skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easier to write a reply on here than walk the walk, take HN comments and advice about what others claim with a grain of salt.

First, I recommend anyone asking this take a moment to do a double-check on your mental health. At least for depression and insanity. Looking in the mirror like this is not as bad as a prostate exam but it does take longer...

1) Depression. If you think you might be suffering from depression or any mental disorder or don't know enough to decide, please go seek professional help. If you are unsure what this means or think the odds low, consider going to see a professional and getting a diagnosis anyway at least it rules things out.

2) Insanity. I mean this in sense attributed to Einstein of "doing something over and over again and expecting the same result".

There is no "keep going" or getting back on "the track" after a failure. If you have failed then it's over - it requires "starting anew". The track you will be on is new too even if it points at the same goal as the old one.

Now, if you're talking about pushing through setbacks and obstacles but not a real failure, there is a difference. In HN-YC-gobbledygook; are you in a "trough of sorrow" or back on your mom's couch after bankrupting your company and you're browsing Craigslist job ads/casual encounters posts? Big difference between setbacks and failures.

If it's failure. I don't celebrate it. But I would be stoked about the gap of time between a failure and starting anew. This gap of time gives one a chance to pause and figure out what happened. Plus it's time to fix what you can about yourself and how you operate or realize it's better to move to something else you are better at. Call it the "trough of who the fuck cares but I ain't making that mistake again"...

This step involves thinking about: were things your fault? Were they someone else's fault? Was the failure just bad luck? Really? There should be no repeated failures of the same kind. That is insanity. Don't keep doing stuff if you haven't analyzed and fixed things that caused it. This involves thinking about if failures could have been anticipated and avoided...

If failures are just genuinely just bad luck, not a deficiency of ability on your part nor a failure that could have been avoided beforehand, there is nothing to do. Good luck happens and bad luck happens. But you know this. Be mentally prepared beforehand for whichever way the dice fall. I know of no gambler who walks into a casino with $100, knowing his odds and walks out depressed when he loses the $100. I know many people who walk into a casino not knowing their odds, having looked up the rules of craps 5 minutes beforehand on their phone and fully expecting to win - then being shocked and upset when they lose $500.

No one else's inspirations can inspire you. Figure out a goal you want and what achieving it involves.

If you can't figure a goal that inspires you, then that is your goal. Finding a goal is your goal. Frankly that is fucking super exciting too; getting to treasure hunt and discover something that is new and inspiring, something you will really want and want to work towards sounds very exciting. Best of luck.
Thanks. I misspoke, I meant to that I want to use it as a testing device and not a development device. I don't think I could do development on a 13" laptop let alone a tablet
You are right, but perspective is needed. How quick is quickly ? Is it quicker to return then they loose it ? Or is it slower to return then to loose it ? If so, we can circulate certain types of ABs effectivelly.

> Widespread use of antibiotics (especially at low doses) was and is a criminal mistake.

This is not only human made thing. Widespread AB use is common in nature. But AB use for growth promotion IS criminal. And AB should be given as last resort not as usual practice. Good nutrition and adequate supplemenation can cover the rest:

- Retynol is epic for mucosal layer protection.

- Vitamin D is great anti-infective agent.

- Vitamin C is awesome prevention and potential cure for helicobacter pylori.

- Many spices are fantastic as ABs.

- Fermented foods such as kefir and stuff like spirulina are great addition.

- High carb diet reduces immunity a lot.

You don't really need ABs every freaking day - its typical that kids have 6 or more tours in a year. My
kid is raised with above principles and more and never had an AB even with kindergarten (7 years now).

There were also some other problematic procedures such apendixtomy that influence this or usage of ABs with viral diseses (typial to prevent opportunistic infections) or for disease that it doesn't affect much and even makes the organ worse, such as otitis.

NSAID use is also contributing A LOT to this. People now bring down temperature on 37.5 and if you don't do it on 38 you are considered lunatic. I simply do no do it up until 40.5 (talking about kids, the exact protocol is contextual and depends on age, length etc). The science showed that when you do that, the disease last longer and mortality is proved to be higher on animals. Brain knows perfectly well when to stop it unless it is broken itself (i.e. meningitis).
My apologies, I will indicate that next time. There a preferred way of indicating this?
How We Accidentally Made a Racist Videogame
In the specific case where adversity = pain, I'm almost embarrassed to admit I fall back on a line from Firefly: "This is just a moment in time. Step aside and let it happen." Because whatever you're going through now, it will be buried safely in the past pretty soon.
Goseo – CLI tool to test readability for HTML documents or web pages
Yes, though there are some ways around this. You could send the user to another domain to sign in using a unique request ID that identifies the user. After authenticating this unique ID can be communicated back to the first site to show the user has authenticated, and a cookie could keep the session information. That wouldn't give a seemless sign-in on every site, though - you'd need one cookie (and one sign-in) per domain.

The other way is to have all StackExchange sites be subdomains of stackexchange.com - which is how the designers of the web intended it to be, I think.
The pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers
The concern with ISDS-style arrangements is usually not that a government might become above the law, but that a company might, in the sense that a government changing the law might be forced to pay compensation to any company that lost out as a result.

In particular, a government that changed the law because certain behaviour was found to be harmful would potentially be required to pay huge amounts of compensation to a company whose business model relied on doing those harmful things. This is particularly relevant in fields like public health, environmental protection and sustainable exploitation of natural resources.

The problem with this is that the same governments that might genuinely legislate to, say, protect public health by banning smoking in restaurants or protect the environment by banning diesel-powered vehicles with unacceptable levels of particulate emissions can also legislate for protectionist purposes in ways that really do screw over foreign companies. This makes countries with such governments, or the fear that their government go down this path, much less attractive for foreign investors. And so those investors look for safeguards that will ensure governments can't arbitrarily take advantage of them once they've put their money in.

Which brings us back to step 1 in the case of foreign investors whose investments turn out to be in harmful things, whether or not anyone realised that in advance, and so the cycle continues.
Remembering my past wins / partial wins and building on top of them.

And don't tell me that you don't have them. Everybody has them.
You forget that if companies win we win by higher interest rates on bank accounts and higher stock prices.
Good job they've seized those dangerous headphones and USB cables ...

It makes no rational sense because if you think the headphones are more than they appear to be (eg. they have a secret memory card), then why not seize every other solid item -- pens, toothbrush, even the suitcase itself could be suspicious. So the conclusion is this is just designed to intimidate and inconvenience.
Thank you for this extensive reply! :)
> 1,200 CDs

I like how they try to make it sound like it's a bunch of data. Sure, it isn't a small amount, but it's only roughly 840GB.

So it's more like

> It would take someone a few minutes to setup a batch meta data editing program (shit, or only an hour or two if one had to be made) and an external hard drive from office depot.
Enforcable labour standards and the requirement that member countries allow workers to organize will be good for "working people" in the United States.
I agree, this is confusing actual personality changes with stress behaviour. Obviously if you reduce stress you can remove unproductive behaviours such as neuroticism but the persons fundamental view of the world hasn't necessarily changed, even if it seems that way if you didn't know the person before the stress behaviours began to dominate.

Look into the Birkman Method, it's a psychometric personality assessment that, unlike other pop-quiz type tools (MBTI et al), distinguishes between your usual behaviour, your fundamental expectation of the world (needs) and your reactions (stress) when those expectations aren't met. It's unlikely that your usual behaviour changes, although it's quite possible that your stress behaviour could mask that (even for years on end) if you're in an environment you can't cope with.
Very late reply, but in case anybody sees this.
The "shaken mix" of fingerprint + random number must produce a number that is lower than a certain target number. The most visible consequence of this is that the accepted numbers must begin with a string of zeros (as the number of digits is fixed, as in 0003 is lower than 0123).

Example:

Not a good mix:
1312af178c253f84028d480a6adc1e25e81caa44c749ec81976192e2ec934c64

A good mix:
0000000000000000057fcc708cf0130d95e27c5819203e9f967ac56e4df598ee

This "shaken mix" is a SHA-256 hash of the current block plus a random number. SHA-256 is an algorithm that generates a "fingerprint" (called "hash") of a block of data, in such a way that it is not possible to determine, from the fingerprint itself, which data might have generated it [otherwise it would be possible to start from (a set of) desired fingerprints and calculate back to the set of possible blocks that could generate them].
Personally: Sheer Bloody-mindedness & a 'Well Fuck This!' attitude.
Performing Deep Learning on a CPU with the efficiency of using a GPU
I completely disagree that working above all else is the hallmark of great entrepreneurs.
OK, I'm not a native speaker and admittedly didn't reaffirm my claim before posting. Anywho, the headline and newspaper speak is not exactly the propper grammer I am talking about, right?

Wouldn't omitting the the in my sentence mean, they feared violence in general? Sure, broad contracts are welcome, but then there couldn't be a specific answer to who they are. I guess that's in agreement with what you said.
Ask HN: Is there a way to sell my MVP?
I started working on a little web service startup idea with a colleague about two months ago. We managed to implement a minimum viable product which at this point is basically just a website with registration, payment and a nice domain. But we realized that our passion for this project currently isn't strong enough compared to the legal legwork that comes with going public in our jurisdiction while dealing with our full time day jobs.

So, we figured that we might try sell the MPV plus domain to somebody who's in a better position to get the business started.

Is this at all a realistic idea? Where should we advertise it? For how much money could we expect to sell something like that?
> Most people without children just don't get how much more difficult ordinary life becomes.

i think your mind is playing tricks on you. most people over 25 without children know exactly how difficult life is with children -- that's why they don't have any.
Davide De Rosa
You literally snipped the joke out of the middle of the rationally coherent text to argue against it in isolation. Seriously, who's strawmaning here?
People stored important data, they used megaupload as a "liable" service, not as a toy file sharing for unpaid stuff.

The fact that it was raided and destroyed without a warning made these customer backup disappear overnight.
"So we figured what the hell, jumped on in"

Probably not a wise business planning strategy :)

"ever since then, that bookstore has been very apprehensive about "new tech"

Probably not very wise either.
Sam Harris: What Is True? A Conversation with Jordan B. Peterson
How a biotech startup rose, and then fell
There is a power differential but it is not high. You can find another employer (just don't apply to employers that ask these questions).

Indeed, if most people refuse such employers, the employers will have to raise their wages or stop asking that question.

They're only able to ask this question because some employees are fine with it. So let both voluntarily discuss that question.
EURUSD: Bullish, Eyes More Recovery Higher
Elkhound: A GLR Parser Generator
this is just like browsing in incognito mode
A list of e-mail-tracker urls (help me fill it)
50 Insanely Sweet Love Quotes That Would Blow Your Mind
China Launches Internet Investment Fund
Probably not intended, but the implication this argument leads to is for the development of regulation in use and censorship - like the FCC for radio.
No, pushing public opinion against better knowing, that's depressing.
8 Keys to Developing a High-Trust Business Culture
That matches up quite nicely with what the article says. Haskell is well-suited for applications that have complicated computations going on inside of them, but which provide a relatively small surface to the impure world outside the program ("CRUD apps", as the author notes). And universities are a place where you come across a lot of computationally difficult problems. (Case in point: I learned Haskell in a lab course called "Haskell for Natural Language Processing", and the instructor noted that the NLP group does all their programming in Haskell.)
> you should be arguing how their methodology was wrong and what they could have done to find the true proportion +/- some standard error with however much confidence level

There are countless of arguments about how their methodology was wrong and what could be improved, all over the internet. Almost nobody disputes that the models were bad. I thought this part was obvious.

> 20% chance of winning and then actually winning does not seem all too unlikely to any reasonable person.

It seems about 80% unlikely. But the question isn't whether it seems unlikely or not, but whether it makes sense to call the prediction results "wrong". 20% chance of an asteroid not hitting Earth and then not hitting Earth might not seem extremely unlikely, but the prediction that it had an 80% chance of hitting Earth is still a bad prediction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance
A depurated sense of will sprung from a cultivated naivette and protected capcity of awe, but having learnt to want only reachable things drawing aside mere hypotetical desires. That and living as a permanent act of choice, replete of responsibility, a song of my share of freedom, no matter the dire options.
As an American citizen who travelled extensively up until TSA made me too miserable to continue, I am absolutely embarrassed about the travel situation in the United States.

I grew up in the land of freedom, and grew up hating overzealous and pointless "security" associated with the iron curtain.

We have freedom of speech, which inherently means freedom of thought. At one point we were the bastion of freedom and hope, and a leader in this regard. Nobody should fear harassment because they happened to speak at DEFCON anymore than one should fear harassment because they spoke at Jesus camp, or the science fair for that matter.

We SHOULD be encouraging people to come here and talk about things that might get them in trouble in their home countries. We SHOULD take a position of leadership and protect the basic inalienable rights of all people regardless of their citizenship, alliances, or thoughts.

I am absolutely appalled at the state that our government has arrived at. I am stunned that after such a strong revocation of the previous leadership that Obama's generation sought to increase security theater, decrease freedom, and decrease the rights afforded to our own citizens and our visitors.

The enemy of our freedom isn't thousands of miles away in some terrorist training camp. It's the people we freely elect who have seemingly no forethought and no historical understanding of our fundamental values.

A leader isn't someone who looks to cover his ass at every opportunity. A leader is someone who stands up, tells people there is something wrong, and pushes us back to the values that we were raised to be proud of. You don't have to be president to be a leader. Every police officer, every border agent, every engineer, janitor, and unemployed citizen can stand up at some point and see enough is enough. People need to stop arguing about politics and stop worrying about the boogey man. People need to start caring about freedom and they need to stop the culture of fear.

Sorry... This whole discussion hit a sore spot for me. I have always been a proud american and this kind of behavior just flies in the face of the values I was raised to embrace.
I don't think it really solves the problem. Making it legal to lie means employer can't sue you for fraud, but they can still fire you if they find out.
Microevolution doesn't take that much human time to be honest.
Yes, this makes me think of the idiotic laws in the Province of Quebec which don't allow parents to send their kids to English public schools. The only exception is if at least one parent did attends English public school (which is a minority of the population). Of course, sending your kids to a English private school is always possible ($$$).

So, you have a whole bunch of kids whose parents were immigrants and learned to speak french and go to english school (becoming bilingual, or better).

But, the white french majority of the population is mostly uni lingual because this opportunity of english immersion in school is not accessible to them publicly by law.
Talk about no child getting ahead ... Learning english used to be seen as a cultural threat in French Quebec (long time ago), and trying to protect the French language ends up screwing most of the population stuck in 1 language with all the economic, financial and political ramifications of such ridiculous laws.
This. Documentation is the most frustrating part of the Haskell experience to me. More than once I've come across a module on Haddock and the module description just says

This module is inspired by the following paper: <DOI>
If you're on a "failing trajectory" but there's work in front of you, block out everything except for the work. If you can't handle that, then take a break and then get back at it. If it's something you really don't want to fail at, then there's probably something about it that you really love. Try to discover that again, without worrying about the untold future. If you focus in every moment, then you WILL make progress -- if only bit by bit.

Don't compare yourself to other people, but recognize that you're probably incredibly lucky to have any opportunity to fail at in the first place. Think about your accomplishments and setbacks as a set of experiences that will only ever help you in the future -- not as liabilities on paper.

Finally, don't complain. It's difficult at first, but it'll help keep you away from self-pity.
Has anyone been able to validate or correlate the claims in this article? It's an opinion piece without a lot of verifiable references or data. Seems like it is, to some degree, describing itself.
Most laptops can run an external (second )monitor and provide a video out and can be configured to display different content on each screen. Historically, and Apple products aside, going back to the late 1990's the connector was VGA. More recently the connector tends to be HDMI.

So I'm curious what brand of laptop it is and whether or not it has a video connector.
Can we use a virus that eats/kills that bacteria and later we'll kill that virus.
WIX creates oxymoron “Enhanced MIT” license
Samourai Wallet Launches New Privacy Feature Ricochet
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428595
I find this whole thing, as in Oracle itself I guess, hard to understand.

In their presentations at Hot Chips for the past couple of years they've repeatedly highlighted hardware features which seemed to be only accessible using next gen Oracle software running on an upcoming version of Oracle's proprietary Solaris.

So if they're giving up on Solaris 12 development how are their customers going to fully leverage this new hardware they're buying from Oracle? If they're unable to use it, why buy/lease hardware from Oracle at significant premium when you can just use commodity x86 compute... and if you're just using commodity x86 compute why step up for the licensing costs of Oracle software if there is anything else on earth which might suffice?
Why we should all have a basic income
I have a few North Stars that keep me going:

* "Be a light" I can bring joy to other people in the world, and that there is still so much more to do.

* "Bask in the light of loved ones" The love of friends and family, even when I feel like I've let them down.

* "Don't be so hard on yourself" A self-love that allows me to forgive myself for my many fuck-ups. Not always without regret and never without reflection and learning, but eventually I do get there.

* "Don't stop dreaming" A deep-seated desire to help all fellow humans reach their fullest potential; to express themselves with their fullest freedom. This one is the most abstract, the "farthest" of my North Stars; it's so faint I'm sometimes not sure it actually exist. Perhaps this is the closest I come to that thing called "faith".
Show HN: BatchEncoder version 1.0 preview of multi-threaded conversion
I would say that there has to be some type of incremental reward but expecting to like life all the time is not the right mental place to be in. IMHO it is a huge cause of failure because it makes you so fragile to setbacks. It filters out far too many important journeys that will include brutally tough times. Such journeys can only be "liked" in the rear-view mirror when it includes the contrast with the good-times and relief/pride of overcoming the bad. If you do not expect to enjoy the journey but still commit to the destination, you have a better mindset to get there.

Pro-athletes are probably a bad example for anything other than being pro-athletes. I have got the impression from some of the interviews with swimmers and tennis players that they utterly loathe training with a passion especially when their way of life is was designed for them by their parents before they ever had any self-direction.
It does because one of the getting started tutorials features a GIF that suggests newcomers star their repository.
While I myself am fairly left-of-center, I acknowledge that "equality of outcomes" is one of the darker undercurrents of liberal thought. There are an amazing number of people who would prefer that everyone be held back, rather than suffer the inequality of some getting further ahead than others.
The fact remains, the TPP is about to be completely undone. That's not exactly particularly effective.
Facism?
yeah. really sad to see that type of- can i call it dark pattern?- on GitHub. obviously not an apples to apples comparison- but markdown-resume is where it's at anyway.

https://github.com/there4/markdown-resume
There is also a good blog post by Keith Robison on why DNA synthesis businesses are hard: http://omicsomics.blogspot.com/2017/01/gen9-vanishes.html