skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing it to yourself isn't so much the placebo effect, but rather autosuggestion. It was created by Émile Coué, who used to tell his patients to tell themselves every morning, "Every day, I am getting better" (in French of course).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autosuggestion
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That sound is fantastic.
1. Probably not.

2. Even if your landlord does detect, what's he going to do? Kick you out? Probably not. He'll simply tell you that you can't unplug the system for insert reason here. Worst case, he'll charge you the cost of labor to fix what you've disabled.
I'm a phd student in marketing and my research is on the placebo effect. Not only does the research back up the idea of a "placebo" button, but also its evil cousin the "nocebo". That is, if you typed in something negative (I.e. This will make my head hurt) then if you are prone to suggestion (as many people are) the. You will feel worse.
Love it. I think I'll implement that.
Guess what? There are other countries with people in them that can program too. Everyone has to compete with that fact. Don't be a hypocrite that dismisses people complaining about Mexicans, software, and robots yet gets upset that people from other countries are playing on the same field.

No one is entitled to be the only person that gets to do a job that many other people can do.
It's not subjective. JS is only relevant due to ubiquity. Nobody transpiles to C#. (well, except for Haxe - to nitpick, but it also transpiles to Java and C++).
Yeah that's a good point. I never considered asking for more money.
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After reading the source, I realized that I have no idea what modern, idiomatic C looks like. There are tons of uses of #define, some even in the middle of typedefs. I'm pretty sure a whole queue data structure is defined in macros in vqueue.h. Is this normal?
And no one has, yet, mentioned Glooper from Making Money.
That's a false narrative. Owners and executives are the winners here. We are underpaid for the value we bring in and the industry has been caught trying to keep it that way.
R in a 64 bit world
instanceof cannot be determined statically because I can do...

const a = {};
Object.setPrototypeOf(a, SomethingElse);
It remind me this: http://gajitz.com/push-button-wait-forever-crosswalk-buttons...
valid points, thanks for sharing.
SST are only a few miles from me, but I never realised they employed so many people. Between space and computer games Guildford is doing pretty well for tech.
By "That's not the definition everyone uses" I meant "that definition isn't used by everyone", not "the definition used by everyone isn't that".
I don't want to knock the article, since this kind of exploration is fun and well written blogs are always a joy to read.

But knowing some statistics, the entire of Snakes and Ladders is an absorbing markov chain [1] and can be very quickly analyzed as such without having to resort to sampling.

Random sampling is easy but take a step back and the entire state space is an integer in [1,100]. (Actually there are fewer than 100 states because the bottom of a ladder or top of a snake isn't a state).

The state transitions are very easy to model, they're just 1/6 to each of the 6 next states (sometimes fewer, in which case they just add).

Having constructed our markov chain, we can instantly and accurately get back our time-to-victory from each square.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorbing_Markov_chain
Average time could be very misleading here. I would assume that it's a bimodal distribution (or something similar), with many decks that get almost no time and some that get a lot of time.

So assuming a VC will spend ~4 minutes on your deck would be a bad idea. They'll probably either toss it out more quickly than that or take a decent amount of time to go through it properly.
> So, now you need your artists to be programmers.

There is some arguments if you should allow artists to program (Blender does have a built in scripting language).

However, the same group that created the FPS demo also created a tool to create demos - artists can go as wild as they want without needing to write a line of code:
http://www.farbrausch.com/prod.py?which=168

If you want something a little more well documented and updated you should check out ZGameEditor - http://www.zgameeditor.org/.

> And that's ignoring the load times, which increases massively if you have to procedurally generate it.

Any reason why you can't render and save the textures on first run? I feel like Natural Selection 2 does that.

> Meanwhile, disk space is pretty damn cheap and will save you a bunch of time and money.

You are forgetting the step in between. Using your argument that disk space is cheap (and assuming they don't use their hard drive to store anything else...) - in the US ISPs are playing a dangerous game. A small DSL provider has a 5GB cap and will charge outrageous fees for going over: http://stopthecap.com/2010/04/14/frontiers-5gb-cap-is-back-n...

Downloading that 20GB RAGE game has turned into quite a challenge (of course you could always use the Valve response of "take your computer to a friends house").
The bit about financials slides mattering most because investors spend more time reading them seems misleading, especially in light of the evidence that "only 57 percent of successful decks have this section."

Investors spend more time on financials slides because they're information dense (there's literally just more to read), because they often receive less design consideration than the "softer" slides (slap a table on there because it looks like something an accountant would make), and because they're calculating runway and evaluating business-savvy — not because they necessarily "matter more," whatever that even means.
Placebos may still work, even if you know it is a placebo - http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/dec/22/placebo-effec...
Brilliant. About time someone built this.
Remember that for example nVidia uses exactly the same codebase for Windows and Linux, and Linux gets same performance as Windows with OpenGL.
As a Storm user, I can confirm this. I'm eyeing Onyx with great interest. It seems like the design is cleaner, and the development environment much more reasonable than with storm.
yes 2 years ago. created soon after the snowden leaks.
Good point. Seems to be the consensus. I am being to sour.
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That doesn't mean you have to have much added complexity. The complexity doesn't really come from adding sources, it comes from adding exemptions and credits.

e.g. an overly simplistic tax code could read: everyone pays 18% on all income. All money you get from any source is income.

Now clearly that has some problems - but complexity isn't one of them.

Reporting and fraud are separate issues, or at least separable ones.
So.... (marketing speak) HTML/CSS/Javascript ... make view component thingies ...

???
I literally laughed out loud. Remarkable. Just awesome.
Good eye. Either way, it's still funny. :)
Thanks. If I'm reading this correctly, it looks somewhat like an Angular competitor, subbing in "data-win-star" for "ng-star" attributes in your HTML elements.

... or not: some of the other comments suggest that the source data for these views is MS-specific. OK, I should have expected that :-(
> “Technology — even when it’s equally distributed — isn’t a bridge, but a jack. It widens existing disparities.”

As an unqualified statement this is too absolute. Some technology decidedly levels the playing field. As always the key is to be mindful of the consequences of your actions.
This is a fantastic article. I appreciate this bit in particular:

> Mr. Toyama used to share that worldview: “I am a recovering technoholic,” he writes. Then he moved to India, to lead the Microsoft lab, and observed a phenomenon that he would come to believe was universal: “Technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces.” When computers entered rural schools, for instance, guess who held the mouse? Upper-caste boys. Technology wasn’t an intrinsic leveler or a bulldozer to archaic structures: It just gave people new, improved tools to be lovely or horrible to each other in all the old ways.

Technology lets you do more and more extreme versions of what you were going to do anyway. It should come as no surprise that the most newsworthy outcome of putting laptops in the hands of schoolchildren is teachers using them to spy on kids. It's a predictable outcome of the social dynamic, one which technology itself can only amplify, not change.

Of course, technology can be a component enabling larger trends of social change. Consider the industrial revolution. A strong argument can be made that modern technology is a prerequisite for modern liberal democracy. But the immediate impact of industrialization was not liberal democracy throughout Europe. That followed about a century later, on the back of human forces.
More or less, computers were developed by governments for designing nuclear weapons, processing and decrypting intercepts, and so on. The PC revolution did foster decentralization, but it was an accident. They're correcting.
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I said that I have not been to Strangeloop before, but that's because it's scheduled during the busiest conference weekend of the year, and I historically always have conflicts. This year, I have a conference that overlaps the first day, and am trying to decide if I can make it work.
One can usually just rename/delete the intro videos (*.bik) or replace them with 1s bik video file or add a commandline flag to the desktop link or a setting in the config text file. But, an universal fixing app that has some heuristics would be more convenient.
That was implicit model I used growing up, until learned people use "thank you" differently. I was reluctant to thank anyone for doing what I thought was already their obligation -- it didn't make sense. And likewise, I would be confused at receiving thanks for what I thought was my job.

(Naturally, in either case, it would make sense if the thanked did something that went above-and-beyond.)
>The "seriously productive" ones you're expecting to leech off MUST have lots of less-but-still-productive people working for them - and you're tearing out the incentive to do so.

The situation UBI applies to is in a more post-labor world. One where a McDonald's only needs 2 people working instead of 16. At this point it's not going to be taxing those 2 workers but the company itself.

If you want to earn more money than your UBI check (which you would still get if you work), you will still have an incentive to earn more money.
We either provide a link to the source code (if checked into github) or we simply copy & paste into a DM on slack.
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SIGSTOP and SIGCONT are generic Unix signals.

Where it gets more interesting is using elaborate checkpoint/restore [1] mechanisms for processes to serialize their state (open fds, watches, IPC, etc.) into an image that can then be overlayed, remotely executed, debugged and so forth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing
I heard a minor variation of that, in which the button just kicked the playback volume up, exploiting the effect that louder music often feels "better".
I love this. Btw, totally off topic : Is it possible to write iOS/OSX apps by learning Swift without the knowledge of ObjC ? My background : I know some Java/Ruby and do some Android apps.
"Check yo specs n shit." Heh.
Sine – Beautiful gesture based music player, my first app
Well, just take notes while you play then. ;) You're already simulating it by hand. How do you think people ran simulations before there were electronic computers?
I was lucky enough to have the author as a professor. Though I never took it, I heard great things about his "Calculus from a Historical Perspective" class.

http://www.cs.xu.edu/math/math147/04f/
There is a shortage of experienced engineers willing to work for an entry-level salary. Also there is "change your job for this fantastic opportunity - we gonna give you a 10% raise max".

Somehow nobody is discussing a shortage of CEOs... Maybe because they are compensated fairly?
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US is very much behind with it. You barely can see road signs with km/h, and temperatures in Celsius. I'd also prefer time to be in HH:MM:SS instead of AM/PM.

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

With this rate it will take forever. There isn't enough political will do finish the job.
I suspect it also has to do with traditions in finance. Due diligence, audits of accounts, etc, are a integral part of how education in finance is conducted. Also, it is easy to do the basic arithmetic and see if proposals "add up". So people are more used to examining financial documents in detail.

When it comes to markets, people, sales, etc, people are more used to going with their "domain knowledge" or "gut instinct", which takes only a few seconds.
Shameless plug: after reading about how people like watching people code, I did a series of videos about setting up a microservices F# app in mono.

Watching other people code never did much for me, but it seems like it's quite a thing. For those of you that also don't enjoy watching that much, creating the videos was a hoot. Very interesting how once you start recording things with video how you think differently about stuff.

https://vimeo.com/120136738
There's no solution for this short of a revolution in free real-world education and something like apprenticeships.
Don't go fooling yourself into thinking all systems are equally complex just because all systems have sone complexities.

I've read a at least half a dozen studies linking the US standards system to worse learning outcomes. Nobody's saying SI is perfect. It's just a lot, lot less worse.
If they make their fluid inert (what is a relative characteristic), there are probably several application in chemistry.
I also went through this a few years ago. I was a land surveyor and although I loved the combination of technical, mathematical, and analytic skill with working in the great outdoors, the subprime mortgage crisis resulted in big commercial land development contracts drying up.

You have to be single-minded and goal-oriented. Another HN user above says to "pick a technology stack" and focus down on it. That's great advice. I already had some experience on the LAMP stack and I built up from there. Don't let yourself get distracted after you've decided the direction you see yourself moving in.

Work on side projects. Go to meetups. Find people you can collaborate with and work well with you. See if you can get some PT work that is being parceled out by companies because their own FT devs are too busy. If you're allowed to expose your code, build up your Github. Don't forget to visualise where you see yourself going, and don't be afraid to tell people where you're headed.

Also, make productivity apps work for you. Have a Dropbox file where you keep all your technical books, and have that file open all the time. Subscribe to Pinboard or some other bookmarking service to save technical blog posts and documentation you want to read. Use Trello to manage your projects. Etc. Good luck to you.
Would love to have this for email.
Yes. I use evil mode with it.
Out of curiosity, why are you avoiding Py3? I've not touched python in a couple years. I was thinking of taking it back up, just to be more familiar with it.
A natural distribution in this case is the exponential distribution. In the first minute 80% gets thrown out. In the second minute 80% of the remainder gets thrown out, etc.
This program doesn't pause the kernel, just the game's process. Other people in this thread have given equivalent solutions for un*x.

If you want to actually pause the linux kernel you'll have to use something like the magic SysRq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Alternatively you can run the operating system in an emulator like qemu.
The kill -STOP command works on linux too
This was an April Fool's joke from a couple of years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470458
How about hint text in the edit box that changes for each page serve:
"I will become a better person"
"The neighbors will become less noisy"
"I will achieve my goals in life"
Soft robotics for adaptive building facades
What happened to dinosaurs
The term "past performance does not guarantee future results" comes to mind.
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Google to release monthly driving reports for its robocars
Lol right! Can you imagine...
I'd like to see the placebo effect correlated with IQ.
The one-click drone strike is a really great idea! Couldn't be simpler.
Such are the ways of the OOM killer: http://lwn.net/Articles/104185/
Yes, and in countries like Germany there's a three-way relationship between government, employers, and unions, who seem to start from a broad assumption of being on the same team. That relationship is much more fraught in the US, where relations between business and unions are historically antagonistic (with both sides deserving some blame for this), and you have a large contingent of people that are convinced government shouldn't exist and is fundamentally incompetent to solve problems (but often simultaneously a highly effective tyrannical entity).
It even pauses video studio! It really is universal.
A past trend being unbroken is a good heuristic for it to continue, but it is not proof that it will do so. The coming issue is that our software is getting better at replacing jobs faster than new jobs can be created. Not only is manual labor jobs being replaced, but so are knowledge jobs and creative jobs.
Android seems to have been doing a pretty good job at this. I've been using IPv6 exclusively on my Nexus 4 ever since T-Mobile rolled it out, and I've yet to come across an app that isn't compatible with it.
Thanks! Made the fix: https://github.com/wspeirs/rust-compare/commit/0c9fe97c7ae45...

You said there are "some pretty wrong statements," any others? You can also fork and fix if you'd like to help... it'd be greatly appreciated!
Win10Phone/Android/iOS apps are suspended and restored the same ways too. Only the visible app (and some system processes) is running in iOS1-8 (in iOS9 iPadAir2 two apps). It's usually unused in desktop OS (except for universal apps in Win10).
Then he moved to India, to lead the Microsoft lab, and
observed a phenomenon that he would come to believe was
universal: “Technology’s primary effect is to amplify human
forces.” When computers entered rural schools, for instance,
guess who held the mouse? Upper-caste boys.
Technology wasn’t an intrinsic leveler or a bulldozer to
archaic structures: It just gave people new, improved tools
to be lovely or horrible to each other in all the old ways.

I don't know what to say but that's just gut-wrenching. All the high-altitude "Loon" balloons [1] and lightweight "Aquila" drones [2] won't make much of a difference if it were up to the local warlord in Central Africa or strongman in India to decide who gets to live in shacks with uninterrupted power, much less "who holds the mouse". Now, does it?

If true change is desired, tech powerhouses like Google & FB cannot but develop a political will to address the chronic root causes behind the problems of technological disenfranchisement, among the world's downtrodden.

[1] http://www.google.com/loon/how/

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/technology/drones-beaming-...
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then someone can have the pre-written document in the other window and just type and pretend to revise the essay on gDoc!
Auth could be improved - hasn't somebody leaked an NSA public key from another application that we could install? Other option would be opening it to government IP ranges.
Nix is pretty great.

Something to be aware of for Haskell: Nix's Haskell infrastructure has gone through a big breaking change recently. It's settled down now, and the new system (AKA "haskell NG") is much nicer, but all of the "stable" releases are using the old system, and a lot of blog posts, etc. online are now out of date.
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Fair enough. But experience can be garnered outside companies, and the Internet is making that easier, too: OSS development, nonprofit / pro bono work, etc.
C does not have generics or templates so macroses are the only way to define data structures and algorithms over arbitrary types without repetition. Linux kernel uses macroses to define some data structures. Many other projects do the same.

Whether that is normal or not, it's up to developer. It's possible to use as small subset of C++ as developer wants. E.g. use only templates. But staying in C realm might be better for portability.
I feel like people are ignoring my fundamental point -

There are things the web can do that native currently sucks at. Sometimes those things are really important to me.

I'm not saying web is always better than native. Far from it. But I am saying web is sometimes way better than native. Even on mobile.
It does, but cpulimit repeatedly stops/continues the program to keep it within a certain amount of CPU.

It works pretty good, but I have had flash games crash if you limit them too low for a while.
"In order to say that UBI is socialist, you also have to be calling Social Security socialism, and you have to think that President Obama is a socialist."

And that's exactly what the Tea Party types are saying.
He mentioned in the article that you can use Markov chains.
Which church in Romania is this?
1) They aren't lining it up with PHP version support which means if that was their justification, they didn't think it through at all.

2) That doesn't make it long term support.

3) > Since originally launching in 2011, Laravel has always followed the “release early, release often” mantra which is popular in open source applications. With the historic rise in popularity of the framework, it was time to start focusing on the needs of large organizations and mission-critical applications that need security fixes but can’t upgrade quickly. Laravel 5.1 will now include 3 years of security fixes.

The logical way to have handled this if that was the reasoning would have been to say "Laravel 5.1 will be supported until Aug 2017 to line up with the PHP release cycle and provide a stable platform for large organizations along multiple levels of their tech stack.

As each version of PHP is released, we will release a LTS support version of Laravel in sync with PHP's cycle within X months."

That isn't what they did and that is not what they communicated in any, way, shape or form. It doesn't line up with PHP's release cycle, it doesn't have the coverage needed to be truly LTS. It isn't like PHP has breaking changes in every point release.
You are correct. Initial internal temperature and geometry of the food are key inputs. Once you know these, simulation is possible, but it takes some work.

A few years ago I wrote an app called Sous Vide Dash that was initially targeted at professional level kitchens-and later white labeled by PolyScience, the leading provider of professional sous vide equipment. We did full thermodynamic simulation in that app, and modeled both temperature and pasteurization. To my knowledge it's still the only cooking app that has an embedded numerical solver for partial differential equations. In 2012 we won the StarChefs International Chefs Congress Innovator award for our work.

Popping back to the top of the stack, it's a very exciting time for precision cooking. As one of the founders of Meld, I can tell you there is a lot more to come.