skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter re-compresses the image, sadly, so that doesn't work.

As I said elsewhere, there are other options, like QR codes or high capacity colour barcodes, but those aren't funny.
The natural way to encode an infinite binary tree into the real numbers is as the Cantor set, an uncountable totally disconnected set.
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Hand print
Instructions and more context in the comments section.

Higher resolution photograph: http://www.microbeworld.org/component/jlibrary/?view=article...
Yes.

Remember, signing/encryption do not ensure that you can communicate, only that if you communicate you can do so with integrity, authenticity, and privacy. The same limitation applies here, with the added bonus of this particular method being totally stupid.
Why is it that after looking at this rather cool competition, and looking at all the cool technology that is coming out of it, you reduce it to "South Korea > USA?"
Masturbation was not prohibited in the course, although they ask not to perform any spiritual practices (stretching doesn't count) as it'd disturb others and might produce mixed results.
What's frightening is the conservative/libertarian view:

"Government has no business telling me what to eat."

Which is just nonsense, and not only because the decision on what to eat is driven by genetics that did not evolve in the presence of modern processed foods. Government isn't telling you what to eat if it keeps companies from selling the worst junk food. If you want to make junk food yourself, you're welcome to (and it will probably be a lot healthier than what you buy, too, and taste better, subjectively, because you made it), but the problem with junk food is the economy of scale. Companies can cheaply make stuff that tastes great without being healthy, so why would you bother with more expensive or healthier food, or anything you have to spend time making yourself? It's about shifting incentives, not banning anything. They counter that freedom applies to corporations too, and you're banning corporations from doing things, which leads to the "do corporations deserve the same freedoms?" argument.

The conservatives' position goes beyond unwise and into the realm of hypocrisy, because conservatives have no problem when government wants to tell me I can't grow salvia divinorum (yes, in my state it's banned), or poppies, or marijuana plants, but forbid a company from distributing disgustingly unhealthy lunchables or soda and they lose their minds.

(I should add that another part of the problem is that both conservatives and libertarians pretend the costs of eating badly only affect the people making the choice, which isn't true. Particularly with the changes to healthcare, everyone buying their own insurance during open enrollment, and maybe everyone (I don't know, are there any plans where premiums are segmented by behavior other than tobacco use?), is in a gigantic pool where no separation by diet is allowed, even if it were practical which it's not. And if everything were privatized and pools segmented by diet, there would still be costs to others, because people in those pools have more health problems that negatively affect not only their own, but their relatives' and friends', happiness and productivity. Which works if their friends in turn exert influence back to eat healthier, but that)
> appealing to programmers because they seem intuitively like the "right" solution … Constraints don't match the way designers work

Interesting, I'd say almost the opposite.

These constraints capture almost exactly the same thing as the orange guide lines you see in Keynote (or Powerpoint, or whatever). This is inset from the top right by 10, this button is the same width as the one above, the distance between these two buttons is eight.

That's almost exactly what designers' specs look like in my experience – screenshots annotated with lines with numbers on 'em.
It seems to be a common fault of youth to assume that you can solve every problem with just another level of abstraction. I call myself happy that I have used a lot of Java in my university days. The nice thing about Java is that you have so many tools and frameworks that do a lot of great things but always try to be as flexible as possible, ending with you having the power to do the same stuff in the library that you could have also done with pure Java: everything. I'm lucky because I never head to spend years writing such a tool that can do everything but nothing really well. Thanks to many tools who already made that mistake I could learn it by using it just a few weeks.
A lot of the unicorns appear to have problems: they have a high valuation (probably good), but not the underlying revenue to support it (bad). With a few exceptions such as Uber and probably AirBnB, people are still buying on the hope of future growth. Or as Ceglowski would say, investory storytime.

Further, never forget that employees are plebes, and your and my shares are subject to a 6 month lockup that, for example, founders aren't necessarily subject to. See Mark Pincus dumping 16.5m shares of stock for $11.64 ($190m) two months before, and for $3.18 more, than regular employees could [1]. Zuckerberg also sold 6% of fb at ipo, though since the price didn't cater investors don't seem to object. Founders often can also take cash off the table. Note that I don't necessarily think that's bad, but as in the cases of Secret and Digg, employees don't walk away from failed companies with millions.

edit: actually, Pincus appears to have sold at twice the price available to employees ($12 vs $6.09), not $11.64 vs $8.46.

On April 3, 2012, the secondary offering closed at a price of $12.00. Mark
Pincus, Zynga’s founder and a director, netted approximately $192 million in
proceeds; the other three selling Zynga directors sold several million
dollars each in the secondary offering. Zynga’s stock declined significantly
following the secondary offering to a closing price of $6.09 on the date
that the original lockup restrictions ended, and a closing price of $5.36
and $3.00 per share, respectively, on the two extended lockup periods
applicable to the selling Zynga directors. [2]

[1] http://www.law360.com/articles/596929/zynga-founder-can-t-sl...

[2] http://www.law360.com/articles/608007/a-closer-look-at-delaw...
My mistake, corrected. Thank you.
Its funny that you post that, he comes off a lot better than you in that thread.
Could you post it on pastebin?
This is coming.

https://medium.com/@almonk/design-like-it-s-1999-48ce5f5be14
https://medium.com/bridge-collection/modern-design-tools-ada...
Maybe because it was founded by former Senior VP and the "father" of iPod, not just some random Apple engineer?
I am in that boat and the description was one on one of what happened to me. I also got the paradigm shift from Maimonides. My community believes in geocentrism because it is written in Maimonides halachik works, and his philosophica works are semi-prohibited to study. One i saw in the latter one that he paraphrased Aristotle in his geocentrism, and in all his "science" I saw that I was in the wrong side of thruth, since my Rabbis weren't "truthful" regarding where our truth cones from. Then all the other questionable premises fell like a house of cards and so the entire dogma. I can step into a synagogue without a raging internal monologue about the solar system.
Meditation is not rocket science.

The western lifestyle, simply put, is messy, and you get pulled in many directions, with the most important side effect of losing attention to yourself.

Meditation simply restores (quite forcefully, in this case) at least part of that attention.

If you find hard to grasp the concept, you can imagine it as being the analogue of being "in the zone" when programming (or anything else).

I don't think it would actually be too far-fetched to think "the zone" as a form of meditation.
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I've spent 2 years as a founder at my start-up and it seams like a drop in the bucket. I was just able to turn around twice and all of a sudden, I'm 50% though my vesting period. But then the other founders are 50% or more though their vesting period as well.

It may well take 8 years to get this company to IPO. 4 years seams standard, but it feels awfully sort for some reason.
Something like: Food is being deliberately engineered to be addictive, and that's causing obesity and illness.
A bit of a tangent:

I have been experimenting with replacing REST style backend interaction with websockets an having the state manipulation round-tripping through the server.

Instead of setting values on mutable objects and telling the server about it postfact (having to deal with errors like ba validation and connectivity somehow), I would send a change command to the server, which would decide what to do, and push an updated state back. Once I detect this change of state, I update the UI.

This simplifies error handling a lot, since the user simply can't update state if an error occurs. And I get cuncurrent multi user editing for free.

Unless you want offline editing (which is hard), it's a big win.
It is really horrible when local civil servants start to invent translations for English words, which did not mean anything computer-related to begin with. Like Spool and Cache and Cookie. Why cant browser's Cookie be just Cookie, it is easy to vocalize in any languiage. Why they want to translate Cookie into local bakery term? It does not raise level of comprehension any.
Not if schools punish students for not socializing, which is what happenned to me for a stupid technical french degree.
Nothing really. The thing with having a kid is that it totally changes your life and no matter how much you prepare (which I am sure you will), there will be a lot of things that you will learn on the job.

Make the best of it as there will be tough days and nights. The first 3-4 months are the most difficult and it gets a bit easier after that. Remember, there is no right or wrong here.
> That's almost exactly what designers' specs look like in my experience – screenshots annotated with lines with numbers on 'em.

Yes, but that's because those designers were asked to specify the layout in engineer terms. :) That doesn't mean that that's the way they think and conceive the UI.
And yet again, it's not rocket science.

There are simple psychological reasons for having pains. If a person has a very tense lifestyle, no wonder he/she will get pains due to induced muscle stiffness.

In such cases, even a cup of tea a day (just to say) can "miraculously" cure a back pain, if the latter is caused by induced stiffness, and the first causes a daily relaxation.
People have been practicing tribal medicine for just as long. Not a fad either.
Batteriser is sleeve that extends the life of your batteries up to 800%
My database publishing system's programming language is both English and German. While programmers usually prefer the English interface, a rather large percentage of my users prefer the German one. (en: https://speedata.github.io/publisher/manual/index.html, de: https://speedata.github.io/publisher/manual/index-de.html)

There is also for example ConTeXt (http://wiki.contextgarden.net) - a typesetting language similar to LaTeX, which supports commands in English, Dutch and German.
Nice, just one suggestion:

The languages are just dictionnaries: You should store them in an human-readable language instead of pickle. So it's easier for people to correct errors (json, yaml,..). For example, `FR_example.py` have "else" instead of "sinon" but to correct it I would have to open the pickle file and modify it in my terminal.
The best quote on this topic I've read has come from the eccentric French Mathematician, Alexander Grothendieck:

"To state it in slightly different terms: in those critical years [roughly from age 17 to 20] I learned how to be alone.

This formulation doesn't really capture my meaning. I didn't, in any literal sense learn to be alone, for the simple reason that this knowledge had never been unlearned during my childhood. It is a basic capacity in all of us from the day of our birth. However these 3 years of work in isolation, when I was thrown onto my own resources, following guidelines which I myself had spontaneously invented, instilled in me a strong degree of confidence, unassuming yet enduring, in my ability to do mathematics, which owes nothing to any consensus or to the fashions which pass as law...

By this I mean to say: to reach out in my own way to the things I wished to learn, rather than relying on the notions of the consensus, overt or tacit, coming from a more or less extended clan of which I found myself a member, or which for any other reason laid claim to be taken as an authority. This silent consensus had informed me, both at the lyé and at the university, that one shouldn't bother worrying about what was really meant when using a term like "volume", which was "obviously self-evident", "generally known", "unproblematic", etc. I'd gone over their heads, almost as a matter of course, even as Lesbesgue himself had, several decades before, gone over their heads. It is in this gesture of "going beyond", to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal to stay within a rigid circle that others have drawn around one - it is in this solitary act that one finds true creativity. All others things follow as a matter of course."

source: michael_nielsen @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604814
Hedgehogs have one simple trick and Hedgeable too
> In std::allocator, we'll highly align large allocations to be friendly to autovectorization

Ok this and other things you posted here are mighty interesting - do you (or someone else working on this) have (has) a blog where news like this gets announced?
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One of the things that really pissed me off was that when the shell finally cracked about 3/4 of the way through my degree and I started looking at these things, I realised that actually, plumbers can earn way more than a lot of university professions.
Rudy Rucker explored this thoroughly in his novel "White Light" (which is where I first learned of the Banach-Tarski theorem) whilst having with much fun with infinities.
And, it turns out, some of those things even work. I know, right?
I wish I could function competently on 4 hours of sleep, let alone write world changing philosophical treatises.
Teaching programming to my 8 year old is a burden, because everything is in English. Teaching two things at a time is more difficult than it has to be.
Debian 8.1
I go to the demo, resize the browser window, and the layout falls apart. Not a good advertisement.

http://i.imgur.com/KkxICEw.png
I usually bring up a similar point when people criticize modern agriculture and food production.

Right now someone can buy a pound of ground beef for around $3-4. After tax that represents around 30 minutes of labor for a minimum waged employee.

It is absolutely remarkable that our lowest skilled, lowest productivity workers, can afford a pound of beef for 1/2 an hour of work.

Obviously there are clear environmental issues here, and we are not taking into account all the externalities associated with meat production. But that figure above, and what it represents in terms of human nutrition, should be breathtaking.
This very mail also says

PPS: Sourceforge now claims they will stop trojaning software without the
developer's permission, but they've broken that exact promise before.

He does know about the announcement, but he does not trust them anymore. That's fully understandable. Fool me twice, etc.

Additionally, you addressed people posting in this thread. The Sourceforge announcement was all over HN and reddit and a lot of people following the whole issue knew about it. It's simply not enough to win back user's trust. But I already addressed that - Yet you chose to critize my way of wording, not the very content.
I've always found Arch to be among the easiest distros to keep tidy. There's people that have been running the same install for many years. On the other hand, whenever I try dist-upgrade in Debian et al. I always end up blowing up something.
So, what will we see?

A new Apple TV/homebase?

Updated Macbook Pros?
From the article: "About half a year ago I started taking psychedelic drugs fairly regularly. Partially because they were fun, but also because I could see how they benefited me therapeutically. When I heard that meditation could produce similar effects, I found a ten day intense silent meditation course I could join in Italy."

Huey Lewis & the News:

"I want a new drug
One that won't make me sick
One that won't make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick

I want a new drug
One that won't hurt my head
One that won't make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red"

I'm inclined to go with Feynman on this. He was once convinced in the 1960s by Dr. John Lilly to try LSD, being told it would improve his thinking. Feynman then thought, the next day, that he had solved a hard problem he'd been working on. While going to a meeting where he was doing to discuss his solution, he realized that he hadn't solved the problem, he had hallucinated that he had solved the problem. Feynman was furious. He wrote "I like to think, and I don't want to break the machine."

That guy would probably get equally good results by taking 10 days off to go surfing.
Food companies spend a significant amount on R&D to maximize the taste and attractiveness, but not necessarily the nutrition, of their pre-packaged foods.
Moving your OSS projects away from Sourceforge
Put some photography. That's a quick win.
Ah yes, the "he/she must think they are rejected because others are too stupid to appreciate their brilliance" theory. Occasionally accurate, usually just used to bully those who think a bit differently.
Bollocks.

Simple boost converter used to step up the voltage. If you run alkalines too low they leak. Plus the 8x claim is quite frankly ridiculous.

Just buy some Sanyo eneloops.
Auto-Layout is the worst. I used to spend so much time trying to figure out why things didn't line up or behave like they are supposed to. Luckily pods like Masonry and Paper make things easier but still, it is frustrating. To have it in CSS sounds like an absolute nightmare.
Interestingly, @vjeux specifically preferred flexbox to a constraint solver (cassowary) for react native: https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/561941079038390273

His main points:

* you can't express text wrapping which is a huge issue. You've got to do workarounds in order to support it

* the api is very reference based. You need to say that the right of this element is left of this other one. whereas in react you don't want to assign every element you create to a local variable to get that reference the best api with react is one based on containers. <HorizontalLayout>... This is what I started with in react native but then, i realized that this was so close to flexbox that I could just use it instead :) you could use cassowary as an implementation detail of flexbox but that doesn't give you much

* also, when i tested cassowary, the js version, it was extremely slow. The version that we have in react native barely appears in traces for real code that we have
Guard must always be up here in China and even more so in Beijing or Shanghai. Once, when I was a single man, I got of the plane in Beijing, checked into hotel, and came down for dinner. Two beautiful women immediately approached me, chatted me up, fed my ego, ask me for drinks down the road. Followed them to the bar, we ordered a $50 bottle of wine given exchange rates and price on the wall in chalkboard, and they guzzled that bottle while laying it on heavy with me. My budget was a few hundred bucks and they wanted to drink so it turned into three bottles of wine. Bottom line is when it was time to go home the bar gave me a $3000 USD bill. All the prices on the wall written on the chalkboard had extra zeros added. This is China.
I used the instructions generally given in traditional touch typing courses while writing the instructions for this tool.

I agree that sticking to the home row puts undue stress on the wrists. When I began experiencing soreness in wrists, my girlfriend got me a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. It helped and the soreness disappeared.

By the way, even while working on a normal keyboard, I don't bend my wrists as shown in the image link you have posted ( i.e. the first image at http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/partners/health-safety/ergonomic...). I believe, the following statement from the article is not always true.

"On traditional keyboards the span of your shoulders exceeds the contiguous width of the home row of keys. In order to position your hands over the home row it is necessary to bring your hands together in front of your body with your wrists deviated."

My shoulder width exceeds my laptop keyboard by a significant margin. However, I don't have to bring my wrists together to type. I place my arms and wrists in a manner similar to what is shown in the second image in the URL I shared above, even for a normal laptop keyboard. Each of my arm approaches the keyboard from either side of the keyboard making about 45° angle with the base of the keyboard, i.e. the left arm approaches from near the left corner of the keyboard and the right arm approaches from near the right corner. Fingertips of each arm is placed in a slightly arc shape over the four home keys. Forefingers are aligned with my wrists, therefore, each forefinger makes about 45° angle with the space bar.
The 15" Macbook Pros were updated in May (to include the Force Touch trackpad).
Sharing your secret startup idea is not a bad idea
I particularly enjoyed how he reacted to the social backlash to that line: By apologizing, not editing the article and ending with “I thank you.” Someone mature, on the internet?
I coded in a Brazilian Portuguese version of Logo at school. I remember there was also a Portuguese Portuguese version of the same toolkit. Both were called Megalogo.

On a related note, "idiom" in English does not mean the same as "idioma" in Portuguese ;-)
It's not, though.
Being asocial, on the other hand, is not quite as frowned upon;)