skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it doesn't seem likely that this is what our biology is adapted to.

I think we're primed to function at optimum parameters on a baseline food abundance, punctuated by brief intervals of scarcity. I think that's a much better model for how our very distant ancestors lived. I don't think we're the descendants of those who lived in scarcity all the time. But it's quite likely that the hunting-gathering life had its periods of lean caloric intake regularly.
This is the key. You wouldn't want to be a game dev for the same reason you wouldn't open a surfboard shop or depend on your band to pay the bills. To much in the way of virtually unpaid competition.
Personally it is because the languages feel like they are written for Visual Studio. So if I was using Mono five years ago, I had essentially VIM. Therefore I didn't do .NET.

Another reason is due to how the stack feels like it's playing catch up. ASP.NET MVC trailed behind multiple libraries in Java. The .NET developers were condescending the whole time. They would rant against MVC. They would extol the virtues of WebForms. The same is true with many other ideas. If something is not part of the official stack, .NET developers ridiculed it. I remember conversations where I recommend a library like log4j. Mocked and told how Windows logging was all I needed.

In the end, so many better things exist for free that I see little reason to use .NET. I can get a good editor from node.org built on eclipse. There are paid ides that do that as well, better and cheaper than VS. Because MS was so closed source and proprietary I'm the past I think they lost the PR battle.
The article isn't about or written by Americans.
The thing is that strong static inference beats dynamicity.
Recent memories (so-called 'hippocampus-dependent memories') are stored in the hippocampus for up to about two weeks, during which time they are gradually transferred into permanent storage in the neocortex, cerebellum, and other parts of the brain. So, to answer your question, that is where they are replayed from.

The hypothesis is that the hippocampus is unique in being able to store memories quickly and after a single exposure. Most of the rest of the brain needs time and repeated exposures to store a memory via long-term potentiation. The role of the hippocampus is to act as a buffer where memories are kept temporarily.

While you're sleeping, your hippocampus repeatedly activates the memory, stimulating the brain in a similar way that the original event did. Slowly, the neocortex begins to rewire itself through synaptic plasticity to store the memory. After many repetitions, the memory is no longer dependent on the hippocampus and it fades away.

I think this is the paper I'm recalling this from, but I'm not entirely sure (this memory is several years old):

Bontempi, Bruno, et al. "Time-dependent reorganization of brain circuitry underlying long-term memory storage." Nature 400.6745 (1999): 671-675.
Please do it in D. C++ is horrible. But if you insist in C++, isn't nana an option?
Congratulations to everyone and I'm especially looking forward to the TLS implementation for Python so I can dump what I'm using now. :)
Google has done an end-run around the challenges that make something like the DARPA Challenge difficult. Driving an autonomous vehicle in an unknown environment is still hard. But that's not the problem Google is tackling.

They're solving autonomous vehicles for known environments that are mapped down to extremely high resolution. Once you have that solid ground truth, adapting to changing conditions on top of it is far easier.

Which is why they've already logged 1.1 million kilometers of autonomous driving, including city streets with high complexity.

What the more traditional autonomous vehicle researchers didn't/don't appreciate is that it turns out to be easier to make the whole world[1] into a well-known environment than make a car than can handle unknown environments.

[1] more precisely, the parts of it that the average person would actually drive on, which is much smaller and simpler.
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Unfortunately when most homeowners are living on 20' * 100' subdivisioned plot of land, giving up a few feet of perimeter real estate is next to impossible.

Perhaps we will begin to see gated communities that promise to keep deer and wildlife out of residents' backyards?

A smaller version of the australian rabbit fence if you will.
You know I've had a hunch for a while there must be something to these "detox" diets where you just eat a bunch of carrots or whatever. I think it's increasingly clear collateral fasting is the answer. The gimmick is "it's the carrots", the reality is you're inducing an extended fasting state which has all kinds of beneficial impacts on the body.

The science is increasingly clear that humans should be putting their body in a fasting state far more often and for far longer than we in the decadent west do.
I'd agree that "job" should imply "full time job" unless explicitly qualified; otherwise hiring 10 people for 4 hours a week would be 10 jobs rather than 1. But I can't see "job" why it should mean "job at an enterprise organization", which as far as I can tell is what you imply with W2s and health benefits. There are millions of Americans who are self-employed, file their own taxes, and have (unfortunately very expensive) individual health insurance. It would be bizarre to say they shouldn't be counted toward headlines statistics like "economy grows by 20,000 jobs".
This is another way to think about Uber's valuation - the license to operate a yellow cab in NYC is a tradeable asset whose value can be observed. The value of all licenses in aggregate, comes to about 13 billion, give or take a few. And that's just one city.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/06/taxi...

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/21/why-taxi-me...

http://nypost.com/2014/02/26/taxi-medallion-auctioned-for-re...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/nyregion/1-million-medalli...

You can make an argument in both directions. On one hand, clearly the taxi industry is large enough to justify this kind of valuation or even much more. On the other hand, Uber currently benefits greatly from this legally enforced supply restriction that chokes off their competition while not yet applying to them. Most large cities can dramatically lower the cost of and increase the availability of street-hail cabs by issuing more permits, which can cut into Uber's revenue. Cities can also decide to apply more regulation to car service businesses or even Uber-style businesses more specifically to even the playing field.
Yeah it's interesting how ancient cultures seemed to have (by trial and error I suppose) incorporated specific behaviors into their culture which, in hindsight, solve a particular problem that can be scientifically identified.

An example I love is the Canadian Inuit who traditionally ate no vegetables for 10+ months of the year without developing scurvy. The tradition of eating raw whale blubber and fish (including the broth) preserved the vitamin C and minerals from the mea, while eating cooked meat without broth drastically reduces mineral and vitamin intake.
My humble summary based on superficial reading of the paper:

* Prolonged fasting = Eating NOTHING for 48-120 hr.

* BENEFICIAL effect started on cycle 4 (day 39).

* 1 Cycle = 2-4d fasting&chemo; 8-10d recovery.

* Prolonged fasting enhances cellular resistance to
toxins in mice and humans.

* Glycogen depletion required => switch to fat/ketone
bodies-based catabolism (!!!).

* They have no idea, what the effects on blood are
in detail.

* At the beginning WhiteBloodCell count went down.

* After 6 cycles things stabilized.

Article related paper: http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909(14)00...

Interesting figures from the paper: http://www.cell.com/cms/attachment/2014950454/2036225024/gr1...
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Some folks at Microsoft were trying to circumvent this with Singularity OS being based on something like CLR. Then everything could dynamically interoperate with everything on a programming language level.

http://xkcd.com/927/
I though GTK3 was available for Go. Why yet another library?
Wouldn't that leak out from .. basically anything solid?
does that guy/founder is an HN user ? I dont see any of his comment, though he mentioned Hackernews in his article.
Huh, I'm on CenturyLink ipv6 at home and was having weird issues with a number of sites from early last week onwards, and then early this week it magically cleared up. Guess that was likely it.
AS a religious practice I would fast one day a week from sunset to sunset.
(Ancient day was from sunset to sunset) But mainly that was an easy thing to do. I only drank water. I would also do some three or four day and I am mad at myself for not practicing fasting more often. I could think so much better and was a great form of self-discipline.

Most modern Christians have a wacky idea of fasting. Most do not go water only. Several will drink liquid juices and other liquid foods. No idea why???? Or there is the weird modern invention called the "Daniel Fast" which equals eating Kosher in the Bible but in practice it is eating like a vegetarian for a few days or weeks. No idea how this happened.
Url changed from http://jessenoller.com/blog/2008/01/14/truecrypt-explained-i..., which points to this.
From the TOC, it seems pure Swift language course. I wish you could put more of iOS/OSX SDK content there.
If you need to go native why not go with DWT?
"Public Static Void"

Rob Pike (Bell Labs, Plan 9, Google Go) gave this short speech at OSCON 2010 about what's wrong with programming languages, their thinking, and their recent direction, with a lot of focus on C++/Java/C#, and how Go was a response to that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE

Apple Swift seems to share much of the thinking, and the huge enthusiasm for Swift this week suggests developers seem to at least subconsciously recognize there is a problem.
Seems to me that a simple solution would be people wanting a taxi bidding up the price. So if a taxi is two minutes from completing its current fare, people can start bidding on getting a taxi, and the moment this taxi is free, whoever has the highest bid will win it.

There really are no other workable solutions. The other solution is to get more taxis on the roads, but that would just mean that a lot of taxis would be idle at non-peak hours, and that -- instead of peak hour-taxis being expensive -- the price of taxis in general would rise, because each taxi isn't getting as many fares.
Ok, I'll look into Qt licensing wrt commercial Python apps and will consider using Qt if there are no issues.
Your reply has the same problem as SoftwareMaven's. Claims about two facts which are both true, does not make a correlation. (the only difference between yours and SoftwareMaven's claim is + vs -)

There are way too many factors at hand to be able to say anything about the role/value of nutritional science on the overall lifespan of earthlings.
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That is almost all due to medical, not nutritional science - antibiotics, better surgeries, pharma, etc. Nutritional science has been an abysmal failure for decades and is barely beginning to relearn many things "nutrional science" itself intentionally threw away in favor of laughably simplistic ideas about how the body works.
Url changed from http://www.producthunt.com/l/a3b705253e, which points to this.
> You don't require technologists involved in internet ads to justify their existence whenever a post about google comes up

Wow, you've gone through my entire HN corpus to verify that?

> I'm picking on you a little bit as a proxy for the entire HN community

I would prefer that you didn't do that, since I am not a good proxy for any community that thinks figuring out ways to get people to click on ads is a good use of smart people's time and energy. (Btw, I'm not sure that the entire HN community is such a community; a part of it may be.)

> The market seems to be allocating resources correctly

The numbers you give are interesting, but I'm not so much interested in money as in human resources. Genentech may have cost $46 billion, but are they paying smart people enough to get them to do cancer research instead of becoming quants?

Some of this may be a perception problem, as you imply by your comment on PR companies. What data I've seen on where smart people can get paid the most indicates that it's not cancer research. But I'm sure the data I've seen is incomplete; I would love to see more comprehensive data if there is any.
I wonder if a decentralized version of Uber could outcompete it.
Node.js along with other callback and promise based frameworks are insidious. They are so because they look good in small examples. "Oh look, here is how to serve a file in Node.js". You just have one callback for the request, then another for the error and so on.

In larger cases it turns into a mess, but by that time there is already a buy-in. Run a short little demo, looks fast, read about how "cool it is" on the web some place. Ok let's rewrite everything in it.

Quite often once people started heading the wrong path, it becomes hard to look back and say "Yeah this is the wrong way, let's turn back". That is just basic psychology.

At the same time, I think Node.js is great. It is great as a differentiator when you ask people why they picked it and see what they say. If they come back with the list in the article (basically list "evented","async","webscale" jargon), then that tells me they don't quite understand what is going on underneath. Which is not bad, people have the right to be confused, but it just lets me know on what level to converse with them on.
So if I'm hearing you, the issue is that .NET, while you might be able to do a free stack today, because MS backs it you're afraid that freedom will go away?

If that's the case, I think it's important to note that .NET is based on the open specification of the CLI. It's like the association between JS and ECMAScript. Also, the open reference license for the source code that MS has (which is how Mono has the base framework libraries for its implementation) are pretty wide-open. It'd be hard for even MS to try to renege on that. So while I doubt that we'll ever see .NET be a paid resource gobbled up by MS, with the open specification of the CLI and the support of Mono, it seems like such a small thing to worry about.

And, even if that is your worry, it still doesn't explain why there's so much hate and disrespect for .NET developers.

I appreciate the response, thanks. I'm not trying to disprove your concern here. Just shedding some light to see if that changes anybody's opinions.
Looks really nice.

Have you thought that instead of sending the results to elasticsearch? Instead of using something like newrelic this could take it's place..
Stop with the down-votes, you guys.

Had there been no references cited by chirsBob, this comment would be an overall negative "hearsay"-type contribution, but the inclusion of a reasonably reputable, if outdated, reference allowed others to point out the paper retraction, and raised the overall quality of the discussion.
Thanks for building this! Before, I was using a hackey Perl script[0] and was thinking: "boy, I really hope someone builds a website to do this for me"

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Totally disagree. These languages were chosen wisely. They allow you to get stuff done quickly without complaining too much. Kids who want to build stuff for the browser should learn Javascript.

Also, Processing in particular is a very smart option. I know that when I was learning to code, being able to draw cool patterns and stuff on the screen was really motivating.
In case you don't know: the site in question is from a company that makes a static analyzer that spots such issues.
One way this 'replay' effect was tested was in rats where they implanted many electrodes into the animal's hippocampi to monitor activity. There are cells there called the hippocampal place cells which encode locations in space.

Then they had the rats run a simple circular maze with some landmarks (food, etc.) at various points. As they run the maze, different place cells start to encode different locations in the maze, especially near the landmarks, and they activate when the rat is near there.

They kept the electrodes in while the rat was sleeping. They found that the place cells continued to activate in the same order as the locations in the maze, as if the rat were actually running the maze in, e.g., a clockwise direction.

This is taken as evidence that, during sleep, the rat's brain was replaying the memory of running the maze.

Source:

Skaggs, William E., and Bruce L. McNaughton. "Replay of neuronal firing sequences in rat hippocampus during sleep following spatial experience." Science 271.5257 (1996): 1870-1873. (http://wws.weizmann.ac.il/neurobiology/labs/ulanovsky/sites/...)
I'm not entirely sure if CGN will provide some legal protection for pirates but it might make it harder to pirate content as you cannot open ports on CGN meaning BitTorrent will have less seeds which slows downloads. Afaik, IPv6 will make piracy extremely easy as UPnP won't be a requirement. Want to share a file with some friends? You can quickly spin up a web server, send them the URL and it'll just work.
Anecdotal evidence, for sure (and IANAD/IANYD), but I've found that fasting eliminates my food sensitivities (both water fasts and apple fasts, where you just eat an apple or two a day, have done the trick for me). They eventually come back after a month or so (no science behind it, but it feels like a slow buildup of whatever was initially bothering me), at which point, I can fast again with similar positive result. I find it's safer/healthier than living on Prilosec...
Talk about completely missing the point. This has block level de-dupe.

How the hell did you get 18 mins in and miss that?
I think he's referencing "Lifestyle diseases" or "Diseases of civilization", like diabetes and heart disease, which appear to be quite rare in tribal settings (and not just because people die first of other things), but are commonplace in places like the modern USA.

People are obviously living a lot longer, but it's hard to tease apart how much of that is (1) people not dying of communicable diseases, which used to be the #1 killer, (2) sheer quantity of food (i.e., not starving), (3) the decline of violence, (4) diet composition, and (5) a whole host of other things.

We can't really just say "We're better now than we were then, so every change must have been a good change," without teasing apart correlation from causation. Otherwise in the 60s you could have said "People didn't used to eat lead paint chips, and now they do, and people are living a lot longer these days."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_disease
Have you talked to the folks at BoomStartup about the situation? As investors and leaders in the company, they will want to know about (and it would be in their interests to help resolve) any potential legal situations. I am not a lawyer, but I would guess that if you cannot afford to fight this legally (though I wouldn't tell them that), talking to them is more likely to get you what you agreed on than just walking away.
The reason it's difficult to understand is because this article is not true.
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At least try, man. Come on.
I feel the same way as the author. I got introduced to .NET two years ago at a job. I came from a PHP background. I've come to really appreciate .NET and the CLR, and as a developer, I'm convinced I'm way more productive in .NET. I'm currently building something in Mono outside of my day job, and it's so great to be able to use .NET on linux.

I realize that Microsoft and .NET may not have had that great of a past (WebForms ruined its rep IMHO)...but using the new MVC and EntityFramework...it's clear that .NET is back on the bleeding edge.

Also...most .NET devs like working in .NET because we can be productive in it, but keep in mind--.NET haters--that most of the time we're not the ones that chose the stack...we're just left in a position where hardware/sys-admins/MIS at companies that are still afraid of the cloud are mandating that we have to use Windows and .NET.
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How does it compare to CLSQL? Looks mostly pretty similar at first glance, though the automatic migrations look like a nice addition.
Some people buys books, you know. Unless you think that interwebz is for smart people that don't need to read books, or form comments are enough to build the 'prevailing wisdom'.
Yes though not a typical presentation of EE (EoE?). It ramped up dramatically around my 24th birthday and appears to be connected with my body's response to histamines. As such most doctors haven't known what to do with me and we've been feeling our way blindly along. If fasting even partially resets immune response i'd be interested.
Bitcoins were sent by the Bitcoin community to an unspendable address (1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr, which has no knowable private key), and the Counterparty protocol detects this and creates XCP in proportion to the destroyed bitcoins, crediting them to the sending address. (This was only for the month of January... don't send any bitcoins to that address now!)
If you are blocking Facebook frame, I will assume you don't mind blocking the matching Facebook script, so add this rule to your ABP filters:

||connect.facebook.net^$script,third-party

Edit: or really, just:

||connect.facebook.net^$third-party
> The more interesting part of this to my eyes was the material difference between 24 hour and 72 hour fasting in human chemotherapy patients, in that the former didn't do anything to the measure of immune cell populations and the latter did.

If you do zero-calorie fasting, there are some important changes around or after day 3. Hunger disappears. Metabolism is low, muscles are relaxed. The mind tends to more easily stay focused on a single topic. There's a sense of clarity and ease, and an odd kind of energy. It's quite a contrast with the increasingly frantic frustration prior to this time.

This is all from a subjective standpoint, of course, but it's well correlated by most people who have done it. It seems quite obvious that there are major changes around day 3. I'd love to see more data from studies.
According to this

http://www.quora.com/Uber-1/How-is-Uber-doing-these-days-in-...

and this

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/18/uber-lyft/

Uber could be growing at 20% per month, or 9x per year, even as recently as December. That suggests they could reach the revenue target you mention in less than two years. Obviously, growth becomes dramatically harder once you become a fraction of order unity of the market, but I don't think this bet is necessarily 7 years long.
What's so appalling about JS and Python? They're both fairly similar to other high-level languages of today, and I don't see how they "will teach bad expectations of future languages." I love Python and use it nearly every day (JS not so much, but that's mainly because of what I do).
> Assuming your figures are correct, $11bn in annual revenue allows for a much higher valuation than $17bn.

[...]

> So if we want to use the average P/E ratio, we can say that a very very very rough price for the entire Taxi/Limo market is $150bn.

P/E is price/earnings ratio, it's not calculated using revenue. Earnings is revenue less expenses.

So if the taxi industry in general is operating at a 10% profit margin, that would mean they're earning $1.1bn per year, and with a P/E of 15, that would be a $16.5bn market cap.
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muCommander run ons OSX, Linux, BSD, Windows as it is a lightweight Java application.

especially nice on OSX as Finder comes nowhere close to its power features.