skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about the brain, it's about the body. Right brain innate connection to ones own body and to the world. We know that there are nouns because the body senses objects. We know there are verbs because the body can make movements. We know there are adjectives because the objects differs. It's a very left brain dominated view that would even contemplate that a language system would evolve free of interaction with the world, only through dna construct some language organ.

And language is probably a product of singing. Checkout "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World". Singing is used to share feelings in larger groups then ordinary grooming permit. Language is a systematization of singing. That is why music evokes feeling response more readily then words in ordinary speech, speech evolved later.
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I'm not sure why you think this is a bad thing. Canonical is a corollary to Apple in the Linux world. They set their own agenda with limited cooperation.

The FOSS obsession with "community" and "integration" is myopic and abhorrent. As if everyone must converge on one approach, one vanguard. There are scantly any problem domains where only one solution applies.

Now, Canonical keeping to themselves has a very crucial advantage: they leave everyone else alone. They stay in their corner, they don't bother, they don't intervene. They don't start a massive integration effort to drag everyone else in every time they devise something new.

We should be commending Canonical for this.
dang can you fix the link?
Nothing in this post is particularly interesting, from an engineering perspective. Anyone involved with web hosting should be able to deploy sites like this to this standard, if not better.
Ask HN: How did you get to your current job/startup?
We all see "success stories" featured on internet blogs (basically every website with the "tech" prefix) and some trends tend to distort how we perceive how people arrived at where they are.

I want to know — How did you get your current job or startup? Did you go to college? Dropout? If your did go to college, have you ever failed a course? Did you have to move to a different country? How did you manage that and what was (in general) the biggest obstacle/low-point of your journey so far?

Note — Why I'm asking this: Because many of the people in this community may be in a low-point themselves, and reading about how other people persevered and what they did might just make things seem a bit easier for them.

Thank you all :)
My last SuSE was 6.3.

How is the overall OpenSuSE experience nowadays?

Since I spend most of my time on Windows anyway, I ended up settling with Ubuntu for my netbook and VMs.
Many aspects of Swiss economic activities used to be highly regulated, from cheese exports to car imports, even book prices. Even today, many international brands force Swiss retailers to get their products at inflated prices from a Swiss subsidiary.

Today, there is indeed a much greater variety of cheeses in Switzerland. In addition to the very restricted number of cheeses supported by the Cheese Union, a big problem was that it forced the production of enormous quantities of Emmental Cheese, which has a rather peculiar flavor which was increasingly out of favor with customers.
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Well, it still works.
I said it's a culture shift, I didn't mean to pass any judgement.

As someone with a male body I'm not really in the position to tell. I have a strong feeling of what I would do if I had been born female, but I was not, so...

Pain, suffering, and health problems in general, are indeed natural as you say. However, most people would consider them part of the "no thanks" aspect of nature. You disagree, and I suspect you already know that's an extreme and unethical position to hold, otherwise you would not have made a new HN account just for this discussion.
The worst thing about those anecdotal stories is how adamant everyone usually is that they're right, as if their observations about themselves must be true of the general population. I've always thought there's no reason why both people can't be right about what's right for them, hopefully this will take off.
I think it's on the researcher's roadmap, have a look at their website: http://newsite.personalnutrition.org/WebSite/HowItWorksStudy...
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Not very unlike. They are mostly alike. They have differences, which is why we only say they are alike, not equivalent.
> You think it's a good think that the majority of women were resorting to a drug to cope with a normal healthy body function?

That's what I've always thought was so odd about the complaint that erectile dysfunction are typically covered by health insurance but contraception may not be: the former fixes a broken body, while the other breaks a functioning one.
> I said it's a culture shift, I didn't mean to pass any judgement.

You said it was a 'regression'.
I didn't downvote, but it seems like that's a minor selling point at best. The article mentions it, of course, but even as a male, I can imagine far more utility from the other predictive and tracking aspects than that.
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There was a TOR talk where a person from China told that he recommended two systems to different people: TOR and some other one. The people he recommended the other one ended up in prison.

This kind of consequences you get when you falsely claim security. This is the main reason I want people stop saying that Telegram is somehow secure. It's just another messenger, people who need security should use something else. There must be no confusion about it.
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Yes, the "Silent Majority" thinks customer service from Comcast is excellent.
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That's where the government intervenes by legislating, thereby society is protecting individuals from themselves (and from harming others).

I don't see how there is a need to do this with the internet in the way the "Internet Dream" describes it.
I think that the pill is supposed to "cope" with potential unwanted pregnancy, not with periods.
No. Patents have lost their bite by expiring. TPP is not going to revivify any expired patents.
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Understanding that different people have a different perspective on the world (or at least, grasping that on a gut level) is a key milestone in developmental psychology that normally happens as a very young child (<5yo). This is the first time that this has been definitively tied to language. 30yo's without adequate language to express these concepts were unable to understand them - not just express them.
>It's not unlike the stigma behind a completely natural and necessary (...) which is defecation.

Yeah!
And as we all know, girls are in general, just /gross/.

There is no such stigma around shitting. Have you really never heard people joking what happens after they eat Taco Bell or similar foods? People don't talk about particulars of shit they take - but it's not a complete taboo.

But seriously - those two are nothing alike and comparing them in such way shows that you haven't given it any real thought.
To me they're both just annoying noises.
I wonder if mapping [-v $(which docker):/bin/docker] is working after docker binary became dynamically linked binary
How did the letter Z become to be associated with sleeping/snoring?
"Fixed" and "broken" are defined how the person wants to use his body, not by natural order of things. Otherwise, reaching immortality could be viewed as "breaking" perfectly functioning death meachanism.
Not necessarily shortest, but it has many short programs.

The algorithmic probability of a sequence x is the sum over the set of all prefix-free programs u that calculate x of 2^-len(u). Think of the shortest description length as a MAP, while the algorithmic probability integrates over the full prior.

A constant which has many short programs can thus have a greater algorithmic probability than another constant with a slightly lower Kolmogorov complexity. To put it back in context, it's possible that a very short program computes some constant, but it's unlikely to be an important mathematical constants. What's particular about mathematical constants is that they keep appearing in many different situations.
Yes, my personal opinion seeped through a little bit here. If that offended you, so be it.
> Many said their menstrual problems were greatly reduced, and of course there was a completely reliable schedule that came with it.
That's a bold prediction to be making.
The author lost me when he equated libertarianism with sophisticated Orwellian systems.
"like a strange regression in some ways" != "it was a regression"
I think you're proving his point though.

If they were that powerful, they'd just hit the "Turn off Daesh and Al Qaeda" switches at the controls, wouldn't you think?

It isn't as simple as you're making it. The CIA has been successful and very not successful in its history.
I wish it supported Google Apps accounts.
Why is there so much snark with programmers? It's a real deterrent for either hackers trying to make something useful or for new-comers interested in programming
What societies are those?
I find Church bells both musical & interesting :) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_ringing
Isn't that about the same as people saying "I'm going to the toilet for number 2" instead of "I'm going to the toilet to shit"?
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> Have you really never heard people joking what happens after they eat Taco Bell or similar foods?

I've heard men joke about it. I haven't heard women do it. My girlfriend (like most girls I know) will talk about her period to me, but she will never talk about her shit.

> those two are nothing alike and comparing them in such way shows that you haven't given it any real thought.

Would you care to enlighten us?
Clearly VW engaged in deception of the customer as they cheated their test results. Customers are protected from such deception by the law.

My point was to criticise the "Internet Dream" utopian fairy tale advocated by commenter TEMPORAL--where a user gets everything but pays nothing--and to explain that the internet's commercialisation is perfectly OK.
Huh... these are pretty cool ideas on implementing knob UIs without the actual knob turn. I'll try working on a more reliable implementation, with a slider or a drag area and just map the values.
Things that come to mind: less rolling resistance with 2 wheels, faster turning since you can lean, simpler mechanics in some aspects (no need for a differential), easier to build narrow vehicles with better aerodynamics.
That makes sense. Why is it that this is creepier to me than the usual data tracking stuff?
If people downvoting me could explain why, that would be nice. I'm not trying to downplay the OP's creation and I think it's really cool. I was trying to reply to the people in this thread because I feel like they are praising it for the wrong reasons. It's not like we can finally access your inventory programmatically and script it for the first time ever, you could already do all of that stuff with regular modding, and it'd probably be a lot easier too. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but if so I'd like to know how.

As an analogy, to me it'd be like praising WIFI for finally allowing us to communicate between computers on a network.
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They are only “mostly alike” if you carefully cherry-pick the ways in which you count similarity, while handwaving over the number and importance of the ways in which they are different.

Humans care about deciding which things are actually alike and which things are only superficially alike, because such choices have important consequences.

For example, if we decided they are “mostly alike,’ we might decide that all you need is a pad to absorb defecation, and you need only change it when it cannot absorb any more liquid.

After many such discoveries, we change our minds and say, “Although they may appear to be alike at first glance, it turns out that they are mostly different."
>I'm not sure why you think this is a bad thing. Canonical is a corollary to Apple in the Linux world.

That is why I watch its progress with a certain degree of suspicion (disclaimer: I am a user of Apple and Canonical products.)
In the first link, the author says:

>> I even suggest that depression is probably a trick condition, a highly profitable one, created by the pharmaceutical companies.

In the second, when he is selling his book, he says:

>> I’m not suggesting that depression is merely a mood disorder. Instead, it’s a very real condition and, like any other ailment, it can require medical attention and treatment.

Doesn't check out. "Trick condition" or "real condition"? He is confused.

Edit: He also says in the second: "Anti-depressants work for a large number of patients whereas they make not an iota of difference to many others." More confusion.
I think they just show normal network ads.
> Personally, I don't recall ever witnessing this stigma

I've seen it in things like my mom asking me whether I'd be uncomfortable getting her pads from the supermarket, which was pretty puzzling to me. I guess it's to women what buying condoms is to men, maybe.
Has anyone implemented HLS or DASH in an application that required low-latency? How low were you able to get it?

With DASH I have been able to achieve 5s by using small chunks and a short interval between iframes.
This seems like a very thin wrapper around asyncio and ThreadPoolExecutor.

Also I'd recommend dropping the AGPL license.
I'm looking forward to the responses to this. I came to programming later than most (early 30s), and it's been a real struggle to break into it professionally. I have occasional low points when I wonder what I could have achieved if I'd started on this path in my teens or 20s. It's a waste of time and brain power to dwell on regrets, but it's hard not to sometimes.
It would be cool to read some success stories from people who have persevered through difficult times.
As the app mentioned is free, I would deduce that they try to turn the data about their users cycle into a monetary value.

There are good reasons why people might want to make this sort of app beyond selling the data. There's a huge potential for health care service providers - if women don't need prescription drugs or appointments to see their doctor, and any other medical issues are resolved more easily because there isn't the problem of the drugs interacting with the pill, then that represents a vast saving in the cost of supplying services.
Yeah, in Greece they also say "I'm indisposed", and it's a generally-known euphemism for "I'm on my period", but you never really know if they're on their period or if they're ill.
I can't help but think Bethesda takes a "World of Warcraft" approach to UI - since no level of customization will make everyone happy, they just implement a baseline and leave the rest up to modders. (And since this only applies to desktop, the baseline works out heavily tailored to consoles.)

Of course this would work more smoothly in practice if the modding tools were ready, and if UI extensions were easy to make and manage.
Really???

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

This article does not even begin to cover coups agitated by US capitalists without the help of the government (like Hawaii).
The colouring of faeces is due to the breakdown of heme, but faeces should not contain any nontrivial quantity of intact dead red blood cells.
Thanks for filling in the other side of the picture. I'd never considered that bad guidance wasn't the result of incompetence or malice on their part, but that the phone workers might actually be incentivized, even required, to lie.
I looked at their (Clue's) privacy policy a while ago: basically you have the option of not creating an account, and they claim that everything is stored locally and not sent anywhere in that case.

I think it's a German/EU company, so they should have some restrictions on what they do with this data.

Maybe someone can take a closer look...
It's more like saying "I'm going to the back" in the amount of ambiguity in the phrase. Saying "number two" is clear in its meaning.
Almost all people? I am sure you mean all people.
They provide a link[0] to a list of opensource tools that they have made for this but after having a look at them, I realized there is a lot of work to be done.

[0]https://github.com/opentraffic
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I think the argument isn't "let's not improve things because people will use things more" but "let's not spend resources for little improvement". The induced demand argument suggests that the pain and utility of traffic are in equilibrium, and that there's so much latent demand that no feasible amount of pavement will reduce the pain appreciably. It seems to me of a similar genre to studies showing that safety equipment increases risky behavior.
So, thanks for bringing to my attention this NewSQL thing. I work in Baltimore and do my best to keep up, but it's a dessert out here. While I've been shopping around for a new gig, I've had to explain what data science is, even to my contract company recruiter contacts, who claim to work at a tech centric company. They'll think I'm making words up if I bring up NewSQL.
The regular keys are top notch. I mean, they're Cherry MX switches (browns).

The function keys at the top (Escape, F1, F2, ...), not so much. They're small rubber keys like those you would find on a remote control.
As someone who has also gone through all three stages, I think the key for children is choosing the museums and exhibits that they or you like and enjoying them instead of analyzing them.

For example, my 6 year old daughter enjoys the local art museum, but I don't think she has looked at any one painting more than 5 seconds. As a parent you have to be OK with missing out on a part of the experience for you and work on the experience for your children. The specific experience I suggest focusing on for young children is just enjoying it, or a specific part. Mostly that means letting them go quickly by that masterpiece and asking what they like about whatever they do stop to see.
Are you saying that problems are normal and healthy?
I'm not a native speaker, so forgive me for not expressing myself clearly enough, but isn't urination also considered to be defecation, or does defecation in English refers only to the "number two"? I'm asking, because urine is mostly sterile.

However, my point was that while there are a lot of obvious differences, defecation is similar enough to menstruation, such that it's not surprising that stigma is also similar.
I had some little experiences with Java and now I'm approaching C# so I have a genuine newbie question regarding cross platform development: was Mono (or .NET core) a thing in the 90's, would you have chosen C# over Java?
Is it really such an issue in the US? I find that hard to believe. I can imagine it is not a popular subject, just like other subjects of hygiene. But that is not the same as being stigmatized.
That appears to be down to weird non-marginal pricing: http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/01/01/inenglish/1388590410_230...

The wind energy itself is cheap, but all producers are paid at the cost of the most expensive dispatch!
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Nobody is saying that. The problem with induced demand for roads is induced demand for personal cars. Transport is a zero-sum game, someone who takes the personal car to work is someone not taking the train. As countless studies attest, this is not of economic (or personal) benefit. It locks people into a life-long dependency on cars with the terrible health outcomes for them personally and the humongous cost of human life in traffic deaths every year.
For high demand times of day the infrastructure is vastly behind what's needed...
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Yes but that is because you are a mathematician (or at least appear to be so). Private math can be done in so many places. I'm not criticizing as I would do the same with coding (and is how I started my own company).

However I would say predominantly most vocations/interest require considerable infrastructure (other people to work with and/or other resources) and cannot be done during a menial office job.

Even most academic studies require resources (like telescope time) that you really can't do with out full commitment. I would argue even the most brilliant will probably run out of creativity with out the right social interactions.. I could be wrong.
The ISC DHCP server is "open source", in that the source is available. It's "free" in that anyone can download it and use it.

But... try getting patches in. Unless you're a paying member of the ISC consortium, you can't. There are performance problems going back a decade which are firmly in the "won't fix" category.

OpenSSL is similar.
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An income stream means nothing when you spy on all your users for a couple of bucks. Maybe next time show them a huge red sign saying "to use this site, you must let us collect and sell all your private information". No legalese, just plain english, let the users know what they're getting into. Then we can talk about contracts and frauds.

Fortunately, ad blockers are pretty popular right now and the agencies will have to get their shit together wether they like it or not. Or maybe come up with even more evil techniques, who knows.
"the terrible health outcomes for them personally"

Cite this, I dare you.

edit: the part I'm not buying is the combination of "terrible" and "personal"

It matters little whether you're sitting on your but for 45min in a car or on a bus, you're still not getting exercise. That's not really "terrible" as it's something that can easily be counteracted unlike (for example) working in a loud environment for 45min twice per day without hearing protection.

The "terrible" stuff (accidents) isn't really personal because it only comes into play on a statistical level (seeing as most people will never be seriously injured in a vehicle accident)
Now that's what i call a Hacker
Jevon's Law. Google it.
To add to your point, Mozilla publishes a clear policy on usage of its trademarks [1]. This has enabled Debian to maintain a rebranded version of Firefox called Iceweasel [2]

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel
Does this somehow supports the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis?
I have seen this many times that people claim the word2vec is unsupervised. But I think that is inaccurate.

word2vec is using a very weak supervision which is the order in which words appear in a meaningful sentence. And I think it is fascinating to use this kind of weak supervision to build distributed embedding for words.
http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/america_3.html

For instance.
Sadly it is next to impossible to get a patent for software in germany. It has to interface with some kind of hardware (like an engine control software in a car or plane). A bot or something similar that only runs on a computer can't be patented in germany.

I am german myself and work on a research project and we tested some software on our participants and they loved it. So we thought about protecting our idea / software.

For that reason we attended a talk held by multiple patent lawyers specialised in germany law and all of them said the same: "It can't be done without a hardware interface".
Blendle [0] aims to do something like this - actually a pay-per-article model. I'm waiting for it to launch in the UK.

[0] https://launch.blendle.com/
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