skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Florida we have the Baker Act, which is common knowledge in FL outside even mental healthcare circles, and is a 72 hour involuntary institutionalization for examination.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Mental_Health_Act
Yes, but this is expensive and difficult, and not many people volunteer to participate.
Is it one or the other? You can do both, right? Open source is great; as is building for the future. That is no reason you can't write something fun during a hackathon once in a while.

In my 20 years of professional coding, I've seen a lot more problems with people promoting code to shared status, attempting to build a foundation, before it's been used and before it's even remotely ready than I've ever seen with people throwing away good code. We're taught in CS school to always abstract and generalize, way too many people run with that and write code that abstracts away their specific problems, and build foundations that aren't sitting on the bedrock of solving a real problem. Almost all open source projects that start with the aim to build foundations are thrown away.

On the flip-side, one of the common goals of a hackathon is to build the best and most useful idea you can, quick and dirty, without getting mired in foundation building. The utility of that is to prove the idea is useful first, and if that succeeds for someone, what better starting place is there for building a foundation?
Every state does it differently but in California, you can be held involuntarily for up to 3 days just on the judgement of police or a psychiatrist but being held longer than that does require a hearing with a judge and an attorney where the patient, however impaired or not, can plead their case.
Here's what I read: they had a solution written in Node.js; they rewrote the solution in .NET Core; it was 20x faster. It's anecdotal, sure, and Microsoft prompted them to write it, and YMMV, but they did a thing and it had a remarkable result so they've remarked on it. It's not realistic to expect them to take the time to build a representative sample that doesn't expose any of their proprietary business logic; they're running a business and have more important things to do.

Anecdote of my own: I was working on a web bug that had to generate a few v4 UUIDs on every request, and using a version of Node for which the libuuid wrapper wasn't working, so I was using the fastest script-based generator I could find, but it was still too slow. A .NET Core version of the same code handled something like 40x the number of requests on the same hardware.

If nothing else, it demonstrates that using the same solution for all your different problems is A Bad Thing, because there are surely things that .NET Core is not particularly good at either.
i was taught that this was "bucket brigade" writing.

http://websitecopywritingservices.com/blog/bucket-brigade-co...
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We were planning on it but ran out of time ;)
http://picturap.com/
Maybe somebody could get ahold of Dr. Daniel Amen's data. Amen (almost an actual phrenologist!) also makes another great example of prominent nonsense in the field. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/daniel-ame...
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I really wish the Qt Company would stop bundling QtCreator as a required component of the Qt SDK.

I use QtCreator as my main IDE & think it's great, so of course I install new versions as soon as they become available. I compile & test against several different versions of Qt though and every single one of them lumbers me with an additional out-of-date copy of my IDE. This bugs me - more than it probably should.
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They should apply deep learning to this :)
Thin Docker images with multi-stage builds
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I don't understand how someone might feel self-actualised because they paid 100K to climb a mountain which thousands of people of all ages have already climbed before.

Like many things in life, it probably has more to do with the weather conditions and the phase of the moon than your abilities as a person. To derive your self-esteem from external things which are almost entirely outside of your control makes no sense to me.
Developers should be involved in managing everything about their applications, including infrastructure.

As a software engineer, there is just no way I can stay up to date with my craft as well as everything there is to know about infrastructure AND the all important security. I don't know about all the latest kernel patches and firewall rules. I don't know about monitoring failed hard drives. Etc.

I mean, I do know a lot about deploying and maintaining my running software, but Ops has a ton of other concerns that themselves are a full time job and I already have my time fully consumed by development tasks. I'm also ok with being pushed enough of the work so that I don't accidentally make software that's a PITA to deploy or manage and that I don't needlessly wake somebody else. That doesn't mean that I can take on the entire job (well, I can, but I wouldn't be doing as good a job, especially when security and such is concerned, and I wouldn't be doing as good a development job either). What next - DevOpsSalesMarkettingAccounting?

Much better, IMO, is to have small tightly-knit cross-functional teams which include an ops engineer.
It's funny to me that for the most part, they are taking all of the same financial hit. This is such a meaningless gesture and it doesn't reflect well on the company. It is a very short term perspective.
Citation, please?

The SGX enclave is totally unrelated to JavaCard.
AI is a vague term. What we are trying to do is capture the human mind's ability to solve problems in general. Otherwise it's like solving a crossword puzzle and calling the solution AI. It's the solving that is of interest not the solution. These game playing algorithms are all trained on human games with algorithms designed by humans. The only computer contribution is the ability to churn through permutations really quickly, which is not intelligence. Intelligence is the reduction in state space so it is small enough for the churning to be of value. No AI can do this state space reduction for us yet. We always need a human.
This is a totally fair request, but I am also super busy. Is there any point in particular I can get you some references about?
That's because link is dead.
"You gain nothing by including network communication between those different pieces of code."

I consider the network aspect of the communication a bit of a side show here. What's important is the information flow. Even if you've got a monolith, you've got some components, and if you are taking such good "advantage" of your monolith that the communication flow between modules is not something that is clearly specifiable and understandable because of the global variables and shared state and shared everything else, what you've got there is a mess, not a beautiful shining example of architecture that obviates the need for microservices.

Or possibly, you've just got something too small for the microservices to be relevant. Which is totally a thing, and I totally agree with the various things that say "Don't write your startup as microservices".

But eventually as your size grows large enough, you will either end up with components so nicely separated that putting a network between them doesn't affect them all that much, or you will have a big ball of mud that nobody can move around anymore. If you don't have one of those, you just aren't large enough yet. Humans can not code the way biology tends to work; we need bite-sized chunks of a larger system to get our heads around.
Correct. News style prose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style

In disagreement with the parent's snarkiness, I would argue there's a fine line between efficiently structuring written information to convey important news in a time sensitive manner and using bright red numbers to keep users swiping your app all day. Especially when it comes to messing with peoples self-worth and validation!

"You may have won $100! Watch these 5 advertisements to find out!" is gross but palatable to me.

"People might like you! Refresh the page and view another ad to find out!" is appalling.
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"Yes this should be tried", or "Yes, someone has started doing this"? If the latter, can you please post a link to their effort?
I'd love to switch to a modern, React editor, but sadly they're all for 'rich text', but not full HTML, so I'm stuck with TinyMCE.

I realize my use case is uncommon, which is users tweaking HTML emails before they are sent.
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Facebook is such a mega-center of cultural life, that for it to have a black-box method of permanently banning people is dangerous, however you may feel about the "attitudes" of the people who're ostracized.

Maybe I am inflating their role.
Let's not fall into the trap of assuming that since CIA-funded scientists performing secret and unethical experiments to accomplish military-political objectives couldn't make the drugs work, that it couldn't be done above-board by clinicians who genuinely want to cure a bona fide brain defect that is utterly devastating to everyone who would ordinarily be close to the affected individuals.

MK-Ultra wanted to make normal people more biddable by the US government. That's a far cry from attempting to cure the apparent combination of antisocial personality disorder and narcissism that seems prevalent in the behaviors of many of the worst heads of state (and other, less-privileged government officials) known to history.

We know it's possible, because the majority of humans manage to grow a sense of empathy attached to their limbic system that actually makes them feel bad when they hurt other people and feel good when they make other people happy. The human brain naturally develops this capacity when exposed to the correct combination of chemicals and stimuli. So I have to believe that a cure is possible, because otherwise we have no business letting those monsters anywhere near our livelihoods, our relationships, or our institutions. They are currently physiologically incapable of caring whether the rest of us live or die, feel fear or joy, love or hate. They might as well be randomized time bombs strapped to stray cats. If you let them go, you have no idea where or when they will go off.

I believe that a significant fraction of the world's ultra-rich elites are either naturally narcissistic sociopaths, or have conditioned themselves to numb their sense of empathy and their humility. If the dangerous ones can be cured, they don't all have to be indiscriminately thrown under the guillotine next time. Because that often just allows the reserve corps of narcissistic sociopaths, formerly kept in check by the previous top predators, to assume power.

I want to believe in a cure. If I couldn't believe in that, I would have to support committing crimes against people whom I cannot be certain are truly antisocial personalities--in the name of the "greater good", of course--and that would mean that I would be one of the monsters unfit to participate in civilized, cooperative society. I'd have to wonder whether I genuinely wanted to help other people, or whether I was just removing the competition for their future exploitation.
> I used to work for a social network. We used to have 3-hour meetings every week to discuss how to get the users addicted and keep them that way.

This makes me curious. How was the company culture while you were there? Did the company treat its employees any better?
I didn't finally watch Citizen Kane till a few years ago, and somehow I'd made it my whole life without the end being spoiled.

I can't say the same for Soylent Green.
This is neat stuff. I see immediately how it interacts with things like Mastodon and MediaGoblin. I'd like to see how it could be made to interact with IndieWeb stuff. Particularly, how minimal could you make an ActivityPub server and still have it federate with the things you want it to federate with?
I suppose, and I'm a big Purescript & Haskell fan these days but...

My take is that Common Lisp was never really truly a functional language. It has always been a hybrid language that focused on the unique aspects of Lisp first, and everything else second. Lisp's focus on superior macro facilities, the CLOS, and the MOP really shows in the spec. CL primitives were never as concerned about general composability as they were about offering syntax to cover every conceivable case.

To some extent, I miss this philosophy. Meta-syntactic programming is something important and fundamental to language (as opposed to the monadic style of haskell which is more fundamental to computation).
Completely forgot to update this.

It's apparently to do with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...) due to come into force in May 2018. I'd imagine this is specifically linked to the requirement for data-controllers to be able to prove consent.
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A practical explanation of Naive Bayes algorithm
I wonder what the ratio of attempts to make a point fully and well ends in "Oh fuck it. I quit." compared to attempts that actually succeed.
I have a friend who buys boring SaaS and doesn't require any existing employees to stay on. Send me an email via my HN profile if you want me to put you in touch.
https://www.facebook.com/settings > Download a copy of your Facebook data.
I figured it out. You need to store several encodings of the same file. One in webm for most cases, and one in mp4 for all other cases. If a platform doesn't support webm or Mp4, it probably couldn't play the video anyway.
DevOps, is a developer, that do admin stuff, because the development environment became more complex with the introduction of virtualization , cloud technologies and big data

Admins who do Dev work should be called OpsDev ...

A DevOps, is a Developer , someone who started as a developer and now do extra admin and systems work

Not the other way around ..
It's pretty big by default on my desktop view too, though the justification is probably less intrusive than what you're seeing. Still enough that it's something I noticed immediately, though, and I'm not even a designer.
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We're in an interesting cultural moment for narratives like this, between Her, Ex Machina, GITS, Alien: Covenant, the upcoming Blade Runner 2049, and the great TV show Westworld.

This is my favorite essay on these themes, tying together threads spanning from ancient myths to contemporary movies: "The Robots Are Winning!" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/06/04/robots-are-winnin...

One interesting thing I've understood when discussing GITS the anime vs the new movie is that in the anime, Motoko embraces her cybernetic body, so the question is: What does it mean to be human? But in the new movie, Major is the first cybernetic body, so the question is more: Who am I? This an interesting essay by Hideo Kojima about the differences: http://www.glixel.com/news/hideo-kojima-on-the-philosophy-be...

By the way, people into GITS might like this post we made about shots in the movie recreated from the anime:
https://medium.com/@gitsost/a-love-letter-to-ghost-in-the-sh...
I worked at an inpatient hospital that had monthly productivity reports. My salary was totally independent of them, and I still quit after a few months because I didn't like the implication. I would encourage your wife to do the same. For most of us, that's not why we went to med school.
May be a stupid question but: can you suck it up until the acquisition goes through, take the money, leave, and try bagging stuff at a grocery store for a few months?

Does the acquisition involves you signing a contract and being forced to stick around for a few years?
I mean, it's hard to truly know what somebody else is experiencing and to give advice in a situation like that. But if you're that close to an acquisition and if the acquistion stands to make a material difference in your life going forward (like, does it get you to "fu money"), then I'd lean towards "suck it up and stay long enough to cash out". OTOH, if the acquisition gets you, say, enough money for a new car, but not enough to retire, (just to use made up parameters), then maybe it makes sense to just walk away. But even then, I wonder if you'll feel a lot of regret over spending so much time building something, and then walking away right before a big milestone.

Maybe a nice, long vacation would be a good step before making any drastic decisions. Could you arrange to take 3-4 weeks off and go somewhere quiet and relax for a bit before deciding?
Honestly most of the results are really poor. I would recommend using https://www.typewolf.com instead.
It looks really good on desktop.

I find it really annoying that we now have to design/develop for different screensizes. The web used to be much more simpler when we were just making 1024*768 pages with <table>s
But the WHO is not a charity. It is more something akin to the World Bank, UN, or IMF. Members typically fly businesses class.
Don't read this before bed then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
Mm, no. The user is not the product. The user is labor. Our labor is to collect information about Facebook's customers' customers.
I'm not sure there's an organised one but a lot of people blog and the majority of people who are not professional mountain types don't actually make the summit.
How do you mean? Laws that prevent services from targeting ads and content based on their users' identities?
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If you do functional, check out Certified Programmjng with Dependent Types by Chlipala, Programming with Proofs by same, and Concrete Semantics. For tooling, QuickCheck and QuickSpec are interesting.
An interesting podcast on hiring engineers that talks about interviewing, http://blog.ycombinator.com/hiring-engineers-with-ammon-bart...

The reason I suggest it is because knowledge and insight into the hiring process might make the interviews less stressful.

Good luck.
What parts are left uncovered by the malpractice system?
The software is in AmiNet. Accounting software existed even at the time. What did not exist is the business community - by going for the consumer media market, Commodore inadvertently alienated the more boring business customers.
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I've assumed HR is primarily about providing legal cover for the business and it's upper management. HR exists primarily as a mechanism to minimize staff/employee lawsuits.

Sure, they also do the paperwork for health care enrollment and track your vacations and such, but that's a fairly minor role. At least that has been my experience. Maybe I'm cynical, though?
I just graduated this week and I had to learn Scheme in School.
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Your game is amazing! I'm particularly intrigued by the 3D-ness of the sprites and how smooth all of the animation is. Can you suggest any resources for learning more about the process of making similar content (without giving away your secret sauce, of course)?
Are any of the cryptocurrencies out there with a "monetary policy" aim of fised exchange rates, IE a digital derivative of USD or EUR? I know this is sort of heretical in that it abandons some of the lofty, revolutionary goals of digital currency but...

Currencies like e-pesa or the simpler share-able phone credit pseudo-currencies, give their users stable values. It's hard to imagine a neigborhood shop in Manilla dealing with bitcoin's volatility.

I think you need either (1) very fast, cheap & easy ways of converting to hard currency or (2) price stability.

I was hoping that bitcoin would develop the first. That way bitcoin could work as a sort of infrastructure, with most people thinking in fiat currencies but the actual transaction taking place in bitcoin. That hasn't really happened.

^Oh, and I generally like the idea of bootstrapping up to full fledged currency from an embedded, toy currency base. Good luck Kik.
This is the difference between a real time operating system and one that is not. See BeOS for a newer take. Or MorphOS.

(X86 has a few things that can break realtime performance, such as broken firmware handling of SMI.)
Also these are not safe areas. If you drive by road you will get stopped by bandits. It's certainly happened to me.
> Does the acquisition involves you signing a contract and being forced to stick around for a few years?

Yes they range from 3 to 5 years, with much of the compensation coming from future earnings.
So is resetting an account that used a wrong email a CFAA violation? Seems like it can be.

I think the better option if you aren't going to verify ownership of email addresses is to have a clear and simple way to detach an address from an account (if this makes the account useless, delete the account entirely).

I say this having been on the wrong side of trying to remove my address from all sorts of services.
With respect to the TechEmpower benchmarks, if you look at Round 13 [1] they note that ASP.NET got 859 times faster in their benchmarks since Microsoft dedicated effort to improving it.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/blog/2016/11/16/framework-benchm...
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I do it the same way as you and it's a hell of a lot better than this. Everything is set up specifically for the client/project you're working on at the time – SSH keys, Git config, documents, mail accounts, passwords, you name it. All focused on the specific project and all isolated.

As far as the initial setup is concerned, this is fairly easily scriptable. Pretty much everything in System Preferences can be set using `defaults write`, there's loads of dotfile management tools, and most other things can be generated with templates using something like Cookiecutter. You can get a completely customised user account in a few seconds just by running a script and answering a few questions.