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Come on, it is just words. There are millions of people who, say, quit smocking/drinking without any therapy or medication, just because they have realized they doesn't need it anymore. Is this a part of science or not?)

OK, just once.) There is a distinct process of memeization of science is going on, it is not even pop-science it is all about deriving memes from memes.

There is no secret that vast majority of studies are performed to "keep the funding going" with conclusions that would please the investors - "they cannot caught us after all". Most of these recent cancer/blood papers are not even reproducible, leave alone verifiable.

Doing non-meme science is much harder, much less profitable comparing to publishing fiction/sensationalist papers. It is a duty, not a business.

There are millions of so-called studies. "Mediterranean Diet is the most healthy one." Really? Have they factored out the water quality and air quality? How exactly? What accounts to air quality and what to the quality of water sources? In what extent? In the long run?

This is most obvious and silly example, but others are even more messy. How so-called state of stress is related to production of this or that hormones or other chemicals? How exactly it affects so-called metabolism? How they resolved sleeping issues, noise levels in the environment, air quality, diet?

The systems they are trying to study is vastly complex and correlations, even if such were discovered, not mere assumed, are not causation, and definitely not single ones.

So, to blindly follow what other people label "modern science" is, to some extent, is exactly the same as to follow a religion - just accept on faith because they said so, without asking any questions. This is meme-based, pop "science" which cannot be trusted.
I like your ambiguous use of 'they'. :)
You say you "would still do better". Does this mean you've not actually tested your belief empirically?

I find hunger is one of the least well understood of our bodily functions, despite it being accessible to every one of us. Few people test it.

From my experience, and from the experience of everyone I've every talked to who tries intermittent fasting: You won't get hungry, once you adapt. Most of us adapted in a few days.

I don't eat until 12-1, and I get up around 8. Hunger never bothers me until lunchtime, and I feel clear headed and productive all morning.

If you HAVE tried this experiment, then apologies. But I find it very irritating that so many people i. Have very strong opinions on the matter of fasting ii. Have never experimented to see how they react to fasting
> Accumulation of technical debt is bad.

Is it always? In dollar amounts, I really do not know that it always is. "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" and all. As a developer, I am always going to be the one push for better tests, more efficient systems, etc. but pg's post a month or two ago about scaling without automation (very rough paraphrasing) points to the fact that this does not always hold.

> The latest trendy programming language won't make your hard problem all that much easier to solve.

Maybe not the latest, but I would think that it was way easier to develop a desktop app in C++ than Fortran, develop a website in PHP than C++, develop a web app in Ruby than PHP, etc. Tech definitely improves over time. Jumping on every third bandwagon seems to be worthwhile.

> A complex system can't be properly integrated and tested in two weeks (as recent news reports have shown).

> The CEO setting an arbitrary deadline doesn't magically alter the laws of physics.

These are not engineering problems, but political/administration problems that have been around forever and in every endeavor. I am certain that stone masons building cathedrals dealt with the same sorts of incompetent management, despite a dedication to craftsmanship and engineering.
It seems that I need to. When I don't, it gives "Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin" error.
How is calculating the rate at which Black people commit crimes, after accounting for observable social and economic conditions, "stupid"?

I never discussed exactly what the causal effect was. Some people think Black people are genetically prone to crime. Others think that the history of slavery and its political and social repercussions can explain the crime gap.

But when you accuse people who are trying to establish the base facts of racism, you are hindering the discovery of the truth. Self-censorship in this regard is not helpful.
There is a difference between being actually hungry, and beginning to feel the need to eat. Other commenters are comparing hungry kids not being able to focus on learning, which is absolutely true. Its not just the hunger for them, its about food insecurity. They don't know if they'll get food tomorrow, so the idea of staying fed is primordial there.

That said, for me, a state of feeling light-headed with the need to eat in the background works best. Satiation is a never ending pit, you'll need to fill in 15 minutes after you last felt satiated. But if you can ignore that little sugar-triggered signal, focus becomes both easier and intense.
I'm curious about this paper:
The use of Melodic Scales in Bollywood Music: An Empirical Study

Cool that Microsoft does research into Bollywood music?

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1983...
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This doesn't generate nearly enough power to be cost- or energy-efficient. It would be a fun gimmick though.
I don't understand your example. Apparently the receptionist attends parties and drinks alcohol in her downtime, how is that an issue? That is not inappropriate at all.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The people who know all the new terminology get to feel superior to the ones who don't keep up.
I remember reading about this in Paul Smith's 'Lead with a Story' book. It genuinely makes a lot of difference to make people listen to you.
Cortisol is elevated during fasts and thyroid hormone lowered. Endotoxin absorption is increased by large meals. I would guess daily fasting might be a bad idea. It's perhaps like veganism, where after a period of years it could catch up to you in a bad way.

Of course it makes sense that people would be a bit sharper with elevated adrenaline and cortisol. But those fundamentally put stress on the body.
How is it that they can say "Our research" about publications from 1951, like:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6500...

and

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6503...

are they just part of Microsoft's IP portfolio, or are these authors previous incarnations of Bill Gates?
It isn't a new idea, it just may not be common. I've seen video/presentations for a decade. The implementation I remember used WMVs as the video source, but I'm sure it could have just as easily been WMA or another media format.

I wish were more common though.
Domain Camping is when you look at another person's brand and say "I like their brand, lemme pretend to be them". For example, "camping" the site "microSSoft.com" would be domain camping.

Trademark law requires you to provably build a brand from the ground up. Hire your own artists, hire your own creativity. Are you honestly telling me that you are so uncreative that you can't create your own brand? Don't recreate "Mario", create your own damn characters!

And that is how the world gets better: when you reward creativity. It is virtually impossible to recreate a character, a brand, or anything and actually violate trademark law if you actually built a brand from scratch.
Same here, I feel more focused and have stronger mental acuity when my stomach is empty
Good article, but the typo of Cithhash for Cityhash will reduce interest. Perhaps correct and resubmit?
His last line was hilarious, you should chill.
I have never seen this notation used, but perhaps it is mean to represent steradians (the unit of solid angle)?
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/song...

Could it be related to SongSmith?

"Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you."
Fasting signals your body to aggressively conserve resources, making less available to you and optimizing for maximum fat content. Which is why it's not an effective dieting technique. When you "get used to it" your body has reduced its energy consumption but also the energy available to you and your brain.

The mice are doing better at getting themselves fed but I wonder what the impact of hunger is on higher order functions like programming, relationships, management, etc...
Why great software shouldn’t be too “magical”
What kind of apps to make the most of curved screens?
Workflow Reboot: Subversion to Git
I don't know if I'm different, or what -- but I simply cannot concentrate on an empty stomach. When I find myself just staring at the computer screen, unable to write code -- it's usually because it's 11am and I didn't eat enough breakfast, or 11pm and I didn't eat enough dinner. It's not the distraction of hunger, it's just that my brain isn't getting the energy it needs to think properly. I have to go snack on something (usually substantial) to get enough energy going back to my brain -- and then I'm fine.

In fact, I've often been mystified by people trying to lose weight who barely eat anything all day, yet still manage to get work done effectively, participate in meetings intelligently, etc. I wish I could, but I swear, when I'm hungry it's like my IQ is cut in half.

Still, just from talking with friends about it, it seems like I'm the outlier here.
Yes just ignore the bad man, don't listen to his arguments.
Great article, thanks! You should submit it separately if you haven't. Noticed a typo in the title that you might fix first: "Using Names Pipes"
The data is there, everybody and check it and get its own conclusions. The one I get is disturbing
I'll believe it when it actually works. And doesn't need Terminal with Vi and eMacs to operate {shudder}.
Yea I used to rent an office for a few years. I learned some important things - particularly making sure that you have the right office environment for your productivity. I unfortunately rented a space before the 'coworking' revolution and got kind of trapped in an office with non-tech guys much older than me constantly bugging about IT advice, a rent barter agreement when my finances couldn't swing the overhead that was hard to break (I basically became an indentured web-servant for a print design agency), and eventually a realization that I wasn't even being productive in the office. Been a skeptic about offices ever since, but definitely curious that a proper coworking space might be different..
What duration of fasts are you referring to? I had seen research on Ramadan fasts that indicated that short term fasting did not increase the total amount of cortisol, though the timing shifted.

I was under the impression that short term fasting was metabolically different from term fasting.

My source had been Martin Berkhan's blog. He cites the Ramadan literature in point 8. I'm not well placed to evaluate the papers as I lack expertise.

http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debun...
Thanks for the heads up. Wow...can't believe I missed that. Will have to resubmit.
There is a fallacy in this quote: "The state of the Go ecosystem after only four years is astounding. Compare Go in 2013 to Python in 1995 or Java in 1999. Or C++ in 1987!"
This comparison is more than unfair, in the 90's only a few people had an internet connection. Or Do you want to create Open Source projects by mail? Git or Subversion didn't even exist back then.
Now imagine in 1987...
I think it depends on the person. I find courses totally demotivating. Even if I'm very interested in the subject before taking a course, I immediately lose interest once it's something I'm graded on like that, with the direction decided by an instructor.
The SAT is a measure in one's ability to study for and take a test.
As someone who lives in the mecca of the oil and gas industry and is thus around a lot of engineers--chemical engineers, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, and more--I can tell you that trying to argue too passionately about what constitutes an "engineer" is futile at this point. Engineers do everything from physically working on an oil rig to somewhat abstract economic analysis at a desk all day.

The only legitimate argument I can find regarding the use of the word "engineer" is that there are actual engineering licenses that can be obtained. But if we said that you had to have such a license to be called an engineer, that would screw up the naming conventions in a ton of industries.
"savory" i think is the english term normally used
Lacking predictive power is indeed a big issue of economics.

However you are completely wrong about sovereign debt. It is a minor issue, and defaults almost never result in wars. Argentina defaulted or restructured its debt 4 times since 1980.
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Ask HN: Does your tech startup or tech company hire contract software engineers?
I'm curious about how realistic it is to want to work at a good software company as a contractor or consultant. Is it common practice for good Bay area/East coast tech companies to hire engineer contractors? What kinds of roles and skills are most relevant/in demand. Love to hear your personal stories.
But you're motivated to get to the end, aren't you? If not, you must have had a hard time in school.
Since I started working from home, I found that I'm super focus and productive in the morning after consuming a cup of coffee. My productivity is at its lowest after lunch, even a light one, feeling my glucose is running low.

I found it helps to take a small break and do 15 min walk and come back to work re-boost my attention again. Another thing that helps is to maintain a low in-door temperature definitely adds more O2 to my brain. Maybe that's why my last workplace is always so cold with AC blasts at its max.
Would this work for a band, by chance? I spend an inordinate amount of time hunting down, calling, and following up with club owners, HR people (for corporate gigs), and 'regular folks who just want live entertainment for a party'. I would LOVE to be able to outsource this drudgery to someone else, so long as they can get the same or better results than me doing it myself.
I got a bachelor's, then a master's.

I did a ton of projects. Believe it or not, I don't have any more I want to do. It's kinda like a turned 60 and retired people don't want to do anything, do they?
I find it amusing that the vast majority of the comments here are critiquing the methodology (nothing wrong with that), instead of discussing the conclusion: "Happiness is love. Full stop."

HN will be HN.
> legitimacy of the Taiwanese claim to sovereignty over their own island

Taiwan has been dominated by Han Chinese ever since the 1600s. It is less of "Taiwanese" trying to govern their own island than the ROC fleeing communism to a distant province that was too hard to invade and too small to care about.

Even though it has been left to rule itself mostly for all these years, that does not make it a sovereign nation any more than Hong Kong to China or Puerto Rico to the US.
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With all due respect, I don't feel he is/was old enough to make such claims, as judging by his picture. Not saying that he is right or wrong, only the wrong person to make such claims.
> Or do you believe in the other possibility: having a REPL doesn't matter as much as everyone thought?

The importance of REPL is very exaggerated. Neither Java, C#, C++ nor C have one (and together, these four languages probably make up for 95% of programming languages).

There is nothing that prevents any of these languages to get one (Scala has one, a bunch of these exist for other statically typed languages), it's just not that useful when you have powerful IDE's at your disposal.

Most of the time I need REPL-like functionalities, I need it in the heart of my application, with all its structures and state initialized and in the middle of a breakpoint. I hardly ever need to type snippets of code with zero context around them, which is what REPL's offer.
From a PR perspective, can anyone shed light on why this came out on a Sunday night?
I've always had a tendency to forget to eat. Recently, I've been forcing myself to eat something in the morning (I look for something with fat or protein, preferentially) and I've noticed that those periods where I have no energy, can barely move, can't think and get stuck in horrible, repetitive ruts, etc. get much better.
I agree - hunger for me is a distraction, and the sooner I can take care of it, the sooner I can get focused again. Eating could certainly be a distraction if you overeat to the point of being tired after a meal, but eating properly, imo, takes care of something that would otherwise be hindering my productivity.
Ramadan fasting would be a brief period of ~12 hour fasts during the day, right? No biggie. The guy above was saying he eats one big meal every day, indefinitely. I'm no expert but that sounds like a bad idea.

The rule of thumb with stress is that low but chronic is way worse than acute. With that in mind maybe don't eat at all one day a week, but get your three squares the other six.
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I don't see how. Have you ever tried talking to a chatbot? It becomes apparent pretty quickly that it's not intelligent.
I'm the same way. I've never understood people who work all day and, at 11pm, casually mention that they haven't eaten since last night. If I even skip breakfast I can't get any work done until lunch.
But Nintendo doesn't need his traffic, nor do they need him to help promote their products. And if they wanted a browser-playable version of Super Mario Bros. I'm quite certain they could find their own people to develop it.

Literally, as nice as this was, it has nothing to offer Nintendo (that wasn't taken from them to begin with).
Anonymous in that their name doesn't matter and you need not care about it. They are implemented using pipes with actual names, but the names aren't important from the shell user's point of view.
You don't really need a REPL when compiles take literally only a second or two. It's only the fact that C++ had a static type system where programs took (literally) hours to compile that made dynamic typing look so great in comparison. "Poorly designed static type systems drive people to dynamic typing," as Rob Pike said.
When the lab rats are in the maze, is the prize for successfully exiting the maze a piece of cheese or other food? If so I wonder if this test effective. If I'm hungry I can probably find the fastest route to a store or restaurant, but I'm not sure about improved calculus skills.
This is an old post and it suffers from some shiny rhetoric, but it was very technically relevant for work I did recently.

I had a similar problem as the OP: millions of images stored on S3 that each needed to be rescaled to a set of four new dimensions. Etsy's work encouraged me to dive in with the hope that I could accomplish my task with relatively little pain.

Indeed, I was able to write some multi-threaded Python that ran on a single XXL EC2 instance and was able to rip through every image in less than 48 hours.

Thanks to Mike, and the folks at Etsy, for posting about your experiences!
It's actually really hard to get to the end of any article. I had to click the link again to see what you were talking about. But yes, Happiness is love, very profound.
(Resubmit) Improving Cityhash Performance by Go Profiling
I've been remote-only for 5 years. The company I worked for decided that remote work would be the way of the future and it'd save a ton of costs, so we did a trial where a portion of the workforce would work from home each week until everyone went remote at the end of the year.

I don't really have a favorite story: remote working is not that interesting. It did have a profound affect on my life, though: since I didn't need to work at a specific office, I decided that I wanted to move across the country. Rather than a job opportunity deciding where I lived, I got to spend a few months weighing the pros and cons of various places based on other factors. After 6 months, I moved 3,000 miles away and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

Of course, I probably couldn't have done that if I had any outside, major, long-term commitments (spouse, children, family I had to stay within driving distance of, a house, etc.).

If you're in a similar situation, the first bit of advice I can give is that you're going to find that "nine-to-five" eventually becomes "whenever I feel like working, as long as I get things done and stay in communication with the rest of the team". This means working nights or weekends, but it also means being able to knock off and do something fun in the middle of the day. It's easy to slip into a situation where you're working 9pm-5am or working Thursday-Tuesday one week and then a completely different schedule the next, even if you have a personal schedule (it's easy to ignore it).

If you need a routine to be productive, you need to create one for yourself, and I would suggest doing it immediately—don't wait until you're all over the place in terms of time. If you already have outside commitments (like making sure kids get to school on time or having to walk a dog) you'll have a leg up, but otherwise I'd suggest joining user groups or community sports or something that has set schedules you have to keep.

The second bit of advice I can give is to use a phone/video chat as much as possible. It's very easy to slip into emailing/texting/IMing/ticketing all the time, but so much is lost in the written word and you can find yourself implying things you didn't mean to imply or inferring the wrong things from people's messages. I've found you can diffuse most sticky situations with a simple call: when in doubt, don't keep emailing, don't stew, call the person. Even a run-of-the-mill problem that might take a half dozen emails back-and-forth can usually be resolved with a simple 5 minute phone call.
I wonder the same thing. For me, I become far more productive and focused when I'm slightly hungry. Great for late night work by myself, reading, emailing.

But being hungry also makes me a bit less social... I try not to be hungry when I'm working with people.

What I wonder is if I'm more creative when I'm slightly hungry. And I think I am. Hard to quantify.
Thanks for the suggestion. I resubmitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6710115
Docker is compiled statically so will definitely work on busybox :)
Geoffray Warnants did a simple CSS3 Tetris in 2011: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/tetris-css3...
Yes, its not new. My old company, Mentorware, created content from syncing slides and audio for the Java One conference starting in 2000.

But putting these together was a manual effort. This idea would eliminate that.
Haha! HN is extremely critical of Microsoft all the time. I suspect this article was posted in response to the post about Facebook's research publications, which was near the top earlier in the day.
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Well then, tell us about the system YOU built to batch process millions of images that doesn't use something "weak sauce" like NFS.

In the real world, you use what works, not the flavor of the month.
Can I prevent Google from tracking which links I follow in downloaded PDFs?
I fully expected this entire article to contain only 3 characters, ending in ex.
What circle jerking are you referring to exactly?
There is an ongoing project to bundle Docker with Tiny core linux, which is even more lightweight than coreos. Meanwhile there is also work to add clustering capabilities to docker.
Not to mention, compiling a custom patched kernel.