skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I continue to find it difficult to entertain the invocation of the supernatural. But I've come to appreciate much of the substance of Christianity beyond the metaphysics. In the past, I used to think "Christianity - metaphysics" was just "be a good person secular humanism" but it's quite different.
Funny, my pharmacist has never done this. My doc prescribes, and she asks me if a Generic would do? Usually she advises against it.
Why do you need a preferred platform for personal projects that are not serious? Some very successful start-ups rely almost exclusive on Microsoft technologies, like StackExchange.
I fed the custom hn.algolia.com search to something that made it into an RSS feed. So if I wanted to get an RSS feed of all of pg's comments, you could use this as the source link:

http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/author%...

Then I made a custom yahoo pipe to create an RSS feed, taking a username as a parameter:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b5d191396ff8e04acd...
> Specifically the undeveloped part of the brain, is believed to be the part that evaluates risk. Meaning that 16 year olds are less likely to account accurately for the consequences of their behavior.

Again, you seem to be assuming that when the brain STOPS developing, it does so because it has achieved perfection. It is pretty easy to support the view that adults are far TOO risk-averse, too unwilling to let teens take chances that would benefit them. To claim adults account "accurately" is going a bridge too far. Adults account for risk "differently" and do so in a way that other adults are likely to agree with, but that doesn't make it more "accurate".
Documentary showing girls will play D&D with boys
Don't even think to continue with Microsoft. Focus on *nix + node.js (MEAN).
Probably you will need a prove for these words, sorry - I don't want to spend hours writing arguments and examples.
Just one thing: I spend 10 years with .net and even participate in bizspark - it was endless pain and big waste of time, resources and energy. Microsoft only goal is to sell more Windows licenses - everything is around that, it is like big wall and you will realise that when you hit it with your head. World has changed, Microsoft don't know how to survive when hardware and software are so cheap (less than $100 for hardware, less than $10 for software).
Remember most Christians (most anybody in any religion) are just there for the coffee. As my Minister used to say, There are pillars and there are caterpillars. We know who the pillars of our local Church are. The Caterpillars just visit on Sunday; they crawl in and they crawl out.
Why should Verizon be forced to support an incredibly aging network that people are abandoning left and right?

50% of Americans don't use a landline.

Verizon offers phone service on fiber.
Imagine this was an article about a web server provider... the customers want to stay with their current server with 99% uptime, the provider wants to switch them to a faster server with 90% uptime.

In a properly regulated market the customer gets to choose the option that suits them best, but as everyone knows the situation with US ISPs is bananas, far too much power in the hands of too few companies.
I think experience pretty much explains it. A 16-year-old hasn't learned yet to judge when its safe to turn left across the highway - is the truck too close? is it going too fast?

Witness ANYBODY learning a new computer game. We all have to play a while to learn the controls on that star fighter.

Teenagers are just newbies to life. Nothing to do with neurology.
> Don't even think to continue with Microsoft. Focus on *nix + node.js (MEAN).

Or you know, do your research and figure out what you want to focus on outside of Windows stack. Not what some guy on HN wrote.
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It's kind of offtopic, but I can't help feeling a bit relieved that I'm not the only one who read this highly recommended book and got increasingly confused how this heap of triviality and self-congratulation managed to be so successful. Taleb certainly out-gladwelled the other contenders in this category.

I am convinced the success of this book can't be due to completely organic factors (at least that's what I hope), but it's here now and however derivative and trite Taleb's contributions to the subject matter might be, he managed to claim ownership for the entire field.

The result is it becomes impossible to publicly talk about robustness and fault tolerance without invoking him. If you as an author steer around him, someone from your audience will bring it up and it will be much worse than if you had included the mandatory nod in his direction right from the start.

The book has also managed to create a somewhat fertile ground for the subject in lay people and it seems wasteful not to capitalize on that basis when addressing a group of people.

So yes, I expect this book will be referenced as the gold standard for the rest of our lifetime.
Your entire post is hyperbole.
I'd say this is the standard 'financial markets exhibit levy-distributed changes' issue. The random walk will have more deviations in the long tail, so if you expect a normally-distributed martingale, you will be surprised when the market 'goes too high'.
As a programmer in San Francisco Bay Area: nope. Although I suspect visible programmers get better sounding offers.
Those workers are consciously choosing to go work for those companies, taking all differences in consideration. Why do they need to be "protected", and from what? I think you're assuming that the way things are is necessarily better for everyone.
Do whatever makes you happy.

The only thing I don't understand why you keep bringing up the licensing costs.

If that is an issue then the choice should be already obvious.
I think it's more of a symbiotic relationship: construction is the first sector to accelerate when things start looking good and the first to crash when things start going sour, because it relies on debt more than others. Because of this position, it plays a very important role in exacerbating trends.
Now that is good to know, thank you. I'll make that change asap.
You're probably going through a phase. I've seen people like this (including me) and my view of things have changed. Even though I agree that current societies aren't really connecting people, but you're relationship with other may change in the future, in a good way.
Wow, a really awesome game!

It's the perfect mashup of Tetris and Super Hexagon.
Seeing that I spend most of my day staring at pixels (squares), I always find this hexagonal art remarkably amazing.

I know that back in the day using squares was the easiest way how to represent images on the screen, but could the exact same thing be done with hexagons nowadays?
Grass fed or not, regular red meat consumption isn't good for us.

There is a good body of evidence that that people from Europe do well on the Mediterranean diet. That diet is mostly plant based but with oily fish and occasional eggs and dairy.
minification is 2.5 times faster?
Driver discussion linked from the article comments, http://uberdriverdiaries.com/what-happened-to-my-5-star-rati...
> In a properly regulated market

We have a regulated market. Time Warner, Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon are the ones who have captured it. Slowly becoming like government bureaus.

There is no such thing as a proper regulated market. That's like proper communism.

If you want regulated telecom, this is what you get.
The Bucket Principle
Your advice is incredibly dangerous and somewhat counterintuitive. Do not ignore everything a doctor tells you. Do your own research and understand that nutrition science is still in its infancy.

>Ignore EVERYTHING a doctor tells you about cholesterol.

Except for triglycerides. Triglycerides are extremely dangerous and strongly correlated to arteriosclerosis. There's evidence that triglycerides are formed in the liver when it's forced to process fructose.[1] They're also implicated in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.[2]

Don't ignore your doctor telling you about bad numbers, but take his/her advice as to what to do about it with a few grains of salt. Dietary cholesterol intake has little to do with the cholesterol in your blood. [3]

>Diabetics take note.

I agree with your basic premise that reducing carbohydrate intake can help with various metabolic diseases, but people with Diabetes need to be EXTREMELY careful. Often they've been on pills and injected insulin for such a long time that their body has adjusted and simply stopping the treatment could actually kill them. These individuals have an extremely dysfunctional carbohydrate metabolism and the transition to a low-carbohydrate metabolism is often accompanied by fatigue often called Keto Flu. [4] This kind of benign fatigue mimics dangerous hyper and hypoglycemic events that can require medical attention.

Diabetes can be treated by a low-carbohydrate diet, but the transition off medication needs to be supervised by a medical professional familiar with the practice.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3513615
2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18460922
3. http://www.scribd.com/doc/101760834/Low-Carb-Research
4. http://elowcarbfoodlist.org/the-keto-flu-symptoms-and-relief...
I'm 27. I'd like to have a landline, but the telcos are so abusive that I do everything to minimize interaction with them.
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Are you using Pinboard to search all the items you've read, or a different engine?
What does properly regulated mean? There are vast infrastructure requirements to operate as an ISP. Perhaps the government should treat fiber as a utility and rent out usage to ISPs?
it says "Uglify parser" runs faster...
Of course, the natural response to regulation is to find a way around it. That's why so many of our regulations simply result in non-value-added overhead and higher costs for everyone.
only the parser was "translated". I need help to make a full translation
Ask HN: How do you deal with negative self talk?
I'm a Software Engineer and I often want to work on side projects and cool ideas I have, and I'll often get started but then at some point I start the negative talk - 'you're not good enough to do this', 'you don't know what you're doing', 'this isn't good practice', 'this won't work' etc.

I was wondering how others deal with this negative talk and self doubt. I try to shut it down when it starts up but I can never truly shake it.
Ive already noticed Microsoft people get fewer job offers compared to Java (enterprise not Android) people. And they have lower salary.

The only thing keeping Microsoft afloat right now is the contracts with the state or municipalities.
It's learning from errors and failures or evolving or self-correcting.

The only real function that neologism serve is to ensure that there are several pages to fill with easy writing about examples of things that are robust and things that are fragile. Really, when reading about concept of learning from mistakes (or in case of software self-correcting) not many would find examples of fragile things interesting. Just because you are defining neologism which have perfectly good equivalents already doesn't make it any more compelling. You just fill paragraphs with boring fluff and make reader wonder why the hell you are not jumping to the point already.
This is unfortunately also visible in the paper from OP as, following Taleb, about half of it is concerned with giving murky definition of completely redundant term and then telling the reader what it is and what is it not with numerous examples.

The author would do well to remove all the references to anti-fragile and Taleb and substitute those with some history of self-correcting software. Maybe try to research who first wrote about it or tried to construct working code. You know, like some information and background about the concept instead of redefining it and then doing a session of mental masturbation over it.
Oh God, I'd only just got over my 2048 addiction...
Execution, because it amplifies/dampens other legit advantages.
Quote from Greg Maxwell, Bitcoin core dev: "I hate it when people call Bitcoin anti-fragile. It's not anti-fragile, when it breaks I have to fix it!"

Software systems, in which the term "system" includes the humans constantly monitoring, fixing, and improving them, may be anti-fragile, but we probably won't have true anti-fragile software until we also achieve strong AI. Till then it's just robust, or perhaps adaptively robust, at best.
Efficient for whom? Starbucks and Mc Donalds sell worse and more expensive products than local places. Amazon is cheap, but I'm constantly getting damaged books (bent pages, water damage, single pages that are printed in light gray instead of black ...) and scratched DVDs. I've never seen any of this in a physical bookstore.
Because the big players sabotaged LLU and other vendors that would use it.
Try a dual life, at corporate work use ms, java, as/400 or whatever ecosystem is well paid in your town. For hobby or side projects go node.j, rails, django or cooler newer things.
Even that 4.5MB doesn't seem particularly small to me. Podkicker Pro, Android podcast client takes 2.15MB on my phone. App itself take 792KB, and feed metadata takes 1.38MB.
You can buy snake oil. The limitation is you can't market it as curing cancer and doctor's can't prescribe it. Which is a vary important distinction.

Herbal infusions, Homeopity, and a host of other 'options' still, but if you call yourself a doctor and not just a 'faith healer' they effectively don't which is a good thing.
It kind of reminds me of a simplified TetrisSphere (Note: Tetris developer, Alexey Pajitnov, worked on this as well as Welltris.)
http://www.verizon.com/home/phone/#callingplans

They don't call it Fios, but it'll work over their fiber if you don't have copper connection.
That has been happening for several years now: http://www.jetbrains.com/products.html
His books are for laymen, it's worth reading his immense technical compendium before passing judgement on his ideas and style.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2392310
There's a reason this isn't talked about, it's not an actual legitimate/common vector to compromise a server.
Workplaces of Web Professionals, Part 1
Yes, good catch! I did indeed mean non-associative multiplication based on the timing of the rounding.
You said it right here:

Now of course, people might have responded to Hitler much earlier if they had taken all his Jew-baiting and so on at face value, and realized that when he talked about exterminating large groups of people he meant exactly that, as opposed to just conquering and looting in the traditional fashion.

If people had called Hitler's bluff, things would have gone differently. Do you think the next one will be able to bluff?

Of course, another major factor in enabling Hitler to become Hitler was the circumstances of world power. WWII didn't happen in a vacuum. It was the dramatic culmination of the centuries-long rise of Europe. You mentioned that WWI was destructive. But not destructive enough: thirty years later the same adversaries were ready for another attempt to settle scores and dominate Europe. WWII had to be the end of that cycle: after WWII, Europe was shattered, and world power had shifted to the east and west. The Europe that the combatants had sought to dominate no longer existed.

I'm not much of a scholar of Napoleon, but the way it was framed to me was that the Napoleonic war(s) was the first total war: the size of the French forces were unprecedented, and contemporaries could have been forgiven for not predicting the outcome. Each subsequent war of this type raised the stakes further. That cycle has run its course forever, because the stakes are now so high that victory would mean acquiring territory that was radioactive and uninhabitable.

PS. One of the things that's striking about Mein Kampf is how provincial and small-minded it is. I read a little bit, and one of Hitler's biggest bugbears was the Habsburgs and their treatment of Austria. Hitler was very much a product of his time and place. That time and place is gone forever.

My final point: no one wants to be the next Hitler. What do you suppose was going through Hitler's mind when he committed suicide in a bunker beneath Berlin, surrounded by foreign armies closing in from all sides? He may have anticipated being hanged as a war criminal, or feared retribution from his own people now that defeat could no longer be credibly denied. People make a lot of how Hitler was a maniac and insane, but he knew he lost. In photographs of Hitler from near the end of the war, he looks clearly downcast and exhausted. Hitler started the war maniacally certain of victory, and he ended his reign thoroughly aware of his failure. Hitler was not an imbecile, and if he had known what was coming, I don't think he would have chosen it.
Just like when a startup bases their existence on (say) the Facebook API, becoming part of Microsoft's ecosystem has a lot of benefits : But there are significant downside risks.

I think it's already telling that you're interested in Django, Rails and Vim. AFAIK, they're all built by *NIX people (even if they're using MacBooks), and treat supporting the Windows platform as a necessary evil.

From my point of view, it's better to be on the side of contributing to a global software ecosystem, rather than one owned by a specific company.
There's work in the area of genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation that might be applicable:

http://www.kgi.edu/Documents/IEEE.pdf
Good thinking, but I already do detect and handle that case correctly.

There's a test case in 'test/namedThings.(d)js'
The situation you are suggesting might require dumps of as much state as can be measured and a method for recreating the state of the application from that dump. That might be a very large set of data if every variable can be altered. Even execution paths and past variable values would need to be measured over time.
Some things are attractively packaged. So seeing someone show off that packaging can be quite nice in itself.

Sometimes unboxing can give you valuable and otherwise hard to find information, e.g. how big the transformer is and how it looks. That stuff is typically nowhere to be found, not on the website of whoever made the thing (even if you search for the manual) and often not in reviews (at least if the transformer isn’t extremely enormous or extremely ugly or otherwise noteworthy).

First impressions tend to be pretty useless in my opinion since it’s not very thought out and all very subjective. Maybe sometimes something useful is said, but it’s mostly useless.

It’s also good for getting a non-product-photo look at the product. For some things there just aren’t any video reviews and photos often just don’t cut it. It’s always good to get more than one look at a product.
For some definitions of "properly". Personally, I don't think regulations forcing a company to maintain outmoded infrastructure at the behest of a small portion of consumers would be proper.
I was in your boat a while back.

I had always done development on the Microsoft stack (.NET, SQL Server, etc.). I had always played around with nix stuff but never anything serious. During college, I got a Macbook to do iPhone apps, and decided I wanted to do development exclusively on nix.

What I ended up spending 2 years of my side project time is switching between languages and stacks: from Python to Ruby to Java to Scala to Mono to Erlang back to Ruby to Node back to Java -- I was trying to find that perfect productive replacement for C#/.NET ecosystem.

Finally I switched back to .NET on Windows, and things felt so right. I've been happily productive on the .NET platform for the past year and a half.

About VM/licensing fee, it really isn't that much of a difference if you think about it. I'm averaging about $90/month for the VMs and DBs I'm using on Azure.
Compare the price between "SQL Azure" and "MongoLab," the diff ain't that big.

Don't take this the wrong way, but it is most likely that side projects aren't big enough to really make the pricing difference more than $50ish a month -- this really is not much especially after when you have a job.

Edit: most of my (probably yours) projects fitted nicely in the free zone of Azure (with or without MSDNAA) and AppHarbor. Also keep in mind that even the FREE VS Express is better than most Open Source editors/IDE out there.
A lot of that traffic is definitely ASMR. The camera is very close to the unboxing and manages to pick up the tiny sounds made in great detail and clarity. Another use for this type of video is also falling asleep, which would explain the sheer amount of views as many people queue up these videos night after night.

Edit: I love how this article just tapers off into nothingness.
neat - this is a genuinely new twist on the colour-matching mechanic. sadly, i didn't find it as much fun as some of the others; i got no sense that i could build up a neat structure and then clear it in chunks (a la tetris), or set up and trigger cascades (a la columns). it was always just a matter of reacting to the current piece and putting it somewhere it would go away as soon as possible.
Pre-empt negativity by using positive words/sounds/images from stories of other people who have achieved comparable goals, facing comparable challenges. Thoughts follow action, so take a positive action, any action, instead of trying to fight negative thoughts.

An example interview, http://mixergy.com/interviews/slicehost-how-a-goal-setting-b...
Source? As far as I was aware, it was around 40% that didn't, and the decline has slowed pretty drastically in recent years. Not to mention it's hardly a rarity in businesses.

In any event though, you're really missing the point here; the problem isn't abandoning copper. It's not providing an equivalent grade of service to one we've had for decades now.

Verizon has long supported regulated POTS service over FiOS. They're now trying to push people towards a form of phone service that's no longer regulated for quality or price, among other things such as the requirement to share the outside plant with competitive carriers. You know how the push for net neutrality is gearing towards Title II classification for internet? That's precisely what they're trying to steer clear of; they still want to offer phone service, but offer it as an unregulated Title I service - much like the internet is classified right now.

As for the issue of local instead of common battery, the POTS standard requires 50 milliamps of power. I'd be absolutely shocked if there was no way to reliably deliver that over fiber.

tl;dr, this is really more a regulatory issue then a technology one. It's actually very similar to the debate going on about the internet right now. Technology is just the excuse being given to getting around Verizon's obligations as a common carrier.
I love your work. Thank you for mediacrush. Are you guys doing alright, financially, if you don't mind me asking?