skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lumbar pain is endemic among desk-ridden males who do not get sufficient exercise. Proper posture is incredibly important for protecting the lumbar spine, and men with weak, lengthened muscles (erector spinae and various others) tend to have trouble even extending the lumbar spine properly at all, and pain results from the lumbar spine being in constant flexion. I say "men" because women generally do not experience this problem.

Any exercise that builds strength in the glutes, hamstrings, and lumbar muscles that stabilize the spine, can be highly beneficial for relieving lumbar pain.

My favorite exercise for this is deep barbell squats with a straight spine and weight on the heels, as described in Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe. Start with just the bar or no weight at all and increase the load very gradually, focusing on proper form at all times.
From the article: Given the tight financial strictures of the US government this is unlikely

This is what pisses me off about the last decade. Plenty of money to bail out the richest people the planet has ever seen. Plenty of money to kill brown people. Making a fusion drive? Making sure we all have medicine? Sheesh, we're not made of money!
That sounds a lot like flagging. cf. recent article on Margaret Thatcher that bounced in and out of existence. I actually assumed it was a moderator decision but info@ explained it got flagged dead, then put back by mods - which is almost a description of your events.

Oddly enough I have never flagged an article (except with a fat finger) - usually because I simply dont know what it does.
As other posters have noted, ion thrusters don't generate very much thrust.
Thanks, we're building a human powered fashion recommendation engine. Let us know what you think.
That's a litte hyperbolic, this is the first I have seen of something like that on Kickstarter.
You could just build a database of Lulu users which would serve the same purpose!
>only allowed to use one core<

Only "allowed" by who?

If you mean that "the Go program in question" is by-design a sequential program then -- yes of course it is!

The contributed Go programs that were written for multi-core use more than one core -- http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/program.php?tes...
I'm not particularly offended. But basing your mockery in a crass stereotype isn't really necessary.

Basically, I'm assuming you are a decent person and hoping that you might think a little more about whether native Americans deserve to be stereotyped as foolish.
I think I see what you did there :)

Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby:
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
Why are we so bad at startup predictions?
Not sure you realize, but these companies already are throwing more than a little effort into advancing their platforms.

Elsevier in particular is spending ridiculous amounts on internal research & acquisitions for its platform (called SciVerse, http://www.hub.sciverse.com/), following the latest advancements in machine learning and NLP for data mining, etc etc.

They also host competitions for start-ups and developers to produce new apps for their platform.

These businesses may be unethical and not to everyone's liking, but they are not stupid.
Doublethink? Orwell's Ministry of Peace/Love/Plenty.
A better monetary system, The Positive Money System
Absolute numbers are useless. Different hardware will produce different numbers.
This is exactly what I'm working on.
Also, publications by federally funded grants are required to be made public as well (for 1 year). However, even doing that, you are still stuck behind the political pressures, journal bias, and the peer review system which...for a lack of a better term, sucks.

Science needs to be transparent and made available in real time. This is the whole purpose of science, to freely distribute knowledge for the well being of humanity. I honestly believe that and I'm working to bring that transparency to science as we speak.
oh, is that all it will take? human lives are so cheap today. I suppose we should just count the minutes then.
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And when it's your fault for being a "creeper" when you just try to talk to a woman, you learn not to bother. Blaming women for their rapes is of course absurd and unjust, but indiscriminately second guessing all men everywhere is not the solution.
Because in many states, like Texas, the incumbent carriers have lobbied for, and received, legislation that prevents municipalities from doing just that: http://www.baller.com/pdfs/BallerHerbstStateBarriers%287-1-1...
It seems like developing classroom material to teach kids how to code is the gravy train du jour.

Just from yesterday, "Treehouse gets $7M to bring learn-to-code programs to high schools". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520726
Mine have actually gone down across the board. I have several sites.
Creating a good content can be pricey. Even if one wants to be altruistic, perhaps doing something gratis means you really can't dedicate as much time as you'd like. To that end, Udemy is a great solution for monetizing great teaching content.
Because of the nature of bit coin its impossible to determine how much of the current activity is actual commerce and how much of it is speculative trading.

The truth is the system is set up to encourage deflation and there is nothing to prevent it from happening on a large scale. The huge price increase seen over the last few weeks is not because there is an explosion in commerce using BitCoin. Its because people are viewing BitCoin as a investment vehicle and they are hording it.

As to your point about there not being an economy, thats exactly the point their currency is worthless not because people won't give you stuff for it, but because in terms of its ability to foster an exchang3e of goods and services it is actively discouraging you from using it ( why buy something today for 1 BTC when next week it will be 0.5 BTC ) The fixed nature of introducing new currency into the market only exasperates this problem as the hard limit on all bit coins that can ever be mined makes it so eventually even that small control over deflation will be non existent and increase the deflation.
Ahh yea i missed, apologies

std::string sync_stmt = (write_sync) ? "PRAGMA synchronous = FULL" :
"PRAGMA synchronous = OFF";

Still. how is it a valid compare if it is getting it to ssd/hdd and the others are writing to memory? Just open sqlite3 with :memory:
Keep an eye on http://hypothes.is. I think they plan to support private annotations, and handle PDFs through pdf.js. It doesn't have an offline document management component, but it could be used as the annotation component in a larger system.
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I don't think Kickstarter will harm open source. I think opporunists might. But do you really think people like us would fund something like this? I'm honestly asking the question. I don't think they would. As a programmer I know better than to fund something like this. There's no shortage of Ruby tutorials out there for free and a ton that cost money too. All great resources. I see this and I think to myself, "nice, someone decided to capitalize on the hipness of Ruby by duplicating what's out there for free with a twist - vaguely familiar games as lessons".

I have faith that this won't be funded.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, though I think that only picking on social awkwardness goes too far. For the benefit of any guys who read this and feel bad about themselves, here are some other behaviours that frequently correlate with inappropriate sexual behaviour:

- playing on a sports team (I'm Canadian, so I like to pick on hockey players, but this happens in other sports as well).

- working on oil rigs.

- abusing heavy drugs.

- working in sales.

- being too smooth.

- practicing that moronic "treat girls like your sister and insult them" pick-up method.

Long story short, there are many, many indicators of inappropriate sexual behaviour.
You won't have an EMP in space - the EMP is generated by the motion of intensely electrically charged pieces of atoms acting against the magnetic field of the earth, and by electrons that were launched from atoms by the gamma ray pulse.

There is a solar magnetic field, but it's much weaker, so wouldn't make much of an EMP, and there is no atmosphere is space so the gamma rays don't accelerate any electrons.
There seems to be a world of difference between "not-for-profit" and "non-profit" in the ways we are imagining open-access.

JSTOR is not a publisher--agreed. They are, however, a central repository who charges an arm and a leg for research that, often, has been funded on the taxpayer's dime.
Normally, Bitcoin mining has fairly high variance - you only get paid when you find a block, and because blocks are relatively rare and found at random intervals your income varies a lot too. MtRed were what's known as a PPS pool, which meant they basically ate the variance and paid miners based on the amount of mining work they did.

The trouble is that running a PPS pool requires a huge buffer of your own funds to cover payouts during periods of bad luck, and if the buffer isn't big enough the pool will inevitably go bankrupt. It appears this has now happened to MtRed and it sounds like they only have enough funds to pay out half the money they already owe miners. (Technically, over a long enough period of time PPS pools will go bankrupt with 100% certainty no matter how big the pool buffer.)
Welp you made exactly what I was trying to make. Way to go!
> Publications by federal employees are already required by law to be in the public domain. It's time we look at doing the same for the results of federally funded research.

Yes, this needs to happen. NIH already requires that publications arising from NIH-funded research be made publicly available 12 months after publication (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/). Other funding organizations really need to do this. IMHO, they should also require that publications be made publicly available immediately upon acceptance and provide incentives for "gold" open access (where the article is immediately made available on the publisher's website).
His point was that it's indicative of a childish and immature mentality, which is a judgment of a person, not a judgement of their phone.
> What's with the super-bright colors and super-bright whites on a super-black background?

It’s called visibility from afar. You are not supposed to read it like a book.
I've found Pilates to be awesome, especially when you are currently in pain, since it was created as a way to rehab ballet dancers back from injury.

It is easy for a good trainer to direct your focus on strengthening the exact muscles that get tightened up or weakened by too much sitting. I was skeptical that it wasn't going to be anything more than stretching but it has made a massive difference for me, just doing one workout a week.
It won't harm open source. Perhaps it'll harm future crowdfunding endeavors, as the trust level will be low. However, I think open source software that was funded on Kickstarter, but never delivered (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp) is far more of a threat than courseware.
In the early days there wasn't a formal process for .edu approval. There was a bit of netiquette that educational institutions should register under .edu, nonprofits under .org, network providers under .net, and companies under .com.

That started being enforced for .edu in 2001, but previous registrants were grandfathered in. The registrar did manage to evict a bunch of the questionable .edus in 2003, by stepping up enforcement of technical requirements, such as the requirement to have accurate whois information, and to be responsive via the whois-registered email address. But presumably academia.edu survived that purge. I can't actually think of any other prominent for-profit company that still retains an .edu. The registrar also now prohibits transferring them, so you can't buy one even if some others have survived (though maybe you could lease it).
Systems Engineer, note the plural on "systems." Don't shy away from this, it's a title that has existed for decades and you're in good company. Resist title inflation!
that is an awesome example. there is a similar modern case in the book. a mutiny in a company and an entrepreneurial venture in a market space have many similarities, parallel risks and potential rewards.
"Write lyrics better" would be a better tagline than "write better lyrics", which could be taken as an insult.
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The article's point has little to do with titles. It's about the scientific method and the lack of its existence in programming circles. The bit about titles is called an introduction.
Nobody's deciding what you should be reading. They're just deciding what gets top billing on Hacker News. I'm pretty sure none of the moderators believe the top stories on Hacker News are the only things worth reading. Hacker News is meant to be tightly focused on certain areas, so other things (e.g. politics) get buried whether you should read them or not.
Why is it absurd?

It’s price differentiation. Pure and simple. I think that’s a very reasonable way to make money.
IIRC that hit HN a few months to a year ago. Everyone said it was slimy and disgusting and that the creators should feel bad for being assholes.

So there's that.

--edit-- Here is is - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5087859

It wasn't as as popular as this topic, and there are one or two "how will you monetise this" posts, but in general it got slammed.
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It is not even supposed to be used to generate electrical power.
Citing from the site itself:
"Virtually all of the radiant, neutron and particle energy from the plasma is absorbed by the encapsulating, metal blanket thereby isolating the spacecraft from the fusion process and eliminating the need for large radiator mass"

No radiators implicitly mean no electricity generation, because it creates waste heat that has to be utilised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_rocket

Proposed concept is a direct drive, and it actually claims they fixed the problem with neutrons (they are caught by the compressing metal)

As for breakeven conditions they merely state that the power that the fusion generates must be at least equal to power used to start/sustain it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
Theoretical limits of efficiency of heat engine is around 70-80% (roughly) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency and you have to use those to convert heat generated in controlled fusion into electricity. To actually achieve net power generation in a power plant, you have to generate a lot more heat that electricity, while for propulsion you merely care about actual raw (so to speak) power.

Ion thrusters have their own issues, while their ISP is considerably better than chemical rockets, maximum thrust is abysmal, but it is hard to argue about that due to the lack of data on FDR.
However, with ion thrusters there are other issues (for example:wear, charge imbalance)
Yes. I had the first edition of a fun little game I wrote on the iPad for cats rejected for being too simplistic. Of course, it was a cat game, so it didn't need levels, menus, scores or GameCenter integration, just fish the cat could swat at.

I ended up adding all of that stuff to the game, which took way longer than coding the game logic in the first place. Because that game is just a hobby project, it took another few months for me to get everything coded, tested, and submitted to Apple again. It got approved on the second try, which was fine.
Comment: In English there is a split between Software Engineering and Computer Science. German uses the word Informatik which comprises both disciplines.

It's the same for most of continental Europe.

There is theory and research focused areas like computing or computational mathematics, and there is application, informatics (more similar to a CS degree) or informatics engineering (roughly an EECS degree, or a CS&SE with more math, physics and electronics).

PS: In the US, the term "informatics" seems to be more related to the "soft"(design and business) parts of european informatics, like IT, Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction.

PS2: In regard to the professional title, in Spain the people that study informatics are generally called "informaticians" ("informáticos" in spanish). But as with "computer scientist", people just use their job title as their professional title.
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Yet another view on culture (from someone building a team)
Memory(except on chip caches), disks, and various other peripherals arn't on the same chip in traditional servers.

They're basically taking the backplane of a motherboard and spreading it across a whole rack instead of inside a single server. Especially memory would take a latency hit if all you do is extend the "cable" length between the CPU and memory, which is why they also need a much faster interconnect.
Obvious has a nice write-up of a similar tool they never shipped. [1]

[1]: https://medium.com/didnt-ship/3002a2aaac50
I'm just curious as how a relatively small group of people can be responsible for affecting the price of gold? By all accounts libertarians are a small section of the populace yet you suggest they are driving up the price and causing a bubble in the trillion gold dollar market.

It's hard to find solid data but this old article[1] states that $15,200bn worth of gold was traded in one quarter alone. I find it impossible that any one group of people can cause a bubble when that amount of gold is being moved around, much less the tiny slice of americans who consider themselves Austrians/libertarians.

My second issue is with the idea that gold is in a bubble at all. Despite a couple of spikes the price has been about $1600 an ounce for the past 2 years.

The trader/investor in me suggests that it was rising steadily for a decade until it reached a fair market price. Everyone from Goldman Sacs[2] to leftist George Soros[3] to libertarian Kyle Bass[3] suggest gold is getting boring and are bearish.

So I'm not sure where you are getting this info that gold is in bubble territory?

1. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/eb342ad4-daba-11e0-a58b-00144...

2. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-10/goldman-lowers-g...

3. http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/15/investing/soros-gold/index.h...

4. http://bloom.bg/11P3V3V

EDIT: I love the downvotes from people who can't answer how Austrians are causing non-existent gold bubbles. Not like central banks bought more gold in 2012 than any other year since 1964[1]... it has to be those pesky libertarians and their love of this barbaric relic.

1. http://www.business2community.com/finance/central-banks-gold...
An anecdote: I finished a decent draft of a paper two weeks ago and posted it to my website an hour before submitting it to a journal. The code to replicate it is on github available to anyone who wants to look at it, and the statistical methods I use I've put in a GPL R package. I've already discussed aspects of the paper and some implementation issues with other researchers over email, presented the paper at conferences, and I think people are already writing papers that use the statistic I propose (again, despite the paper having been submitted to a journal for the first time two weeks ago). In the process of discussing the paper (in person, over email, etc) I've already essentially done two rounds of peer review without journal submission.

Maybe you could give details about what you mean by "antiquated idea behind publishing" because I'm pretty sure what I described is not 1970s speed. Now, if your point is that what I've described is not common practice, I agree completely. But that means that people need to be persuaded to use existing technical tools -- I can't see a specific step that's going to be a significant pain point (I'll grant that not everyone can/will use github, but uploading a zip archive of the paper's directory to a personal webpage is easy and is almost as good for code and data dissemination).

Other anecdotes are blogs that announce and discuss new research:

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2012/10/nber-asset-pricing...

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2012/09/woodford-at-jackso...

That is legitimate academic discourse, put out by an extremely established and credentialed economist, almost instantly. On blogger.
Interesting comment, you are thinking too much "inside the box" though. There is the kind of mutiny (which is common in Silicon Valley) where a strategic chunk of the "crew" (aka the employess) believe in the goal but not the management and so they leave as a group to re-create the same enterprise they are in, but with a better (for them) management structure.

This sort of strategic mutiny is made possible in California by its employee friendly laws which make "non-compete" clauses unenforceable and ownership claims over work the employee does outside the office difficult.

In the case of a small company, strategic mutinies like this can be fatal to the original company because often times expertise is concentrated into a single individual. When management is aware of that, it is sometimes possible to 'mutiny in place' where a meeting with management is held where the choice is provided to change or potentially lose the entire company. Such mutinies have a somewhat more checkered outcome of the ones I've been aware of (two succeeded and three "failed" in that the strategic group ended up walking out anyway). In larger companies a group of 10 - 15 folks can walk out and cause pain but not a mortal wound to the parent company.
revolt, takeover. reminds me of the mutiny post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5525173
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Here's an explanation:

http://cryptojunky.com/blog/2013/02/17/bitcoin-asic-roundup/
The end result is going to be free, isn't it? He's just asking for money so he can devote more of his time to it.
>for loops are too difficult

for-each?
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SRFI_002d...

or how about a named let?

(let loop ((i 0))
(if (< i 10)
(display "hello\n")
(loop (1+ i))))

or how about using SRFI 42?

(use-modules (srfi srfi-42))
(do-ec (: i 10) (display "hello\n"))

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-42/srfi-42.html
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Is it just me? Framing something like this as a brainteaser (which is fundamentally what "magic tricks" are) makes it less interesting to me. Show me a problem which can be solved by applying parity or similar robustness principles and then it starts becoming appealing.
Be careful when you use words like 'intrinsic.' It may be argued that fiat-currencies are 'intrinsically' without value either.

This 'anti-cheating' mechanism is a big part of what makes a currency valuable.
It's almost as if technological advancement isn't tied to a certain type of currency.
Of I invoke Godwin properly, can we end this inane thread?

You know who else wanted to end threads? Hitler.

Done.
> The idea that "I don't experience privilege and I know this because I am not to blame for anything that happened before my existence,"

This has come up so much in this thread its almost baffling. Newsflash: If you are apart of the majority demographic on this website (18-35, upper middle class educated white male) you live the privilege EVERYDAY. Of course you arent conscious of it because it exists in your favor.
Were you mixing dom manipulation into your controllers? That can make things go haywire because they happen outside the standard compile and link phase. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Using the directives (which I admit are super confusing at first) can alleviate this issue because they are executed in the normal Angular update cycle so everything happens in the correct order.