skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to comment on a case I know personally: the person had semi-regular psychotic episodes, a few per quarter, but every day meds to prevent them definitely made him less smart and... "there" on the good days (in addition to stopping episodes). That's how he was treated until about 20, when he managed to convince a doctor he should just have an as-needed supply of fast acting ones.

I know it's anecdata, but my experience is that there are a fair number of borderline cases where they can't hold it together sporadically, but the meds definitely lower the quality of the "good days" to fix that. Sometimes there's a fast acting med that can work; often there's not and patients are faced with a stark choice.

I think we see a lot more homelessness in that group of people than we should, because we basically trap them there after one or two episodes, even though if we fixed it and got them some help (usually better coping techniques; occasionally meds), we'd see a lot less homelessness.

I do think that meds have become a substitute for real coping technique teaching, and that in many of those cases, the caregiver isn't making the optimal choice for the patient, because they're optimizing cost or time invested, rather than long-term quality of life.

There are obviously things like hardcore schizophrenia where that isn't the case, but even for more sporadic delusion disorders, it can be.
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Pebble just forgot their history and got greedy.
I wished they just worked on efficiently reading messages, replying. Got the basics right.
I find the transfer of wealth from workers to capitalists pretty atrocious myself.
>coz c++ itself is architecture dependent. and even lots of c++ code are architecture dependent.

For one, there are tons of universal useful libs for C/C++.

Second, not all architectures matter equally. Beyond amd64 and ARM, few give a damn.
Conversely, +24 hours may fall on the same calendar date or two calendar days on from now.

Really, "tomorrow" should be the interval from the beginning of the next calendar date to the end.
What is the FDA's problem with it? I feel like with this sort of thing and the 23andme.com issue that the FDA is being too restrictive about things that really shouldn't even be under their jurisdiction in the first place. For drugs, stringent testing and regulations is great, but how is someone going to harm themselves by knowing things about their own genome or recording things like their own body temperature and heart rate?
Yes, it happens, though it's definitely not the norm.

Most often this occurs with young university students.
I'm not so sure, but if he decides to write one, I'm looking forward to it.

Eric usually makes for an interesting read.
Another reason that has been put forward is social welfare. It's easier to start a business if you can afford failing.
While I second mrottenkolber that your guess is highly stereotypical, the intention of the polish state introducing their "500+" program seems to be exactly that: increasing the birth rate.
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Not disagreeing with anything that you're saying, except that dictionaries are declared `[Key: Value]` and not `[Key, Value]`.

By the way, rather than using `.filter { ... }.first`, you should really use `.first(where: { ... })` instead. `filter` will iterate the entire sequence, while `first(where:)` stops after it finds a match.
Edgar Allen Poe gets a B+ and "Junior High" Grade Level. https://www.gradeflex.com/graded/5856a79dde6a2008572d2b84
No, it is Java that is the prime example of what the alternative looks like.

And in spite of all problems with Java and its standard library, there's something very liberating about having code written in 1997 that still compiles and works in 2017.

And the beauty of Java is that it became a platform, so if you hate the language, you can pick another that's closer to what you think programming should be, like Scala, Clojure, JRuby, Groovy, Kotlin, etc. and still benefit from that piece of code written in 1997, all made possible due to Sun's fanatical devotion to backwards compatibility.
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I'm with you. I went with Aurelia for a new project (which is unfortunately missing from his list) and would recommend it for everyone who wants to code an application using web standards. I briefly considered Vue but in this case needed a little something more and I found Aurelia to be more straightforward than React and Angular, especially after 14 years of application development in a variety of languages.
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Already, around a fifth of searches on Android devices are done by voice
The FDA thing is an excuse. The FDA didn't shut down their product, they are lying.
Umm I guess your talking about startups and creative agencies... Ones that do not have a lot of money and their workforce is young. Oldsters its best to avoid that scene!

Otherwise here in the east coast there are many of jobs in insurance and government, so much so more then of half the workforce is from India because they have the skills needed.

For those not able to find work where are you located and what are you skilled in/how many years of experience?
AFAICS every major vendor's KVM plugin is either the same stack with different brandings or just multiple implementations of the same VNC+[secret sauce]+[custom auth] concept in Java - Dell, HP, and Supermicro all do this, at a minimum, as well as probably anyone (else) with an ASTxxxx-based BMC.

I'm hoping OpenBMC wins the day here, at least, so that's one less place with Java or Flash.
Refer to them as a valence.
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In some superficial ways it does, like the basic clause structure.

"Prior art" I was well aware of is cl-awk.

This awk macro was intended to be a detailed implementation of the Awk paradigm (with some GNU extensions), complete with obscure features like assigning to the nf variable to change the number of fields (extending with empty strings if the new count is larger), and a working regex-based record separation via the rs variable.

I see Shrivers implemented something that's on my TODO list: variants of ranges that exclude the start, end or both. However, he didn't lift the restriction that Awk ranges do not combine with other conditions, including ranges.
One can only hope Uber drivers get declared employees and Mr. Kalanick gets hit with a bill for several hundred million dollars.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/uber-class-action-law...

I find it hard to believe that the IRS isn't doing this for the workers, for two reasons. Firstly, another component of Uber's business model that wasn't touched on by the video is that Uber/Lyft/Deliveroo and so on effectively force their employees to commit tax fraud by paying far too little, and the IRS of course gets to clean up the mess, but can't go after these employees because there's far too many of them. So it seems logical for me that they'd simply go after Uber, and get an injunction barring them from using workers without an employee contract. Second, the IRS should enforce it's own rules. You are not allowed to be a freelancer if you don't control your own customer relation, and in these cases you clearly have no ability to do so. So working for gig economy businesses is illegal, it's just that the law that makes it illegal is a tax law that is rarely enforced :

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

Specifically, it's high time Uber gets hit with:

Consequences of Treating an Employee as an Independent Contractor

If you classify an employee as an independent contractor and you have no reasonable basis for doing so, you may be held liable for employment taxes for that worker (the relief provisions, discussed below, will not apply). See Internal Revenue Code section 3509 for more information.

For Uber, this should be a mid-9 figures amount worldwide at least. There's a good chance it would effectively end Uber's business model. And as a non-billionaire, I have to say, that's a good thing.
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> All information should be free, really? Like your root password?

A password isn't information, especially in this context, it's data. How the login or encryption system works is information. Of all the misconceptions about hackers this is one of the weirdest to criticize. From the introduction of computers until the mass adaptation of the Internet, access to information was the largest issue in hacker culture. From BBSes to hacking groups and computer clubs, it was all about access.

> Basically a hacker is someone who enjoys hacking for its own sake

Not only isn't that what your quote says, it's essentially just the definition of an enthusiast. Hackers are, even in the most watered down definitions, something different. Doing something for fun is part of hacker culture, but it's not the purpose of it. It's things like curiosity, exploration, exchange of ideas etc.

> Whether you like it or not, most discoveries will be made by those who enjoy discovery, not as part of some moral crusade.

Rarely. Discoveries (at least "common" ones) tend to be made by people who see a future other people don't. One could argue that people like Elon Musk is very much on a moral crusade and that his motivations are utopic.

I don't really care who calls themselves or things "hacker" these days. But if you don't recognize that hacker culture, or the future of technology in general, is something more you're missing out.
Currently it supports english and german. In general we need a word embedding for each language. If that has been created by someone else, it's rather easy to integrate new languages.
> compiler crash

That list is quite impressive, hundreds of crashing cases discovered manually, and nearly thirty thousand crashes fuzzed.
So a standard BLE platform. But the most interesting information - sensors used - is unfortunately missing.
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Yeah, this is my go-to example of a cloud-dependent product that really shouldn't be.
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Do you know if they tried to control for other "healthiness" variables? Someone that goes to the sauna 4-7 times a week might be a person that pays much more attention to their health. I know physical activity was adjusted for but how about lots of other factors like diet and supplements or even just being a person that listens to their body more? I'd need to see data like that before I would even consider causation for this sauna reduction in dementia effect.
If anything Python is a good example for breaking not enough in the main language.
+1. Still the most 'foundational' book I have ever read.
I've learnt azbuka purely from our national TV news (in central Europe), during the course of a year, and I was not trying at all - one day I realized I could read the sentence they showed (even though I couldn't understand it).
Seconded. React+MobX+Typescript+Node is my preferred fullstack.
Eric can be good, especially when his writing is purely technical. However, his politics are off-the-wall insane, so his response to this might be similarly so.
> It's political first, and only incidentally technological.

"Information should be free" and "mistrust authority" are both obviously political statements, and most of the others are at least somewhat political in nature. That you don't see them as political is a reflection of you, not of some timeless pure technological nature inherent in them.
Because only women were ever prevented from working by Hackers?

Much as an intellectual achievement Hamilton's code might have been, it wasn't really that relevant to many people (compared to, say, GNU Software or Linux which benefits billions of people). Presumably it therefore simply wasn't the topic of the book Hackers.
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Fair enough. It doesn't. However, it does change our expectations of how sexist the events would be.

But this doesn't nullify my second point, which is that the article here doesn't actually demonstrate any sexism at all.
That's debatable. And even if it was true, most apps rely on open source libraries which are written by other developers.
I'm surprised that sweat doesn't start boiling at that temperature, or that the users don't get severely burned since I assume everything in the sauna is going to be around that temperature --- even 50C is enough to burn skin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_burn
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/2862973...
I don't understand the author's effort on solving this "problem"... I wonder if he considered at some point make a contribution to stable open-source existing libraries like arrow that even claim inspiration on one of his projects for the API. What's not for humans on the arrow API? what are the arguments for basically start yet another time library from scratch?, why is making a contribution not an option? probably the author of arrow will love your contributions and will love to hear the arguments on the changes you propose.
I fail to see how that originates in sexism either...
Yes. So much of what people have been trained to believe are important and necessary qualifications are actually just the result of an ingroup creating a contrived process of hoops to a) limit the number of potential competitors; b) haze newcomers and make them prove they are worthy to be "one of us"; c) inflate the ingroup's reputation and "credibility" by making everyone think they're super smart (and, as always in such exercises, the most important target of positive ego manipulation is one's self); d) thoroughly beat out, primarily by cultural reinforcement, any potentially disruptive ideas before someone is given the authority to practice anything professionally.

By the time a licensing body is given legal authority to codify an ingroup's arbitrary ritual as a pre-requisite for gainful employment, the plot has been lost and the industry is a stagnant circlejerk.

The truth is that we waste a huge amount of time on so-called "training" so that the upper class can continue to feel wise and lordly, and readily whip out the "proof" of said lordly wisdom whenever someone challenges them. We'd be much better off with apprenticeship-style programs.

I have 20x more respect for someone who has been in the trenches creating actual value than I have for someone who believes that their licenses, degrees, or awards entitle them to anything.
That looks good. I use their SSH app a lot, and having an integrated coding editor looks good. I wish they would support Google cloud storage in addition to S3, but I could work around that.
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Oh yep you are right. That article seems to be completely misleading or lying about that.

https://twitter.com/walterdebrouwer/status/80910713363551436...
What the... wow, awesome hack :-) it's been a long time since I've seen a great sed clone of something.
You could consider that Alphabet buying Nest and them shutting down all service was in a way Google stopping operations on that.

But I believe that is mostly related to the unending list of services they have stopped. Code, Reader, or even APIs and libraries they stop without a single warning (cough cough angular v1.x).

Seriously, the list is big.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s...
Amazing - I still don't fully understand how you manage to do rays on a tile based system, with so many textures to account for...
>This kind of self-righteousness from the lucky is so annoying.

You are the one making a naive assumption here my friend. I've seen and been through worse things than you can imagine. I know scarcity. I've stared it in the face. But I also know that the best way out of a bad fiscal situation is to simply get off your ass and get some work done. Whatever kind of work. Just do it and apply principles of wealth creation such as compounding currently available resources however little and repeat as frequently as possible.

I would much rather provide indigents with tools and methods to do their own fishing as opposed to what you're doing; proposing to them that life is a lottery and your life is not in your hands. Can't you see you're being evil?! Why do you want someone to live off your peanuts as opposed to them applying themselves and living a dignified life based on their own sweat? I'm tired of this mindset and that's why I've decided to voice my concerns regarding this and similar initiatives.

I don't know your background but if I was a betting man I'd say, you're spoilt and you think that money grows on trees so it can be printed out and handed out to people who don't want to work or think. If you truly understood scarcity, you would ask deep questions about money and arrive at a simple conclusion; it is simply a representation of created value within a society and the moment you dilute it, you dilute the need to work, create future value and subsequently move civilization forward.
"line numbers and vanity" would be a great name for a rock band.

Just sayin'.
> Usually all the basic concerns have been accounted for in the actual study.

Often. Yes. But I often go try to find the original publications when a study interests me, and I have yet to, once, find one where the causal claims made in the reporting article are actually supported by the research. Often the original paper explicitly mentions the fact that the claimed causal relationship can't be inferred.

The claim here isn't that the science is bad. No one's saying the PhDs are stupid (there may be an argument there, but that's not what anyone here is saying). The complaint is that the science reporting is terrible.

And it is.

> And whoever wants to start the same practice (e.g. sauna here) would be foolish to do it based on one article anyway, they should consult with their doctor

You are suffering under a severe delusion if you think the average doctor has the interest or competence to provide useful advice on this sort of issue. The average doctor will not have read any relevant studies, and has no interest in being informed about them, and I can say with some confidence that having a medical degree does not give him a magical ability to judge the usefulness of a practice without consulting any evidence.

Science is great, but science reporting is terrible, and for that matter unreasoned faith in the academic establishment is anathema to real science.
>For me minimalism is about how do I get what I need/want in the least amount of time and as little waste as possible.

That's not what minimalism is for most people. I want a lot of things. More than I have time for. Minimalism is about figuring out the marginal value each of those provides and eliminating all but the top x percent.

It's about reducing the stuff you feel you need. Your approach sounds more like you are not doing that.

>I find the 5 minute NPR news briefing podcast from the latest hour is great.

Sorry for changing the topic, but as a former news junkie, I've long wanted to write a lengthy essay on how/why to read the news. If there is one thing I would want people to get out of that essay, it is that when it comes to news, the path of moderation is the one that will make you the most misinformed.

There's so much misinformation out there that the only way I could get an idea of what was going on was to spend many hours a month reading up news from multiple sources, and potentially multiple analyses. Only then would you get a fuller picture. Any given single story was highly likely to be missing or misreporting key information. And certain stories would not be covered by some organizations but covered by others. By listening to a given news outlet, you have no idea what important stories are not being told.

I did this for several years before calling it quits (too much time for not much personal value). But I knew from my past experience with dealing with people who only "scanned" the news (or listed to the news summary on BBC/NPR) that they tended to be quite misinformed. So the only option was to more or less quit altogether.

Even then, a few months later, I found myself having opinions on current events. Why? Because I still randomly scanned newspaper headlines while walking or listened to NPR broadcasts while driving. I had become the misinformed person.

The person who doesn't follow news altogether tends to be less misinformed. They are certainly ignorant, but they have fewer faulty notions.

These days, have I really gone cold turkey? Not really. I do still read/listen to it. But I do it while refusing to draw any conclusions.

Long story short: If you want to follow the news, either do it wholeheartedly or quit. No middle ground in this world.
Microsoft is adapting at a good pace, going beyond the windows ecosystem. Last time I used SQL server, it didn't support sharding across machines, so only supported vertical scaling (unless you buy the appliance or add sharding logic at the application layer). I think that's something they need to fix, to start using SQL server for large scale applications.

Now if they can just fix windows, I might start using that too. Maybe WindowsX? I do enjoy using VSCode on Mac!
I think the important element is the inflection. Resources go up in price as they are used. Manufacturing goes down in price as capital is recouped.

The article you link shows wind and solar being cheaper than natural gas in several scenarios, unless I misread it. However over time natural gas - as a resource - will get more expensive as it becomes more scarce and harder to extract and demand goes up. In contrast, solar will get cheaper over time as capital expenditure is recouped, economies of scale kick in, and technological improvements are discovered and implemented.

Solar may not have crossed the cost of natural gas yet, but it is all but inevitable now, with eg China having a very mature manufacturing industry for solar and the Middle East expressing ever growing demand for it.

The writing is on the panel.

Edit: it's worth noting that at least in the US it looks like natural gas has been heavily subsidized by naive investors and ultra low interest rates since 2009 - see eg http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-18/us-shale-gas-indust... -- but that's probably coming to a head soon.
Exactly. The article focuses on something marginal (number of large companies starting an 'innovation center' aka a tiny office in Silicon Valley has come down). The title is misleading because it makes you think it's talking about Silicon Valley being left behind in innovation.

What it actually talks about is 'large companies are opening more satellite offices around the world than in Silicon Valley in the last few years'.

The appropriate response to this article is: 'so what? How does that matter?'
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There's byte sporge at the end, here's the link:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25705824
> Adopting another country's seems completely illogical IMO; I mean, do banks in such countries answer to the Fed. Reserve ?

Do you know how this works? When you adopt another country's currency, that just means that their money is legal tender in your country. It raises confidence (if you've selected the right currency) that your country's officials in charge of the economy won't do silly things like print more money or devalue your currency.

It basically takes away a lot of potential economic tools you have to fix your economy in exchange for instant credibility in that most other foreign businesses will do business with you.
Putting aside this being a potential security vulnerability it seems like an easy way to get free image hosting. I wonder if you could use this by changing the file extension of a .zip to.jpg
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You should post the link directly. And everything else as a comment.
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