skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If every one truly believed that what affects others is actually affecting themselves, I couldn't describe the all of benefits. One is a massive reduction of wars, violence and suffering.

It is a process though. I get angry, upset and do, on occasion, cause suffering in response to those emotions. What I am able to do is realise that I can observe this emotions as I do the universe, as it's all the same. By disconnecting from thoughts and emotions and observing them, they have much less effect. I can then use my thoughts as tool to analyse the situation and choose the appropriate path that will lead to a peaceful, beneficial resolution for me and others.

This does not happen every time, I still fall and slip. With repeated application, it will become a solid habit.

It's obvious and 'trivial' that negatively responding to negative emotional states will produce a negative outcome for myself, increasing my own suffering. This obvious fact fits within my insights, which is most important to me.
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Question:

Do you guys know of any effective methods for getting out of hormone related mood funks?

I find that a few days a month I just feel really sad. Every little mistake I make feels like the end of the world. I feel like a failure.(I imagine this is similar to what clinic depression feels like.)

The other 95% of the month, I feel great. Happy just to bask in the glow of the sunshine.

During my down days, I've tried everything from doing activities that make me really happy, letting myself indulge in foods I like, etc. but nothing helps. So far, I just tough it out but it sucks feeling like this, even if only for a few days.

Any advice?
It's gUSto. Like how you pronounce us. The "us" in the name resonates with our mission and is another reason why we liked it :)
That's pretty reasonable. Although I didn't explicitly SAY so in the article (and I really should have), the "Listen to them" step is intended to be via phone or in-person.

Regarding #2, is it always clear to you on the spot if a project isn't a good fit? That's kind of awareness is rare, IME, and kudos to you for having it!

A lot of the freelancers that I've mentored need a bit of time & space to ponder and re-play the tape in their head, so to speak, before they can come to that conclusion.
AVG privacy policy allows selling your data
Show HN: I'm writing a book to teach intermediate web app programming
Hey HN — I've done a couple Show HN's for my first book, Hello Web App (http://hellowebapp.com):

My first Kickstarter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699291
Launch of Hello Web App: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9329942

Since launch, Hello Web App has had over 1,000 readers and currently has a 5-star rating on Amazon. Yay!

I'm now finishing up a follow-up book, which is fundraising/taking pre-orders on Kickstarter now. Hello Web App: Intermediate Concepts covers topics such as:

* Adding payments (using Stripe)
* Adding an API
* Adding user-uploaded images, and using a library to resize/edit those images automatically.
* Database design
* Intermediate form stuff
* And a bunch more.

If all goes to plan, will be released to Kickstarter backers in December. It's a followup for anyone who read my original book, or anyone with a basic understanding of Django web development and wants to build out their app (like anyone who has gone through the official Django tutorial or the great DjangoGirls tutorial). If you're interested in the new book or both the old and new book, there are Kickstarter rewards covering both. :)

Campaign link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1868398473/hello-web-app-intermediate-concepts

(Oh and watch the video because I make this face and it's slightly terrifying/hilarious: http://imgur.com/WDiDwYq)

I LOVE talking process and answering any and all questions, so if anyone has questions about how I taught myself programming, launching my startup, how I self-published a book, etc., I'll be here to chat! Thanks HN. :)
As I understand it, it still has to bring down the whole system (I mean all processes) in order to do that – isn't that functionally equivalent to a reboot?
Or if you don't want to sit through the video:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
They had initially charged $200 for it on contract when comparable phones existed for free on contract. (The Prime offer was not sufficient)

When the cost was removed, it was just another Android phone.
Just because the CA system currently sucks (letsencrypt.org may help this) doesn't mean you should give up on crypto entirely.
Sounds familiar... http://insecure.org/sploits/xscreensaver.html
I certainly did. systemd has been pretty blissful for me so far.
> you can naturally claim that a "good" individual utility takes into account the well being of others

That's not the same as utilities of multiple individuals adding, or otherwise being composed into a single utility function. The "good" individual's utility function can certainly depend on that individual's beliefs about how his actions will affect the well-being of others; but it can't depend on the actual utility of those others, because the "good" individual doesn't know the actual utility to others of various states of the world.

> if those actors are able to 1) achieve consensus on a utility 2) coordinate their actions according to said utility, then it also makes sense to talk in terms of a joint utility theory.

I agree with this, but I think the necessary conditions for it are very rare. In most cases of collective action, the actors do not have consensus on a utility function and do not coordinate their actions according to a single utility function.

In fact, in most cases the actors probably do not even share a common or compatible set of beliefs about factual things. In US politics, for example, you have members of Congress who are young earth creationists alongside other members who believe standard evolutionary theory.
One of the founders gave an amazing talk at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3432

Worth listening to if you are interested in starting a company.
I read comment after comment where people say, "Facebook advertising is broken, Facebook has lost the young, or Facebook is toast." Yet, despite that, Facebook's actual operating results indicate that:

a) They have greater than one billion monthly active users.
b) They pull in over $3 billion per quarter in revenue.

I assume that Facebook's results are legitimate and are not the result of massive fraud on their part. So, if those numbers are true, either:

a) advertisers are incredibly stupid and keep pumping money into a medium that earns $0 in revenue.
b) because of their fine-grained targeting capabilities and diversity of monthly users, there are opportunities to get results with Facebook ads.

If you're going to claim 'a', you need to back that up with something. The market shows me that Facebook remains a decent advertising medium and that you can get a positive return if you do a good job of managing/monitoring ads.
Oh, man. I dream of the day a client comes to me with a project as interesting as a Gungan-targeting fish-taco stand website!

Also, thanks for the compliment! That e-mail template took forever to iterate into what you see today. :)
> the interests of consumers and corporations are naturally aligned in general

Maybe in the perfect magical world of highschool civics where consumers have total freedom to choose from amongst competitive products and corporations are perfectly open about privacy. The reality is much less idealized. Corporations lie to customers daily. Contracts bind customers to not adopt competitive products. And state-sanctioned monopolies in many counties (US/Canada/China) severely limit choice.

Any publicly traded corporation, by definition, is only interested in money. Sometimes appeasing customers helps that bottom line, but often it doesn't. Sometimes screwing over you customers is the way, especially when those customers have nowhere else to go.
I got this error for line "targetsd = dummyvar(targets);":
Undefined function 'dummyvar' for input arguments of type 'double'.
Create iOS Alerts: UIAlertController
The LWN people have stated that subscriber links are okay because they can help drive new subscribers who might otherwise not know such context existed, but obviously they don't want people posting EVERY link. I forget where I saw this discussed.
This is important, and IMO it's the thing that most freelancers neglect. They freelance the same way they did their last W2 job - waiting for the boss to tell them what to do.

Freelancing requires a whole 'nother type of thinking and self-accountability. It's one of the most common things I end up mentoring freelancers on.
I don't think what you're saying is true re: mental incongruity.

And I don't think your example of gay suicides proves it, as it's hard to know what is the cause (and many people will point out, and I would agree, that there are many other causes of gay suicides, e.g. that our culture is oppressive toward gay people).
How HealthCare.gov Went Wrong
I think Google asks for 2-factor only when you are connecting from a new browser/device, so it would be highly suspicious to see that happening randomly.

Of course, the fact that he's asked for a password while being already logged in on Gmail is also suspicious, but less so since other sites do that.
Regarding his fraud issue, I found that my website was being used in the same way when I added a credit card payment form. I implemented a system that first does an "Auth". If that passes, then I pass details to MaxMind and get back a response with a "riskScore". If the score is too high, I void the auth and decline the transaction. This has saved me a lot of chargeback fees, though it's still not perfect. I prefer PayPal because a "not authorized" just reverses the transaction; there is no chargeback fee.
It would be interesting to run the same test using musl, which allows a smaller minimum stack size.
Except part of the point of a democratic society is to leave the hard decisions of state to a small group of people who are ideally best equipped to handle it. The intent is precisely for the public at large to NOT have to assess every minute, gory detail, as then they would have no time left to contribute to the society.

Now, that model also relies on the ability to trust that those chosen to make the hard decisions are doing so competently and in the best interests of the society at large. It also bakes in the assumption that everyone will have to make compromises.

In the immortal words of Calvin and Hobbes "A good compromise leaves everyone mad".
What if I have a bare IP address and don't feel like getting a domain name for it?
Even though there's the open-source (but somewhat stalled) Exult project, I'm almost interested in buying their copy of Ultima 7 (http://www.gog.com/game/ultima_7_complete), if there was some documentation on how the fuck they reverse engineered that mess. The game was so memory intensive that our computer barely met the requirements...and even then, it required its own "Voodoo" memory manager [1] which took a long time of tweaking INI files and learning what XMS/EMS memory were...I used to attribute my interest in computer programming to video games -- as in, wanting to make video games. But I think it's more accurate to say that clumsily screwing around with the details of my computer's boot process just to get Ultima VII to work made me much more inclined to try to tweak/hack every thing about a computer.

[1] http://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager
>> Larger ones have hordes of academics, journalists, philosophers, etc., proclaiming the moral righteousness of their use of lethal force and intimidation (see the "Bush Doctrine").

It plays well for the Democrats too:

http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/

""Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors," said Clinton."
A moody client could see it as insulting to their plans or project.
SimplyCredit: Keep the credit cards you love, Ditch the terms that suck
> did you notice the supposed benefits of systemd yet? Namely faster startup times?

Given that I rarely reboot my systems, no. I spend most of my time using my systems, not booting them.

[update: clarification, additional snarkiness]
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Main reason there is a Systemd is NOT for users. They didn't switch to Systemd for faster boot times. They made the switch to make life as a developer easier.

As a user Ivastly PREFER the syntax and process handling of Systemd. I miss the plain text logs but no big deal.
This is Karthik, one of the founders of SimplyCredit. I wanted to share SimplyCredit here because HN folks have pretty strong views about the banking system and I’d love to get your feedback. Also, this community loves 'hacks' and we feel this may be one of the biggest hacks in the financial services.

We created SimplyCredit because we were tired of credit card companies’ approach of 'paying billions in fine is easier than doing the right thing'.

To fight credit card companies, you need to understand why their product has been very sticky -- for example, attractive rewards programs incentivizes spend and gimmicky terms keep people in debt for a very long time. Most consumers are not good with managing their finances so handing cash over to them (in the form of personal loans) to manage their credit card debt does not work -- most of their paid-off cards start accruing balances shortly thereafter. We wanted to build SimplyCredit so the credit card companies will not even see a single dollar in interest charges.

Happy to answer any questions you guys have. I used to work at FICO for nearly a decade so I would like to think I know a thing or two about the credit card industry.
Anecdote inbound. I recall our formal lab write-ups comprised a large part of our final grades. Poorly written, poorly formatted formal lab write-ups consistently got C's while well written and formatted write-ups got A's. In this case I can see a strong correlation between English scores and physics scores.
If it involves more work, it's not a cheap shot :)

Really though, I don't have anything against what he said, nor against MBAs (...well, some MBAs maybe). It was just poking fun at vacuous sounding corporatespeak.
How to Use Visual Storytelling to Get Audience Attention on Social Media
It's not just exciting--it's cathartic.

Walter White is a smart guy who is put into a desperate situation, and overcomes that situation. In the process, he kinda turns into a monster as his problem solving outstrips his morals but not his insecurities, but still, it's impressive to watch him stand up and win.

Pablo Escobar (as portrayed in Narcos) started out with a small family smuggling business, and built it up into a multi-billion-dollar-a-year business. He did so while helping the common man, bringing revenue into the country, and generally being of the people in a nation segregated by race and wealth. Arguably, it was only when the US decided to intervene and the old guard of Colombia became threatened by political aspirations that the business became violent.

Especially in the latter case--being based on a real person--we see an individual taking a stand against a system with arbitrary rules, fighting for the success of his business, and taking care of his own people (sorta).

In contrast, we see them fighting against large bureaucratic machines, organizations without personal ties and human agendas. It's not hard to see that the human despots in gangster narratives are more sympathetic than the abstract almost-forces-of-nature they're competing against.
AVG's new Privacy Policy will sell your browsing history to third parties
> it's cost me, £21.54 to allow some shithead to use JS Bin as a stolen card testing facility.

Not sure if it's standard practice, but in our case we let the users use the "free tier" service first, and we offer the paid plans only once we can validate they have a genuine interest in the product . It works well for us to avoid these cases.
To put in in other words, whatever your (gene-induced) instincts may urge you to do may not be the best strategy to successfully reproduce. Humans are a culture-based species. Helping your culture may be reciprocated by increased chance of your progeny surviving and prospering.

Also, cultures (at least microbial ones) with a certain percent of altruists grow faster than cultures without them, even though altruists' genes become less represented: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5911/272.abstract
Re: bridges and roads, it's hard to run experiments, and its usually too late once you do: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/08/01/friday-marks-7-year...

Also: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/15/bridges...

Healthcare is too subject to devolve in political argument for me, someone else has to put up some data on that one.
You're also genetically tailored to have lots of sex, theoretically in order to reproduce, but that doesn't prevent people from using birth control. You're genetically programmed to eat lots of fat, theoretically because it would better for you, although these days with easy abundance of foo it's much less heathy.

Worth mentioning that you might be genetically predisposed to do something to achieve some end goal, but that doesn't mean you have to agree with or actually try to achieve that end goal.
> Kudos to the Yelp team for keeping the quality control strong and providing a great service.

Well that's not something you hear (read) everyday.
You might find books on social psychology helpful.

At one point in his career, my ex was a military recruiter. They get world class sales training. He borrowed my textbook from the social psych class I had taken and I didn't see it again until his tour of duty as a recruiter was over.

I will also recommend "Getting to yes" which is research based and a quick read and "The mind and heart of the negotiator", which is also research based but meatier. I believe there is a free version of the latter available online. These were both required texts for my class on conflict management and negotiation.
*face detection...specifically Viola-Jones
My take (as it was explained to me by HR) is that currently it's used as a way to let decisionmakers (landlords, bank loan officers, court systems, etc) get verification of employment and/or salary via mutual agreement. You, as the wage-earner, grant an access key to a landlord for example. He then can get quick verification of your application information without wasting HR's time.

But I trust the credit bureaus as far as I can throw them. This will certainly morph into other uses for the data, like this:

Hiring Company: "Did Joe Pastebin earn $100,000 last year?"

Equifax: "Nope."

And out goes the bong letter.
Joyce and Karthik are awesome, I love their vision to make compound interest a thing of the past.
nerdy, you're right that it's not the most personal approach. However, that's kind-of the point; rejecting work can sometimes result in the rejected party initiating a more heated exchange than is good for either party.

By maintaining the arms-length that an e-mail provides, it helps the freelancer (especially one who is new, uncertain of herself, or who hasn't learned to hold boundaries yet) to avoid getting sucked in to anything.

Plus, it provides a paper trail for later when the client comes begging back and the freelancer wonders "now, why did I turn this project down? Oooooh, right, they wanted to gnarfle the garthock, and that feels unethical."

So, while you're right in that it could be handled more personally, my experience tells me that it's often better for all involved if it's just a weensy bit less personal.
You're right, of course, the doll can't walk away. But this example was confusing; the doll asked about a problem it had with a fake friend and was responding saying it would apologize to the fake friend. The beginning of the conversation was:

"The doll explained that she and her friend Teresa had argued and weren’t speaking. ‘‘I really miss her, but I don’t know what to say to her now,’’ Barbie said. ‘‘What should I do?’’

‘‘Say ‘I’m sorry,’ ’’ Ariana replied."
> On iOS, those ads are controlled by Apple.

I don't think that is true. My understanding is that Apple has certain policies about user tracking. It does not force ads to use iAd or take a cut from ad revenue.
Facebook launches Signal to help journalists monitor activity on Facebook
Being mainly a web programmer, I get a lot of very bogus inquiries (like re-implementing multi-million dollar websites in a day) and requests from companies doing projects that look very very painful if not outright doomed. I tried several ways of letting these people down gently, and only one actually works in all cases - even though the turn-down email is often a bit of a lie, sorry to say.

The problem with the whole "I don't think this is a good fit" angle is project owners will then try to convince you why it should be an excellent fit, and they're often not wrong. If you advertise yourself as, say, a full-stack web app developer, it's difficult turning down someone asking you to help out on a generic web app.

The second thing I tried is reasoning with people by letting them know why I personally think the project is a bad idea, or is not salvageable. Unsurprisingly, it's almost impossible to do this without insulting them, or without inviting responses like "well, then maybe you're just too incompetent for this".

So the only thing that actually works in my experience is: "sorry, I'm fully booked at the moment, so I can't take this on". The beauty of this approach, even though I recognize it's morally questionable, is that it's an entirely realistic reason. In fact, it's the exact same response I send out when I am indeed fully booked. You leave that person behind with a neutral impression, and they still feel good about their project (which is important because I could be very wrong in my judgement of it).
Wonder who has arms long like this )
Visual Studio Code Documentation moves to GitHub
Ask HN: The new “past” link on some submissions
I see that some submissions have a "past" link that connects to a search for the item in question. Not sure of the rules about where it appears, or what exactly it's searching for.

Has anyone explored it? Is it only on the "newest" page?

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Edit: Thanks for the links to the discussion - appreciated.
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In incognito I got 3.33s for v1.1 and 1.24s for v2 in Chrome and 3.30s (v1.1) and 1.43s (v2) in FF.

You're right that in FF/Chrome for runs N+2 I get about half of the first run (0.86s for v2) so it looks like there's some kind of caching going on -- it's still twice as fast with v2.
New Xerox PARC processor can selfdestruct, destroy cryptographic keys on command
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I'm with you that the tactics used here seem a little bit scummy (though I've seen plenty of bullshit from the other side of the table more consistently), but the author does at least claim to also be working hard to improve their craft as well, so I'm not sure your initial concern is really relevant.
They'll know when they have to go sign up with a separate payroll service like ADT. It makes the offering less attractive.
Automatic bot traders caused Tesla stock to move when Tesla made an April Fool's post.
Is it available in HongKong?
Thanks for the Neil Gaiman link.

The concept of the article is absolutely mind-boggling. Interesting how this only happened in Australia.
The first time I load the page in Chrome (45), the HTTP/1.1 test takes 3–5 seconds but subsequent refreshes take about 1.5s, so there must be some caching or connection keep alive that probably invalidates this test. HTTP/2 is always less than 1 second.