skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oak trees vary their acorn production substantially year by year, probably to avoid an excess of acorn "predators". And since Oaks don't die when producing acorns, they have less incentive to avoid the predators.

So the same pressures can be observed many places but the particular biology of each species varies the results.

http://www.hastingsreserve.org/oakstory/Acorns2.html
I recently launched Pleasant.io (http://pleasant.io/) for this exact problem. I wanted a simple, easy to use alternative to Google Analytics (and one that respected the privacy of me and my users). Please feel free to give it a try - any money you spend over the first 3 months is given to Watsi :-)
Ya, I agree with you. I have to call bullshit on the part that says, "In the fifth, Ratner and Hamilton put the preferences to the test by gauging whether people actually enjoyed visiting an art gallery more when they were in the company of others, compared to when they were alone."

I used to have a museum membership so I could go everyday for free if I wanted to. I often went every other day just to get coffee, or to use the free wifi for work. It was subjectively a very different experience than being with someone.

I am pretty sure if you measured something like endorphins or blood pressure, you'd see there was more enjoyment with someone than without. There are tons of studies that already do this, e.g. the ones written up by UCSF profs in "A General Theory of Love."
You'd pay them. You'd take something small that needs doing, outlay a much larger than usual slice of money to it and hand it out to all of the last line of candidates.
Depends on what approach you favor to fight the dragon. I tend to favor solutions that simultaneously solve those problems as well, along with many others. However, if you primarily favor the SENS approach, then I certainly agree that hunger is a large-scale orthogonal problem that needs proportionally large attention.

Disease, on the other hand, is not a single problem, and does not have a single solution. Any one individual disease is far smaller of a problem. (Even cancer, though the research on SENS is will likely need to address that one anyway in the course of figuring out how to eliminate cell death without creating cancer.)
ASP.NET or RoR
I have been looking at learning either Ruby and using RoR or ASP.NET.

I have some programming experience, nothing major.

I will just be using it for personal projects.

Which would you suggest me to learn?
Well, British (International) English too... it always seems weird the US thing of calling the toilet the bathroom.
I'm going to add my anecdata in here -- mid 20s, and I do not consume caffeine. I don't drink coffee, tea, or soda regularly. Nor do I drink energy drinks. No caffeine isn't a new thing, I've just never really drank it.

I haven't tried drinking caffeine regularly enough that I can tell whether there's a productivity boost to taking it. I'd like to say I'm pretty productive -- previous job was ranking me in top review buckets for my pay grade(s) for multiple years.

One thing I've noticed is that I'm a morning person, my best hours are 8am-12pm. Most of my coworkers (coffee drinkers) are afternoon people. Not sure if that's a trend or just programmer biases. I have noticed that pretty much all of my caffeine consuming co-workers need to have their coffee before I can ask them anything mildly complex. That could just be ritualistic behavior (get into work, make coffee, don't think about work until then), but could also be caffeine dependency.
at least a couple years of calculus and linear algebra
Well, everything is pointless by itself. Universe has no mind so it doesn't go anywhere and doesn't give a shit about anytning.

But you do have mind, and so you can choose your purpose, to decide on what you value and then go after it.

Values are arbitrary. Well, the most basic ones are built into you(survival and reproduction, valuing food/safety/sex), but the kind of values humans speak of when they think about a "purpose" are mostly made up by them(making money, raising kids, pleasing god, being a good programmer, whatever).

So if you're looking for "purpose" it's not about finding it somewhere in the world, but more about deciding what you want out of life. I suggest you start by deciding and being clear on what kind of things you value. Once you know what you want out of life on the high/abstract level - you look for the more concrete examples and activities that move you towards achieving these values.

Here's my example. What I want the most in life, in a very abstract sense, is "being clever", so I am very motivated to do everything that moves me in that general direction. More specifically, I want to be great at thinking and creating things, coming up with ideas and understanding the world. This is something I want for the sake of itself, this is what makes life fun, I value these things "just because". After thinking for a while, I figured that the best practical activities that move me in the direction of these values are Computer Science, building a startup, and writing comedy/fiction.

So at this point my abstract desire to "be clever" drives my motivation to "learn programming" or "get good at writing comedy". And from there I can come up with goals and practical projects, which I am motivated to do because they move me further towards fulfilling my values in life.

I went through a period of depression and apathy, and thought a lot about how to figure out what I want. I'm still scared/depressed(for various reasons, mostly related to logistics in life), but now I have figured out how to "find my passion" and come up with goals that make me motivated and driven. So if what I wrote makes any sense or is in any way helpful, I'm happy to talk more on the topic, if you're interested, maybe you could bounce ideas off of me, maybe that will help you out. If you want - feel free to message me to raymestalez@gmail.com
Except that there are already laws against planning to do those things. What this is is a move towards non-evidence-based police harassment of certain groups. If there were evidence, it could be used to secure convictions. For an illustration of how police harrasment of minorities works out, see whichever US city has an anti-police riot going at the moment.

(In particular, I think this is about using intercept material to target people without letting it anywhere near a court.)
As tempting as it is to blame the corporations, due to the ease of blaming a faceless, shapeless enemy, the real problem is powerful people. Corporations do not act autonomously, and you will literally never take powerful people out of politics. Any sort of actual fix will need to take that reality into account.

Edit:typo
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"We end up staying at home instead of going out to do stuff because we're afraid others will think they're a loser."

Perhaps a bigger contributing factor may be that many US citizens simply have less disposable income these days. If you are living alone in a high cost of living city (such as DC where the WP is HQ'd), you most likely have much less money to spend on bars, restaurants and movie theaters.

Fortunately, DC has many free museums, parks, trails, etc where you often find folks doing things in groups, pairs and alone without any stigmas or high costs.
One difficulty with 'root causes' is that this is very often considered to mean 'things that happened in your past,' whereas the root cause could also be biological factors, environmental factors, or 'faulty' thought patterns. Focusing on 'things in the past' too much can keep you from seeing other possibilities.

Unfortunately psychoanalysis is still quite popular, and as a result too many people remain stuck in endlessly probing their subconscious where CBT or another approach might help them instead.
Watch the video — you might be surprised.
There is the ECHR Article 1 right to free speech. It has qualifications on it which are different from the US ones, but in both countries it's not absolute. It's not correct to say there is no right to free speech.
I'm trying the builtin Tab Groups feature now.
For a slightly less mathematical introduction: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-...
I would like to understand why he's got an account on Twitter. Yes, he uses to proxy his credentials to other sites, but I see the other reasons for not having an account on other sites also applying in the case of Twitter.
This is true... but you do end up making different kinds of memory on your solo trip. It may not be with your loved ones, but it may be with type of strangers that you may not have met.

I went on a solo trip to Japan couple of years ago. Even though I had planned out the trip tightly, I ended up veering off course. For example, I was just strolling aroud one day, and saw a fellow solo tourist hop into a bike rental shop. So I followed him, and rented a bike myself too. Whopping $9/day. And we kept on crossing path over the course of day, which was hilarious.

Around 9pm, I needed to return the bike, but I was completely lost. With all businesses shut down in deserted part of kyoto, I was helpless. But I found this one-man police station, so I walked in, asking for help. This chubby jolly patrolman was so delighted to help despite communication barrier, he went out of his way to walk me towards the rental shop.

Another day, I was just observing people on the street. I was surprised how many young men and women make living hawking on behalf of clubs and restaurants. One young lad caught my attention. He was shouting loud and he looked thirsty. So I ran to a nearby vending machine and handed him a can of ice coffee. Initially he was completely baffled, but then he got it after my lame attempt at communicating. And thanked me and gave me a big smile. So he and I have a nice shared memory.

Anyway, both types of trips are enjoyable. People who've never done solo travel definitely should, when luxury allows.
Considering that was 70 years ago, that's an unusual definition of "fast".

It was also the last peak for the left. The trend since then has an acceleration rightwards.

Don't forget the UK came close to removing a democratically elected prime minister in a right-wing coup - not just once, but twice.

The last genuinely left-wing prime minister resigned not long after the second alleged plot - and by a divinely-ordained coincidence his replacement was so utterly useless the electorate found themselves voting for the kind of right wing government the plotters had been working towards.
The bidet is not a replacement for toilet paper, it's an extra step after using the toilet paper.

In simpler language - after you wipe your ass, you sit down on the bidet, open the faucet and gently rinse your butt.

At this stage, your butt doesn't contain large pieces of shit, it's in the same state when you take a shower.

As a consequence of using a bidet, your underware stays clean, no more 'thin brown line' on white underpants, no shitty smell and no creamy feeling in the butt when you sweat.
I've already read several good reasons here. Another major problem is that the issues solved by these expensive toilets can be solved by much cheaper means.

Temperature: cold seats are not a problem in the Southern third of the country, and where they are, a padded vinyl seat is quite effective in mitigating the problem.

Cleanliness: Wet wipes work quite well. Our favorite after trying many brands with a new baby is the Target generic unscented wipes. They are about $2.50 a pack, or $20 for a metric-xxxxload.

Therefore I cite the KISS rule, "keep it simple stupid." Cost and maintenance issues heavily favor the simple toilet and why I've never been very interested in fancy ones despite the disbelief of others.
There are, however, many Americans who started to use wet wipes because they want to feel cleaner.

Bidet attachments and bidet seats ("washlets") are much cheaper in the long run and they also aren't a problem for the sewage system.

By the way, electricity isn't an unsolvable problem. There are water resistant extension cord covers. You can safely extend it.

Maybe it would be a good idea to produce models with replaceable power cords (with generic IEC 60320 plugs) for the American and European market.
> BTW another Easter Egg

Does it count as an easter egg when Ava explicitly states it? While mispronouncing Wittgenstein's name, no less.
That image is a screencap from the BBC website AFAICT, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results/scotland - 50% of voters in Scotland voted SNP.

>They are two very different cultures. //

You might be able to show that but not with these election results - is Edinburgh a different culture to the rest of Scotland (well it is, but not any more than Glasgow is different to Aberdeen), is Orkney & Shetland a different culture (same thing applies)? Bradford and Bridlington [2 conurbations in the region of Yorkshire in the UK] are probably more culturally diverse than most random pairs of Scottish and rUK places.
"his replacement was so utterly useless"

Do you mean Callaghan - my recent readings of the relevant histories (particularly those by Dominic Sandbrook) paint him in rather a positive light. Callaghan and the other "real" socialists were as appalled by the behavior of the unions then as everyone else.
Maybe they should do some research on staying at home and quietly meditating. Simple, probably rewarding, but doesn't cost any money. :)

At least the entertainment business can console itself with the fact that they're pirating less.
Damn. And I thought that C++ was so hardcore[1] by now that it was only seriously used by full-time programmers. :)

[1] Read: complicated.
Those aren't necessarily the people who are building the reviled types of websites.
> Wet wipes work quite well.

Wet wipes are terrible for the sewage system:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/nyregion/the-wet-wipes-box...

> [Wet wipes] are about $2.50 a pack, or $20 for a metric-xxxxload.

You can buy a cheap mechanical bidet attachment for around $30.
I am the same age and started also 3 years ago playing the piano. I had the luck to get a very good teacher. To practice preformance in front of an audience I joined a local Piano Meetup group. Very usefull.
A Dutch City Makes Room for Its River and a New Identity
I'm depressed. It comes and goes, but generally in the middle of an episode I don't want to be around other people either, which I think compounds the issue.
> To think that there isn't a root for depression is to basically admit defeat.

No. It's to accept that depression happens for a variety of complex reasons and to simplify it to some mythical root cause is not in anyway helpful.

This root cause stuff sounds like traditional psychoanalysis which has been pretty much totally debunked as useless now.

People are much better off ignoring root cause and focussing on treatment. The article mentions two evidence based therapies - CBT and DBT - neither of which ask people to look for a root cause.
Here is Nadia H's lecture at Stanford from last week. Covers the GCD batch attack and her hypothesis about where the weak RSA keys are coming from.

https://mvideos.stanford.edu/graduate#/SeminarDetail/Spring/...
That's overly simplistic. If you consider $1 million rich, like the author does, you can easily get rich by saving money. If you consider $1 billion rich, your Starbucks habit doesn't matter.
The first thing to do is to stop acting morally superior whilst bombing the out of any country that doesn't fall in line in the name of democracy. Anyone with even the slightest ability to think for themselves can see through this and views evil as evil regardless of the badge worn. Others unfortunately don't make it this far and either throw their weight behind such policies or resist them by joining the 'enemy'. These are the kids that went to Syria and honestly it's difficult for me to see them as any different as the kids that join the UK or US armed forces. They are naive and misinformed otherwise they would never consider joining any armed forces.

Second is to do everything possible to reduce the income inequality that is ever expanding in the world.

Thirdly we also need to focus on education and tolerance.

The current establishment has proven themselves to be inept on all three counts. No other tactic has any chance of succeeding.
(I'm a program manager on Mozilla's video team, so I'm definitely interested in your YouTube problems. :) YouTube playback is common user complaint, but it can be very configuration dependent.)

When you say the browser freezes, is it permanently deadlocked or does the video eventually start playing? Firefox 38 on Linux does not support MSE (Media Source Extensions), so YouTube's HTML5 video player can't use adaptive streaming. YouTube is blocked on Firefox's download and rate estimation of the video. It sounds like the YouTube player or Firefox might be stuck in a busy loop downloading the video.

To test whether the video download is causing the problem, you could try flipping the "media.mediasource.enabled" to about:config pref to true and "media.mediasource.whitelist" about:config pref to false (and restarting Firefox) to see if MSE helps. Alternately, MSE is enabled on Linux in Firefox Nightly (41) and Dev Edition (40) so you could just try them.

Does Flash play without freezing, if you have Flash installed? Flash on Linux supports H.264, but Firefox only supports VP8, VP9, and WebM unless you have gstreamer's H.264 decoder installed (but it has its own problems).
You look at some of the biggest success of our post-2008 economy - namely web 2.0 companies like snapchat, uber, tinder - and you see they typically involve introverts who are getting very rich very quickly. Being alone is not just a way to save money or find inner peace, but - in the Silicon Valley at least - a possible pathway to riches and fame.
As the author of a program that's both scripting-centric and performance-centric [1], I've looked at this question in detail. I needed the fastest possible embeddable scripting language and interpreter. When I say "fastest possible", I mean for signal processing, so my application is different from the article at hand, which is about shell scripting rather than application-embedded scripting.

C / TCC was great, but TCC doesn't attach much importance to final speed optimization. I had a working prototype but ended up scrubbing it for that reason.

C++ / Clang / LLVM has the best end speed and optimizer, and as the article points out, the language is looking better and better. However, as a library it's pretty massive, difficult to embed, and compilation would probably be too slow for a REPL/JIT type of situation, though I haven't tested this with a working prototype.

Lua / LuaJIT is what the project is currently using. Since this is HN, I guess I don't need to say anything about how fast it is. However, my application (and many others, I suspect) would get a large performance improvement (I estimate 3x) if the compiler was capable of working with float32 operations and of optimizing them into vectorized SIMD instructions. This is why I'm currently looking at the next possibility:

Javascript. With the recent introduction of different float widths and SIMD in major Javascript JIT compilers, this option is starting to be the fastest possible (in my case). I'm planning to make a prototype to verify this, and I'm not too keen on joining the JS bandwagon, but if LuaJIT development continues to be basically halted, I'll have to get with the times. What I need is at the bottom of an epic TODO list for LuaJIT [2] that hasn't really moved for years. I don't know who's in a position to make a move on those LuaJIT open sponsorships, I really wish they would do it! I for one don't really feel up to the task.

[1]: http://osar.fr/protoplug

[2]: http://wiki.luajit.org/Open-Sponsorships
I've read somewhere that the Lagrangian approach was too computationally intensive; leading to explosion of possible paths and dimensions. Anyone can confirm ?
One might also be interested in the basics of the Acid debugger: http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/4th_edition/kernel_debugging/
So true ! I am a vim user from time to time, and the only advantage is it hurts my fingers less than sublime text.
Why you'll never nail the devOPs interview
Speak for yourself. Low-Mid range developer here and I've never seen the need for REPL.
Heh. The Atari 2600 contained a chip called RIOT. Makes me think of a certain '90s band. (Which seems to be back according to Wikipedia.)
What? how is this better? what all of this is is apt making users say yes to everything such as config changes. I'm totally fine with that. Sure it's an extra line or 2 when automating, but I don't see it as bad.
We're (Open Rights Group) 3000 Strong
"education, sport, language, identity, history, position on the world stage, defence, ..."

I can see that there is an impact in defence - Trident is based here and the Scots have always been over-represented in the UK military. The rest just sound like potentially damaged pride to me...
is there any difference between a sufficiently rigorous spec and actual programming?
I think if you have some time to spare, try both. asp.net mvc have some features that you will find it in rails.
Satiety is more than nothing yet less than everything. Are you equating satiety to feeling satisfied (as in happy)? Because satiety doesn't mean that. It means feeling full. Most obese people I know rarely ever feel satiety. Most feel hungry all the time (because they don't have satiety). When most people feel full and continue eating food which leads to feeling engorged, they stop eating because they soon feel miserable. Sugars and carbs usually don't lead to satiety, fats tend to.
I was ready to say "well, the animations and formulas need it" but no, those are static images. Meh...
I often find myself doing things alone. I took a trip alone to New Orleans and went to have brunch at this popular restaurant. The line was pretty long and lots of people waiting outside. I went up to the host and she asked how many people were in my party, I responded, "just me." She said, "follow me this way."

So one thing I've come to realize is that when you go to a restaurant alone there's usually zero waiting time for seating, that's a plus. :)
You mean the better system that inspired portage, BSD Ports, right?
You missed an = on line 30. You might want to fix that. ;)
"describe their findings: that people consistently underestimate how much they will enjoy seeing a show, going to a museum, visiting a theater, or eating at a restaurant alone."

Very true. If you're halfway serious about art, you should not go to Museum with anyone, but by yourself. Museum viewing is intensely solo activity.

Theater though, you're held captive to the seat for 2 hours, so it's more about what you do before and after, that people have reservation about.
Also check out https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6369.htm...

Video of the talk: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6369_-_en_-_...
"this doesn't seem to be true"

So why have 50% of Scots voted for a political party with notably different policies to UK-wide parties? Presumably if we thought the same way as everyone in the UL (excluding NI) we'd have picked Labour or Conservative like the good old days?
Palm OS3 indeed (1998). I didn't see Python on Nokia, PyS60 till 2005:

- S60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_for_S60

- S60 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2005/04/14/s60.html

- N73 https://rubayeet.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/installing-python-...

I never did see any real usage aside from one of the flickr devs using an N75 to upload/query flickr via Python.
http://donatedav.org/donation-pickup.html
First time I am reading about "Libreboot X200" (computer with pre-installed Trisquel and, by their own words, 100% free software)

http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/libreboot-x200/

I thought RMS is still using his old Leemote. Evidently not.
I guess there's an higher learning curve when I comes to ASP?