skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From personal experience: I recommend considering both a psychiatrist (medication) and a therapist (works on your thinking patterns. Both help a lot. Depending on the depth of your depression, you might be able to get by with just the therapist, but in my case, both help.
Lost me by continuing to advocate for first mover advantage where we just have a ton of examples where that wasn't true.
"That - he said - nobody knows". It's kind of different from "we live in a sea of energy". I honestly think inertia is a lot easier to grasp than energy. It's a phenomenon you can experiment, describe and name, energy is more abstract.
It gets even more fun in semiconductors when the 'particles' become virtual but no one bothers to mention that part.
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By this logic, a good person should do nothing but watch a someone get beat down by a sufficiently strong gang
India Abolishes Larger Banknotes in Fight Against Graft,' Black Money'
EM radiation moves at the speed of light; electrical fields and signals move near the speed of light, depending on the surrounding dielectric properties; electrons in conductors move fairly slowly. Yes, this is kind of confusing.
Small Drone Sees the World with a Military-Style Radar
Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
Was money the only issue? or You got bored?
Nothing in Oregon because we all sent our ballots in a week or two ago. Interesting viz to see.
Wikileaks says it's getting DDOS'ed.

Though, I'm not having issues (re)loading the page.
You effectively removed the money from circulation as soon as you took them out of India anyway. It won't make a lot of difference.
Great step by Government.
I love the American elections! The data, the coverage, the websites, the data-driven-campaigning... all of it.

I mean, I'm glad I don't live there and have to choose between these disasters of candidates and see either of them hand over the control of the world to Asia... but I do love the elections as a platform!
FiveThirtyEight: Why Our Model Is More Bullish Than Others on Trump
Westworld currently stands at 9.1 though, so you're covered by the herd for this one.
Demo accounts are OK, but what you really want to do is avoid the empty account syndrome after signup altogether. The user is all excited to check out your product, but is intimidated by the blank slate state.

Instead, the first thing the user should see is a fully functioning realistic example of your value prop, and it is critical that they can edit and mess with it to their hearts content before they start a new project of their own. Designing for the blank slate is a quite well known design pattern in mobile UX, but I can tell you from experience it works wonders for SaaS conversion as well (check profile if interested in an example).
How to Evaluate Prediction Models by Comparing to Betting Markets
A country is not the same as a person. All analogies break down eventually, but using an analogy that is broken right from the start doesn't add anything to the discussion.
I've known three people personally who created companies in an area they didn't really care about but they thought there was an opportunity and succeeded.

I've known a lot more that start companies in things they're passionate about (e.g. video games) and struggle.

The feel good mantra of our time is damaging. It certainly was to me.
Why isn't eligibility automatic? Whether state of federal, doesn't the government already know whether or not you qualify to vote?
probably a sigmoid function
Security+News
Not in my case. I accept to sacrifice some features to keep my blog static. Maybe something on the client side that pulls comments from a public source will do. Maybe even just "email me if you have a comment and I'll include it here".
Again, the idea that Signal's developers were "gagged" or "blackmailed" is a lie, and you should be embarrassed to repeat it.
Great way to tackle corruption and black money.
I am not at all comfortable with the elimination of paper currency no matter what the rationale proffered by politicians and government hacks. Control of people from the top down is an ever present risk and cash money has a strong offsetting influence to the nefarious plans of would-be dictators.

Put another way: Government is not benevolent and never can be. We should all be very careful.
It seems you have no clue about the industry.

> I believe one of VW, Mercedes Benz and BMW will bankrupt in 5-10 years. None of them have taken EV serious yet and I fear it's soon too late.

Then you have to believe that also Ford, GM, Toyota, and other will be bankrupt in 5 to 10 years.

VW is next to Toyota the biggest car seller in the world, with Toyota currently the leader.
BUT they are not doing cars only, they are also in commercial vehicles.

Second, also those car manufacturer have one big difference to Tesla, they have working manufacturing plants that build cars at a much higher automated level than Tesla does. VW has manufacturing facilities where one car is a sedan with the VW brand and the next one a convertible with an Audi brand. Tesla can't even produce Model S and Model X on the very same line depending on demand. They have separated lines.

The very key knowledge of all the existing car companies is production, and running production lines. If they want they could easily produce also other products that requires comparable assembly.

Actually, the car companies do not really care about the type of drive train. They care about the profit. They could fit any drive train into almost any car easily, when they want and if this would provide profit. But electric cars are currently have no profit. That is the problem.

By the way, most automotive knowledge is also by the TIER1. Did you know that e.g. the Model X braking system is developed, build, and delivered by BOSCH?

Also that most of the design of the manufacturing plants is provided by German companies, which is an open secret in the industry.
Designing a Chatbot's personality
4 Daily Habits of Remarkably Smart Bosses
Ask HN: Internet Wargame – How would it go down?
Imagine a major conflict between the US and China or Russia escalates.

Would the net would be one of the first and major attack vectors? I think it might be.

But it's all a bit ephemeral to me. How would it go down? How would the countries attack and defend themselves?

Some ideas:

-) Disable / overload / damage / infiltrate infrastructure (power plants, hospitals, military installations, communication networks, ..) either via compromised nodes, backdoors or DOS

-) Defend by cutting off most international networking, except for some routes between military bases, etc.

-) Circumvent defenses by activating attack botnets inside target country(ies) before cutoff, or control them via agents and satellite connections

Or would the attacks be more subtle, mostly trying to gain intelligence via compromised communication networks?

Do you think the big players all have access to large, international botnets, or can quickly and automatically create botnets with tooling for known hacks / zero days?

Do they have suites of tooling for compromising and attacking infrastrucutre?

Do they have installations and established protocols at ISPs and major routing infrastructure (transatlantic cables, etc) to either close them of or use them for flooding target networks? And do so quickly?

Also, we hear hacking accusations against Russia and China regularly, but never against the US. I think they probably hack just about everyone and have compromised many foreign networks, but no one dares speak out about that publicly. Do you disagree?

So many questions...

I'd love to hear some opinions!
It's how it grows, and whether growth is the priority.

Taking the HN comment community out of the context of the site makes it no different than any other drive-by commenting platform.

This thought process: "HN Comments are great. I want comments on my site. Other comment systems are terrible. I'll put HN comments on my site". Misses the point of why HN comments are great and why these comments-as-a-platform services have all resulted in the same level of awful, despite repeated and varying attempts to solve the problem.

Put a link to HN comments in your footer, bring them here, let the community and the mods help shape the discussion. Don't take the HN conversation out of context and splat it across the web.

If you want federated comments, use one of the existing, awful, toxic commenting systems that inevitably result from that sort of usage.
In that case you call the police.

Not everything has a individual analog, Unless you are calling for war, which would be the closest thing to 'calling the police' that exists.
They'll probably buy houses above market value. The seller can declare the money and pay taxes on it. The houses can be sold again one by one over the next years and the money legalized. Basically an easy way of laundering it. Still good for the state as the money is taxed.
No, it does not. GCM is used to wake the app, and for no other purpose. No message metadata is sent over it.
> But there are very few slots available

Is it really true?

Personally, I'm evidence for it, since I spend my days building pyramids, and program only on the side.

But the entire thing does not add-up. The artful activity is so much more productive that I can not stop believing that in any market you are able to create a slot doing it, you will outcompete all the pyramid builders. (Yet this pyramid pays me too well to just abandon it.)
No, I never researched this, mostly because I had to cope with too many little problems to really deal with things calmly and I don't even know if there's a term or idiom about this. I mentioned it a few times on the web and you're the first to actually discuss it. At least you seem to be aware of it and ready to reflect.
Like everything in politics, there's an ulterior motive to many of those reports.

"They don't want YOU to be able to vote!" is a great way to get your people to vote.
Agreed.

> The first technology company to solve a problem is often worth much more than all of its competitors combined. So if a company already exists in a market, it’s overwhelmingly likely you won’t be able to displace it.

Counter-examples: Facebook wasn't the first social network, Google wasn't the first search engine, Windows wasn't the first windowing system, etc.
I still remember struggling with fractions when I was young. The funny thing is that I ended up majoring in math in college (at a highly ranked one at that), and I did very well, even publishing research in differential topology as an undergrad. How can someone who struggled to even grok fractions end up being successful in pure mathematics?

I think it's because all my teachers operated off the assumption that kids can't possibly understand abstract definitions, so everything must be explained via analogies. So nobody could tell me that fractions are equivalence classes. Everything was instead explained in terms of pies, which certainly seems like it would be intuitive, and there's really nothing technically wrong with it, but it encouraged me to think of, say, 1/2 and 2/4 as different entities instead of two representations for the same entity (since, after all, cutting a pizza into two slices instead of four is just not the same thing). I didn't "get" fractions until on my own I came to the conception that these are actually kind of abstract concepts that go by many different names.

For me, I was taught too much to identify numbers with concrete objects in the real world. This sort of works for integers (as long as you ignore negative integers and even zero to some extent), but it basically breaks down for all other types of numbers, including rational numbers. So it's a really bad expectation to set in my opinion. But you can hardly find an elementary school teacher who will dare approach this topic.

I honestly think that if someone had just explained that "1/2" is a symbol we've devised to represent the solution to the equation 2x = 1 -- an equation which otherwise has no solutions at all in the integers -- I would've grokked it a lot faster. It would've been clear to me that we're introducing an entire new set of numbers distinct from the integers. These new numbers do not have a direct correspondence with physical objects in reality. And it would've been easier to see that the same solution must go by many other names as well. For instance, multiplying that equation by 2 on both sides gives us a new equation which must have the same solution: 4x = 2. So "2/4" must represent the same entity as "1/2". And so on.

But because US educational culture has decreed that basic algebra is more advanced than fractions, the very idea of discussing solutions to an equation will never be allowed in an elementary school classroom. It is assumed as a basic fact of human life that kids cannot understand the concept of solving an equation before learning about fractions. We'll teach kids to perform mechanical manipulations of decimal expansions before we ever begin explaining what any of those digits actually mean.
Will the next versions of Microsofts closed/licensed software be open? Will someone have to make a case that they need to remain closed? Will they release new products that are closed/licensed?
That's a great point, except for it being entirely false.
Call me up when our government stops doing idiotic things like sending billions in cash to Iran. Then I'll consider being concerned about income taxes.
> There's no elegance and no higher vision. It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.

I guess it's not for everybody. There's always going to be people that whatever they do it's just going to be a job.

While other people find it to be an art. You can say this of finances, music, programming, accounting, anything, really.
The way holes move in the semiconductor is the pointers of EE.
Why impossible? Isn't mass data mining already in place for gmail in order to provide targeted ads?
I think he's referring to the idea that you'll use an Uber-like app (either Uber or if Tesla builds their own then the Tesla version) to order an EV to use it's self driving AI to come pick you up, take you to your destination, then drive off to service other customers.

https://newsroom.uber.com/pittsburgh-self-driving-uber/
Well, you have to take things with a grain of salt..,

"And it did not help that the reporter called the bread a “sub roll,” not a hero, as it is commonly called in New York, revealing herself to be an outsider"

I mean, if you have to reduce criticism down to cant or a regionalism to support your point of view, then I think that point of view is very weak.

I mean, the irony is these same people are the ones who will say, you have to see things from a global perspective (fine by me), we're not an island but then go right back into ultra-islander mode.
Or quickly buy real estate/gold/farm land above market value. The seller declares the money and pays the tax, the buyer successfully legalized it.
Isn't this a trick that will only work once? Wont the people who are taking advantage of black money start using a different store of value that isn't controlled by the Indian government like foreign currency or high value commodities?
Interesting link.

"It is important to note that mithridatism is not effective against all types of poison, and, depending on the toxin, the practice can lead to the lethal accumulation of a poison in the body."

"There are only a few, if any, practical uses of mithridatism. "

I think that will be my takeaway.

In case you didn't know, it looks like Iocane Powder is an imaginary substance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_toxins
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm here for the insights. Trying to court everyone just waters down the comments until HN is indistinguishable from reddit. I prefer apparent condescension and a thick skin over PC half-conversations and watered-down intelligence.
There is always some rationale that involves bad actors. Then you peel back the layers of the onion and find out the government just wants to screw regular people out of whatever.
It's funny, but it is still the sort of joke that best comes from someone in the same predicament (or from a really close friend), and isn't particularly suitable for most public fora.
I just really want to know how many estimated ppl voted for each candidate in each state. Couldn't they just extrapolate that based on search/browsing history (IE. if someone visited BreitBart, they're probably voting for Trump, if someone visited 538, most likely Clinton)
You should be able to exchange it at currency exchange places like travelex.
Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers (2015)
I don't see a link to the source code either. This was undoubtedly built on top of many open source projects, but I have no way to view the licenses and copyright notices.
This is absolutely correct from a perspective of bog-standard evolutionary biology. A "fork" of a species into two very different environments with limited gene flow between them is virtually guaranteed to eventually lead to speciation event.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. :)
Actually some Uk /Euro banks wont take American customers to avoid the extra costs the IRS insists on.
Emms 4.2
He can still go to the bank with it, assuming it is legally obtained, would have to pay income tax, however.
TLDR:

Assumption No. 1: The high number of undecided and third-party voters indicates greater uncertainty. ... If we tweaked our model so that it only considered the number of days left until the election when calculating uncertainty, Trump’s chances would decline to 10 percent, while Clinton’s would rise to 90 percent.

Assumption No. 2: The FiveThirtyEight model is calibrated based on general elections since 1972. ... If we calibrated the model based on presidential elections since 2000 only — which have featured largely accurate polling — Clinton’s chances would rise to 95 percent, and Trump’s would fall to 5 percent.

Assumption No. 3: The FiveThirtyEight model uses a t-distribution with “fat tails,” which gives a greater likelihood of rare events. ... If we used normal distributions instead of t-distributions, Clinton’s chances in polls-only would rise to 87 percent from 85 percent, while Trump’s would fall to 13 percent.

Assumption No. 4: State outcomes are highly correlated with one another, so polling errors in one state are likely to be replicated in other, similar states. ... If we assumed that states had the same overall error as in the FiveThirtyEight polls-only model but that the error in each state was independent, Clinton’s chances would be … 99.8 percent, and Trump’s chances just 0.2 percent.
This is part of the larger Electionland project, involving over 1000 journalists & journalism students.
https://projects.propublica.org/electionland/
There are 16.5 billion notes of Rs. 500 denomination & 6.7 billion notes of Rs. 1000. This is going to be a humongous recall exercise.
> If I had known this, I would have chosen a different profession, probably something involving medicine

You can still work in a medical field, for example, as a bio-informatician.
> about the absolute uselessness

Yeah, no. Even a relatively small amount like 30k is a major pain in the ass to carry around in 100 euro notes.

30k is what one might pay for a car, for example.
The "chemical imbalance" theory has been losing steam for quite some time.

The British Psychological Society has issued this consensus statement:
There is actually no evidence for the current view – and we agree with many senior psychiatrists in saying that – we do have an overwhelming amount of evidence that even severe psychiatric breakdown is actually the end result of a complex mix of social and psychological circumstances. People who have suffered things like bereavement, loss, discrimination, poverty, trauma, abuse, domestic violence, in other words things that have happened to you.

From my experience, and many others, we have a script running in the background of our minds. Nonstop. This script is brutal, telling us we're worthless, unable to do this, will always be alone, etc etc. It gets etched in our mind and we become it, and likely impacts all aspects of our brain chemistry. (Depressed patients are often deficient in many key areas Omega 3, Magnesium, Vitamin B, etc)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-depression-jus...
It's a surprise move and in affect starting tonight. I would say it's a great, bold move. But govt should have given one week notice. Not sure how effective it will be in rural areas where atm/debit/credit cards are rarer.
The extra becomes useless starting tonight.
I definitely have. I enjoy programming and I think I'm pretty good at my job, but I can't help but think that maybe there's something out there.

A lot of my most compelling business ideas I've ever come up with haven't been apps or anything I could start programming right away, but rather have been totally different brick and mortar retail businesses. Opening a retail business is something I've thought about doing for a while, but I looked into some of the details and was somewhat turned off by the extremely high startup costs. I simply wouldn't be able to afford it without some partners.

One of my largest interests nowadays isn't software, but rather cities and urban planning. The idea of designing city features that would have a real, dramatic impact on people's every day lives is really compelling to me. I've thought about taking a break from software and working in this area, but at this point I really don't know if going back to school for this stuff is worth it at all. It's unfortunate that I hadn't discovered I was so interested in this topic when I was in highschool or early university.
I wonder what clearances you have to go through at Google to get your project into a toplevel directory or subdomain?
Show HN: Browse YC Pitches and Pitch to Potential Hires
Being able to have a leaky tube and use the air for lift seem like practical purposes to me.
I work full-time as an ML Engineer at a big tech company in Silicon Valley. I think most ML Engineers do not read papers and do not do low level programming. They mostly do feature engineering.

Actually I feel like I forgot a lot of math since university and I would like to pick it up again. Does anyone have a resource they can recommend either for self-study or in person?
Somewhat OT: With the ad interstitial, and now an auto-play video with audio ad on the main article, and the article split into three pages... I just can't bring myself to read Forbes content online anymore. Even if I'm interested in what de Icaza has to say.
My understanding is that Elm enforces Semantic Versioning, which would imply that unless I'm not recalling the particulars correctly
I love the name.

For anyone wondering, it's an homage to the winner of a poll the Brits conducted online for deciding the name of a research vessel: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36064659
By embed I meant to embed the content; I've heard from quite a few people that they love that they can personalize it with simple CSS. I am not sure if this is a problem from me not being native (I'm Spanish) or just a special case/extreme use of the word embed. In both cases, embedding the functionality is not a possible due to common, sane web attack concerns; if I could allow you to change it then I could change it myself which would mean big trouble. What twitter does is keeping the control+developing their own code, an API/library that HN doesn't have available. And of course I'm now going down the road of asking for people's username/password of the different networks.

Also something has to be said about the advantages of thin clients/strong back-ends, which means standardizing the response from https://comments.network/ of the different networks.