skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet those people in Ethiopia were using hand labor and baskets to build dams. That doesn't look like scalable western farming. It looks a lot harder. So the argument "Move them to the West where modern farming techniques are available" now becomes very, very much more efficient that leaving them where they are.
Argh, the stereogram animations on this page are of the "stare into infinity" type rather than "cross your eyes type". The first one is impossible for me due to insufficient interpupillary distance, combined with my inability to diverge my eyes. :)
True, but it's pretty easy to do 600 calories of exercise in 45 mins. Which is still a hamburger or so (not the fries.)
a 3-inch QR Code on a giant billboard won't even be recognizable as a QR code. You'll never even see the cat.
Why hasn't someone written a good 2 to 2/3 converter which also updates old c libraries? Wouldn't that speed up conversion considerably? It shouldn't be too hard to do it for the c libraries as well, or am I missing something?
I've been working on the same thing for quite some time, I hope to launch this year now that I have time again. Love to see this theme continuing to appear in HN.
Why not a gallery of screenshots, with the individual screenshots being links to the example sites?
Well, "The Right to Read" was published in February of 1997 in "Communications of the ACM".

So, it was enough of a problem that a mainstream computer research publication (which normally has a lag of 6-12 months) published it. In early 1997.

Please do remember that you cannot rely on Google for history prior to about 1998. (Try hunting for information about VB6 programming for a concrete non-controversial example).

Also, please do remember that we were fighting things on multiple fronts. Encryption was still a munition. The web was still in its infancy. DVD's had just come out in 1995 and file sharing was just reaching critical mass. Many of us were coordinating by email and Usenet(gasp) and long-distance phone(GASP!).

In addition, many people had an attitude that we didn't need to fight since it was impossible for the law to touch the Internet (damage and routing around it and all that hooey). Boy were they wrong.

To top it off, a bunch of companies that were the DotCom sweethearts were happy to sell out our rights in order to help their bottom lines. They were quite happy to support the DMCA, and many are now successful venture capitalists (they learned from Steve Jackson to sell out to the government). These folks are quite happy to whitewash their involvement in lobbying for the DMCA.

So we were there. And we were fighting against it. We were just heavily outgunned.
Try exercising. Apparantly it will make you breathe more heavily.
Is there a thorough getting started guide for asyncio floating someplace on the web? I tried to pick up asyncio a few weeks ago. The official documentation assumes a lot of background that I don't possess, despite being a long-time Python user. Each method and class seems to be documented, but conceptual and end-to-end examples were much less common. Thanks in advance!
I've had even worse luck trying to convince people that trees are mostly made from air and water.
What made you decide to build what you are building? Have you talked to any end users in your target market?
As I mentioned the last time this came up, I recently converted a medium-sized (about 30,000 lines) system from Python 2 to Python 3. The problem is not the language changes. Those are minor, and most of the new forms worked in Python 2.7.9. It's the state of the external modules. Important old Python 2 modules have been discontinued, and their replacements are not used enough or tested well enough to use reliably. I kept finding bugs that should have been found in the first months of heavy use of a module.[1] It took an extra month of work to find and work around all the external module bugs. These aren't obscure modules; they're ones most large server-side applications would need.

Porting was at least possible. Two years ago, I took a look at doing this, and there weren't enough modules ready to even attempt it. Now there are. There is progress. Slow progress.

The download statistics tell the story: "We can see that in the past year Python 3.x has grown from roughly 2% of the total downloads from PyPI to roughly 5-6%."[2] That's why the external modules don't work reliably on Python 3. 95% of the package use is on Python 2. Python 2 use is probably higher than that, since those are download statistics; PyPI doesn't see packages downloaded long ago and still running.

There's extensive denial about this among Python fans. That's a big part of the problem. Another problem is that PyPI is just a link farm - unlike CPAN, it doesn't centralize code hosting, bug tracking, support forums, and quality control. This allows Python fans to be unaware of how buggy the packages are.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378898, search for "quality control"
[2] https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/
your skin is your body's largest organ and one of the fascinating aspects of it is just how rapidly it both sheds or is sloughed off and just as quickly replaced
This is gonna be great for the lucky people who get the used vinyl after the billboard comes down.
The url leads to the home page of the blog, this should be instead - https://mitchkirby.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/where-does-weigh...
Are you trolling again, yummy? Or are you honestly too thoughtless to recognize that a stream of people who have no long-term stake in a building do not conduct themselves in the same community-oriented way that's normal among those who do?
This is good, DHH basically is talking about making rails (in the future version 5ish) more flexible for all those people building just backend rails apis that are consumed by seperate client frontends, mentions integrating websockets too. So it sounds like this is the first step in that direction.
If rubbing and ah... friction accounted for a significant amount of weight loss, I'm sure I would be at a much healthier weight...
Interesting to see the justification for screwing engineers on the pay.

EDIT:

To clarify--the idea of commission is effectively an equity stake in either the revenue or profit (depending on the setup, right)?

So, the sales folks see an immediate return on their work. The engineers, while salaried, have no such visceral link to the performance of the product...just some trivial paper and the thin sliver of hope they won't be fucked over during an exit.
That's absurdly high. If you can sustain that level of activity, you likely don't have the weight problem in the first place.

I'm a couch potato, I can burn about 300 cals per half-hour (according to the stationary bike machine or elliptical). In my better days, that was up to 350 cals per half-hour, I was quite fit but not athletic.
Nah, that's another layer of the smokescreen. Lift the veil and you'll find an all out war against the rights of the "little people", be it consumer rights, labor rights, what have you.

The sharing economy is to ordinary people what strip mining is to nature.
Amazon will reveal AWS revenue this week: Likely ~$6-7B this year
Teh Googles say the normal rate of skin shedding is about 1.5 pounds per year.

Enhancing that seems like it would lead to a lot of discomfort for a little gain.
This is of course trivially verifiable. To burn 1000 calories in 45 minutes if your body is an average 25% efficient requires around 385W of continous power output. The majority of women will struggle to output this for a mere minute while most men won't last 5.

So no, your 45 minutes of HIIT isn't burning 1000 calories, and if calories are your goal, you would obviously not be doing HIIT in the first place (what's the point in getting nauseous when you can just produce these steady watts).

(That said, I still heavily disagree with the grandparent; exercise is as much part of a diet as is calories in / out. If you can do 150W for a grand total of 5 hours every week, that totals 2500kcal or more than an extra days worth. For many people, time spent exercising is also time spent not sitting idly in front of a TV and eating.)
The luck is in having the resources necessary to apply the idea. Many people can identify a gap in the market which could form a profitable business, but in order to actually build that business you need capital and connections.
The author is a shill for the capitalists and corporations and he's just trying to make a buck here glamorizing underemployment and selling poverty and desperation to the masses in the name of modernity and progress.
While many people who don't start never make it. This doesn't mean every who starts does.

My point was you need to do all the hard work. But luck play a huge role after that or at that stage.

Either way you can still get rich if you are lucky. In fact that is what luck is about. Its an unfair advantage.
Differential Analysis of Block Ciphers SIMON and SPECK [pdf]
Not minimum-wage, no. More likely a lawyer (or banker or doctor or programmer) earns $100k+/yr., invests in real estate, and ends up a real estate millionaire/billionaire.

When you look at the end millions, the initial few hundred thousand seem inconsequential, but it's a lot easier to get there if you can invest $100k/yr rather than from $5k/yr. (Saving $5k/yr while earning minimum wage is difficult. Saving $100k/yr. while earning $150k/yr., not so much--assuming all these earnings are after taxes.)
> including my colleagues and especially dietitians

That is fairly astounding... I'm a paramedic and while I don't recall talking about this specifically, the answer was immediately obvious from the (comparatively limited) amount of A&P training we receive.
We've spoken to many folks in the legal field and they love the idea of having a messaging platform that puts all conversation components in a timeline so docs, comments, etc stay easily readable. We think that those pain points exist in other verticals (who want a email-like UX but with an updated feature set) so we're trying to scope that out with this round of feedback.
Answering for myself: No, they don't. But if I'm not willing to pay for it, I also have no right to consume it.
I wish it was possible to know how much of that 5–6% were actual users, and how much were people running tests.
Some analogies are perfect, they are called isomorphisms, and, if found, are very powerful.
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It's not a good idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
No no, your claim was this: "so much that it's considered wrong on many points by economists of all political persuasions."

Good economists expanding on or critiquing small parts of a huge work doesn't represent any sort of repudiation of it; it's the scientific process. And the people paid to object to it (Heritage et al.) will naturally do what they are paid to do; that too represents no sort of repudiation.

Krugman on Piketty: "It’s a remarkable claim—and precisely because it’s so remarkable, it needs to be examined carefully and critically. Before I get into that, however, let me say right away that Piketty has written a truly superb book. It’s a work that melds grand historical sweep—when was the last time you heard an economist invoke Jane Austen and Balzac?—with painstaking data analysis. And even though Piketty mocks the economics profession for its “childish passion for mathematics,” underlying his discussion is a tour de force of economic modeling, an approach that integrates the analysis of economic growth with that of the distribution of income and wealth. This is a book that will change both the way we think about society and the way we do economics."

For someone who hasn't read the book, you sure have a lot to say about it.

> the majority of those born into the top quintile do not stay there [about 55% leave].

Another way to write that would be that 45% of those born into the top quintile never have a single year in their adult lives (age 18-110) when they don't have a household income of at least $100K. Not when they're a student in college; not when they're on their deathbed at age 98. That's astonishing. And the other 55%... do have a year, sometime in their adult lives, when they don't have a household income of at least $100K. Does that mean they were suddenly poor? Not hardly.
For someone who just heard about this change, what Google tool are you referring to?
Every cellphone I've disassembled has the 2.4GHz antenna not on-chip, but in the case. I've seen PCB antennas as well, but not on-chip whenever efficiency matters.
I think you're confusing humans with Nibblonians...
There's a fairly good article on implementing this that solves many of the problems at http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building previously discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
New age of artificial intelligence
I don't know what the replicator module does, but from RethinkDB's end, it allows you to avoid polling (which is a scalability thing, lots of really nice library APIs are built on top of dead-slow polling of the database).

RethinkDB also lets you write queries and subscribe to changes on the query itself. So in mongo, you can tail the replication oplog to avoid polling, but you still need to filter every event happening on the database for the ones you're interested in. On top of that, if you need to do transformations of the data, you have to re-apply them to what you get from the oplog. With RethinkDB, you write the same query you would have, and the database can be very efficient in only sending changes you're actually interested in, and send them with the transformations you asked to be applied.

Check out these slides if you're interested: http://deontologician.github.io/node_talk/#/
Or the ability to make those connections to get the capital. All the stepping stones are there offering many paths to success, you just have to be willing to do the leg work to get from one to the next.
IANAD, but I don't think your are going to change the cell division rate in the skin that way. You will just end up performing trauma to your skin if you remove the upper layers of the skin (past the stratum corneum I think) faster than it can grow back.
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Stallman himself is very well aware of this issue and has written about it: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
Also, please don't break page up/down, home/end navigation.

And don't use links/buttons that simply scroll to a different part of your way too long page.

Just don't even put completely different pages (about 1 screen height each if I'm lucky) below one another.

To be more constructive: If you must have a sticky header bar with link buttons, just let me use left/right arrow keys or left/right swipes to navigate them

Thank you.
Terrible website. Explains very few of the core questions people will have.

Size of a default square?

Where is the square I buy going to be on the billboard?

Where in each city will the billboard be placed?

Who are you people?

Why should I trust you are going to do it?

How much do you think will be left over to donate to charity?
The question is somewhat badly phrased.

I think many people interpret it as "Why do I lose weight?" or even "Where does that fat go when I lose weight" and answer correctly: your body uses up your fat stores as fuel when there's no easy sugar available. Calling that a wrong answer is a bit unfair, there's nothing technically incorrect about it.

However, that's not what was asked - the question is where does the mass go? After all, if you light a fire inside a box, the box doesn't get lighter.

The trap is that there are by-products from the chemical reactions which have to go somewhere, and that somewhere is typically through respiration (and excretion).
Well it's open-source for one thing. And the MPL is a pretty accommodating license in that it works equally well alongside proprietary code, the GPL or more permissive MIT/BSD licenses.
It doesn't have to be, but it probably will be. I'm in Chicago and even our second airport, Midway, is showing signs of pressure. I can think of a handful of other second tier airports in major cities in similar positions.

I think this is going to become a very heated topic over the next 25 years. The general public has been groomed to believe that cheap airfare on a several-hundred-million-dollar vehicle with incomprehensibly good safety standards is a birthright, so when the cost of air travel starts going a lot higher, people are going to freak out. We can make all sorts of tweaks to alleviate the problem (load efficiency, bigger planes, more seats/plane, longer hours of operation, etc) but at some point the inherent limits of a fixed number of runways, gates, and slots is going to catch up to us, and that's when the price of a ticket for many particular routes is going to go vertical.
... combined with the fact that many who work out heavily increase their caloric intake (eat more). :D
Genuinely curious where you get the 25% efficient number. Is that an established figure for cyclists or something?
Presumably https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

See also http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/11/helping-u... and http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/02/finding-m...
While you may not hit 100% of the shots you take, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
That gave me horrible flashbacks
So the argument "Move them to the West where modern
farming techniques are available" now becomes very,
very much more efficient that leaving them where they
are.

But the argument wasn't for "just leaving them where they are" - it was for bringing them modern farming techniques.

The reason that wasn't done has more to do with politics and economics (in the sense that there isn't as much money to be made by doing so - same reason why nobody is going to spend billions/trillions bringing them to Montana).
Thanks, this is helpful. You mention having marketing by the time you hire the VP Sales, and you link to a few posts on hiring VP of Sales- do you have any links/thoughts on hiring marketing?
The resting metabolic rate thing is a myth. In fact if you google metabolism myths that's one of the biggest one. Just going off memory a pound of muscle burns like 10 calories per day while a pounch of fat burns like 5. So replacing a pound of fat with a pound of muscle nets you 5 calories burned per day. Not exactly amazing considering you need to burn about 3,500 calories to lose a pound of fat.

Also consider... I'm a 33 year old 215lb man. An hour at the gym lifting weights is about 340 calories, or approximately the amount of calories you get by drinking a couple glasses of soda at lunch and dinner. You need 10 trips to the gym or 10 days without soda. Assuming you go to the gym 3 days per week, that's 3 weeks of exercising compared to 1.5 weeks of drinking water instead of soda.
Does someone have more information in whether the 'spoofing' used is illegal?

From Nanex (http://www.nanex.net/) I occasionally read of a practice called 'quote stuffing' which involves mass cancellation of orders.

It seems so ridiculous that no one on Wall Street in prosecuted and yet this guy from the UK somehow gets charged with what seems to be the common practice of HFT firms. Does anyone have more information on this?

It just seems so out of place that the damage caused can be so single handedly. If someone had nefarious intentions in a foreign government attacking financial infrastructure is probably something like our generations nukes - without the blood. I'm still dumbfounded by the scale of damage by something economic theory/markets say shouldn't happen.

Am I an area 51 guy or is something seriously wrong?
Thanks for the pointer - I have reconfigured our Apache to support the ailing browsers affected by a stricter cipher suite selection.
Like the concept, but the name is confusing. I get it is coming from a separate gem, but hopefully it is renamed to convey what the intent is.
It took 200 years and a lot of bloodshed to establish those working rights. It's ironic how they're now being destroyed and workers themselves let this happen. I guess the social memory is capped at the timespan of two generations.
British Trader Navinder Sarao Arrested Over 2010 Flash Crash
Yeah ... just lost 10 mins trying to play this. Super sticky. Frustrates me in a way I haven't felt since Flappy Bird was released. :)
Thank you, you're right, I was speaking of a patronage like in the case of https://www.patreon.com
There’s that, and then there’s also long-ago exotic architectures where you weren’t processing untrusted data, you really did care about improving your performance by ½%, and it really was worth the massive amount of programmer time needed to debug the resulting problems. There’s a famous apocryphal quote that writing C for the Cray (?) compiler was like “writing to [the programmer’s] ex-wife’s lawyer”.

Also, there are still Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems in use.
The structure and function of the corporate organism (2000)
No, because it is not scalable.

Your epidermis grows at a specific rate and will not really grow faster if you remove it. If you remove it faster, you will develop scar tissue, which is not desirable.

An interesting way to remove fat is lactation. It is the only biologically "native" way to directly remove lipids. Unfortunately this is only available for lactating females.
The train of thought that has me leaning towards becoming vegetarian is along the lines of:

If an advanced alien species came to Earth, how would I want them to treat humans? How about in the case that they are advanced to a level that comparing their abilities and technology to humans would be the same as comparing human technology and abilities to that of birds or dogs or cows?

Would I want them to dismiss our primitive (from their perspective) nests as the work of an unintelligent beast? Would I want them to corral us into pens and feed us fattening foods before harvesting our bodies? Would I want them to feed us hormones and genetically modify our bodies to produce more milk or grow larger muscles for consumption? Would I want them to breed the outliers of our species to create extremely large and extremely small "pure-breeds" of humans as a novelty? Would I want them to dismiss our primitive verbal communication as nothing more than cheerful song and make no attempt at all to understand what we are trying to express?
I used essentially the same technique when coding an alternate reader for a long-running webcomic[1][2]

With use of url hashes, you can even deep-link to specific scroll positions, allowing links to be shared sanely.

As you have to know the dimensions of each "page" upfront to keep the scrollbar honest, I think this technique fits better with image-based content; textual content can have unpredictable flowing with different browser fonts, plus as siblings have noted it breaks ctrl-f.

[1]: http://tangent128.name/depot/toys/freefall/freefall-flytable...
[2]: https://github.com/Tangent128/freefall-speedreader
> A block of steel has the same mass at the top and bottom of a hill.

This is only approximately true. It would be hard to measure the difference, for sure. Relativity gives a lot of seemingly bizarre results:

* If you carry something uphill, it gains mass as you go. (Kind of... consider that it is part of a system which includes the Earth.)

* If you compress a spring, it gains mass.

* If you charge a battery, it gains mass.

* If you fire a laser into space, it will have a longer wavelength when it gets there.

* If you hook a shaft from the ground into space and turn it, it will turn faster at the bottom and slower at the top.

We live in the "middle ground" which is well approximated by Newton's laws. Strictly speaking, Newton's laws are false.
Atlassian Stash now supports AWS deployment
At least they're not calling it mobile-gate or whatever.