skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And indeed, what political engagement we do see is of the adolescent variety: 'you can't tell me what to do!' rather 'what ought I do?'; 'you should give me X, Y and Z' rather than 'I should give A, B ad C.'

For a generation so deeply self-interested, we don't do a lot of self-examination.

Growing up has always been difficult; our culture, our politics, our technology and our way of life make it avoidable. The result is unsurprising.

Says a grown man sitting alone in his boxers on a computer from a hotel room on a Sunday morning rather than surrounded by the family he never fathered, in the suit he doesn't own, at the church he doesn't attend.
How Buffet accumulated his wealth without deep knowledge of math or Fin Engi?
Hello , I am learning more about Buffet and how he accumulated his wealth. Does anyone have insight on how managed to do it without deep Maths knowledge or without machine learning or finance engineering ?
While this appears to be an alarming "discovery," I'm not sure what the news is considering Skarke and Ruppel were both included on a paper submitted in 2012 (and available in Spring of 2013) titled: "Evidence for extensive methane venting on the southeastern U.S. Atlantic margin[1]." Perhaps it's simply that the depth and length of time has now been revealed? I couldn't find the paper that the articles are mentioning.

In any case, there's another paper (available for free currently) that goes into more detail on what sort of implications the methane can have on different sorts of oceanic conditions: "Seafloor oxygen consumption fuelled by methane from cold seeps[2]."

[1] - http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/41/7/807

[2] - http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v6/n9/full/ngeo1926.html
Accurate as the headline is, I prefer the dignity and empathy afforded by a phrase like "Portraits of Men & Women Once Enslaved in America."

Before someone reacts with a kneejerk cry of "political correctness," think about the difference between giving someone an identity ("Slave") and describing their situation ("enslaved").

The first time I heard people described as "enslaved" rather than "slaves," it made me reflect on how we can dehumanize people instead of empathizing with them, and imagining what it would be like to be in their situation.

Looking into the eyes of these men and women, I'm given to reflect on how little time most of us, certainly myself, spend outside our own experiences and social circles. As Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude, remorse, and atonment to our ancestors that were treated with such inhumane violence and bondage.
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If Korean conglomerates are so terribly managed, why have they been so successful?[0]

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_the_Han_River
That's a rather common practice to fight natural monopolies - here in Slovenia the largest operator (which was merged together from a landline / mobile / ISP) has to provide it's own networks (landline / FTTH / mobile) to competitors at a market price.

Keeps the competition going and benefits users.
Very nice. Thanks for adding this.
Chump change compared to what software vendors have wrung out of DoD. :(

Look up DIMHRS for merely one example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Integrated_Military_Hum...

One of my favorite quotes in the "Issues" section is the trouble the Army was having trying to adapt their personnel policies into standard PeopleSoft actions, with a contractor developer eventually claiming to the Army "you guys (Army SMEs) just don't know how to properly manage people...".

Perhaps, but somehow I doubt that the same exact methods suitable for personnel management for civilians is always applicable to the Army.

That was by far not the only problem; the Navy actually uses PeopleSoft for its military personnel management nowadays (presumably they found developers more willing to modify PeopleSoft).
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The short answer is that Warren Buffett combined quantitative aspects of investing (ie., Ben Graham) with qualitative aspects of investing (ie., Philip Fisher).

To get a better idea of these two approaches:
Read Ben Graham's book: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Invest...

and Read Philip Fisher's book: http://www.amazon.com/Common-Stocks-Uncommon-Profits-Writing...

Both are good reads.
Just curious, but is it possible to give the costs for comparable contracts in other countries, too?
I once participated in a web security research project where we used ES6 Proxies to sandbox third-party scripts, basically controlling what DOM operations they're allowed to do in a whitelist. This is relevant when you include sketchy advertisement scripts or scripts you don't trust (e.g. "trusted" scripts but delivered through an untrusted CDN). By default, no operations were allowed and by whitelisting until there were no more errors, we managed to effectively completely sandbox jQuery, Google Maps and Google Analytics. None of these scripts were allowed to execute more operations than the ones exactly required for them to function. Proxies were an elegant way to intercept getters and setters on window, document, location, etc...
I made up this demo:

http://whatpostcodeamiin.com

which uses browser location finding to tell you what postcode you are in (more or less). If you'd be interested, I have a beta API which will return full postcode info based on latitude/longitude; it's kind of beta, but I'd be happy to provide access if you need it.
are you europen, american or middle eastern?
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I've been using Linux for two decades and not experienced the graphical glitches you speak of. Moving and resizing windows? Nope. Some infuriating compiz bugs, sure.
> you need functional infrastructure. So you cut where you can, and that is at the teaching end.

what is the point of the infrastructure if there is no one to teach?
FOSS is so good for government idk why there isn't more of it, of course having someone to blame for/call when something is not working is what they look for. I wonder if having functional software isn't better.
Germany is really a special case: Around 1990 the first world western part merged with the second world eastern part, while giving all citizens of the eastern part around 2/3rd (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) of the western level of social benefits.

It's a little like if the U.S. would merge with Mexico and give all Mexicans huge social benefits.

So I would be careful with an analysis why the economy has improved exactly. After all the regulated economy had worked fine in the West until 1990.
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http://www.meltingmama.net/files/noamountofalcoholissafe.pdf

"When it comes to cancer, no amount of alcohol is safe."

"The evidence showing lower risks for diabetes mellitus, stroke, heart failure, and total mortality stand in stark contrast to the harms associated with excessive alcohol consumption."

"The evidence for the harmful effects of alcohol is stronger than the evidence for its beneficial effects."

And finally:

"Other than celebrity drunk-driving stories, we rarely see headlines about the harm caused by alcohol. Dr. Rehm
comments, 'I do not know why a beneficial link would be more important than a detrimental link, if the beneficial link
overall is about one tenth of the detrimental link. We have counted how many studies are reported in the press, and there
are many more reports on the beneficial link than on the detrimental link between alcohol and health.' "

It would seem our news media has the opposite problem from admitting drinking is healthy.
Less new drivers a year, selection of the best, many hours of practice, no easy passing, hell, this sounds like a dream!

They have half the rate of traffic accident as US or my country (Poland), so here's one obvious gain. I'm curious about the public and private transport infrastructure there - there seems to be an economic incentive to develop it.

I see the obvious injustices described in the article, but overall, this time it seems to have a positive effect. What the world needs is definitely not easier ways for people to get driving licenses.
The ignorance of the NYTimes is absolutely soul-crushing.

FTFY
This is very cool! I love the idea of having a structured way to incorporate tags and roles into DNS aliases.

However, since DNS is just about the most critical infrastructure service you can have, I want to point out that most of this can be accomplished nowadays with Route 53 internal DNS by syncing tags and roles into CNAMEs on Route 53.

The difference to me is that even if your syncing daemon goes down, your DNS is still up (it's hard to imagine a situation where Route 53 is down without something even more fundamental being down on EC2).
I just look at bootcamps as part of starting your education. I would never consider a graduate to be a serious software engineer. I have been building apps for the company I work with and definitely realize that it takes years of dedication.

On my end I think I need to find something outside of work that I want to build. There are so many neat things out there. I just need to figure out what excites me as I get more into the industry.
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Or, you could pay for a service that you obviously find useful and interesting.
The Feynman lectures certainly will teach you a lot, but I think it would be a fairly trying textbook for learning a lot of the material for the first time. Among other things, a very serious deficiency for self-education is a complete lack of problems to work (which just reflects that these really were lectures).
Three is awesome. I actually tether through my phone at work because getting ~10Mbps to myself over 3G beats sharing a 10Mbps leased line amongst about 20 offices. I always have YouTube or Twitch on in the background, etc, and never run into any problems. I pay something like £20 a month.

To balance though, historically Internet access options were not good.. I was on dialup until about 2003, and then pretty horrific 1Mbps DSL until at least 2009 or so. The UK has done a great job at catching up somehow.
Right, I took it on the chin to buy my phone, but overall the cost is much less. Some months I pay nothing at all.
You won't have it near you if you are currently charging it.
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Is the evidence just a correlation?
Yes. IEEE Std. 1003.1 Utility Conventions

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...

This is actually how Docopt happened (Vladimir Keleshev mentioned it in the PyCon UK 2012 talk).
The ignorance of journalists is absolutely soul-crushing.

FTFY
> Turn (almost) any command line program into a full GUI application with one line

and lose the ability to pipe, check exit status, run from cron, run through ssh or a different machine, call from other scripts...

The last couple of months as I know about more and more the command line, and can configure my shell and tools the way I like, I feel I'm more productive with the terminal than any other GUI application.
Oh man, the whole driving school process in France is so dumb and painful. It is layers of bureaucracy upon layers of bureaucracy. It is the worst in Paris, where you are going to have to wait longer and pay more to get a license. I have an increasing number of friends in their late 20s/early 30s who live in large French cities and don't even have a license - they live and work in the city, so it's not a problem for them.

When they do need to visit family in the more rural areas, they either take the train, or use a carpooling service (the most popular one is blablacar.com, which has been taking off like crazy in the recent years. The vast majority of French people I talk to when I go back home have heard of it- one of the few innovative French startups).

In France, I spent a year and half and about 1500 euros in driving lessons related stuff and didn't get my license. When I first moved to the US (southern state), it cost me something like 30 bucks and 30 minutes of my time. The test consisted of driving around the block, and parking the car (only snag: the inspector by my side, a rather overweight lady, told me that I'd lose points the further away I parked from the DMV's front door. I thought she was joking, but she wasn't).

The conservative French people say that more expensive, stricter, longer times for obtaining a driver license leads to safer roads; but if you compare US driving fatalities to French ones, there's not much of a difference- and people in the US drive way more than they do in France.

Like many other aspects of French culture, it's ridiculous how deeply legislated it is, and how the only ones benefitting from it are the ones making the rules. I find certain aspects of the US driving culture a little too much on the other extreme of the spectrum (learner's permit at 14? the driving test being just a drive around the block? the written test being a multiple choice questionnaire with the answers available on YouTube?), but France is worse by far, and it's hurting young professionals (my brother is without a college degree, and when he was unemployed he found that most jobs in rural areas require a car- but getting a license takes forever and is expensive. So that was a few months where he could do little but wait to get his driving license).
Perhaps? Why are we beating around the bush, does your remote battery die enough that you even have a concept of how long the battery lasts (I don't. Is it 6 months, a year, 2? No idea, too infrequent to expend brain-space on)?

Battery is only the second worst part about using a phone as a remote, the worst being that a phone is anti-social while watching television (on a television) is social.
> Every time I go open it I have to relearn how it works.

Then you must be doing something wrong. I use Calibre very infrequently, and yet I've never had any trouble remembering how to convert a book and load it onto my Kindle.
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Sounds like a lot of work. Why go digging in your closet when Netflix is a click away.
This is a very ignorant view. Just as instructors are an invaluable resource at a (human) language immersion school, the same is true of instructors at an immersive coding school.

At least at the particular school I attended, I got a great deal out of time and money I invested. It's true you can find great lectures online. However, I found the that having a better than 2:1 student teacher ratio and having instructors around while I was actually in the process of writing software to be very helpful. Ditto for code reviews. While I could have learned everything on my own with books and other resources, it would have probably taken closer to 4,000 instead of 1,000 hours. It's also worth pointing out my classmates did generally end up with the kind of background that let them confidently jump into another language and framework. Quite a few did in their first jobs out of the program.

>"After going to a bootcamp you will have to spend years "practicing" and learning on your own to even be considered a junior developer as far as I'm concerned."

Fortunately for my friends and fellow alum, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber and many, many start-ups don't subscribe to this point of view. The average salaries of fresh grads of the program are higher than those of Stanford CS grads. The gap after a year is even greater.

I certainly can't claim that every immersive school is worth it, but some definitely are.

Update: The class hours were 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for 12 weeks (total of 864 hours). I generally stayed a couple of hours late and kept working on things and/or playing around with things from previous lessons. During that time I was technically on my own but the instructors were actually still around. I truly don't know when they slept. I also put in about 25 hours during the break week halfway through.
I would think that one of the "several factors involved" may dwarf regulation: area.

The UK operators have 94,000 square miles to cover while US operators have a little over 3.1 million, just in the lower 48. Obviously no single carrier is ever going to cover 100% of either country (and in the US in in particular they don't come even close), but the simple size of the problem in the US drives their infrastructure costs way up.

If AT&T only had to cover the state of Michigan (96,000 square miles) they could probably do it for less than $60 a month...

I agree that we don't have nearly enough competition in the US, but let's not pretend that a few more "harmless" laws will make everything rosy and perfect.
https://d1435t697bgi2o.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...

Yes, alcohol benefits some things and hurts some others - that is why in the chart above the line for "all causes" (of death) does not exactly mimic the one for "all cardiovascular diseases". But see where the low point of the "all causes" line is.

To paraphrase: when it comes to teetotaling, no amount of cancer studies make it safe.
I don't even.. Not sure if stupid or trolling.
Health benefits/risks aside, not drinking is a social handicap. I wonder if there's a knock-on effect of that on your life expectancy.
We work on Integration (of legacy and globally distributed applications). Standard / Boring Enterprise stuff.

0% British. Lots of different nationalities.

And I see this as the norm, having been in Amsterdam for many years and worked at a few places. All in English, all teams having more expats than Dutch members.
Football coaches pay for themselves.

As for vice presidents of student diversity, I think they get a bad rap. As college expands to include more than just the children of the rich, you need additional support infrastructure for students: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-gr...
Well that doesn't explain why it is cheaper for me as a Brit to roam using my UK contract in the US than it is to take out a US contract. When I'm visiting America I am literally paying less than you folks for your stuff.

I can go to US and use unlimited data for no extra charge.
More details on research page:

http://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/competences/molecular-biotec...
"Transform your command line apps into user friendly GUIs" - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chriskiehl/Gooey/master/re...

Encoder (-e). OpenCV FOURCC Type. {Empty text box}.

Just take all possible options and ... shove them right in the user's face. Is that user friendly? Whom is it helping, who doesn't want a CLI but also knows how the CLI program works, but also can't script it?
The USNWR rankings blow. They incentivize a lot of bad behavior. E.g. for law schools, they reward inefficiency (by counting expenditures per student positively towards the score.) Also, major aspects of the USNWR rankings is what academics think of each others' institutions, which is utterly irrelevant.
I'm paying 20€/month in France, for unlimited calls (to France and a large part of the world) and texts as well as 3 GB data (20 GB over 4G, but my phone can't use that).

A phone isn't included in the contract (the contract can be stopped anytime) but my provider (Free) also sells phones on credit, say an iPhone 5s for 49€ one time payment and then 16€/month over 24 months.

That makes a close equivalent of the US contract, for 38€/month or about 50$/month.

Also, in reality I'm paying 4€/month for this contract for the first 12 months because of a promotion back in June.
There is also a paper from some months back that is open access, and thus provides much more information for those who like to get at the source. This covers earlier work in which they manipulate cell signaling to regrow an existing thymus in situ and restore it to youthful activity:

http://dev.biologists.org/content/141/8/1627.full

This is good news for work on immune system rejuvenation, some of which is very focused on restoring the thymus to youthful activity. Immunosenescence is an important contribution to the frailty of aging. One of the issues with an aged immune system is that for various reasons it runs out of competent immune cells to tackle new threats. Means of restoring that population of cells include (a) a more active thymus, (b) clearing out dead wood memory T cells that are hanging around being useless, as that will spur the creation of naive T cell replacements, and (c) plain old cell therapies along the lines of culturing vast numbers of immune cells and infusing them on a regular basis.

A lot of this is very close to practical in the technology demonstration sense today, but of course regulation is the big roadblock in most of the world. It'll take a decade to get this through the very hostile-to-anything-new regulatory system, and of course treatments will only be ever be approved for very sick and damaged people. The existing regulatory system will never approve a thymus rejuvenation procedure for someone who is "only" old and immunosenescent, because that is not defined as a disease - that is a healthy person who is merely old, and shouldn't be treated at all in the eyes of the regulator. That must change, but the pressure for that will largely come from medical tourism if the course of recent history vis a vis first generation stem cell treatments is anything to go by.

Some years ago, transplantation of a thymus was shown to have benefits in mice along these lines, restoring a supply of immune cells, and that was good enough to attract more interest. Regrowing the existing atrophied thymus or putting a new one in place has thus been on the agenda for a while, e.g. in an ongoing SENS Research Foundation / Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine collaboration. That is a more traditional tissue engineering approach, with nanoscale scaffolds, a lot of work on cell differentiation strategies, and so forth. The ability to rejuvenate or regrow the thymus entirely from just a small population of cells, or a few altered protein levels, has come out of left field as something of a pleasant surprise.
If you splash out for enough PV, you can quite likely generate enough electricity to power a DC, cool it, and have some left over. That's before trying fancier stuff like solar chimneys and the like.
Wasn’t the problem with mesh networks that the amount of meta data needed eventually becomes too big?
No, it doesn't. Not knowing much about the UK market, I don't really have enough information to base an opinion on.

My first wild guess would again be regulatory: do they have to eat the extra costs involved so they provide you with the same price every month?
If the area argument was true then areas like Los Angeles or NYC would see cheap prices and great coverage.
In academics in India, you start out with C to learn the language basics and then move to Java. It's like undergrads in the US start out with python.
That's the reason why there are many tech graduates with Java knowledge.

As to why Java, well it is arguably the de-facto enterprise language. Many of the outsourcing tech firms need Java skills from a graduate. I'm assuming this is one of the important reasons why Java is taught to grads.

That and minimal hacker/startup culture (not implying it in a negative way) results into most grads not trying out 'in-fashion' languages like node/ruby etc.
Wow...reading that story and seeing that picture, I think I might have gambled on the same table as her on blackjack once about 6-7 years ago, either in Mohegan Sun or Foxwoods (I forget). That is chilling.
I think the creator acknowledged this specifically:

If you're building utilities for yourself, other programmers, or something which produces a result that you want capture and pipe over to another console application (e.g. nix philosophy utils), Gooey probably isn't the tool for you.

It's still helpful though for other scenarios.