skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the positive aspect in these cases is that worthwhile concepts are disseminated more broadly.

It's interesting that you mention Wolfram in this context. I remember the criticism he received for his book, most of which probably justified. I also remember I liked reading it, in contrast to Antifragile which felt in equal parts tedious and frustrating. Of course I was comparatively young at the time and many of the concepts in it were new to me, but now even in hindsight I still like his presentation and his viewpoints.

While on a fundamental level Wolfram, Gladwell, and Taleb may all three technically be in the business of claiming ownership to pre-existing ideas, A New Kind of Science still holds a lot of memorable nuggets for me, while after most chapters of Antifragile I honestly couldn't tell whether I had just consumed any actual content or not.

I still hold that Wolfram's book contains vastly more intellectual workmanship than Taleb's, but it may well be the case that Antifragile seemed extra trite because I felt a strong sense of deja vu where A New Kind of Science simply contained immeasurably more (fascinating) stuff I wasn't familiar with.
> Nearly every bit of nutritional advice handed out by the government since the 70s is a pack of lies made in concert with the subsidized corn and wheat industries.

One of the more interesting things to come from the Soylent people, their self-experimentation, and the experimentation of their early adopters is a validation of an awful lot of the conventional wisdom regarding diet. When people stray too far in one direction or another from the RDI for a given factor, they often experience perceptible negative effects.
After breaking the cycle of fake food, the body's satiety signals are surprisingly effective at calorie/portion control. It does makes more sense to model something like Doritos Loaded as an addictive drug rather than a foodstuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

> the only thing that will stop the obesity epidemic is heavy food regulation which people will fight tooth and nail against.

I don't think it's primarily consumers that would fight against this; rather, the food industry will. At the moment, not only do we not "sin tax" sugar the way we do tobacco, we actually subsidize artificially cheap corn starch and syrup. And unfortunately, eliminating these subsidies is a complete political non-starter.
Rapportive is broken
The question has some pretty strong assumptions, and OP should not have to justify why he doesn't wish to spend resources to be analyzed by a government agent to obtain medication he wants.

Depending on severity, OP may be stupid in this desire. But it is one's right to make stupid decisions for themselves, and produces better long-term outcomes than binding people to the stupid decisions of others.

Does your distrust of yourself mean you abstain from caffeine (for alertness) and alcohol (for social disinhibition), etc?
Seems like a Monte Carlo simulation for adding noise to any Javascript variable. It'd be cool if you could apply filters to the noises.
Fun! It's similar to the navigation puzzle in the online game Puzzle Pirates.
Water is a fairly well regulated market in the US. It works because the actual cost of water is low and the external costs of things like water born diseases are vary high.

There are many other examples where a cheap good's price is significantly increased but few people care because the regulations don't impact them and it's still cheap.
It's almost as if bad experimental design makes a blog article not worth reading.
This question comes in many flavors, should I learn MS or Open Source? Should I buy a PC or a Mac? Should I drive a Ford or Nissan? Should I buy a Dell?

I really comes down to personal preference. Who says you can't do both? I have a corporate IT Background. Microsoft Technologies have kept me happily employed for over 10 years. I'm currently a Full Stack Developer on the MS Stack working for a local gov't agency. However, I have never been exclusive to MS Tech. I love the Mac Book I use. I spin up VMs whenever I want to try something new.

Never stop learning. That's what you should focus on. You'll never be an expert an everything. Try to learn as much as possible about as much as possible. Breadth and depth. I believe we're passed the point of praising the Tech Specialists. Organizations are in more need of the Tech Generalists. We need to know a lot about the Full Stack and everything in between.

Lastly, it's all about finding the right tool for the job. It's best to have a nice set of tools that you can pull from. You'll be better prepared to make architectural decisions when you understand the differences in the tools needed to build great products.
Whining about it is switching. Since nearly everyone views far more images than they upload, which image host they spend the most time interacting with is dictated by what other people choose. Complaining about the currently popular choice is perhaps not the most effective way to get people to switch, but it is also not entirely ineffective.
Well, some classic "high school English literature class" books that fulfill that criteria are Miller's Death of a Salesman and Wharton's Ethan Frome.

Still in the Western classical canon, Puccini's Madame Butterfly is fantastic, if you're into opera.
He sent an early copy to Taleb to get his review. Your point is nulled.

"“When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan

Just to point to you, you seem to mis-characterize him as saying "Everything is random!" Here is a complete quote.

"The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial and error nor "chance" and serendipity can be behind the gains in technology and empirical science attributed to them. By definition chance cannot lead to long term gains (it would no longer be chance); trial and error cannot be unconditionally effective: errors cause planes to crash, buildings to collapse, and knowledge to regress.

The beneficial properties have to reside in the type of exposure, that is, the payoff function and not in the "luck" part: there needs to be a significant asymmetry between the gains (as they need to be large) and the errors (small or harmless), and it is from such asymmetry that luck and trial and error can produce results. The general mathematical property of this asymmetry is convexity (which is explained in Figure 1); functions with larger gains than losses are nonlinear-convex and resemble financial options. Critically, convex payoffs benefit from uncertainty and disorder. The nonlinear properties of the payoff function, that is, convexity, allow us to formulate rational and rigorous research policies, and ones that allow the harvesting of randomness."

http://edge.org/conversation/understanding-is-a-poor-substit...
How we'd cover Ferguson if it happened in another country
I was pointing out what I think is often ignored in these conversations: that robots taking all the jobs means we have reached post scarcity. Between that potential future and where we are now there could be some serious problems as you suggest. I agree that the economy is shifting away from low skilled jobs towards high skill jobs and that does seem like a big problem for low skill people. I am slightly more optimistic than you because I think that the primary difference between low skilled people and high skilled people is not innate intelligence, but education and training.
I have to admit that the absence of such "society-induced" isolation here in the Third World (precisely Tunisia) is a confirmation to your assertion.
> 40% don't have access and a bunch more never use it. And that is including people who use VOIP and services like cable company voice services.

Cable and voip likely have more to do with bundling, and Verizon actively trying to force people to FiOS/off their network then anything else. They clearly aren't competing to modernize their DSL services to compete against cable, and as such, people have switched over to their internet service. Take a look at any thread with 'Comcast' in the subject line. I don't think I have to tell you people feel stuck with their services. Anyway, since bundling has become such a common practice, it's likely much more economical to buy phone service from them instead.

> We aren't owed a super reliable voice backup service. Especially if its not economical.

So let me get this straight - a service that the majority of the country has, and can be found in nearly every business across the country isn't economical? A grade of reliability we've had for decades isn't economical anymore? I suppose unlimited internet plans aren't either.

> Verizon is abandoning it and nobody is rushing in to take over. I wonder why? It's an unprofitable business. Are you going to invest your lifesaving's in a POTS service? Of course not.

Actually, Frontier, Fairpoint, Windstream and Hawaiian Telecom have bought out a ton of states Verizon used to provide service in, but okay. Verizon isn't selling the other states they still service; that's why we're hearing about them refusing to maintain their infrastructure. Not these other companies. Hell, from what I've been hearing, things have gotten better under their ownership.

> Not get around it, Verizon is seeking to avoid being one. Unless you are willing to regulate the shit out of Apple's facetime, skype, google video, etc. etc, it should be no shock that Verizon wants out.

Those are commodity services that operate over other peoples' infrastructure. Let me know the day when any of these services operate dedicated links between peoples' homes, and starts offering 911 services, faxing, circuit switched data transport, interactive voice response services, and the myriad of other things people use the phone network for.
PSYCHOPATHS
Looks like they took Haskell and added parenthesis to it so as to make it more friendly to those only familiar with traditional imperative languages. I wonder how much that might alleviate confusion for new users.
Kudos for summing that up nicely. Collecting an interpreting data for studies comes with great responsibility.
Thank you, now I understand. Also, a nice ELI5 :).
What did you even manage to say? I've been waiting for a legitimate critique of him for a long time. There's hardly ever been one. All anyone manages to say is the same inflammatory garbage.

Why not hit the technical papers and get straight to it? Oh wait. Because then, you would have to fight some combination of Doudy and his esteemed co-authors. Which are many.
Since I started SRS (first Anki and now even more successful with memrise) I have to agree that it's the most awesome thing I encountered so far learning languages. To say the truth due to lazyness and being tired after work I haven't found a reasonable alternative to learn thousands of vocabs. So before SRS I really was screwed, only learning very, very slowly.
Side note: I wish some deletionist hadn't removed the WP page for "frisson". It now points to "cold chills" which it isn't (it's also not ASMR which is also different).

There used to be a very good page on the phenomenon, but it's long gone and there's not even any history of it existing that I'm aware of. Now, because it's gone, most pages that document frisson are now calling it "cold chills" and referring back to WP.
Watch as this talented carpenter works with amazing proficiency as he lays down a series of cinder blocks.

I would think he means mason, not a carpenter. Though I didn't watch the video (no Flash).
I watch a few different YouTube videos for different reasons.

XisumaVoid [1] does nice, clear, tutorials of a bunch of different stuff.

Etho [2] also does some tutorials, but he embeds them into his "Let's Play" series. He's also part of a server and I enjoyed the derping around they did.

BDoubleO and GuudeBoulderFist (as OOG [3]) had some funny videos of them playing a challenge map while drunk.

Yogscast [4] had one series that appealed to me at a particular time of my life when I just needed disposable nonsense.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/xisumavoid

[2] http://www.youtube.com/user/EthosLab

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXpOn5V_NWw&list=PL57E50DFE2... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOKorN4Dg64&list=PL535DD4748...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF60520313D07F366
I can't stand MLM's and Utah does have a lot of them, but disparaging stay at home moms is not called for. Elevate your arguments.
> It's legal to be in the forest and it's legal to discharge a firearm, but it becomes illegal if you knowingly target a person in the forest with that firearm.

This isn't a good example; it's not legal to hit the other person whether you're in the forest or not. If you mean targeting but missing, that's also illegal no matter where you are, but hard to punish without good evidence of malice (again, no matter where you are). There's an element of the offense which is (a) clearly not included under "be in the forest" or "discharge a firearm" (for example, if I was Superman and I just threw a bullet into someone at speed, that would be just as illegal as using a gun to do it), and (b) definitely illegal no matter the context.

> It's legal to change your clothes and wear a fake beard, and normally legal to go into a grocery store, but it becomes illegal if you disguise yourself to circumvent a store ban.

I don't really object to this example, though if the law is as described I object to that. What recourse does the store have? Is disguising yourself actually part of the offense, or is the offense purely that you entered the store?
No. If you live in a FIOS-served neighborhood and do not have existing copper, this product is unavailable. Instead you'll be offered an unregulated FIOS voice product.
Right. Forget about that whole thing about landline phones being governed by laws that regulate how they are run, how long they're permitted to be down, etc for people's safety and ability to contact emergency services and force everyone to switch to VOIP which is run as an information service with basically no regulation so your home phone line can go down for days at a time and you can't do anything about it.
An open source stack is not just a stack it's also a community & to me personally it's a way of living. More importantly you can drive the destiny of that community & software. If as a developer you invest your time in open source you won't regret it. Your destiny is in your hands and not in the hands of some random engineering in a big corporation.

The worst that could happen it that you end up having to take part in maintaining some piece of critical software to you but with a small community. That doesn't sound so bad, the worst that could happen with a proprietary stack (Visual Basic 6) it that the owner forces you to move to some new shiny thing.
What is Accessible Log Entries Worth to You?
Regardless, 'anti-fragile' sounds horrible. I think that resilient is a better word for the job.
There are a couple aspects of the problem to consider.

The first is that the article seems to focus on the results of torturing extroverted people by preventing them from socializing.

Which seems to be about as bad as torturing more or less introverted people by forcing us to socialize. I find socializing absolutely exhausting when done in person. Although the article didn't discuss this, I'm sure some will use it as an "excuse" to "fix" introverted people by torturing them on the assumption that to an extrovert its literally unthinkable that being alone might not mean being lonely. I'm actually not alone most of the time, but I am extremely picky who I socialize with in meatspace beyond mere trivialities like hiking club or coworkers or whatever. It works for me and I'm happy.

You probably need to clarify in your head the difference between feelings and goals. Perhaps I'm misreading but you want to be extroverted but you're acting introverted although you're not really introverted at all, its just a skills issue or whatever. Yeah that might be a big (edited: fixable) problem. So fix it.

So think about going to a bar and hanging out until closing time. I'd be fairly well horrified and would avoid that if at all possible, and in fact thats exactly what I'm not doing tonight, and I feel great about that, in fact I'm going to have a lot of fun tonight with a carpentry project and hanging out with my family, totally non-extroverted. Not entirely sure how you'd feel or what you'd do, but I get the impression you'd want to go to the all night bar but wouldn't go and would feel quite bad about that mismatch. If your feelings don't align with your goals then you got a big problem beyond the HN gossip level. Luckily the pros supposedly can fix that with or without pills.

Also agumonkey has it right that you don't stop changing till you die, so don't assume your temporary response today is somehow your identity. Ask any "old" person, about all that stays the same is your actual identity. Your current collection of goals and feelings are hardly permanent, so if you don't like them, changing either or both of them is quite possible. In fact if you're not changing your positions as you age you're probably doing something really wrong.

Finally as a trivia point corporate jobs are going away. The world of my kids and future grand kids looks a lot more like perpetual consulting and contracting rather than cube dwelling. Corporate jobs might be mandatory for middle class lifestyle, but we're getting rid of that as fast as possible too, so that's not incompatible. A lot of salespeople use "community" as a scam to make money, just like whenever someone mentions religion, watch your wallet when someone mentions community.
That sure is my boat, alright.

If you don't mind me asking, how big are your DBs? That price is surprisingly fair. And out of curiosity, do you still use your Macbook, but with Windows on it?
One of the hardest things for spacedrrepetition software is finding/creating decks of words to learn. Does anyone have any recommendations for how to go about that?
Hm, what's with the legal disclaimer at the beginning and at the end? I know it's for when Intel "lost" the legal battle about AMD for how icc intentionally pessimises for non-Intel CPUs[1], but what does that have to do with gcc? Is this a poisoned gift to free software?

On a different note, I'm excited to see that AVX2 includes broadcasting. Maybe future iterations of g++ will be able to automatically speed up broadcasting operations in GNU Octave!

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Broadcas...

The scatter instructions seem interesting for handling Octave's complex arrays as laid out in memory, interleaving real and imaginary parts. This is essentially std::vector<std::complex> in C++. Matlab instead stores each complex part contiguously, essentially std::pair<std::vector<double>, std::vector<double>>.

I have a question: are these vector instructions inherently running in parallel? Do they get spread out over several cores? Sometimes I get the impression that fancy new vectorisations are losing the optimisation race in favour of new tricks to better parallelise. Is that what those conflict detection instructions are for? Is this automatic? Do we really have truly automatic vectorisation?

[1] Intel's excuse is that they cannot guarantee that non-Intel CPUs have the full instruction set, but this is so obviously a lie, as if AMD's architecture were some obscure, undocumented beast that requires the worst possible opcodes.
This is the sort of critique in pass that demonstrates that you have not spent 10 minutes researching a topic that you would like to so vehemently critique. Read the italized parts below, which explicitly states it is Not chaos theory.

Here is a more complete quote from "Common errors in the interpretation of the black swan"

Many readers who have too much baggage (or perhaps not enough) tend, when
reading for "work" or for the purpose of establishing
their status (say, to write a review), rather than to
satisfy a genuine curiosity, to read quickly and
efficiently, scanning jargon terms and rapidly making
associations with some pre-packaged ideas. (THIS RESULTS IN THE SQUEEZING
in the squeezing of the ideas exposed in The Black
Swan into some commoditized well know framework, as
if I partook of the off-the-shelf-re-warmed-ideas-with-
some-new-wrinkle traditions that give a bad name to
academia, or as if my positions could be squeezed into:
standard
skepticism,
empiricism,
essentialism,
pragmatism, Popperian falsificationism, Knightian
uncertainty, behavioral economics, CHAOS THEORY, etc.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1490769

So by his own words, it is not.

Autoadaptive does not work as well because Antifragility, which was prior to the name-change was called tinkerng. It is more "Convex option like decision making"
Freelance Workers Are Our Future. So Why Are We Penalizing Them?
> The first tidbit is “PERRIN” this is referencing Perrin numbers. I 100% confident that we are the only people to ever hit that wiki page, ever.

Almost: I was on that wiki page while waiting in line around 3 am Thursday morning (speakers got badges, etc. early, and a friend of a friend was a speaker). We just didn't have the time to stick with it.
In "offline" world all we ever use is objs and alembic as of recently. I wonder if alembic is suitable for realtime use.
I'm abroad most of the time. Sure, I could go see a local doctor, but it would be much easier if I could just get the medication I need (and know to be working based on previous prescription) instead of wasting time and practically begging a doctor for those specific pills.

From experience, shrinks will prescribe whatever they want instead of what I ask for, since they know better and I'm a dumb foreigner who can't even explain things properly.
Many people are recommending the '--' option-terminating option. Note David Wheeler's caution (in the essay already linked by AceJohnny2 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8190208) about why this is not an all-purpose solution: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html#dashd....
No mention of demographics, the inflation rate, the T-bill risk-free rate of return, or of the GDP growth rate (I'm not saying any or all of these ARE correlated, they're just things I think it would be obvious to analyze before just declaring it a mystery)?

Well, I guess he does mention some of them are correlated with the stock prices, but then ends with "nobody knows anything".
I think the anti-fragile concept applies not to the codebase, but the processes and ecosystem surrounding it (users, devs, communication tools, social dynamics). Software is best modeled as a living thing intertwined with humans, not just the current snapshot of its source code.

For instance, a web app with a public bug tracker is more anti-fragile than one without. I've also heard strategies of making errors and warnings public on production, so that problems stick out like a sore thumb, and get fixed more quickly. (Obviously, this isn't a good idea in all cases.)
I would definitely be interested in hearing this story.
Do we really need yet another essay on the perils of processed foods?

Just look at the ingredients on most breakfast cereals and you'll see sugar or some kind of sugar substitute as the second or third ingredient. Eat real food if you're at all interested in your health.
I replaced the redirect with a new stub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson

Edits appreciated.
Can anyone explain how a good SRS system should work? Are there any deficiencies in the current apps? I've got several iOS language apps and I'm looking for features for my next release. I just added about 1000 pictures so it's easier to learn by association, rather than word pairs e.g. gato/cat. Here's my Spanish app.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?...