skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>The brain a continously changing feedback machine. It changes its very physical architecture by what you hear, see and think.

Study shows that adventure shapes the individual
http://www.france24.com/en/20130509-study-shows-adventure-sh...

It made me think of that line in the newest series of Doctor Who that made me laugh out loud: "New things. I like new things."
Link building can often be bad like you imply. I think the right way to do it is to find the right places to share content with the right people so it spreads organically. I am not sure I would agree that creating new accounts on lots of platforms and creating links is a good or sustainable practice these days...
:%s/think/hope/g
s/bad/unprofitable for a corporate entity/

Fixed that for you.
It's alive now.
The Story Behind "The Great Gatsby for NES"
Maybe "circumstantial existential depression" is an unrecognized area. I agree with you.
Alibaba Mobile Drive Leads to Autonavi
As an option, it can be handy in some cases (less in Python than C, but still somewhat); requiring that you write them out for all enums, however, is somewhat annoying. C itself gets this right: you can write '= 1' to choose a value or leave it out to assign one automatically, and in either case you can convert to an integer (actually, they're integers in the first place, but that's C).
Efficiency vs. Robustness
We are talking about Amazon.com, not AWS. They are completely independent services
Don't do anything you'll regret. Yes, you have that choice.

Don't regret anything you did. You did it in good faith (see above) with what information & resources you had at the time.
With this nifty code you can write whatever you need: http://codebase.es/riffwave/
OK, you've read my explanations. Let me just add these observations:

* Meta-discussions get flagged by many, many member of the HN community.

* Getting lots of flags tends to get you hell-banned.

* You can complain about how HN works, but it probably won't change.

* Evaluate your time and efforts accordingly.
Lean Startup/MVPs are not about "launch it and people will come", it's not even about launching early. It's about pulling learning forward.

A MVP is a solution validation (which usually suck btw). Not a rollout technique.

[ps: Ah damn. Now I am defend Lean on HN on a friday afternoon]
90 seconds should be enough :-)

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

"On September 20, 1904, Wilbur flew the first complete circle in history by a manned heavier-than-air powered machine, covering 4,080 feet (1,244 m) in about a minute and a half."
Embest - Embedded Pi
Similar to this?

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0435/#functional-api

Having to throw in a " ".join(...) isn't that bad.
I don't know how they do it. I have seen some pretty freaky games on their webpage, and I have seen a lot of games uploaded from game-programming events that I have hosted.
they should get some better web hosting!
Replacing street cars with public buses is hardly eliminating public transportation. Honestly, buses have so many advantages over electric streetcars that I wouldn't be surprised if this move prevented a lot of cities from scrapping their public transportation all together. Even countries that don't share the US's unfortunate emphasis on automobile transportation don't use streetcars anymore.
I'd agree for people who are buying stuff they need or otherwise are making considered purchases. I don't believe that they don't lose at least some amount of impulse purchases.
What happens if we aggregate both the supply and demand over a second (and don't allow price resolution smaller than a cent), then each seller gets to sell a portion of the demand proportional to the amount of this stock he owns?

This seems to disincentivize putting up for sale more than the seller wants to sell, and to also disincentivize "Sybil attacks" where the seller has an incentive to create false identities for himself. (Just a thought experiment, would be happy to know what I'm missing here :-)
> a two year required warranty on consumer electronics

This isn't limited to Germany, it's a European-wide directive. And I fail to see how it can be viewed as negative.
It's not the order itself, its just that hit the submit button too many times.
What? Parent comment is talking about what he believes as the societal expectation of privacy in his view.

He doesn't say "Wow, it's ridiculous that Germany has different laws. How dare they!"

Instead of talking about whether or not his view of privacy is correct, this comment thread has devolved into a "look at this clueless foreigner" match.
you apparently can't read
I recall someone claiming to be an amazon developer one of the previous times when this happened claiming that they don't actually lose that much money. (sorry no link, my google-fu has failed me). A small number of orders where people are desperate are lost, but the vast majority of people generally just wait it out and make their order tomorrow instead.
I agree with the sentiment when it comes to the work they want you to do, but this client is indicating that they're likely to cause trouble when it comes to collecting payment, in which case it's probably just not worth dealing with them at all.
Some folks at Amazon are having a really bad day right now.
I wonder whether Wall Street will feel this or not.
Wow! That was an amazing read! These old articles might be of some interest as well:

http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2012/10/the-mochizuki-theorem-wh...

http://mathbabe.org/2012/11/14/the-abc-conjecture-has-not-be...
So the oldest person dies every 3 years.
Vim? real programmers use sed.
A lot of stuff can be grown in tubs or growbags.

Yes, there's the cost of getting it and tending it, but there are advantages in positive mental health and exercise (with bigger yards) and some hippy "feeling connected to the world" stuff.

Eatings peas just off the plant is great.

Even herbs and spices can be grown if you just have a window sill.

But, yes, it's not for everyone. Some people just don't like that kind of thing.
I'd definitely accept toilet jobs for $5,000/hour, then subcontract out to a plumber for their going rate, and pocket the difference. IMO a bad example.
:s/think/hope/

It's one line of text.
Seeing the same, probably depends which front-end server the load balancers route you to.
"Essentials" being "how to install screen using apt". I wish I could downvote.
I worked it out after seeing this comment[1]. A screenshot like that placed close to the file upload box may help.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5683162
There is nothing wrong with butter, oil, or dressing in moderation. If it makes a rather boring dish more interesting, it's worth it - none of those things up the calorie count too much.
A project to modernize classroom layouts
Great idea. Maybe a quick fix for that, before implementing such a different change, would be to automatically point to the most active fork in project description when there hasn't been activity for a while.

Being able to accept in a fork a PR made in upstream would be great, too.
Just to be clear here. I will gladly plumb a clients toilet for 5k/hr. I won't, on the other hand, go around killing people. I won't make the next big brother for 5k/hr. I won't develop viruses or spam for 5k/hr. Those are ethical reasons, not pride. No one would ever think less of me for plumbing a clients toilet for 5k/hr.
I think something like Mozilla's Persona is the way to go. It ties your identity to an email address, but it's easy enough to get those anonymously.
Facebook in talks to buy Israel's Waze for up to $1 billion
Real programmers use a magnatized needle and a steady hand
Assange's speech for Global Exchange Human Rights Award
Since it sounds like you've done it a few times, can you recommend some specific textbook combinations which you've enjoyed?
This is exactly the sort of thing that I wish I could use something like bitcoin for. I groaned when I clicked "Pay Now" and saw PayPal. It doubles my time-investment in the article and significantly drags down my average enjoyment per minute.
While it is a great article, and potentially useful info for those that fall on hard times, I don't share some of the other poster's views of this being aspirational.

Food is not just a mechanical source of fuel, surely? I couldn't abide eating the same stuff more than a couple of days in a row, let alone every day for weeks at a time.
I grabbed JHMWL9XHAEF9 and thanks!
"See? Don't worry about that person over there you thought was drowning. She managed to bob her head above the surface of the water. She'll be OK."

"But she can't swim."

"She'll grow out of that."
> I'm sorry, but if you are literally marching down the street in a parade, you lose the claim of "privacy".

True and that assertion holds as well in germany. The issue with the techno-viking video is that he is not shown as part of the parade, but specifically and personally filmed and made the center of the video. This is the point where it crosses the line from filming a public parade with the techno viking being part to filming the techno viking as a person. The first would be completely legal, the second requires a permission of the person.
Farmers, Elephants, and Bees
Nope, as long as you don't publish it.
The problem is you, not the client. Simply fire them. Say "We will not work with you any more." That's all it takes. In fact, give me their phone number, I'll call them for you.
> What other conclusions can be drawn if one were to find this explanation appealing?

That even if we find a Grand Unified Theory of Everything that fully explains the physical world, we'll never run out of things to discover.

> Are there other explanations of the relationship between math and our reality, that you've found appealing?

None that makes sense, given what I know.

> Is there a consensus among mathematicians as to what higher-order math, essentially is in pursuit of or should be in pursuit of?

The potential for more math. Mathematicians look for theorems and constructs that are "interesting", which basically means that they are neither simple nor random. Prime numbers would be uninteresting if they were regular, but also if they were random. In fact they are neither, there's a multitude of patterns - the Wikipedia category "Classes of prime numbers" has 69 pages in it!

> Is it an exercise of random shooting of darts hoping that some "mathematical truth" sticks and corresponds to some observable phenomenon?

Yes, but some people don't care where the darts go, while others care about observable phenomena and notice any darts lying near them and start asking around who shot those and what they were doing...
Thanks!
Colors aren't a good way to portray information accessibly.

I just helped dto implement color blind support in his game 2x0ng[0][1] and we settled on the solid colors being hashed[2] to allow people with all forms of color blindness access the game.

[0] https://github.com/dto/2x0ng
[1] http://blocky.io/2x0ng.html
[2] http://imgur.com/a/098zC
No, I think you're right on for a 0.1 version. The basic nutrition (most important) is there, and you now have a good list of foodstuffs to go by. I think 0.2 should allow for some diversification (trade these two foods for these two, at an extra cost of xx). Version 0.3 can then work on some basic recipes. Also consider things like freeze-dried fruit (easy to rehydrate to put inside oatmeal) and vegetables (make good salad toppings) to add diversity.

I think most people would allow sale prices if you can prove they're on a cycle. For example, sacks of yellow onions go on sale every 3rd week at the store I frequent, which lines right up with my usage habits.
Agreed, it can be a lot of fun, and it's also interesting / useful to look back at it after the project is done. Here's a video I made a couple years ago of making a simple iPhone game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Charge them at least double then.
GIMP doesn't give you a realtime boundary like this does, nor a preview image. I've done a lot of alpha matting in The GIMP and this seems far quicker to get similar results (except the up/download for me).

For quick and dirty work I'd use this for sure but revert to a desktop tool for precision work I think.

Does anyone know other Linux tools, or online for that, that do this comparatively well?
Yes. The challenge is exactly what it purports to be, a call to build a feat of aeronautical engineering, not to build something for practical use (which is impossible short of a breakthrough in lightweight materials). This should be seen as comparable to programming challenges for programs in 64k or x number of lines.

-former HPH participant (not at U Maryland)
If there are laws that limit how much rent can go up, it would be incredibly stupid to ever ever ever lower your rent.

Hence the games you see being played.
Who changed this to "was down"? (After 23 minutes) it still is 90% down on reload (for me).
The book that you want to read is The Mathematical Experience. Trust me on this. There is no book that I know which is as good at conveying the feeling or breadth of doing mathematics, with real examples, at a level that is both largely accessible to high school students, and enlightening for math professors.
7 Startup Habits Investors Read as Staying Power
The title now says "Amazon was down" but I'm still getting "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
they should try this new aws thing everyone is talking about!
does anyone know what cloud66 does/did? i can't find anything descriptive on the internet that isn't shut down.
All codes have been grabbed; saving you time to check. That said, the codes were a nice gesture. Will definitely put it in my list of apps to watch.
Thanks! I took KEMNTNLHRFTF
What purpose would Enums serve in a dynamically-typed language?
I completely agree, this disgusts me:

>>> Animal = Enum('Animal', 'ant bee cat dog')
>>> Animal.ant
<Animal.ant: 1>

That being said, I welcome enums - I made classes to basically represent an enum a bunch of times.
i've done a fair amount of hiring and working with recruiters...i'd remove it.

my main concern would be that multiple post-grad degrees could set off the "overqualified, will want too much money, unfocused" alarms when sifting through dozens if not hundreds of resumes and prevent you from getting in face to face. good luck.
I removed the querystring from the URL and then it worked for me.
This seems to be working:

http://www.amazon.com/?is_it_jeff=1
Here's an actual quick reference for screen:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/lkdb/screen.html
You mention some things that are under debate. Those things are not part of "healthy" eating, they are important for "optimal" eating.

Fat is not returning with a vengeance.

Common sense advice has not changed particularly much over the past twenty years.

There are some things - dietary cholesterol isn't seen as evil (but the foods it's in are).

But other stuff - replacing fat for sugar (replacing a real salad dressing with a low fat (but high sugar) dressing) has always been seen as bad advice.

Of course, if people pay attention to wing-nuts pumping out crank advice then yes, everything changes every week. Peas cause cancer one week, red cabbage causes it the next.

Most people do not need "optimal", they need "good enough". Most people are not at "good enough", they're at high fat, high sugar, high salt, high poor quality foods, low exercise. Someone drinking 4 litres of cola a day and eating a jar of peanut butter on crackers doesn't need to know whether their total calories should be 2,000 kCalorie per day or 2,500 kCalorie per day. They just need to eat less than 7,000kCal per day.
Ok, this looks awesome. I've been meaning to get some use from deep learning. However. . .

I'd like to read about a bit more specifics as to what exactly in daytrading or stock trading in general using deep networks can figure out particularly. If you can provide something more than just saying it does predict prices and gives reasons as to "why" it is accurate each and every step I will definitely use this.

The issue is generally the explanation for this article is too darn long. Split it up. There is at least 2 different parts here. One is getting the data ready for training including what you are looking at and why. The second is doing some of the training and analysing what needs to be changed. And maybe a third which would be some analysis of what should be changed.

If you create a forum like the one from quantopian.com where people can share/discuss their models then this is a no brainer for use.
Even though dynamically typed, it still have the concept of types. There are good examples on how it works in the PEP.
I'm pretty curious about your displays. I'm doing some DBN stuff at work and having a hard time visualizing what's going on. I may wantonly copy some of your displays :)
Do you plan on incorporating a way to visualize the results of higher level's of the network in the future? e.g. sample two layers at a time to visualize the weights?
What A Recruiter Really Thinks About Startups
flufl.enum was the initial candidate for PEP 435, but the current approach changed and uses implementation techniques not available in Python 2.7

We may create a almost-compliant back-port for 2.7 as an external library though
The problem with what we call depression is not the depressive mode of thought, per se. The problem is that this mode of thought gets out of control.

The depressive mode of thought is a tool, and an important one. The brutal honesty of this way of thinking allows you to analyze situations more clearly, and in so doing, it allows you to make better decisions. Being able to enter this mode of thought was likely an important step in human evolution, and we all do it from time to time, even those of us who are not "depressed".

But like most tools, the depressive mode of thought can be dangerous. That same brutal honesty, applied to one's self, does not end well: our human imperfections basically guarantee that such analysis will tear at the psyche in ways that little else can.

It is said that we should not judge others because "you weren't there; you don't know." But that doesn't work when you apply it to yourself, because you were there; you do know. And so you analyze yourself, and your judgment inevitably comes out wanting. The next question is obvious: what should you do about that? Only there's usually not enough data to answer that question, so an obvious intermediate step emerges: more analysis. And so the spiral continues.

This makes the ability to leave the depressive mode of thought just as important, from an evolutionary and health standpoint, as the ability to enter it. Pick up the tool, use it as needed, and put it down again. What we call "depression" is essentially what happens when you can't put it down.

You can probably see where I'm going with this. I think we're going about treating depression the wrong way. We try to take the edge off the mode of thought, when we should really be targeting the mechanisms that let people go into and out of it. Those mechanisms, unfortunately, are poorly-understood today.

There's also very likely to be an extremely delicate balance: you have to let people out while also allowing them back in, lest some kind of "antidepression" take hold where they can no longer pick up the tool. I don't know what such a thing would be like; it's possible that we already know it, but under another name that might or might not be linked to what we currently call depression.
Have you used pypy recently? I've found that memory usage in particular is much better as of around 1.9, compared to previous releases. Still worse than CPython, for sure, but some of my code is around 10x faster under pypy (all depends on what I'm doing, though, for sure; this stuff is numerically heavy).
Read the PEP motivation :-)

It's still useful to have mnemonic names for special values, with nice string representations and some guarantees on what is equal to what.
But you can't fire a rubber bullet from a plastic gun. That gun as designed needs a propellant (cordite/gunpowder) to fire the metal slug at the end. And if you need a propellant, you can't use a plastic cartridge case.

If you have a plastic "thing" firing a rubber projectile using a plastic spring or similar, then it is more like a crossbow than an actual gun.
That's a very neat solution! Really like the UX too.
A long time ago I had a crack at it because I was working on an app that requires image background removal.

In the end I settle for a hybrid like this https://gist.github.com/mvsantos/5554663
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint – Ten Years Later
If you add karma to Github you’ll need to actually turn it into a currency that you can buy/sell/exchange/etc.
http://xkcd.com/378/ :)
Amazon.com does run on EC2. You can bet that if EC2 had a a complete regional outage (which is extremely rare) Amazon.com would be down.

In general Amazon.com makes extensive use of AWS services internally as well, but it's very well architected to handle service outages without it being immediately obvious to the end user.
Toward Maintainable Stylesheets Using SASS
> Depression is a dark anti-pattern in which the brain begins to disassemble itself.

I'd agree that it's an anti-pattern, but rather than the brain disassembling itself I'd say the brain assumes a very stable, self-reinforcing thought model which rewards negativity or anhedonism. I describe my experiences with depression above, so I won't repeat them here, but I'm convinced that the only "cure" is finding a way to disrupt this feedback loop. Like others suggest sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's traditional psychotherapy. Believe it or not there's been a lot of recent success with shock therapy treatments for various forms of deep depression - I'd assume because it disrupts this thought model.

"What I cannot create I do not understand."
-Feynman

Personally I think we won't fully understand depression and other "thought model" problems until we have an accurate general model of thought processes in the brain and the ability to manipulate them. In the mean time I think that the tools we have are blunt instruments.
I more or less live on pasta, cooking 1-2 kg at a time and then heating it up in a pan with tomatoes, ham and possibly eggs. Takes less than ten minutes, and less than twenty including the actual meal, and two meals (~250 g of pasta) get me more or less through a day.

And, yes, to me food is mostly a mechanical source of fuel. Sure, there are occasions where a good dinner with friends is a nice thing, but definitely not on a daily basis, and especially not in the morning when I’m short on time already.

But YMMV[0], of course.

[0] There should totally be a ‘YMWV’ for ‘Your mileage will vary’.
Enum values don't have to be ints, they can have any value you want. The explicit values are there because Python's "explicit is better than implicit" zen, and the functional API gives you a way to create enums without assigning explicit values if you really want to.
Well, the OPs reinvention looks like something more high level

Well, there may not be immediate advantages, but in math you never know. There are several hard problems in one domain that are trivial in another domain, for example.

An example from physics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_mechanics
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Thanks for an actual sane response to the OP. I can understand this a lot more than "it is illegal to video parades".
Good ol' C-x M-c M-xkcd
>However, I gave up counting the number of times I read about life being "meaningless". The author is more likely suffering from an existential crisis than actually being clincially depressed. He/she is searching for meaning. To feel. Reading some mid 20th century French philosophy might help here.

I'd suspect a "simple" existential crisis if this had lasted for two weeks. Two years is a much different beast: that's no simple funk. It might indeed have started off as an existential crisis, but it became something very different.