skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to consider a different brand. Never had that problem, not even heard of it, and I'm from a not-circumcised country.
Try to pay attention. We were discussing the "problem" of people already receiving benefits being compelled to work for those benefits.

While it is a problem that the council allows crackheads into public housing, and there may be problems with government incompetence, this is a somewhat separate discussion. Tangentially, if you want to require drug tests for benefits and kick people out of council housing for antisocial behavior, I have no objection.
Isn't it the same as the original article description of deferred net settlement? I believe most country-local-currency systems are (or used to) run this way.
In fact it's the opposite - the reason that 'Enumeratees' and their ilk look slightly unusual is that they are abstractions over general input and output, and are not specific at all to Play or WebSockets.

If you are used to functional programming, Iteratees, Enumerators and Enumeratees are very easy to pick up, and what you end up with is simple building blocks that you can compose together to build powerful systems.

I am currently building a system using Play for real-time interaction with a server and the interface is extremely clean.
Started eating better. More fresh vegetables and lean meat, less sugar, a lot less carbs. Dropped 28 pounds so far. Huge boost to my self-esteem.
quit fapping

r/NoFap
For me, it was a tidy set of lifestyle choices that I made, all at once:

1. Stopped drinking.
2. Started running three miles every morning, crack of dawn.
3. Stopped watching TV.
4. Cut out almost all junk/fast food.

The change in my productivity and general sense of well-being has been profound.
There are some rather key differences though don't you think? I imagine as a reasonably valued software engineer you weren't likely to face disciplinary action or loss of employment for not picking fast enough, thus negating a huge cause of stress/anxiety. You also had the knowledge of a definite finite term of employment followed by more relaxing/agreeable work, another rather significant difference.

You also talk about troubleshooting shortages and getting to do things that require problem solving. It sounds from this article (and others like it over the last few years) that this kind of thing, if even still available at all, is not likely to happen to your average seasonal employee.

The fact that other people have it worse in various sweatshops around the world is hardly relevant, or particularly edifying. We are quite capable of seeing problems as a matter of degree I would hope.

Your comment comes across as a little like the CEO who spends a day on the factory floor and proclaims that he had a marvelous time and everyone treated him wonderfully. Unsurprising, but hardly enlightening...
Empathy redundancy detected!

"Yes, you are a mechanical turk in the strictest sense of the word, being dispatched by your hand scanner to go find something and put it in a cart, but it isn't hard work, just a bit boring."

Would you like to be a permanent 'mechanical turk'? As in... you had zero choice in the matter and no chance to change things ever? That's not 'a bit boring'... that's soul crushing (and I mean 'soul' in a non-religious sense). Studies have shown that sort of stress causes heart disease over 'good stress' (you're manning the Very Important controls).

"If you take it seriously and get good at troubleshooting shortages, then you start getting to do things that require a bit more problem solving, but even the really menial stations aren't terribly bad."

But what if you're not very good at problem solving (quite possible if you're working in a warehouse)?... you being a human with very real needs doesn't stop because you can't 'get serious and solve problems'.

Quite honestly... from your comment, I can only deduce that you are an asshole with an inability to imagine yourself in other people's shoes.
Thanks man, that was really fun! I should try it again, i only got 30 points the first time. I only had time to drop one ball after getting used to the controls, and i missed 80 by about 1/8th of an inch.
There is nothing wrong with receiving benefits. I actually receive low rate disability for two members of my family and child tax credit.

My point is that only the JSA covers your salary. The rest is for the care of your children and your accommodation, some of which you still have to pay from your JSA allowance.

You are likely to still receive all other benefits equally whether salaried at a low rate or on JSA so the difference is moot. This is simply a case of salaried vs JSA.

Actually people with social problems such as drug use and psychological problems need more help than most so they should probably get more money, but in a controlled way (untradeable LV's, healthcare etc).
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http://youtu.be/46CwTDLkHA8 - very interesting insights into the aesthetics of chess, by a Scottish grandmaster Jonathan Rowson.

I think it's inspiring for every chess player, or even those who don't play (yet).

Part II: http://youtu.be/f8ErcUCQoUs
I started running and waking up earlier. They looked so big to begin with but they were very very easy to adopt. Now i am trying to finally quit smoking once and for all.
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This certainly could do for a Breaking bad Computer Science version.
Was it x264? It has a dual GPL2/commercial licence and I believe they have been pretty successful.
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Well, some people are bound to already installed interpreters. And those come with Linux distros. Many of which will be using Python 3 as the default for their 2014 releases (Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch). Plus these distributions are helping/pushing 3rd party Python developers to port to Python 3.

So 2014 really looks like Python 3 mass adoption.
Picking up the habit of working regularly on side-projects.

I am lucky enough to have a couple of friends interested in working on the same project as myself. The habit of all of us getting together for a couple of hours during the weekend has tremendously advanced the project.

It helps to work with friends or people in general, because it rarely happens that none of us are in the mood for working. And when we are, we pull the other ones in.

For about a year before starting this, I would only ever so often sit down to advance the project, but after starting this 1-2 times per week get-together with them, the project has improved (complete code refactoring + 2 versions out on the App Store), in about 3 months.

As well, myself, I have improved as a programmer and have gotten a rekindled interest in programming. I think my friends can agree that it has affected them similarly.
If there becomes excess supply of drivers and vehicles, not improbable.
I stopped using shampoo and conditioner. It's the best fashion advice I've ever had and it's funny that it came from a hn article. Better looking hair, better protection against cold, no more dandruff, much smaller dry scalp patches and so on. Thanks HN!
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Which reminds me of this: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/deuce-bigalow-european-gig...
Not mainstream, but there is something called Random Ferns (technically a mix of Naive Bayes and Random Forest) which is even faster than Random Forest because it optimizes nothing and has almost no conditional jumps both in training and prediction codes. The accuracy is usually a bit worse, but the difference seems to decrease with the hardness of a problem.
Some view it as fundamental flaw, others as an extra layer of safety against inflation.
Fasting (< 500cal) two or three times a week is rapidly decreasing my volume, and bringing increased mental clarity and alertness. It's a good rhythm to get into, has a pretty dramatic (positive) effect on how I feel, and it's a nice way to atone for yesterday...
That was fun! I'm surprised how responsive and easy it was to pick up the controls.
I saw that! :)
Spoken like a person of privilege, someone completely out of touch with the challenges of the poor.

Have you considered that low wage workers may be too exhausted after working two and three jobs a day to engage in "class warfare"? They worry about meeting basic needs for their families like rent and paying for medicines. Their war is survival.

Please, step out of your ivory tower and help them.
> are the type of people who think they're smarter than everyone else, but who are actually, in fact, dumber. Usually they lack empathy, are undersocialized, and probably show on the autism spectrum.

Projecting? Everything about both of your comments (above) suggest you fit this model perfectly.

In the opening of the article the author says:

> many people mentioned that they enjoyed playing chess but quit because of the sheer time commitment it took to get “good” at chess

So it's obviously not aimed at someone of your (supposed) skill level, but at others here who may be casual players. No need to be so nasty.
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can you provide a link to the article? thanks!
We were definitely measured the same as everyone else and had the same targets, though obviously didn't face the same repercussions. The targets were hard at first but once you got the hang of it nothing terribly difficult.

It is manual labor, I don't really understand the arguments against. Yes, it is work, yes it is boring, but so it being a gas station attendant. The people I worked side by side with seemed happy enough.

Maybe I lack empathy, but geez, I actually did it for a while, and you and the other respondent didn't... so maybe another option is that the article is a bit sensational and it isn't as bad as it is made out?

Sore feet and that it is boring and are his primary complaints.. really? This is something to get up in arms about?
If you do not use shampoo, what do you use to wash your hair? Genuinely interested, I can't live without Head and Shoulders.
I can think of one good reason why the government wouldn't want to do that - because it's the people running the government who are using it to transfer public money to their overseas bank accounts. Obviously not all of them (there's more common methods, and not all of them are on the take), but enough to make it a bad idea to go fishing for money launderers.

They don't want to catch anyone unless they already know who they are going to catch.

I suspect this is also a factor in why it is taking them so long to unify their land ownership databases.
Do you have some evidence that inventions are a direct result of patents as opposed to socio-economic factors? I can see inventors appreciating recognition, but our system offers no other means of appreciation than patents. Patents are an example of degenerate capitalism, taking away your freedom.
or just use R tools yourself
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how do you hear the equations in mp3?
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yes and i am trying so hard to quit already feel like i am getting better in everything
Please make the UPVOTE (and downvote?) button/s more obvious and usable. I feel like people don't up-vote things simply because they forget that they can!
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The employees aren't in jail, they aren't slaves, they have choice.

I worked there, it wasn't that bad. The article is sensational.
A better analogy might be an entertainment venue, like a bar or theatre.

Those with the broadest appeal last longer, some never get off the ground, others shine brightly and then fade.
Same here. I used to have really greasy hair and needed to wash it pretty much everyday. I read about this so gave it a try. After a few weeks the grease went away. Note that I still wash my hair, so it doesn't smell, but I just use water.
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Sometimes I go to "collapse" a comment or a post when actually i am up-voting it! The arrow looks like a collapse link rather than an up-vote link.
That sounds great. Sometimes I really wish I had friends who are into programming.
less worrying about being next billion dollar app and focusing on critical thinking
Stopped eating fast food and drinking any artificial flavored/sweetened/preserved drinks (exception beer).

Closely linked: learned to cook for myself and making an effort to cook something I've never tried once a week.
Some help here: http://www.reddit.com/r/NoPoo/wiki/index

After some weeks, your hair gets used to having no shampoo.

I'm doing it since 2 months and all is fine.
Thanks! We worked hard to get the delay under a second. That is of course quite dependant on the speed of your connection as there are 2 streams while you are in control (front cam and ball cam)
Travelling on a kayak (Passau-Bratislava in 2012 and Krakow-Gdansk in 2013). Both the memories and the planning for the future trips (Iceland 2014!) give me something to hold on to during the dark moments. Previously I used to travel by bike, but I had stopped that for 3 years before picking up kayaking.
I'd like to read more in depth about these transnational comparisons on the effects of patent systems. Can you please point me towards a source which serves as a good starting point for further reading?
Do you do the same during winter when it isn't light until 8am (depending on where you live of course), or do you push the walk back a bit?
You can't turn on/off notifications as you please. All or nothing since the latest update.
Giving up high sugar foods completely (no soft drink, candy, dessert etc). I went from battling colds year round to almost never getting them.
I started doing this as well. Apparently your hair will eventually clean itself naturally. Shampooing often actually makes it produce oil.
Ask HN: Scanning TV listings to show if there is something good to watch on TV?
There are plenty of channels on TV and it's impossible to know if there is a good movie on some channel, or if it will be next hour.

You'd need such a thing?
The expressiveness of Decision Trees lends itself to other applications. I'm looking at how we might apply the ideas behind Decision Trees in UI/UX modeling and UI testing. (Slightly off subject but) https://github.com/Huddle/PhantomFlow attempts to do this. Breaking away from conventional testing approaches is interesting enough, but having the tests produce mine-able, visualize-able data is a great way to better understand system complexity.
I've been doing the same since one year and a half ago. Works well even with long hair.
More interesting even is the fact that both his Bitcoins studies were sponsored by Citi. Especially when they seem so empty of value and are only any good as FUD material against Bitcoin.
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I'm guessing you mean "can't use GPL'd code" here.

embedded work is different, in that you often embed your container in your data-structure, so you end up with something like:

typedef struct {
int x;
int y;
Point *next;
} Point;

this allows you to save on overhead of extra allocations when creating your list (but does mean you need to create extra functions for

Point* find_list(Point* p, int x, int y);
Yes, it could be interesting.
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How does everyone feel about a JSON dicts separated by newlines format? (Like the JSON format that mongoimport can accept.)

Each sample of the type of data that I'm often dealing with tends to be nested in nature. Yes, I do have a script that can flatten out the nested dicts into a regular table, but that always results in a blowup into hundreds of columns.

Nice suggestion to share the raw data. I've never seen a researcher do that, I think many don't even save the raw data to disk before extracting what they want, but I always try to.
I did the same when I found out I am diabetic. Now I can really enjoy taste of tea and black coffee.
(1.) Eat well, drink well, sleep well, work well.

(2.) Quantified self: Targeting productive and unproductive time with RescueTime, and committing to explicit targets with Beeminder.

(3.) Less but better. Less input but better input. Less output but better output. Afford the luxury of being slow and having time for introspection and inspiration.

(4.) When you can't sleep, don't try to.
Adi Shamir (the "S" in RSA) is doing significant research on Bitcoin, including for customers such as CitiBank (IIRC).
Agreed, getting into a regular running / cycling / exercise routine has had the biggest positive effect on my life.

10 hours sleep is a bit excessive for me though :)
Reading. I never used to open a book for more than 20 minutes but once I started reading books I actually enjoyed (Gladwell, Freakenomics, other books related to business, personal growth, human behavior etc) I realized what an amazing habit it is. You learn a lot, work your brain, give the eyes a break from a screen and you can take a good book/kindle anywhere. No power needed. Start reading books.
I once complained at the office that we were out of sugar at the coffee corner, after same asking around, I found out that I was the only one in the office drinking coffee with sugar. That meant I alone consumed the entire box (1500 portions of 5g) of sugar... A collaege gave me the best advice ever: "It's all between your ears, stop with sugar and within a week you'll no longer mis it". He was right.
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How did you quit? I really want to quit right now, I even switched for e-cigarettes but I came back to normal after one week.
Prior to doing this, did you walk 10K every day? Curious about the diff between 10K run vs 10K walk. Personally, weightlifting 3x a week and roughly 10K walking every day does the same thing as running did.
How do you get up early? I've always been a night person and currently it's 7am and I haven't slept.
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Switching off the sound my phone makes each time I receive an email, text or messaging notification.

I also stopped checking my email actively in the evening (only once before going to sleep to make sure there are no emergencies) and I try not to touch it more than once on Saturdays.

I have such a clearer mindset now these days.

Try it! You'll see.
Drinking green tea helped triple my water intake.
Sharply cutting carbohydrates from my diet.
Lifting weights 3X a week.

I am in better physical and mental shape than ever before.
Dresses made out of balloons by Rie Hosokai
Japanese designer Rie Hosokai has a fascination with a unique fabric material: balloons. Together with art director Takashi Kawada, the collective known as ‘Daisy Balloon’ create exciting and elegant dresses made entirely from balloons of all shapes, sizes and colors.They’re not exactly practical – the squeaking alone would drive anyone crazy. But, the craftsmanship and creativity on display here is museum quality. Rie Hosokai has successfully turned ‘knitting’ balloons into a sophisticated, wearable art form.
'Don’t be silly Jake. Where else are you going to put functions if you don’t have classes?'

The core argument is more of philosophical in nature in terms of paradigms, because from functional programming view a function just acts on a data transforming it to other form. But in pure OO world (like Java) one can not dare to think beyond objects so for them it has to be in a object.
The one about "buildings do not move" is hilarious. People hardly believe this if you tell them about that. But this happens quite often now (although not always by such a large distance). Sometimes it's cheaper to move a building and being able to then use the free place for something's that is more profitable (protection of historical monuments vs. money made).

But I don't know if such a moved building necessarily keeps its address.
That's really cool. When I've been trying to work with someone else on side projects, someone always wanted to quit. It's really hard to find people who will do that regularly.
Ask HN: Help with software scripting language list
I started this list of software scripting languages wondering if it can help me picking a programming language to learn (I'am an architect, real one not IT architect). I think there isn't a list like this and I need your help to complete it. It is very incomplete and probably there are mistakes. I think this is helpful and interesting to a lot of people.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtCSFkUcN6wPdHVYVXROVTZvTHo2YlBRSXhFTkk3ZHc&usp=sharing
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nope, completely waste of time, instead you should encourage people to watch less TV...
1. Going to the gym as the first thing in the morning.

2. Saying "No" more often.
A "strawman" is where you set up a flimsy counter point to your own argument and then defeat it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

You might call it "ad hominem" as it is an attempt to discredit Diffie, although that usually describes a logical fallacy - the personal attack doesn't affect the validity of the argument. In this context the main reason for having Diffie there is because of his status and achievements, so it's a reasonable counter to try to discredit him.

I would say that kind of attack is not very fair, and a little bit dishonest, but not a flaw of reasoning.
Study the Bible and/or Zen poetry every morning, preferably before reading anything else.
You mean with capital letters and periods?
Ask HN: How do you become a morning person? 
I've always been a night owl and enjoy being up late. I have a bad habit of not going to bed until I'm tired, so that leads to me not sleeping until late. Any ideas?
Sinclair QDOS which ran on the Sinclair QL did preemptive multitasking on a 128KB machine (buggy as heck when it came out but it did precede the Amiga by almost a year and half).
Um, no. Factory owners have a lot of power (lobbying, uniqueness, etc) when compared to factory workers. We're talking about a newly industrialized world, with a new working class. Their response was to form alliances with each other because they share common interests.

There are many reasons why unions are failing now. Factory workers do not form 80% of the workforce (in the developed world) any more. People now work in various different positions and lines of work, so they don't feel that they have mutuals interests with many others.

Power brings corruption. When the unions gathered a lot of power, we started seeing politicians emerging from the unions to take the power. And gradually they started betraying the people that voted for them and took the unions down with them.

Also, there is now a more egoistic mentality in most people. People tend to believe that they're more worthy than the rest, which is all nice until you realize that that is what most people think and only a few of them are actually going to make it.

There are many other explanations and possible causes on why unions failed: "The best they can do is fall back on the default explanation of people living in fallen civilizations"

No, and we can also do better than a startup analogy that pretends that unions and strikes were anomalies in production that factory owners threw money at. There was a lot of blood spilled for the right to form unions, the 8hour work day, etc. No, most factory owners a couple of centuries ago were not just giving away money like a startup. They hired thugs, killers, had governors in their pockets and used the police, etc.
"The employees aren't in jail, they aren't slaves, they have choice."

Care to outline the choice they have (you forgot the "s", as belies your worldview)? What are the choices outside of jail, slavery or the work conditions described in the article?

I suspect that many of them can't get another job and they need to feed themselves or dependents like children.

"The article is sensational."

If you disagree with the article, why would you give it such a rousing review?

Yep... you are a Grade-A fuckwit.