skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lance Armstrong also benefited from artificial performance enhancement.
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result = 1;
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I hope https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/API_Working_Group (which I'm pretty sure is active @ https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/API-WG) will make this better in the future. As always feel free to show up :)
Why not? It's much more interesting than yet another anything.js or any new Python-like Pythonish Pythonica.
Tech tops charity: 40 African startups will emerge from Venture Bus 2015
5 buses, 14 African countries, 200 participants, 40 new IT-startups
Partnering with all of Africa’s leading innovation centers and tech conferences
Applications now open for coders, business developers, designers and experts from various industries world-wide
Berlin, May 12th 2015. 5buses, 14 African countries, 200 participants–as of today, applications for the five Venture Bus tours in Africa are open. For the third year in a row, Ampion will run its pan-African startup competition joined by participants from all across the globe. On the road, entrepreneurs are supported by experienced mentors from leading tech centers in Africa and world-wide and develop information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for the African market – this has already lead to capital investment and job creation in Africa.

Venture Buses are driving through 14 countries all across Africa

This year five Ampion Venture Buses will cross 14 African countries. Each tour is a 7-day full-immersion program for developing entrepreneurial skills and creating new ventures in a team-based competition set on a bus. Venture Buses run in East, West, North and Southern Africa. The Ampion Venture Bus will come to Morocco for the first time. Each Venture Bus tour culminates at a Grand Final, incorporated within the continent’s most renowned tech conferences such as DEMO Africa (Nigeria), AfricaCom (South Africa) and the Transform Africa Summit (Rwanda. Along the road, the Venture Bus and its participants visit all major tech- and startup-communities within each region to hold local events, getting in touch with thousands of Africa’s most promising IT talents. „We believe, home-grown entrepreneurship and startups tackling social needs are the best way to sustainable growth on the continent“, says Ampion CEO Fabian Guhl.

Visiting Africa’s tech markets to build new companies

Innovations in modern banking, e-health and more – still open for partners
Learn through experience -- find something you're passionate about building or a problem you're passionate about solving. Don't focus on being productive or creating revenue.
This is simply a perspective on systems engineering.

My argument would be that part of the system is always down, the question is which part and how long, and how that impacts the system performance on the whole.

AWS services work well if you build a stateless system which is in some senses "embarrassingly parallelizable", because you can talk about the capacity of such a system, and the impact of non-functioning components is easy to predict. This is how most standard engineering is done, across disciplines.

Traditionally, it has not been the case in computer systems, but most modern techniques advocate using such systems, because they're MUCH more reliable.

You just sound like you need a safety blanket for emotional reasons, not that you're making sound engineering points about how to most cheaply engineer a high availability system.

I mean, do you really believe AWS engineers aren't working hard to keep their system fully functional?
They might be heavier but they allow you to get rid of a spare wheel, so overall the car is lighter.
> "tajna."

That would be a noun, in other words, a particular state secret. You'd say "Eto gosudarstvenaya tayna" - this is a state secret.

But in English secret is both an adjective/adverb and noun, in other languages there might be two different words for it.

So it would be "secretno"(ru) = "secret"(en) and you might say "Eto sovershenno secretno"(ru) = "This is top secret"(en).
This is about as editorialized link-bait title as it gets and the original is already pretty bad.
Talk to God.

Learn divine intellect and wisdom.

You will become a superior lifeform.
Yes! Having something to apply knowledge to is magnitudes more effective than learning for sake of learning. Start with something simple like "I want to make a website in this language" or "I want to be able to have a conversation in Japanese" or "I want to be able to build my own cabin in the West."

The path you take for learning is shaped by what you want to do. So your question might then take the next logical step: what are things I should apply myself to?

Ideally, whatever you do benefits more than just yourself. If you search for needs that people have, you can find very effective ways of helping people and alleviating stress in the world.

Elon Musk basically had a vision: I wanna colonize space, I wanna make rockets. He had no prior understanding of how rockets were made, but he had the beautiful vision, the happy goal, and everything else fell into place. Strive for a beautiful vision that helps many achieve prosperity and you can't go wrong with how the journey shapes itself.
No, since it uses FreeBSD features that are not in OS X.
Symbolized RubyGem: HashWithIndifferentAccess, but keys are stored as symbols
In 1887, their grandfather, Czar Alexander the third had Lenin's brother put up against a wall and shot. How unfortunate for the czar who signed that death warrant to have his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren fall into the hands of the brother of the "nobody" he had had executed. The nobility had said that God's hand had given the royals the power and authority to rule Russia, but God's hand seemed not to have been much of a match to the bullet of Bolshevik soldiers.
Privileges should be inherited across fork and monotonic down to solve this problem.
Bypass iCloud Activation Lock Tool for Any iPhone
How the Bicycle Wheel Carries its Load: Held Up by Downward Pull (1980)
Recognize that you can't be motivated all the time.

Recognize when you are. Then attack!

I've never retained anything when I'm trudging through material just to get through it.
Too bad they don's support ublock origin. I don't use ABP anymore because they allow "acceptable" ads.
This is definitely something that deserves more attention. The long term effects of trace amounts of heavy metals is something very alarming indeed.
What was your thought process like when you decided to beat around the bush instead of getting to learning?

Was it that you'd thought the subject to be "good to know more about", but did not find interesting enough?

I bet there have been at least a few subjects that fascinated you enough to stay awake at night and ignore all the other distractions/quick gratifications.

What are they and how are they different from the ones that you somehow never get to learn?
You are talking is generalizations. We do spend money on basic research. We should probably spend more. If you took the money away from space, it wouldn't necessarily be spent on other science research. People understand that satellites, etc make our lives better. The stuff that NASA does is useful. It can be sold to taxpayers.

You're just having some pointless debate with yourself.

IN FACT, I'D SAY YOU ARE CLUELESS about how the world works.

Listen to this Congressman canceling the United States Supercollider project:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4499048/joel-hefley-kill-ssc

There just wasn't enough excitement.
Handles to deleted files are relatively uncommon in practice. Network sockets aren't.
When I understood learning and reading are not necessarily task to enjoy, everything became straight forward from there. A simple comment changed my perspective. The guy/gal said something I understood as:

"People ask me all the day how is it possible I read sooooooo many books. Is it fun? Do I have something special? Well no, reading is hard, it's a chore, it's work. It's no fun at all, I do it because it's for my betterment. I read everywhere and at any time: while eating, while waiting for the bus, in the bus, on a 10 mn break. If you understand this won't be fun, you'll get along and get to it."

"Everybody wants to look good, but noone wants to lift those heavy ass weights."
> Why not just pay people the same for each position, with merit bonuses for those who exceed/excel.

Because people aren't cogs and they all function at different levels of productivity.

I've literally never worked with anyone who I would consider to be of precisely equal value to me. Everyone else has been either more valuable or less valuable, by a tune of at least a few thousand dollars annually.

Fixed salaries prevent paying people by their value and instead mandate a rigid adherence to "years spent" and "grades." I would literally never work for a company with fixed salaries.
I agree that it's superficial, but it is something someone would notice when picking it up.
Hey, I'm the author. Actually, the data doesn't support this statement. Here's financing by year for BTC companies in $M (non inflation adj). Note 2015 is only through June, so BTC investment should grow 45% y/y, if the pace holds.

year industry amount($M)
2012 Bitcoin 4.75000
2013 Bitcoin 54.47459
2014 Bitcoin 259.57000
2015 Bitcoin 189.40000
This seems like fairly boilerplate code to make sure you don't encounter conflicts in the scheduler across various goroutines.

I'm curious how long the wait was as it had to be pretty serious to explicitly make the code thread unsafe to "fix" it.
Good suggestion. If you just do nothing, there must come a point when you feel so guilty wasting your time that motivation will come naturally. If it doesn't, so be it. What's the point of anything, anyway?
For me, it comes down to a couple things:

1. If it feels like drudgery, don't force yourself.
2. Be patient , and look for inspiration.

A couple years ago, I had lost interest in learning new languages or side projects. I picked up woodworking and have pursued it actively since. Being away from the computer has helped me recharge my batteries.

Through woodworking, I got motivated to build a blog aggregator for all the woodworking blogs I followed. I picked up ruby, node, and redis to build the site that's now being used by other woodworkers.

Recently I finished some sci-fi novels, which I rarely read. Some technology and themes in the book inspired me to get back into learning about AI, something else I had gotten burnt out about since grad school. Now I'm learning Clojure to implement some ideas.

I leave you with one of my favorite quotes from a well known woodworker:

“We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our lives” - James Krenov

Good luck!
If you're coming from Python, you will be shocked by the compile times. However, the type system will likely save you time in the long run.
I'd say get rid of the Internet at home. That's the number one distraction. Personally, I can't read more than a paragraph online without jumping to another page...so just kill that beast. Here's an example...I have all the documentation I could ever want right on my hard drive, but I might spend a few frustrating hours surfing the web trying to figure out something out instead of looking at what I already have.

Some other ideas...have a pipeline and modest goals. Be happy if you read 45 minutes every day and don't think you need to read giant text books to learn. Find slim books! 150 pages max. But get really, really good books from the masters in your chosen field.
Here's the data for ag tech. For 2012 - 2015 (ytd).

167, 561, 456, 108.

Pretty big drop-off in 2015. On an annualized basis, if the trend continues, we should expect a 50% decline.
Those figures are in $M
This is the most HN sentence available, but:

Sitting down and really learning the internals of a language, it's community and tools enough to construct a large project with competence was definitely significant in my recovery from addiction.
To be fair, Vladimir's brother was only hanged because he himself had just tried to "sign the death warrant" of the tsar by tossing a bomb into his carriage...
Ask HN: Who should I talk to in my company to find my contracts IP clause?
Seattle is pretty alright. Substantially cheaper than the bay, no state income taxes, lower sales tax, and competitive comp.
Thanks for the feedback. I did provide the total amount invested ytd (approx $50B according to Mattermark) and the second table shows share of total venture dollars by category, so multiply the two and you get aggregates by sector.
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And I'm curious why a longer time horizon makes the data misleading. I calculated over 3 years to minimize the risk of aberrations/flashes in the pan. What time period would you suggest?
Of course Russian has the word «тайна». It's the generic term for hidden, classified, protected, secret, or unknown information. And «государственная тайна» would be "state secret".

But the stamp on the maps wasn't just for indicating that they are some sort of state secret. It was for indicating the exact level of secrecy in the Russian classification system.

Those levels are «особой важности» (literally: of special importance), «совершенно секретно» (lit.: completely secret) and «секретно» (lit.: secret). And in US government terminology, they approximately correspond to "top secret", "secret", and "confidential", although the boundaries between the levels are defined somewhat differently.
I find myself strongly dissenting with the article and the opinions of most here.

As vonklaus states, ads subsidize many services that I use and value but am unwilling or unable to pay for myself.

Advertising is a fair market exchange. Businesses are funding my access to information and services in return for the right to present to me.

We have quite a bit of control over which contracts we enter into, everything from changing the channel during a commercial to only consuming commercial free content.

As such a market, as ads become more and more invasive and obnoxious then they become less valuable in that they drive users away and hurt the content providers who are funded by ads. So there is incentive to provide ads to consumers in a way that can be consumed if desired.

Of course in some cases like advertising minors, I do think that limits are apropos as they do not have the experience to understand what they are entering into.
Some things that I have found useful:

- Set 2 or 3 learning topic goals - write these down

- Identify what the best resources are available to learn that topic, purchase them (making a financial commit to it helps drive me too), ensure you have a mix of reading, audio and video material

- Find out who the bloggers are in those topic areas and subscribe to their blogs, getting regular news articles and posts helps keeps me motivated

- Join a user group in your local area so you can meet other people to engage in discussion about the topic

- Lock in a few hours over the weekend or in the evenings to go to a cafe or to sit at your desk with a coffee and go over the material

- Write about the topic, talk to your friends and colleagues about the topic, do a presentation on the topic to a user group

This is the process I have been following for years since I left university and has helped me master new technologies and business management theories.
They did mention justification: the uplink radio science experiment. Here's a paper covering that experiment: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ssr/ssr-rex.pdf
Some folks have already moved on to a lost PLA casting process. I've seen some pretty decent results.

http://3dtopo.com/lostPLA/
One could make an easy conscious choice if all products included objective information about their characteristics and performance. Hypothetical examples:

- Deodorant X was found to prevent odor for 5 hours and reduce it for 19 in tests with subjects similar to you.

- Fragrance A had the highest percentage of positive ratings among your desired gender and demographic.
Great article. I think the big thing for me that Arlo left out was the parallel process for someone who is already connected:

1. Call rich investor friend tell him my idea and who is on the tentative team (provided we get the $2M in seed funding)

2. (optional) e-mail him pitch deck

3. Funds are wired
Literally everyone in professional cycling at that level was taking PEDs. Think of it in the same way everyone knew the NSA was spying on us. When proof came to light we all just shrugged our shoulders.
Elixir is a Ruby like language that runs on the BEAM VM, the bytecode virtual machine that Erlang runs on.

Elixir is thus able to execute Erlang code directly including OTP.
This means you can use OTP as you would in Erlang but without the somewhat arcane syntax.
Thus it can be said, you can use the "real" thing.
Do you not have a copy of the contract you signed when joining the company?

I would guess you can talk to HR as they should have a copy of your paperwork.
I agree completely that there should be free and easily accessible addiction treatment centers available to those who need it.

I just don't think buprenorphine is the solution.

It's easily abusable and worth relatively a lot on the black market.

You run into the same problem you did with methadone: you're on an opioid that has a 16-27 day half-life. You will be withdrawing heavily for much longer than you would if you cold turkeyed a street opioid.

You're replacing one opioid with another, one addiction with another. This is 100% anecdotal, but I only know people who have had months and years of abject misery trying to come off of buprenorphine.

For hardcore opioid addiction, it might make sense. But there are options like the Naltrexone injection that doesn't involve replacement therapy.
Unless I misremember, thrust is proportional to exhaust velocity. Energy is proportional to the square of the velocity.

The big advantage of air breathing engines is the ability to use air as the reaction mass. IE, take a huge amount of air, and accelerate it a small amount to produce thrust. Which is why propeller driven aircraft are still 'a thing' and you see turbofan engines with ever higher bypass ratio's. (modern designs are 10:1, 10kg of air flow through the fan fro every 1kg of air through the engine)
I went looking for an old graphic showing doping status of other top Tour de France finishers during the years Lance Armstrong won, and couldn't find it, but the Wikipedia article on doping at the tour should go a long way to satisfying your curiosity on this question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France
In Russian Empire the imperial court mostly spoke French so lower classes, aspiring to sound more like nobles, borrowed a whole lot of French words. Because of this many Slavic words now sound archaic or pretensions to a Russian speaker. E.g. тайна in Russian is more like 'enigma', definitely not 'classified/secret'.
Fiverr and Coinbase: What .01820 Bitcoin can buy today
Security dialogs like this don't work. No one reads them and in this case it isn't even asking users to make a decision they can understand. It's hard enough to have the right UI when a user is on a site with a broken SSL cert which is really straightforward.
Sketch 3 Symbols for Font Awesome 4.3.0
Definitely, Elixir is very nice.

However it is very useful to have access to actor style concurrency outside of the BEAM ecosystem.

One of the really nice things about Celluloid is you can start up the actor system inside an existing non-threaded and non-actor aware system and write concurrent code.
Can't help myself, but another quote that might resonate with some:

“Working alone poses problems of discipline and aims, and you have to get on lifelong terms with your work and yourself. For most of us, in the beginning stages and perhaps always, it’s a condition of struggle and discovery and secret satisfactions.
Sometimes you are not making as much money as the plumber…, but you are alive with your work, and I think that one of the important points to keep you going is that you enjoy it-not hobby enjoyment or periodic enjoyment, but the enjoyment of being with it.

That, of course, means that you must save your energy, you must develop methods of working with wood that lead to a sort of harmony, a satsifaction that you are, with a minimum of effort, achieving the maximum of sensitivity. You are saying what you want to say, finally, and you’re doing it in a way that, despite all the sweat and hard work, gives you satisfaction.

This is the way you want to live.”

— James Krenov, A Cabinetmaker’s Notebook
Native marketing combined with retargeting are disturbingly effective. 1800s snake oil peddlers have nothing on modern advertising's insidiousness.
A simple type system makes it difficult to express useful invariants that are also flexible enough for the code to be reusable. Static typing makes it easier to write reusable code, provided the type language is sufficiently expressive.
totally agree with this. if you are using linux, install a few window managers and start playing around with them...fvwm, xmonad, fluxbox, etc...then start thinking about what you would like to do better...look at the code for some of the utilities...bbpager, dmenu, etc...well, that's if you're interested in this kind of stuff ;-)
Puncture proof bike tires work extremely well. I have Continental Top Contact tires. Except for overinflation (my fault), never had a flat over thousands of miles. They feel nice to ride on too. Before that, I had Panaracer ribmo tires. No flats, ever. However, the ride was a little bit stiff.

Both were a little heavy, but worth the extra weight.

If you're getting flats, that's a much better solution.
It's a veritable KSP gallery in there.
1. Force yourself to find inspiration anywhere possible (you need new perspectives)

2. Get an idea that moves you

3. Do it

5. You learned without noticing

6. ??

7. Profit
Tesla Model S Just Got Upgraded to Ludicrous Speed
The TL;DR answer is yes, there are some hard drive SMART values that can indicate failure is likely, but they vary by model and don't necessarily show before failure.
This app does work on the phone but it is not yet on the Apple App Store or Google App Store.
Mark Cuban's advice may be relevant: http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-...
I understand what you're saying, but the internet is the most enabling technology in history for learning.. to not use it at all because you might misuse it is throwing the baby out with the bathwater and doing yourself a serious disservice.

Avoiding procrastination is about discipline - if it's a problem, address the root cause, don't just chop off the leaves (sorry for the terrible analogy).

Compare it to say, quitting smoking. If you want to quit smoking, do you ban yourself from entering all places that sell cigarettes, and cut off contact with all your friends who smoke? Of course not! If you truly want to quit you ought to be able to go anywhere, do anything, talk to anyone, and still not smoke. It may not be pleasant but being able to do that == being able to truly control the problem.
I agree with you about the e-Golf. I had previously seen numbers like this: http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/ that make the e-golf look like they were converting a few hundred cars to electric drivetrains as a test, but I didn't realize that the car was selling in meaningful numbers in Europe. I would love to know if they are making a profit on them or plan to in the near future. You might be right about the i3 as well, but everything about it screams "concept car" in my mind. I also consider the Volt to be a serious attempt to win the market, but it's not a fully electric vehicle.