skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I got to the point where it said 'Americans average consumption rate is 3 glasses of milk per day'. The Washington Post writes at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/20/t... :

> Forty years ago, per capita consumption was nearly one and a half cups per day; now it's nearer to 0.8.

A "glass" is typically 8 ounces, which is one cup, so "3 glasses per day" hasn't been true for a very long time.

Then there's the old "Cow milk is good for calves(baby cows). Is it [sic] not produced to be consumed by our children ... These facts raise another question mark – Why are we lactose intolerant? Because everyone is lactose intolerant more or less (bloating is one symptom for that and we all gave it)."

There's good genetic evidence that we have modified our babies (among the descendants of cow herding peoples) so they are indeed better able to digest milk, even as adults. And of course we have bred cows from the auroch, among other things to make them better at producing milk for our children.

Lactase persistence is one of the biggest genetic changes compared to our paleolithic ancestors. See http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-the-milk-revolution-1... for one summary.
Weighing their green of course, whether that be money or weed.
Such cool sounding things make me wish I went to graduate school for mathematics... I really wish one could learn such things on their own free time, may be even publish in their free time separate from affiliation with a university or educational institution.
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I totally agree with your first point. He seems to be saying that you are no good to him if you have not worked on side projects or open source. He seems blinded by his 35 years in the industry, and seems to not understand two things:
1) That there are a ton of companies that give 0 time for open source
2) That some people just write code as a job, not as a hobby. Personally, I would want my employees to give me 100% of their effort on coding. If they are going home and coding, how much effort are they actually putting in at work?
Sure, there's a limit to how large you can go, but people have recently been doing DFT e.g. for the interaction between DNA bases and graphene sheets, which is quite respectable. Quantum computing may offer better scaling at large n, but since quantum computing is still largely unproven in practice, and in particular since quantum hardware gets much harder to design and implement as you increase the system size, it's quite probable that classical computing will remain faster for the next 50 or 100 years.

You can compare it with matrix multiplication: we know of several algorithms that are better than the naïve O(n^3), but they're essentially never used in practice.
I know this is in hindsight, but having watched The Matrix, I would have been distrustful of an online handle called "Cirrus".
Here's an example of some of my own quite-functional python code I wrote when I was a couple months into coding: https://github.com/pconerly/Go-Analyzer/blob/master/goa.py (This analyzes .sgf records of Go games and tries to find examples of Joseki in them.) I add more functions (and classes!) than I remembered, but the code quality is still pretty horrible. You can get a lot done with horrible code.
Had never heard it until now, will definitely use it more now that I know it gets a reaction.

;)
I can personally guarantee you that comments don't have to be 'insightful' to get karma.
Believe it or not, coffee! You can't see it in the picture, but I keep my aeropress and grinder in my room as well.
"Vinux is a Ubuntu derived distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users."

http://vinuxproject.org/

I used to know someone who used an Ubuntu-derived distribution and seemed to get on fine with a screen reader and a set of headphones on his laptop. I think it was Vinux, but I'm not sure.
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Ask HN: I'm terrified of death. What do I do?
Hello HN. I'm posing this question here because I identify the most with this community and I want to see if this is common among those in my in-group.

I am in my very early 20s and I do exceedingly well for myself, even by software engineer standards. My life is overall very fulfilling and happy, with the exception of one deep rooted anxiety that comes out before I go to sleep.

Every time I try to go to sleep, I find that my mind begins contemplating death very heavily. I begin thinking about how much time I have left to live, envisioning myself growing old and feeble, and thinking about how fragile my body is. I think about how my heart could stop, or a blood vessel in my brain could hemorrhage in my sleep.

My mind also drifts to very strange things, like wondering how I would know if my consciousness is not annihilated every night, and all of my memories are not simply deposited into a new brain in a new simulation (but not "me") in the morning.

I am terrified of mortality, and despite being so young I think about it in fear every single night. I don't know why I am so fixated on it at this age.

Does anyone else have any experience with this?
It's actually the web scale that you get for using mongoDB.
SSE is awesome, and Gin seems to have a nice implementation. I definitely like the usage for realtime streaming stats since that's a one-way stream.

Chat, however, would be better served with websockets. If it's bidirectional, use websockets and avoid both upstream and downstream cost of setting up a connection.

SSE works, but you should consider it tech debt if you decide to go that way.

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They don't make these decisions lightly. They have done the market research and must have deemed it an acceptable loss to lose these desktop people.
I live in the Mission, not more than 2 blocks from the place they mention and yet I can't relate to this either.
One idea I had was to turn http://www.arthunted.com into a service. So you can specify parameters and sites to crawl and gather data, on demand. $5 a day times xxxx users.
So long as the 'stoic' lack of words isn't an obvious-to-all sullen pout, I can't think of a reason anyone would react negatively to someone who fronts satisfaction in a group setting. Rather, it's over-sharing and over-complaining that will repulse (except in the mutual dance of [platonic or otherwise] intimacy+trust).
Wow, I love this. I can't believe I never wished for something like this.
It is kind of humorous that you change the definition of police state because you want so badly to call the US a police state.

"A nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy."

Not exactly a great fit.
I assume you had two options, 100k for a year or 10k for 2 years (I think)? (I've seen these offers)

Is that the case? And if so, why not take the other option?
I'm trying to determine exactly what he thinks. While I do feel like there are cases where parents can abuse their power to make kids do dangerous things that they should not do, I do not think forcing kids to do things that -- with their limited experience -- they think are dangerous is a bad thing.
Ask HN: How do you navigate long, complicated code?
In my job, I have to work with existing code that is thousands of lines long per class, with tons of different classes. It's hard for me to memorize what every single class and function does just because there are so many.

Ideally, I would like to memorize what everything does so that I have a big-picture understanding of all of our code, and can approach problems from this perspective.

But, to get to this point would take hours and hours of reading the code over and over.

I wanted to ask other developers, what is your strategy in dealing with lots of code like this? Do you approach it from the perspective of trying to know everything, or do you just deal with the small blocks that are most relevant? If the latter, how do you think about how this small block affects everything?
Just spent an hour researching this...now back to work! Not a fan of the dead spot.
That was great! It reminded me of many similar government-sponsored films in India, but it was much more graphic than anything I've seen from that era.

The hindi sign at the end translates to: "Please behave lovingly toward your neighbor." Which I thought was far better than just using the direct verb "love".
Yeah those brain eating amoebas are far scarier because you can't see them :-/
Tried EventMachine in the past but not with this particular use case. Actually my nginx+passenger configuration allowed for 12 workers, but I may have counted wrong the running instances at the time of the deadlock.
Anyway, what is interesting to me is trying to understand how actually Rails handles and releases MySQL connections. In fact, even with the timeout dance I implemented I didn't seem to succeed in releasing MySQL connections.
mine dogecoin? (j/k)
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$100k is so much bigger number.
That link seems to be geolocation-specific. For me it returns salaries from 23 to 31k [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/cCq85nI
Excellent, excellent. Does it phone home?

That is, does it connect strictly to the HN and only websites explicitly opened by the user? Or does it talk to something else on the Internet behind user's back?
All that glitters isn't gold. Wake me up when Microsoft makes a serious effort to make Visual Studio a cross platform development suite.

We all know the only reason this exists is because Microsoft has little traction in the smartphone market and app developers won't target their hardware. If Microsoft phones were the market leader they would not give two fucks about portability.
When I lived in Florida, we called that "swimming".
Resolving everything on a case-by-case basis means high transaction costs. A blanket ban on some less-than-popular activity is arguably economically inefficient, but the net cost to individuals is negligible, whereas the cost to someone negatively affected by the unpopular activity is high, and we can all (except perhaps for you) imagine being the one stuck with the problem.

Say this is happening to you: you're trying to sleep but the short-term renters next door are having a loud party, and although you already asked them to stop they ignored you. You lie awake fuming about it, but planning for how you would like to get the property owner fined isn't doing anything to stop the noise right now. Furthermore, even if the property owner is fined, then it's still possible that in 6 months time he'll rent the place out to some jerks who'll do the same thing. So, the property owner may get fined again, but the jerks don't care, because they're jerks - it's oin a stolen credit card, they're leaving the country, they're high on drugs and are incapable of realizing that this will result in bad credit, whatever. Do you want to go through the same process of filing a complain and eventually having the property owner fined every time this happens, or do you just want to get with your neighbors and say 'fuck it, no more short-term rentals in our building/street' at the next HOA or neighborhood meeting?
I've heard plenty of complaints on the design - personally it never bothered me.

What I like about it is definitely the IRC-killing type features:

* Has the benefits of IRC (public channels)
* So many integrations! That's where IRC really fails vs Slack
* Smart notifications, including push notifications

Multiple organizations within one application helped me never turn on IRC, Telegram and Hipchat. I replaced 3 apps with one!
San Francisco is starting to be considered part of Silicon Valley.
Been using the beta for a couple of months and I love the export options w/ various code comment flavors. It makes it much easier to drop in some no-so-subtle hints. For example:

https://github.com/bigbang/HelloAndroid/blob/master/app/src/...
I used to work with some blind individuals, and one thing that's hard to relate to is how much more attention they give to things that sighted individuals do not, such as sounds, spatial relationships, etc. I wouldn't think they'd have any problem, for example, opening a specific app on their iPhone solely by its position on the home screen.
Sure but it's like saying "here's a meal for 20, you have to eat it all today... or I'll feed you and only you for a year"
I can't download it from the Play Store either... but it didn't tell me that it was because I wasn't part of Google Plus... I even tried a few Google accounts and different browsers (in case addons were blocking something necessary). I guess I will pull out my unused Windows Phone.

The error I got:

Sorry - nothing to see here.

There may be several reasons:
The app you’re looking for doesn't exist
or
the app developer is not currently running a test
or
you are not eligible to participate in the testing program.
If you received the link to this page from someone, we recommend you contact them for more information.
Well, if you're literally not going to use it - and you'll lose it at the end of a year... Can you donate it to Folding@Home or something?

I'm guessing AWS wouldn't want you to...
Look up some of the prime factorization prizes and do the math to see if it is achievable.
I built a shell in Haskell for a class project this semester. At some point I'll get around to releasing it on Github. It doesn't do much aside from backgrounding tasks, piping, and supporting environment variables (both in a config file and dynamically through a built in export command). But it was fun to build!
Ahh yes, thank you.
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Can you explain HOW are you compressing the json data? Ex, is it just block-pgzip-compress? Or are you exploding each jsonb-field as a separate file like with normal columns ?
How often does it really happen that CPS or the police are involved when a kid walks alone to grandma's or builds a tree-house? These are rare, shocking cases that get into the news and are discussed on the internet.

Please be careful to not fall into the fear trap. Safety-nuts are afraid about rare "worst case" scenarios where a child is harmed. And then safety-nut-critics get themselves scared about rare cases where CPS or police are called a child playing alone.

Just go ahead and let your kid be a kid.
Why can't you mine bitcoin?
Here are some options you might want to consider:

- Windows 8.1 with Internet Explorer 10 with built-in "use the computer without a display" options turned on

- A Chromebook with Chromevox (you can go through the Chromevox tutorial on any computer with Chrome, but the keybindings are slightly different for each OS)

- An iPad with VoiceOver
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Posted elsewhere in this thread as well, but believe it or not, coffee! You can't see it in the picture, but I keep my aeropress and grinder in my room as well.
IE8 is growing because people are moving off of IE5/6/7. Soon they'll have to move off IE8 as well, but I imagine that IE8 is the logical stopover since apps that only ran in older IE versions don't require a lot of work to run in IE8. Getting them up to modern browser standards, though, will take time.

Example: many many years ago I worked on a project that used XML Data Islands as an early form of AJAX-like functionality. You could fairly easily modernize it up to IE8 without major changes. But to go beyond that would require heavy rewrites.
I'd recommend a Synology NAS which gives you your own private cloud. You can install lots of different apps and platforms and has dynamic DNS support out of the box. You also get other cool NAS benefits like DNLA and a bunch of apps for iOS and Android as well (I think)
What I found missing in LinkedIn is a way to show the chain of people that connect you with another person. Xing has this and it's really fun to play with it.

I left LinkedIn when they had their data breach in 2011 so I don't know if they have added this feature in the last couple of years. And apropos data breach - trust, maybe trust, that's for me the main thing that's missing.
I worked remotely for a long time and am very much in favor of remote work. But I am uncomfortable with this idea that hiring remotely means you're going to get the best of the best, and not really pay for it, or rather pay for it by "letting" the developer work remotely. You're not getting someone on, I dunno, Yehuda Katz's level for $80k because they work at home.
>Personally, I would want my employees to give me 100% of their effort on coding. If they are going home and coding, how much effort are they actually putting in at work?

If you owned a restaurant, would you object to your cooks going home and making themselves a nice meal?

Note: This is more of an idle curiosity thing that popped into my head reading your comment. This is not a "Boom, roasted!" type of comment.
There are places in Florida to swim without alligators.
Romney basically implemented Obamacare before Obamacare even existed in his own state. Had he won, he would have implemented it at the federal level. The only reason he was against Obamacare during the campaign was because he was running against Obama. ObamaCare by the way isn't that great, it's more of a kayak for private insurances than anything else and it benefits them more than anyone else, it's kind of yet another extra tax that benefits a few corporations.
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Yes my dream is one chat app to rule them all. Probably never happen and right now I have way to many chat apps for one person to reasonably manage. :)
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Nice. It didn't like <> as a username, however. The chat will no longer load.
Here is the video and its transcript: https://ripe70.ripe.net/archives/video/111/
It was a great talk, I attended it in person today.

Let me also point out these other two very interesting talks from the same session:

1] A clever mindset from Geoff Huston (APNIC) to target IPv6 expansion: try to address rich people first! https://ripe70.ripe.net/archives/video/118/

2] A surprising statistic from RIPE itself: "The R&D team discovered that more than 400 LIRs stopped announcing their IPv6 prefixes in the last 12 months". https://ripe70.ripe.net/archives/video/122/
Don't take this the wrong way, but it's obvious from this comment that you've never spent any time working with a blind person on an interface. This idea that a blind person would need tactile feedback comes from a sighted person imagining what it would like to be blind, not the experience of actual blind people with buttons vs touchscreens.
Yes! Both the web and mobile versions are in this repo:

https://github.com/michaelcheng429/Goose-Windmill

Thanks for the input!
That's actually pretty interesting. I just threw something hyperbolistic out there to make a point, but I remember reading some stuff about Ebola a while back, where they were making some of these same points.

Interestingly enough, the main "thing" that ever got me intrigued by the idea of a "deadly superbug" was reading The Stand by Stephen King.
Yes! It is surprising the amount of accessibility features in apple's products. The platforms are usually very simple to use and work very well when voice controlled.
Its not just on web, it is available on both iOS and Android and works quite well on all 3 platforms.
Actually, a considerable part of world's IPv6 population are DSL users nowadays.
scrapinghub seems to be the top dog in this space. You might want to check it out.

What's your background? Are you looking for business idea that can be built upon your existing site, or are you looking for something completely new?
You reacted too quickly - the front end part is important to the rest of that quote. Some people (not me personally) consider Photoshop and a small amount of photo editing (think cropping/resizing) as a legitimate part of front-end work. So it can make some sense to ask for that in a front-end dev. But it doesn't make sense if you're trying to hire someone to work on an API or something, to ask them to also be good with Photoshop.
The author's observed speed discrepancy between iterators and while loops makes me think that they forgot to compile with optimizations, as the difference between those programs is almost negligible on my end.
I think this is a very curious way to go about things. Some of these kids are undoubtedly successful early on, but dropping out at high-school is something that seems a bit weird to me--and I say this as someone who was consistently bored in highschool, nevermind college. I think I'm a fundamentally different person thanks to my college education, and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

Some people have gotten incredibly wealthy following dropping out (Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Larry Page [Phd dropout], Steve Jobs)--and I think there may some sort of category mistake in equating that smart + dropout = success. That said, each of these people were well educated to begin with. There is likely a fair bit of truth in that the education experience isn't for everyone, and I would support those individuals in doing their own things--though I would caution against short-circuiting a growth process.

I'm still a student finishing my B.Sc., so I'm not free of bias. It appears as though these guys are doing something right given their successes so far. I'd be curious to sit down and share a beer with a few of them to better understand what makes it all tick.
I think his point is not that remote is cheaper, but that if you want the best talent, you cannot limit yourself to the people who live within commuting distance.

The Venn diagram of "best developer talent" and "developers within commuting distance" have a very small overlap for most locations.

Edit: Typos.
why don't you use the credits to try to create a publicly queryable index of the web in a standardised format?
read: open source search engine.
as you've got the money, just ignore efficiency.

else... commit part of it to one of the computing @ home proejcts?
I've also been holding the same view as you since teenage, I believe the world operates by continuous contradictions and compromises or amendments. I expect myself to honestly directly pointing out the wrong of others, but also to proactively recognize and amend my own faults when others point out.

From my own recent experience and Boz's article, I am forced to realize that not just all people operates this way, I should simply adjust. Though I still genuinely believe this is the most efficient way for people to grow and improve, because this way eliminates all the overhead of misinterpretations.

I guess Boz's personality is close to "the debater" http://www.16personalities.com/entp-personality and so do you and I.
There is a cost of the man to move first. There isn't a cost for society to be more accepting. Seems like society should move first.
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> The Internet is not blind friendly. It sucks, and we need to do better, but for now, blind people are mostly locked out of the Internet.

Really? This day and age? No one in my life is blind, so I just assumed at least some minimally level of accessibility.

I wonder how many blind and sight-impaired people there are in the general population?
I dunno man, when I was young my aunt showed us pictures of gators in her swimming pool.
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There is some technique called "normalized compression distance" that does sort of it. It uses compression to compare how similar some data is to some another.

For a similar problem, you can work like it was answered here: http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2897/t...
The preferred term by make-up artists is "spackled".