skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The syntax is part of it being easier. Also, though it's been a while since I tried using any official git documentation, bzr's website had handy tutorials, references, and cheatsheets available. Great layout, assumed no VCS experience.
So start with "If..." and finish with "...then yes!"
To someone about to work the other direction, finding some help, this was excellent info. Nice work.
We have a saying in diving, "slow is smooth and smooth is fast".
Agreed, they let glucose off the hook way, way too easily.

If you are eating no 'sweet' sugar yet addicted to pretzels, pizza, bagels, and cereal with low fat milk - and thinking you're healthy because it's 'whole grain', like I was over a year ago, you may be killing yourself.

Your body doesn't need to ingest any carbs at all to survive, only protein and fat are required, and you can tolerate a lot more energy from fat than protein.

I count myself among the 33%-50% of the population that is carb intolerant and should avoid carbs at all cost. I've been on a wheat free, LCHF, close to ketogenic diet^H^H^Hlifestyle for a year and have been astounded at how well it works.

Sure, some people can tolerate low fat high carb diets even as they get older. But they're making a lot of other people sick by pushing those diets on us.
The moment you read toxins and detox in any article for mass consumption - stop bother reading further - the author is at best a quack.
A lot of jobs out there give 2 weeks PTO to entry-level employees. It's mainly "blue collar" (for lack of a better term) jobs like trades (I suspect due to many being smaller family-owned "Father & Sons" businesses), or jobs with very low barrier to entry for applicants (no degree requirements/past experience, for example).

A large portion of my extended family works in retail where 2 weeks is pretty standard for entry-level positions. It's tenure-based all the way.
USB lacks DMA but that's basically a moot point. There are so many USB drivers that aren't well tested or even well written that the attack surface is just huge. You might as well have DMA from USB, wouldn't really make matters that much worse.
oohh i'm going to have to dig to find the one on impressioning
The OS looks like it's just a linux distro, should be fiddleable (though not sure how easy). The rest I have no idea on yet.

http://alphalem.com/pages/alphalem-os
> XNU seems like a competitive edge over the monolith FreeBSD, as far as desktop and mobile OS is concerned.

This seems a bit delusional. I don't think it's controversial to say that Apple's biggest differentiators exist at higher levels than kernel space. I'd go so far as to say that anyone who claims that Apple's success is rooted in XNU and that the same could not have been done with Linux or *BSD at the lowest layer and all other pieces being equal does not understand what a kernel is.
There were too many to pick out a single one - ubiquotious electrification, running water, modern logistics, modern medicine (esp. antibiotics)...

The thing with the political developments is that they were IMHO dependent on previous technological and economical developments.

Fascism was only possible in a modern nation-state. In a feudal world, the peasants didn't care much which king ruled over their land, they didn't identify much with their nation. That changed when everything grew closer together. I think new means of communication and transportation greatly helped with building a national identity (and later were used for propaganda). The rise of capitalism and the bourgeois/civil society were also neccessary factors. Why do I say this was driven by technology? Because the begin of modern capitalism is inseparable from the industrial revolution. In the end of course it's not just a causal chain, but a very complicated development.

Anyway, what I was trying to say is that when people have hopes for the future, they often think of great technological breakthroughs, continuing the progress of the 20th century. A cure for cancer, fusion energy, robots and AI, .... I think the biggest breakthroughs will be on another field: How can we make a global economy that is not so riddled by crises? How can we distribute wealth better? Can we build a society without money? How do we make better descisions as a society (E.g. the political system in the US is clearly broken right now)? How do we ensure the freedom and libery of everybody? How do we prevent wars? etc. etc.

There were a bunch of ideas in the last few centuries in this field, some better, some not - constitutional monarcy, the republic, democracy (parlamentary, or council), socialism, communism (the dozen or so ideas and sytems that called themselves such), social market economy, the stuff they're doing in china right now, and so on. In the last few decades, the consensus seemd to be that these are mostly ideologies, and ideology is dead and capitalism+western democracy has won. Now, we are seeing our system fail slowly, too, and we seem pretty helpless about it. It won't help to throw ever new technologies at it. But I think by learning from the mistakes of past societies, but also from what they got right, we should be able to gradually develop a new kind of society that ensures prosperity, freedom, fairness and peace.

I hope this was not too incoherent to understand :-)
the exchange made lucid seem like a bunch of assholes
I do a very similar thing at my job, but instead of showing the results I ask for a report such as "we want to get X,Y and Z for the Ws where P holds true".
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Not to preëmpt your longer formulation, but just as culture can engender violence, successful violence reinforces the culture which engendered it. Interrupting the cycle at the point of culture strikes me as a long and subtle process by comparison with interrupting it at the point of violence; after all, once people realize something won't produce the result they desire, they won't bother to waste their effort doing it.
I think the point is rather: even if you're doing the startup thing and devoting your whole life to a project for a few years - even then you should take time off (and not feel guilty).
When I take vacation I get anxious if I haven't touched a computer in 24 hours, although it goes away after a couple of days. The worst part is coming back from vacation, often can't sleep or work effectively the first week back because of the stress I've had about not working. I'm sure something like this is universal, no one likes coming back from vacation but I wonder if there is a way to avoid it.
US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013
Residential building on top of a highway in Berlin, Germany:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn%C3%BCberbauung_Schlang...
Such a lazy dismissal of a complex issue. It is entirely possible that there is a spectrum of susceptibility to fructose addiction. Just because it is easy for me to drink alcohol and not get addicted does not mean that it is equally easy for every person to not become addicted. I do not look down upon alcoholics and I certainly do not look down upon the obese. It is a medical problem that we need to figure out.

If you entertain the idea that some but not all people have a susceptibility to fructose addiction and then consider that a very large portion of the food supply is 'supplemented' with sugar you can begin to imagine just one of the reasons why obesity has been on such a rise.
Sorry, I was unclear; by "core" I mean "the Emacs distribution itself", as opposed to libraries you find on Github, EmacsWiki, or wherever else that isn't part of the standard Lisp library you get when you download the Emacs tarball.
Is it not reasonable to suppose that it was an idea before its time, and useless in the particular historical context and implementational form in which it appeared?

Oh, but it would have been very useful! Recall that one of the first uses of mechanical calculators was to produce tables for aiming artillery. They certainly had artillery in 1830! And precision aiming would surely have been valuable.

Other uses are likely as well -- astronomical calculations for navigation, perhaps; tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions, which were already being produced by hand; probably more.

Maybe in 1500 it wouldn't have been so useful, but by 1800 I'm quite certain it would have been very useful indeed.
Well I know personally I have switched to a "keto" diet, and continue to stay on it not due to weight loss but just the amazing concentration levels and feeling I get while on it.

You are limited to essentially 20g of carbs a day total. This is enough to get a healthy dose of vegetables (not fruit of any kind - leafy greens) and that is about it. Maybe a dollup of sriracha.

Either way, after being on the diet for a couple months I had one bite of a chocolate bar and let me tell you, the flavor was 1000x more intense and I felt no need for more after the first bite.

Of course this is one person's experience, YMMV.
You're right about the cloning issue, updated.
Dang, I work in software and get a week every year--not including Year 1.
It's not just blue collar. Right after college I was offered a job as a software engineer with five days PTO to start.

I declined.
right. if parent is talking about switching to a ketogenic diet (hardly any carbs), feeling bad for a few weeks is entirely normal as your brain switches over to ketones for fuel. and your fluid / sodium levels adjust (one needs higher sodium intake during transition). and if parent cut out gluten, that has been reported to have opiate-like withdrawl symptoms as well.

sources: the art and science of low carb living, wheat belly
Darwin + Aqua also has lots of cool stuff which *BSD can't use. I can see a competitive advantage in making sure that remains the case.
totally smoked by that old guy who was walking up the steps, too.
Cannot agree more! You tend to crave even more the OO based approach after working on some MVC project! Thanks for your feedback!
Nope, SecureBoot is built into the BIOS not hardware so if you can rewrite the BIOS you can have it just load whatever payload off of the HPA sidestepping SecureBoot until it comes time to start the boot loader.
So does this mean that you have to set pins sequentially? It seems like if the plug rotates slightly, it does it for the entire length of the lock, so doesn't this affect whether or not other pins are able to be set?
Very good example. It shows that our most precious resource is uninterrupted attention. And it is scarce. Because of your uncontrolled Internet habits on the first place. A good reading on that is "The Shallows" by Nick Carr.
Not to mention "breathe, remember to breathe".

Do you remember the first time that, while properly weighted, you descended effortlessly, just by really exhaling, for real?

I know where I was the first time. It's amazing when it works, and you realize just how much air you had been holding in your lungs, without being aware of it. My air consumption dropped after that.
The liver converts fructose into glucose.

While glucose is not essential, energy is, and glucose is the preferred energy for cellular metabolism (glycogen). Outside being in a sustained energy-surplus fructose is of little consequence.

Energy-balance (digested food calories - energy exerted living) is magnitudes more important than the macronutrient content of your diet.
Nope, neither we have time to test html email against variety of clients.
Yes but just about any other hot sauce is safe. It is actually really easy to avoid HFCS. My girlfriend & I were laughing the other day as we have been on keto for about a month and we rarely go into the center isles of the grocery store anymore. Produce -> Meat Dpt -> Dairy -> Sauces/Spices -> Done.
I'd say it's more like Perl is every language with a bit of this or that. A sufficiently "skilled" Perl hacker can write everything from bad C, to bad Lisp, to bad Fortran, in Perl -- and most certainly can write plenty of bad Perl in Perl, too. It's writing good Perl that's hard.
Yes, also there tends to be a stigma against using vacation time until you've been at a job for a while. You might have worked for 6 months but the other people in the company still see you as the new guy. This stigma, coupled with changing jobs semi-frequently has led me to not having a week-off vacation for over 2 years. And before that it was probably another 2 since my previous one. I have taken a few long-weekends though.

Point is, there's always a reason to hold off on the vacation and waiting for the "perfect timing" isn't a good idea.
The EU mandates a 20-day minimum. A country that doesn't require 20 days of vacation (and not the pooled bullshit that combines sick leave and vacation) can't get into the EU. In that context, a 2 week per year limit is positively inexcusable in 2013, when the civilized world (which the US ought to join, but hasn't; see also, health insurance) knows better.
I'm not actually a Wordpress fanboy by any means (though it does pay the bills) - for my own personal use i'm setting my site up in Slim Framework. Professionally, though, i've found that if someone wants to blog or do "e-commerce", talking them out of Wordpress (and into something they're still willing to pay for) is a difficult thing to do.
You're right - I think the problem is mostly one of marketing the alternatives.
Well that's funny because I deliberately upped my sugar intake and improved my health and well being.
I don't think that's really what is going on here. "colour of bits" is distinction between process and result. The question of authorization comes down to intent and what fits societal norms of fair dealing. It's a complex mess and there's no alternative to it, vs. colour of bits where there are two sane points of view.
Leveraging the Voice of the Crowd in the Cloud
I know it's nit-picky of me, but this sort of stuff drives me nuts:

Food should confer wellness, not illness.

These sorts of platitudes that try to look "deep"... really put a bitter aftertaste on the tail end of articles that were serviceable otherwise.
Martha Nussbaum has an interesting paper on this very topic, if you're inclined.

https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/...
I hadn't heard of Vayable before but will definitely consider some of the tours I've discovered for the month in Brazil at the World Cup now.
I recall being downmodded mercilessly because I dared suggest he was a hypocrite for buying those mansions around his, so that he could control who his neighbours were and thus have more privacy.

I still feel the same; I find it disgusting that his millions are put towards protecting the privacy of a man who got rich by eroding the privacy of others.

To me, this hoodie thing is just another piece of evidence that Zuckerberg is a complete phony. His image is manufactured, manicured even.
Most game devs -- I'd say even most devs in grown-up, professional shops -- use p4.

Hence why I said "realistically, perforce or other solutions appear to be even more popular among that particular developer segment." My comment you quoted was comparing the popularity of Mercurial to Git, not p4.

Also, I'd disagree with your assertion regarding "most devs in grown-up, professional shops". Microsoft's SourceSafe has a large following among the corporate world. And many of the largest tech companies I'm aware of don't use p4 primarily; they use git, mercurial, svn, cvs, SourceSafe, home-grown solutions, etc.
That is a big oversimplification. You can go watch Lustig's 'Bitter Truth' video for the biochemical details. The TL;DR is that fructose has some special properties which allow it to permeate your cells and organs whether they want the fructose or not. There are also some very nasty byproducts from the metabolism of fructose that are not present when metabolizing glucose by itself.
That re-entry stress can be killer. I recently took 3.5 weeks off to travel around Japan and I didn't take a laptop. The company I work for was okay with that but when I got back my work seriously suffered for about two weeks.

It just took me that long to get back into things. I'd lost a lot of those "unsaid practices" that tend to accumulate.
I think it's true that we're stuck in an uncanny valley between the old ways of lifelong employer/employee commitment and the more modern ways of transitive, as-needed-type employment. The old way was always dangerous, but there was a strong social expectation that you'd take care of your people. Now no one has "people" any more per se, so the social expectations of committed employment have dissipated.

However, I _don't_ think the answer to this is to depend on companies to issue more vacation time. That's expensive for everyone, and it's hard for little guys to compete with the bigger guys who can afford to pay 6-12 weeks of salary to someone who isn't working. The answer, I think, is for each individual to take more individual responsibility, save their money, work in contracted increments, and go on vacation between contracts.

We should complete the transition and get out of the uncanny valley.
Your growth hacks don't have to be new, certainly not. My point is about communicating in an authentic way and how communication defines the user experience. My bicycle example talks about exactly the same thing and I had two completely different feelings DESPITE being aware of the hard facts.

In my opinion, you under-deliver by making false promises. Your goal should be to over-deliver by giving the user more than he expected. Your slide deck stays entirely the same, it's just about the expectations you set beforehand.

If you're open to suggestions, I'd love to see if you performed two A/B tests on userapp.io:

1. Take different photos of you guys where they look older. You look young. There was once a post on HN about a guy who split tested his profile picture on oDesk or something like that and gave himself an artificial beard in Photoshop. Result: More contacts, more jobs.

I wonder if the photos make a difference in your case and I would be happy to read about the result in one of your slide decks.

2. IMHO you got your coffee-pizza-beer comparison entirely wrong. 650$ is a lot of pizza. Exactly. So the service must provide a heck of a lot of value – more than if I put two coders of my business on a few night shifts to implement the same functionality (or use frameworks that do the same) and supply them with unlimited pizza for the rest of the year. Your goal is to give a feeling that 650$ is a steal by comparing it to something more expensive, not by comparing it to something that is cheaper and valuable as well. I'd kick the comparison altogether. People have their own mindset for comparing prices.
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It's a tricky line. I cook a lot and I don't have a sweet tooth in general (though I have some particular favorite sweets, of course). I've come to realize that I'm actually deficient in knowing when I should use sugar as an ingredient; because I only think of it as a sweetener (and have little desire to sweeten the food I cook), I've become ignorant of when you need to use it (for texture, to offset an undesirable sour or bitter flavor, or for other chemical properties).
You are right. An actual crash in kext causes kernel panic. I think I read that this is was possible, but I can't find how, and when, right now. The common thing that I'm thinking of is just voluntary error (exception) handling in kexts and reloading of kext on their own. There is some isolation and benefit to it.

Edit: ok, I just figured out my source of confusion. IOKit allows userspace drivers, which can crash without resulting in panic.
Ask HN: How will quantum computing change programming?
Interesting heuristic...how do you handle canned vegetables, beans for instance? Or do you just soak them?
The reason we can pick locks is that there are many minute differences between the various internal objects. Pins may not be perfectly round, pin chambers may not be in alignment, etc. Small small differences, but when you apply a very light pressure to the pins, you'll actually bind the "weirdest" one first. You aren't binding every pin, just one at a time, when that one is set, you move on to the next weirdest.

The order the pins set in will be unique to the lock, not a universal sequence. In fact, the order will change depending on the direction you pick, and even two locks pinned exactly the same will likely set pins in a different order.

This is called the "tentative method" and it was pioneered in the late 1700s. This idea of tension & manipulation can be applied to nearly every mechanical locking system (there are a very small number of exceptions).
The bond prices question is a pretty bad filter, since it doesn't give the competent candidate much chance to express how they think, and a weak candidate has a good chance of guessing "they go down" and even a fair chance of blustering their way through followup questions/explanations.

On the flip side, you could probably unintentionally trip up someone with a generally competent grasp of economics/stats but a lack of specific interest in bonds over terminology if your followup questions start asking them to distinguish between types of yield.

Same with exchange rates (although I do remember back in school in a competitive presentation being complemented on my confident and plausible sounding explanation of the effect of an interest rate rise on exchange rates that also happened to be the reverse of the correct answer :-) )
What's really interesting is that there are probabilistic programming languages where you can write a program that does a simulation just like you did, but the execution engine can compute the probabilities exactly and much faster too. It does this by computing along all possible paths in the program, and keeping track of the probability mass of each path, and then summing them all up in the end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming_langu...
I guess this one doesn't have several lines of subway in the basement.
My point is that punishing RapGenius despite the blatant use of the same tactics by hundreds of other big internet brands IS preferential treatment. The fact that RapGenius' competitors weren't punished is giving THEM preferential treatment.

Either punish everyone or punish no one.
Devils Advocate: people often use the excuse of "I'm feeling burnt out" to not push themselves. Taking your metaphor of the professional runner, while its clear that they need breaks between marathons, they also push themselves to extremes during training and races to make themselves better.

I think people often feel like they are the technology equivalent of a professional athlete and need time to recover, yet while they are working, they never actually push themselves to their physical (and mental) limits.

No argument that if you work hard, you need vacations. Thats absolutely correct.