skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not insane. PG is saying you can create stuff much more easily and with much less friction. Building a website or app and even scaling it out is commodity which can enable you to easily create stuff that didn't existed before. This means you no longer have to live in a world where your only option is to be hyper competitive to grab a slice of market. Games are no longer zero-sum games.

This is true in many ways. I know too many people who live off by doing some creative work such as writing blog posts or making cool but specialized apps. I however don't think it can be generalized too much at this point because there is a huge factor of luck involved to successfully make a living by creating wealth. Most people have to rely on traditional competitive businesses for their employment.
The problem is that there is convergence lately between content producers and ISP-s. The big labels and big ISP usually have enough shared ownership to not make them automatic adversaries.
I've had the opposite experience. Over the Uber rides I have taken, I've always brought up what the driver thinks of the company and most drivers have spoken poorly about it. They usually give the same spiel about how they hate that the rates have come down and that they are not making enough money.
Compared to LaTeX, markdown markup is less obtrusive:

Indeed, I use pandoc for making LaTeX beamer presentations and it generally provides the goodness of Markdown and LaTeX combined. Slides can be made far more quickly than in LaTeX. E.g.

# Some section slide

## Slide title

* Bullet point one
* Some math: $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$

At the same time, one can e.g. immediately insert fragments of TikZ using the relevant \begin{...} \end{...} block and it just works.
I understand why the company does it, but that's horrific. There was a sandwhich chain (mostly based in the UK) that even had a collective punishment thing - if someone at a shop was found to be insufficiently cheerful, everyone lost on the weekly bonus.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112204/pret-manger-when-c...
Netflix-Style Booze Recommendation Works Surprisingly Well
There are lots of people who simply don't want to give anything to FB. You don't have to be one of them but you at least have to recognize them.
What's wrong on beginner / 01? :D
http://imgur.com/eJBJYSx
They say two great products came out of Berkeley BSD and LSD
so you are into buddhist "philosophy" and "certain techniques". But you consider yourself agnostic probably? Or atheist... And of course you don't see any contradiction here.

you know why the cults are out there? Because people who don't believe in God are ready to believe in anything. Wandering from yoga classes to self-improvement new-agey seminars and paying the top dollar for the privilege.

Picking and choosing from a technique here and a convenient piece of philosophy there doesn't sound like solid approach to spiritual life.

Treating your soul like cart in a convenience store where you just throw-in whatever looks good is plain naive, immature and wrong. Besides, Yoga, buddhism fashion and other New Agey fashions are so passe: they peaked in 80s/90s. Are there still people treating this seriously?

I'm sorry but this is the lowest form of spirituality I can imagine. You probably would be better off omitting this spiritual junk food of new age instead altogether.
Don't forget that you can download the video using youtube-dl (if you like me, get annoyed that Vimeo doesn't continue buffering when you pause it, and deletes the current buffer if you rewind)

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
that is disingenuous considering that Markdown the spec is offered alongside markdown.pl.

If it's intended for humans first and foremost, then why offer the transpiler? After all, it already looks like ASCII e-mail. The overriding directive is human-readability, not unparsability (which do not go hand in hand).
Favorite PL paper for balancing practicality and theory: http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/~bruno/papers/TypeClasses.pdf

Favorite paper/dissertation for sheer simplicity, elegance, and far-reaching power of the approach to the problem: http://web.mit.edu/vkm/www/vkm-dissertation.pdf
Next up, a blog post which shows even more readable using whitespace and syntax highlighting!
Lately, even the experts have a hard time beating the SP500.
An expert system outperforms mere mortals conquering the Dungeons of Doom (1985) [pdf]
I'm sure Linus didn't meant that person to actually die. This is his style. Calling out undesirable behaviour with a dark humor. It not "mean".
Let me add an slightly alternate (may be off topic) perspective!

In India, the maps are (surprisingly) accurate on the Uber app. The ETA is close to expected and everything's fine. BUT, the driver has no idea on how to use them! It results in the driver calling multiple times to locate where you are. I think Uber must provide a little bit of training to the drivers on the use of navigation system on their app.
I think the best summary is:

The disproof assumes free will, but Laplace's universe assumes free will is an illusion. Devise an experiment to work out which is right -- a Laplace demon, if such a thing can exist, is probably a good experiment to test this.
One might not have encountered Shanley Kane and her lot then.
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Some advice I've heard in the past: don't be pushed from existing stuff, but be pulled to new stuff.

I.e. work hard to enjoy your current circumstances and only leave if there is a positive pull - something you really want to do - elsewhere.
Oh, this article was about superchargers, not superchargers.
Ancient Greek actually – apologies for being nitpicky.

'A planet (from Ancient Greek ἀστὴρ πλανήτης (astēr planētēs), meaning "wandering star")'
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet
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Vim.js – JavaScript port of Vim
I remember that -flto sometimes adds few %'s to overall speed.
If you are doing a lot of floating point math you can check various modes. First try is always -Ofast which turns on -ffast-math flag. From the gcc page:

-ffast-math
Sets -fno-math-errno, -funsafe-math-optimizations, -ffinite-math-only, -fno-rounding-math, -fno-signaling-nans and -fcx-limited-range.

This option causes the preprocessor macro __FAST_MATH__ to be defined.

This option is not turned on by any -O option besides -Ofast since it can result in incorrect output for programs that depend on an exact implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math functions. It may, however, yield faster code for programs that do not require the guarantees of these specifications.

I also remember that gcc started producing significantly faster code for my projects at around 4.7 or 4.8 version (can't remember which one).
Everybody in the tech world is talking about investing in index funds. Historical evidence says this is the way to go, but when everybody is doing it, it makes me question whether or not it's the right choice.

There's a possibility that the market is in another bubble right now.
It took me a while to realise why they pointed out the kerning around the equals sign. It appears to be because they have omitted the spaces either side of it -- a crime even worse than vertical alignment (in my brain's subjective opinion on code formatting).
Tax-Avoiding Dotcoms Playing Russian Roulette with Their Stock Prices
teamtreehouse released a course recently. Haven't tried it out myself, yet.
In the US, at least, entering the destination is optional.
Looks like it has a dependency on Redis and its pub-sub?

My speculation:

I didn't dig much into code but if Swampdragon relies on Redis pub-sub to notice when a result of a query might change and then refetches the query and diffs the result (this is a common strategy I saw among different "real-time" web-frameworks), then depending on the complexity of queries and rate of changes you can put the load on your database. And depending on the fetched result, you can spend more CPU cycles on diffing the results.
The State of Reagent
I imagine this cooperation will happen, probably towards the middle of this century, as resources become ever more scarce and general ignorance of the population at large decreases.
It seems like the takeaway is that you should use a well-designed syntax highlighting scheme. You cannot expect everybody reading your code to be using a good syntax highlighting scheme. Either way, I think code should be readable independent of editor features.

I have noticed that, if you make code readable without syntax highlighting, it's always readable with syntax highlighting. The reverse is not true. I would even argue that the code readable without highlighting is more readable with highlighting than the code written just for highlighting.

I don't use vertical alignment. I do think that a long list of vars is harder to read and vertical alignment helps with that. Yet, the solution for me is to attack the core problem. I reduce the number of moving parts inside a procedure, which you can be sure variables are.

Perhaps the author should improve the trivial examples by showing the code with syntax highlighting and vertical alignment.
You can do this sort of thing with Objective C precisely because the layer between ObjC and C is so clean and concise. It's a strict superset of the C language; the C at its core is pure and entirely unmolested.

What makes interoperability possible is Rust's existing C interop.

Rust doesn't have any Swift interop.
Crazy how one man can do something that normally would take hundreds of people to accomplish.

Wouldn't it be nice if Erik Wernquist was in charge of the filmatization of "2312" (the novel that inspired his "Iapetus Ridge" scene).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2312_(novel)
On the contrary. I have read that Steve Jobs had the best (or worst) of both worlds.

Take for example the quality of empathy - It consists of 2 aspects :- 1.The intellectual ability to put oneself in others shoes. 2. Too feel emotional pity/sympathy when something bad happens to them. It is shown that empathy is a key aspect lacking in psychopaths. As PG points out - empathy helps us to navigate the social world. Hence, such people have difficulty handling social situations.

Steve Wozniak who is a genuinely nice person had a strong sense of empathy and was motivated by it to help others (eg:- giving significant portion of his own shares to someone who was shortchanged during Apple's IPO)

On the other hand Steve Jobs was what you would call a "highly functioning sociopath" - Someone who had strong emotional intelligence which could be used to great success in charming and manipulating people into doing one's bidding while at the same time, having an almost pathological inability to feel any sympathy for others or remorse for one's actions.(Take the same example where he refused to help out said employee or the time when he screwed over Woz). Unless I am mistaken, this aspect of Jobs's character is hinted at in Walter Isaac's biography of Steve. I believe this rare combination of both high emotional intelligence and cold ruthlessness was one of the key factors (among many others) in Steve Job's success. I don't want to over-exaggerate things or to imply that Jobs had absolutely no empathy (As a counter-example Jobs clearly loved his adoptive parents and felt great remorse over a relatively minor incident mentioned in the book) but he does seem to be an unusually mean person (much more than Bill Gate IMO).
See, I have the flip side.

Psilocybin has been a huge help for me. Now, the first time I decided to take it I was indeed uncomfortable. However I soon realized that I was facing my own fears and anxiety. After a while I found that my depression was considerably less and less.

Marijuana has helped tremendously, also, with anxiety.

I suppose it might depend on the individual.
You probably don't have "smart creatives" that Eric Schmidt describes in his latest book. If your company insist on hiring "smart creative" types who are independent thinkers and intrinsically motivated then they would probably die under constant supervision. They are best left alone with minimal intervention if you want to get best out of them.
Display the available key bindings automatically and dynamically in Emacs
Mushrooms are not for the faint of heart. Generally, they will cause extreme anxiety in those who are naturally prone to it, possibly to the breaking point -- especially if in a public or unfamiliar setting. However, the drug itself is highly psychoactive and can truly lead to some amazing revelations about life in general, that break through the shroud of depression.
The coding atom example is vertically aligned.
Banning roads (or cars) because of bank robberies is my classic analogy when people attack net neutrality like this - I'm glad someone else found it too :)
You should take a look at stock market returns over the last few years, this year included.

If you purchased shares of a s&p500 index fund at just about any point in history, your net gain will be well over 5% annual growth.

Even if you bought in at the peak of 2007 - the worst time you could have bought in recent history, before the ~35% decline in 2008, if you are still holding on to it today, it's about 6% annual growth.

> by what happened in Japan post 1991
1991 Japan and 2014 United States are no where near similar enough to draw that conclusion. I agree that ZIRP forever is not a good policy - and at some point in the next decade we will feel the results of it, but forecasting three decades of economic stagnation is just silly.
Speaking of that puzzle how come [COBRA]+ and (.)+\1 give back result 'O'? Why not C or B or A?
I would guess that GPS experiences like the article mentions are either driver app errors or scaling problems. That is, it sounds like the server is calculating the ETA of the driver based on a stale location. The location would be stale either because the driver app is not updating it correctly or because even when it is updating location correctly, the server is (sometimes) using an older location, probably due to an eventually consistent data store.

When I worked for Flywheel (Uber competitor, same general needs of "figure out the closest driver and provide an ETA"), we'd occasionally see drivers whose phones seemed to get "stuck" in a location, essentially because the location service crashed in the O/S and would stop updating the app (though this was on Android phones and not iOS, and I'd be slightly surprised to see it happen in iOS).

But I think that the scaling issue is the most likely. Location updates come fast and furious, and must be queried quickly. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Uber is using some kind of big scalable highly available database that could in the event of fairly routine network partitions report stale driver locations some of the time, and/or a cache in front of their underlying store that sometimes fails to get invalidated. That seems like it's consistent with the experience of the driver that the problem tends to happen on particular nights (when they're having some kind of underlying problem with, say, communication between components of their data store cluster), and why you might see it getting worse over time (as they scale).
Investing 90% of a portfolio in a large-cap US index fund and 10% in short-term treasuries is not considered a "conservative" asset allocation. It's missing a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of portfolio diversification. For example:

The suggested portfolio isn't diversified with an International stock market fund. The S&P fund isn't exposed to small-cap and mid-caps, like Vanguard's Total Stock fund. The bond component is small and has no exposure to intermediate/long-term bonds or corporate bonds.

A more conservative portfolio would be, for example:

60% Total US Stock Market
20% Total US Bond Market
20% Total International Stock Market

http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio

Edit: I'm not saying that Buffett's suggested portfolio wouldn't outperform a conservative three-fund portfolio. Just that his 90/10 portfolio is very aggressive with a large-cap tilt.
It's not mentioned explicitly, but the given patterns should match the entire answer, not just part of it. In your screenshot, "O+" means "one or more letters `O`" , it does not mention any `E` s, so OE is not a valid answer.

When you're testing your answers, add explicit start/end anchors and implicit grouping to get better results:

var r = /^(?:HE|LL|O+)$/;
console.log("OE".match(r));
console.log("OO".match(r));
That's exactly why it's 5%, it's an average of the highs and lows. Right now it might be tricky to earn that (it's not impossible though), but in the early 2000s you could easily make that. With decent investments you can make two or three times what the same money sitting in a high interest bank account will make.
Read 'Hackers and Painters'.

Think of yourself as an artist. Your medium is software.

Do you have side projects? Unlike a lot of other professions, software puts you in control. You can build whatever you like.

Regardless of the job, an artist always produces...art.
You are lucky to have a job that pays you reasonably well.
Well enough to have enough free time to pursue what ever would make you happy.
Pursue it now.
Even if no one else will see it, get in the habit of producing stuff.

Put it somewhere for display and share it with others.

It's okay to burn out. Relax, take the time to recharge. Accept your cycles of creativity and periods of rest.
We are taking 20% and you keep 80% of your profit.

Fees are only fees on PayPal payments (not on credit card transactions).
He left us to early. It is very, very sad. RIP you will be missed :/
Well, except for how difficult that is. Living on only 35% of after tax income requires you either A) live extremely cheaply or B) make tons of cash. Roughly speaking, in California, this requires living off of 20% of pre-tax income.

As an example, to live off $35k/year in SF as a single person (which would be considered modest in tech circles), you'd need to earn $175k/year.

With a family, this gets more unrealistic. Living off $100k/year (combined) would require earning something like $500k/year.
The REST thesis, whatever merit it may otherwise have, is also a prime example of the academic style of writing going horribly wrong, though. You could communicate the important novel points of this text in 5-10 pages of clear prose, instead the thesis goes on and on and bathes in vague generalities, introduces lots of jargon that contributes little and so on. It reads like something from the philosophy department, or the kind of writing that Orwell mocks in "Politics and the English Language". This is the reason why to this day many people who use the term REST do not really understand what it means. Compare it to how Watson and Crick communicated their fundamental discoveries:

http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/watsoncrick.pdf
True. This is one of the disadvantages of electrostatic speakers. They have to be placed away from the wall for this reason. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_loudspeaker
Also as a rough estimate, most yearly rental prices are 5% - 15% the value of the property. If you get a long mortgage (in the UK, 30 years is pretty common) you can easily pay less per month than you would rent.
It would be even better if we could spend this amount of money to fix the problems we already have on this planet, like global warming, pollution and hunger and stuff.
Made me think (as most of the lessons coincide) about the book I'm reading at the moment - 'Money: Master the Game' by Tony Robbins: http://moneymasterthegame.com/
> I don't threaten to beat people up; that's for the weak; I tell people up front "If you are dishonest with me, you will not hear from my lawyer; I will kick your ass there and then".

What do you think you're doing if not threatening to beat them up? I wouldn't tell you anything in response but I'd try and get out of a business relationship with you ASAP. It makes you sound unstable, unpredictable, not worth it.
I'll add more details about what are the fee and that the author is keeping 80%.
>You should take a look at stock market returns over the last few years, this year included.

This is exactly what scares me about it. It's frothy as hell.

So is it a nice safe place to stash my retirements savings where it will yield 5% consistently until I retire? I don't think so.

>1991 Japan and 2014 United States are no where near similar enough to draw that conclusion

Let's see:

1) Huge crash in property prices caused by a debt bubble (us: 2008 / them: 1991).

2) Central bank responds by trying to reinflate asset values in order to make banks solvent again. They drop interest rates to zero and raise them as soon as growth returns which will be very very soon now, honest. (both countries did and said this; both promised it would be temporary)

3) Growth doesn't return. Banks still effectively insolvent and are propped up only by high asset values and extend & pretend. (both countries did this)

4) Central bank perpetually afraid of raising rates in case it causes a sharp economic contraction for which they will be blamed.

5) ZIRP thus becomes the new normal (it's been 6 years so far for us, and 23 years for them).

So far the path has been identical. Hell, we've even gotten plummeting birth rates too.

>forecasting three decades of economic stagnation is just silly.

I don't know how many decades it will be, but "the new normal" shows no signs of ending any time soon.

Forecasting safe 5% returns is bullshit, anyway.
They mention the New Zealand testing scheme in the article, but it ran aground because of the issue of animal testing. The main way to test the drugs (apparently) is on laboratory animals, and there was a lot of opposition to killing animals to test unnecessary drugs.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
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I disagree, competition itself was good for GCC.

Stallman's reaction¹ to LLVM was noisy and possibly childish, but it gave the FSF another important goal: not only should it supply a "libre" compiler but it should also be worth using over the first alternative that comes along. That second goal is a moving target, unlike the first, and it supplies a real motivation to make the best compiler they can.

1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4MjA
I've just wrote something for about an hour, then went to make a new outline point via "add article" on the left pane. As a result, the editor refreshed to the new empty outline-point and my previous written text disappeared, which is a big no-go, I guess.
"Google worked out a deal with “full service” broker to give us free accounts"

That is actually really interesting. How much did this broker have to pay to get this box full of highly lucrative leads - access to a large set of newly wealthy individuals, many of which don't have experience with managing large amounts of money. A bunch of people who may be experts of technology, but probably are not experts on finance.

It seems like inviting the fox into the hen house, and telling the hens what it deal it was
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It takes longer to read a line of text that has more whitespace than it does to read a line of text with less whitespace and proper syntax highlighting.

In addition to this, modern typography has different rules for different mediums. Bringhurst's typographic styles weren't meant to be applied to C# code nor should they be. We don't read code the same way we read books or magazines, thus it doesn't need the same treatment.

If we are going to start applying modern typographic elements to code that we write, then we need to start thinking about incorporating various font faces, weights, worry about the kerning and leading, add some headers and a host of other things.