skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right now our approach to these issues is like trying to tune a malfunctioning jet engine without any knowledge of how it works and experimenting via trial and error by dumping liquid oxygen or coal dust into the intake.

That's a good analogy.

I was talking to someone recently, and realized that the "antipsychotics" are essentially speed-governors for people. It's better to fix the actual problem with a car than arbitrarily limiting its top speed. Another analogy is that these drugs are like under-clocking your CPU so it doesn't overheat, instead of replacing the broken fan.

My girlfriend screwed up her brain's metabolism by self-treating her depression with alcohol and stimulants. When the alcohol went away, she became rather psychotic. Her mother (whom she was living with) called the crisis team, and the hospital didn't help things by treating her with antipsychotics, when they should have used coconut oil, nutritional supplements and some of the more useful prescriptions.

My observation is that the practitioners who treated my girlfriend weren't concerned about the behaviors that created the condition (self-medicating depression with alcohol & the street pharmacy), they just prescribed medication in the hope that it would help with the presenting symptom ("psychosis").

She'd stabilize after a few weeks in the mental hospital. When released, she would resume her efforts to treat her own depression, and would shortly end up back in the mental hospital.

My girlfriend got much better when I obtained the supplements and safe drugs that help with the actual causes of her mental exhaustion.

But I don't have her on lockdown, and I can't force her to consistently take what clearly benefits her, nor keep her away from the professionals' bad prescriptions (SSRI's and benzodiazepines) that create more problems for her.
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28 pounds (lbs) or just under 13 kg
Cygwin apps have to be compiled for Cygwin, as opposed to this Bash on Windows thing that runs Linux binaries out of the box :-)
This April was the warmest April on record
Thanks for posting. It would be more interesting to see better studies without sampling bias, but it was still interesting to see otherwise.
Ok then, how do you copy and paste without using a mouse in Bash?

Edit: this is in reply to the comment at the same level of this one, can't hit reply on it
The Day We Hired a Blind Coder
Should by your own logic of
There is no need to prove someone's claim false, they must prove it true." apply to their comment to?

Just trying to understand as Point A and B lack the same evidence.
NetHack is an old favourite -- http://www.nethack.org/
If we had to put up the black bar every time there was a mass shooting or murder in the US, it would never come down.
I think that companies can live off good publicity for a long time, even if they change their business model.
What are the others?

You could always switch to one of the low-app smartphone platforms. I recommend Sailfish. It has a really nice native Google Auth 2-factor app.
The problem is you can't control countries or ideologies by a border so that approach simply doesn't work.
That made me remember the last time I read of some guys trying to reach the north pole. They almost died because the sea ice they were on broke up.
Show HN: Jibber, an HTML publisher for IRC
Or this could be a temporary market gap while companies are both building tech to replace uber/lyft, and/or waiting to see if uber/lyft fold.

My bet is in a year, if uber/lyft stay out of Austin, there will be a local replacement that obeys the laws that Austin decided on.
Morphies Law alpha teaser
My bet is on AWS, but I'm also rather curious about this.
Perceptrons – the most basic form of a neural network
Metric conversion from mm to inches with fractions
If I'm doing an early return, I usually don't put the rest of the function inside the else case since I feel it creates an unnecessary level of indentation.
Ask HN: Hybrid apps that look and feel like native apps
Hey. I was wondering if there's a list of apps which feel like native but are hybrid. I read somewhere that Amazon is partly native and partly hybrid (WebView).

The stack websites are of no help in this. Do you guys know about any app whose performance is native-level but leverages the hybrid platform?

Just an experiment. I want to see if hybrid really scales in the real world. Example: Pretty sure Quora isn't native, but I have no idea what tech they use.
Are you posting from the Canadian Tourist Bureau?

I have two main concerns when considering a startup: access to talent and access to capital. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, Toronto falls short on both. Multiculturalism barely factors into it -- and if it did why would I pick Toronto over NYC?
Neural network story telling
I still don't understand why [..] I have to toggle between pressing up or pressing down from the new command-prompt to access the previous commands.

It is because the shell history has its own completely invisible cursor, and the cursor is not reset after a command. So when you press <up> three times, then press <enter>, your history cursor is still at -3 (actually, -4). If you then want to move to command -2, you need to press <down> instead of <up>.

The real fun comes when you edit commands in your history (so press <up>, then edit the command line). I'm still not quite sure how Microsoft handles that.
Hrm it's behind a web app firewall (server:cloudflare-nginx) so harder to tell.
Don't have a good way to figure it out for an arbitrary year.

The year's offset is 0 when jan 1st is a thursday (since the whole system is based on determining the day's offset wrt a thursday), i.e. 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, and increase every year by 1 and every mod 4=0 year by another 1. If you remember the offsets for a few years, then it's quite straightforward to get the offset for a nearby one.

But i can't quickly determine the offset of an arbitrary distant year.
Here's musl's DNS resolution logic, for other people who may be curious: http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/network/lookup_n...
Interestingly this is almost the same commentary for every "next silicon valley" city we read about here. I think sometimes people are trying to cash in on the ideal before it's even been formed. Why is everyone so rushed to be the next SV anyway? Why not be the best Toronto, or whatever city of focus that happens to support entrepreneurship through whatever programs.

I feel like being a next SV town is sort of like how every un-employed person I know is the CEO of a startup : / .
It can be viewed as simply as "when fees goes down, something else goes up," as well. You also have to consider that many people invest indirectly in Visa through mutual funds. There are many other factors.
Is there a way to use SMS as a 2nd factor? That would eliminate the need for a smartphone.
With credit card, that easy?
I had some fraudulent transactions in my credit card and I had to

a) File a police report
b) Do an (offline)report and document every transaction I considered to be fraudulent
c) Sent these reports to the bank, where they would go thru it (some sort of committee) and if accepted I would be refunded.

Quite-a-hassle, took several hours to do those reports...

(This is Danish/Finnish bank, Danske Bank. I'm no longer their customer)
Since you bring up Motif and SPARCstations, I should point out that people also complained about the performance of X GUIs back in the day. [1]

[1]: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
Big data and poker-playing bots are blurring the line between man and machine
Because I'm very, very aggressively seeking Chicago mayor's phone's records through FOIA.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR...
I wouldn't be so sure. The reason ETH has be rising is because bitcoin has become clogged and the developers refuse to unclog it. Most likely very few people have even heard of Homestead yet or will hear about it on Monday. Bitcoin's price was about to break out from last year's bottom until the network got clogged on November 5th. The exact same thing will happen every time the price tries to shoot back to the ATH and it will never do anything different until the network capacity is increased.
Isn't this how a lot of the big firms are using Their European offices? I've met a lot of people in the valley that worked in places like Zurich, or London for their first year with the company before moving to CA.
If this sort of stuff is relevant to you, http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope is an essential book to read.
While we are at it: what language is HN written in?
>Uber/Lyft are expensive for a typical student budget

No they aren't. I used them constantly when I lived on campus. Most of my fares were around $5-6.

It's cheaper than a bus if you place a non-negligible value on your time.

The Austin bus system kind of sucks outside of a few routes. I took the 100 to the airport a few times and it was brutal. Lyft is $20-30 and super fast and convenient.

You can survive by sticking within a 5-block radius of campus, but good luck if you have hobbies, interests, or a job.
All this thread makes me wanna walk on a mountain and do yoga for a few months.
Arc.

[0]http://arclanguage.org/

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
That's gonna be quite a feat with absurd real estate prices, a weak dollar, and lower salaries than the US even before you take into account the weak dollar.
A few years ago TD Bank Canada changed its TD Bank branded debit cards to a Visa branded debit cards it wasn't before that just an Interac logo no Visa affiliation. I don't know why TD Bank did it but it's now linked to Visa and it seemed rather sudden.

I wonder if that means my TD Bank Visa brand debit card won't work or if it's only Visa credit cards?
My car stereo has a 3.5mm jack. My TV has a 3.5mm jack. My speaker system has a 3.5mm jack. The new chromecast has the version with a 3.5mm jack.

I just don't understand where manufactures are going with this. I recently got a small Bluetooth speaker and have problems pairing from time to time, but not when I have a 3.5mm jack. I just connect the cable and it works. Don't even get me started with battery drain.

This is really annoying. It all reminds me of when I was searching for my first cellphone and most phone didn't have the jack. In the end my first cellphone (Samsung Omnia) didn't have a 3.5mm jack and it was really annoying having to buy an adapter in order to listen to music.
This article is poorly fact-checked:

"Queens College" is, I'm guessing, referring to Queen's University in Kingston (since the attendance number cited also matches), which is over 150 miles away from Toronto. I'm surprised the author didn't include the 25,000 students at McMaster and the 20,000 students at the University of Guelph which are both much closer than either Waterloo or Queen's. And if the author is going to include the University of Waterloo, why not also include Wilfrid Laurier University which is also in Waterloo? It is totally nonsensical. Kitchener-Waterloo is very distinct from Toronto and its various suburbs.

The support provided by the government does not begin to make up for the lack of support provided by local angel investors/VCs. It is much easier to go through the government grant process and get funding for a startup that way than it is to get Angel or VC money in Toronto.

BlackBerry has been dying a slow death for over 4 years at this point. Whatever talent they once had has (hopefully, for their sake) long since moved on. If the author's claims of a diaspora injecting additional talent into the local startup scene are true, we should already be seeing it. I don't.

Shopify's HQ is in Ottawa. They are sucking up a lot of the local CS talent in Ottawa since they are a big fish in a small pond. They aren't going to move their HQ ~200 miles to Toronto any time soon, even if it means avoiding -40 degree winters.
I believe it is Arc, a lisp dialect that Paul Graham developed

http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html
Yeah, same. Summer months form the bottom edge of the square, and winter months the top.
https://conemu.github.io
There was an article some time ago, describing how different peoples around the globe had different words to describe time (for instance "it's below us" meaning "it's in the past") and how it influenced their common representation of time.
Companies will sponsor a green card on a TN, it is just riskier since it's not a dual intent visa.

You can also apply for H-1B and if you get that then you can just switch to it then apply for a green card.
Fascinating.

So there are a finite number of T cells, and nearly all of them are used up fighting Cytomegalovirus?
Then how can you trust the intercepts cherry picking of the documents trove snowden took?

My argument is it's pretty ballsy to call people out about transparency knowing they can't argue and that there are likely contradictions or at least further details being omitted by hand selecting documents for dissemination. It's really the same issue on both sides. Neither are telling the whole story.

I would argue your comment "Its all too easy to give out just enough info to get people chasing after the wrong thing." is a correct statement for both sides.
And what happens when someone snarfs your number and clears your bank account out? How do you pay the rent? With credit, it's the banks money that gets stolen, and they worry about getting it back, not me.
It interoperates just fine. That's what's great about powershell, when you're working with objects on the pipeline you have a ton of power at your command, and you can write very expressive code that is compact. But at the same time, outside of that context it's just plain text. It's win/win.
Thx for the clarification.
None of these European countries uses centralized planning, but instead they rely on pretty standard market economies.

The problem with the cited statistics is that even PPP-adjusted equivalized disposable household income that accounts for both cash and in-kind transfers still provides only a limited basis for comparison.

For example, observe that the average American person works 30% more than the average German or Dutch person [1]. It should not be surprising that shorter working hours are reflected in lower wages and lower household income.

However, while the reason for that is not always good – too many stay-at-home moms in Germany who'd rather pursue a career, for example – in general, this tends to express a voluntary trade-off of better work-life balance in lieu of higher income. This trade-off generally works because both income and expenses are less volatile; you may not need to save up as much for a rainy day, a huge coinsurance or deductible payment from a medical bill, for your kids' college funds, for the disruption of your income by a pregnancy, or figuring out how to pay for childcare. While few of these things have zero impact on your income situation, that impact tends to be greatly reduced. The modern European social democracy is less characterized by transfering cash from the rich to the poor, but by ensuring affordable essential services for everybody (which also tend to benefit the poor more than the rich and thus are typically redistributive).

In addition, even trying to normalize household income does not account for all the actual differences between the economies; for example, the effects on urban planning (suburban sprawl with a built-in dependence on cars vs. hybrid zones that are walkable, bikable, and have good public transport) can have a major impact on how you live. Likewise, the rise of helicopter parenting in some places comes with increasing demands on time and household budgets.

And while the Western European social democracies are not some magical paradise with both riches and year-long vacations (contrary to what some people seriously seem to believe), they are not socialist hellholes, either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
Interview with Cristiano Siqueira
> A lot of people who shop there do the majority of their shopping there.

Especially in smaller cities where the Wal-Mart "Supercenter" is the only significant retailer available with a broad selection and late hours.
can't hit reply on it

There's an anti-flamefest delay on comment threads: you can't reply to comments younger than a few (5?) minutes. However, if you go to the comment directly (click on the timestamp next to it), you do get the option to reply immediately.
So weird. Mine is a circle. I too have summer on top, but spring is on the left and fall on the right, so it goes clockwise.

And it's kinda tilted in the third dimension depending on which date it is.
Yeah interesting, I wonder if there's anything remotely similar in the real world.
I don't normally chime in on stuff like this but you're right it does look alot like Noisli (http://www.noisli.com/) I remember when that appeared on HN a while back as well. Nothing wrong with cloning something on your own for fun but it seems like they didn't disclaim this anywhere?
Debt isn't bad. I recently purchased a car. Given my credit, I was offered 1.8% financing with first months interest paid for. If I took it, they would throw in a bunch of perks like lifetime oil changes, loaner cars for repairs, etc. I did, drove home, immediately paid off the loan, and continue to enjoy the benefits. No worrying about bank checks or cash or whatever. Credit makes my life so much easier. Credit and even debt is not the problem - it's living beyond your means.
Built-in miniaturized micro-supercapacitor powers silicon chip
I am by no means a PHP hater (I do some PHP dev for work) but PHP not only has multiple versions (4, 5, 5.3) but has a ton of modules for everything (curl, mbconv, openssl, etc) that have to be setup the same way for you to get the same behavior across OSes. Not sure it makes a great shell script for that reason.
> The more reports like this come out, I believe the more of the current Canadian Diaspora living and working in the US will be swayed to move back here, bringing their talent, their money and their valley connections with them.

ha, no. I want to come home at some point, but the money in the US is absurdly better. Plus I can work on some very neat stuff.
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Well, from that perspective anything can be perceived as IoT operating system. Arch Linux could too, or Gentoo, or Debian. Ubilinux for Edison is Debian-based.

Wind River is (more or less) a paid version of Yocto, prepared for chain of trust and secure boot. Intel invested a lot in it and I would guess it will get more attention in time.
How defective nanodiamonds could revolutionize quantum computing
Vancouver isn't.
Should be a matter of weeks.
People construe things as censorship regardless of what we do.

The only thing HN moderators have done on any of these threads is unkill this one, so the discussion (such as it is) can continue.
yes, and no. In practice this really only works well in browsers on residential machine. For browsers on corporate networks, many times they are configured exactly the same so many browsers behind a corp firewall have the same exact fingerprint.
> Interestingly this is almost the same commentary for every "next silicon valley" city we read about here.

That may be true, but you have to realize even the other "next silicon valley" contenders in the US can easily offer more than double the salary to developers compared to Canadian cities like Toronto and Vancouver. Toronto is not even playing in the same league in that aspect.
If only. The draw of SV on young Canadian talent is just too large. Some of the smartest people I know hail from that region and most of them ended up working in SV.

Sad, but it's not happening unless Canada will find a way to balance out the enormous difference in pay between working in Toronto (or any other major Canadian city) versus the Valley.
Perhaps "not fatally" would be a better way of indicating that the outcome was not death, regardless of the intent :)
For the last few weeks I've been not listening to podcasts or music on my morning walk to work (half hour). I deliberately did this to give myself time to be more introspective or creative. Realizing after X minutes that you've just been lost in thought is kind of satisfying.
Mine works the same way, though the months don't always "fit together" right; my visualized locations for July-November tend to overlap each other, while the 10-o'clock segment of the dial is a void between May and June.
I'll invoke the Black Swan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_%28Taleb_book%2...) since it hasn't been done yet in this thread.
In the USA it I'd common to get gasoline 10 cents a gallon cheaper us you pay cash.

Also, I gave had stores in the small town I live in tel me that they prefer getting cash, and I try to oblige them.
It's easy to comply with the requirement, so I don't see how this requirement was meant to protect the incumbent taxi services. In other words, it's not that much of a burden. They could comply and they could continue to decimate the incumbents --but the new services, the taxi platform services see this as a stand they must take to control costs (and don't want other jurisdictions getting the same ideas) I believe that is all it is.
Agreed, but sure is ruffling feathers. And makes them seem not very trustworthy.
All of that is awesome but unless salaries match US ones and there's investors like there are in the Bay Area, nothing will change.
Flagged. Too generalized of a question. Political.
Yep. This is actually one of the better arguments against Intelligent Design: the human body (and in fact all living things) has too many faults and shortcomings to have been designed by an omnipotent, omniscient being. (Of course, it could be argued that said shortcomings are intentional and were part of the design specs, but considering how much pain and suffering they cause (e.g. cancer), it would go against the claim that the designer is omnibenevolent).
I experience time as a series of revolving problems: painful awkward spring yields to sweaty sleepy summer yields to deathly gloomy fall which decays into desolate hostile winter... yet for a week in March one imagines the world good, a splendid week of hope.
IIRC, 2 servers - 1 production, 1 standby, running FreeBSD.

Detailed specs have been written before, try searching.
I see time as a 3D wall. Very hard to explain.
In 2010 we said "wait and see, but use native for now unless you really can do with an interactive webpage". Not much has changed.
I wonder what determines it.

I can remember first thinking about it (around the same age i figured out how to move my eyes) as a ribbon of days going around in a spiral. Eventually it settled into the ellipse/rectangle thing i described.

I often felt that the summer is something you climb up to (end of school, exam season in university, etc), and then after some smooth relaxed sailing you drop down towards the winter again (no more free time, got to do school and so on).

However, i can't quite say if that determined the orientation, or the metaphor came from the orientation.
Remove "visa" and "mastercard" and I still answered your question. It is not through credit card payment processing.
> if you lose your job you have 2 weeks to leave the country

If it's like the TN then no, because it is not 2 weeks to the leave the country it's "leave the country".
You might enjoy https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
Great work. Issue #1 was really good. Very excited to hear about the release of Issue #2
Kinda conundrum there, you want good thermal coupling to the environment to shed heat when the batteries are charging. When the car is sitting in the cold you want the batteries insulated.
>There was nothing trollish at all in my earlier comment - you just wish not to believe it.

You're correct in that I do not wish to believe that astroturfing either directly or indirectly commissioned by GCHQ could be so incompetent. It sullies their good name.

Granted, what you're doing would actually qualify as somewhat competent if the goal was to simply to derail meaningful discourse.