the popular thing is better than most alternatives.
In a company with a well known lack of traditional corporate hierarchy, who does the firing? I'm genuinely curious. None of the reports I've read have mentioned it, which leads you to assume Gabe. This would imply an informal hierarchy.
I think the GP is missing the point here: for many people, food is like bills. You deal with them, but not because you want to, only because you have to. Whether or not the OP is serious, it reminded me much of molecular gastronomy, and approaching food scientifically. While some may look down on this as an exercise in soul-crushing, is it any worse than the mass produced eating material that is fast/convenience food today? At least with this approach, the goal is health, not addictiveness or saleability.

I'm the kind of person who has spent hundreds of dollars on a fine dining experience (and heartily enjoy and recommend it), and has spent countless hours in the kitchen attempting to make good food. Yet, on some days, I'd rather just whip up a soylent shake and be done with it. On some days, I'm not even in any state to care what it tastes or feels like.
Thanks for the response dan, these are definitely in the genre of what I'm looking for.
Damn... So either I stick with an even less common reader or I go back to Acrobat, they are able to fix faster. On the other hand I didn't install the Foxit Reader Plugin. I got the habit to not install PDF Reader plugins because they make browser freeze and crash even without vulnerabilities...
I'm not in a place to find the link, but 37signals has a very good article about this. Start right from the core function (for example if the competitor is photoshop, make paint). The only real issue I think of with this method is bloat of code and UI, but I still think this way lends itself better to a strong product.
You seriously underestimate the development time it takes to pull off such a thing.
Human capital: Does subsidised pre-school pay off?
holy mother of awfulness - $200?
ThinkPad X220. Not a "newfangled" tablet, but about the most repairable thing out there and the hardware maintenance manual is 100% available here:

http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/0...
Choosing The Right Infrastructure Provider
No need, you can float :)
Pope vs. Jobs: The Resignation-Off of the Century
Disclosing Vulnerabilities: The BUG Bounty Way
In MA at least you should file a Form 1-NR/PY Nonresident or Part-Year Resident. http://www.mass.gov/dor/forms/personal-income/2011/form-1-nr...

You write on it when you leave the state and then they know you are no longer a resident. I suspect there is something similar in most states.
At face value, I like the idea of RubyMotion, but I can't help but feel like it's a crutch to avoid picking up a few subtleties in Objective-C. The article even points out that RubyMotion doesn't hide much of the API from you, so in some ways it feels like 6 in one hand, half a dozen in the other. I'm not trying to be a naysayer, but I don't think the barrier to entry is as high as some make out to be.
Best of all, no California state income tax!
A friend and I have been working on a similar'ish product that's best described as Editing-as-a-service. http://www.edithero.com

We're about push out a new 'plan' and set of copy. We'd love some feedback and questions. Thanks everybody!
I think you are mistaking parenteral and enteral. The difference is where the tube goes. Feeding someone with a tube is difficult only if the tube goes into the bloodstream.

If it goes to the stomach, a normal meal + a blender is all that is needed (or the fancy and overpriced equivalents sold for a small fortune to the hospitals)

If it goes to the bloodstream, it can't be food, and the problem is we don't exactly know yet everything it should contain.

For example, I remember in ICUs in the 1990s and early 2000, carnithin was the topic of many discussions. See for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2115077

There must be a new fad now.
In the Navy, not necessarily: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/16/admiral-nomi...
With regards to Mr Lehrer: if he could write a worthwhile nonfiction book, I'm guessing that he could find someone to publish it, and it would have the chance to rise on its own merits -- no one can really 'end' the career of an author, only damage their reputation, and most of the time (as in this case) that is self-inflicted. But his hopes for making the short list of lite-fare nonfiction authors who can sell a lot of books, alongside Gladwell et al, would appear to be well and truly dashed.
That sort of thing might be similar to stochastic methods like simulated annealing, where one accepts temporarily suboptimal states in case a more optimal one is around the corner.

Let psychedelics be analogous to the random walk: it may be the case that one finds oneself shaken from some local optimum only to be banished to a desert of suboptimal states and no deterministic way to return.
Just caught that - it should redirect now.
I would contact the manufacturer of WiFi hardware - it's in their interest to assist their customers in defending these suits.
Most of the "niche" renderers use the same codebase (or at best only rely on large common libraries like FreeType); the JailbreakMe 2/3 exploits, for example, were able to affect almost all of them (its payload simply assumed it was trapped in MobileSafari and wanted root on an iPhone, but on systems without codesign I believe it could have affected just about everyone fairly generally). The thing that Adobe has going for it is that when there is a bug, they tend to fix it, they fix it correctly (JailbreakMe 3 shouldn't have been possible), and the fix is pushed quickly to users via automatic update prompts.