skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Belief in God is certainly important. But action is more important than belief.

> All the actions and commandments are tools for reaching spiritual connection and understand G-d with more clarity.

And if you do that, and skip the action because you feel you have the spiritual connection you failed. But if you did the action, but did not have any special spiritual feeling, you still did what God wants, and that's what counts.

> The quote you reference, which for the life of me, I cannot recall as being accurate...certainly only means that behavior can influence belief.

It's from Pesachim 50b (among other places) if you want to look it up.

> The idea that Judaism is more concerned with action over thought is patently FALSE!

No. It's not. Thought it important, but action is what matters.
Reads like a scientology ad
Yep. Everyone ponies up and pays the $10k/year for the 409a consultants -- in theory, their calculations to establish the option value takes into account all of the liquidation preferences of preferred shareholders but anyone that's been through it can tell you how arbitrary the 409a's really are.
Journey into Information Theory
How many millions of life-years have been lost due to the junk-food industry? To me they are murderers with expense accounts.
>> Apple went through that mode and was within a few weeks of dying. Luckily they debugged themselves.

> Not really, Bill Gates rescued them.

Microsoft unquestionably kept them from dying at that point by giving them $150M. And probably it was a call from Jobs to Gates so I suppose you can say "Gates" instead of "Microsoft".

But my point was that foolish management got Apple to that point and they replaced that with a smarter management approach (and replaced a bunch of people).

Microsoft's cash lifeline wouldn't have helped them if they hadn't debugged themselves. Instead it would have simply have delayed death.
When rabbit howls. I don't remember the author, but it will definitely make you look at things differently. I also really liked lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.
> to subvert the human brain by abusing deficiencies in its risk-reward computation mechanisms to extract as much money as possible

Ah, like everyone creating endless in-app purchases? :)
Yes. The one thing it does require is a host OS!
He went up to $50k/week at the end: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/
It's not news, but it's "hacker"..?
Well there's so much going on in the modernization process that it's a bit unclear. Was the US required for Japan to (fully) modernize?
Out of interest, what did you find confusing/unintuitive? I'm writing a book on Docker so am interested in where the pain points are.
A company I worked for years ago actually had an analytics tool they sold that just used a transparent tracking gif. We managed to sell pretty expensive subscriptions way after Google analytics completely pwned its capabilities thanks to industrial companies being strangely un-web-savvy.
Among other things it would be embarrassing, people would talk about them frequently. Also people would constantly set themself the task of convincing them, and offering to learn with them, and other things they probably don't want. They probably don't want the attention.

Also I doubt they are as firm in their disbelief as the article makes them out to be. They are probably constantly searching and yearning to believe again, so why would they declare themself a certain way, when they are not sure of it themself?
>>Reads like a Scientology ad

After just reading the first few lines I started thinking what a bunch of bull. Then I read your message and I laughed because it's so true...:)

What worries me is that it is so easy to be taken in by this stuff. Specially if you are in a vulnerable state.
food companies maximize profits
> His diversity report shows that just 7% of Apple employees are African-American, compared to around 13% in the general population.

Why is this a goal? Why is it a failure if the tech industry doesn't have the exact racial proportions as the general population?

The ultimate goal should be to ensure that anyone can find opportunities to learn CS if they want to, regardless of race.
Could it be because solitude back then was similar to meditation? That you had no interruptions, no internet to make your mind run around like a puppy chasing the next tasty bone, and this in turn made you listen to thoughts and ideas rising from the subconscious more often?
Did you sign up just to bash vipassana? I'm curious as to why you feel so strongly about the issue. If it works for some people, it works for them. Does it cause harm to you if other people give it a try?
Not sure what you mean that "css is hell", although I understand from working with a lot of programmers (I do front end they do back end) that CSS is seen as something you might also want to learn but not really because it isn't proper programming. CSS as it is now is incredibly powerful and works almost as it should (almost int he way all languages/technology are works in progress).

I can see this (GSS) as having its place amongst a developers list of tools, but ultimately I can't see how it is better than Flexbox, or why I would want to a javascript library to do layout, or who in their right mind would want to pass a project using this on to someone else.
Personally I know that college was a complete waste of time for me. I gained very few skills in the classroom I would not have picked up myself, and have zero need for the credential. Sure, I wouldn't mind getting the $100k I spent back. But it was a choice I made based on the information I had at the time.

I also am pretty certain that from a macro standpoint it's obvious that American universities are doing something very right. I hear the frustration in many of these comments and the desire to rant, but hyperbole doesn't really make for interesting discussion. American universities and colleges are not universally bad, they do in many cases actually succeed in providing a valuable education, 99% of the population does not in fact accumulate tremendous debt simply to get a college degree, etc.

As for student debt in general, I personally think of it as just another variable tax rate on the middle class. The middle class is absolutely strangled by progressive taxes, and FAFSA is just another cog in the machine to claim $0.95 of every dollar you earn from $30k to about $120k of MAGI.

What is the solution? Who is John Galt? In many cases the correct answer is to just stop earning regular taxable income beyond about ~$30k MAGI. Suddenly your health care is free, your groceries are free, your kids college education is free, and your tax rate is negative (Treasury sends you the checks) and you certainly won't be servicing that old student loan either. I'm not saying to stop contributing back to society, I'm just saying, consider stepping off that squeaky spinning wheel first.

Any progressive system, by definition, will have parts of the curve where marginal utility is reduced. Some people (apparently like the author of this op-ed) manage to step directly into the worst part of this curve, which at many points demand in excess of $1.00 for every incremental $1.00 you earn. Very few people have even a basic understanding of the tax code and social welfare programs of the U.S., so it's impossible to expect people will make "good choices" under the current system. It's unnatural for someone to realize that job they are working feels like it's paying a wage, but over 10 years actually costs significantly more than it pays! This is all a result of the current system of which nondischargeable student debt plays just a small part.

The most annoying part of the article is that it appears the author actually found the solution, but just continued ranting like the solution didn't exist, and didn't bother explaining the actual mechanics of it so people might actually learn from it. It's also worth pointing out the author is not a current student (not dealing with the current system which is much different) but living with loans from a past era. The part about mom co-signing the loan, for example, was a huge red flag.
Andrew Niccol's other thought-provoking films include Truman Show (reality and free will), Lord of War (arms trading), In Time (immortality and currency) and Good Kill (drones), http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Niccol
I find when I'm developing my own view on something, and I discuss it with someone (or think about discussing it, or even be near someone), that I somehow feel a compulsion to either agree with them or disagree with them along the dimension they conceptualize it - and my own perspective/terms are lost. Like being interrupted when building up a model of code in your mind.

I think this is our herd instinct, needing to fit in, in how a situation is conceived, disagreeing only in terms of that conception. Changing the theory is deeply anti-social.
I'm not native English speaker, but I wish people would just accept that English is Latin of computers.

I still have to come to servers installed in German or French and guess by memory where stuff are.
How anyone would remotely compare this to Michael Brown is beyond dumb. Michael Brown was fighting a cop, taking his gun in a street fight. This kid was already in jail when the abuse happened. This is night and day different. Just suggesting a connection is highly racist. The only common denominator was race. That's it. Michael Brown was a vicious thug who robbed a store and attempted to kill a cop with his own gun. Kalief was a kid who was subject to systematic violations of his constitutional rights while in jail. I suppose that the guards beating him weren't obviously white so it made a politically advantageous racism accusation less viable and thus less worthy of national indignation. It didn't have the profit potential of a racism accusation.

How Michael Brown makes national headlines and inspires riots and this kid doesn't is a mystery. Where was Al Sharpton for this kid? This whole business is disgusting. This story should be on every TV in America. It has it all: mental illness, injustice and policy failures.
Super sorry to hear - we've had some issues with VirtualBox around networking and some setups we didn't anticipate -- Would be really appreciative if you'd give the latest 0.3.0 release candidate a whirl and see if it fixes the issue for you: https://github.com/docker/machine/releases.
Very interesting. So Zatocoding [1] allows for a card to have multiple index entries, and then any of those could be used to retrieve it.

For completeness, the 1951 paper is here [1]. Apparently has been
covered in undergraduate algorithms at U. of I. [2] (with Bloom
filters) so be getting more exposure.

Is the "needed improvement" of the 1976 paper due to better methods available
(e.g. proof rigor, or understanding of sorting algorithms) or a better explanation of the methods
(perhaps because of more widespread knowledge of information theory,
and a better defined terminology).

I thought edge-notched cards [3] had been used for a long time (and
have: since 1896)--I remember reading about them used for fingerprint
card retrieval (indexed by feature, on each finger. This didn't use
superimposed coding, but instead was a type of content-addressable
memory--the time to retrieve all cards with e.g. a whorl on the thumb is
O(1).

Apparently the cards are still used some places, see Kevin Kelly's [3]
site for some images and interesting comments.

Finally found a fingerprint filing reference:
"For example,
as early as 1934 the FBI tried a punchcard
and sorting system for searching fingerprints,
but the technology at that time could
not handle the large number of records in the
Ident files." [5]

1. https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs473/fa2013/misc/zatocoding.pdf
(or buy from Wiley for $38)
2. https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs473/fa2013/lectures.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card
4. http://kk.org/thetechnium/one-dead-media/
5. Chapter 3: Evolution to Computerized Criminal History Records
https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1982/8203/820306.PDF
Unlike Scientology, Vipassana courses are free. They provide food, shelter, and an incredible experience on the donations of others. If you want to give a donation after you've finished the course (and only after you've finished the complete course, they won't accept donations otherwise), then you are welcomed to.
I think what's interesting is that they have an opportunity to be the next Starbucks which makes $70M pretty reasonable since it costs a lot of money to land and expand physical operations.

It's still a relatively boutique operation and the merger with Tartine will allow them to push a full cafe/bakery experience like La Boulange did but with higher quality coffee and baked goods. Starbucks is now the "everyday" coffee and Blue Bottle will do to Starbucks what Starbucks did to coffee shop coffee.
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Newest XCode does this in the right way I think. It lets you do most of the stuff from the GUI (and detects conflicts), but you also have the power to enter constraints manually in the code.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Security Freeze
It is not that simple thought. The simple $1 McDonalds burger has one of the best value/price ratio in the history of the human nutrition.

"The double cheeseburger provides 390 calories, 23 grams of protein – half a daily serving – seven per cent of daily fibre, 19 grams of fat and 20 per cent of daily calcium, all for between $1 and $2, or 65p and £1.30, The Times reported."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10210327/McDouble-is...

I think this topic is similar to 'how many life-years have been lost due the pollution caused by industrial revolution' -- many, of course. And many have been saved as well. Here we can surely say that many life years have been saved by the mass/junk food industry as it has provided the masses reliable, usually not infected/spoiled food.
It would be nice seeing something like this at self-signed https sites generated from the public key of the given site (a visual public key fingerprint), instead of scaring me away with a huge warning.
Why most hiring processes suck (2011)
Personally, I found it easy. I live mostly in my head anyhow, so not talking wasn't a big deal to me. And before I went into it, I told myself that solitary confinement would be much worse and that this is a vacation where I get fed and just have to be quiet and try something new. Also, it was recommended by someone I respect very highly, so I was convinced it was worthwhile before ever going.
Just tried a few demos on iPad 3 running iOS8, works fine for me.
People I talk to about this are often very unhappy about countable additivity, and are often unhappy about infinite in general. I suspect that the reason they think they want a measure to be defined on every set is because they don't know just how weird sets can be, and are relying on their intuition. Everything can be weighed, everything can be dunked in water to test its volume, so why should something not have a "volume"?

You clearly have a different intuition born of your background and training. You're talking about

> "... unions of countably many disjoint
> (path-)connected subspaces of the ambient
> topology ..."

You already have an unusual intuition.

And you're right - it's "obviously" better to restrict the sets we play with rather than limiting ourselves to finite collections, but that "obvious" comes from years, perhaps decades, of playing with these ideas.

And with regards having a topology or a metric, consider that perhaps a measure can be coerced into providing a metric ...
Given his switch to GLFW.

I really don't get why the official OpenGL documentation still uses GLUT on its examples.

Khronos should really update those books, additionally with an helper matrix, texture and shader loading library to avoid every OpenGL beginner to re-write the same code before a triangle gets shown.

Yes there is the https://www.opengl.org/sdk/, but it is just a dump of libraries that won't help beginners easily.

Which is only going to get worse with Vulkan (around 600 LOC for the triangle).
Why not? It is kind of asking your peers. And some [good] discussions might follow as well.
Neat, with any evolution simulator I really think you need time controls though (fast forward).
I loved the clarity of thought that experience gave me. It is interesting how we both went thorough the same phases. The immense calm, the slow agitation and then excuses.

I even went back for a short 4 day course but the 10 day one was the best.

I hope you can go back once more and then continue the practice afterwards.
The 'hack a demo' problem highlights one of the rationales behind having a Definition of Done in Scrum. Unfortunately Scrum doesn't put hard and fast rules behind what should be in it, but most good Scrum teams take principles from XP such as all code should be tested. This helps reduce the 'hack' factor at the expense of getting it out the door faster.
It was difficult the first 5 days and then suddenly something clicked. It was all sunshine after that :)
It would be great for ADHD stuff. As I mentioned in a comment above, it gave me amazing clarity of thought and stillness.
Entertaining read if you ever had trouble with modelling type hierarchies in OOP.
5 Sure Ways to Defeat Summer Learning Loss
A lot of the applications of measure theory are in fourier analysis and probability, where countable sums are necessary, and topology often isn't. Also, just because the topology on R yields a certain intuition doesn't mean it's the right way to generalize the theory.
There are unlikely to be more than about 100 people who would do that, it is just that most of them post here.
While reading the article I thought to myself, "I guess OQO is ancient history by now." I know at least two founders were Apple alums.
I'm tired of this urban legend. Microsoft agreeing to maintain release parity for the Mac and Windows versions of Office did more than the 150MM, but the company was already profitable again and had almost ten times that amount of cash in the bank anyway.
> newly evolved Chinese tourism industry.

This sort of setup is far from new. I remember a similar sort of setup from a tour of Eastern Europe in the early 90's, as well as a recent tour in India.
I would be surprised if this phenomenon caused the friction between metallic surfaces. The surface of metals aren't that flat on nanoscale (even if they are well polished).
This Japanese company taught a robot to wield a katana like a master swordsman
Sounds to me like you're too needy and stuck in your ways, no offense.. I love my ubuntu desktop as much as anything, but there are PLENTY of ways to make windows into winux. gitbash for one, you can install vim, nano, and pretty much all the linux command-line tools onto windows. It's not perfect, but doable...personally I don't like the performance of VM's, they're slow and buggy from time to time. As for php, it's not so bad, especially if you use Laravel as I found moving back and forth from rails to laravel and vice versa they're very comparable frameworks, Laravel mirrors rails in lots of ways better than most php frameworks, if you're doing wordpress God save you. lol
> Microsoft unquestionably kept them from dying at that point by giving them $150M.

Apple had $1.2B cash at the time. It was symbolic, not substantial, for either party.
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Your response delighted me. It was a good lesson you give him about accessibility and UI.
"Perfect vacuum" is a classical physics concept which abstracts away quantum effects. In short, it isn't real, and it can never exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_vacuum

So, your perpetual motion device will inevitably interact with virtual particles with momentum contrary to its own, and therefore run down.

Even if you have problems with that, consider this: It's impossible to cool anything to 0K (absolute zero); all warm bodies (warmer than absolute zero) give off photons; therefore, your moving parts will interact with photons carrying momentum contrary to their own, and therefore be slowed and eventually halted. Again, this is unavoidable.

So the simple classical picture of a rock in simple inertial motion through the vacuum of space is valid as a simplification. Remember, though, that it's equally valid to construct a coordinate system where the rock is stationary and everything else is in perpetual motion.
Umm, it is pseudoscience inasmuch no real study has been conducted (it isn't 'exciting' enough ...yet). So, yeah this is anecdotal but that doesn't make it false. A number of people I know have been through the vipasanna course and express the same sentiment. I wonder why it is popular now to expect ^someone^ to do the research and present ^evidence^ before they can even begin to become curious about something.

Does scientific curiosity these days hinge on someone else having done the tests ?

Does it automatically qualify as hogwash because there isn't and evidence yet ? or because we have a tendency to doubt things not deeply rooted in numbers and double blind tests, /even if/ the reason for that is a simple -- nobody has bothered to do this yet.
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> I work at Twitter

> I just bought a house!

May I ask, did you buy your house (in SF Bay Area?) by Twitter salary and/or your side projects?

I personally think that it is not a good time for buying real estate in places such as SFBA or e.g. London, because of the bubble.. And I think after some time this bubble will burst and house prices will come lower.

Anyway, congratulations with your new home! ;)
Agreed completely. Constraint-based layout solvers are very appealing to programmers because they seem intuitively like the "right" solution -- but that intuition is based on the programmer's mental model of user interfaces. Constraints don't match the way designers think and work, so they're not good as a non-programmer's interface.

As often happens with solutions that are abstractly "right", constraint-based layout engines do a great job of fixing complex theoretical non-problems that nobody was asking to have fixed, while at the same time failing to address real-world issues that impede users' everyday workflows.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Opened my mind and put into writing some of the things I'd been contemplating.
Presumably the axiom of choice is a good example of something unlikely to be applicable in a real world context. Unless you're trying to anticipate when a rogue mathematician is about to attack, of course.

(Also halting oracles.)
The link to the article could have been a little more prominent: http://blog.otoro.net/2015/05/07/creatures-avoiding-planks/
I generally use videos as a screensaver, it allows me to have pretty cool screensavers fast. I use xsecurelock [0] with the saver_mplayer backend, which means that when I lock the screen, xsecurelock runs the videos in my ~/Videos directory on repeat.

I couple that with something like the Iron Man schematics videos made by Territory Studio [1] and I've got myself a pretty rad looking screensaver (with minimal effort).

[0] https://github.com/google/xsecurelock

[1] https://www.behance.net/gallery/26009421/AVENGERS-Age-of-Ult...
I must be odd, because I never talk about my work with my family even when I'm allowed to. None of them have the context to understand or care. It's a different compartment of my life entirely. Do normal people really do this?
So you can't do a direct 1-to-1 mapping of pixels to bytes, because Twitter re-compresses the image. You cannot rely on the binary representation of the image to make that work.

However, there are plenty of other, less funny, options, like QR codes or High Capacity Colour Barcodes.
Excellent article, but my first reaction was "Goodness, that's an awfully punny title". It still gives me fuzzies, but I can't tell if it's intentional or not.
Dangerous minds: Are maths teachers Australia's newest threat?