skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to have less nervous tics associated with stressful situations, but anxiety related racing thoughts don't seem to have changed. E.G. Propanelol doesn't seem to impact problems like laying in bed worrying about the upcoming day
I haven't had an opportunity to actually use it, so take this with a grain of salt, but the optional/gradual type system of TypeScript looks decently expressive (http://www.typescriptlang.org/Handbook).
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Please don't be offended. HN comments regularly discuss startup business models, so I thought it might be interesting to point out to my fellow entrepreneurs how we are bootstrapping our streaming TV business in new countries.
It's a lot harder to get consistency out of a non-unikernel system running on EC2 - e.g. IME the linux boot/hardware probing process can behave nondeterministically before it even starts running your user program.
You're saying the picture with the bank statement? Or are you talking about the Official Rules portion?
For those who are interested, this Nature table summarizes the MRI datasets that are out there:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n11/fig_tab/nn.3818_...
Author anonymously makes unsupported claims, disparages competing products, provides no science, and wrote the post for profit. Nothing can be built on this, because his work is built on sand. "Type up a blog post" is not the important part of the scientific method. Pointing out pseudoscience and invalid methods and data may be the most constructive criticism of all.

Enthusiasm is great. Enthusiasm masquerading as medical treatment is not.
Diseases transmitted by mosquitos have increased tremendously in the last decade, Especially in developing nations. I am from India and we never used to hear about cases of Dengue or Chikungunya 10-15 years ago. Now its all too common. Looks like this is a similar disease, now with links to microcephaly.
Dramatic increase in city populations, poor infrastructure result in increased mosquito breeding grounds
These nations need to heavily invest in taking out disease carrying mosquitoes or situations like these are only going to increase.
On Linux, you can construct an OpenGL context without an X server on any system supporting kernel mode-setting (KMS) and EGL. This includes the open-source radeon, intel and nouveau drivers and, soon, the closed-source radeon drivers.

The OpenTK library has had support for this for a couple of years, see [1] for the implementation.

[1] https://github.com/opentk/opentk/blob/develop/Source/OpenTK/...
Open-source drivers have supported this for years, it's nvidia that was (very) late to the game.

Edit: this was one of the big hurdles that Wayland had to surpass, and the main reason why it took so long to develop. The whole kernel- and user-mode GPU driver infrastructure had to be rewritten first to remove reliance on the X server.
I searched the authors posting for the word "exercise" and found it appears zero times.

I'm all about minute optimizations, but not until you've exhausted the big, basic ones.

Your (insert issue here) is not interesting at all unless it manifests itself in the presence of regular walking, weekly resistance training and a decent cardio routine.[1]

Do all of those things and your (issue) is still extant ? Well, now we've got something interesting to talk about...

[1] Also known as, basic, functional human output.
I would go as far as to say that the alterations we are making to plants, might also have long term unforeseen negative effects, that we are yet to appreciate.

Sometimes I think the fact that we can "hack" nature, doesn't mean we should.
It seems logical and reasonable to me that humans will be affected by how much daylight there is and how bright it is. Imagine if the earth began to recede from the sun, such that every day gradually became shorter and dimmer. (Set aside climate and crop disaster and consider the psychological effect on humans.) Humans have a daylight-triggered circadian rhythm: at night the body produces melatonin which promotes sleep, and at dawn that production stops. As the world falls into more and more darkness, what will happen to such body mechanisms? Folks living very far north can probably speak to this; high enough and you see complete darkness in winter for months at a time. Humans aren't adapted to that, and I would hypothesize that the same mechanisms that contribute to circadian rhythm will be maladjusted to that environment.

It's also known that the body's response is based on light (known to impact melatonin production), and that light treatment in the day might ameliorate whatever effect the dim light or darkness has.

The lights we're talking about can, at best, light a small area around them to a brightness that's 10% daylight. The most extreme lamp he mentioned does 30%, again in a small area. Hardly a lighthouse.

It seems natural to me that if you hypothesize that lack of sunlight contributes to sleepiness or depression in winter months, then you'd want to treat that with something approximating sunlight as best you can, or 100,000 lux.

So we don't know for sure whether this works or how effective it is, but there are good theories behind it to test. Let me put it this way: suppose I put a lamp with 100,000 lumens in your bedroom and activated it shortly before dawn or, just for fun, at midnight. Would you wake up? It's clear that light does something to wake you up, and that it's harder to sleep in bright sunlight in darkness. Well, winter is short and dark for many people.
It actually crashed my graphics driver.
Buying them and junking them would be far safer. Otherwise whoever you're selling them to will be investigated for money laundering and that could lead back to you.
Latin America in general is very Catholic and very Pro Life. Abortions are often illegal or only legal in select cases. Even if the disease was detectable, they mothers may not terminate.
Or just buying them and throwing them away.
related: Here is a video showing how a tintype is prepared (Basically the same process as his Ambrotypes, but on a metal plate instead of glass)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DneujRTXwic
This is extremely unlikely to be a good technique (and it isn't new) but here are two alternatives. Even in the demo video, beneath the lens flares and other excess, the particles are aliasing like crazy.

First of all, particles like this are usually only a few pixels in size, so the shape doesn't really matter as much as the area. Because of this, I don't think there is much gained, but there is a lot lost since it aliases so badly.

Renderman actually creates particles as two bilinear patches that make up the same shape as the intersection given by these two triangles. You could do the same thing with a quad strip, which would still also take only 6 vertices. The gpu will deal with the quads itself, possibly by creating two triangles for each quad. This is very unlikely to be a performance hit since it does not affect shading.

A second way of creating a semi-transparent particle would be make a triangle strip that rotates around one center point. The center point has an alpha of 1, the outer points have an alpha of 0. The interpolation takes care of gradient transparency to the edges, and even with 5 outer vertices the shape + gradient should easily look good enough to hold up while taking up around 16 pixels.

Shadows - the best way in these situations to control shadows is usually to scale down the particle (or hair). Remember that the shape or look on a micro scale doesn't matter as much as the integral of the area * integral of the transparency.
I'm assuming you've never spent a winter somewhere with less than 3 hours of daylight during the winter months. I don't think anyone who has would question the effect of sunlight on mood.

When I lived such a winter, the effect of standing in full sunlight when it was available was like eating sugar after heavy exercise. (And biochemically, this makes perfect sense given that we know the body uses sunlight to synthesize essential compounds.)

It makes sense to question the effect of a specific lamp, but the body's need for sunlight is obvious, even absent the scientific research.
Keep up the good work, nice that you are already in the 1000-5000 download range.
Inspiring me to dust off the darkroom equipment. I even got to love the smell of Fixer!
Tokyo through a Blade Runner lens
I always wondered if Kathryn Bigelow is somehow related to Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Airospace. Later has long been the center of a bunch of conspiracy theories.
What I found fascinating here are the implications for the neurobiology of memory. Here it is limited to highly emotional fear-based memories, but nonetheless the idea that a memory gets rewritten immediately after recall, as saving a file after edit, and that that is an opportunity to completely redefine the memory, is quite striking.
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These defects are often not detectable via ultrasound until late second / early third trimester, where abortions are more expensive, more emotionally scarring, and more illegal.
If you are just telling other people to execute, I can see how that could be mistaken for being easy. not a great mindset, but super common amongst executive types
same here, driver crash in windows 10
That's precisely my point. The rate of birth defects is dependant on more than the spread of the disease. The epidemiologists predicting the long term situation will have to account for this.
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Asking people to delay pregnancies will reduce some of the burden.

I don't think the mosquito-killing gene editing technology is ready for deployment yet...
I have little or nothing to hide, but I'm sufficiently informed to realize that people with a lot more political involvement than I have need a lot more privacy than I bother to create for myself.

Projecting one's own apathy onto the whole populace is irresponsible and destructive to everyone's freedom, whether they are direct participants in politics, or not.
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Yet, Nvidia's driver still doesn't work with KWin in EGL mode in KDE Plasma 5.

And I hope there will be more focus on WSI + Vulkan going forward (instead of EGL + OpenGL).
Works fine in edge on lumia 950. Phones are getting ridiculously powerful.
Thank you for the response.

Could the difference, in those two kinds of situations, be due to the presence/lack of awareness of the trigger of fear response?

To explain my thinking: it appears that you are normally aware of the fear-triggers on those "stressful situations" (i.e., what triggers the fear), which awareness of trigger in combination with propanelol's inhibitiveness, leads to you have less nervous tics than usual (and less fear-responses). Whereas, it appears that on other kinds of situations, such as laying in bed running through dispersed thoughts about the upcoming day, there is no well-defined trigger (or so it seems) that can be pin-pointed in time, leading to propanelol not being as effective, thus resulting in racing thoughts.

The original study[1] involved a 2-minute exposure prior to administration of propanelol for it to be effective in eliminating the fear-conditioning. And this 2-minute exposure implicitly includes awareness of the fear-trigger.

[1] http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-322...
You can get 80 megapixel digital backs for Hasselblad cameras, where you actually get insane lens quality and a uber precise focal plane, so the resolution is not unheard-of. But the Ambrotype technique is really really cool.
At a large enough company, there is an HR department, which provides all sorts of tools to help manage the issues you mention... and anyone displaying those behaviors really should be fired, because it makes the workplace unsafe for everyone else.

BTW, the best way to make it quickly to manager or executive fast is to go to a startup.
The funny part is those all seem like bad VC bets to me. Not sure of any 10 billion dollar companies come out of this areas in the next 5-7 years. I think the timeline is longer. IOT is a 1% product. Same with vr. ML requires massive data sets.
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Not familiar with the lavabit story - how did his refusal cost users their privacy?
I sometimes wonder how much of "we never heard of x/y/z disease 10-15 years ago" is due to less frequent testing.
You can make your own webhook system, but it will be totally nonstandard and custom, I believe.

RSS and ATOM are standardized mechanisms for conveying an event stream, understood by thousands of clients. I'm not aware of anything else similar.
El Salvador has a total ban on any abortion.

Some women who miscarried have been imprisoned.

Maybe this disease will make them change their repressive law, but it's not likely.
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Certainly.

1. Here is an example of reckless behavior associated with a lack of fear as it pertains to humans taking anti-fear drugs.

[1] http://news.nationalpost.com/news/there-was-no-fear-anymore-...

And then there are studies of animals changing their behavior to be more reckless. I am curious to see your thoughts on correlation of animal and human testing.

[2] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2011/03/scientists-di...
Indeed, and other digital medium format cameras such as the Phase One are in the 100MP range. Of course, they're impractical for a lot of reasons - the $55k price alone puts them out of reach for most hobbyists.
> but in this case the government was asleep at the wheel.

I like the ideas in your post. I think the above though is understated. The government was actually driving against traffic on a one way street. They didn't sleep, they plotted. What happened, suppressing lead data, was done specifically and on purpose.
True, but again, that assumes they have a picture of the data. If the product was sold online through target.com, a picture may exist somewhere. Otherwise, most company's item master data tables (that I've seen) don't include a picture. Also, they chose not to use data out of the old systems, because they wanted to avoid getting it out of the old and into the new system. This seems like it should've been the easier route but for whatever reason their legacy software probably made it much more difficult than needed.
The main one I'm thinking of is monotone, which is a distributed version control system that started to gradually lose activity after git was released and took over.

The primary conceptual difference I think, is that git is federated-like-email while monotone is distributed-like-usenet. It's a far prettier model, but it makes getting consensus on who has commit privileges (or in equivalent modern terminology, what blockchain appends are valid) somewhat of a PITA (especially when the list of approved committers can change over time). We never did get that working completely, but the work done since on bitcoin probably has some useful insights.

A couple other things to keep in mind, are that innovation is not quite the same as invention; and that all inventions build on previous knowledge.
Have you tried Harvest? https://www.getharvest.com/android
I'd be curious to hear what you didn't like about it!

(disclosure: I work there, however not on the product side)
>> mosquito-killing gene editing technology.

That cannot be allowed to be a thing. Mosquitoes fill an important niche in a great many ecologies. Any society capable of creating such a thing will surely be able to create a vaccine or treatment. That is where energies should be focused.
A particle is a free 3D coordinate. Particle rendering refers to several visualization techniques to visualize a volumetric system which focus on minimizing per particle work load:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_system

A voxel is a value in a 3D lattice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel

A particle system could be used to visualize a voxel field, of course, but their application range is far wider.
I'd be interested in reading how small the file has to be for this to be necessary.
> I think Fred meant something like, "get the strategy right and the execution is straightforward hard work."

I think Fred meant something like "a catchy headline, even if not strictly true, will garner more readers".

It's one of those easy strategies.
If this pope, and this crisis in his own back yard, aren't sufficient to compel a change in Catholic teachings on birth control, I think it's safe to assume it'll not happen for generations.
He had to give up other peoples' privacy, as well.
The alternative (that the FBI demanded until he started playing childish games) was actually only handing over Snowden's mails.
Seems like these guys are pretty close: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/543721/with-this-geneti...

Sounds like it will eliminate malaria and not mosquitos
Indeed. Any model can work. I think clean water is potentially more dangerous in the hands of private business who must make a profit, for the cost and safety issues born by forced customers. The case in Flint is, I hope, a relative anomaly.

I'm surprised Home Depot hasn't had a run on pitchforks and tiki torches.
They used the art. The difference here is that the CIA is actually painting the pictures.

While rare for a group like the CIA to actually create content, a great many movies have been influenced. The US military supports many productions, from StarTrek to Battleship, reducing costs and increasing accuracy. But when asked they have failed to support others, notably Independence Day. Influence and persuasion has always been there in hollywood. Zero-Dark is just that much closer to the line between legitimate art and propaganda.

ok, TopGun was pure propaganda, but USN wasn't actually writing the scripts.
What is also sad is that water purification should be nailed down by the US governments...
Games are made to represent life; so too with stories. Therefore, not only is it not a lack of perspective to represent existence in terms of (a game|a fairy tale), it is in fact ideal to do so. Go read a little G.K. Chesteton, then we'll talk.
Oh it likely worked for quite some time before Wayland. Thing about Wayland is that it is not just a "dumb" canvas, but one that is to support existing UI toolkits like GTK and Qt.

Never mind that X does a lot more than just draw stuff. Its in charge of managing all those displays, keyboards and mice.

Something that various people only noticed after dabbling with Wayland and discovering that where before X was in charge of their laptops touchpad, giving them all kinds of capabilities, now GTK/Gnome was, and thus they found themselves with a massive regression.
Terrifying. Doing some quick back of the envelope calculations: 1,000,000 people in Brazil got the virus, and there are 4,000 cases of microcephaly. Let's assume that most of these are caused by the virus (pre-virus level of microcephaly were very low) and assume half of the people are women. Also assume roughly two pregnancies over a women's life, and an average life expectancy of 73 years.

This would mean that of the 500,000 women that got the virus, roughly 2% of these women were pregnant while getting the virus, which equates to 10,000 women, resulting in 4,000 cases of microcephaly. This would be a 40% chance of microcephaly when a woman catches the virus during pregnancy. That is absurdly high for a virus that is starting to become (or already is) an epidemic.

There's many assumptions in the calculation and I'm sure the medical profession has much better numbers. As I said it's a back of the envelope. But even if the chances are 20% or 10%, that is still extremely high and worrying. The recommendation not to get pregnant in countries where the virus is active suddenly makes sense.
It seems to me that he's trying to argue a positive hypothesis when his evidence just points to a negative one. He's really saying, "get the strategy wrong and execution is impossible." But basic logic will tell you that's not the same thing as what he's claiming. It's also a lot less controversial and less likely to drive clicks, so perhaps that's the reason he tried to overreach in his conclusion.
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A more accurate phrase would be the binge-watching nature of Netflix.
I'd be okay with "at least once" :)
Large format photography delivers amazing detail. Normally you'll see folks making their own plates past a certain point, but this DIY 14x32-inch camera on the Make Magazine site uses large format X-ray film, which you can get for cheap, since hospitals have been converting to digital equipment: http://makezine.com/2011/05/17/gigantic-diy-ultra-large-form...
Fear itself is healthy, PTSD and phobia is not. The title is akin to using "Pill to Cure Talking" as a headline for a Tourette's cure.
But presenting the result of the first study with large effort and bombast as great, newly discovered truth that will help the public solve their problems is not.
Tiger.
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Oh the paradox
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Hi guys one question sorry if it's answered somewhere but why does the title say "Free" course? is it free cause of the trial period or the whole course is free as of now?

If the whole course is free are there more free courses on this site?

Thanks for the reply.
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Have fun. I'm going to stay away from that hungry, pissed-off tiger, you can play with it all you want.
I read it as overreaching out of the scientific domain and presenting an observation that isn't particularly validated as truth and new great thing to the public. Saying "OMG everybody do this!" instead of "Huh, that's funny. Anybody else observe this?"
Can you go into detail on what you mean by "Mosquitoes fill an important niche in a great many ecologies"?
Could one use a counter-weight, as in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars?
Haven't tried harvest before. It looks like harvest is more for teams, while my app is more directed to single individuals.

One has to create an account before one can use harvest, which is a huge turn-off for me because I don't want to create an account before I even know whether your app is the app I'm looking for. I would probably have skipped your application while searching for a solution because of this.
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Yeah, I get that feeling too.

The idea that someone exposed to a traumatic event (e.g. rape, child abuse) could immediately given a single dose of a drug that would prevent a possible 30-40 years of painful PTSD is, honestly, pretty compelling.
Works great with FF43 and Nvidia proprietary drivers now.
I don't understand. This does affect newborns.
Diseases like this are something that forces you go to the doctor, where its gonna gain a diagnosis. With diseases like Zika and Chikungunya the big problem is globalization and air travel.
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Unfortunately there is a flip-side to that: How do you investigate or prosecute a company (for, say, fraudulent billing) when they insist that you need a million individual warrants to prove your case?
I'm not sure you could get an accelerated OpenGL context before KMS+EGL were implemented. Indeed, even today most ARM vendors don't support accelerated OpenGL without X11/GLX.

Edit: libinput covers all your low-level input handling needs. The API is very-well designed, unlike the 3-4 separate input stacks you have to juggle in X11 (core X, XInput 1, XInput 2, XInput 2.1 etc).

Edit 2: X server is not used to draw stuff in modern applications, all drawing is handled client-side (by Qt, GTK, EFL, etc) and the X server just acts as an inefficient intermediary between the client and the compositor.

Wayland simply removes that intermediary.