skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can imagine that it's possible to visit SF and not experience aggressive panhandling, the shouts of people with mental health issues, public urination and defecation, and open drug use, but I find it very hard to believe you could experience much of the city without the smell of urine at least a few times.

Even touristy, well trafficked areas, Powell St station for instance, will very often smell of urine.

On my most recent visit back to the city around the holidays, I saw a young looking couple shooting up on 21st and Valencia, albeit this was at night, and I almost had someone poop on me while waiting at the crosswalk at Sutter and Montgomery, this was at 4pm on a Sunday afternoon.
It's not like that for everyone. We moved to Portland (partly) to get away from our families back east. They were like more kids, adding more stress than relieving.
Peloton is also Finnish word and means fearless.
No, people are very bad at keeping people healthy. Modern medicine has almost eliminated acute disease as a leading cause of death in the developed world and most of our health problems are now self inflicted. Evidence based medicine has extended the average lifespan by decades despite our best efforts.

Alternative medicine may not all be hippie voodoo but it all has one thing in common: all the data all of its salesmen have gathered before profiting hand over fist has amounted to nothing. All of the data gathered since then has amounted to nothing except the rare fortunate placebo effect, early deaths, and needless suffering. Once every few decades we stumble on a gem like meditation because medicine works by testing and gathering data on everything, including folk remedies.

Our most common treatment for metastaticized cancers is to inject radioactive material into our bodies in the hope that it kills cancer cells faster than healthy tissue! We will clearly do anything so all any "alternative" medicine has to do is prove its effectiveness. There is lots of value to a variety of traditional remedies that utilize the antimicrobial properties of tea and honey or blood thinners in many herbs but that isn't going to make anyone any money except your neighborhood grocery store or ethnic market. The rest of alternative medicine is just a bunch of snake oil salesmen whose livelyhoods depends on rejecting the foundations of evidence based medicine.
This is essentially the resignation of the US in the Pacific. The TPP was intended to bind the smaller countries in the Pacific closer to the US and away from China. Generally, the election of Trump is the resignation of the US in the battle to remain the global hegemon. We live in interesting times. I just hope it won't become too interesting.
http://jawk.sourceforge.net/
If you had RSS, that would be nice.
If anyone's thinking about it - don't. mike-cardwell got lucky. Dogs at the airport sniff everything. Whether you have something in your backpack or the bag on the floor, NZ has pretty bad fines even for stupid stuff like obviously half eaten and taken by accident piece of fruit.
All free and open source solutions only serve companies up to a couple of hundred employees.
$100 per hour for a Rails crud app?

For a close friend?
Legally no. But if you say you opt out and insist, I've never had an issue
Thanks - I should have been more specific about purely surgical treatments as I was with the other two groups so as to maximise the benefit of your knowledge :)

The context of this thread is more about drugs and there's a lot of discussion about pharmaceuticals so that was what I was really asking about.

But I guess radio / chemo therapy is on the list, even though I am uncomfortable with the amount of collateral damage they do to the patient in the process (seen it happen so painful topic)
"Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool ... The mistake"

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

The search space for successful strategies is vast, you must experience failure in order to determine direction to success.

If I'm seeking inspiration, I look to a higher power - Bill Gates, Poe, Arxiv Papers, GitHub. Find inspiration in observing what is greater than yourself
I'm looking to get in touch with anyone with connections to these industries around the Sydney, Australia area.

Long shot, but I'm currently in a position to highly appreciate some new hardware at the moment.
Service Canary – Detect and alert on changes within your infrastructure
I make more than enough money from my day job, such that I don't need to nickle and dime my close friends.
Do the rich really keep getting richer? I would assume that as you have more money you don't just have more opportunity but also more competition. There are lots of people who try to take your money one way or another without any return.
Lifelong learning is becoming an economic imperative
The Web is heavily mutable. You are often logged in, changing pages just so; forums and chats mutate heavily; you send cookies and other sensitive information to servers…

IPFS is content-addressed. The only mutable part is IPNS, which allows making a node ID point to any immutable content-addressed object. That means that any mutation requires reaching a worldwide consensus among nodes, and recomputing the hash of all its content, which for large directories with frequent updates is prohibitive, and sometimes architecturally nightmarish.

Think of Twitch.tv: the video stream can't be hashed, since it is constantly updated, and the chat can have very frequent updates, and the whole chat stream needs to be re-hashed constantly (let alone the need for several feeds, so that moderators can perform validation, which again requires each of them to have their own IPNS endpoint)…

But for the niche of Web publishing, it is amazing: you have a blog or news site updated, say, once every hour, and you get a CDN for free from all your users. Still, that requires the Protocol Labs team to come up with a front-end product that end-users will actually install.
"bacteria will stop spending energy on resistance and become vulnerable again."

Correct me if I'm wrong but ones bacteria modified by natural selection they will continue the resistance (genes) in future bacterial generations.
And yet there were plenty of plants in China before it joined the WTO, right? The uncertainty just gets factored into business.

Sure, ISDS can help a country build more trust, and lower the cost of foreign investments, but it's not a panacea.

Plus, countries would still play chicken with each other.
If China decides to seize Apple's plants, what should the US do, declare war?
Should France and EU terminate all foreign deals with Egypt due to it not wanting to pay for the Veolia ISDS decision?
The lowest precision is using binary. Look for "binaryConnect" for research. Also the group behind pulpino did a chip implememtation of binaryConnect with great results.

Another possibility is the work of Jennifer hassler from Georgia tech on analog neural networks , including a roadmap of the possibilities.

Those are possibly the most optimal theoretically , but it's not certain that they'll work.
How can you actually think you are qualified to have an opinion
here after visiting part of a city one time?

Well, you know what they say: "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks."

There's very little data in these comments. Lots of anecdata, and I'm presenting an alternative perspective with my anecdata, but until there's actual data in the discussion, I'm not sure that we should be dismissing someone else's opinion out of hand.

From the context: parent said "as a European who has made some trips to America but never been to SF in particular", so I thought it appropriate to reply with my experience as a European who has been to SF in particular. My experience there was simply my experience: I didn't observe the antisocial behaviour being described, so it's fair to say that it's not common behaviour (in the areas I visited).

That's not to say it doesn't exist, or that it isn't more common elsewhere in SF. That said, homeless people do tend to congregate in areas where tourists visit, so you would expect the density of homeless people to be highest in those tourist areas, and for those places to experience the most severe issues.
>These articles repeating the same hyped up fear

Yes! Antibiotics (as an issue) are now associated with guilt and hubris. I trust CRISPR technologies will yield new weapons to fight infections and other diseases.
> they always seem to end up taking 10 to 30 seconds to compile each time

Oh yeah, that's huge, at least the time to sip half a glass, that's scandalous. Hmm... you're kidding, right? How can it be a problem in absolute value, and furthermore how can it be a problem in relative value? That time should be absolutely negligible vs the design, the thinking, the typing, the thinking again, etc.

> and this slows down debugging significantly.

There is also the option to think about what you program instead of proceeding by trial and error.

I don't want "a project of a certain size" to be handled through trial and error. And yet, according to the pitiful results and condition of current software, especially shitty web apps, that has to be representative of the current model of development.
Yeah. I certainly wouldn't recommend doing it on purpose.
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

If the outcome you're working towards is sufficiently worthy, and you can feel yourself making even just a little bit of progress toward that outcome every day and every week, then you can get by just fine.
I wish I could have read more than the abstract, but maybe this [1] ... I would especially like to know what do they mean by "Unfortunately, the available data suggest that the rate of reversibility will be slow at the community level"

[1] http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v8/n4/pdf/nrmicro2319....
StackOverflow, sadly. Their Javascript requires some off site cookies to allow for their cross domain user account stuff. Not enabling third party cookies on the StackExchange sites leads to broken pages.
That's 83 square meters! Here in the UK my four-bedroom house is extravagantly large for just the two of us at 90m^2.
Standard theory of evolution: organisms that spend energy on features that do not contribute to their fitness will be at a disadvantage in the long run compared to others of otherwise similar type that do not. The others will have more energy to devote to reproduction.
Scientists develop molecule that reverses antibiotic resistance
> I'm talking about future referendums. Those can be held in any European country where either a EU-critical party wins power, or a popular demand calls for it (such calls recently failed in Finland, for example, although a referendum had it been held would never have resulted in an exit).

No, you are not. You referenced a vote in Italy. There was a referendum in Italy totally unrelated to any of the "what ifs" you're spilling here.

> So to be very clear- There are no planned exit referendums, there have been no other such referendums than the Brexit vote, and without petitions or power shifts there are no such votes on the horizon. So by "What votes" I mean e.g a vote under LePen or the next Italian government.

What next Italian government? Do you think M5S does even stand a chance?

> Not sure what you think I "wish", I certainly don't hope for any such referendums around Europe.

Of course mate.
*cojones
There are many cases where one wants to use wifi while out and about without "leeching". In my city alone, we have areas with paid networks, tit-for-tat networks (Fonera) and public networks (as in paid by taxes).
BTW, what was the result of that? They paid hackers a ton of money to unlock old firmware, iOS 8.0, on an old phone, 5C.
No expert, but theoretically new mutations that eliminate resistance may be beneficial by allowing the newly mutated bacteria to outgrow the resistant ones if the mutation leads to spending less energy.
Edit: there will also be non-resistant bacteria in the population so the mutation to remove resistance may not even be necessary.
Wow, that is quite similar.
IPFS is using model where it is possible to increase a number of copies of file by downloading it, but it's impossible to upload file to machines of other people. If you are looking for different model - take a look on Ethereum's Swarm. They also approach persistency problem in a different, arguably better way.
NO. No way. It's the second time I see this here. The answer is not a hybrid that is neither 2.7 nor 3.0 compliant. That's just a third, useless standard. Let's just please stick to one standard, preferably the most current from the official ones and start porting/rewriting whatever we need until we need the old one no more. Please.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450814
Also respected scientists like it because it dissolves many pseudoproblems of the orthodox quantum theory like the measurement problem and because it doesn't require rethinking basic scientific philosophy like Copenhagen did. I do not think it is perfect replacement for the orthodox quantum theory, but what do you mean 'it leads to violations of causality'?
I have tried to set the things that I care about in my life up such that failures are interesting. What I mean is the places that I focus most of my time (my company, writing software, surfing) are those in which failures (ideally) imply learning. Since I like learning things, this is enjoyable. Hence "persevering" (fixing my mistakes, learning not to make them again) is fun, and thereby easy.

This hasn't always proved possible for me. You mention relationships: I haven't ever found a way to make failing in those fun.
I don't wish for this to be confrontational, but I think you may be underestimating how deeply debilitating substance abuse problems can be. I firmly believe that it is a disease and should be treated as such. It also isn't a self inflicted disease like some like to make it out to be. I have friends who grew up in such horrible conditions that it's almost miraculous that they have come out of such an environment and made it to adulthood, although not all of them have.

I grew up poor but from a generally stable family and through both my own poor decisions and some circumstances outside of my control I ended up homeless. I never suffered from addiction or mental health issues and I still ended up on the streets, so I can sympathize with how hard it must be to tackle those issues simultaneously.

I'll agree with you that we should do much more to tackle these issues early on before they turn into more chronic problems later in life. The initial cost would be expensive but it wouldn't surprise me if it ended up being cheaper in the long run.
If I remember correctly 538 put him at around 25-30% chance of winning the election.

Certainly an underdog, but with a reasonable chance of success.
Wow a page full of horrifying border control experiences. Perhaps all those people who like to say Schengen free movement is a bad idea might want to reconsider?
For most web-app use cases your prior Rails knowledge would be a good starting point for building out your backend/api. A simple popular and well-supported framework (Angular/React) would make for a very effective frontend.
I find it very hard to believe you could experience much of
the city without the smell of urine at least a few times.

To be fair, there are parts of all cities that I expect to smell of urine: there's something about stairwells in multi-storey car parks that seems to demand it [1].

So it's quite possible that I did experience that, but in a context where it was such a commonplace experience that it simply didn't stick in my memory.

I almost had someone poop on me while waiting at the
crosswalk at Sutter and Montgomery

I can't help wondering, in a kind of morbid fascination sense, the mechanics of this. Was someone hanging their bum out of the window? Crouching down next to you whilst you were waiting for the lights to change?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/mar/27/ncp-...
I know people who are fighting over the crumbs of yesterday's jobs. They are not interested in changing.
Fifteen Kilos
One of the problems I see with stars on github is the extreme hype around new JS frameworks, which is especially noticable in GitTrends. These projects are indeed trendy, but when you try to choose a tool / technology stars become problematic. I'm not saying that the metric I propose is more "objective" in any sense, but in my subjective opinion it promotes better values for open source projects.

Moreover, please don't think that I only count commits and see the about page (http://www.krihelinator.xyz/about) for more details about the metric.
>Do the rich really keep getting richer?

Yes, that's basically the findings of Thomas Pikkety. His tome "Capital in the 21st century" goes through great lengths to find and explain the numbers behind the finding.
Here's my list in no particular order:

- Support: Find quality friends that are positive, creative, and understanding. (Eliminate the doubters super quick, cultivate a great network)

- Mindfulness: Remind yourself of the little triumphs and how far you've come. Create a list in a doc as you grow, you'll be surprised. Perform a retrospective once every couple of months.

- Gratefulness: Remind yourself that those accomplishments probably weren't possible without your network, give thanks to them privately and publicly. I do this in my retrospective.

- Silliness: Life and time are finite. You should be willing to sacrifice what you want to accomplish what you want, because... well nothing matters in the end. We're all little pieces of meat walking around on a rock flying through space. The sheer probability of existence is simultaneously a miracle and a joke.

- Love: You reap what you sow. Be up front with what you want, who you are, and don't compromise. From there pay into it with as much love and compassion as you possibly can.

- The Big Questions: What are we here for? What does it all mean? Just think of life as a game where you work hard because maybe there is something in the end that will make the journey all worth it. (Some people can float through life, I'm not one of them.)

- Outlets: Find reasonable outlets, whether it's art (my personal favorite is oil painting and making music), or working out, or dancing. Try something new when you can.

- Partners: Absolutely 100% don't stop until you've found a co-founder that you trust, respect, and offers a set of complimentary skills. Literally exhaust every channel (no matter how stupid) you can until you find this person. Managing your own psychology is hard, but having someone help give you a kick in the pants with an alternative point of view is sometimes a lifesaver.

- Self: There are going to be a lot of 'voices' that have an opinion about your life. They can be online or off. Remember that you're the only person that has to live with you, and in the end you're what matters most. To have a happy life, make yourself happy, but make sure that happiness magnifies the positive energy inside others as well. Stay true to your vision, and let that guide you.

- Inspiration: I have some personal things that I find comfort in. I like looking at inspirational posts on instagram, nice cars, inspirational videos on youtube. These serve to help pep me up sometimes. I like to imagine having the nice things that might be a result of my hard work, but the older I get the less material items matter and the more relationships and compounding the good in the world matters.

Also if anyone is in San Francisco and wants to grab a coffee, take a walk, and chat about life, the universe, and everything -- hit me up. :)

[Forgive any spelling/grammar errors. I'm tired and about to sleep.]
- Understanding what caused the failure

- Understanding your limitations

- Thinking "How can you not make the same mistake again"

- Understanding that for every public success there are tens or hundreds of failures that have not come to light
Hillary ran a sub-par campaign as one of the least popular candidates in recent history, and that hurt down-ticket races. The democrats made a strategic mistake by allowing Clintonistas to take over the DNC and party establishment to the point that she was essentially "the anointed", and faced no real competition. Had e.g. Biden or even Franken run, the results might be quite different. Heck, if Obama had run against Trump (for a third term, were such a thing possible) it would likely be a different story. This is not the whole situation, of course; e.g. districts are more gerrymandered than ever, reducing competitiveness and allowing party establishments to push their favored candidates (out of touch establishment = unpopular candidate); e.g. the last congress was the most dysfunctional in decades, meaning that the bills that made it were compromises, and not a full test of democrat ideas; media echo chambers have polarized voters; etc.

As easy as it is to critique Obama's policies on privacy & foreign policy, he was assured and rational, which people like in a leader. It's entirely reasonable that there's such a wide gap in approval polls. There's really no reason to significantly doubt them.

Regardless of whether you agree on the above, we're about to see the GOP have its way and push a slew of policies that they favor. Many will actually be favorable for entrepreneurs and startups, but my guess is that overall they will turn out to be quite unpopular. I predict the house to flip back in 2018 and for Trump to be crushed in 2020 (if he makes it that far without being impeached.) We'll see.
FWIW, Redux's documentation is top-notch. Kudos.
Well you can simply fail the requirements to be in he Euro zone :)
They came out with the wrong result and that is all that matters. I don't care how close a surgeon is to cut out my tumour, either it is gone or not.
iTerm tip: add custom badges on a per-directory basis
Tools for Bot Development
The Runway Calculator: How to Travel for 6 Months and Come Back Richer
you can do that with asterisk, if you forward it to some voice number, they can sniff you, so why not use the encrypted voip for voice, sure u need internet on you burner but you probably already have that.
Perhaps we in the US simply need to rein in our border guards, and have done for quite a long time. The experience of other nations proves it is possible to arrive at a satisfactory medium between the extremes of Schengen and Stasi. I'd hoped under Obama we'd do so, but lots of people hoped for lots of things under Obama that didn't happen. Under Trump it doesn't seem likely we'll improve on the current situation; if anything, I'd expect it will get worse. But perhaps the man will surprise us.
As a European, what does this mean for the TTIP and CETA?