skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as i know, good parent-infant attachment is critical in shaping stable adults with good emotional regulation(because in this attachment process the baby learns how to regulate his own emotions) , and that emotional regulation is critical in good delay gratification(i.e. passing the marshmallow test).

We also know that stress while a mother is pregnant affects the epi-genes of an unborn kid, making him more susceptible to stress - which again delay gratification harder.

We also know from research that depression has a direct impact on negative attachment between mother and baby. We also know that poverty tend to increase depression and stress a great deal - it's just common sense.

In the same vane, we know quite a lot of other things on how to greatly increase the likelihood of creating mentally stable persons who have good delay gratification. Psychologists haven't been resting all these years, you know.
Barack Obama Singing Fancy by Iggy Azalea
How 'Game of Thrones' Will Predict the Next Bin Laden
i was thinking i should buy this guys books in support. then i realized i'd want to get them from amazon. that won't work
You gotta decide which story to take at face value, though. In some versions it's only one layer of wood of unspecified shape and arrangement. In others it's layers of wood at regular intervals. In others it's specifically square-cut timber. Generally the more recent retellings of the tale have more of these juicy details than the older ones.

The thing about a good story is, it's hard to resist the urge to make it even better.
Publishers are a dying species. With infinite shelf-space, online retailers can stock any and all books. They do not need to be curated by some value-added middleman in order to ensure only the likeliest successes will become books.

I'm a big supporter for Amazon on this one. There are plenty of authors that the publisher will deny the opportunity to even put a book on the shelf. Amazon is not doing that, and it is not a personal attack on any author despite what media spin they might try to put on this story.
Roc's point is specifically about Chrome, and letting a single player control how people access the Web. Using Firefox with DuckDuckGo, or Bing, or whatever search engine you prefer is still better than using Chrome.
Firefox would probably take some pay cut and switch to bing. I bet Google is quite happy as is: the search engine is 80% of their commercial needs with a browser, so they're just outsourcing another IE competitor. Also, I bet they don't view this so ruthlessly -- else they wouldn't be as committed elsewhere with OSS projects and the releasing the Chromium version of their browser.
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Actually, based on the numbers in the article I do find the level of investment surprising.

> Though each redirection lasted just 30 second or so, the thief was able to perform the attack 22 times, each time hijacking and gaining control of the processing power of a group of bitcoin miners

> At its peak, according to the researchers’ measurements, the hacker’s scam was pocketing a flow of bitcoins and other digital currencies including dogecoin and worldcoin worth close to $9,000 a day.

An estimated 22 half-minute episodes of hijacking a flow worth $9000 / day. There are 1440 minutes in a day, so $9000*11/1440 = $68.75 . The means here are much more impressive than the ends.

edit: forget what I said, the article later says that $83,000 of currency was taken.
I switched to Chromium back when they first started with the fast release system and kept breaking my plugins. I've thought about switching back but need Chromium's ability to run newer versions of Flash. So I want to run both, but I have a large bookmark collection I use all the time and have found no good way to either keep the 2 browsers bookmarks in sync or an external bookmark management program.

Anyone have a good solution to bookmarks? This would be for Debian.
Sure, competition is good, but Google vs. Mozilla isn't a fair fight. Google has more resources. As long as Google improves Chrome enough to keep users, they can simultaneously do things that are not good for the Web as a whole. They can, on average, get away with it if people don't complain or switch away due to the parts that are unsavory.

The article does not lay out a watertight argument, but I see what it is trying to say: pay attention to more than just the obvious features of a browser -- also pay attention to its implications in the market.

Smart people realize that it is not in your self-interest to simply buy the best (cheapest or fastest) product or service, if defined narrowly. If you care about reliability, longevity, and service, sometimes you pay more or accept some idiosyncrasies, because your goal is to support an organization that behaves in a way that you like.

It is naive to think that "choosing the best browser" is simply a matter of the browser itself. There is a bigger story, and if you don't at least recognize this, it might be time to take the blinders off.
Those kind of constructs have been there in many languages. Mostly, C# can be said to borrow stuff from its cousin F#.
MapPLZ: Geo package for Go, Node, and Ruby
"The Last Great Unsolved Mystery"? Really? I've got a list of a few more and they're even restricted to the treasure-and-crime kind.
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~jcrawfor/mysteries.html
I feel Amazon really supports authors more than any publisher. I'm actually working on a project that will help authors on Amazon find an audience. Hopefully I can launch something before somebody else does(it's a pretty obvious idea, and either way, I wish the best for Indie authors).
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> Also, FF's sync is quite a pain to set up, especially if you don't have another device with you.

This was fixed in Firefox 29. More info at https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/02/07/a-better-firefo...
The really important part of my quote you missed was

> But that doesn't matter because the market is so competitive the new landlord wouldn't rent to you anyway.
I think Amazon will go with "Dont like it, dont publish to it" strategy. Amazon is platform that allows common folk to get access to whole library in their own home.

I love when writers say they would love for people to have better access to literature, but when Amazon shows up with their accessible platform it turns out its back to basics - all about money. Top writers maybe dont get paid as much as with regular publishers, but:

a) they do not need to publish to Amazon

b) if they are really about art and accessibility they will be happy with it

c) I know bills in cities like NYC are high, but hey - you decided to write books for living. You took this route with all pros but also with cons...
Everyone switching to Chrome would give Google de-facto control of the web. "No company should control the web" is a valid objection.
There are halo benefits to the side projects as well. Some experimental or otherwise "daring" functionality in a side project can become invaluable within the browser core at a future date. It's a bit like an external stimulus triggering a random mutation that proves to be beneficial.

Ex: Popup blocking required modification to the browser before it became a vital core feature.
On this subject it's hard to tell if the NYT pieces are reporting or editorial. It's ironic they are painting romantic pictures of content creators toiling in sheds (who are actually wealthy) when they haven't even figured out how to secure their own long term existence as newspapers struggle. The leaked documents about their digital efforts and strategies show they are shockingly out of touch with technology, yet apparently we should assume they have the credibility to arbitrate how free markets are affected by disruptive innovation.
> That's not for programmers, that's for people who hate themselves.

I laughed.

In my experience, building games have meant building tools to fit exactly what your game needs, on top of the engine. There are sets of engines + middleware that handle all of that, but it doesn't seem that this projects is aiming for that (which is normal, see Irrlicht3D, OGRE, etc.)
Make iOS apps faster with tested objective-c code samples
c) Yeah, what assholes deciding to write books for a living. Fuck them. Should have written HFT algos instead.
It's not as if I chose to do one when I had opportunity to do the other. The reverse would be far more accurate, that I chose to do what I did for lack of other opportunities at the time.

And yet, oddly enough, doing the one helped me get the other job. Not many come out of a factory job with a letter of commendation from the company president, after all.

I think it is true that we don't all have equal access to opportunity, and that extent I do think it unfair. My solution to that is to use my advantages to create more opportunities for those who lack the same and I have done this where I was able.
Hey, just like mainland China. I had my passport scanned in an internet cafe in Beijing.
When you use widgets, you see the home wallpaper
Thanks. I am actually very excited for Amazon efforts in 3D printing. My comment was more about the effect of press releases
great example! that's so true
while i agree with most of your comment, i think you are selling publishers a bit short of what they actually do. They also provide several services such as editing, marketing, designing, making ebooks, etc. They also take some of the risk out of publishing.

obviously all of these things can be done individually by third parties freelance and not using a publisher, but most indie books don't because they likely can't afford it and they suffer from a quality standpoint because of it. publishers can still bring plenty of value, they just need to adapt.
Rendering a web page – step by step
I think he meant Android, done by the same founder as Danger, but bought by Google for $50M in 2005. Android's now potentially a $multi-billion business.
Publishers are also corporations
Lightspeed could be an interesting alternative browser, if it could be made without diverting too many resources from Firefox then I'd like to see more of it. Could be a good browser to recommend to the less tech savvy.
best extension ever
No one has lived in the Forbidden City since 1924.
The advantage the 68030 has is the PMMU. I don't think you can use virtual memory on a 68020.

My first Linux machine was a IIsi, the little-brother to the IIci. But I had to put NetBSD on it because the Linux keyboard driver was broken.
You left just because you did not want to work for someone else? Is that a good enough reason to leave a job?
At that time it didn't make sense, but how is it coming along now? More insights on what did you learn from it?
I have been a Firefox user from 0.93 or so, except for a year or so of Chrome usage on a USB disk when Firefox really was performing too badly in that case—but once that was fixed I gladly moved back to Firefox. I see how people use Chrome and wonder how they can possibly stand it, especially if they end up with more than twenty tabs in a window… Firefox is certainly way better for tab management for me. I use Firefox both because I believe it is the best browser for me and for philosophical reasons. (I also have approved of almost every change to Firefox that I’ve seen; 4 was a great thing, Australis was a great thing, &c.)

I have also been gravely concerned, as the author is, by what I see at Google. Five years ago, had there been Google offices in Melbourne, I would have enjoyed working for them. In the three years since then I steadily became opposed to Google and I do not believe that I would be willing to be employed by them; they are now pushing the Chrome brand far too far, using a very significant marketing budget on it purely to get people to use it, and from their other web properties pushing Chrome constantly, almost always to my mind deceptively and far too often outright lying. Telling people to upgrade from IE6 was entirely understandable, and I could even forgive that they will push their own browser rather than merely pushing for a newer browser of whichever brand. But if I’m using Firefox, why would you go pestering me to “upgrade” to this browser with claims of its being faster which are simply not true? Four years ago they were true, to be sure; Firefox was slower than Chrome. But that has long since been fixed and the two are competitive now, Chrome winning in some areas, Firefox winning in others. (Of course, I believe Firefox to be winning in more, but that can immediately be discounted as a biased and unreasoned view.)

I look at what punishment Microsoft got for its anticompetitive behaviour and I wonder how long it can be before Google is dealt with. Because as it is, they’re just as great a threat as Microsoft ever was to the web, if not greater.

Google looks fair and feels foul.
This may sound like heresy, but I think Internet Explorer has the right balance between tab space and the URL bar. It's not perfect, but it is smaller than in Firefox and Chrome, while still being usable.

I'm waiting for a complete "Sane" plugin in Firefox that has all the modifications you mentioned rolled into one.
Publishers are the one squeezing the writers thin by throwing them only breadcrumbs and made publishing as some kind of privileged activity despite the technological advances. Amazon is doing the right thing here.

Having said that you may not want to discount them completely. Here are the few things publishers did do:

1. They would give advances to writers so the writers can focus on writing full time or even visit the places to get that extra reality experiences.

2. They had this huge networking with newspapers that allowed books to get significant publicity. It would be almost impossible to get individual writer featured by themselves.

3. They managed events like book signing at popular venues that again added in to significant marketting. Today its not uncommon to have publisher fly out an author to 50 city tour across the country on their dime.

4. They provided cover designer, editors, art work etc although these services now have become much cheaper to get elsewhere by independent writers.

5. Many publishers have great relationships with TV channels and popular bloggers. When you see a book featured on Colbert Report you can almost bet some publisher pulled some strings and their wallets.

I think eventually above kind of book marketing activities would become services provided by companies and publishing books becomes like little startups with investors and what not. That way relationship is much more transparent and authors can own biggest chunk of pie. At some extent this has already started on Kick Starter.
I'm not sure it's baseless. Mozilla's hand was recently forced on H.264, and the Chrome team is strong-arming Web Components through while explicitly disregarding standards bodies. Not to mention their own promise to avoid unprefixed, non-standard platform features in Blink.

"Chrome will be shipping Shadow DOM publicly (in conjunction with Moz) in the very near future. Whatever API gets shipped will be frozen almost immediately. If you want to suggest name changes, as we brainstormed a bit at the f2f, do so RIGHT NOW or forever hold your peace."

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0103.h...

That's not the Web I want.
When Google no longer monetizes Firefox via paying them to be the default search engine I don't see Firefox staying relevant

You think Microsoft would hesitate cutting a Bing deal?
Publishers are a dying species like music labels are, as in not at all and only as a techie trope. They're in business because they provide value to the authors and artists they represent and that will continue being the case as long as authors and artists don't want to deal with the burden of the business side of their craft and figuring out how to commercialize it.

Keep in mind that Amazon is also a "value-added middleman".
Yes, 1984 was much worse. I can only think of one thought crime in the US. No one is being imprisoned for keeping a diary.

Still, ubiquitous surveillance may afford far more concentration of power than Orwell imagined. You couldn't get anywhere in DC without J. Edgar Hoover's blessing, and his surveillance capabilities were orders of magnitude weaker than what the NSA has today.
Thanks, that makes sense, but I might not be able to complete the project I have been assigned as it is a long term thing, but I'll be able to give the first deliverable and do a knowledge transfer. That was always the plan. My situation is like you, just need to work on #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZP26T-jSY
Some game companies, like GMT, end up publishing their own games on Vassal and set them loose for use.
They're still working on the Z80-based load balancer so they can bring up another server.
Uninstalling Facebook messenger for privacy reason
I've only read the first volume of Thorgal. I've always wanted to read more of it, but never could find it. It doesn't seem to mix Sci-fi and Fantasy as much as just flat out state the Norse stories were all sci-fi to begin with and common humans at the time didn't understand such advanced technology.

The whole "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" thing.
Even if copy-writing, editing, marketing, cover design, and all of the like can be done by freelancers, most writers don't want to spend their time organizing all of those people, paying them, dealing with the taxes, etc. Some of the best people in those fields are staff at the publishers, and aren't even available for freelancing, nor do they want to freelance.
Nobody said anything about obsessing.

When you write code you need to care about your allocations, whether you have a GC or not.

When you write code without a GC you need to be mindful of freeing memory. With a GC you do not.

So the GC relieves part of the burden of memory management, and that part is often the hardest part (particularly in concurrent systems).
Pooled allocations/deallocations via factory methods ala Ardor3D or what have you aren't too annoying at all.
As I noted, the rental trend is one seen nationally. In the wake of the Great Recession, which destroyed the finances and credit scores of millions of Americans, many folks have found themselves unable to obtain a mortgage. Even for those who are able to obtain financing to buy a home, in many metropolitan areas, rebounding home prices have pushed many out of the market. Furthermore, in many areas it is exceedingly difficult to find and close on a purchase as a non-cash buyer.

Around the country, millions of would-be home buyers have become renters and there is not enough apartment supply. Rents are rising nationally and lots of people are struggling to cope, including in cities where there is no tech boom to blame. In short, the dearth of affordable rentals is not the result of the tech industry. It's the result of a broader supply and demand imbalance.
I haven't been an keen reader, but recently started reading stuff online and offline. Recently read "Rework" by Jason Fried. What good reads do you recommend for consulting/freelancing?
How difficult was it to get work in initial days? Is it not very difficult to get work for someone who has no freelance projects to showcase?
Admittedly, this is a low bar, but at least they mentioned the pro-Amazon petition in passing. More than a few pieces covering the anti-Amazon petition completely forget about the other one.
If we don't build infrastructure where this kind of bottlenecking is infeasible ASAP, we might be fucked for the next few decades. Governments are already figuring out that it's in their best interest to control all methods of communication. If we don't hurry, they might succeed.
You could try "Reset Firefox". No guarantees, but it fixes a lot of performance problems like the ones you're seeing, while preserving history, passwords, bookmarks, cookies, etc. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi... for details.
Simple Made Easy: A talk by Clojure inventor Rich Hickey
For in vivo studies, and even possible human studies, have you given any thought for how you will do PK/BD on these? I'm having trouble imagining how you'll be able to detect these non-optically, unless you had some made of heavy isotopes for ICP/MS.

Continuing with the human studies thought, are these particles seeing RES uptake? I assume, based on the high QY, that these the emission centers for these particles are protected by a thick shell and/or corona. General handwaving from the FDA was that they were as concerned with particles persisting as with elemental toxicity. Is there a predicted degradation pathway for these particles?

Can these particles be made with a hydrodynamic radius, including corona, <8nm? Is it possible to dope them to get better NIR emission?

Unrelated to technical stuff: I thought that a YC thing was that you had to move to San Diego for a few months. That doesn't seem all that conducive to wet lab work, in fact, it seems like a non-starter. Is that still a requirement for the bio-related startups? If so, how how disruptive is it?

Thanks for the answers!
This goes well with my idea of providing comments on why you downvoted to give the author context. It's somewhere down here.
Hmm, sounds like the pirate Kidd played a lot of dwarf fortress in his days.
It's a framework, not a game.

This is a rabbithole many devs fall into--and I've been there myself.