skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest roadblock with using Anki is figuring out what exactly is worth typing up into a card, when the material isn't just unrelated discrete items (i.e. vocabulary) that don't stick easily.

For example, in lectures I'm usually able to understand most of what is taught on that first exposure, but of course I don't have everything committed to long term memory right away. So, sometimes I'm tempted to write a lot of things down or type them up in Anki (which can get quite tedious).

However, in math for instance, you pretty much have to know the exact definitions of theorems to apply them in proofs. Thus you refer back to the textbook or lecture notes/video (if available) when applying a theorem in a problem, and soon you have that definition down cold in memory. Similarly, in courses or subjects where you need to do a lot of problem solving or application, you can look back at source material for concepts or definitions as needed (this itself is probably a form of spaced repetition). In cases where I wrote down detailed notes or entered them into Anki, I find that I probably recorded a lot more than I should have.

So how do you figure out what is worth (most efficient) entering into cards in that case?
Memory is one of the most important aspects in intelligence. Personally, I have a lot of knowledge but low recall speed. With a little context, I have no problem though.

Anyways, improving your memory is a big first step in bettering your intelligence. I highly recommend the book "Walking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything."

http://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Rememberi...
I definitely get what you say...quite frankly, that's probably how I feel about Apple hardware...I feel way more comfortable typing away at a standard Mac keyboard, even though it's likely a comparably-priced keyboard from a keyboard-manufacturer would have more bells and whistles and be better constructed.

I consider myself a decent amateur photographer...and reading the OP makes me think that, with some tweaking, there's a foundation here for a good Portlandia sketch. I get that beauty is in the eye of the photographer, but I made a mental snort reading the OP's amazement at how good he felt his pics came from right out the camera...(I also think it's a bit silly to prize the just-out-of-the-camera quality, as if it were the difference between fresh-from-the-farm and factory chicken eggs). But what really turns me off is that I associate Leica with great hardware...it sounds like they've sacrificed precise controls with an imprecise touchscreen...I thought the point of a Leica was to give a skilled photographer a full-range of control and depth? To reduce the physical controls so that the camera comes out as a more pure slab of aluminum seems like a move toward superficiality than of craftsmanship.
What? You won't believe what this guy did while flyboarding
When they installed license-plate scanners on bridges, government buildings, and roaming police cars, there was initially the claim that this system wouldn't be used to create a giant centralized database tracking everybody's movement.

We all know how that turned out.

And now with these airplane-style black boxes inside cars (the manufacturers have their own black boxes, too) ... I'm sure the NSA, FBI, CIA, etc would never start drinking from this firehose of data, and mis-use it.

I'm sure Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, etc would find this info useful, too ... although with the installed user base of Android phones, Google / Apple pretty likely already have quite a bit of this info.
When you write `:ls` you see all the buffers, not tabs. To remove the buffer you can use `:bd :bdel :bdelete` (see `:help :bdel`) which unloads a buffer and deletes it from the bugger list.
Breadth of knowledge increases your mental sharpness just as depth of knowledge though, they both do.

If you only go for depth, you can do a PhD in a super narrow field and it will increase your mental sharpness significantly. However, it won't be easy for you to apply that sharpness in the real world, as it is very specific.

If you want to go for breadth, the best thing for that is definitely a startup, as you have to become really, really good across all disciplines. Having done that for a while now, I start to miss the challenge of depth, such as mathematics and physics, which I would like to do more once that has stabilized. :)

So that's that, hope I could give some insights.
In addition to the other comments about taking care of yourself, and "soft" nootropics like piracetam, I have personally had excellent results with judicious use of amphetamines and nicotine.

You have to know the risks (cardiovascular, addiction), and treat them with the respect that they deserve (don't overuse, take breaks, etc.), but they can be incredibly useful if used properly (or incredibly dangerous if not).
> a lot of things that work in Chrome are not available in Chromium, and that gap has been widening

Hpw so? The gap narrowed considerably recently when Google and Foxit open-sourced the PDF plugin. In terms of capabilities, the most visible differences are that Chrome supports a few additional media tags and Flash that Chromium does not, by default.

Chromium vs Chrome (on Linux): https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...

PDFium: https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/

HN discussion of PDFium: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7781878
Hmm.

* Old title: Safety Spies

* New title: Lower Your Car Insurance Bill, at the Price of Some Privacy

... the new title's better, but I think adding (safety spies) in parentheses at the end would be a good compromise.
I recently got a Panasonic GX-7 for the same reason and am very happy with it! More performant than my Nikon D5100 and much smaller/lighter.
This is cool, how hard would it be for the cpython core to implement similar optimisations ?
Sure. But I want to close the buffer AND the tab. :bd only closes the tab if there are multiple tabs open. It does not close the tab when its the last tab before the file explorer:

1) in the shell run "vim ."

2) hit "t" on a file

3) type ":bd<enter>"

You still have 2 tabs open. One with the file explorer and one with an empty file. Probably because the file explorer has type "nofile" or something, so vim things the buffer you just closed was the last one. Im not sure why its not closing the tab. It might be a bug.

Is there a way to tell vim "When I type :bd close the frickin tab, even if its the last one!"?
why did you delete your s.o. question?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LEbxw95...
sounds totally inspiring and completely convincing. the world isn't divided into silos of knowledge by design, and I agree we can learn a whole lot by taking the time to learn new domains
Cached version (site is down right now): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:paCgkFw...
Travel travel travel. You can do it in addition to any other advice on here (you WILL learn new skills, try new things, read, meet new people.) If you're concerned about budget, go to Latin America or South/Southeast Asia. The perspective and skills you gain will empower you for the rest of your life.
Apple already made their choice in second location - Austin, TX, where the cost of living is cheaper and the Vitamin D is plentiful.
Same here. Trying to create a new file or open an existing one results in a crash.
You seem to have plenty of screenshots, but I don't find them to be particularly informative. After reading through the page and glancing at all of the images, here's what I take away: it's a tool that allows you to enter a pull request URL and display a side-by-side diff.

The side-by-side diff feature is buried at the bottom, and the whole page seems to imply that there are other features within somewhere, but I can't figure out what they would be (I would love to see screenshots of them!).
Renting on the hill has gotten pretty absurd as of late. The new Sunset Electric building on 11th and Pine has 350 square foot studios going for almost $1700 (http://www.urbnlivn.com/2014/07/06/sunset-electric-taps-into...)
My local grocery store has a fresh food department, that basically sells the cooked version of the stores prepared foods (so the pizza they sell is their pizza dough, their marinara sauce, their carton of cheese and their packs of pepperoni, all of which you can grab and make the same pizza right at home) and the store brand foods.

The thing I find amazing is that they have a couple of kids working barely above minimum wage essentially doing the task of a vending machine. Their most labour intensive task is rolling out the ball of pizza dough.

I won't be surprised to see grocery stores rapidly change to near full automation. We already have automated shipping warehouses, stocking store shelves is essentially the reverse process and with proper inventory monitoring a shelf would never be empty. Checkouts are already becoming self-serve in many places as it allows more "cashiers" to be open thus reducing lines.

Every job in a grocery store is shockingly automatable, from assembling the loads at the distribution warehouses, we're already talking automated tractor trailers for freight, automated fork lifts to load and unload, automated shelf stackers and self-serve cashes. Whose going to be working? Security, at least until we automate that.

I work construction, and its honestly a matter of time before I'm automated out of a job. I'm blessed by the fact that rough terrain is the main limiting factor, that I might actually stay employed longer than most.

The reason I see automation taking over is because we're approaching onsite manufacture of a lot of materials. It used to be just eavestrough, but now every form of steel roofing can be made on site. It's only a matter of time before someone starts mounting them on boom lifts and running them out in place for workers to just screw down. From there its only going to be a short time until the machine makes and screws the piece.

We're starting to see vinyl products that can be bent to make fascia, which means a machine can easily produce vinyl siding and accessories on site. So how long until they get mounted on a scissor lift and parked at one end of the wall and you can have a 50ft wall of seamless siding.
Ask HN: Which is harder Front end or Back end?
This is a two part question, I want to get a friend into Web development should I start him off with the Frontend side(HTML, CSS Javascript) or Backend side(PHP, JAVA, PYTHON) of things?

Which is harder and why?
is Web development hard in general?

And which is more fun and joy to work on? if you had to pick one particular side to start off in and build a career out of because is fun which side would you favor?
Instead of using income as a proxy for affordability, using actual cost of rent by census tract would be way better. The ACS data he used includes Rent values and property values, both of which are a much better measure of affordability than income.

Or the sort of data provided by Kwelia.

[1] http://kwelia.com
My advice would be:

1) Be polite. Always.
2) Make it clear that you're both two professionals trying to get through this as quickly as possible, both of you have better things to do.
3) If you must talk to someone, always talk to the person, never the hat.
You're absolutely right that a Leica takes technically equivalent (inferior, if you're pushing the sensor) photos. However, that's not really what they're about.

I owned a Leica M9 for 3 months last year. My "keeper" rate was 36% higher on the M9 than on previous (or subsequent) digital cameras[1]. I sold the M9 due to its limitations, but you shouldn't underestimate the value of a form factor.

[1] I use lightroom, which lets me get pretty good stats. For reference, my "non-M9" keeper rate is 5.5%, my M9 keeper rate was 7.5%. My film keeper rate is 19%.
For the parents out there, more and more research is revealing how influential the first few years of life are to a child's later intelligence. A few tidbits:

* Talk to them. Talk, talk. Narrate everything you do. (No, TV doesn't count). I'm simplifying, but the motto is: the more they hear/converse, the smarter they'll be.)

* Read to them. A lot. They don't need to understand the story.

* Play lots of different things in different places. (A child's brain lights up when they're outdoors.)

* Cut out TV and similar things (no TV before age 2, according to American Academy of Pediatrics).

I don't have citations offhand - these are from my person notes from reading relevant books.
Replacing a 32-bit counter with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations
If you're going to a protest, spend $10 on a tracfone. They have cameras anyway.
I suspect your anecdata is limited to a few neighborhoods in Denver. Ever drive on south Federal? It's all Korean grocery stores and Mexican restaurants.
did you read the post or just the title? nobody is arguing that engineers are the least respected people in the world.
Ask HN: How long does it take to set up a CA LLC
I'm curious to hear real life experiences with this. Have you ever registered an LLC in California? How many days, weeks etc did I it take, start to end?
This Shewchuk dude is one acceptable Canadian!
As far as I know, none of what you say is as cut-and-dried as you make it seem.

The Anthropic Principle is a common sense explanation to why our universe has a paradoxically perfect ("fine-tuned" by 120 orders of magnitude off what we would expect) cosmological constant that is just right for life and the universe to exist. It's somewhat horrifying, but I haven't seen a better explanation for fine-tuning. [1]

The holographic principle does not seem to be supported by a "very bizarre sect". In fact, it seems to be one of the better explanations for the black hole information paradox. [2]

Nima Arkani-Hamed dedicated a significant portion of his Messenger Lectures [3] (same lectures where Feynman delivered his famous series) to the principles that you dismiss out of hand as laughable above.

I'm a little depressed that the top comment is computer science > theoretical physics. Theoretical physics predicts quantum scale behavior to 11-digit accuracy. It's no joke.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant#Quantum_f...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
[3] http://www.cornell.edu/video/nima-arkani-hamed-quantum-mecha...
Immigration departments due give a shit: philsturgeon.uk/blog/2014/08/i-was-an-extraordinary-alien-for-a-week

Please do not make broad assumptions like your post does ._.
A bit too lean of an 'mvp' for me.

The pull-request box looks like a live-demo, so I dug up a URL only to find out it's not :/

A bit of a nit-pick, but if there's only 1 field, I don't need to be told it's required - the '* required' on the singular email field seems redundant. (I understand it's probably the framework you're using, but it just seems weird.)

You only screen shot doesn't show: does your side-by-side diffs support coloring? eg. https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/298976...
Ask HN: How can I get excited about coding again?
Posting with a throwaway.

I'm almost 24 years old and have been coding 'full-time' since I was 19 (when I left high school). Originally I developed my own iOS apps but as I got my own place and needed a higher income I began freelancing. I've done that ever since. My income has never been great - really just enough to get by - but I value my free time and have some hobbies I really enjoy. My goal isn't to make a load of money (not yet anyway).

So. When I get started coding full time I loved it. I spent sunny days inside and when my friends were partying over the summer I was coding a new app. I really, really enjoyed what I was doing. Over the last year or so though my enthusiasm has completely gone. It's happened gradually but now I really have to force myself to code. It's even got to the point where I'm not making enough money and jobs that should take 1-2 weeks are taking over a month as I can't bring myself to work on them. It's very unprofessional and I hate it but it's got to the point where getting myself to code is a huge chore.

I've actually started looking for coding jobs at companies in the hope that a change of pace (working on a long-term project) will help. I'm worried though that I'll take the job and things won't change and I'll hate getting out of bed in the morning.

What can I do? How can I get enthused about coding again. I really did love doing it but the enthusiasm I had has completely disappeared.
Show HN: Upworthy for Fitness
This is a good thing, not a bad thing. A market of one is a lonely place to be. It's much better to have a large company creating the market and bearing the expense and then leaving niches open for you to fill.
If you are going to do that, why would you want to weigh yourself down with all the baggage of the "Python" name?

There's lots of British comedy troupes that came after Monty Python, and lots of snakes if you want to go in that direction.
Interesting article - I liked how it was based on a personal experience. As a side note, there's a pretty serious misunderstanding of the Apache Software Foundation in the article. Apache provides no money to developers. Instead it provides community support, infrastructure, and legal help to more than 150 projects under its umbrella. In particular the Apache focus on building communities means that a project has a life beyond involvement of a single contributor or company. Fundraising for development is reasonable and helpful, but must be balanced with contributor diversity. Otherwise the the project will fall apart when the funding stops, leaving users in the lurch. (note - I'm an Apache Software Foundation member, though I speak for myself in this comment).
The review was well-written, but the photographs are simply beautiful—especially the desaturated color and serene feeling of the imagery.
In terms of marketing, no, you'll never be able to compete with eHarmony, they were one of the first online dating sites with a TV presence, they know how to sell their wares.

However, a one man show can absolutely out-react a large company like eHarmony. Assuming you've got the chops, you can push out new features and respond to user needs much quicker than a large development team can, simply by virtue of having no debate or discussion to get in your way.

So if you can get known, you can compete.

I had a similar idea to yours a little bit ago, but don't have the freedom of time to develop it. I extended the questionnaire system it to the business model, where the more questions answered and details provided by the employer, the cheaper it is for them to list. Take advantage of the high cost of posting on most job boards to drive for better matches. The idea being that large corporations would likely just pay the extra cost to get their opening out there, but small companies would be incentivised to provide more indexable data in order to get better matches.

Dunno if its something that fits into your idea, but I give it up simply because I'm sick of how awful all the job sites are.

Also, if you need a source for questions: https://github.com/ChiperSoft/InterviewThis/blob/master/Inte...
So NearlyFreeSpeech to the rescue then! https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
It depends.

Both can get difficult and being an expert requires lots of training. However, I believe that frontend is easier and more fun for starters. With little skill you get something on the screen, with more skill you can make some really sweet stuff. If you can hook in some existing API it's easy enough to do a dynamic site.
I still miss my Commodore 64.
How did you plan to market and sell your service before you found out about potential competition? You should execute that plan without regard to what others are doing.

The biggest threat to your ability to get off the ground is not eHarmony. In your general market (services that connect job seekers and employers), there is already significant competition, so what one company does or doesn't do will matter a whole lot less to you at this point than your willingness and ability to hit the pavement and sell what you have.

eHarmony is working with three Fortune 100 companies. There are 1000 Fortune 1000 companies. If you called each and every one of them, do you think you could get a few interested in working with you on a trial basis? The answer to this question will reveal more about your chances of success than a Washington Post article.
I am not a libertarian, though I don't think all their ideas are bad.

I agree it doesn't look like a policy they would support, but I think they get there using the following axioms.
1) It's better for me if there is a functioning common society
2) People will do anything to survive
3) People without sufficient resources will gain them however they can, often inefficiently
4) I eventually pay for externalities

These assumptions lead to the conclusion that it's in their interests to have an efficient system to fulfill the basic needs of everyone. There's some grim logic that say that killing people would be cheaper, but most people are repulsed by it and it's often not true in practice.
The Leica T ($1850) + Summicron T 32mm ($1950) = $3800
The Sony A7 ($1499) + Zeiss 55m f1.8 Sonnar ($999) = $2498

Thats a differential of $1302

Now lets get a few things out of the way -- Yes the Leica is a 35mm equivalent and the Sony is a 55 mm equivalent. But I wanted to compare the best prime lens in each setup (in Leica T system, that is the only prime lens available so far) - The 55mm is arguably currently the Sony FE mount best lens. Also, I will address the "Leica Way" later in this post.

So what are you getting in the Leica that is much better then the Sony? NOTHING. The Sony is a FAR superior as a camera.

Sony:

- Full sensor vs Crop. This has been debated to death, but everyone will agree --> bigger sensor = better image IQ
- Faster Autofocus
- Better LCD display
- Better EVF
- Better build (weather sealed)
- Better control (Two dials + exposure compensation)

And the most important quality ---
- BETTER IMAGE QUALITY

Now before you guys go ranting about how Leica has a quieter shutter, better ergonomics, helps me slow down, is a photographic style. Please.

That all applied in the film days -- I have a Leica MP with a Leica 50mm f1.4 and that is the greatest film camera every made. It is worth every penny. But those were the film days.

The playing ground is completely different in the digital world. Leica does not make its own sensors, and their for will never offer "the best image quality".

What it is selling today is a reputation it has earned during the film days and fashion icon for the rich hipsters out there.

Nothing wrong with that, and if you have the money and you value the aesthetics and the feature set, great. Go buy one and enjoy it!

But please, stop with the how the Leica is the pinnacle of photography. It is simply not true in the digital landscape.
Them and Eastman Kodak

The first digital Leicas used Kodak sensors.