skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's way too early in life for signs of cognitive decline. Are you challenging yourself enough? Do you get adequate and deep rest? Are you preoccupied or depressed? Are you keeping yourself healthy? I know, these are personal (and maybe somewhat condescending-sounding) questions - but they're just examples for things that can impact your mental performance.

Generally, the body's ability to take punishment starts to decline in the thirties which can manifest in mental impairment, but someone who's taking good care of themselves should actually enjoy a pretty well-tuned brain. Biologically speaking there should not be enough damage to justify capability deterioration for a long time to come.

All things being equal, I'd say it comes down to the use-it-or-lose it mantra: your brain gets better in areas where it's being used, and atrophies in others where it isn't.

Mental competence is not a hallmark of youth. In fact, problem-solving performance in many fields should go up with experience, and only degrade very late in life when things like ischemic attacks, prions, cellular garbage, and the natural neuronal die-off rate all come into play as significant factors.
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Yes, there's no need to make the US the bad guy.

The key point is the way in which a treaty like this puts a whole class of what would once have been domestic legislation beyond the reach of democratic decision-making. Both in the treaties themselves, and their transnational private courts.
I thought the same thing. The README says:

> I find the process to be stupidly complicated, and handling cookies is a nightmare.

However this is about as straightforward as it can get with Requests. This is the HTTPLang example:

set URL http://somesite.com
set POSTDATA username=myUsername,password=myPassword is this
do POST /login
set COOKIE $TMPCOOKIE
do GET /usercp

Here is the equivalent in Python using Requests:

import requests

url = "http://example.com"
post_data = { "username": "myUsername", "password": "myPassword is this" }
response = requests.post(url + "/login", data=post_data)
cookies = response.cookies
requests.get(url + "/usercp", cookies=cookies)

Where's the stupidly complicated nightmare?

The only complicated things I see above are in the HTTPLang version: a variable called "URL" that isn't actually the URL that is being requested, and I guessed at how the cookie functionality worked because it's not at all obvious – I'm assuming that `set COOKIE $TMPCOOKIE` gets the cookie from the previous request and sets it for the subsequent requests.
Interesting how much of this I'd already figured out just by experimenting on myself. I definitely did not rule out tinnitus (and I had a pretty bad case of that at some point in the past, which totally ruined listening to violin music for me, but fortunately it has since reduced to the point of not being noticeable, maybe this is some kind of remnant).

Anyway, I think of it as an interesting phenomenon, it doesn't bother me much (except when trying to fall asleep, once I notice it it is impossible to stop noticing it).
How can you seriously defend the EU to the average European when you see things like this ? This kind of stories are not going to help to reduce the current distrust of everything related to the European union. All this corruption really does a disservice to the EU.
What's the advantage over a Nokia 1100 or a generic cheap chinese phone? The only one I can see is it's cute design.
This kind of thinking, the same of Fox News and the media uses, is what support this "war on terror". All of great empires thought they would never been invaded or destroyed. Until they were. It would not be that impossible to invade USA if the country's foreign policy keep turning every country in the world into an enemy. A full war against Americans (which is not impossible to happen, as the US is doing bad even to european countries) would put US in a very fragile situation.
Function composition is by far the better solution, it is future proof and requires less memorization.
I worked at a small technology company where that's still true and the company is two decades old by now (very successful in a very small market). There are probably small watch-makers that are over a century old and still a start-up by this measure.
Slide 41: "If you don't know what a thing should be called, you cannot know what it is. If you don't know what it is, you cannot sit down and write the code."

A few years ago, I programmed in Max/MSP (max4live, technically) for a while and one thing I found super-refreshing is the ease at which you could prototype and experiment your way to a solution just by not having to figure out what something should be called until you were good and ready. Ever since that time, I found that naming things is a big hindrance to evolving code from an experiment to a solution. Names get in the way until you're sure what the code is supposed to do (at which point, the above quote is true and you should be able to give it a descriptive name).
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/376qv4/john_nash_taugh...
> Uh-huh, right, because EU governments have editorial control of the evening news

Well yeah, they largely do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98

But even if they didn't, surely news organizations would co-operate for a noble cause, yes?

> No, if they really cared they would ban or strictly regulate the use of such chemicals.

Sure, and if they really cared, they could do that even despite the TTIP, or they could reject or re-negotiate the TTIP. There's no way around that, regardless of whether you trust that governments are operating with our best interests at heart.
Well they could just reject or renegotiate the TTIP then?
And I sent John Nash a letter recently: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/376qv4/john_nash_taugh...
Apologies, I was assuming recent entry on the corporate scene and a goal of growth but if you feel that small watchmakers over a century old are 'in scope' then I should have probably been more clear.
Interesting. Yeah, it's strange that I never seemed to notice the low hum until, say, 5-6 years ago. I assumed it was the house in which I was living at the time, but we moved and I continued to notice it. In my case, both areas are kind of your "standard" suburb and not too far away from one another. BTW, I've also wondered if it was from some far-off industrial source.

But, I also know we lose our high-frequency hearing as we age. I wonder if that somehow increases our sensitivity to the low frequency range.

In any case, I'll have to try the white noise. Seems like it could help with sleep quality, which might in turn reduce sensitivity to it.
Simplified, the EC is the government of the EU. Additionally, they are (almost always) the only ones that can propose legislation.
Ask HN: Is Fingerprint Authentication in phones a good idea?
Why is Fingerprint Authentication a good idea? I never understood why?

What if a Fingerprint Phisher app acquired a young adult's fingerprint when he/she was young and stupid? How can that young adult change his/her fingerprint so it cannot be used once he/she grow up to be a rich professional?

I never I understood what is good news in this.

http://mashable.com/2015/05/22/android-m-fingerprint-authentication/
While I don't know the latest research
results on the question of P versus NP,
it's long been easy to guess that
a polynomial algorithm with a high
degree polynomial, say, your million,
would on most real problem instances
be as much of a challenge as an exponential
algorithm.

But my post was not really about
your

"way of proving P = NP".

Instead I was considering the statement
in the video that showing P = NP is
important because it would let us
make progress on protein folding (for
curing cancer), scheduling, etc.
I object to that statement because
for a significant fraction of such
problem instances, including some
impressively large, we have a
significantly good chance of getting
solutions now and do not have to
wait for more research on P versus NP.

My point, then, was, if someone has
some actual problems in protein folding,
scheduling, and other NP-complete
problems, likely they do not have to
wait for an algorithm that shows
P = NP. Instead there's a significant
chance that current algorithms, software,
and computers can solve their problem
instances.

Again, NP-complete problems of size n clearly
are too challenging for "current computers"
for exact solutions to worst case
problems with large n. Here note the worst case.
Instead, and as I illustrated, there
are instances of NP-complete problems,
e.g., 0-1 integer linear programming,
where it is quite routine to find
optimal solutions to real problem
instances with impressively large n.

Important names for such work include
G. Nemhauser, E. Johnson, R. Bixby.
That is, the field of operations
research has been attacking and solving
important, practical instances of
problems in NP-complete for several
decades.

Again, if there are some important instances
of some NP-complete problems, then
don't have to wait for P = NP and, instead,
should
bring the problems forward now -- solutions
may be reasonably easy to find now.

That is, where the video clip was
essentially
claiming that to solve problems
in protein folding, scheduling, etc.,
we have to wait for a proof showing
P = NP was wrong -- for optimal solutions to
worst case
instances of large
problems, we have to wait, but not
all practical instances are worst case,
and sometimes we are quite happy with
nearly optimal solutions.
1. thats a moot point because it doesn't explain why other people might want to use it.

2. $ alias grep="grep --color"

3. it would be even easier to extend grep via pipes. Plus pipes are langauge agnostic where as extending this tool requires knowledge of Python

As a personal project, this is fine. But I really don't see the point in anyone else using it when it's slower than existing tools, no more user friendly, requires more dependancies, and isn't part of the default install like grep and find (Windows CLI) are. Plus this tool doesn't even support all instances where a TODO might appear (https://github.com/pgilad/leasot#comment-format) nor all programming languages (https://github.com/pgilad/leasot#supported-languages) like grep and find do.
passive:

He was told by a doctor to take a pill

active:

The doctor told him to take a pill
Honestly? Because my first thought was "there's no way the EU signed off on this". I challenge anyone to find a stauncher protector of consumer rights in history than the EU...
I would suggest that:

1) It isn't the same situation. The level of corruption and absolute poverty levels are not comparable.

2) Where there are similarities in "first world" countries (e.g. empty housing stock), eyes are very definitely batted. At least in the UK.

3) I would argue that 10 million empty homes in India, where there is significant slum situation, which is basically accepted and regarded as "normal", even in the capital city, is more eyebrow-raising than an empty home situation a "first world" country. I don't actually see anyone losing their minds though.
I agree. Would be nice to see the region/towns name, as well as the winner name and percentage of votes. Other aspect is the click in the zoom out (magnifier) when you are focused in a town: it goes back to the country view, when I would expect to go back to the region view. Nevertheless, nice job!
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Is SSH still firewalled in Iran?
Good luck, let me know how it works out if you want, jacques@mattheij.com.
While doing scientific research I usually just use scatter plots. If you summarise things into statistics it's too easy to miss things. However, some of those plots were unreadable -- what the hell do the colours mean in that unemployment rates graph?
What's wrong with the built-in terminal?

(Or if you want some kind of kitchen sink app, perhaps iTerm2 is what you're after.)
> Java class names are like Haskell function types.

They are conventions (like Haskell types) but they lack the laws.
and they are unelected
The problem with that is that in Europe "entry on the corporate scene" is not as much a thing as it is in the US. Most companies here are comfortable staying small or growing slowly, while American companies seem to generally seek out drastic growth. It's a culture difference that makes classifying things as startup or not startup more difficult.
How would it be any different? It is what it is...
MobaXterm is nice, but be aware that it doesn't play well with Unix tools other than the old versions that it comes bundled with. I use vagrant for all development now, so I thought that meant I could use Windows. I tried setting up an environment that used MobaXterm, a newer version of git, rsync, vagrant, VirtualBox and Emacs. That wasn't much to ask, I thought -- every other Unix tool I needed could run inside the vagrant boxes. However, I just couldn't get everything to work together after days of fiddling. One symptom of the problem: almost all of the above tools come with their own copy of SSH.

My recommendation: install mingw-get [1], and then install everything from there.

[1] http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
In general, the way the EU works is that the European Commission have the right to start all legislation. Then, in order for the legislation to pass, it has to be approved by the European Parliament (which is directly elected) and the European Council (representatives of the national governments).

What has happened here is the European Commission have scrapped legislation that was working its way through its internal mechanisms, before it was formally proposed and handed off to the Parliament.

The Commission holds enormous power, and has traditionally has been an apolitical civil service, but recently there has been a movement towards its leader being elected by the Parliament. But this has only happened a handful of times, and the President of the Commission has never been removed from his position by the Parliament. I'm not even sure if such a procedure exists.
Compared to Silicon Valley even London is full of cheap talent -- on Angel.co one can routinely see job openings offering £35-45K.
The "and you can't name it on higher level of abstraction" part is important.
I'm reading up on some computer science literature right now, and the American dominance in the field is utterly complete. I don't know what's wrong with the European (and rest of the world's) approach, but it's surprisingly bad at CS research.

I'm guessing the underlying causes are the same.
Or he works in a technologically conservative area that is slow to adopt new trends, even useful ones.

Take a look at the HN Who is Hiring threads over the past 2 years, and count up the total remote jobs. It's increasing at an impressive rate. Companies are discovering that they can still hire talented developers for average salaries (particularly those devs living in economically depressed areas).

There are thousands of devs who don't have the option to up and move to N. California or NYC. Some of them are very talented. It's not hard to figure out, and I'm sure the same dynamics are at work in Europe.
Can't a democratic decision be made to get out of the treaty? Also - international obligations in general, by their nature, restrict democratic or any other kind of sovereign decision-making. Decisions such as waging war, defaulting on debt, etc. which are often made by sovereigns illustrate that restrictions on sovereigns aren't necessarily bad.

(Not saying that TTIP is a good thing, just that I'm a bit baffled by the framing of the problems with it as a conflict between democracy and corporations or such. I'm even more baffled by the framing of defaulting on sovereign debt as a "democratic right" - again, regardless of the fact that a country's citizens might have gotten a raw deal because a corrupt government issued debt it shouldn't have, say, because it was bribed and needed liquidity to buy something useless/overpriced from whoever bribed it, etc.)
I tried to right click and inspect what was going on on their demo site and it treats left and right click as the same action. Oh dear.
Being born into system can't be an explanation, because it can explain slavery too: by being born into slavery society you have to agree to be governed by that system of law.
Neither are Merkel, Cameron, Tsipras and probably about 50% of the heads of government. I doubt there is a country where the Secretary of Defense is elected.

There's nothing wrong with an elected parliament choosing the executive, and the EU actually moved to a more direct election with the 'Spitzenkandidat' system. People still didn't care to vote for the EU parliament.
Ask HN: Why Not Nim? What's the Downside, criticisms?
Using Monads in C++ to Solve Constraints: Refactoring
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"It isn't you I don't trust - it's all the other drivers out there!"
Apologies, I completely missed that discussion.
Congress isn't above lying about this. Pelosi was dumb enough to contradict herself on that score (I could have stopped that sentence after three words). They knew. They just didn't want anyone to know they knew when the cat was out of the bag. "The CIA lied to me" sounds a lot better than "I knew what they were doing. So what?" Deflecting blame is the #1 key skill for a Congressman.

Also... "prohibited"? By whom? By rules the committee itself made. That the committee can change. Federal agencies don't have the power to prevent Congress from doing a damn thing. Don't kid yourself - Congress is the problem here.
I know quite a few friend in Poland doing remote work... for US. Especially given higher IT salaries in the US than in Western Europe, it't not that bad.

I do as well, but mostly freelancing contracts. The only thing that sucks is the timezone difference.
Well, obviously, if you have to ask someone else what style of alcohol is socially correct, you're necessarily a barbarian. If you weren't a barbarian, you'd know. ;p
The theory that remote working is advantageous has the unstated premise that the thing being optimized for is wealth. In that theory, it makes sense to use methods that let people get their jobs done with minimum cost and distraction.

In reality, money is a weaker motive than power. When workers are on site, particularly in an open plan office, the boss's brain receives reminders every hour of every day that he is wielding power over underlings. That's not what everyone cares about most - but it's the people who do care about that, who become bosses in the first place.

(In the West, it's customary to maintain the fiction that it's about money. Apparently in places like Japan and South Korea, they don't bother with that fiction; you can spend your time in the office browsing Hacker News if you like, but if your boss is in the office seventy hours a week, you've got to be there eighty hours a week.)

As for what to do about it, as I see it the main strategies, in increasing order of difficulty and potential value, are:

1. Remember that remote work is not sensitive to location, and search the whole world for remote working jobs.

2. Become a contractor and look for clients who want goods and services rather than bosses who want underlings.

3. Start your own company and try to fix the problem for other people as well as yourself.
I agree, though there is a difference between being able to explain something and naming it. I've been known to forget the word "door", but I could quite happily explain how it worked.
Earthquake in Nepal Again
Maybe http://www.royalapplications.com/ts/osx/features
and then quietly renamed Treaty of Lisbon and ratified.
> But this has only happened a handful of times, and the President of the Commission has never been removed from his position by the Parliament. I'm not even sure if such a procedure exists.

If the Santer Commission hadn't resigned, the Parliament was going to force them to.
We have fourteen separate agencies that do overlapping intelligence gathering of one sort or another. We don't need the NSA.
Is it common for type faces to be so almost completely similar? SF looks nearly identical to FF DIN to my untrained eye, but even with tiny adjustments, it's bit more than inspired by.

In so many industries we talk about here there would already have been a stream of C&D letters and injunctions would be filed in court.
My opinion based on my experience in France is that the workplace is more about appearing to be working than to actually do something useful.

So if nobody can see you working because you're not in the building you're not contributing to this illusion of work being done.

Where I 'work' I have a manager that has to invent some crazy projects just to keep me occupied. If he didn't do that I could work half a day every week and be done with it.

In my Visual Studio projects folder I have a bit less than 100 projects. Maybe 3 or 4 are actually needed by the company, 20 are test or toy projects and the rest nobody has ever used these programs past their presentation (not because they're not good but just because they're not needed).

I find it hard to stay motivated (and this is quite an understatement !)
Because no cooking equipment can deliver energy at a known precise rate. That means you cannot say "t=0 start frying meat. t=300s add liquid" because you might cook the meat faster or slower depending on equipment and what shape and size the meat was cut into.

Most recipes I have read are written as a less precise timeline though with exact times traded for estimates relative to the previous step or "until done"
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There are other client/server solutions than VT100 terminals. X11 being one of them. And you can run a remote Emacs server and connect to it via emacsclient without being constrained by several emulators as middlemen.

Plan 9's sam had a similar client/server switch, mostly because the programmers didn't really like a) character graphics and b) their host systems.
Isn't the point of having a remote job to not care where the company is registered?
Assuming you are in Benelux Area, what's the point of looking for remote company from Benelux Area?
Did you perhaps also have children recently? They're an absolute joy, but also tend to make you at least 20% dumber :-)
Not to mention curl is also already very simple.