skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have food allergies which require me to eat mostly home-cooked
from-scratch meals, and I have a little system for coping with this:

At any time, I have a menu consisting of meals A, B, ... G (each of
which could be anything I like to eat which freezes well -- usually
entrees without the carbs). Because carbs are easier to cook on a
weekday with almost no trouble.

However the quantities are what I call a triangular queue. This means
I have

A + 2B + 3C + ... + 7G

(meaning I have one entree of recipe A, two entrees of recipe B, up to
seven entrees of recipe G). At this point you can guess the algorithm
for eating -- during any given week, I will eat:

A + B + C + ... + G

(meaning I will eat a different recipe for dinner on each day of the
week). At which point I will have a smaller triangular queue of:

B + 2C + ... + 6G

Then at the weekend, I will batch-cook 7 new entrees of a new recipe H
(which could be recipe A again if I really like it, or something new).
Which brings me "back" to a triangular queue:

B + 2C + 3D + ... + 6G + 7H

It looks too methodical when described in writing, but this allows me
to eat a different thing every day of the week, and yet cook only one
recipe at the end of the week. For me that is a HUGE winner.

My freezer needs to have space for 28 entrees, which works well for
every freezing compartment I have had. It helps to use (almost)
square tupperware containers (instead of circular ones) to maximize
use of freezer space. Each container is just big enough to contain
one meal's entree. And to use postits to label the outside of the
container with the date each item was cooked and which recipe it is.
And try not to keep anything too long but for me two months (the worst
case) has been perfectly fine.

Rather amusing what a programmer will think of in a Kitchen. But hey,
it works :-).

The rest of the advice others have given also applies -- using some
nice cookbooks, finding a pressure cooker, etc, etc. Also watch
youtube cooking videos. There are a gazillion recipes on youtube, and
depending on your taste, you will probably discover some cooks whose
recipes you like and trust, who make many different recipes under some
sort of channel or brand on youtube.
My co-founder is rated more 'central' to my life than either than either one of our's significant others.

It is quite good at grouping different sets of friends visually (ie, high school friends, university friends, friends from different hobbies and sports, work friends, etc).
1. Open = free (no subscription required)

2. Expert review = exactly what it sounds like (as opposed to original research)

3. Something in-between
It's generally not the people at the doors job to investigate. If your ticket doesn't scan they assume you're the one with the fake or that someone went in and came out with multiple tickets to get more people in.

Generally, as far as I've seen, you'd be SOOL. (Shit out of luck, is that an acronym yet?)
Hm, the author really does mean 'standing alone'.

I'd always assumed that when someone does this, they'd make emacs perform the usual init duties, and that the rest of the system would be available.

And you want the rest of the system to be available, to use emacs properly...

hobbes@metalbaby:~$ find /usr/share/emacs -type f -name \*.el -exec grep '/bin/' {} +|wc -l
62
hobbes@metalbaby:~$ find /usr/share/emacs -type f -name \*.el -exec grep call-process {} +|wc -l
44

...For some reason I thought those numbers would be much larger. I'm probably searching for the wrong strings.
Assortative mating -- among other things -- was one of the "problems" identified by Charles Murray in his book Coming Apart as a cause of greater inequality in American society[1]. As people "stick to their own kind", there are fewer opportunities for both economic and cognitive mobility: in the past, when marriage was determined by other factors, it was more likely that a highly intelligent person might have children with a much less intelligent person. That's increasingly no longer the case.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/charles-murra...
In general, I think that the connection between Penrose and cookware is romanticised just for the sake of a pop-sci narrative.
This is a really useful writeup. Might consider doing one on trying to convert my app to use WKWebView ( hint. lots of radars )
M-x evil-mode
You can try the Programming Cloud for free. That also exposes the Wolfram Language.
Hard to tell considering they have a monopoly on the original purchase industry (most venues, and I'd venture to guess 90%+ of venues that would actually attract large acts) <strike>and the reseller industry as well </strike>. The worst is going to the box office to buy a ticket and being told that they can't sell the ticket at the box office, you have to buy through TM or you have to pay the same fees as if you bought through TM's site / services.
'Inanimate carbon rod', a page that was a friend's joke and has never had any posts, came 8th on my list.
Definitely SpaceX has the better machine, but at least the CST-100 is reusable and can make ground landings (via pillows). There is a 10-use limit for each, due to the thermal shields; the Dragon2 requires a refit and from what I can tell the CST-100 is just replaced with a new one.

It will be an interesting competition :)
That's true. I think that too little emphasis is put on culture, and too much on skills. Thankfully, the developed world is catching up quick on that. How soon before the developing world gets the gist?
>> I never understood why the politically correct crowd happily accepts that athletic ability is heritable, yet when it comes to intelligence suddenly all bets are off.

Because athletic ability is more recreational - you can say different people are good at sports, music, art, etc... there are nice alternatives. But it's not PC to imply anyone is inherently stupid. I phrase it that way because saying "inherently smarter" is OK on the surface, but the corollary is that someone else is inherently less smart. Being "PC" is all about not offending anyone.
Somewhere around object persistence and planning actions: I once saw a rodeo clown's dog in a comedy bit where the clown would remove something from a barrel and the dog would put it back in when he turned around.

Once, the dog missed dropping the object in the barrel--and then picked it up and did it again, this time getting it in the barrel. That dog knew he was performing a certain task, and not just an action. That's stuck with me as a pretty impressive feat of canine cognition.
Nope. It really isn't. The hardest thing by far is to get lots of usage. Once you have lots of usage, it's really easy to make money whether it's advertising, fees or whatever.

Can you name 2 or 3 "idiots" that have done what you suggest?
I wonder why spotify doesn't just buy up last.fm? They've been collecting and analysing such data for years (the spotify app even has the option to send data to last.fm).
Here's something very specific for the lawyer you'll be retaining to do: contact the company's lawyer and point out how stupid they're being, so the latter will tell them how very foolish they're being, but that's OK, he'll just make more money if they don't stop and get sued....
Interesting, but assortative mating is not a new phenomenon in the history of mankind. If anything, its impact has probably decreased significantly over the past centuries and decades. This makes it more difficult to take such explanations for growing income inequality at face value.
>> Is this settled science, one person's hypothesis, or something in between?

> 3. Something in-between

Much appreciated (all of your answers). If someone has knowledge of where this falls on the continuum of #3, it would help those of us outside the field understand how much credibility we should give to this article.
Apparently skype uses encryption, according to:

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA31/does-skype-use-encrypt...
If we are talking primates, Orangutans are considered the most intelligent after humans.
Not a fan of this writing style. Get to the point. But first, have a point to make (there was none).
It's not much of a temptation for me because I don't have a fb account but whenever I see facebook apps that promise to give you something in return I'm always reminded of this:

http://www.takethislollipop.com/
so if using the bitpay api adds too much cost overhead you should self host. Am I right?
What?

...But, yeah, exactly. :)

Various searches on the subject revealed plenty of people noting how meaningless Internet points are, leading to an additional meta-rub: not only did I fall for the hover trick, I also was childish enough to google for a svbtle kudos undo. sigh
Emacs is a great editor, very capable, and it's awesome that accessibility is possible with such a great editor. The author knows a lot and I'm glad they shared their experience. However that blog is nearly unreadable for someone with sight.

Also I wonder if vim or IDE's like IntelliJ provide comparable accessibility. I'd hope they do.
One festival I bought tickets for not only had standard barcodes but also sequential ticket numbers!
Try this:

http://www.qtrac.eu/marksummerfield.html

He has books for C++ with Qt.
The implications of intelligence are more touchy.

Outside of professional athletes, being good at soccer is not much more important than having blue eyes.

Intelligence, on the other hand, is an underpinning of modern life.

The only reason we acknowledge the heritability of wealth, another underpinning, is because it is by far too obvious to deny.

(Quite the reversal from the origin of the species!)
Now that's what I call "GNU/Linux"
- Can this full node be used for mining, if one is so inclined?
- What is the user agent string for this node? (https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/nodes/)
I think this had a field day with my disparate groups of ~300 friends/family. I have two huge clusters of school vs work, with school split into high school vs college, and 4 smaller, fuzzier clusters of other groups (gamers, irc buddies, 2x family). My husband came in first with a score of 1310000+ with our roommate second at 343000+.

Most of the next 20 people or so (scores >30k) are people we invited to our wedding that we found out later friended others that attended our wedding, or are people part of multiple groups (tech people that I game with). I'm not sure I'd call these people more central to my life just because they're more social though, after a point.
Apparently they sold 2-6 until recently - people were buying 1991 software?

http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory/keenhistory4.html

Keens 2, 3, 5, & the full version of 6 are commercial software, and it is not legal to download them from anywhere.
BeyondPod, and player.fm to listen to podcasts. Yes, people still listen to podcasts.

There was a thread about what software related podcasts people listen to here a week or two ago, you should look for that.
You're right. That was unfair and mean. The article is actually pretty good -- as you say, nice examples, code snippets, and some history -- and I shouldn't have implied that it falls into the category of fuzzy and non-technical blogposts. The latter category does seen to be a growing thing, though.

I suppose people at all levels of discovery are excited by what they're learning, especially because we all possess a brain and it is intriguing to begin pulling back the curtain of how it might work.
Is this one of those theoretical problems that doesn't show up in reality?
Let's see if your friend's dog can kill a shark by punching it with his nose.
Ask HN: What's up with Sublime Text?
Hey, I've been using Github's Atom for about two months now and I really, really tried to like it. I used it pretty much in the same manner as I did Sublime Text prior to testing Atom (Rails + Angular dev), enabled Vim mode, installed similar plugins, etc.

After a month, it pretty much boils down to one difference in my experience: Speed. Atom is significantly slower in everything, opening files, projects, to using plugins.

To get to the point, I've been checking if Sublime was updated recently, and to my amazement, it was! The question is why do you think it gets updates so infrequently (and far apart)? Is it lacking sales? Resources? Motivation?
Instagram Is Where to Find Democrats Online, but Don't Expect Them to Vote
The door staff are only really interested in getting people safely into and out of the venue.

They'd probably just tell you to complain at the ticket office (if it's still open they might be able to verify your credit card?) or phone next day.
Perhaps it wasn't the most useful comment I've written, but I think I have a strong point.

It's not the information or know-how that makes YC a game-changer. It's the connections and seal of approval, which are scarce by definition. And now the Stanford -> Funded pipeline is even stronger, which means that everyone else is slightly (imperceptibly) more an outsider fuckhead employee on 0.04%.

I don't begrudge YC, really. It's a brilliantly run business and it's probably done a lot of good for the world. It's just fun to snark about these things because, honestly, most of the people "out there" (the ones who actually think protesting Google Buses makes some kind of sense) are going to react more harshly than I do. I just make fun of shit.
ROFL

And just what do you think happens in many of the videos and pics on these sites?
If you search eBay for tickets and see that someone snapshot a ticket they are trying to sell it sounds like it's pretty easy to steal it. So quite possibly it is more than just theoretical.

Though if you take a picture of the barcode it seems like you're just asking for trouble. But people don't really think about those kind of things when they post to social media...
Its not the money you spend today, its the money you spend tomorrow: we need manned transport to LEO today. But depending who wins, it will determine what it costs tomorrow.
The office is very old school- "have everyone there so you can watch them."

Having a remote job gets rid of that practice and a lot of unnecessary meetings and the like.

Putting up silly hurdles to applicants smells a lot like the nonsense that we have to put up with from old school HR setups (like the "please upload your resume, now give us your complete hob history in this poorly designed form" applications.)
The thing Atom has going for it is not being developed as someone's hobby project and being an open source project.

Sublime Text is still being developed by one guy. Sublime Text will cease to exist if that dude stops developing it.
It's called eugenics and it's very bad. At the very least it suffers from this self-referential craziness that nearly guarantees bad results.

People are economically unproductive because the economy slowly gets more and more hostile to more and more people. Tyler Cowan and others call this problem "Zero Marginal Product Workers".
> r.e. point 1 - apparently the company has (proactively?) contacted recruiters to advise them that this person is unreliable, i.e. quit without notice (regardless of the fact that even if so, they were perfectly within their rights to do so).

Which, given that the OP had provided notice to your manager, and left immediately only because directed to by the company's HR manager, would seem to be damaging information concerning the OP's usual employment that was false and that the company knew, or reasonably should have known, was false -- i.e., quite likely actionable slander.

So, good reason to talk to a lawyer, especially if the OP believes the company's activities are likely to escalate if not constrained.
My top ten contains five people who I barely know.
You're quite right to point out that favorable tax treatment of capital gains over dividends encourages retaining earnings but replacing both with a massive new consumption tax is hardly likely to stimulate either a desire on the part of management to reinvest revenues or on the part of the shareholders to fund more consumption

And for all its outspoken advocates like Kotlikoff, consumption tax is a long way from being "the most favored tax among a consensus of tax economists". If there's one thing you could get a majority of tax economists to agree on it's that tax on land ownership and various other forms of economic rent distort incentives less than most other taxes, but ironically that's more or less the complete opposite; a tax primarily on wealth.

Trying to solve the regressive nature of pure consumption taxes with a Basic Income is basically squaring a circle: you lose vast amounts of tax revenue from point-one-percenters that spend very little of their taxable income, and pass that burden on to the general public. (Warren Buffett once commented that the percentage of tax he paid was less than some of his junior employees. Given his notoriously miserly spending habits, it's conceivable that the absolute amount of tax he paid would be lower than many of his employees under a pure consumption tax). It also overlooks arguably the most important benefit of higher income is not the ability to consume more in the future but the ability to work less.

And to cap it all, it makes the tax free gains from speculative housing bubbles look very attractive, especially relative to investing in firms that make taxable goods.
You'll hear by Friday night.
From what I've seen, the acronym typically doesn't include "of", and is simply "SOL".
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The problem is that smart people tend to earn more, thus the children tend to cost them more both in terms of opportunity cost (hours away from work) and actual cost (more likely to consider things like private school as essential). To incentive them you would need to start giving already wealthy people quite significant tax breaks etc.
I wonder if you could build a small, money generating business from answering exactly that. If you could get more recent data dumps at some interval, you could even provide an email alert system.
So long as people have to compete in the workplace, then the resulting equilibrium from everybody having an artificially extended intelligence will probably be ( according to Arnold Kling ) like the Vickies and Thetes in Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age".
Yeah, which is quite sad, because it's an awesome editor (and a worthy successor of TextMate). It would be amazing if the dude decided to open source it if he wasn't interested in it's further development.
In list view it's possible to click on the article time. There is also old list view mode (before I've changed it to Google Reader-like one). It's in settings => List view => Normal. It has clickable article subject.
I've never heard of TM sharing ticketing fees with artists.

In my experience TM fees are for TM. They may share with the venue, but the venue isn't sharing that with the artist. In fact they are taking a cut of the face value from the artist directly.

In fact I've even seen TM take a small percentage of the gross face value!
Shit, I did that years ago:

--- main.c Sun Jun 3 22:02:34 2001
+++ main.c~ Tue Jul 10 16:05:26 2001
@@ -789,9 +789,9 @@

if (execute_command)
execve(execute_command,argv_init,envp_init);
- execve("/sbin/init",argv_init,envp_init);
- execve("/etc/init",argv_init,envp_init);
- execve("/bin/init",argv_init,envp_init);
- execve("/bin/sh",argv_init,envp_init);
- panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.");
+ execve("/usr/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init);
+ execve("/usr/local/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init) ;
+ execve("/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init);
+ execve("/usr/bin/xemacs",argv_init,envp_init);
+ panic("No emacs found. Are you sure this is GNU/Linux?");
}
This is basically the "just world" fallacy writ large, right?
I remember this game but I still did a Google Image search to remind me:

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1...
Convince your boss to use Clojure
Comparing intelligence in animals is such a hard thing to do when we barely understand it in ourselves. As they say in the article, we frequently consider dolphins more intelligent because they are more sociable and exhibit similar characteristics to us.

An easy (although not necessarily correct) way to define intelligence could just be the ability to learn, although even this can be hard to define. Some animals can learn fast, while others have a larger space in their memory. As was pointed out, dogs are able to learn significantly more words and more complex phrasing than other animals, but at the same time they have been conditioned for a very very long time to understand human voices, dolphins much less so.

Dolphins are in a completely different environment, which results in completely different conditioning. Perhaps the reason they seem similar to us is because they are in a similar place in their environment. They're fairly independent species, not relying too heavily on other species, or being heavily preyed on by other animals. This could allow their brains to evolve in a similar way to ours, which aligns with our definition of intelligence.
Qualcomm SafeSwitch offers a hardware-based kill switch
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by "the politically correct crowd"?
It's a good article, you should read it.
A little context for readers who are unfamiliar with the field of assistive technology for the blind:

When Raman started working on Emacspeak in 1994, most blind computer users, including him, were using screen readers for MS-DOS. Naturally, these only worked in text mode. They intercepted BIOS interrupts and/or polled screen memory to find out what was on the screen. So naturally, these screen readers didn't have access to any information about the structure of what was on the screen, just the text and colors. They used various heuristics to determine what to speak in a given situation, but this was far from optimal IMO. I dare say the same applies to Linux text-mode screen readers, specifically Speakup.

Today, there are multiple excellent screen readers for Windows, both commercial and free. The most popular commercial screen reader is JAWS for Windows; the best and most popular free one is NVDA. Apple provides a good screen reader called VoiceOver on both Mac and iOS. On Android there's TalkBack, and for GNOME, there's Orca.

The primary way of providing access to GUIs is through accessibility APIs such as Microsoft Active Accessibility and UI Automation on Windows. These APIs expose GUI widgets and containers as a tree of objects, with attributes such as name, role (e.g. button, list view, editable text), state (a set of flags such as focused, selected, checked, etc.), value, location, and more. So there's much more information about the structure and meaning of what's on the screen; this is practically a necessity for GUI screen readers, as opposed to text-mode ones.

Some GUI screen readers, such as JAWS, NVDA, and Orca, also provide ways to associate scripts or plug-in modules with specific applications, to add application-specific behavior. The ability to modify screen reader configuration settings on a per-application basis is also common (as it was in DOS screen readers).

I don't have an informed opinion of my own about Emacspeak versus the current crop of GUI screen readers, since I don't use either full-time. But based on my observation of the blind people I happen to know, including blind programmers, Emacspeak doesn't seem to be very popular even among blind programmers; the ones I know mostly use Windows and NVDA.

Anyway, I hope this comment will help to provide some context for the OP. It's not often that I see a post about assistive technology hit the HN front page.
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And you can have it, thank you very much. I'll be over here in the US.