skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wrong and you do many people a disservice who might read this and think it doesn't work. I don't know where you're getting this and the article in no way supports your stance. From the article:

Engaging in a course of well-tested psychotherapy, according to the new analysis, gives them an added 20 percent chance of achieving an even more satisfying improvement, or lasting recovery.

An added 20 percent chance.

Don't forget they're already saying that talking therapy is only 25% less effective than originally thought. They are still saying that talking therapy is effective! And at no point do they compare it to placebo.

The very article we're talking about:

1) Disagrees with your extremist stance

2) Never mentions it nearing placebo level

3) You probably didn't read it as you didn't address it

CBT, for example, is known to be particularly effective when dealing with anxiety as well as dealing with secondary symptoms and making people's lives better. It has an effect WAY above placebo.

So why did you say this? Are you actively attempting to make people's lives worse by putting them off therapy?

Also from the article:

for those who do well or fully recover, “psychotherapy, particularly cognitive behavior therapy, seems to be most effective in cutting the risk for a relapse long-term,” Dr. Hollon [one of the co-authors] said.
Is that a lot or a few?

I'm serious, do we expect most people to know this?
Yes, real or fake, it's a great story, superbly told; I'd like to think it's real because it's more beautiful and more touching that way.

One sentence I find very profound is this: the prospect of suicide was suddenly less appealing than the prospect of discovering what had happened in that restaurant.

The other takeaway is this: do not go to the bathroom. Do not leave. Do not take your eyes off the object of your interest for one second, or she might leave and you'll never see her again.
What I got from it was that the man is wrecked by guilt. The woman provided him with a distraction and allowed him to get his life back on track (marriage, family) but in the end he is still wrecked by guilt - he cries everyday.

Very sad story.
Irrational unhappiness
Much as he annoys me a lot of the time, Niall Ferguson's Reith Lecture on this topic is worth a listen -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jmx0p
I can usually spot a company that has too many MBAs. I once heard a teacher say, "There's nothing more useless to an organization than an MBA! Oops, I didn't mean that they way it came out." This was a business school teacher.

I don't believe that, but today, with so many of us knowing the tricks, and what not they teach in these programs; if I owned a company, my MBA count would be low. The accounting/statistics aspect of these programs is fine, but the cheap sales/staff ploys that these programs teach are just irritating, and very noticeable.
I agree with basic income for everyone.

Just don't agree it is enough to innovate at Xerox PARC scale, as what is being discussed is funding, not salaries.
I'd phrase the same idea this way: what is the bottleneck?

Are ideas the bottleneck? No. Everyone and their uncle has great ideas. There are blog posts out there giving away almost every possible business idea for free, at least in the broad sense of a business idea.

Is money the bottleneck? No. A lot of money is invested badly, both in terms of returns and social value. If you have a great idea and a team that can execute, you will get funding. (Either VC, or, you know, profit.)

Are people the bottleneck? No. There is talent, and it can't be said it is allocated efficiently. With a decent combination of idea+money you will probably attract the right talent.

So what is the bottleneck? Attention. Inspiring others and catchy enthusiasm. Charisma. Impact. (All in a broad sense) You are essentially on a campaign.

*Now there is a necessary, but not sufficient step prerequisite. And that is the founder having either domain knowledge to attract any of the above, or some of the above to attract domain knowledge.
Much as he annoys me a lot of the time, Niall Ferguson's Reith Lecture on this topic is worth a listen -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jmx0p
> would earn marks as a school assignment

Oh, come on. I can't tell if you're being ironic or clumsy, but if it's the later I strongly disagree. This is fantastic writing, much better than what we read everywhere everyday; in school it would warrant to take the teacher's place.
Bullshit. There are numerous counter-examples to this, from artists and musicians to game developers, engineers and scientists.

I suspect that the perceived correlation between smoking cannabis and being a loser is that successful cannabis smokers have a strong incentive against disclosing this habit -- they could lose their jobs, or be excluded from further opportunities. They also have more resources and possibly life experience and wisdom to protect themselves from law enforcement and the social status quo (i.e people like you who might judge them unfairly).

Of course I am not advocating cannabis use. I am advocating seeing what works for you and making up your own mind. Some people love coffee, some people don't. None of our business.

One problem I suspect that the status quo has with cannabis is that it is a type of drug that makes you more relaxed about status games. Some people describe the experience like this: it's not that you don't want to do things anymore, it's that you don't care so much about what other people think you should be doing.

But mostly, cannabis is illegal because of racism (it was associated with black people and the jazz scene when it became popular in the west) while alcohol -- a much more dangerous drug that is indeed heavily used to mask boredom -- is ok because white people were used to it, it was part of their culture.
Long press is annoying to use. It’s just so, so, so slow.
Oh god, it's raining inside ;-------; That was such an elegant short story.
I am researching the history of my field, cheminformatics. It grew out of documentation management, more specifically, chemical documentation. While that topic goes back to the 1800s, I limit my research to mechanical methods for chemical documentation search and management.

This started with punched cards in the 1940s. James Perry, then at MIT, was a nexus in the field. It's difficult to find people of the era that he wasn't connected to.

One of these is Calvin Mooers, who is a special focus of mine. Mooers developed some of the fundamental concepts that formed the basis for the computerization of chemical information. (To be more precise, he came up with ideas of how to solve problems. These ideas weren't solutions, but were in the ballpark, and ended up influencing the people who actually solved and implemented the problems.) Mooers was a Master's student at MIT, where he met Perry, and was influenced by the sorts of problems that Perry was interested in.

Mooers' Master's thesis was on a method for superimposed coding which he termed Zatocoding. A superimposed code is one where the keys are assigned to 1 or more bits, and where the bits for different keys may overlap. A Bloom filter is a type of superimpose code. In Zatocoding, there is one pass over the keys to get population statistics, then a bit of information theory to determine the number of bits to use for each key and its bit assignments. A common key ends up with 1 bit, while a rare key might have 7 bits.

Mooers is one of the contributors to "Punched Cards". I likely read the book while trying to track down his publications. I may have read it because Perry was the editor. Or I might have read it because I was trying to understand more about edge-notched punched cards.

As for 'seminal', I based that on the number of sources I've read which cite it. For something more outwardly visible, there are 100 citations at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=464718015108686727&... . And of course the book went through two editions.

Interesting. One of those references is to "Automated concordances and word indexes: The fifties". That article says 'Father Busa inaugurated the history of the automatic production of concordances and word indexes' and 'In 1951, using the punched-card equipment available to him, Father Busa produced and published the first automated word index and concordance to four hymns written by Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi, ...'

It's the same Busa who had the chapter in "Punched Cards" about working with the Dead Sea Scrolls; the one that got me to track down the Popular Science sciation. While that chapter doesn't establish the seminal nature, it does give an idea that the book was presenting cutting edge work with punched cards.
I agree. I think the concept of a 'page' is being slowly replaced with two-way data streams (for example, SPAs that rely on WebSockets).
Just press hard. That’s it. No need to differentiate. The interface does not make that mistake you are assuming it makes.
All one needs to do is inspect the logic of the victim in order to understand the criminality. He has enough resources to pay the unwarranted charges and avoid a bad credit score, but he doesn't have enough resources to acquire a lawyer.

An activist could conduct an investigation and prove the same if that's what the American system requires. I have no doubt that American companies are victimizing millions of people because of their poverty. American people and American society will continue to suffer. Shame.
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Thanks for the link to your presentation. I'm currently implementing this in a Rails app and had a bit of a hard time to grok U2F with only the info from Fido site. Your talk will make it easier for my colleagues to understand U2F :)
I'm sorry to do this but :

The Nazis

The used census data from the 1930's innocently collected by govts and collated by IBM subsidiaries. The subsidiaries then passed this on to the Nazis a few years later when the govts were conquered.

Then the Hollerith machines did a query : "select person if parent=Jew or grandparent=Jew"

you didn't thinnk they did it with pencil and paper now did you ?

Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, didn't get his 1937 Order of the German Eagle for nothing

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_German_Eagle
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Open source/free software philosophy is solution oriented. Successful open source project serves immediate needs and revolves around implementation.

If you have a problem, you write code that solves the problem and give it to others to use. Software should be at least minimally usable to be adopted. It should work with other software.

Look at the software in Alan Kay's VPRI: http://www.vpri.org/ They don't write software for you to use. They build software to use as platform to test ideas. If some of those ideas is good, someone may rewrite the whole thing to fit into current software infrastructure.
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The Eiffel tower is an eye sore, it's just become an iconic one.

Look at an aerial shot of Paris, it's so incredibly out of place.
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Because not having a credit rating is the absence of information, not evidence of being rich/responsible enough to never need credit. You're an unknown quantity, it's impossible to establish what a default score should mean, except "we don't know you, so we're gonna err on the side of not lending you money". What you really want is to be able to record evidence of having bought a car with cash, of consistently saving etc with the credit rating system, but that doesn't exist.

The system optimises for what it (probably correctly) perceives as covering the large majority of situations. Sure, sometimes that leads to some curious corner case situations but it's hard an indictment of the system.
A Parable on Obsolete Ideologies (2009)
> There are numerous counter-examples to this

I'm not saying the GP is correct (I'd rather see a study than "something a cartoon said"), but there are "numerous counter-examples" to everything. Pack-a-day smokers who lived to 110, high-functional alcoholics, people who lived long lives around lead, mercury and asbestos. That doesn't mean you don't want to encourage people to not try to beat the odds.
You would have to parse the VT-100 escape codes to generate the correct html + css (e.g. colors and cursor relocation escape sequences). It is not that straight forward, but on the other hand there are libraries for that.
It's "right on red after stopping".
The problem is people don't stop.
The "new hardware protection mechanism called MPU available on some new ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers" is a device which lets the operating system define up to eight memory regions (sixteen on the M7), optionally with holes in them. In each region, permissions can be set for read, write, and execute, and the policy for cacheing and sharing between cores can be controlled (although this is presumably not really relevant for single-core microcontrollers).

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....

https://blog.feabhas.com/2013/02/setting-up-the-cortex-m34-a...

It's a bit like a normal MMU bit without virtual memory.
What age are you and Camillo? I had your sentiments as well in my early twenties but 20 years later I find those thoughts unhelpful for both me and others around me and taught myself first not to express them and then not to think them. So I am wondering if it might be an age thing or that experiences, social interaction and managing many people in companies changed me.
I remember spending hours (and hours and hours) downloading the latest Netscape over a 14.4k modem in the mid-nineties, and somehow that awesome icon really did make it all seem worth it. What a time to be alive!
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The model minority is losing patience
For your test data to be relevant you would want a controlled environment, e.g. car on perfectly flat road with no pot holes, turns or aerodynamic consideration. You could then adjust the variables and check the results - power, torque, emissions, noise level, oil use, fuel use, temperatures and so on.

That's not how cars are developed. There is some of this for sure, but even "static" dyno tests involve varied workloads to simulate an urban environment. The European Driving Cycle[1] is a fairly basic example of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_European_Driving_Cycle
I have no idea how rustdoc works, frankly. Parsers are one of those things that I am irrationally scared to hack on. At some point, I'll get fed up and overcome that, but it hasn't quite gotten there yet...
I only tried bpgenc with the default speed presets.

It's a bit premature to discuss compression/decompression speed, because this is just a prototype implementation and there are probably many ways to improve the speed. Premature optimization is rarely a good idea.
a higher level of abstraction can make problems more tractable

I think of an abstraction of something that makes things simpler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_%28computer_scienc...

I understood Alan Kay to be saying that a lot of abstractions are actually making things too simple. I would understand the point to mean "a lower level of abstraction can make the big picture more tractable".
You would see a collapse in the prices. People with USD would stop buying them as well and would start buying gold/silver/other currencies. You are confusing currency with bonds.
It works just fine for blind people at least. When you enable Voiceover you can hard press on an icon and it will read out the options in the contextual menu. Works well.

And you can adjust the sensitivity of 3D touch so it should be easier to use than typical long presses.
Jason Bourne is quite a big fan of them, as I recall.
I like the naiveté of this comment, it reminds me what HN used to be, a place for wonder and discovery. Thanks for your comment.
You can make it more efficient by capturing the images to a buffer and rendering a low FPS h264 stream, serving it as HLS fragments and displaying it with hls.js ( https://github.com/dailymotion/hls.js ) as a background element. There is a lot of inter frame compression benefits to be had from this sort of content + it will look more nice with a constant stream of frames. With a low FPS, the CPU usage should be low enough to not be noticeable and also, you can serve a static JPEG as a "preview" when loading the stream in the background for having a background picture on load.
Can this be used in production?
Right, but that doesn't sound like it's been a political issue for a long time now. What you experienced sounds similar to my own experience in NZ, which basically came down to teachers or schools being unable to adequately stimulate smart kids. Standardised education in most places is generally pretty bad at dealing with non-standard kids at both ends of the spectrum actually, but they tend to apply more resources to kids who are struggling than the clever ones.
Facebook v. Google in digital video battle: YouTube is 11X bigger
So are they claiming that the software drops the engine into "cheat" mode by detecting when the front wheels were not spinning (which implies dyno-testing)?

Is it confirmed that is how cheat mode worked?

If I were writing this I'd be more inclined to look for known test cycle behaviour (ie, accelerate for a known time, then constant speed then stop, start etc etc) and drop into cheat mode when it is detected. I guess this could be a problem for unknown cycles though?
See also a longer text on the same problem: "The Myth of American Meritocracy" (2012) http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-... (or, as I would summarize it, "why Asians are the new Jews").
Some links about projects would be nice.
Interpreting this behavior from couple of decades ago through "principle of charity", could the thinking have been that efforts spend on keeping up with the fast learners would have lower payoff (by whatever measure) than helping the slow learners?
Thinking of lifelines in space-time got me through some dark times years ago.

Have a look at Primo Levi's The Periodic Table - the book is a collection of biographical essays each themed with a chemical element. The last essay, Carbon, tells the story of a single carbon atom over the years. Another perspective.
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The Future of Dieting Is Personalized Algorithms Based on Your Gut Bacteria
> Instead, we resort to an overly conservative convention in which interrupt handlers perform no work except posting to the main scheduler’s task queue

This doesn't seem so bad. OS X does exactly this in order to minimise the time spent in interrupt mode, and so reduce scheduling jitter:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Device...
done. thanks for the recommendation.
I've been talking with a few developer friends about libraries lately, and this one has made me realize what they're saying. As Python developers, DSLs are completely not in our DNA, but this library strikes me as something that would look much more Pythonic with a DSL.

Wouldn't it be better to have descriptions of:

Every day at 10:30 do myfunc

Every Monday do otherfunc

Every hour do whatever

Rather than the current .every().day.at("10:30").do(myfunc)?
Doesn't the article talk about the interface doing something different if you press hard vs. pressing lighter?
>You have people who 'believe' in the current system and their role in keeping it stable and sustainable.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'believe' but it makes it sound like there aren't obvious, objective benefits to paying bills and having a good credit score. I don't like the system either, but it results in me not having to pay higher interest rates on loans, not having to put down large deposits for rent, getting to purchase things on credit, etc.
wow, looks fantastic.
Why would anybody click on a video on Facebook? Chances are you will end up with some strange Facebook App installed which will fill your profile with spamy garbage. Most people I know avoid clicking anything on Facebook that isn't part of the main interface.

In the strange case that I really want to check some video, I will probably copy/paste them to a different browser where I'm not logged into Facebook.
I'm saying it's good.

That said, it's only 1000 words. Don't get too excited.

By "school" I mean maybe college, a dedicated writing class. Who knows, who cares, but don't underestimate the talent of young writers motivated by viral glory!

But yeah... it's a good one-hit-wonder.
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Related tip: Most developer extensions have the permission to read and write data from any website you visit. I add all my developer extensions to a copy of Google Chrome Canary instead of my regular Google Chrome app. This means I don't have to worry about e.g. giving a malicious extension access to my bank accounts or LastPass account. As an added bonus, developer features can appear in Canary early.
The artistry within code
Devaluing the Yuan means abandoning, at least for a while, China's attempt to have it become a reserve currency. No one wants to hold money in a currency that is losing value.
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Well, this is the problem with our industry. Any physicist will know who Niels Bohr was and what he did. Not our industry. Computer Science has become a field for twenty-year-old's whose memories span months, or ego-driven Sheldon Cooper's who can't be bothered to credit anyone for anything.

Frankly, I'm embarrassed to work in this industry.
Those engineers won the lottery. The prize was many people switching to a marginally nicer chat app. If you're looking to make the world a better place, choosing engineering based on this result isn't really an obvious choice.
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Pay what you want, build what you can
Or maybe just use WebRTC or WebSockets for push state change ?
Thanks. Funny, of course someone's written a book on the subject! Looks deep, good to know there's a kindle edition.
Yes, Essential System Administration is good. I've read some of it. But I think it is more oriented for sysadmins, while the Linux Command Line book is for beginners, who may or not go on to become sysadmins.

Aside: One of the good points the ESA book maks, IMO, is that when doing sysadmin tasks, try to make your changes reversible, i.e. you should be able to go back to a previous state (of a config file, or whatever). That can save you from a hell of a lot of trouble later.
Maybe see if you can have a chat to somewhere from here: http://www.canspep.ca/ since they could be a good group to get regular requests from.

Also maybe look at eventbrite/meetup for events in the future that don't have a venue yet and try to contact them to use your system.
Good luck!
US state police cars are vulnerable to cyberattack
Reminds me a lot of this short story by Murakami:
"On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" (1981)
http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/22131227213/on-seei...

It's part of his 'The Elephant Vanishes' short story collection.
I think that if the taxonomy is based on evolutionary paths, it's somewhat more "real" compared to the "looks alike" sense. The evolutionary paths could potentially give some insights, while grouping similar but genetically unrelated species is just a confusion in that sense.

On the other hand - classifying things based on their genome does not really help us understand the biomes.
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