skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That specific issue, but this one is relevant to how Glass is designed:

"Using lenses in this way forces one eye to remain focused at some set distance [the screen] while the focus of the other eye shifts according to whatever the wearer is looking at, near or far. Doing this leads to severe eyestrain, which again can be harmful, especially to children."

His solution is to not use a lens, but a pinhole:

"My pinhole aremac is the reverse of a pinhole camera: It ensures that you see a sharp image through the display, no matter how you focus your eyes. This aremac is more complicated than a barrier with a pinhole, though. It requires a laser light source and a spatial light modulator, similar to what’s found inside many digital projectors. With it, you can focus both eyes normally while using one eye to look through the mediated-vision system, thus avoiding eyestrain."
Not sure I believe that.

There's only insight to be gained if the Go version is particularly interesting due to features of Go.
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Say what you will, but being frugal isn't necessarily akin to having a bad lifestyle -- I think his lifestyle is one that you may enjoy, too:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/06/01/raising-a-family-o...
I don't believe he is going out of his way to criticize.

First of all, the question of retiring is somewhat problematic. Ask the typical person if they could retire right now, what would they do? Doing leisure activities, going on trips, relaxing, etc. can only take one so far. As human beings we need to be productive (no matter how that is defined) for us to lead a healthy life.

I believe the bigger issue is freedom. MMM's approach is very extreme and works for him. I do believe he lives on much more than 25K and works very hard. To him, the work he does might not classify as work. This is freedom for him. He is building a brand and knows how to market his brand.

The big difference I would suggest is that he is absolutely debt-free. American consumerism and lifestyle, to some extent, is driven by credit. Getting a credit card has become a rite of passage.

I like to follow the Dave Ramsey (http://www.daveramsey.com) philosophy (I don't agree with all his advice but most of it is pretty sound). I've just come across Dave over the past year and I find his message and life story inspiring. His message is simple:

1) Get out of debt (goal is to be entirely out of debt - including house). Only acceptable debt is mortgage debt.
2) Cut-up your credit cards (I don't. Having self-control with this is a big part of it)
3) Save 3-6 months emergency fund
4) Invest 15% every year for retirement
5) Save a percentage for Kid's college
5) Buy a house that is within 25-30% of your monthly income
6) Buy cars, boats, etc (ie. toys) that is no more than half of your total income (at most)
7) Invest your money (He's a big believer in mutual funds which I believe ETFs are now a better choice)
8) Most importantly, stay out of debt.

In this way, if you are making 100K a year or more going out for a $200 dinner or a $10K trip is fine since you are out of debt and all the major priorities are covered.

In some sense, MMM's message is the same as Dave's but the difference is that Dave is a multi-millionaire and works just as hard as he did when he wasn't. He has no qualms about going out for dinner and spending $1000 as this puts no dent in his net worth.
One more reason not to work for, or use, Facebook. A few high-profile resignations or rejections might make a difference.
The stock camera app in Jelly Bean also has a particularly good implementation of a radial menu.
If the OP wrote the pastebin content and is reading this, don't be so hard on yourself. The self-awareness on display here alone is a sign of high ability, and it's something many people lack. I go to a top-10 school and it's clear to me that intelligence ≠ grades in a lot of cases.

Also, you can't be "a fool" for believing in yourself. Confidence, false or earned, is incredibly useful in motivating yourself to push limits and achieve great things. I have found that as long as I tell myself my goals are achievable and do my work in that mindset, I can do many things I thought were out of my reach. It sounds like "The Secret"-esque bullshit, but it can help.

There is no reason to push yourself to the point of "breaking
as you describe. When you get there, take a step back and think about why you're at school and why you're chasing x or y career goal. The point of work is to purchase leisure, but if you're letting work consume everything then you'll have a hard time being happy. I think many people forget that work is, in many cases, a means to an end. Slow down until you're at a point where you can enjoy your time, and don't worry about the pace of everyone around you. Again this might sound like cliché nonsense but I take a lot of comfort in thinking about the big picture when pressure builds.

If you weren't looking for advice, forget everything I said. Also I congratulate you for "letting it all out", it's not easy to compose one's thoughts into such a rational assessment of a bad situation.
for an OS maybe. But one of the many rules of web UI is that "the user shouldn't have to learn a new UI by visiting your website"
Yes, and you can bet that most of the 26-28 year olds have been on the track to an MBA since their undergrad, pausing only to gain just enough experience to make it into a top B-school.
Mmm... the first question that comes to mind for me is, "Who has a motive to do this?" I really doubt this is a bunch of #anon kids playing around, or anything like that. This strikes me as being a very specific, directed attack at Bitcoin itself (given that Mt. Gox is one of the most important exchanges).

I hate to sound all conspiracy theory'ish, but I can't help but wonder if a State actor is involved in this. While Bitcoin might not be (by itself) the techno-libertarian / cypherpunk / crypto-anarchist Holy Grail that some people make it out to be, I expect at least some governments to fear it on some level... if for no other reason because it's something new and they don't understand it.

Or maybe it's being done by backers of a competing crypto-currency? Hmmm...
Now replace LIBOR with google page rank. OMG! people who can "fix" things actually "fix" things! This isn't a conversation about banking. It's a conversation about human nature.
I think it has to be an easter egg considering that WA does not provide answers to many "How .... ?" questions. It's much more of a service for "What" questions. But I do like that it's displayed like any other answer. It gives a Watson feeling.
What Apple’s stock buyback shows about corporate tax games
And don't forget kids: This is all legal and within the law :D

More credit default swaps please :D
A woman might choose to wear clothes that make her look sexy. But that doesn't justify a guy raping her.

Nobody said it did, and that example is nothing like what we're talking about here.
For me, the most interesting part was: "Back in the day, I would just empty out my bank account after each paycheck and distribute it into my investments of choice: Vanguard's S&P 500 index fund, their small-cap value index fund, a bit went into paying off my mortgage early as well."

While he could have diversified further by including international stocks, this simple investment strategy was surprisingly sound. This is the real takeaway---not his philosophy of extreme frugality. If you follow a low-cost, diversified index investment strategy, you'll likely end up much further ahead than if you put it all in the bank.

And once you get past all the bad advice out there, sound investing is actually quite straightforward:

http://www.longtermreturns.com/2012/03/selecting-investment-...
No, people and organizations routinely settle whenever they feel it's +EV. Just saying a lawsuit was settled tells you nothing about the merit of the suit. You need more contextual information.
Looks cool but why the λ and ƒ? That's not practical for anyone. I guess it's a cool novelty for functional types but it will confuse anyone who sees BODOL in the wild.

I know it's a nitpick, but it seems strange to include characters that aren't on the keyboard as part of the default syntax.
One thing I've learned to love is being average. I'm not some rockstar ninja coder. Nor do I want to be. Average is fine. Do you know what average people accomplish? A lot! Average people build cars, houses, farm food, they even manage to program these magical things called computers. Not everybody is a genius, or even bright. Nor everybody needs to be one. You can do amazing things without having been an straight A student. How do I know? I graduated with a GPA of 2.16. Yep. 2.16. Guess what? I am a programmer who enjoys his work, make a very, very good living, and have managed to build a coupe of profitable businesses. All while being an average guy.

I used to think that being smart was the thing to be. Not anymore. What you need to be is resilient. While a smart person pauses to analyze, I keep trying and trying until I get it. No pause needed.

Go on. Live your life. Love the gifts you have and put them to good use. Don't measure yourself by how you compare to others. But how you compare to your own past. Keep moving. Be resilient.
OP should stop comparing himself to others and know that good grades isn't the meaning of life, just appreciate what you already have. I also got a low score in Theory of Computation, but the subject itself is actually extremely hard. Also me and my friends study harder than most of our other classmates but we still never get decent grades
The Terror of Capitalism
So banks didn't rig interest rates, or blatantly launder money for drug lords and terrorists, or foreclose on people who didn't even owe money on their homes? Are these things false? But you worked for Apple and an unnamed investment bank, so don't worry folks, it's all good, you can trust these guys. If only 40% of the things written about the banking industry are true, we should nuke the whole thing, throw every executive in prison, and start from scratch. So really you're just splitting hairs here.
Usually it's someone looking to drive down the price, buy low, then sell high when it rebounds
He gets a nod from me just because he isnt one of these financial self-help gurus who primarily makes his living by selling financial self-help products/services. I'm always staggered to see how blatantly chicken-egg some of these people talk about their financial freedom.
Do Whales Have Culture? Humpbacks Pass on Behavior
Today I gave the wrong answer to a customer
> Yes, so all it takes is somebody to rob THEM, and get keys and addresses...

Which would legitimately take the heat off of them, so it would be in their interests to fake a robbery of themselves not long before their real robberies of others begin.

Ah, but I'm just getting started! If you wanted to rob houses and frame them, just rob them first. The police and everyone else will think your real robbery was faked by the company, as per my previous paragraph, so you get off scot free.

Robbception, it would be called.
VC's can take much bigger advantage of a 25 year old than a 50 year old

This is a persistent myth, but if you examine the math it doesn't work out. A VC firm could improve their returns by at most 2x or 3x by extracting really good terms from an inexperienced founder. But that's rounding error compared to the 100x difference between a big success and a small one.

This is a subset of the more general rule that there is no "value investing" in startups. All the returns are concentrated in a few big hits, and a VC does well iff they invest in them, regardless of the terms.

The empirical evidence confirms this. Google and Facebook are among the biggest recent hits for VCs. Both had young founders. But the reason VCs made so much from these deals is not that they extracted unusually good terms from the founders. In fact, the founders extracted unusually good terms from the VCs. The VCs made a lot despite that, because the companies were so successful.
OP: I remember being in precisely your position when my last year's exams came around many years ago. I remember going from effortlessly succeeding in school to busting my ass to be mediocre in uni, too.

The fact is that over the long run, effort counts for more than exam performance, so if you are trying, keep doing it. That's what counts. ADD/ADHD-type inability to concentrate and focus are hard, but you do learn to cope, and more importantly you learn to position yourself in situations where you exploit its advantages.

What I wouldn't do is not push yourself when you believe you can get away with it, a mistake you and I both have made. Keep yourself on the boundary of uncomfortable, otherwise you will not be prepared when it gets tough.

Keep it up for a few more weeks and it'll be done, and just keep getting up.
Thanks Josh,
I'll update them tomorrow/saturday. Did you create an issue by any chance?
There is so very correlation between grades and creativity[1], which I consider to be far more important than raw intelligence (as measured by an IQ test).

The problem with the OP is not that he got so worried about grades, it's that he/she let is obsession with grades impact his relationships with others. He saw them as a zero-sum game, and that's not the way life is (generally) played. Even within university, where grades may be distributed in a zero-sum fashion, the entire experience is most assuredly not zero-sum.

More importantly than all of that, though, is the OP gained a large level of self-awareness. That self-awareness (as long as he doesn't let him completely cripple his confidence) will be far more valuable than full marks here and there.

1. http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/0505/13_09...
Anyone know what happened to the effort behind https://github.com/markdown
I don't think it's so much an agenda that he's pushing as a single study that he keeps recycling.
To err is human. Persistance is evil.

By your post, you clearly show a will to amend your past actions, and to work seriously now, to get grades you deserve - not just because you're "good at anything you touch", but because you are good and apply effort.

Trust me on this one, these deserved success will taste like ambrosia.

At the moment, do not overtly blame yourself. Many people can't see through themselves like you did. Yet since we're all human, we all fail time to time.

The real danger, as you so clearly phrased, is self delusion, ie refusing to see or understand how or why we fail.

The TV philosopher of my childhood said it best - "knowing is half the battle" (†)

†: Gi Joe, famous tv philosopher, giving quotes and wisdom to children, worldwide :-)
Good point. Well, whoever it is, I hope Mt. Gox get their anti-DDOS situation squared away well enough to mitigate this and future attacks.
'Junk DNA' is comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

X_dot = A X + B U

Y = C X + D U

Rocket science

I did simstructure -- rocketscience

My master's degree is rocket science

http://www.templeos.org/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf

Snort: you'll notice that little course called "nonlinear control systems" with the A after it? That's as far as you can go in math. Nonlinear differential equations. Ask any mathmetician. He'll tell you nonlinear differential equations is the end of the road.
Good thing here: facing the feedback and updating.

Not so good: taking the narrow criteria of school grading as a crucial measure of worth. High or low, it may matter, but not so intensely as this writer seems to feel it.
SpaceX's Grasshopper project is likely to make the price come down a lot RSN.
Seventh grade was an awakening for me, too. I had sailed through elementary school with no effort, then hit seventh grade an nearly failed multiple classes my first quarter. That changed things significantly.

Unfortunately, it didn't change things enough. My senior year of high school, I was taking three AP classes and still only doing maybe an hour or so of homework a day and still getting good grades.

Then I hit college. And that hour a day completely didn't cut it (and getting hooked on MUDs didn't help :). I didn't get the grades I wanted, but I got the grades I deserved (maybe even better), graduated, and never cared about them again.

Far more important than the ability to get perfect grades is the ability to learn on one's own. And I don't think the two are perfectly correlated in any way.
I agree that he does not put us spenders in a very gracious light, but the main point he is making is that all those socially accepted (and desired) things have a cost, and if you sum them up you will see that you are spending more than you thought you were.
No amount of words on my part can capture the essence of the message better than this: http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/famous-fa...

The words would be something along the lines of "good grades are indicative of discipline and work ethic moreso than intellectual capacity" and that many people that we consider extremely intelligent or gifted had really poor grades.
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I would consider getting tested for ADD. I am not a professional or anything but some of what OP has described sounds to me like the symptoms of ADD.
Heh. That, more than anything, makes me want to learn Haskell. :)
I thought the same at first. But as I was checking out the language, I simply created keybindings in my .vimrc to both characters. Now if I press ALT+f, I get the ƒ character. Less key presses than any other function definition keyword from any language I ever used. And I know I could have done the same thing for the other languages, but the fact is that I never did.
Moreover, poverty is far more pervasive in DC than in the rest of the country, and, crime rates in DC vary, depending on the type of crime, generally between two and five times the national average.

From somebody who lives in D.C. now and has lived in several other places to compare by, I can tell you that for all practical purposes, that just isn't true. The statistics you cite, while perhaps factually correct are basically meaningless. D.C. is not a very diverse city from a socioeconomic standpoint. There are basically two sides to D.C.- a metro area where everything looks new and clean, people are well-heeled, and housing is expensive. Ballston, Arlington, Georgetown, DuPont, Bethesda. They are all just expensive variations on the same theme- one community after another of well-paid, highly-educated people.

Outside D.C. on the eastern and southern edges just inside Maryland is the D.C. that brings those averages into the territory you are citing. They add no practical value to a discussion of the city's economic health for those fortunate enough to not have any exposure to that side of the city. To consider that relevant to the discussion is like saying the average pay in a Fortune-500 company is $50k to counter the point that C-level execs of a Fortune-500 company are overpaid. While it may be statistically accurate, it is for all intents and purposes a meaningless data point in the discussion. What a first-year business analyst earns has absolutely fuck-all to do with what the CEO earns.

The assumption I'm making is that a person who has above-average skill will do exceptionally well in an economically-strong area like D.C. when compared to a city with a small or sluggish economy.
I'm in Turks and Caicos right now on a stretch of the most beautiful beach I've ever seen

Hello my friend! Care to share where?

I'd like to meet with fellow Caribbean entrepreneurs. I'm from Martinique, FWI. We do some good stuff too, yet I thought most of the scene was in T&T or Jamaica. T&C - why no!
The camera app on the nexus 4 has the mechanic where you need to hold down and get a radial menu. It took me a while to figure it out at first.
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I can vouch for the fact that self-awareness is a VERY sharp double edged sword.
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Sometimes, its just a case of being in the wrong field of study.

I was a straight A student out of high school, with little effort to boot. Then I picked a major that I didn't really care for, because I didn't know any better ...

I breezed through the first few years of college taking general classes and the introductory classes to my major, but even then the cracks were beginning to show in my choice of major, I'd score B's where I thought I'd get A's and ever so often I'd come really close to getting C's.

When I hit the senior level courses, those B's turned to C's and ever so often I'd almost get a D.

Why the decline in performance? Nothing had changed, except what I was studying. I didn't care for it, and it didn't play to any of my academic strengths (lots of math which I simply don't have the patience for), so I couldn't just cruise through them.

When I graduated college, I had a very decent general GPA (in the low 3's), but it was only so because of my strong early performance in college, my major GPA was in the 2's. I was so ashamed that I didn't attend my own graduation and wouldn't let my family come either. I withdrew a little bit from friends and life, because I felt I had let down a lot of people and was a bit of a failure.

3 years later I discovered something I truly loved (programming and building things) and after many years of excelling at it ... I finally realized what I'd done wrong.

Hopefully you come to this realization much earlier than I did.
If it was about guys, written by a female poster, would you have downvoted it too ?

If it was about guys, written by a make poster, would you have downvoted it too ?

Where exactly is the crass sexist drivel ? the "fuck" word ?
Upvoted both you guys to compensate. Context is important.

Here the poster only said he was intimate with members of the oppositive sex, who were attractive. Nonthing crass, just fact contributing to the discussions and saying why he recommends against that.
In college, whenever I bragged about doing something interesting or achieving some milestone in my studies, my roomie Paul would draw hard on his big doobie (they hardly got you stoned back then even if you smoked all night) and say something like "Miller, I could do that if I just gave a shit. I'd kick your ass and everyone's ass, if I could just get off my ass".

Not sure whatever happened to Paul.

OP: find out what you are good at. Grades and academia are not the be-all and end-all of existence or success.
> Effectively, this forces a site to moderate

That was not my reading of it.

In fact, were you to moderate it then you would have no defence under the EU E-Commerce Act.

I do run unmoderated forums in the UK, and have in the past been on the receiving end of legal action regarding some user generated content.

My reading of this and other laws that work in this area (user generated content and liability thereof) is that it is best to not moderate at all, to have no editorial process that intervenes, but to have clear policy and mechanisms to allow notifications to be received. And ultimately, to record and act on those notifications.

In terms of moderation, one might argue that it is a form of reactive moderation. But I would not argue that, as there is no expression of an editorial policy in handling notifications based on legal merit and only intervening in site content when notified.
I did not see that link initially, I think it would be worth a/b testing a version where the option to play without signing up button is visually as dominant as the signup.

Visitors that know that they don't know enough will always signup. I knew that I'd like to learn more Foundation, so immediately submitted my email address. But I would suggest that a decent slice of your users don't know what they don't know - ie. that there is a Bootstrap alternative that is just as flexible, powerful, and easy to learn. Getting those people three steps down the path before giving them a hurdle of signup would, in my opinion, result in a larger user count and greater project impact in the long run.