skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the info and sources!! I did not realize this. I think this is part of the disconnect with Americans and how the view the Obama administration. The left likes to think he was all great and they glaze over the spying, whistle blower imprisonment, predator drones, et. al. and either justify those actions or ignore them. I wrote a post about this recently:

http://fightthefuture.org/articles/the-fallout-of-american-a...

I did not realize this applied to marijuana law as well.
I'm uncomfortable sharing the amount of time I have games running with Steam; I certainly don't want MS to have information about which applications I'm running and for how long.

MS and I have radically different expectations about what privacy means in the context of a personal computer.

In particular, I run applications I've written myself. You could easily figure out what I'm doing from knowing which application was in the foreground at any given time.

Contents of files etc. is at the extreme end of privacy violation. I strongly object to the thinnest end of the wedge.
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Poor choice of words. Still had impacted wisdom teeth and was causing a decent amount of pain. I just would prefer pain over paralysis.

Also, I have had terrible medical assistance my whole life, so I have to figure everything out. Not the doctors/dentists. They're just the hired help I get to do the actual heavy lifting. I honestly don't know their purpose if I have to spend half my life doing their research
A big part of the issue I'd think is that as Microsoft pushes over to the Store as a significant app distribution medium, they consider no telemetry a breaking issue for anyone who doesn't have an enterprise software deployment setup.

I'm kinda sad to see that's where we've hit on service dependence though.
Agree. I used to build PCs as well. I even had a review site that received 2MM uniques a month and manufacturers would send me motherboards and top end video cards, for free, to review. I loved making PCs but would I trade my Macbook Pro and go back to a PC/Windows setup, no.

I don't imagine anyone would want to go thru that. Getting a case, fiddling with screws, power supplies, Video Card, and CPUs. Even worse, it is highly error prone. Do something wrong and POOF that 800 dollar CPU you bought is toast.
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I'm setting up a simple PHP app on a LAMP server and I'm looking for a monitoring tool that can send sms and email alerts when there is an issue with a critical component of the server (apache, memory, etc)

There seem to be a LOT of options, but not sure where to start and don't want to waste hours and hours configuring a bunch of options, so I figured it would be good to ask if anyone has any suggestions?
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Much has been written about the removal of the "bereavement exclusion" from the DSM 5.
I sometimes dissolve cholecalciferol (vit D3) and menatetrenone (vit K2-MK4) with calcium ascorbate powder in my own saliva, and just swish it around in my mouth for half an hour or so. Then I swallow it.

My dentist is thoroughly impressed with my teeth. She can still tell that I don't floss, though.
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These books assume some degree of Linear Algebra, ESL is definitely not for a entry level.

I would like to add www.codingthe matrix.com for any developers, which has a MOOC as well (Coursera), as a complement to Strang.
True.

Meditation becomes rather unrealistic once your depression is past the "moderate" level and has become "clinic" (strong), in which case either anti-depressants (mostly with side-effects) or a well researched and full-blown LSD experience can "jumpstart" your brain again (and therewith enable you to start practicing meditation which then helps you avoid falling back into strong depression).
Doesn't impact plenty of people.
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If you think of depression as a self-sustaining feedback loop in your mind, it may very well persist regardless of external factors; in such situation it sounds reasonable to focus on killing off the factors that sustain the feedback loop, with the expectation that once gone, it won't restart again (at least not any time soon).
I'm the opposite. I get stressed and nervous when the code I am reviewing contains bugs because I now the author might get stressed/bummed. :)
Brain damage, such as from a concussion, can result in depression along with other psychological problems. Yeah, the concussion is an external factor in the sense that something hit your head, but there's not a whole lot you can do about fixing that factor yourself.
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OP's comment around Candy Crush has nothing to do with Lenovo and everything to do with Microsoft. It happens - by default - on clean installs of Windows 10.
It become a habit for me. I did buy physibles though. Someone offered me $15,000 at the height of the 3-D printing hootenanny.

Stupidly--I turned it down. I has such big plans. Now I keep it because it's such a weird word, and new people I meet remember it.
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> Maybe it would work better as a neat gimmick in the 12" MacBook.

Please no, my 12" Macbook is the best development machine I've ever owned.
The government went after the payment processors. I suppose someone could run such site as a side hobby project, but end of the day it's a classifieds site, and it needs to accept money from those paying for classifieds.
a fine point.. thanks for mentioning..

I'll try to point that out in the next post..
Hi Yunha,

The hardest part of meditation for me was building the habit. Every time I started to build a practice I either lost interest, had a hard time staying engaged, or simply stopped. What have you done from a dev or design standpoint to help your users build a habit around mindfulness?

Thanks for the AMA!
Yes, the edges are impressive, aren't they? The ice is floating, almost flat, and has had hundreds of years to reach equilibrium, so there's practically zero vertical shear stress in the ice shelf. As well as that, the ice itself is very laterally homogeneous - there are layers within it, but all the horizontal variability is on scales of kilometers or more. There are no particular faults or planes of weakness within the material. This means that when it breaks under tension, like this, it breaks in a very clean and even way.

Also, remember, you're only seeing the top 10% or so of the berg. There can be interesting shapes below the waterline, caused by preferential melting.

As for the glaciers feeding the shelf, that's an interesting question. Floating ice on its own provides very little resistance to their flow, but the mouth of the ice shelf is narrower than the back, so the converging flow has a resistive effect, like squeezing toothpaste out of a tube. If a gap is made in the ice blocking the mouth, then there should be some speedup of the glaciers. It all depends on exactly where the rift goes next, and on the exact balance of stresses in the shelf, which there's some uncertainty about.
FWIW we went through a very similar process to that documented here by Github (~3 months ago). It was entirely due to operational reasons and nothing to with shortcomings in Redis itself. MySQL was the master record for 99% of our data while Redis was the master record for the other 1% (as it happens it was also a kind of activity stream). Having the single 'master' reference for our data reduced complexity to a degree that it was worth running a less computationally-efficient setup. We also have nowhere near Github's volume so we did not have to do such significant re-architecting to make unification possible.

Now we still use Redis for reading the activity streams and as LRU cache for all sorts of data, but it is populated like all of our specialised slave-read systems (elasticsearch, etc) by replicating from the MySQL log.

Hope that helps!
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Is there anything living on/around that ice? Will this have any immediate ecological effects if it does start to drift away?
> Not making a moral judgment here, I feel consensual paid sex should be legal. But call a rose a rose.

Then we may as well call every women who's ever slept after being paid a drink a prostitute. Not that I mind but they probably do ^^
I wouldn't say most American homes the front door opens to the living room, at least not in the Northeast where I'm from. Most have either hallways, like you described as European (usually called a mudroom or entrance-way), or side doors that are exclusively used. Even most apartments have a little entrance-way area for shoes and coats, if not a full room. The only time I ever lived in a home that opens directly into the living room was when I lived in a super shitty apartment and everything about that apartment made no sense.

Don't take what you see on TV as a typical American home, those are sound stages that are laid out to be most convenient to film.
"Scientists and clinicians have increasingly tried to move away from simplistic racial and ethnic categories in disease research, the authors say, and – with the rise of precision medicine – in clinical diagnosis and treatment as well. Studies by the Burchard group and others have found that using genetic ancestry rather than ethnic self-identification significantly improves diagnostic accuracy for certain diseases.

But the new data showing that a large fraction of epigenetic signatures of ethnicity reflect something other than ancestry suggests that abandoning the idea of race and ethnicity altogether could sacrifice a lot of valuable information about the drivers of differences in health and disease between different communities."

The study shows that abandoning the idea of ethnicity could sacrifice information, but it still seems to indicate that genetic ancestry is more useful than race. Why does the article seem to conflate the two?
Now that is a question!

I think its mostly that its what "historic" photos look like. I don't mean the lomo plastic lens rubbish.

Colours are more on the green/blue end (well dependent on what film of course) The dynamic range is well, film-ey, Highlights are smooth, as are gradients. Also 35mm lenses have shallower depth of field compared to a iphone sensor or similar.

The instagram filters don't really cut it. Its obvious it comes from a digital camera(depth of field, bad grain, silly colours)

I don't think that its accurate, I think its because all the iconic photos of the 40s-90s are in film
I realize that Jekyll isn't everyone's favorite choice of a static build engine [1] and the available installed plugins on GH Pages is a minimal, slim selection, but restricting yourself to Jekyll and the GH Pages supported plugins list seems a reasonable compromise to avoid the issues seen in the article.

You can even stick to the GH Pages version of Jekyll (and supported plugins) and have local test builds: GH Pages provides a meta-gem with the version of Jekyll and plugins that are running in GH right now, and then you can .gitignore the output folder, use this version of Jekyll locally for testing, and reasonably expect GH Pages to build the same output after the commit has been pushed.

Admittedly, the toughest part may be getting that Jekyll installed on a developer's machine, especially for a developer unfamiliar with Jekyll and with no/few other Ruby environment needs. Tools like VMs, Docker, Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, can all help here.

[1] I'd prefer something that wasn't built in Ruby, if wishes were horses, simply because I usually don't have any other need for Ruby on my development machines than Jekyll and I'm not invested in Ruby beyond Jekyll. I know everyone has a different reason.
I've used many languages in my lifetime, most because I've been required to for work or school, and I was perfectly content with the likes of JavaScript, Java, C, and Python. However, it wasn't until I started using Elixir that I realized how much I enjoyed programming with this language, and at the same time how I never really enjoyed programming in all of the other languages that I've tried. The multitude of major and minor gripes I had with Node, for instance, quite clearly now form a cohesive image in my head of an experience I didn't enjoy in retrospect.

Elixir forces me to think about what I'm doing, and how I'm doing it while I'm programming. I'm not really sure how, I'm sure it has something to do with the functional aspect of the language, but I'm keenly aware as I am writing code when I'm doing something that could be improved, something which could be optimized. As I prototype a new feature, I'm already thinking about how it can be improved. That's what I love most about Elixir, it's a language which is constantly facilitating me to write better code.
ikr, but there is no much more operational data beyond that. also, not my quote, and the point was just that at some point you need a fallback weapon
Honestly, I don't think people would expect the meditations to be available in their native language and having at least access to english ones would be amazing.
I keeping hearing the narrative from this crowd that the MBP is on its way out of being in vogue for developers, but I don't buy it at all.

First of all, this is market share up to the release of the new MBP. It's not surprising that their market share has been slipping given that up to this point they haven't released a significant update to the MBP since 2013.

But getting to the point, the Mac ecosystem is now ingrained into open source development. Believe me I used to use a PC not too long ago and nothing would work because OS software is designed to run on top of a NIX environment. I recently had to go through this exercise with a colleague who was in denial. But over time, it ends up the same: software built to run on Linux servers runs best under an environment that is designed more like Linux. He now owns a MBP.

So Windows is out (for non .NET devs). That leaves us with what, Linux itself as the OS? Anyone who suggests doing this either hasn't done it before or has way too much time on their hands. I use macOS because I don't have time to hunt for drivers, trying to understand an obscure error discussed in a long forum thread or having all my software no longer work just because I updated a package. I've already tried that twice once with Gentoo and then with Ubuntu years later hoping it would be different. I know plenty of others who have as well. Ultimately we have jobs and we need to debug our own software.

Which brings us back to the Mac. I fully expect this release to be their Windows 8 moment, a beta event from which they will recover from given time for hardware to catch up. Not every release can be a stellar event. Give it time.
The success of the drug war is measured by body count, not achieving mission objectives; same as in the Vietnam War. Success for the drug warrior is arresting and prosecuting people and seizing assets, not decreasing the supply of drugs, which is too hard.
As an obvious point, check for updates to these solutions after the new build as it'll probably break tools like these for a bit.
Not really a cure, but a necessity. You still need treatment.
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Or, I don't know, ladders?
I bet you heard of "go fmt".
Wow, I never made this connection but the McMansion you described sounds remarkably like my humongous fancy houses I used to pride myself on in Sims! Do you have any sources discussing this? I have some friends who would appreciate it :)
This is a great model - honestly it's much closer to my intuitive sense than what I wrote up.

I think most people can be decent at most things, certainly. Humans are (almost always) normally distributed, and odds are you're between 0.5 and 2 on most scales. If you want to run a 5k, or play guitar for fun, or make a website, your multiplier probably won't stop you.

But if you want to be the best, or you're choosing a goal where demand is short (astronauts, professional tubists, etc), you'd better think about your multiplier. There's a reason music schools are so viciously selective, and it's that hard work isn't going to get you a career unless you're somewhere up in that 100+ territory.

I'm pretty sure I'm down around .1 for music. I'm fairly tone deaf, my sense of rhythm is crappy, and I've never found any part of music intuitive. I've played some instruments, I don't regret it, but I'm certainly not going to go stake much of my time on being even middling-competent.

You touch on one thing that I think is a huge deal - people with big multipliers don't necessarily feel it. That top-notch musician knows they worked their ass off, but can't experience how they would have done with a worse multiplier. It's like listening to successful founders say that you should just focus on your idea and "it'll all work out in the end" - that's sample bias like no other.

I didn't get really skeptical about pure effort and growth mindset until I started working out how specific people learn. The gulfs in effort for different people on the same achievement are shocking, and this model is far better for understanding that.
Do you plan do have meditation in multiple languages?
It's physically impossible to go over the handlebars using only the back brakes.
best part of the whole article what how you named it the "Function Key Pro"

hahaha, gold.
It's perfectly ethical if you've had a frank discussion with your employer about your odds of success. If you sold them the idea that you could save it, but privately were certain you could not, that is plainly and simply unethical.
Eckhart Tolle Force is strong with this one
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Who do you use for upgrading it? I have one sitting around that I'd love to upgrade but always found the secondary upgrade market hard to navigate.
Sites will just start blocking Archive.is next.
Perhaps, but in doing so you trade off many of the benefits of ownership (i.e. personal space). Plus you'd need to time-box the rental to ensure availability when you need it, whereas the taxi user can just decide to go somewhere. (So maybe you choose to use a taxi in those cases...)

I think you'd end up blurring the line with taxis so much that the ownership would hardly be worth it.
Pretty cool that redis was helping to host its own source code & development.
I think it's an "acquired taste" kind of thing: it doesn't smell nice... until it does.
I'm not sure, but you could start by asking someone who's in a position to observe a much larger portion of internet usage. For example, I bet CloudFlare could collect some interesting statistics.
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When you have mutliple vehicles, each potentially with their own variant of control software, then each could be internally deterministic but "foreign" to the other vehicle. Kind of like a double pendulum.

Edit: But also like that cool double/triple pendulum thing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyN-CRNrb3E) you don't necessarily have to be able to predict the future if you are simply monitoring the present state at a high enough sampling rate. Note that this thing is sampling at 1ms. Not sure what kind of sampling would be necessary for cars, certainly a function of velocity and braking power.
I suspect people don't see it as a quality comment. Generally short or insubstantial comments receive a more positive response when the tone is positive. Negative, insubstantial comments tend to be downvoted.

(I didn't up or down vote, I'm just echoing how it reads to me)

Edit: Had your original comment included that extra backstory/justification, it surely wouldn't have been hammered with downvotes. Without it, it just reads like snark.
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Agreed. If the rumored terraced batteries (that couldn't make it in time for this year's release) come through, coupled with ostensible efficiency improvements in the next gen of processors, GPUs etc, we might be able to reach that hallowed 10 hour mark again.

Well, that and hopefully there's a price drop with the second gen of touchbar MacBooks (not holding my breath there)
Yes! Just don't want to count my chickens before they have job offers :)
The Apple Watch was born out of Jobs' frustration with the state of data sharing in patient-doctor relationships.

If you think that these are now just ideas that they randomly decided to follow through on you have no idea how many things they throw out.
No, there really isn't. The only distinct difference is that the "sugar baby" lifestyle is just a way of dipping your toe into being a full blown prostitute.

I met a girl who had dated several guys from SA. She said in each case, it was one or two "normal" dates before the guy offered her $500-$1K for sex.

It's funny to me that "sugar babies" are treated as innocuous. In reality it is probably a lot more insidious than "real" prostitution because it serves as a gateway for girls to get into the game while lying to themselves.
That only works when there are two options and the dialog is configured right.
level 3-4 driving maybe just a couple of magnitudes harder (e.g in terms of computing power and the amount of code required).

Full autonomous Uber's - so many orders of magnitude that I don't even want to speculate on magnitudes.

I'm pretty sceptic so I put "mostly autonomous vehicles" within reach, but "driverless taxi" several decades away.
We could make "autonomous safe regions" on the map where the mostly autonomous cars could work well. But we just can't make them work well in the normal world for humans because of the edge cases.

The last fraction of a percent of scenarios require humans or something very nearly human. You need to be able to improvise, learn, read half-hidden text on road signs and deduce from context what it means etc.

It's not acceptable to just handle 99.9 % of the situations for a driverless car, then you end up with driverless cars stranded everywhere.

I think the last step from "mostly autonomous" to "fully autonomous" is comparable to going from an ai recognizing all the objects in the famous funny Obama-scale photo, to having an au explain why it's funny. We don't even fully understand that problem, much less have any idea of how to solve it.

http://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visio...
These years aren't comparable because I'm trading years in the immediate future for years in the distant future. Not many people would trade next year for a year and 2 months when they're 80.
Sometimes I'd like that for new gadgets' comparison, say, a new iPhone or Android phone compared to previous iterations, a visual comparison, side by side or on top.
Because Tor is too hard for clients. The web always wins. Or are Tor hidden services able to be exposed on the public internet?
Ugh, the alt-right supremacists are going to have a field day with mis-information around this o_o
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Interesting article, well written and concise.