skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Axioms are definitions you set before you start to derive the rest of the system. If you want to, you can test the axioms and the derivations against reality and you have science.

Beliefs are definitions you think somebody else set that you can't change before you start to derive the rest of the system. In most cases, you are not permitted to test beliefs against reality.
You took that idea to the logical extreme, dude. Nobody is saying that if you have even a little free time, you should be a polymath. But if you don't have time to learn a little something new (especially something that relates to the career field you plan to spend the rest of your life in), you either find the time, or you'll find your career stagnating before you know it.

Also, stop being offended by every comment that doesn't agree with yours. fit2rule's comment could be considered a bit presuming, but it is neither nonsensical nor condescending. On the other hand, your comment is both of those things.
Now how much does he earn per hour? How much time does he waste on a long commute each of those four days a week?
For sure you need better landing page, but I like the idea behind this app.I was thinking on similar web app in past but adding content manually was too boring to get it done.
So this "one person" deliberately made his LastPass account insecure by selecting "the option to remain logged in" on a "shared terminal server" and it's the fault of LastPass?

Sometimes you simply can't protect end-users from themselves.
I am starting to see people puffing on these stupid e-cigarettes in restaurants that ban cigarette smoking. When you say something to them they invariably try to "educate" you on what an e-cigarette is and how it's different. The problem is that e-cigarettes have not been shown to be safe. From the article:

Most public health officials seem to agree that the levels of toxins in e-cigarettes are far lower than those in traditional cigarettes. But they also say that far too little is known, not just about potentially harmful aspects of particular brands of e-cigarettes, but also about whether there is harm from “secondhand vapor.” Dr. Glantz of U.C.S.F. says that in the absence of data, indoor smoking bans should also cover e-cigarettes.

The FDA is collecting reports of adverse effects and there are plenty:

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/aboutfda/centersoffices/officeo...

I understand why my mother started smoking when she was 16 and then smoked a pack a day for the next 43 years until she died from cancer. Why in the world are people starting to smoke today with everything we know about it?
For the lazy commenter: <insert snark about Apple here />
Not to worry you'll be hearing that less and less. You won't be hearing it from the WaPo anymore for instance.
Now.. if HTML5 only included the ability to do AJAX gopher calls.
This touches a personal chord. My dad recently died of IPF and while its not in the same category as cancer I'd say its a terrible journey to have a disease that literally takes your breath away, and not in a good way.

I personally understood how support systems fail, how folks would rather always hear that you are getting better but with IPF - you only get worse. IPF is as common in the US as breast cancer, the difference being that it is 100% fatal in 2-5 years on average. (Lung transplants can improve longevity but eventually fail)

This person's story is deeply meaningful and told in a profoundly beautiful way. I wish I could tell my dad's story with IPF in a similar way. I'm trying to spread awareness with a blog on IPF and by donating to the pulmonary fibrosis foundation, just wondering about what else I could do. Awareness is super important!

IPF - Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_pulmonary_fibrosis
Which language and tools did you use to create this app ?
That is interesting, but probably both views have their merits. Belief involves emotional commitment which can create intellectual inertia that can be both good and bad, while formalism places a safe detaching distance from the subject.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.

I will change the background image right now.

EDIT: Changed it.
That is a very good idea, I don't understand where the downvotes come from.
Funnily enough, I came to the exact same conclusion last week while visiting London, from Dublin.

€30 return flights and it's faster than Barcelona, 1hr flights (and you can show up 45 mins before flight leaves for IE->UK).

Even using Hotel Tonight while I was in London, accommodation was €200+ on a Tuesday night.
I do not understand why some people try to regulate this. My guess is that income from smoking-tax is shrinking.

I never smoked cigarette in my life, but I tried e-cigs as a replacement for coffee. It works, no hassle with tea or coffee preparation, also it is probably healthier. But being labeled as a smoker puts me off.
Hey,

I used the basic, Xcode and Photoshop. The content was added manually, a big mistake on my part.

I hope that was the answer you were looking for.
The article draws a good distinction between human medical device applications (very heavily regulated, and thus very slow to market) and civil engineering applications (possibly much faster to market): "Like Dickey, Odom feels that worries over the complexity of these born-to-die devices are 'a straw man' as 'the real sweet spot' for the technology are low-powered devices that are built to perform a specific function. However, she does warn that 'anything in the biomedical arena takes time – in the order of 10 years for a device. Other applications like sensors to detect temperatures of structures like bridges might take less time.'"

Yes, even the user interface code for an external testing device used by medical doctors has to have a complete code review by the FDA (I know of an example). So products that look rather simple and inherently safe to laymen can take years to get to market by the time all regulatory approvals are obtained. But the article kindly submitted here immediately caught my eye with examples of medical device applications of biodegradable electronic circuits. There should be a lot of private industry uptake of further research and development of this technology, which someday may be part of routine medical practice as you and I visit physicians.
IMHO LastPass is clear about it. They say: "Savvy end users could potentially access the password if they capture it using advanced techniques during the login process". I think this sentence conveys the correct meaning to most people reading it (programmers should understand that the feature is not real security just upon seeing it).

I agree that most end-users won't know how to use the inspector, but that's really two clicks on a window of their browser. The blog also goes the complicated way with javascript, but the easiest way (also mentioned) is really really easy: right click on the password, inspect element, click on "properties", scroll down.

Using wireshark or modifying /etc/hosts with a custom html file is surely more complicated.
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Yeah, rent control is bad for Googlers trying to move in to SF, especially on short notice. But it's good for locals who already live there, who are not standing in line for flats, because they already live in them. How you weigh ease of moving in vs. stability for long-time tenants is more of a public-policy than economics question initially, and depends on how you assign utility (though economic analysis can help you maximize utility, once you've assigned it). A pure unrestricted market is already making an ideological decision that stability of people's current living situations should be valued as having zero utility, which not everyone agrees with. If you assign some kind of non-zero-but-not-infinite utility to that, then it's likely neither an unrestricted market nor a classic rigid rent control system will be utility-maximizing, and instead various hybrid schemes may be preferable.

One scheme used in some European cities is to let the prices float freely, but kick in a subsidy for existing residents when rent in an area increases by more than a certain % of their salary, softening the impact of market shifts on neighborhood turnover. This of course has the impact of increasing prices for newcomers relative to a situation where such a subsidy didn't exist, because fewer existing residents will be forced out due to rent increases, thereby freeing up fewer empty apartments for newcomers to rent. But that's the goal of the program, to reduce the number of existing residents unwillingly forced out of their neighborhood by rent increases, by shifting the margins a bit. With some kind of actual quantitative assignment of utilities it'd be possible to rationally design a subsidy program that buffers the impact of large changes without neutralizing them or setting up a long-term two-tier market (for example, subsidies can cover less than 100% of increases, and phase out over time).
I am an e-cig user, and an ex-smoker. There are five of us now in my group of friends.

I love the things. It's become a fun hobby for us. We swap flavours, buy hardware to show off, and talk about our experience whenever we're together. Way more fun than smoking ever was.

And, take this with a grain of salt (sample size of one), but I feel way better. No more coughing in the mornings, I take hills on my bike like a pro, and I'd swear I look healthier.
Vandalizing these idiotic tombstones will be great sport, and guilt-free.

I thought we had an understanding with the great beyond, that the living only take heed when communication is conveyed in the form of plagues or nightmares?

Montezuma's revenge isn't a pop-up window that reads "click here". The curse of The Mummy isn't a flash animation. Ebenezer Scrooge didn't turn over a new leaf after taking an online survey.

I mean sure, we may read their pithy stone carvings, but we certainly aren't compelled to obey them. Why would the dead place their trust in the availability of a civilian internet, to convey their message?
Encrypted, deduplicated remote backups
I think it is about a boss showing respect for his/her employees, active listening to and consideration for their ideas, and valuing their work. Saying "thank you" goes a long way and costs nothing. Occasionally stopping in the workplace and showing interest in the work helps. They used to call this "management by walking around." Showing value of the group's success at the expense of their own short term gain is a major plus.

Let me illustrate with an example from the best Division director I ever had. He came to us from NIST and valued analytical work, which made him a perfect fit for our materials characterization division. On numerous occasions when we would raise concerns over decisions our client divisions made that we felt hurt the company. He would go (or go with us) to have uncomfortable discussions with clients. On three occasions he made decisions that that adversely affected me and each time I went to him, he listened to my case and changed his decision. He was not afraid to say "no" if one couldn't build a case. The all time winner came when we needed to buy an expensive piece of equipment. At the time, capital would frequently become available near the end of the year because other divisions overestimated their needs. We then had the opportunity to purchase the instrument. This was the first year when management bonuses were tied to budget performance. Signing the order meant forfeiting his bonus. He signed it. That showed me that he valued long term organizational well being over his own short term profit. He made his share of questionable decisions - as all human beings do, but always retained my respect and loyalty.
While there is a footnote or two saying sans is better generally in the article, reading the full text actually argues quite a bit for each side. For example, legibility problems cited with sans are:
"
The sources of similarity
between the characters of modern sans-serif fonts are:
1. The standardized or modular appearance of the letters (“P,” “R”).
2. The effect of mirror images between the upper and lower part of the
character (“E,” “B,” “D”).
3. The use of equal radius for different letters (“G,” “O,” “C”)
(Craig, 1980; Cheetham and Grimbly, 1964).
"
I used exactly one module from CCAN in the past - failtest (http://ccodearchive.net/info/failtest.html).

And that's a simple idea, done well (and helps me hit the usually untested code paths).

If I had to still work a lot with C (I mostly write bits wrapped in JNI/Python/PHP exts), I would say that the hashtable, list and INI parser would be bits I would never want to reinvent again.
...or they could have just already utilized the cash, which is what Amazon is doing?
I'm not sure your comment about the ability of a user to create a daemon on another port being the same regardless is correct:

> He claims that you shouldn’t run your SSH daemon on a non-privileged port because anyone can spin up a daemon up there. Great point, except you can still do that even if you run your main one on 22.

... surely the point here is that this is not an internal server (if it were, you wouldn't be getting tens of thousands of attacks in your example).

So in the case of a server running on port 22, someone with user level access couldn't set up a daemon running on port 2222 because it wouldn't be allowed through the external firewall. Put ssh on 2222, and you just opened the firewall for a port any user can open.

I agree with a lot of your other comments, though.
No I did not got any notification.

It was EBS backed instance, since I had snapshot, it does not took much time to recreate a new instance. Beside that I had another instance behind ELB to avoid downtime.

If is fair to expect some notification for scheduled retirement.
Wikibooks really needs to get syntax highlighting - I find it helps me a lot when reading code.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.

I understand that I need a better landing page, but my real problem is getting users to see my app. I suck at marketing and when this HN post will fade out, I'm sure nobody will at least look at the app anymore.

I'm currently doing a video overview of the app and slowly making people to like my facebook page. Is there anything more that I can do? Writing a blog post is the next thing on the list.
I've been using an e-cig for about 3 months now and I've wanted a real cigarette maybe 3 times. The sheer volume of flavours and things to try is keeping me off the cigs. I've dropped my nicotine level down from medium to medium-low and I'm looking to drop again soon.

It's the closest thing to smoking without actually smoking and it's the only thing that's worked for me. I've tried cold turkey, patches and gum. None worked for more than a few weeks of constantly thinking about smoking.

It's so easy to switch from cigs to e-cigs too.
I can't fathom who thought these things were a good idea. I see people "smoking" these things everywhere: on the bus, on the train, at the effing university during classes!

I don't care if it's just steam, I don't want it in my face.
I can't believe people don't get this.
Good that you could restore the old system, but as others have said depending on the graphics card Ubuntu stock may not be the best candidate for installing on a low spec machine.

I'd go for CentOS in that situation with the Stella repositories for multimedia, but would also consider Debian Wheezy XFCE4. As others have suggested one of the Mint flavours might work well.

Having said that, Debian Wheezy 'full fat' with Gnome 3/Shell works fine on this X60 manufactured in December 2006 and fitted with 1Gb of RAM. Admittedly, that was not a low end machine when it was manufactured.
I used to run a custom e-cigarette company. We sold it this summer.

My take away was that the federal government eventually will get involved and start regulating the shipping of these items. Unfortunately the stuff people are getting now is mostly made in China and you can't be too certain of what the heck you are getting when you take a big inhale and just taste the apple flavoring or whatever. Who knows what chemicals are used to make them.

Most of the testimonials I received was from people that were able to quit smoking because of my product, but I definitely got some complaints as well. The biggest benefit of the e-cig is that is is little to no smell. Definitely hit them on airplanes before with no problems. It is an interesting market though where it seems like new types of e-cigs are coming out all the time.

Another thing about e-cigs is that people are making them into e-joints. This is very popular especially in medical marijuana states. Before they banned synthetic marijuana, we were developing a synthetic marijuana e-cig. Would have been fun to have around, but ultimately I am glad not to be filling in mass them any more!
Was this recently? The hassle/delay of crossing the border has really gone up in the past 10 years. Both the Mexican and Canadian borders, actually.
I always assumed that the option only determined whether or not they were given the ability to click and view the password in the LastPass UI. The password must necessarily exist on their computer in an unencrypted state in order to fill out a login screen. It seems really strange to me that people would assume there was a way for it to be securely hidden from the user.

Either way, sharing the password assumes that you are giving them the ability to login to your account. If the person you share with wants to give the password to someone else, it doesn't matter if they can see it or not. They can just share the password to their LastPass account. In other words the fact that they can see the password doesn't change anything from a security standpoint.

I suppose the one exception is a situation where you wanted to use the same password for your email and your bank and only wanted them to share access to your email but not let them see the password so they couldn't log in to your bank. This has a lot of security problems even if you aren't using LastPass or sharing your passwords. LastPass does warn you not to use the same password on multiple accounts unless you explicitly turn the warning off.
And if the company institutes stack ranking or corruptly fiddles the APR process and tells all the mangers to go along with it or else - what then.
A lot of smokers I know switched to these things. They 'smoke' (is that the proper word with such an e-cig?) far more than they did before. Some of them use them every second they have nothing todo with one of their hands, which basically means they're puffing most of their waking day. I hope for them these things don't turn out to be as bad as/worse than normal cigs...
god, please don't use autoplay videos! I open your link to read later, then I have to figure out where that damn noise is coming from.
Cygwin :)
you can't release a minimum viable product in aviation since any product defect will mean death.

Do you think the increasing popularity of whole-aircraft parachute systems (which I note is an option on the SD-1) will improve the situation? It's my impression the Cirrus gets away with being hard to recover from a spin by making parachute deployment the standard recovery procedure.
Indeed, Powershell is awesome.

But Cygwin is also usefull ;)
To provide small insight into the work of people who actually do doubt ZFC I'd like to source two interesting books.

First is Peter Aczel's work with the Anti-foundation Axiom which allows you to create sets with "infinite regress". Instead of blanket disallowing these kinds of set like ZFC does, he enlarges ZFC by allowing any set which is a unique solution to a group of equations that may be self-referential.

I was introduced to this stuff by a book "Vicious Circles" by Barwise and Moss (http://www.amazon.com/Vicious-Circles-Center-Language-Inform...).

The important point is that the Anti-Foundation Axiom lets us model infinite, streaming structures similar to those modeled in computer programs. It also motivates the somewhat unpopular idea of bisimulation which is very necessary for creating a kind of equality in an AFA world... and also for proving the equality of streaming algorithms.

Second is Lawvere's introduction to thinking about the foundations of mathematics from a Category Theoretic perspective. Lawvere is a proponent of thinking of Set theory as simply one, somewhat interesting Category which can be generated by a more foundational theory and set of axioms. I'm not personally anywhere nearly well-knowing enough to say whether that works, but his book Conceptual Mathematics (http://fef.ogu.edu.tr/matbil/eilgaz/kategori.pdf) gives a very interesting POV on how to work from the Category Theoretical basis to answer some normal Set theoretic questions.
"For high school math, inborn talent is just much less important than hard work, preparation, and self-confidence." This statement from the article is essentially correct, and is well backed up by comparative studies of mathematics education using different instructional methods in the United States, and especially by international comparisons in mathematics education.

My current work is teaching advanced mathematics classes to elementary-age learners in a supplemental program (year-round, locally) and advising parents on the education of precocious learners of mathematics (two weeks each summer, as part of an international summer program). So I try to keep up with the voluminous research on mathematics education. Learner attitudes are crucial. The job of a teacher is to help build successful learner attitudes.

For parents, I have posted online a set of FAQs on mathematics instruction,

"Problems versus Exercises"

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/ProblemsversusExercises.php

"Repetition and Practice"

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/RepetitionPractice.php

"Resources about Learning Mathematics"

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/LearningMathematics.php

"Courage in the Face of Stupidity"

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/CourageandStupidity.php

with the FAQs intended to help parents impart to their children attitudes and study habits that will build more success in learning mathematics. The level of mathematics expected of learners in United States senior high schools is not particularly hard--it is the level expected of junior-high-school students in several parts of east Asia and some parts of Europe. But initial poor preparation in mathematics in elementary school[1] often hobbles United States learners as they grow up into high school age.

[1] http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/Word%20problems%20in%20Russi...
The applications here could be very interesting as you could accomplish something and simply perish. snapchat for the physical world.
War story: I was once called in to scale an application that had been running on AWS for 6 or 7 months and was failing due to excessive traffic. Normally a good problem to have, but this turned into a difficult problem because the application stored critical data on an EBS and those are, of course, not sharable. The only solution was to move to increasingly larger instances until the application could be rewritten.
Moral: If you are on the "cloud", make sure your application design fits your infrastructure.
The power of being different
That's true, this is investigating within a setting that already assumes certain minimum norms on employment conditions. Due to both culture and law, nobody is being pressured into working 50+ hour weeks, so the degree of excessive workload is bounded.
If they are using pirated windows xp, i doubt that they will pay for any online service.
Dirty little secret: most people aren't content creators, even for values of "content" such as discussion topic comments.
I think you could replace 'math' with pretty much any endeavour and the article would still ring true.

As a musician, I've heard so many people say "I'd love to be able to play [instrument], but I just don't have musical talent", when in reality it was caused by an uninspiring teacher, or lack of practise.