skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> health issues such as balding

Thanks, doc. Though I agree most men would prefer to avoid it, I never really regarded my balding as a health issue before now (and especially not the one I'd lead with over cancer and heart disease).
I wish there were some sort of open-source prerequisite chain of what order to learn any subjects in. That's the hardest part of self-learning. Elon Musk had a reddit AMA recently where he was asked how he knows so much - he responded that he thought everyone had the capability of learning more than they thought, but that the key was to look at knowledge as a semantic tree. If you learn things in the wrong order, they won't have anything to hang off of.
I saw "Ratio" by Ruhlman mentioned below, but also wanted to mention "The Flavor Bible". Technique is half of the battle, and flavor combination is the other. The Flavor Bible is basically a encyclopedia for food combinations. Look up a food and see what goes well with it. Eg apples go well with cinnamon, pork, and nuts. It's based on interviews with chefs, but I've also built a version myself with recipe ingredient analysis.

There's scientific analysis that can be done on flavor compounds in foods as well to find complementary flavors, foodpairing.com is working on this.
Sure, but you can also exchange bittorrent packets before the .torrent file is uploaded to TPB. How do you know the seeder is the original distributor? :)
Assuming Ulbricht is found guilty and then appeals, will he get a second chance to challenge the FBI's account of how they found the server in the first place? Nicholas Weaver [1] seems to think they could have admitted to owning the servers (and thus having standing to contest the FBI's story about how they found it) without harming their case:

> Such a declaration is not an admission of guilt: it can only be used by the prosecution if the defendant testifies.

But I don't know if that door will be closed to them on appeal...

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/op-ed-ross-ulbric...
CC merchant contracts used to forbid this, IIRC.
Yes, it does. But you're totally ignoring the practical ramifications of this – the fact that ideas that are only now making it into mainstream programming languages is a strong indication that the entire endeavour is more complex than you're admitting.

We don't just pull language features out of our collective arses and start using them. Evolution does happen at a glacial pace – we stick features into minority-appeal languages; they kick around a bit; people rediscover these features later, and maybe they eventually end up in popular languages. But there's a huge amount more involved in that process than simply coming up with the feature - testing, maintainability, long-term implications, unforeseen complexity, programmer acceptance, performance constraints… the list goes on.
America's post-facto bribery and sinecure system will ensure that politicians who lose their office for efforts on behalf of their corporate overlords will be well cared for.
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If the past 30 years of coding tells us something, one of those things should be that the line between statically typed and dynamic languages is blurring. Boundaries between scripts, the application, the programming language, and the OS are blurring as well. Future languages should have highly flexible deployment, and be able to "feel" like both a "scripting" language and an "enterprise" language.

There is a big problem with this, however. The entrenched infrastructure and toolset reinforce the "separate" mindset. A useful analogy with which to think about this: The level of granularity we inherited for computer security from the 60's and 70's was to protect one user from another on the same machine. Now, we know we need much finer levels of control, which is why mainstream OS now have "capabilities" or their functional equivalent. However, this took a long time and met much resistance, because the industry as a whole couldn't mentally move beyond a security model developed for timeshare users on a 60's "mainframe."
Note: he was a cable lobbyist from 1976-1984, long before cable internet was a thing. He was a wireless industry lobbyist from 1992-2004, but the proposed "light touch" regime looks a lot like what has been applied to the wireless industry for years.
This is exactly how I learned. I wasn't fully competent until my mid 20s, but there are many ways to skin a cat.
> opened the decibel meter on my iPhone.

Really? What's the effective dynamic range of the iPhone mic?
Really interesting blog post by one of the guys behind Kafka related to this topic: http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what...
> ... rights of innovators to introduce new products without asking anyone’s permission.

Great, we finally get to exercise our freedoms!

> ... enforceable bright-line rules will ban ...

Oh, I see, now the "innovators" just have more regulation they have to deal with. Now they have to ask for ANOTHER entity's permission?
I know in my area there's more than one.

>And the two providers you generally expect to have do not care anything for consumer experience.

In a free market, this fact means that people don't care enough about their experience. If they cared enough, they would choose based on that, instead of on price.

>They also lobby for other companies (or even townships) to not be able to set up their own fiber/cable connections.

I would support strongly any attempt to make it easier for companies to open up new internet providers. Again, the reason there aren't so many options is because of regulations.

>The lack of regulation you want already exists, and it's starting to strangle free and open communication as we know it.

Give an example of a free market that doesn't have any net neutrality options, but has consumers that want it.

>Also, not sure if this is clear, but net neutrality doesn't regulate prices. Companies can charge whatever they want for their service. The only thing that's regulated is how they treat data...all data must be treated the same. Other than that restriction, companies can do whatever they want. I don't really see how this could be viewed badly. Yes, people seem to really like the "regulation is bad" argument lately, but it doesn't really apply here, nor does it work as a blanket statement.

I know what net neutrality is regulating, and I don't think that choice should be taken away from companies. I'm against government doing something that can be done by the consumer.

Why doesn't the regulation is bad argument work here?

As a consumer, I can see instances where I'd prefer to have cheaper service rather than pay more for net neutrality.

What about wikipedia and other sites that can be accessed for free in some countries, but wouldn't if nn was implemented? Have you seen http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25... or http://qz.com/215064/when-net-neutrality-backfires-chile-jus...

There are plenty of use cases for not-nn.

And again, if the consumer decided they really want it, then choose a provider that offers it.
Thanks for this!

I'd be interested in whether shucking drives from external enclosures has any noticible effect on drive life. But the data doesn't seem to capture whether the drivers were shucked or not?

Is that something Backblaze has investigated? Or is the need for drives such that it doesn't matter if shucking does cause shorter life?
That's closer to the definition of instability than it is discontinuity.
> They aren't called patterns, they are called techniques.

I totally agree. That's weird to see the n+1-th geek discovering something people have been doing since the dawn of humanity.

Damn, we're just talking about basic cooking. I understand many of us didn't learn the basics, but nonetheless, it's basic.

Imagine somebody saying he discovered "patterns to ride a bicycle" and explaining how to go from A to B with a regular bike in the most obvious fashion...
I'm not sure you understand the point of this post? We're not talking about AJAX or an alternative to it. This has to do with page layout and design in conjunction with delayed asset loading, whether it's slow loading or AJAX.

I personally think placeholders/known sizes are a must in web design. It really annoys me when I'm reading something and it gets pushed down due to slow loading images, etc.
Microsoft reportedly buys Sunrise Calendar
An intro course would hardly seem to qualify as "a lot of study".
Learning to code is not so hard, but learning to code well is extremely hard - almost impossible. I have been doing software development years and years also in some well known companies and I am not sure if I have yet met a good developer.
Yes, end of the day learning is hard as heck.
YMMV, but I find if I have a solid hour in the morning I can gear up pretty quickly.
The blackmail argument was always depressingly circular anyway. "We have to fire you if you're gay, because somebody could blackmail you by threatening to get you fired for being gay."
What's terribly sad to me is the pro-authority comments here on HN. The Tech world doesn't seem to understand the true nature of regulation. Well, they're going to get what they deserve to the detriment of everyone else.
>to impress ladies you don't need to be creepy muscular type. Just a sporty one.

This is setting up a false dichotomy. Women (and men) generally don't find an inflated look attractive.

The parent was talking more about strength, rather than muscle volume "I'm not nearly at peak muscle volume nor do I look nearly as big as body builders much smaller than me".

I'm 150 pounds, but I can lift 250. I look strong, sure, but I'm even stronger than I look. I do barbell training, which I'm guessing is what the original comment's author does too.

Women seem to find this lean strength primally attractive. It's true the female attention could cause a problem, but this kind of strength will also make you more attractive to your partner, which is hardly a bad thing.

Strength is versatile too. I can hike a mountain, ski, run, and do pretty much any physical activity you can name. Chronic pain disappeared too. I'm sure I'd lose a bit of strength on a three week trip, but who cares? You can always get that back.

I can't comment on high altitude performance, but it sounds like you're referring to the inflated types there too.
Because people keep misplacing blame and as a direct result nothing ever changes.

All I keep reading is Americans blaming the evil publishers for their greed and profiteering. However that is a publisher's job. It is in their DNA, they're a profit making business, they aren't meant to do the right thing.

Instead the people who should be "blamed" are the schools/departments/academics. These are the people who assign a $235 book, these are the people who's job it is to spread knowledge and educate people. They're the "gatekeepers" and they're asleep on the job, or worse in cahoots with the publishers (because publishers give them a way to keep tuition lower, by doing the grading on your teacher's behalf via one-time-use codes, instead of the school/department needing to hire more graders or develop systems).

A lot of schools/departments/academics have solved this issue, they're developed free or "open source" books and other material. But many either don't care or are benefiting from the relationship with the publishers.

If you wish the situation to change then complain in the right direction: To the educators, school, department, or similar. Publishers are just going to laugh at your complaining with good reason.

PS - In many other countries this issue doesn't exist, not because $200+ books don't exist (they do), but because educators haven't lost sight of their role as gatekeepers to knowledge and education. Many of my own teachers wrote all of the course's material in-house and then made it available for free, they re-used the same material every year for the same course. It was like $5 to print it all out (just in photocopier/binding costs), but digital so just bring an iPad if you wish...
Public sentiment on the right is definitely not in favor of net neutrality...

In Romney's own words:

It is not the role of any government to “manage” the
Internet. The Internet has flourished precisely because
government has so far refrained from regulating this
dynamic and essential cornerstone of our economy. I
would rely primarily on innovation and market forces,
not bureaucrats, to shape the Internet and maximize its
economic, social and scientific value.

Specifically, the FCC’s “Net Neutrality” regulation
represents an Obama campaign promise fulfilled on behalf
of certain special interests, but ultimately a “solution”
in search of a problem. The government has now interjected
itself in how networks will be constructed and managed,
picked winners and losers in the marketplace, and
determined how consumers will receive access to tomorrow’s
new applications and services. The Obama Administration’s
overreaching has replaced innovators and investors with
Washington bureaucrats.

From here: http://sciencedebate.org/2012/debate12/#9
Well the same apply to the torrent file.
I think you're a little confused. The "father" and "son" you're referencing in that CNN article are Nasser al-Awlaki and his son Anwar, Anwar being the adult AQAP target of the drone strike.

The "father" and "son" I'm referencing are Anwar and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. Abdulrahman was Anwar's juvenile son, killed in a drone strike against senior AQAP militants some time after Anwar was killed. Nasser is his grandfather.

There is no evidence in here that Anwar al-Awlaki was attempting to extricate his juvenile son from the war zone he had taken him into.
> Regionalized mutability can be made to be referentially transparent from the outside.

Can you give an example of that ? Is that similar to ST Monad ?
Thanks for the clarification, though I'm not sure if that's exactly what rayiner meant, considering his comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8998934

Given your premise: I can imagine that, with improper price setting by the FCC, this mandatory wholesale infrastructure sharing could be problematic (long-term unprofitable and thus discouraging towards infrastructure investment).

Priced appropriately to the cost of provision of service, however, how does this put the infrastructure builder (Comcast, Level 3, or whomever else) on unfair footing? It just means Comcast the builder has to expect the same rents from Comcast the service provider as it does from Netflix the service provider.

Forgive me for missing the point - I expect you and rayiner understand this far better than I do and I'm trying to catch up.
Someone could create a POS machine that rendered taxes directly to the state at the time of sale or in batches. Also people could discover a company's sales figures by watching the blockchain.
The way to know how good Erlang is, is to start writing an MMO in a different language, trying to fit as many concurrent users on the same hefty multi-core cloud instance in the same shard. Then, after you've come up with about a dozen clever tricks and made several key insights, read up on Erlang and discover that it already takes most of that into account. (I did this with Go and plan on learning Erlang now.)
> 6. Nulls are NOT allowed, in general.

I really want to like F#, but that's a really big "in general". I love the idea of option types, but I often hear with regards to F#, "forget about NullReferenceExceptions!". Yeah, that's nice, except I sometimes use strings in my code...

What I would've liked is to have F# strictly forbid nullable references, and treat all reference types in interop situations as (implicitly) options. Not sure if that would be possible, haven't given it too much thought and I'm sure there are tons of tricky cases that haven't occurred to me, but I haven't really seen this discussed anywhere.
>This seems to be strong evidence that government is better at keeping trade free than an 'unregulated free market'?

X isn't perfect, so Y must be better? That makes no sense.

I'm pro-free market because I go into the grocery store and see an entire row of bread. In communism, there is an entire row of people waiting for bread. Free market == abundance, government == rationing.

I use communism as the example because it is the opposite of free-market and highlights the historical (not ideological) differences between the two systems. Free markets have a triage effect. When supplies are limited, prices go up, and if you really need something you can still get it (but you'll pay more).

The opposite of that system is one of price fixing and rationing. You may need something more than me, but the price is fixed at X, so there needs to be a lottery to decide who gets the limited supply. If I win, I get to watch fail videos on youtube all day. If you win, you get to run your online business that day.

ISPs are struggling to keep up with demand. They've been trying to price their services in a way to triage demand while they build more capacity (which is mostly held up by local governments). Now the FCC will step in and make sure that I can watch my youtube videos all day and make it illegal for the ISP to favor your clearly more important traffic.
It seems like people think you're commenting about this because you want them stopped, which doesn't seem to be the case to me. You just want it acknowledged that they did this shitty thing. I agree that it's shitty and I assume it's not actionable and think you're right to just be right out in the open saying "well, they stole our design and got away with it... more power to them." I do wonder if HN leadership has any comments on this type of behavior, because it really does look shitty coming from one of their teams.
Isn't the idea of "zero point" vacuum energy that even though the vaccuum energy level is not actually zero, it is still the lowest state, so no work can be done with it?

So from the perspective of energy conservation, why would it matter if new space has a non-zero amount of energy? It still does not increase the amount of energy available to do anything.
The reason the Neural Networks are suffering from blindspots is because they were never trained as generative models. A straightforward classifier cannot be expected to correctly identify something it has never seen before---so of course you can find adversary examples. Generative models are computationally more expensive to build, which is why they are not always used.
Sincerely saying, I have never made a demi-glace, although I should have. Will try after studying the process, thanks for sharing!

For me, Escoffier’s book is probably comparable to Bjarne Stroustrup’s “The C++ Programming Language”, at least by complexity of the material, so I am somewhat afraid of using it. As far as I know, “Le Guide Culinaire” is used as a source of recipes for the Master Chef exam, for example.

Maybe I should try approaching it again with some patience. Cheers!
Art in Money Prison
Hey, if your code is Open Source, then I would be willing to look at your code and help you optimize it. Hit me on #pypy on IRC or just send me a mail at fijall at gmail.
Great point. I'd go even further and say this is the natural outcome of representative democracy which naturally leads to a form of oligarchy. The 'representative' part is always given way too much credit as a means to fix problems, and is the means to placate the public, when the examples of it actually fixing the publics problems are limited but the only thing that matters is the perception.

The representatives more often reinforces existing power-structures over the interest of their voters. The effects of which is mostly unnoticeable - at first - and seems like it's an effective working model, but after a century or more the cracks in the model start to show. The power structures which were slowly reinforced over time start to become powerhouses and the wealth division becomes exponential.

It's like a slow moving wave which the public continues to lose more and more ability to do anything about.

Whereas China started with the tidal wave and is busy pretending everything is OK because America has reached a similar place.
Sure they will, but they won't blame themselves.
> First, you could talk to this programmer asking whether he/she would wish to integrate more closely with the other programmers' culture (perhaps he/she would like to but there's something preventing it, like shyness or other).

Wouldn't that seem a little forced, though? If shyness is the issue, I'm not sure what one could say to address that.

Isolation seems like a good idea. However I'm worried the rest of team would have their ego broken, or even that our startup like culture would shift to a more corporate structure. Having one or small amount of people in charge of one big thing would kill the bus factor; That would have to be accounted for somehow.
My friends in Prague running very similar service with standalone devices for almost 3 years. http://www.electronictourguide.com/

They asserts that it's impossible to make a decent guide in the format of the application due to limited resources of content transport, battery and disk space + risks associated with content protection.
A scalable RESTful api service w/ easy to implement versioning, routing, etc.
The History of “Loving” to Read
Someone trolling an Internet discussion board shouldn't result in a federal law removing all privacy from everyone. The trolls might stop, but what about government critics who are now being silenced because they will be killed if they reveal their real name?

You might not have to worry about your government breaking down your door if you post something negative about your politicians. Some people in other countries do.
Don't know the quality of Norwegian comments on newspapers, but if it's anything like what happens in my country, I can understand them asking for full names. In short, stupid and mean, really mean, YouTube-style. Of course, a full name policy doesn't help. Even when the comments section is powered by Facebook, with most users having real names and being sort of trackable, you still get the same stupid and mean comments, because let's face it, a majority of us on the web are stupid and mean.

I'm really against nation wide policies, but on the other hand here we're talking about web properties. Personally I don't care when those shitty newspapers that I don't even read demanding full names. For one it's their right to do so. And also, as long as this isn't by law, it means that you always have alternatives and that's what competition is about. I mean, really, Reddit has 10 times more users than the population of your country and my country combined.
>"Well, in the Depression, if you can't buy toys, you make 'em, " she says.

>Beskind has macular degeneration and only has peripheral vision. So she draws her designs with easy-to-see thick black felt pens. She hands me a design for glasses that would help people like her.

Necessity is the mother of all invention. My father also has macular degeneration, and he has developed his own tools and life hacks to assist him. Now I always seem to notice and take interest when someone has macular degeneration, and inevitably people have tools they developed on their own. Just recently an elderly gentleman with macular degeneration came into the law office and when it came time to sign an agreement he pulled out a credit card with a rectangle cut out that he had placed over signature lines so he could feel where to sign.
> ... ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services.

Doesn't sound like they'll need to ask permission since they'll know they won't get it. Are you in favor of these things?

I think reasonable people can disagree, but your positioning of these two statements as being contradictory relies on a complete lack of context to be convincing.
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It says it can debug if "provided that it comes with the line number attributes." what does this mean? Can you insert them if they aren't there?