skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Does any language force you to prefix a function with 4 verbs?"

Actually, I don't really know. But for sure HTTP isn't forcing you to only use GET/POST/PUT/DELETE, even if this verbs are usually enough to design your API. It's quite funny to hear some people (I'm not talking about the author) joking about the "418 I'm a teapot" response status, which is defined in a HTTP extension, and then telling you that having only 4 methods to design an API is too restrictive.

HTTP is extensible, so why misusing it?
Just take his words and apply to something more mainstream, like MonoGame.
>Lots of people have seemingly irrationally strong attachments to their hometowns

Nobody with a modicum of intelligence thinks that is irrational. Of course people are going to have strong attachments to a place where they spent a major portion of their childhood making memories and relationships.

The only seemingly irrational thing would be indifference. You don't spend 18 years in a place and not have any emotional reaction to it (good or bad).
Obesity is most prevalent in countries without overdeveloped food supply chains and food marketing apparatus.

According to http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/23/obesity-in-world-... "the top ten most obese nations were overwhelmingly pacific islands, with American Samoa taking the top spot with almost 75% of the population reported as obese and Nauru and the Cook Islands coming in at second and third places with 71.1% and 63.4% obesity respectively."

As far as couch potatoes, the closest research that's available is this - http://www.economist.com/node/9527126 and if you look at the list of top "couch potato" countries, some have high obesity rates, and some dates, so the correlation is inconclusive at best.
Maybe we're all judged excessively compared to some imaginary meritocratic utopia, but the in this world women are judged by their looks much more than men are.
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And what important forward thinking ideas have exclusively come from NY recently? Skinny jeans?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9169817.
Probably the best forum to ask for this kind of advice is the Tokyo HN meetup:

https://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/

A lot of guys there are in the same boat as you are. As for me I've only been employed full-time here, so I don't know how to file my own taxes.
On glucose and ketones, with glucose being the first choice.
Also their constant push for JS is deplorable. I want to build stuff in languages I like, not transpile/script.
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Sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains and crystallized sugar are in totally different forms.

Along with sugar, in a fruit you have fiber, basically cellulose and lignine, chitines in fungus like a champignon.

In fruits and vegetables you include thousands of different substances, like vitamins,anti oxidants and anti cancer, co enzymes, and enzymes, aminoacyds and dietary elements absent in crystallized sugar. Those are specially abundant in integral grains, specially if they are germinated, and vegetables , like Broccoli.

Lots of those could get destroyed by storage time, cooking or freezing. So we could believe that we eat well, but actually lack lots of needed substances.

That is the reason too much pre-process(pizza, hamburgers, hotdogs) food is not good for you long term.

Fiber is inert, and we humans could not process it, only some symbiotic cells in our intestines, but they have a very important function: they physically block the maximum sugar concentration release in the digestion.

Concentration is important because sugar is in fact toxic, too much of it will simply kill you. That is what a diabetic is, someone who does not natively release insulin to block the excessive sugar and could die as a result.

Your body needs to control glucose in your blood, too much glucose and you die, too much insulin and you die too because you need glucose.

When you eat artificial sugar dissolved in water, like in a soda, you disrupt the control mechanism of the body because it is so fast spike compared to normal fiber mixed sugar in a fruit that you disrupt the control process.

You are also not eating glucose, but fructose and tissues like those in the liver have to overwork. Some of those could only do one thing at a time, so they need to stop doing important things because you put the body in panic or emergency situation.

You create short euphoric behavior, but also over corrections, too much insulin, then the body enters panic depression, and so on.
"It runs on Mozilla's Firefox OS platform and lets you make calls, ask for directions and browse the web. So when you're heading out to grab dinner with friends, you can leave your smartphone at home and avoid the temptations of Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat."

I don't understand these two sentences at all. If you can browse the web, how does it help "avoid the temptation"?

It's a nice looking round thingy, but "anti-smartphone"?..
GIFs \o/
> A lot of what machines churn out is based on templates that humans have created. Many of the things we read that are supposedly written by machines required major human intervention

That's what I was thinking as I read through the samples. Computers do not yet have feelings or a proper emulation of them (that I know of, and it would sure be news) so ways of describing something must be from what the programmer put in. I can make a computer write stuff Shakespeare wrote, but it's still originally Shakespeare's (or mine, if I'm the programmer and thought of it).

Bad quiz.
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"Introduction to OS Abstractions Using Plan 9 From Bell Labs" by Francisco J Ballestros is a great help, too.

http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/_books/comp/plan9/Introductio...
If you're using modded Minecraft, there are a few mods that add alternate player models. Currently, I think the preferred mod is "More Player Models"[1], which supports a variety of model parts including various fantasy creatures in addition to female version of the usual "Steve" model. It can use the regular player skins on some models, and includes an in-game editor.

Also, Notch has written[2] about the gender situation in Minecraft. He was attempting to make everything "genderless" (or "both"), which he now suggests might not have been the best decision.

[1] http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/min...

[2] http://notch.tumblr.com/post/28188312756/gender-in-minecraft
If New Technology Really Cut Jobs, We’d All Be Out of Work by Now
As soon as we have good cheap batteries, you don't need the grid. You have batteries charging from solar during the day, your car is charging at night.
It doesn't have the richness of Go but I believe https://www.gnu.org/software/liquidwar6/ captures the essence of the "action/micro" side of RTSs.
That's an incredible advice, it sounds like I could get a lot from doing that. I'll make sure to try.

Also, to answer your question, I'd say yes, apart from these mental breakdown where I feel quite bad about me. It depends on the mood. But most of the time I'd answer yes. There's just parts of me that I don't really like.

Thanks!
Europe in general is pretty bad for bigotry along different divisions. The stuff people in the UK could get away with saying about immigrants and people in other countries was pretty disgusting.

Every country I've spent time in over there (France, UK, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany) seems to have a culture that accepts making blanket offensive statements about people from other countries (or religions in the case of the UK).
Lisp's super power (homoiconicity) comes at a trade-off of reduced discriminability. A good syntax highlighter and well-indented code (like you provided) reverses this effect considerably, but imho, it still takes a lot of getting used to for beginners.

In any case, the bigger part of the being productive in a codebase is to figure out how it encodes the domain, what idioms and patterns are favoured etc. So sometimes, it's just not worth adding another source of aggravation for "new arrivals".
It's also very worth looking at Typed Racket and Racket's contracts system!

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
[2] http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/contracts.html?q=contracts
I am not sure if they are comparing High School graduates in general with those college graduates who ended up getting a BS in CS or if it is adjusted for IQ, field (high school graduates working in the CS field), etc
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Well, what the author wants is called Haskell(or Scala to some extent) where the logic "is in the type itself", he doesn't know it yet or he wouldn't have written this article.
The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani (BBC Radio Programme)
Why You Should Start Using Microservices
If you want to find out why the opposite has been true for so many years, Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories" is a good read.

In a nutshell: long-term nutritional studies are hard and expensive, scientists of the era jumped to some conclusions without the gold-standard double-blind experiments that are expected of scientists today, and once the mantra of low-fat (and high-carb) diet being good for you was accepted by a government-run National Institutes of Health, chances of grant money going towards scientific study proving otherwise are virtually nil (did I mention those studies are hard and expensive?)
I might not be the average HN user, but I have to choke down ~4500 daily calories in order to maintain both weight and athletic performance, and doing so without simple sugars would be a pretty difficult task, not to mention if I suddenly started drinking oil instead as per advice.

Even at a standard 2500kcal diet half a can of coke still leaves enough room for micronutrient dense foods so I don't see what's the big deal.

Perhaps it's time to stop blaming it on foods.
To be clear, by "I don't think I can safely ignore the rest of your comment" I meant I shouldn't let a comment like your stand unanswered.

You're accusatory tone set me in a light that made me look like The Bad Guy™. I don't like looking like The Bad Guy™ so and having already been downvoted, for the "safety" of my reputation, I felt the need to respond to your comment.
New technology creates some jobs and eliminates others. The net effect is impossible to know exactly. There are just too many variables.
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In Brazil you don't get free refills. Is the industry conspiracy just passing on free money there?
Or we could just give back a bunch of state-level funding to state universities on the condition that they use it to reduce in-state tuition, fees, and room/board costs, then let the academics admit people according to academic merit.

And then, just for kicks, we could fix our public school system so as to remedy the disgusting inequalities that show up at the college-admissions level before they have a chance to happen.
>I think of the price for housing and how it reflects demand.

You should think supply instead. San Francisco is quite small geographically. It doesn't take much demand to drive the prices quite high under those conditions. Most places in the Midwest can grow in any direction as necessary.

>* Broadway shows, okay. But wouldn't you rather be in a vibrant place where creation happens, than be the "second hand"?
>* Same for music. Do you want to be in the place where creation happens, or a pit stop on the tour?

As someone involved in tech all of the time, I frankly don't care if I'm "where the creation happens", and most people I know don't. You don't have to be where art was originally made to enjoy it and to argue otherwise is pretty stupid.
The is a BBC Radio Four programme called "Start the Week", which is a panel discussion show.

This episode is described:

> On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe finds out what goes on inside the mind of a mathematician. Cédric Villani explains the obsession and inspiration which led him to being awarded the Fields Medal, 'the mathematicians' Nobel Prize' in 2010. Zia Haider Rahman combines pure maths, investment banking and human rights in his exploration of how abstract theory can impact on real life. Vicky Neale reveals the beauty of prime numbers, while the director Morgan Matthews finds love in his film x+y at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

The math content is probably low - they're probably going to talk about personality and purpose rather than math- but it's noce to see some kind of coverage of math on mainstream radio.
I want to see a clojure clone embedded as a Go scripting language. The immutability means that the interpreter would be mostly threadsafe, and thus would support goroutines well.
Yeah, it is the processing that does the damage. Notice those sugar containing items you considered are also fat free. What we have in processed foods is fat, sugar, starch and salt, reduced fibre. Not a natural combination.
At a cursory reading, this looks like a re-invention of the Haskell notion of monads for error handling.

Briefly, monads function as a kind of "overloadable semicolon". For error handling it lets you say that if any step fails then you abort the rest of the steps and return whatever the error code was.

The "returns multiple cases" one can also be handled using the List monad and its relatives, which do non-determinism. At the very least, the type system forces you to consider the possibility.
misplaced comma, is it for clickbait purposes ?
Sorry to nitpick but I wouldn't call Hershey the "chocolate capital of the world". I don't think anyone outside America really eats Hershey chocolate, and it has a poor reputation. Try visiting Europe if you want good chocolate.
Why is fructose "much worse for you" than sucrose?
Mark Cuban Sweet Briar College college debt bubble crisis
Reflecting on CS Graduate Admissions
Imagine you never found that app, because it's not available in your language
Good comment, thanks.

I always have mixed feelings when Google has a project with two versions: the open source one and the binary only based on that one. Chrome and Chromium are not quite the same thing after all.

I don't know for sure, but for Google Chrome may be the product and Chromium just a convenient way to make it happen.
That last one is particularly egregious. They could have been reaping the benefits themselves but they, like incumbents everywhere, sat on their hands and watched the cash roll past.
If I was in your place I would go further than that and try to figure out what he is missing. If his programs don't work how does it work in interviews. Making buggy programs are after all things we all do from time to time. Ensuring that you don't repeat such mistakes are utmost essential.
Thanks for posting. It is not really relevant right now, but an interesting concept that might be handy when facing other problems.
No they're not! Virtually no javascript developer needs to know about TCP.

Ajax doesn't go wrong. Most people abstract it even further using jquery and probably don't really know about how XMLHtttpRequest works.

What you've just said is absolute bullshit. Complete and utter horseshit. It's an artificial barrier you've erected to filter out people who aren't like you.

How wrong would you have had to write your javascript that you'd need to start knowing the specifics of two levels of abstraction down?

I am completely flabbergasted that a professional programmer would claim they needed a high level of understanding of TCP to write javascript.
If sugar is bad, why are we wired to eat it more and remember it's taste? Isn't evolution supposed make us live longer?
I'm one of the developers behind Axibase Time-Series Database which runs on top of HBase. ATSD is two years into development and has a built-in rule engine, forecasting,and visualization: http://axibase.com/products/axibase-time-series-database/vis.... The rule engine allows you to write expressions such as abs(forecast_deviation(avg())) > 2.0 to trigger url/email/command actions if sliding window average is outside of 2.0 sigmas from Holt-Winters/ARIMA forecast.

The license is commercial and there's a free CE version which can be scaled vertically without any throughput constraints. Tags are supported for series as well as for entities and metrics to avoid storing long-term metadata such as location, type, category etc. along with data itself.

I wouldn't be surprised if functional differences between TSDBs and historians will disappear in just a few years. Right now the historians are good at compressing repetitive data at source and on disk which makes sense given their heritage in archiving data from SCADA systems.
Not the answer you are looking for, but get on KGS even if you are a novice. There are many folks starting out as well, and you can always play more advanced players there and ask for teaching games.

I don't have much time now to play, but was around 4-5k in KGS and like me, there are always a bunch of folks ready to play with you while explaining the rules/strategy.
AFAIK Apple is not accepting apps with Watch binaries? (You still need to use the beta version of Xcode to create Watch Apps & Apple does not review apps built with beta versions of Xcode)
Show HN: Flux for react with static app links checker
> Google UK Ltd, and other subsidiaries across mainland Europe, pay little tax because they are designated as providers of marketing services to Google Ireland Ltd, the Dublin-based subsidiary whose name appears on invoices to most non-U.S. clients.

> Google declares little profit in Ireland because the unit there sends almost all of the profit earned from the non-U.S. clients to the Bermudan affiliate, in the form of licence fees for the use of Google intellectual property.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/google-taxes-overse...

> Google Inc. avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company, almost double the total from three years before, filings show.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-10/google-rev...
> Simple errors like these cover maybe 0.01% of the issues in a common math paper draft.

And yet I wasted lots of time trying to make sense of papers containing such errors. So I would appreciate such a tool.
> S-expressions are uniform in that they all look the same way.

If you treat the language as a user interface to your computer, shouldn't things that do different things have different appearances, to help you distinguish them at a glance?
extra virgin olive oil, or good balsamic vinegar is great addition to any +- raw food... in fact, especially oil helps digestion of vitamins soluble only in fats.
> This points to a need for a new language that avoids these issues. I think Rust is the answer, but I would like to see more languages try to fill that gap--competition is healthy.

Programs written in C and C++ may have issues because the languages assume the programmer knows what they are doing. This assumption leads to some great solutions to hard problems because the programmer is essentially free to do what they want.

Of course, this assumption, as with most others, doesn't always hold true. This doesn't mean there is a problem with the language. The problem is with the programmer.

If you're going to write something like "return ({goto L; 0;}) && ({L: 5;});", no language is going to save you.

C and C++ are still used today, in part, because modern languages try to restrict the programmer. Rather than assume the programmer knows what they are doing, they assume the programmer is stupid and needs help to cross the road. By assuming stupidity, the restrictions modern languages put in place prohibit certain solutions and as such C and C++ will remain the go-to systems languages.

We do not need new languages. What we need is programmers who won't abuse the languages we already have.
I don't think this is going to be possible until computers are smart enough to understand high level maths (theorem provers have still a long way to go). A hundred different fields of research have a hundred different notations which are usually assumed to be convention and the reader is expected to know about these. The i in the summation could also refer to the imaginary unit but only if you are talking to physicists/mathematicians. Engineers use a j instead. Or what about conventions such as Einstein summation or infix operators defined by a set of axioms? How do you even recognize what a variable is or that \oplus is likely an operator or that z^*z is not a typo but a superscript indicating complex conjugation followed by an implicit multiplication symbol?

In addition, much of the math out there is described in words, rather than pure formulae. Humans are capable to reason about these things because we are trained to have an abstract understanding of what these things mean in a given context (and we can actually understand text).

A naive implementation of checking correctness of equations would likely return an incomprehensibly long list of cases where your equation might not make sense. A program that could check each and every step of your computation needs to understand your notation and definitions. While this is possible in principle – I assume you could do that for one particular problem with Mathematica – it would take you at least a few orders of magnitude more time to implement your sanity-check program for a particular problem than to check your equations by hand.
There's bound to be people out there (other than me) that hate dealing with other humans - let alone other humans who barely understand the language you speak, have bad hearing and work in a noisy environment.
One "smallville" startup I worked for turned about $2M in investment into a $60M sale.

How'd Groupon's investors make out on their returns?
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> Obesity is most prevalent in countries without overdeveloped food supply chains and food marketing apparatus.

My eyes are telling me a different story.) But I live in Asia most of the time.

huffingtonpost? economist? research?) Give me a link to something on coursera or edX at least.)

Most of diseases are imbalances in homeostasis. The causes of such imbalances could be genetic or acquired. Most of the later ones could be called habits or conditioning, and could be treated by appropriate CBTs - by corresponding changes of behavior and habits to return back to the balance.

This is the basis of ancient medical sciences (at least in India), which served humanity very well, except, of course, the cases of bacteria and virus caused diseases, which is quite different kind of an imbalance due to activities of an external parasite.

There is a good starting point - https://www.coursera.org/learn/childnutrition

Keep in mind that it is slightly biased by being "American middle class".)
Video review of demo version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlo8jHHeP8Y
Downvoting for no reason. Not worth trying to converse with who ever is responsible.
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I don't see anything that supports the hypothesis in the title. There's no indication of what these people who have "decades of experience" are earning, on the graph.

And going by those numbers, it appears they are way off.

Judging by the salaries I know of a team I worked with recently, only 2-3 years of experience (and no degree) earns %30-%40 more than the degree starting amount. This implies you would be better off with 3 years of experience and no degree than spending 4 years getting a degree. Or even 3 years.

For those with even more experience the salaries ranged from twice to %150 of the starting income of recent college graduates.

Even a graduate degree doesn't seem to pay by these numbers.

Of course I'm eyeballing it with a relatively small sample-- but they aren't providing any statistically significant numbers for the experienced incomes.