skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say learning an instrument is definitely one of those things that don't necessary have a direct impact, but can be a blessing as an adult. Basically, it avoids a common regret (I never learned an instrument, but I don't care enough to spend the time to learn it now that I'm hitting 30) and provides a way to get into music (instruments or not) with less investment. It opens possibilities for a number of hobbies.

Sports are a great way to learn social skills. In order to participate in a team sport (consistently) you need to learn how to deal with people that aren't as pre-selected to your taste as the friends you make in school. You also learn something other people may be worse at than you, which can help with confidence. Especially if the more experienced players are encouraged to train beginners.

Most other things are just examples of these or should already be (partially) covered in school, depending on your school system.

Many of these should be recreational for the kid. For example, if they hate instrument practice but can read music and understand the basics, I don't see any harm in replacing it with something else at some point.

In the end, you just have to be good enough. My childhood left me with a few issues, but most of them sorted themselves out in early adulthood. Just keep this in mind: the reason there are so many opinions on what is the "right way" to raise a child, is that every parent is afraid of doing it wrong. Most advice is anecdotal and the reason people feel strongly about it is that they don't want to have been wrong, not that "it just works".

Disclaimer: am not a parent.
Those iPads could easily be routed through different proxies.
So I've been writing javascript full time for a couple years at this point, client, server, and open source, and what I have adopted is coercing everything into promises, which I suppose would be the author's way of saying making everything red.

If you have something that is not async mixed in with something that's async, you can still add it to the promise chain and it will resolve right away. If you have a library that uses callbacks or some other thing, you can just wrap it such that it now uses promises. And then of course you can always look for alternate libraries that use promises from the start and skip step as well.

I've found that using promises for everything works super well. There is no confusion or doubt at all. Everything has the potential to branch into async at any time with no consequences and without complicating the flow. And an additional benefit is that rather than checking for errors after any operation you do, you choose where to check for errors. When a promise rejects, it skips everything else in the chain until it gets to a catch. So rather than running 4 async operations and doing an "if error do this" after each operation kind of deal, you can catch the error in once place and handle it once. Promises surpress the error in the promise chain until you choose to handle it, which is dangerous if you don't understand how promises work, but really useful once you do.

There are really solid promise-based libraries for all common operations in node right now. When.js for general promises, composition, and coercion, rest.js for network requests, bookshelf and knex for database connection and orm stuff, etc. If you are a js developer, give them a shot!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to claim that this is better than any other language-level construct by any means, but if you are working in javascript, where you have to deal with javascript's limitations as a language, from experience I can say that working in an all-promises environment makes things quite pleasant.
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This is a similar event in terms of a landslide sloshing into a body of water. Smaller in scale, but far more lives were lost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
From the footnote:

"Well, actually, this does not work for arrays that contain undefined as a value, but we are not going to see that in our examples. A more robust implementation would be (array) => array.length === 0, but we are doing backflips to keep this within a very small and contrived playground.”

http://raganwald.com/2015/02/02/destructuring.html#fn:wellac...
No, I'm saying that there are multiple ways to live your life. Cross-pollination may be a good thing, but the bees are not the flowers. Some people need to be locals, and being a local is not inferior to being a cross-pollinator.
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Reviews are tied to app store accounts, which are tied to credit cards. Reviews also reset with each version of the app. You could detect the same accounts being used to review each version of the app, discount ratings from newly created accounts, discount ratings from accounts with reused credit cards, etc. It seems like an easier way to game the system would be to pay anyone with an iPhone $5 to download and rate your app.
Venus has a LOT more CO2 than Mars does. And the band that people are envisioning putting the aerosats in has, well, less sulfuric acid than does the denser lower atmosphere.

Honestly, probably the realistic view is that it never makes sense to colonize, or even send long-term human presence to, any planet besides Earth. But to the extent that we want to dream of human presence on another planet, I think that the big obstacle to Venus is not the hostility of the upper atmosphere, it's the difficulty in getting any non-gaseous resources out of it.

At the very least, it seems like sending a robotic balloon probe to Venus to try to tool around in the upper atmosphere for an extended period of time is at least as worthwhile as sending another lander to Mars.
The IPs would be different with different SIM card vendors. The GPS location can be easily disabled on the device.
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Also relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623#comic
I wish I had a link to review this but I don't think that's the case. As I recall, Netflix published data showing that there wasn't actually a bandwidth problem and they offered to upgrade the equipment. They've ended up paying Verizon which is what verizon was really after.
That was actually sarcasm (reductio ad absurdum), not an actual quote.

I think I've seen password restrictions similar in spirit to those, though.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm honestly curious: why is pay-for-use bad for internet access but okay for water, electricity, and phone?
Agreed. It feels like we're merely changing the means, not the ends, ie. the system is doing what it's always done, just now it is more efficient.
Or it could be ad click fraud
To figure the "cost" of learning a language in school you need to count what else you could have been learning with that time.
So? The Linux ecosystem is the best there is for science. Period. Even OSX lags behind, just look at all the work people put into MacPorts and Homebrew just to get it almost on par with Linux. To this day, none of those systems properly handle the case of multiple packages providing implementations of a library that other packages depend on (e.g. OpenMPI vs. MPICH). Not to talk down on the guys working on that, they are very talented, and the amount of effort they put in is of huge value to the community. (Hello Sean, hello Geoff.)
The main process or any parent process can be made to not block by spawning sub-processes that handle an entire group of child processes , so I don't see how that is a problem.
"But most people who write C/C++ in 2015 don't really have to."

While greenfield projects might be able to start with a new language established products have quite a lot of inertia. Any production environment needs to factor in personnel training (or, hey, fire the tens of C++ developers and replace them with equally skilled Rust developers who are as famimiar with the domain requirements as the last lot..) and the costs and risks in architecture changes. Switching languages might not be even then feasible, given a common big ball of mud structure with computational modules, UI and domain logic cooked together into a delicious mess.

Even if the long term costs of a codebase written in Rust were, say, the tenth of the costs of a similar codebase written in C++ often the product development costs are not that large percentage for established ISV:s.

When the next greatest browser gets written in Rust, then industrial users start paying notice.

Why would I care of how organizations develop software? Because I need to get paid and I work inside an organization... I write C++ to earn my living, I don't want to write C++ home for fun.

So at home I wouldn't write C++ any way and at work I really don't have a choice :) - Of course, peoples situation vary.
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Miners. Cloud miners specifically. They should probably try to keep the operation small.
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Beyond that, there's people actively working on ways to correct for publication bias in meta-analysis, to the point that it's a pretty fundamental aspect of any proper analysis.
And everybody shits on google for trying to tie personalization to everything.

Do you want to sort your apps by the the rank and reviews of chinese laborors? Or do you want it to prioritize ratings by people you actually know?

Personalization is really the only way to nuke the arms race that is fraud/spam detection and crowd-sourced data.

There is no perfect answer. Just more abstract games to play.
I wonder if it is possible to reverse-engineer the whole iTunes connection and review process, and send fake reviews automatically from a server, or even from a botnet.
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The RPi2 uses an ARMv7 Cortex A7 processor, not an ARMv6.
The original research supporting "carbs are good, fats are bad" made such trivial statistical errors it's kind of crazy.
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> At least we know how to transform CO2 into oxygen.

That's so, but the atmosphere on Mars is so thin it's not as if you can step outside there either - you'd die quickly as it's well below the Armstrong limit. You still need a full-body pressure suit on Mars.

Venus, FWIW, is 96.5% CO2 and has a surface pressure of 93 bar. That's a lot of oxygen if you just want to make some for your space station.

Personally I hold out hope for terraforming Venus. Adding gravity or atmosphere to Mars seems like it'd be much more difficult.
A dull, boring job is predictable, and you can plan around it. You can devote your attention to whatever else you like. Until we start paying people to take vacations and entertain themselves, boring is the next best thing.

Beats the heck out of being told what to think, want, and do. Worrying all the time that you can't take it and that you'll have to find something better (when you explode at someone for being an idiot.)
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heck, if they are alive and the house is not on fire, you're doing pretty good :)
The incentive to publish negative results is: "to not be labelled a charlatan".

The widespread non-publication of negative studies (and, tragically, their datasets) has, rightly, tarnished the validity of all published scientific results.

You can't blame normal people for doubting "scientific" results. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to deduce the worthlessness of published results, when it is disclosed that negative results have been withheld:

Just do studies until you get the results you want, then publish that one.

This has been de rigeur in medical science for some time.

For shame...
I wouldn't deny that there are lots of smart people who disagree with me on certain foundational issues. I absolutely deny that the majority of those who do are the 'intelligent supporters' you describe. And if smart people are acting in an idiotic manner, the fact that they have mental horsepower to do better is actually worse.
An update on the various fundraisers set up for James:

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/...
DSL speeds "similar" to 50mpbs? How similar? The fastest AT&T offers DSL is 6mbps (it's my only option). I thought that was a hard limit on the technology, but googling it produces varying results.
I just won buzzword bingo.
Level3 had a number of blog posts under the "open internet" category about their view of it. I believe this is the post where I gleaned the information from[0].

[0] http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/verizons-accidental-mea...
That thing looks cool. One small nitpick, it's easier to open a banana from the seed end as opposed to the stem. Source: primates.
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I know they have different cores, but, as I pointed out, these cores are very slow for most code that would normally run on a CPU. That is precisely the reason why so many cores fit - a CPU uses the available space to get around the memory wall.

muizelaar's comment pointed out that the author probably wanted to say that the GPU can't be reasonably accessed _from_ VMs, yet. That makes much more sense.
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At 52km you don't need heating, and in the case of a breach the clouds would stay mostly out because of equal pressures on both sides of the dwelling. A scientific outpost, like those in Antarctica, would be highly appealing. For permanent settlement, Mars takes the cake.
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Now I feel inadequate. I only had to deal with 8 or 10 versions.
I'm glad someone else has noticed the profound weirdness of "The Dilbert Future." I stopped taking Scott Adams seriously a few minutes after reading it. I haven't looked at it since high school (in the 90's -- eek), but IIRC he also believes that his thoughts control the direction of the universe if he writes down affirmations in a notebook daily.
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I disagree. In force, the Haskell RTS is just a "model" of the IO effects as well. In particular, there are at least two such models, the GHCi interpreter and the GHC compiler!

As another example, it'd be completely possible to write your own IO and interpret it in another language. You can read about this on Edward Kmett's blog where he talks about implementing IO for Ermine [0]

http://www.tuicool.com/articles/I3EJVb

Of course, there's something important that makes us want to differentiate "real world" side effects from internal "model effects". Ultimately, from a correctness and reasoning POV, there ought to be no difference. From a practical point of view, some models are more interesting or important than others. But as a compiler writer you're put right back into the same hot seat.

[0] Unfortunately, his blog appears to be OOC right now, so here's a weird chinese mirror!
Do we really?

And for how long do you think that job may be safe from automation?
You can always make a function that sync all async operations: sleep until a global variable is changed by the callback.

A pain, but still not that bad.
> A corporation spends money on tax specialists to benefit itself. Any benefit to the shareholders is usually incidental, and the corporation would eliminate these benefits if it increased the benefit to the corporation.

This doesn't make any sense. Any benefit to the corporation is a de facto benefit to the shareholders of that corporation.

> The type of shenanigans you have suggested as a means of increasing expenses are what tax practitioners call "tax evasion schemes" that (a) would not work and (b) would result in heft fines and/or prison sentences for the executives, board members, and accountants involved.

It is only tax evasion if the code is explicit enough to rule it out as allowable behavior...a feat of endurance for tax authorities. Even then, many legal tax avoidance behaviors would be non-existent or drastically less common if it weren't for corporate taxation.

Employee benefits, for example, only make sense if there is a bulk discount on those benefits sufficient to make sense to buy as a group. Sometimes vendors offer those discounts. But the existence of benefits as tax deductable expenses means an additional 40% discount over individual purchase. If your corporate lunchroom is subsidized (extremely common in mid to large size corporations), it is likely because that subsidy is tax deductible, whereas an individual purchasing their own lunch is not.

Compliance and enforcement costs are roughly proportional to the cartesian product of the complexity of the rules and the number of entities. Sure, pushing taxes onto shareholders increases the number of entities, but drastically reduces the number of rules, due to the fact that personal income tax is not a profit tax. The corporate tax has to have millions of rules and exceptions to rules because businesses are drastically different and legitimate expenses for one business may be illegitimate for another. I totally understand that there are way more shareholders than there are companies, but the difference in the number of rules between corporate taxes and and the marginal increase in rules on personal income taxes easily makes up the difference.
A dull, boring job beats the hell out of no job at all.
> The media does light fact-checking, and it's exactly that fact-checking that allows institutions to set an agenda.

This is true only of some media. For example, The New Yorker has a fact-checking department that holds their journalists to high standards. Reading their long-form articles, it is clear that the writers have taken the time to understand things deeply. Nobody writes a 10,000-word essay on science the night before on a deadline.

It's quite reasonable to expect a journalist reporting on science to read dozens of articles (or review papers) about a field and to interview many scientists. It's not hard to find people with that level of understanding in a field who would be happy to write public-facing magazine articles. Many of the best science writers do.
The problem with the CA power deregulation is that it deregulated wholesale while keeping retail rates strictly regulated.

Most states have deregulated power and didn't have similar issues.
Would I like more privacy... or more accurate app reviews... Hmmmm...
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>If you want to make 300,000 threads in Lua or Go, go right ahead, but if you port that application to Java you're going to have a bad time.

In Java itself perhaps, but with Java you can use lightweight threads via Quasar. http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2013/05/02/quasar-pulsar/

"a single machine can handle millions of them"
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Portuguese ladies are also quite something. I should know, I'm married to one :-)
And I bet if you wanted she could rate your competitor's apps as well
How relevant is DirectX11/12 these days now that OpenGL is so successful thanks to mobile and web?
They did indeed detect what they believe to be waves from the sun-glint, from what I recall.
I just got done meditating for an hour and 10 minutes, 50 then an alarm on my phone and then another 20. I don't need the alarm but it's nice to do timed meditations to get a sense for how long I've been spending on this. I have really been putting in the effort over the past week and have noticed a general improvement in my concentration and ability to avoid distracting thoughts. I originally tried to do this a few years ago off and on to reduce work related stress.

But this is not what I came to say. If you're the type that is compulsively looking at your phone checking websites and generally worrying about where your skills are at this is not conducted to being present in the here and now. You are worried about keeping up appearances being connected with others and generally looking to future oriented goals. I've gradually given most of these less and less emphasis due to a natural inclination towards being alone which suits my personality fine. For reducing stress, sure, anyone can benefit from meditation.

There is a further level of insight meditation, which is what I've been practicing and mindfulness is one of the foundations that leads to insights of value. Without mindfulness one will not know where they have been and what intentions lead to where they are now over the moment to moment progression through their day. This is the skillful goal; not bliss and not simply reducing stress.

Also you don't have to even sit to meditate. I was reclining, which made it much easier to discern my heartbeat. Next up walking meditation for about forty minutes. Left right left right...
I didn't read it through & through, but i think the benefits of going to mars over venus is longevity. As the idea would be (provided we last long enough) that when the earth starts to swell, earth will get too hot to live on, and therefore so would venus. We'd still have time on mars before having to move further away.
Step 2, make a failed game, pivot, succeed wildly :)

It's worked twice already!
What do you mean by scientific? There's a lot of Windows only software for research. Mostly for applied things. But also things like data collection. There's even more if you look at development in things like engineering. Even industrial is surisingly much Windows only.
I was fascinated by this article, so I was trying to explain it to my colleagues. I was enthusiastically sketching the bay and glaciers on the chalkboard when I suddenly became very embarrassed, as I realized I was basically drawing a big uterus on the board :S
ah, thanks for pointing that out, I came here and ctrl+f'ed for 'undefined' but did not do the same in the article.
Na they would just create 1000's of personalities. Maybe by IP Address and time with personalities would work or even better stop ranking by it at all.

I would say having a group of trusted reviewers would be the best way to handle that. Nothing is a good substitute for trusted content curators.
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Some notes:

1. From the payment date of 1947 it looks more like it went into the Greek civil war - fought by Greeks against Greeks (1946-1949). Tough decision to have another war after devastating WWII.
2. Germany bought weapons for the newly built "Bundeswehr" - most of them from the US.
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>Any hats left unworn by unwillingness should be traded around with some frequency.

This reminds me of a useful reflection on social moral processes. If you have a group of people who all have agreed to achieve some goal, say, "everyone should be happy," then you have to support it with a rule: "Any person has the power to demand change, and no other person has the power to veto this."

So if one person is unhappy, they simply say "change," and something is required to change. Even if everybody else is happy and they all disagree. Even if all known changes result in fewer people being happy. The goal was not met. So implicitly, the real goal is that nobody demand change.

You can't get stuck in a local maximum if you're looking for a global maximum. You have to prove that you are at a global maximum to resist change, and you have to prove it to those who demand change.

The only way to get there is to find out what people actually want and need, and to deliver it.
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I assume a reference to this:?

http://www.kleargear.com/1474.html
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This comes up every time a Radio Shack article is posted, and the consensus has been that even Radio Shack isn't a reliable supplier of electronic components anymore.