skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a couple of unordered facts here, because discussions about this topic tend to get very confused:

1. Serotonin is a very basic, very old transmitter found in all bilateral animals. Humans have two sites of serotonin-production, one in the body, one in the brain. 90% of serotonin resides in the body.

2. Serotonin in general regulates "activity". It affects hunger, gut-movement, sleep, cell-growth, mood, body-temperature, blood-pressure and many other things. Any drugs changing serotonin-levels also affect these areas, that is why there are so many adverse effects.

3. SSRIs help exactly one group of people: those who have too low levels of serotonin. When their serotonin is boosted, circuits in the brain like the connection between thoughts and emotions start to work properly, hence they get more in touch with themselves.

4. People who have too little serotonin can show the exact same symptoms like people whose serotonin levels way too high (!!). Prescribing SSRIs to those people will worsen their state and may even lead to life-threatening conditions.

5. The level of serotonin can be tested properly by exactly one method: laboratory blood/urine sampling, which costs a couple hundred dollars, but is available.
These doctors generally also know about amino-acid therapy, which consists of nutritional supplements which help the body in manufacture the missing transmitter. This can lower the need for medication, but needs proper testing first.

6. People can have proper serotonin levels and still be sad/angry/depressed. The question still is which brain-circuit is malfunctioning. If the problem is the connection between emotions and thought, serotonin helps. If the malfunctioning circuitry concerns attention regulation [0], like with people who have a genetic disposition towards ADHD, then dopamine helps.

7. People can have all their neurotransmitters adjusted to proper levels and still not be perfectly well. We are talking about signalling inside mutable structures here. Changes in signalling affect the structure, changing the structure affects the signalling.

Fixing neurotransmitters makes someone able to use all of his brain. He still has to use it properly though, to get better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontostriatal_circuit
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you have loan and big medical bills (ie bad health?) and you want to go to work on a farm doing backbreaking hard work? not a very smart move, but than again you don't describe the smartest software dev out there (you can easily retire earlier in this kind of job if you want and work a bit, if not you are doing something very wrong).

By all means if this is what you desire, go for it. It just doesn't seem like a smart move to many here, me included (but we have very few info, so whole picture might be different)
Plus it's hard to take the researcher seriously when it looks like they created their own university.

"Professor Resia Pretorius of the University of Pretoria"
I'm waiting for the sequel, Gutenberg used the same characters as in C, making him the first C programmer.
Thanks! Glad you have been enjoying them.
Sure. And? Swapping a party around doesn't really solve any of the underlying problems. It may help a little in the short term, but FPTP encourages not only two parties, but the kind of polarisation that leads to the republican party as they stand now, pushed incredibly far to the right.
Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business
تور کیش آبان ۹۵ در هتل صدف و گاردنیا – ورود ۱ آبان
Jokes certainly have their place but they're context-dependent, i.e. the same title can work fine in one place but not another.
Workflow Automation software: Why business users love it
I agree, Visual Studio Gallery is good for Visual Studio related tools.

For NuGet packages, I like http://nugetmusthaves.com/. It uses NuGet download counts, community voting, release date, etc. to give categorized, ranked recommendations.
Ah, I just saw that you gave the sources of your data. It doesn't include dividend payments.
Keep in mind the route you described is basically the great circle route so it's the route you would take in no winds. http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=sfo+-+hkg
nytimes.com DNS down and/or hijacked
Can't see the graph due to subscriber begging interstitial that redirects to the homepage :/

In New Zealand I haven't used cash since 2002 except for pop up stalls, and even those take cards these days. I've never used or possessed a cheque book. I did get paid by cheque for my first real job, but it's been direct credit since 2004.
How is data distributed over multiple hosts? Aside from being replicated, is is sharded? Does it have any sort of redundancy? What happens if you lose a host?
Thanks for the feedback, this is wierd. I'm on latest Firefox on Ubuntu and it is seems to be working.

Have you tried "Reader View" on FF?
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As far as I know, there's no party on earth who could execute a space mission on one month notice. And such a mission would have very little capabilities due to poor preparation time.

Whatever doomsday scenario you are concerned about, it's not a realistic goal.
C predates Gutenberg
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Another thing media companies are failing to do is providing an API for their content. I think the Guardian, NYTimes and USA Today are the only big international papers with a decent API system. Journalists have so many skills in the area of research, investigation, storytelling etc which I feel we are not exploiting enough. I think the BBC is not the best example to use in the sense that they are not competing commercially. However, I agree they have created products which would work well if packaged up separately.
Websites in Thailand have turned black and white to mourn King
TDD doesn't assume you are using unit tests.
More like satire logic notation, but who am I to tell at this point.
amount of vacation guaranteed by law is minimum 20/year, most have 25. in US this is considered as a special perk from what I heard. how about maternity leave, social support during unemployment, sickness and so on? Normal americans travel very little before retirement, they just don't have vacation for 2 or 3-week holidays every year, plus more for family visits, christmas etc. I travel consistently +-7 weeks per year, since I take my vacation when public holidays happen. Having 100% perm job. How common is this in US?

In France, you can have up to 10 weeks of paid vacation (that's a bit extreme, but they are western europe commies after all).

Not sure about pleasantness of the cities, each is different, but one feels generally safer here.
*"Alleged" serial sexual assaulter who has bragged on tape about his pattern of engaging in sexual assault.

Let's not leave that out. What he is being accused of is no more or less than what he has actually bragged about doing. Bragged about on videotape.
Ah right, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!
After taking a look: You could start by declaring your pricing structure without having to go through a Marketing drone, like your competition (mailchimp comes to mind) does. Right now, I won't even sign up because I fear putting a lot of work into your trial, then find out thirty days later that I either have to pay an unreasonable amount or lose all that work - and I won't ask for a quote because experience shows that I will then get bombarded with contact attempts by a guy who has to sell.

Also: no budget for marketing is a red flag for me as a potential customer, for it is an indication that the company is underfunded and might go belly-up at any moment, again killing my invested work with it.
I have almost no knowledge in nutrition.

But I know we absorb things differently depending on what we found them in.
We absorb protein differently if they come from mat or from vegetables. We absorb calcium differently if it comes from milk or from a pill.

So in that case, I think think that assuming the nutritional value of some food comes only from its composition is a claim that needs serious backing.
I think the more relevant functionality is called in France "e-carte bleue" : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paiement_sur_Internet#La_e-car...
(Sorry, only in French).

You generate a fake card number, this number is linked with an expiration date AND a maximal amount that can be charged.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100988768
How Facebook is eating the $140B hardware market
Site is still terrible :/
> this latest attempt by Wikileaks to influence our democratic process.

Telling the truth is now influencing the democratic process?

I sure hope so!!!
Exim4 as an MTA, and Dovecot as an IMAP Server.

I particularly like Exim4's configuration on Debian. It provides IMHO very reasonable defaults, but allows overriding of most of these defaults using a mechanism similar to hooks. In that sense, the configuration is more like a framework.

This allows me to easily add my own configuration, while also not touching the default configuration as shipped by the Maintainer (and thereby avoiding nagging about a changed conffile [1]).

If using the split config format (ie, /etc/exim4/conf.d), it's not that complicated figuring out how to to a particular thing.

For example, [2] is the folder that contains Exim's ACL configuration. [3] is the file pertaining to SMTP's RCPT TO command. The individual features, and how to enable/disable/modify them, are well documented and the steps are usually trivial.

I don't use it anymore, but I remember that in order to set up a mail system with purely virtual users backed by a PostgresSQL database, I only needed to add a half-dozen or so of files, each containing small configuration snippets.

(Exim configuration is still complicated of course, to say the least. Debian just makes it a lot simpler.)

[1] https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-config...

[2] https://sources.debian.net/src/exim4/4.87-3/debian/debconf/c...

[3] https://sources.debian.net/src/exim4/4.87-3/debian/debconf/c...
That post is "Facebook only." Note the "f" in privacy.
Regarding the bus: The system isn't perfect but the alternative is significant queues for counting change etc. I would suggest buying an Oyster card in cash and only topping it up in cash at corner shops etc.
Blendle comes to mind, although it's pay per article.
Got a link for that?
If we could magically switch every car to electric overnight, I think we could also switch our gas infrastructure to electricity production overnight. Neither is physically possible, so it's a silly thing to be worried about.

And here's the thing: even if all the extra electricity would be produced by coal plants, electric cars would still be cleaner than gasoline powered cars, because internal combustion engines are just that awfully inefficient. So moving to electric cars is good even if it temporarily increases the need for dirty electricity.

Of course we should still continue moving energy production to cleaner sources. And:

> I still have questions about how pulling that much energy and heat from the earth will affect our larger ecosystem. I don't think we REALLY have a grasp on the macro effects of "renewable" energy.

Solar and wind don't "pull" energy and heat from the earth. They just don't add more to it that wasn't there before. Ultimately, all energy is turned to heat. The problem with fossil fuels is that it adds heat from energy that had been chemically locked away and not part of Earth's heat system for billions of years (same goes for nuclear), and makes the Earth absorb more heat from the sun (not an issue with nuclear). (And to keep things in perspective, the second effect is far bigger than the first.)
I usually don't do unit test driven development actually. I typically do integration test driven development where the integration test sets up an environment where the code is either interacting with the real thing or a realistic mock version.

I don't find unit tests all that useful for integration code - either as tests that find bugs or for doing TDD.
The problem really lies with the fact that within the more than 100,000 published studies on Alzheimer's disease you are bound to find a random association between this disease and many other things. This is especially true for observational studies in people, and also true for low-powered studies in experimental animals.

Experimental science, however, demands that one establishes a cause and effect relationship. There is no known cure of Alzheimer's disease, so one cannot refer to experimental medicine for an answer, with the exception of inherited dominant genetic mutations that impact only a small number of people. Unfortunately, of these mutations, those affecting the APP gene do not cause neuronal loss in mice; so the mouse models are inherently problematic.

This editorial calls for a clinical trial for antimicrobials in this disease. While I doubt that Alzheimer's is caused by infectious agents, there really is no harm in trying (except perhaps to the pockets of the trial's sponsors). In fact a trial of the antibiotic minocycline was completed in 2014 [1], however the results do not appear to have been reported.

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01463384
Your claim has no validity unless you really believe Wikileaks would not have also published Trump leaks if they had their hands on them.

Yes, it's likely the Russians are feeding them their info. But so fucking what? Wikileaks is just doing their job, and they have no obligation to play nice to Clinton while she has run a regime that has systematically attacked and denied Assange's ability to get a fair go in America.
How and who allowed them to publish such a ridiculous paper !!?? There is so many un-idiomatic C++ code...
And does the topic even fit to be published as part of ACM ??
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If personal, economical gain is your goal, yes.
Oh yes. Governments never lie.
Are we sure it ain't just Prolog?

In particular, Erlang's syntax is heavily derived from Prolog's, so it's natural to conclude that Prolog would be the closer relative to Knuth's syntax.

In reality, though, it's probably the other way around; Prolog's syntax is in turn more-or-less derived from the conventions in traditional math formulas (especially with the uppercase variables and such).
Orion has been launched once, on a short 4-hour test flight, during which it only orbited the Earth twice. That spacecraft is very, very different than the Orion that is scheduled to launch with humans inside in 2023. It's not a matter of being "willing to accept the risk" - it's just impossible. Safety is one of NASA's highest priorities, (if not the highest, especially after Columbia), so even considering doing such a thing would be unthinkable and is a non-starter. Even if you manage to somehow sidestep decades of a deeply ingrained culture of safety, it's just not even a possibility right now - significant portions of the spacecraft's design have yet to be finalized, and then you have to figure out how to manufacture it, and once you've actually manufactured it, it goes through several rounds of insane amounts of testing and revision before getting anywhere near the launchpad. Spaceflight is incredibly complex - even if NASA somehow managed to get a blank check (like it did during the early space race) there is still a very significant amount of work to be done that takes a very long time, no matter how much money you throw at it.
It was widely reported that the US Goverment said it was the russians - so its 100% true!!!11!!!1
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Ive taken my nexus 6p and previously my nexus 5 on long cycle rides, exposed them to rain, and spilled liquids on them without issues. Phones these days are pretty water resistant, just don't submerge.
Watch ExoMars arrival and landing
Thanks for the clarification!

Regarding parsing modules – that's a fair point but surely this has to be done anyway? For ESMs you have to parse them to build the binding map, and for CJS you have to parse to evaluate; either way the modules get parsed at some point so why would this in any way be an additional overhead?
Have you ever taken a canoe on a river? Did you ever notice you don't much more you have to paddle to go back upstream?
Value types combined with generic specialisation results in less memory usage, higher data locality, less gc pressure. Basically a big increase in performance on top of the already very good JIT.
Does it support rate limiting? This is needed in order not to be used as a DDoS amplifier.
First of all, GDP and GDP per capita != standard of living.

Even regarding GDP per capita, most the "few exceptions" you mention that trump the US are western European and nordic countries with the exception of #4 Qatar.

1 Luxembourg	102,717
2	Switzerland	80,603
3	Norway	74,598
5	Ireland	61,206

6	United States	56,084 <---

7	Singapore	52,888
8	Denmark	52,139
9	Australia	51,181
10	Iceland	50,277
11	Sweden	50,050

And don't think that a 10% change in GDP per capita (like e.g. from USA to Sweden) means much in terms of standards of living -- there's the distribution of this GDP, the organization of everyday life, work standards, state services, etc.
The problem is that you're not the arbiter of all correctness in the universe--what if you're not around to tell everyone what's correct, or what if you don't know, or are wrong? Peoples' careers and lives shouldn't be subject to vagaries of public opinion.

That's why we have a legal system for resolving legitimate grievances. If YC believes that (for example) Peter Thiel has damaged their brand by so strongly supporting Trump, they can sue him for their just compensation. If they find that they have no real grounds for such, they can deal with the fact that we live in a society that prizes having a broad diversity of opinions, some of which are odious but which we must tolerate anyway.
It is very expensive to get our hands on the technology components that power the core of such applications. [1]

If an airline sells seats, bags, and other ancillary services, why aren't they trying to find more sales channels, to sell more?

I believe that airlines haven't been pushing for innovation, and rather, have been slowed down by their very own current third party providers, or "core business partners".

Travelling technology applications or reservation systems, first appeared a long time ago [2] and because at that time, they were innovations, some airlines signed up for them, to make more sales by globally or regionally distributing all of their flight related information (seat or ancillary availability, fares, code share agreements, etc.). For this reason, we can consider reservation systems as the very first technological airline business partners.

Typically, the reservation systems provided innovation on a distribution factor, which is the travel agency distribution factor. Travel agencies could, and have been connecting to reservation systems and making purchases that increase the number of airline sales, resulting in a win-win, for both agencies and airlines. [3] Reservation systems have other goals, such as flight code share agreements, but these are out of scope. [5]

Today, these third party business organisations do not want to lose market share, so they make things expensive or maintain the old prices, and open very little doors on the borders of their systems.

Therefore, only typical rich individuals or companies can afford to purchase and maintain the costs of direct connections to these providers, which is a win-loss, win for the reservation systems, and loss for airlines.

Fortunately, companies such as Google (with QPX), perform a re-engineering of what these big reservation systems players do, and make it much more affordable and simple to implement [4], and with that, not only they improve the understanding effort of the whole business, but also, provide more sales leads to the airlines, and better user and developing experiences.

The future should be standardised, airlines should distant themselves from the reservation systems (if these do not innovate), and open the doors of their businesses, by creating booking process APIs, that allow, developers and startups, to create powerful and innovative applications, that bring sales.

[1] https://www.tnooz.com/article/why-is-the-travel-industry-so-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_agency
[4] https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/v1/pricing
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeshare_agreement
I guess that most people want to launch a browser and start to work. Installing, launching another application is a burden and if you want to use it, why do you need a browser at all? Just do your work locally.
If you want solid code in C++ you (essentially) have to only hire people who are good at their job, or accept a long runway where lambdas would simply be taught instead of the inferior methods/patterns they are intended to replace.

I have yet to see a C++ codebase which was good while not written by people who are essentially C++ experts, or through in-depth code reviews by such, for all code. I understand finding the talent may be hard, but then the C++ volume might need to be decreased and replaced by something less demanding, or the code will likely be anything but solid.
https://anarc.at/blog/2016-10-14-bug-reporting/
Scala 2.12.0-RC2 is now available
That's some deep theosophical kung-fu you bring there, grasshopper. But seeing as the words of the Torah existed before the creation of the world, it might just be that you are correct.
Is the website title HackerNews not linkbait or misleading? I ask since I usually don't see many "hacker News" around here…
for credit cards? well within normal, although most cards have more than one APR. For instance, AmEx Blue Cash Everyday currently says 13.24% to 23.24%, depending on your creditworthiness when you apply.
You're probably not an average car user, then. The article talks about averages. Nobody is really average. Electric cars are more efficient for people who drive a lot (see the point they make about Missouri).
TDD means 'management' can't drop the tests being written due to 'timescales'. If they're done up-front, they will be there.

It's also one reason that TDD isn't done, because given a few weeks to complete an impossible deadline means that tests are the first ideal to be dropped.

It's not the correct way to do things, but all of these studied tend to ignore the 'real world'.
I don't know why they don't mention this on the site, but this has been merged back in as a module for Caddy (available at download time).
> We’ve heard from a lot of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users that they like to edit code and configuration files without leaving their browser.

Who are these people? The _last_ thing I want is to depend on a browser for additional critical things that I do all the time.
>To the eye of a developer used to more modern languages

Perhaps its the eye of the developer "used to more modern languages" that has the problem?
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I can't speak for the other person, but from my reading, we don't actually have very different experiences. We seem to agree on the value of testing of large/complex project, but have a (minor) difference of opinion over the value of testing in very small projects. Indeed, I'm pretty sure we're deep into hair-splitting territory, as I do agree that TDD'ing small projects can lead to better code, I just don't think the pay off is as obviously big as it is for more complex ones.

It's like observing two fans debate which Star Wars movie is the best and the merits of Jar Jar Binks, and concluding that because they disagree, in fact all Star Wars movies must be pretty bad.
In some perfect utopian world…
> So yes that power is vested in the citizens

Not in the US, this power is granted to the Electoral College.

> To state that the US is the least democratic of any democracy today is just absurd

Of course if you compare to extreme examples like Russia, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the US is a heaven of democracy. Compared to most western countries, it falls behind.