skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would recreational opiate use be a terrible thing?

Would the world not be a better place if recreational crystal methamphetamine users had the option of legal recreational opiates (of known strength) instead?
I'm more talking about fast start SPA, not partial content loading strategies. There's a number of utilities that does what Drupal is doing. Turbolinks has been doing what you describe for years (if memory serves) with Rails.
You have to weigh the ease-of-access vs. IDE clutter though.

For example I see people using linters that update automatically as you type (I think on Atom there isn't even an option to disable this if the packages are enabled) - which is frankly quite awful, when I'm writing the code I care a lot more about my thought process than being distracted by style complaints, there is a limited amount of context you can keep in mind at once, and subsidiary things shouldn't be actively wasting your time.

At least for me git log -L<start>,<end>:<file> is usually preferable.

That said it shouldn't be a hard tool to build for yourself if this is what you need.
I pick some technology that has the following characteristics:

- A complete paradigm shift. I want something that will force me to rethink how I approach problems. I want to force my brain to develop new pathways, so to speak.

- Something will at least a minimum of documentation and community online. I've had to abandon dreams of learning some really awesome language before (ATS) because there was simply no resources and that would make my progress too slow.

- Something that could be fun to use in a side project. I need to be able to find occasions to use it. I learn best by doing rather than by only reading. If I can't think of an application, then I won't be able to become proficient, so I'd rather learn something else.

- And finally, it has to be something fun that feels like falling in love with programming all over again.

EDIT: I usually don't pick more than 1 technology to REALLY LEARN per year, so I don't make these decisions lightly.
Does the position you're holding now prioritize a proper work/life balance? If so, the position might be a good investment of your daylight hours while you sharpen your technical talents (and others) at night.

My suggestion: if the position lets you and if it's sufficiently well compensated, hold that gig while you work on yourself and tackle personally fulfilling and challenging technical hobbies. Outside all of that, keep your CV etc. polished and keep a low level job hunt going just in case you come across something equally as rewarding on the compensation front as it is on the technical front.
Hats off to brave Elizabeth Parrish who put her life at risk to push humanity forward. People were dismissing her as a lunatic at the time of treatment administration. Now independently verified results speak for themselves.
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Living in an Allston [near Boston, MA] pantry for $300 a month is nuts
You think telling me I can kill people with my mind powers is going to make me write fewer HN comments? YOU DON'T KNOW ME AT ALL.
You may need to check the previous tutorials in order to understand this one.
I think the key here is to have long-term goals. I am trying to at least roughly understand where I wanna be in future (1, 5, 10 years) in terms of my skillset, abilities and knowledge. Then topics I learn should be aligned with those goals. There are definitely too much interesting things, but before I jump into something new I ask if it really helps me to get where I want to be in the future.

There are sometimes exceptions to this, when I just want to learn something for fun, do it as a recreational activity.
I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer
People are saying he was "unhinged" or mentally ill, but it sounds like he was simply sucked into an online scam. That happens to normal people all the time (even professionals through "whaling"). If you believe your scammer, and he tells you about freeing hostages, and those stories corroborate with what you hear on the news, then what normal person wouldn't get agitated and emotional? That doesn't sound like mental illness, it sounds like normal reaction to finding out that the one person who could save some hostages is refusing to cooperate. Don't forget his friend was actually killed in Afghanistan so he's got some genuine emotional connection to these troubles already, making the other stories easier to believe perhaps.

What would you do if you believed you had a way to free a hostage and the FBI just told you to get some sleep? When the hostage was killed, what would you say to that FBI worker? Normal mentally healthy people would get angry and obsessive when they believe they're being impeded from saving lives. I've seen more extreme reactions for far lesser problems.
There were two sets of Bitcoins. The bitcoins found on the SR1 server, which the Ulbricht defense team decided to not claim any interest in (which in retrospect seems like a serious legal blunder per the other comment), and the bitcoins found on Ulbricht's laptop in SF and his backup devices etc. The SR1 server bitcoins could be sold off without any trouble, but Ulbricht's bitcoins were in legal jeopardy as they might have been the proceeds of drug trafficking and not legitimate Bitcoin trading activities. As it happens, Ulbricht's bitcoins also got sold off as part of a mutual agreement between Ulbricht and the government to insulate them against the possibility of Bitcoin going to zero during the lengthy legal proceedings. (Neither party would be happy if terrible things happened to Bitcoin and it slowly went to zero, but they couldn't sell or do anything about it because the bitcoins were frozen.)
If you live in England and think this kind of psychiatric detention needs stronger controls you might be interested in looking at becoming a "Mental Health Act Manager", or "Hospital Manager". This is often a voluntary position that looks at some detentions under the Mental Health Act and sometimes orders the de-sectioning of people detained under section.

http://www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk/mental_health_act

https://www.rethink.org/resources/m/mental-health-act

https://www.rethink.org/living-with-mental-illness/mental-he...

In England it's rare to become a mental health inpatient. Only about 8% of the people getting care from mental health trusts ever go in-patient. Some of that is lack of beds (especially for children), but mostly it's because hospitals are sometimes harmful (This is true for physical health too) and people should get better care from "Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams" (for short term emergency care) and community teams (for longer term recovery and rehabilitation).

But if you think it's something that might happen you should probably think about advanced directives, and sorting out who your "nearest relative is", and getting a crisis plan set up.
>and that our limited surveillence, in the grand scheme of things, is almost tolerable in comparison

How is the surveillance we suffer under limited in any sense?
It's an online community. You just described an online community or any community actually. What did you expect Reddit would be? :)
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They fixed their RSS feed—for their blog—a few days ago, so I ended up on the site (having previously subscribed). It was interesting to see they're looking at using the therapy for other conditions.

Do you know if there's any scope for doing something to reduce cancer risk, with this tech? Such as enhancing P53, or something like that (if that doesn't damage the individual).
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I am surprised that no one has mentioned consultation with a MENTOR.

Really, if you "don't know what you don't know", you need some type of trusted guide who understands your aptitudes and motivations and can recommend a path of study or provide some clarity of thought.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with fumbling around in the dark and discovering stuff on your own, but if you're asking this question, it means you're resource-constrained and need some clear goals to work towards. This is where a mentor or at least a colleague can help out a lot. In addition to providing guidance, a mentor can critique and analyze the direction you're taking.

"Todo" lists are perfectly fine tools for mastering some narrow focused topic or for achieving completion of a small project, but they're not a strategic tool. Deciding what to learn next is very much a STRATEGIC question, and those kinds of decisions benefit greatly from dialog with an expert who cares about your success.
It's a tool, not a magic wand, but it's difficult to keep your head cool when everybody and his dog competes for contracts, jobs and market attention. It's 2010s gold rush.
Please, update your github project so we can follow
I guess a bit more like wolfram alpha's disambiguation (though that's not interactive) or Google's suggestions (did you mean...) but more of a dialog than "take it or leave it this is my suggestion".

On kite... So I'm not familiar with kite but yes, "the language" should be much broader, way too broad to include in a static download. Take my example: every English-speaking programmer knows what it means to double something but no programming language I know includes a function called double() which means to set equal to itself * 2 (because including such a thing in a downloadable language is a stupid idea to do). On the other hand it's not a stupid idea to do so interactively in a connected "language as a service", having it offer and keep track of the fact that people usually end up wanting you to set it to the value * 2 (90% of the time).

You can test that this would work. Write some pseudo code to accomplish something.

Next, Google each line you've written, along with the name of a language. See? It works. You can change the pseudocode to code in a language interactively.

For choices the programmer has to make, the environment could ask them then and there.

This only works when a language is "live" or online, and keeps track of what people end up meaning. Maybe I shouldn't call it "language" but something else... Yet at the end of the day if you're writing code, answering some questions and moving on, it's close to a language, isn't it?
I agree entirely which is why I read the articles instead of using a podcast, it was working great til I hit that tree...

The utility is that you listen to them while doing other things, also if the speed bothers you, speed it up.

I listen to most podcasts at 120-130%.
Around 2002 I had bought a machine with a duron cpu, which required a different kind of memory. I still had lots of memory for my old machine, something like 768MB cobbled together out of 64-256MB DIMMs.

So I created a ramdisk on the old machine, exposed it as a nbd (network block device), mounted it on over the network (one hop over a 100 Mbit switch, didn't have Gbit kit) on the new machine and created a swapfile on it. I couldn't believe how well it worked. I never actually had any flakiness issues and I used it like that for probably a year.
If the job isn't demanding, don't quit.

Because boredom generates ideas, and it's valuable to have a job that pays the bills while you have free time to think and read online.

Think of the job as a way to fund your own projects.
Another interesting overlay would be how much time is spent in production running each specific line.
Ok, I will start right again. Thanks
While I detest what he did, it's no different than what any other free-market minded individual would do. Our healthcare system is a profit motivated, not patient motivated. He put profits over people, just like every other big phamrma company. He also was a publicity seeking douchebag, so the media had a field day with him.
Treehouse pretty much hits those points. They have a library of videos and tutorials across a variety of topics. This content is organized intro tracks, which are tailored collections from the library so you can track your progress of learning a specific discipline. Some of these tracks share the same subtasks.

There is a public ranking system for users based on points. You receive points for watching videos, completing quizzes, and doing code challenges. It's pretty meaningless, but these points are categorized based on what type of track they were earned from, so you can see what people are most recently learning.

They don't tailor their notifications to specific niches. You always get a Netflix like notification whenever they upload new content. Their feed doesn't have the option to sort by what's trending/popular either. It's a relatively expensive service and is criticized for being pretty dumbed-down in how they deliver learning material, but I think it can be useful.
I had never heard that Concorde was "quite profitable"; to the contrary, I believe it was heavily subsidized by its operators' respective governments as a point of national pride. e.g.:

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/09/business/france-extending-...

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-12-01/business/fi-25795_1_s...
I just finished a book[1] that explains this pretty clearly. Dissonance between reality and a person's self-image (i.e. "I am difficult to fool") is often 'resolved' in favor of the more important factor, which is the person's self-image. So they deny reality.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/B003HFFI...
Gilbert Strang - linear algebra

A First Course in Abstract Algebra - rotman
Not really interested in machine learning.
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No it's not sarcasm. Law enforcement privileges tend to breed abuse.
I wonder what Google's CalicoLabs http://calicolabs.com thinks about this...
There's a vid of George Church talking at length on edge.org[0]. As with all edge.org vids, it's profound.

[0] https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_church-the-augmente...
Love to collaborate ...
Ask HN: Online courses to learn Computer Networking?
I always wanted to learn more about computer networking. What are some good courses out there today ? Free or paid, doesn't matter.
Apple Helped Canadian Police Extract Data from iPhone 4S
Why do you only have to go after one side? Both sides (the corruptor and the corrupted) can and should be held accountable. Holding Shkreli accountable is more than just a token gesture, and no charges would've been brought against him if no laws were broken.
Mandatory Password Changes Don’t Make You More Secure – Techlicious
IMO Firefox need more CPU than RAM
The Education of an Environmentalist
I think he's talking about growth in the features (dependant variables) of your dataset while keeping the number of independent observations constant; not growth in the dataset due to new independent observations.

I think he's correct in discussing it - I find folks propose new features far more frequently than new observations become available.
I suspect you vastly underestimate the suffering in the last few weeks of cancer. you are literally being slowly eaten alive until there is not enough left to keep up basic bodily functions and pain medications generally stop being effective. You can be in chemical induced sleep or unimaginable pain.
Or you could have separate virtual address spaces for kernel / userland.
"... Successful Against Aging in White Cells in a Human" would be more accurate while also preserving the informative aspect. Most people don't know that Telomeres directly connect to human aging.
It always find it surprising that Americans say they have the right to own guns but whenever something else goes wrong, owning or carrying a gun seems to cause massively greater punishment. Shouldn't it be illegal to discriminate against people based on gun ownership? Otherwise it's kind of restricting people's freedom to own guns.
If the FBI investigated, found he was mentally ill and armed, and then all they did was send a note to his doctor, and this guy ended up shooting someone, there would be public outrage at why he wasn't detained.
Tesla's Model S Is Epic but the Model X, Not So Much: Consumer Reports
The low-compression engine in a 1966 Cessna 172 doesn't require leaded fuel; there are at least two supplemental type certificates available to legally run it on unleaded auto fuel. The lead is in the fuel as an octane booster, and is required by the high compression, higher horsepower engines much further up the food chain which are increasingly being replaced in the marketplace with Jet-A fueled turboprop engines (or even in some rare cases by Jet-A burning diesels).

Leaded 100LL avgas is certainly going away...

http://www.autofuelstc.com/approved_engines_airfames.phtml

https://swiftfuels.com/
How many people are actually using this medication? And after, what, 70 years, no one else is making the drug or had come up with a new treatment?
It seems every time there's a mass shooting or a tragic suicide, people find out there were a bunch of social media posts beforehand that clearly broadcast the perpetrator's intent. Every time we ask "Why didn't anyone see this coming?"

Well, this is us "looking" to see these things coming, but now analyzing publicly available information is a violation of privacy?
> solitary confinement is a distinctive US problem

Not really, it's a problem in Europe too. We just don't talk about it.

If you get arrested here in Finland, you'll by default be in solitary and will remain so until the cops, not the courts, feel like letting you out.
People+with+the+Name+April+Bush+in+the+US
The only feedback I've got was not being man enough

That's a seriously mean, low-class, gut-punch thing to say to someone you're breaking up with. You're WAY better off, not hanging around people who can say things like this. You sound like a really nice, plenty-manly person already. What a bunch of crap.

However - when humans hear an insult like that - our lizard-brain goes into overdrive, trying to "fix" what some jerk said was "wrong" with us. It's just the way we're wired. Old lizard-brain puts us in an obsessive loop, trying to prove that "we're not what they said." And it's usually some cheap generic insult like stupid, lazy, ugly, fat, never amount to anything, or, yes, "not man enough."

Here's a question that can help break that loop - what do YOU like to do? What activities make you feel stronger, healthier, happier, and more centered inside yourself?

That is where true power and, yes, "manliness" resides. Being around mean, abusive, or violent people, can obliterate any idea of what your own preferences and interests might be. It can take some trial and error to figure it out.

I'm personally not attracted to "manly" men. I find that sh*t tiresome. I like guys who are kind, affectionate, respectful, and optimistic. Those qualities say "manly" to me.

Edited to add: Having a variety of skills and competencies IS super attractive. Being able to make things, do things, fix things, whether it's benching 300, writing clean code, or cooking dinner. So is taking responsibility for your stuff and not whining.

HTH.
One of the GRG regulars raised the suggestion that perhaps we don't see increased cancer risk in mice following telomerase therapy - and that's after the research group in question dropped the addition of tinkering with P53, and moved to straight telomerase overexpression, interestingly - because the immune system improvement means that there is more and better cancer immunosurveillance going on. I'm not aware of any earnest data to support or contradict that hypothesis, however.
State machines are really the ideal application of goto, where the semantics map directly - go to this state, making the flow of the code very clear. The performance benefits are nice too, so in that sense I think it's beneficial for both the machine and the programmer.

It'd be funny to see the results of an implementation with "proper OOP design using the State design pattern", I have a feeling that could be worse than the original switch/loop.
As a free thinker I tend to reject social constructs.

If sex is biological expression, and gender is a social construct then I acknowledge sex and reject gender.
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Ask HN: Who's Playing Drums?
Some of the trappings of teenage years stay with you your whole life. For me, it was music. 70's progressive rock, to be specific (and obvious to Genesis fans).

At that time, losing Jim, Jimi and Janice in their prime was seen as the cost of doing business in the rock star world. But losing those 70s rock stars today means something completely different. If you understand my meaning, I hope you're doing well, man.

To blunt that point a bit, I've been formulating the band I am going to listen to in heaven. Some players are obvious. I've always wished the rumors of Keith Emerson trying to recruit Jimi Hendrix for ELP in 1970 were true (they weren't) [1]. So it's Keith on keyboards and Jimi on lead guitar and vocals.

Bass is a little less clear. I'd love to play Jaco Pastorius. He's a monster [2] and he did stints with Blood, Sweat & Tears and Joni Mitchell, but ultimately, I don't see a style fit. So I'll go with Chris Squire because he actually has met Jimi [3], his Rickenbacker punches through a Hammond, and he sings back up.

The real problem is drums. Keith Moon and John Bonham come to mind immediately. But the two I'd really want are not available, and I won't jinx them by naming them. So I can't decide.

So my question for Hacker News is: Who is playing drums in Rock Star Heaven?

[1] http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimi-hendrix-emerson-lake-palmer/

[2] "America The Beautiful": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRcFi6kBTS4

[3] Squire meets Hendrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-lBnTc3So
If I'm not mistaken plate armour wasn't all that great against blunt weapons though, since it probably does not distribute the impact very well. Whereas I'd suspect this kevlar armour to basically swallow those punches over a larger area, no?
Chernobyl 30 years later
well, the contrast is all the other mentally unhinged, armed men in the US that do not get taken off the street and then go on a shooting rampage - recent example being ohio.

pick your poison.

seen this liberal approach in europe with a neighbors daughter, paranoid schizo. threatened her mother with a knife, admitted to hospital, meds, meds work, she clears up, gets asked if she wants to leave, yes, is home, stops taking meds, goes psycho again, knife comes out. rinse repeat, for years. because yes, let's give mentally unstable people the choice over life or death decisions.
Sounds like my old man. All good advice.
>6. What hype about quantum computers really drives you nuts?

Was good for me. I've usually found articles about quantum computing not really seeming to make sense and his reply is good for explaining why that often is.
"Most people don't know that Telomeres directly connect to human aging."

As far as I know, it isn't entirely settled that they do ...which is why the title is misleading. I guess it will be hard to argue against if Elizabeth Parish pulls a Benjamin Button.
No idea how the first link turned into Google nonsense. Here's the MOP link:

http://download.imatix.com/mop/introduction.html
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That's kinda the whole point of the previous comment.