skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny you should mention PTSD. The treatment they describe in the article is reminiscent of exposure therapy for PTSD, except it seems to have a different theoretical basis. Rather than calming fear by repeated exposure in a safe environment, it looks like they're trying to blunt a reward response from hurting people by not giving them the reaction they're after.
Or you could look at it like an ingredient label on food or calorie count on restaurant menus.

Yes, there are allergens but there are other things that people just want to avoid due to personal preference.

Proper labeling can be helpful in lots of areas.
Although there are some places where they're more accepted than gay people or than they are the western world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexuality_in_Iran
image processing and effects using deep learning: http://somatic.io
Too bad so many people use it to create junk to dump on Amazon as it hurts the overall reputation of the achievement.
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That is already being done. The Department of Fisheries determines which animals go back to the wild, not VanAqua. The main detriment of this new ban is that now if there is a rescue that cannot realistically be later be returned to the wild after being rehabilitated, it will be necessary to euthanize instead.

And this is PETA's intention, they'd rather see an animal euthanized than be in captivity.
That wouldn't account for the fact that the lenses in your eyes are physically trying to focus on a different plane because of other cues in the scene. If you look at a close by object in VR (like say the gun you're holding) your eyes will automatically try to accommodate to render nearby objects sharp. By doing so they will actually make the gun blurrier, because it (like everything else) is rendered on a medium-distance plane, while your eyes are cued in to focus on a nearby object.

Or did I get that completely wrong?
From personal experience, GitHub Desktop is great for teaching people new to Git about how it works /prior/ to them being comfortable with Git on the command line. It's not something I'd use on a daily basis, but it does make it very easy to make your first commits and PRs - and visually see where you are, what changes you have staged etc.
Do not use topresume.com.

I paid close to $200 dollars and received garbage in response.

The "improvements" they recommended were some incomprehensible re-write of my existing sentences and "reformatting" into a garbage template.

@fecak runs a service called https://resumeraiders.com/ and for $40 I got over 20 bullet points of improvements which dramatically increased the quality of my resume.
> The definition of a business is an entity which provides goods/services to consumers.

That's not true. A business is a vehicle for making money, that's it. Most businesses do this by providing goods or services, but certainly not all - for example, financial traders that only manage their own funds, like the Renaissance Medallion fund.
I might be an outlier, in that I don't experience motion sickness / vestibular mismatch from VR, but I suffer from this focal issue pretty severely.

When I'm in VR, I notice it slightly, but it's easy to get used to. However, as soon as I get out, I find it very difficult to focus normally again, usually for about 4x the amount of time I was in. This can make it difficult to do anything that benefits from depth perception, such as driving, walking on uneven terrain, etc.

If this technique can improve that side effect, it would make quite a difference for me personally. No one else I've talked to about VR have this same experience, so it might only affect a subset of the population.
`git commit -am`

Boom. Less than 30 seconds. Even quicker if you have an alias like `gc`...
How to Use Let’s Encrypt on Kubernetes to Automatically Generate Certs
I don't think movie ratings are the cause of bland movies. The mass market has voted and superhero/transformer movies that cater to 15 year old boys are the biggest moneymakers. All the original programming has moved to TV, which is also subject to restrictions but is not the bland wasteland it used to be.
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"This doesn't take into account, not even rural areas, but areas that are simply not metropolitan cities. "

The report takes that into consideration that's why it states that "95 percent of U.S. passenger miles traveled will be served by on-demand autonomous electric vehicles owned by fleets". Simply, you fit in that 5% left.
We are three dedicated individuals who are devoted to simplifying technology and sharing information with the world. So we thought we would share with you our latest project.

We started this project because not everyone has the time to watch a live video stream or even attend the live event. So we decided to solve the problem by making a simple, interactive way to get started with our first MVP. We called it Vaniila Moments. Moments are snapshots of time expressed in your words and vivid photos. Imagine being able to share all your moments from last night’s party, this week’s tech conference, or next month’s political debate. People can then check out all the stories you've created and easily browse back and forth through your timestamped moments. Your stories will not get lost in a giant feed of posts. Instead, they stay as stories should-organized and kept-in-place.

The first prototype is still buggy, and missing a lot of features. We thought sharing early prototypes with online communities provided a lot of feedback and encouragement. If anyone has any questions about the product, I'd be happy to answer them or send us an email (at) hello@vaniila.com.
I don't see this being realistic or even desireable for the majority of people outside major cities in countries like the US.
> But even the menu bar they've come up with [...]

Menu bars are a native construct on both Windows and MacOS. They serve the same purpose but work differently on each platform. Users have expectations on how menus will behave, how they will look, and where they will be located. Using the system's menu bar construct gives the developer all of that for free.

I can't understand why any developer of a native application needs to "come up with" their own menu bar.
In this thread you'll find many native app developers who are dismissing Electron because they feel threatened.

Cross platform apps are the future. Each day I run at least three Electron apps simultaneously and have no problem whatsoever. You have to be paying close attention to notice, and the reality is that most people do not care.

In fact, I was so intrigued by Electron, that I started developing my own app. So far the experience has been pure bliss.
This is the bit that pissed me off the most. In their most recent email FastMail wrote:

>We're now contacting you again to remind you that from 31st July, 2017 our 'Member' level plans will be discontinued.

There is no reference to the fact that it was a life-time plan. Do FastMail think that people are just going to forget that fact? Are we supposed to be that dim?
How much does it cost to replace the gasoline infrastructure with charging in [rural USA]?

If wind and solar keep improving, eventually they'll have such a price advantage over fossil fuel that everyone in rural areas will just convert their gas engines to liquid anhydrous ammonia. Many rural areas already have distribution infrastructure in place, and with cheap enough power it can be made from water and air with fairly minimal manufacturing facilities.
curious how this will play out in the long-haul truck routes across the Australian Outback.

on the one hand it's currently large diesel or gas powered trucks with very large fuel tanks and few service/fuel stations en route.

on the other hand, if a 600 horsepower electric truck could be recharged at solar powered charging stations spaced out more frequently on all these remote roads -- well, they do have plenty of sunshine down there.
past loan performance data
> a non participating investor owning 25% of the business

That is absolutely a red flag. If someone owns 25% of the business, they better be working to grow, improve, or otherwise assist the business on a daily basis. If nothing else, out of self-preservation to protect and grow their investment.

If they're a 1% investor, that's a different story.
Cities will ban human drivers

Except it goes against basic human liberties like freedom of movement.
Are you saying that NoDak has generally available fiber internet at reasonable prices?
I agree with the other comments here that the timeline is a likely too aggressive, but it's probably not too early to start thinking in "death spiral" terms for a big chunk of the oil and gas industry.

It's not crazy to predict a pretty vicious feedback loop where at 15-25% EV car usage that gas stations start closing, more EV cars are sold so further gas stations close, as demand falls even further, even more close, etc.

I still feel like there are some weird brand/identity aspects to the denialism about the EV future.

If I introduced a gas powered vehicle tomorrow that:

- Had 1/3 the parts of today's vehicles

- Cost 1/10th the energy per mile

- Would work for 90% of people's commutes

- Comparable sticker price

There'd be no question that it would massive disrupt the current infrastructure.
Slack, Atom and Github combined is fine(fire) on my 2GB of RAM (operated by El Capitan). It's just like RAM no longer hold data as a cache (less cache hits) and has to write to disk frequently although SSD is much slower than RAM. Not too bad until .. I have to do videography editing, these dev tools have to be closed! All of them!
Historically that's one of the least anti-customer things MS has done. We old timers remember worse.
I don't know why these kinds of applications aren't developed in far better performing frameworks and languages. Github desktop has to process a lot of textual information. With the current version, I've frozen it and crashed it many times due to large files. I actually can't use it anymore due to that. Make it in c++ with QT or some other native toolkits, like every other gilded application of old has. It will 'Just work', which is what developers need. Not fancy UI's
I use VSCode now days, as my primary git commit interface. Some improvement are required in diff / merge, but it is very clean interface and never caused any ambiguity.

It is also an Electron application, but taking 1/2 battery then Slack, so reasonably efficient.
DigitalGlobe moves to the cloud with AWS Snowmobile
Different ways of wording automated HR answers.
At the end of the day whoever it is that is deciding that there is need they will have filled. This can be different from the person that will be the intended beneficiary of the task, or different from the person that will execute or oversee the execution of the task. Of course, this means the adjudication may happen after the fact, but it doesn't change who was initiating the action to make something "a task" and whether or not that person is satisfied with the outcome.

In the professional world, I call this "the person signing my check".

(Edit: ok, ok, there can be superseding criteria as well... mostly in areas where life/safety issues are at play).
Between git command line, gitk, and git gui I don't really see the need to try tools like SourceTree or this new GitHub Desktop Beta. Is there a compelling reason I'm missing?
Are you accounting for the possibility that rural America is not big and rich enough to uphold the world's gasoline infrastructure all by itself?
Cheap gasoline, as an industry relies on the economies of scale to a large extent.

That is what this article is talking about.

If the demand drops, the price goes up, leading to a further drop in demand, which drives up the prices, which...

At some point, it becomes more costly to continue supporting gas.
That's actually the perfect way to be. A startup hiring someone of your level to build an MVP is probably wasting a lot of cash. Most startups will never grow big enough to worry about performance. And if they do, they can afford to pay you to come and in fix their code.

That sounds like a balanced ecosystem to me.
The funny thing is that the filth was all inside her head.
Interestingly, those numbers are the same order of magnitude cost of a coder for 18 months. That feels right to me, that you'd get ~$100k, and perhaps retain .5%, basically demoting yourself to a (fully vested) second gen hire, and moving on with your life. No investor would see that as "dead weight".
"Stanford University economist Tony Seba" is not a real Stanford faculty member. He's a "thought leader" and "keynote speaker". It says so right on his web site.[1] He lectures at Stanford Continuing Studies, which is Stanford's edutainment night school. Current courses there include "Great Opera Performance" and "The History of Wine". There are no admission requirements for students. (I've taken a class there taught by a former personnel manager for a major hotel chain. Good insights on how to hire maids.)

[1] http://tonyseba.com/
"How much does it cost to replace the gasoline infrastructure with charging in North Dakota?"

Virtually every home in ND is already equipped with infrastructure that allows electric cars to charge.
The currency of the future has a settlement problem
It's hard to imagine how you could operate a successful torrenting site in 2017; they represent such a loss of income to so many people with expensive lawyers.
As long as the work truck daily cycle can be done in 1 charge then there isn't a problem at all. Top it off every night.

For long trips, ie 18 wheelers, yeah it is kind of a no go without quick-swap batteries.

Which isn't that huge of an obstacle imho.

But, all that said, no of course fossil fuel cars aren't going away in 8 years
I'm sure (I hope) in a couple decades people will pity us the same way we pity Middle Age feudal systems' peasants, and laugh at us for being so easily brainwashed into thinking our states are actual democracies.
I am overall a strong proponent of nuclear power -- but I gave you a point and bookmarked the article and this discussion under the "nuclear" tag for future reference.

I am a larger proponent of renewables in almost all forms, but they all share one really critical problem: they can't promise to scale to meet short-term spikes and drops in demand. For that, you need a fuel-based form of energy, and of those, nuclear is still the best we have.

(But demand for fuel energy can be reduced by rushing as quickly as possible to large-scale renewables and new energy storage technologies, and I hope that happens.)
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Why a PH link?
It does. It just isn't safe. The extra primitives for safer handling of pointers are main advantage of C++, D, Rust, etc. A worthwhile re-incarnagion of Modula-3 should have something similar.
Yep. Completely turned off from pricing to database "storage" to everything in between. Completely taking it off for my React project which I will transition to deepstream -- maybe.
What's going to happen to all the existing cars on the road in the next 8 years?
An awful lot of women have so little real choice that they are de facto forced into the role of mothering.

It boggles my mind that with all the years I have participated in good faith on this forum while largely failing to make the business connections I came here to make that men on this forum can say this sort of stuff to me with a straight face. I was one of the top students of my entire state in high school. I have six years of college. I worked for a Fortune 500 company for over 5 years. Yet I continue to be frustrated in my attempts to figure out some way to establish a successful and profitable business, but you are telling me women are free to choose something else at will in a world where men typically make more money than women and being a woman is a huge obstacle to breaking into business or otherwise having a serious career.

There is a reason an awful lot of women throw their hands up and either go along with marrying well or go into sex work. If my medical situation did not preclude sex work as a viable option for me, I would have thrown in the towel years ago and just moved to Nevada where that is legal.

The odds are very much stacked against women having career success like a man. To some degree or another, most women get a large portion of their money from a man they are either related to or sleeping with. Thousands of years of progress has not fundamentally changed that fact.
North Korea: A land of few computers and many hackers
This is the attitude that keeps dictators re-elected. Vote for stability!
Indeed, even if we had a good therapy for psychopaths in general, the ones who don't get in trouble with the law are the ones who are most dangerous. Why would a successful psychopath ever seek help?
There's a whole world out there outside of rural America. USA is #41 at 82.4% urbanization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country

Saying cars are going to be obsolete doesn't mean they'll all vanish overnight. Hell, some people still have horses around.

Still, those companies making ICE cars are fucked.
If it's not sustainable for their economy those companies will pick up and move once the market demands higher wages and better worker protections (or just can't afford the subsidies anymore).

The clothing industry does this all the time — they'll build up a local economy until it's too expensive, and then move on to the next desperate area.

If you're trying to be appealing to industry by racing to the bottom you're essentially fighting an extended battle for last place.
This is true of the software engineering profession in general. I think there's a quote somewhere stating "the half-life of a software engineer is 2-5 years." There's constantly new programming languages, new frameworks, new platforms, new tools, new paradigms etc. It becomes harder and harder to keep up with all that as you age and have more responsibilities and require more stability having a mortgage and offspring (although there's certainly individuals that can keep up with it).

Those who are still in school or fresh out of it will be up-to-date with the latest theory and trends. And they will be eager to pour hours of overtime into their new career. Sure, they will have years of practical experience to gain, but that's not usually what they will be interviewed on (from my experience). They will be interviewed on the latest tech and the algorithms and theory they learned in school. Their whiteboard interviews will be another day from class.

Given the influx of fresh blood, I view the software engineering profession as a entry-level type of job, regardless of the varying levels of seniority titles available. The only way to escape the constant churn is move to other roles, such as architect, management, executive or to start a business such as in niche consulting or a startup, etc. Or you can eschew the typical life of mortgage + kids and dedicate it to keeping up with every latest trend, hopping jobs to stay current and hoping you never slow down.
Brendan

Love your work on DTrace.

Have you seen / configured a system that keep the FTRACE/DTRACE log data in memory during a crash/ reboot cycle for postmortem kernel crash type analysis?

If so, love the see any reference to how to setup something like that for typical x86 Linux.

Did that long time (10+years) ago on MIPS+vxwork/Linux with someother trace log type system. Miss that capability.....

Thanks
Ex-Sony CEO no longer keeps emails online
Why in the world did this get downvoted? It's simply expressing an opinion contrary to the article's super optimistic timeline.
I was about to add them to our tracker list. :(

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down.

Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?
You're implying that Musk's "follow through" is a result of his money and connections, when the reverse is true.

Yes, of course, now that he has money, connections, and a powerful reputation, that makes it easier for him to do things. But he created the money, connections, and power by being able to do things even when he had none of them.
Hmm, yes, the readable() value does look like a function call with the sort of unforgiving, indecipherable syntax that can give a non-programmer trouble when they have to do more than paste a sample (e.g. actually enter a filename, including the path). That blurs the "programming" line more.
Just the normal version of Chrome. All plugins off yields the same result.
Sounds like an academic wants attention.

The replacement rate for the consumer-fleet is, depending on who's counting, somewhere between 10.2[1] or 11.5 years (can't share the source).

So right there, the prediction requires millions of car owners to find more value in switching than the cost of 2.2+ car-years. Granted, network-effect pickup is not linear, but I have difficulty seeing how that happens. I still see commercial interstate transport as the first place we see real change, and would be surprised if eight years from now 50% of long-haul trucks are automated. The sunk costs in gasoline infrastructure are enormous, and I just don't see the countervailing pressure to force abandoning it without what I would consider frankly draconian legislation[2], and now.

And you can guess my estimate of those odds.

[1] https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/study-shows-that...

[2] For reference, I'm pretty far on the "you climate-denier morons are killing us all" side. I just don't see how you destroy that much wealth with anything not draconian.
Your responses are encouraging. Hopefully the customer service example you set today will be followed by the rest of Google!
Unless your liberty to drive your car infringes on my liberty to breath a clean air.
I guess the challenge is one of UX; if you're hiding features behind specific sign-in patterns (to avoid security services) then you're also hiding them from a proportion of your users
All discussions of killer whales (which inevitably include Blackfish now) remind me of that Phoenix Wright case where he defends a killer whale accused of murder (Spoiler alert: the real killer was a person!).
The cutting edge of formally verified hard-realtime safety-critical software is academic and open source. I would only want to ride in a flying car if its control code was written by public cooperation and was publicly auditable.

The last thing I want is for people to ride around in missiles powered by Windows Embedded or Java SE Embedded, contracted out from Chevy to some software farm in India, with no public oversight except for the fact that Chevy's lawyers can convince the NHTSA that it satisfies whatever harebrained safety checklist the government came up with.

Avionics is a special case in terms of cost, level of automation, homogeneity of products, and level of pilot expertise, which makes the use of some one-off Ada software Boeing wrote 30 years ago much more reasonable.
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Agreed that Tesla likely couldn't exist without battery technology that's developed only in the last several years, however, a Tesla is a lot more than a battery. No company has stepped up to say, "let's build a consumer electric sports car" or "consumer electric SUV" or "consumer electric luxury sedan", and that's probably down to stale corporate culture more than any single other reason.
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> It's impossible to imagine this ever happening in India.

It was impossible to image that in China also till a few years ago.
If that's what people demand then that's what they'll supply. If it wasn't a profitable venture, they would not be creating it.
Hint to electric car dealers: Charge up before the test drive