skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a news about metal sintering used for an actual market (sorry, memory failing). That reminded me of this video and got me wondering how complicated it was to control the beam focus and energy. To allow for finer and leaner shapes.
A quick survey for software developers in startups and small businesses
Greetings.

Here's a little survey I'd like to hand out to all the software engineers, developers, and programmers out there who currently work in startups or small businesses.

I myself am part of a small group that created this questionnaire for research and marketing reasons, and we'd very much appreciate the input and feedback. It shouldn't take long; just 10 straightforward questions.

This is my first post on HN, and I sincerely hope it doesn't go against the guidelines. The link to the survey is below and in the first comment.

Thanks!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1t-Je8Yeiuczmz0yYc_PYJKSGAHvJvdGVGNq9wDm8xTU/viewform?usp=send_form
I think in many European countries the maximum prison sentence is about 20-25 years, even for the worst crimes and even for multiple crimes combined, because they are usually not combined at all. Only the highest sentence is taken into account. There's no such thing as 200+ year prison sentences in Europe because you combine 15 offenses.

I don't even know what's the point of such sentences. Is it for PR purposes? "Look at us, we gave Osama Bin Laden 1,200 years in prison! Aren't we tough?!" Because it makes no sense to me. Just like it makes no sense to get a few years for rape or murder but be even charged with 30+ years for some online crimes.
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1t-Je8Yeiuczmz0yYc_PYJKSGAHv...
it's actually a pretty good idea.

who wouldn't want to be born with excellent immune system, strong and tall, smart and attractive?
Edge has done a really nice job here: DV is a hollow grey lock, EV is a solid green lock, plus the validated company name & jurisdiction.

There's way less clutter in the address bar too, so the difference is more striking:

http://imgur.com/7W4YmuZ
Add paranoid, which mindset is mostly interpreting everything as a source of bad (worst) outcome.

It also drives thinking into designing "pure solutions" in which the bad just cannot happen. I applied it unconsciously in software design (recently learned it was a design philosophy too).
Ah, thanks :D
I don't know, I always remembered things like 6+7 = 13 and if numbers I was adding were close to 6 and 7 I knew instantly how to proceed. Of course there's other tricks like, subtracting the 1 out of 6 to get 5 and then adding it to 7 making 8 then removing the 5 to get 10 with the other 5 and you are left with 10 and 3 which is easy, I guess.

At least for me it was just silly shortcuts that stuck with me like 6+7=13 or 7*7=49. Maybe why I'm little fixated to 7 is that 5 and below is easy, but with 6 and up things get little more "math-y", so with some quick shortcuts like these it's easy to adjust to 7. Or most likely I'm just full of shit, that is usually the case.
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Convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palle_S%C3%B8rensen
I would like to point out that there is a whole range of non-SSRI medicines that have significant clinical effects on depression. In particular:

Medicines that promote drowsiness (such as sleeping aids and even the antipsychotic quetiapine), as sleep deprivation and depression are highly correlated.

The atypical antidepressant wellbutrin/bupropion, which impacts a whole bunch of chemicals in the body but notably does not affect seratonin levels. My personal experience from having taken it is that it makes me more energetic, similar to a weak amphetamine.

MAOIs, which again impact a whole bunch of chemicals, including seratonin but notably also melatonin, which is well-known to promote sleep. These are well-known to be highly effective antidepressants, but are rarely used because they require the patient to alter aspects of his lifestyle.

The situation is complicated by the fact that the category of depression consists of a bunch of different symptoms that may be comorbid in many people, but are not necessarily.
He is being a political opportunist coming out with this proposal and others during an election cycle. If he had truly given a damn he had seven years to fix the plight of those imprisoned in this country. He had seven years to fix a lot of things but didn't. Since Republicans are portrayed as tough on crime this is being tossed out to put them in a lose lose situation. Don't even for once take any actions by any political figure in the US as anything less than political opportunism. Seven years, two of which they had near complete control of the government. Yet what did they do to improve the plight of those incarcerated, end the war on drugs, civil forfeiture, or countless other oppression of the people by the law enforcement industry? Hell he has waited till recently to finally close Gitmo. Applaud, more than shame him for wasting seven years
The article presents a possible explaination for why SSRI antidepressants (which increase the amount of serotonine in one's synapsis) are effective: serotonine plays a role in how we learn, and

> [people with an] atypical function of the serotonin system may be at risk of developing depression or anxiety because they are too good at learning about negative outcomes

> Serotonin changes produced by the drug, combined with appropriate therapy, might work by allowing patients to learn that the world is not such a bad place rather than simply making them happy.

The article continues noting that this would explain a few things, like

> (1) why treatment with SSRI anti-depressants doesn’t tend to increase happiness until weeks after depressed patients have begun taking medication. Serotonin changes produced by the drug, combined with appropriate therapy, might work by allowing patients to learn that the world is not such a bad place rather than simply making them happy.

> (2) why some depressed patients generally do not improve when undergoing SSRI treatment. Consuming pills in the absence of improvement in life conditions or appropriate therapy might in fact make it easier for already depressed individuals to ‘learn’ more about the negative events surrounding them

> (3) [why we] have no evidence that [simply] increasing brain serotonin levels actually improves people’s mood.

The evidence shown to supports this role of serotonin in the learning process consists of two studies (cited in the article). The first showing that rats grown in the dark developed abnormal sensitivity to non-visual stimuli, and that serotinine played a role in the process. The second found that individuals with a particular genotype affecting the serotonin system were more likely than others to develop depression or anxiety only if they had experienced stressful life events.

Betteridge's law of headlines checks out: Is serotonin the happy brain chemical? No, it (probably) plays a complex role in how we learn about bad outcomes.
Well, things look very different whether you are in Aurillac or in Marseille. But some areas could possibly be mistaken for a war zone! (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/marseille-tirs-de-kala...).

More seriously, the problem is not so much homicides than common criminality. Courts almost always give suspended sentences for petty crime, and even when the judge does not suspend the sentence, the policy is to automatically suspend it behind the scene afterwards if it's less than 6 months (juge d'application des peines). And if a criminal still ends up in jail, he would only ever do between half and two third of the sentence. The whole system is designed to be toothless.

The example of New York City under Giuliani is a pretty spectacular example of the impact of a tougher penal policy against crime. I am not suggesting this should be the only response but I do think that no response will be efficient without it.
If by nuaced you mean introducing external factors to cloud the problem.

At the end of the day, if it's 'mutually beneficial', how could it possibly be 'exploitation'?

It's other people's job to make sure their map is good. If they had failed in doing so, i'm pretty sure they would rather have, in your contrived example, a dude with a tank of water selling them overpriced H2O than to die in a desert.
Perfect explanation. Soundcloud may be a valuable tool for a certain niche of (semi)professional users, but extrapolating that to Spotify (or YouTube) mass market appeal is wishful thinking at best, destructive to the existing user base at worst.
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Debugging an Erlang system by connecting to the Erlang VM with gdb
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Even on Assembly one might suffer from macro opcodes and the respective microcode expansion, for the sets that don't map 1:1 to what the CPU does.
There a lot of cases where Bitcoin transsctions are traced back to some crime. The justice system does not make a big deal about this as educating criminals only makes there job harder.
> I had to remember loads of different formulas, trigonometric values for common angles etc

Real math is about being able to derive this stuff when woken up at 5AM.

What you get in school is drilling kids to appear as if they understood math so that adults who don't remember this stuff anymore feel intimidated and leave with impression that their children are learning some rocket science and the "education system" deserves their money.

No teacher literally reasons like that and no one will tell you that, but that's exactly what they do when they are overwhelmed by a horde of barely interested kids who somehow have to pass the final exams. The other part of this insanity being politicians who set up those exams.
OpenWRT ported to the ZSun Card Reader (tiny $14 MIPS machine)
While I agree intel and physics are apples to oranges, the soviets had a pretty good intelligence arm and quite capable analytics. The soviets where very good at Human Intelligence:

http://sputniknews.com/military/20150928/1027670037/kgb-cia-...
Somewhat related: Cory Doctorow's shortish story "The Man Who Sold The Moon". http://boingboing.net/2015/05/22/the-man-who-sold-the-moon.h...
I think it's safe to assume HTTPS when it comes to browser indications is broken. In a sense that majority of user don't care or understand.

I once had a client who wanted an EV cert, so the company name gets "shown nicely in the address bar". After explaining about encryption for half an hour, the only question was why should I care. It was a simple website for a company. Contacts and about us mainly.

I often ask regular users, and they don't know what difference does it make, the click everything and as far as they care, the lock can even be purple. Which doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing https mainstream of course.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
Soulseek is still up and kicking.
Thanks for your clarifications.
Only nominally. Funding for the actual execution of the drug war didn't ramp up until the 1980's, and imprisonment for drug offenses was flat until the early 1980's.[1] Conversely, the surge in crime started in the late 1960's, and was already much higher than before by the time the drug war got rolling.

[1] https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/michaela/pages/70/atta...
> chess.com

Plenty of equivalents for any number of games.

> It was a response to a criticism, not basis for choosing to play Chess.

Fair enough. In that case I'd say: computers aren't yet better than humans at strategy in general; real world conflict doesn't have an openings book (which is where computers get a lot of their advantage in chess) or indeed an endings book, and in that sense go is a better reflection of the state of the art, and the way computers gain an advantage in go will be closer to the way they will gain an advantage in real conflict.

Yes, that computers are better than humans at rote memorization is a fact worth remembering - but playing a game of rote memorization is still an unpleasant, anti-humanistic experience.
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It's fun and maybe slightly disconcerting to see the CIA handle its job with humour.
Also, while I don't personally have experience with a lot of illegal drugs, if you ask anyone who does he will tell you that there are drugs that nearly instantly make you happy without having to wait weeks for the drugs to have a subtle effect on your thought processes.

These illegal drugs may or may not be too dangerous to use regularly to treat depression, but it's worth noting the fact that it's clearly not "impossible" to make a true "happy pill"
Then you need to detect CDN's that actually serve your content. Images and such. They can also come from your subdomain(s) of course. Maybe you could whitelist the subdomains only.
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Looks like things are working out right now - feel free to keep me posted. You know where to find me now ;)
Shut up and take my money

Seriously, I love to cycle but have a really hard time pounding away on the trainer. This would make the winter experience much more bearable
Now there's an interesting UX paper if it hasn't been done already. In UX we hear that a milliseconds long delay directly affects user retention rates. I wonder how users feel about search reliability, or data integrity when results are faster than expected.
The problem with these types of comparison is that you are comparing very different populations with very different cultures.

If you could compare populations like that, then for instance the idea of banning guns to reduce the number of shootings in the US would be defeated by the example of Switzerland where pretty much every man has an assault riffle at home, and where you see little to no crime, and certainly no mass shooting. But the reality is that Swiss citizens behave differently than US citizens.
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I downvoted you accidentally, sorry.

Exactly, a bad player could do much more damage than simply turn the services off. A lot of the time there is no verification for the downloaded code. It's just being run.
Serotonine is very old. There are two different genes TPH1 and TPH2 which encode the enzyme information for serotonine-production, which happens at two sites in the body. This split is apparently very old and evolved before vertebrates did.

Serotonine controls a multitude of things including wake-night-cycle, blood pressure and temperature. It doesn't even only work as a neurotransmitter, but mechanically as well.

Further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8768313
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The real truble with Firefox UX regarding security is that a HTTPS connection with an untrusted certificate is more hassle than an unencrypted connection. But from a security concern, HTTPS with an untrusted certificate is better, it prevents passive eavesdropping at least. It's certainly not worse than unencrypted traffic.

And yet firefox continues to make it hard to accept untrusted certificates.
You can limit root on linux too with a MAC framework.
Did you categorize your depression into existential, situational or biochemical origin ? Would that have make sense in your case and could anti-depressants target a specific kind ?
Pokemon GO beta leaked
Thanks for this, I personally have a license for MKL due to a licensed Intel C++ compiler and it really does a good job. I feel that Intel should do more to get MKL out in the open and more in use by the Open Source community. For instance I would love to have access to their FFT code so I could optimize it for my specific use case, but right now things are a black box. Very excited about CNTK btw, releasing a fully cooked multi machine distributed framework is just awesome.
Actually, no services see your data while browsing. But when you click/open a file, it opens with http://docs.google.com/. So technically, docs.google.com will be able to see your data. I may add Microsoft Office Online soon.
But don't those happy pills have really high dependence and don't you need to increase the dosage and the intervals to stay on the same plateau ?
> then I was definitely eating 4000+ calories per day and not getting Fat

I'm not sure about that... allegedly, research suggests that most people have the same BMR (basal metabollic rate), and that there is nothing like "fast metabolism" (i.e. people get rougly equal amounts of energy from food).

What I was referring to above, and what the article referrs to (with Glicemic Index) is purely psychological - how much food you want to eat, and how hungry/satiated you feel. I'm still pretty sure that calories-in/calories-out theory is more-or-less correct.
"we need to provide our children with better cognitive maps of the subjects we want them to learn"

This style of learning works for everyone -- including children. There is a growing community of people sharing educational, animated gifs on Reddit that recognizes the value of visual learning.

Popular subreddits include:

- /r/educationalgifs
- /r/mechanical_gifs/
- /r/GifRecipes/
I understand their motivation as sending traffic that is expected to be secure to the wrong person is worse than knowing ones traffic is visible to all hops.
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> you could run $('.some-class').myWidget() to activate a widget

So we have obfuscated the functionality embedded in our HTML with jQuery calls in separated files. Is this what you mean by decoupled?

> Now you're faced with having to copy/paste the same template over and over in React to accomplish the same task,

This is nonsense. Have you ever... used React? I recommend not opining on something which you lack even the most basic knowledge about.
Here is the source code for anyone interested: https://github.com/adeekshith/Docs-Online-Viewer
Indeed. I am still a Galaxy Nexus user and a quote from a Google Support page (which doesn't exist anymore, it seems) pains me to this day:

> "Galaxy Nexus, which first launched two years ago, falls outside of the 18-month update window when Google and others traditionally update devices."

18 months is far too little, especially if you do not buy a phone on day one.
anyone similarly disturbed, check out the amazing https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes add-on which will serve those common scripts from a local cache!
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Actually perhaps. If the current team continues to own and run it, it'll be around forever. But eventually they'll want to sell it, the team will change, and its goals will become more feature-oriented for the sake of grabbing more premium members. This will give it less value (due to the removal of simplicity) to the average user, so its userbase will gradually shrink until a few years later they pull the plug. It's happened to almost every web service more than a decade old.
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It is worse, and this has been discussed to death: when you go to www.facebook.com, what UX will help people distinguish between trusted certificate (all good) and untrusted (active attack)?
What was the name of that still-in-development OS that is going to mitigate against most forms of conventional attacks.

random quote: 'I used to consume cannabis on a daily basis, I suffer no short term memory loss, as far as I can remember....'
That's a different article from 8 months ago.
Is Reactive GraphQL even specified? I thought that in the current state GraphQL only defines single queries (snapshots) of data, and not continuos update notifications. Forgive me if I have missed it - I have not followed GraphQL/Relay apart from a very basic look at it.

Without having an open specification Meteors implementation might end up completly different or incompatible to other (Reactive) GraphQL implementations.

Despite that, I think that implementing a reactive GraphQL backend will be very hard, and it would only work good if all of the sub-data-sources that you use in your backend support reactivity (subscriptions) as well. If they do, then you have to subscribe to all possible data sources that are mentioned in the query, and update the current state when one of these changes. If the update requires you to fetch an additional data source (e.g. you must fetch other indexes of data which are provided by another source), you must even dynamically subscribe/unsubscribe on updates of other sources.

And how can you provide traditional REST APIs (or even query-based GraphQL endpoints) as reactive endpoints? The best you can do is probably implement polling (rerunning) the query on the backend over and over.
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For me the presence of the organisations name in green letters emphasizes the difference. (Besides the green/grey lock difference alone is small enough to miss)

The UI choice i don't like is having a hazard sign for secure websites with mixed active content blocked . Hazard sign implies some hazard exists - but in this case the hazard has been averted, so why show a hazard sign still?
Is it just me or is there a mistake here http://i.imgur.com/65GPWq6.png

He says the color of the UI part is orange but i see yellow
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“The [Silicon Valley] culture is not necessarily friendly to families”
I think that's what you get with unsupervised learning.

Tricks only get you so far, you can't do 6+7 on fingers or 7·7 as (4+3)(4+3) (I had a huge problem with this one, too many numbers to track). So you fail. And when you fail, you memorize the problematic cases and go on with tricks based on those.

And yes, it's completely incomprehensible for people who learned the pencil-and-paper algorithms and think that those are the end of the world.
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Also worth noting that most long term prisoners will not serve their whole sentence in a normal prison with bars and such. They will be moved to a quasi open prison where they get limited freedom to roam, work, structure their day and so forth. At least in Norway. Most people, criminals or not, are not clinically insane axe murderers.
>This is why you should do full disk encryption, and travel without your hard drive. At the end of the day, there's probably forensic methods on your laptop that would be far more damaging than just deanonymising your past transactions.

While that's all very good and all, it doesn't really answer my question :)
i can think of a few obvious improvements but the first thing i would add would be a shutter.when he was setting it up i was worried he would burn his back or something in the beam.
You need the ugly to actually realize beauty. If everyone is beautiful, the word "beautiful" wouldn't make any sense.

You could argue that this would be a solution to many discrimination issues today if everyone is beautiful, strong, tall, ... . Mhh. Interesting thought.
Also http://setosa.io/ev/
An advantage of using C is its longevity. Go was designed to be a possible replacement/redesign of C (with Ken Thompson as an initial author). So this design decision doesn't make any sense, since URLs are some of the most volatile things in the programming world.