skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A data point from my personal experience: 15 years ago I started developing acute dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) which eventually got so severe I went to see a doctor about it. It was diagnosed as acid reflux, and I was prescribed proton pump inhibitors. That seemed to help for a long time, but a few years ago the symptoms started to return. They got so bad that I went back to the doctor, and this time was diagnosed with a newly discovered malady called eosinophilic esophagitis (EOE -- http://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/related-condi...). EOE is an allergic reaction in the esophagus, which made sense because the initial symptoms appeared shortly after we got pets -- a dog and a cat -- for the first time, and I'm allergic to both. Case closed, or so I thought.

A few months ago, despite the fact that both or dog and cat had long since died, my symptoms started to come back worse than ever. Things got so bad that at one point I was actually heading to the emergency room (I never made it because before we got there I threw up, which fixed the immediate problem). But that episode scared me enough that I made another doctors appointment.

There followed a truly bizarre confluence of circumstances: first, my wife fell down and broke her arm. Then my doctors office called to confirm my appointment, but my wife picked up the phone and thought it was her doctors office calling about her arm. She thought the appointment was for her, but she hadn't made an appointment, so she told them the appointment was a mistake an they should cancel it, which they did. I called to reschedule, and that delayed it for another few weeks. The day of my new appointment, my doctors office called and said they were running hours behind because of computer problems and needed to reschedule again. Bottom line: it has been several months now and I still haven't been able to see a doctor.

But here's the punch line: in the intervening time, my symptoms have completely disappeared. If I had been able to see a doctor, I would almost certainly have ascribed this positive outcome to any intervention she would have done. And yet there has been no intervention, but only because of these weird twists of fate that kept me from seeing my doctor. Moreover, I know there has been no intervention. And yet I suddenly feel better than I have in 15 years. It's really weird.
It's completely ridiculous. There's one way to distribute software on the second-largest mobile platform in the world, so we either have to pay whatever cut they shake us down for, or provide a terrible user experience by not even letting users click on a link to using our own subscription backend.
The US military still does. Sometimes burning new equipment never used.
I wonder if an increase in antibiotic-resistant organisms will lead to a resurgence in table manners and resistant clothing (e.g. gloves). Many of these rules were designed to reduce the spread of pathogens.

(This is not to ignore the fact that quite few were designed for social exclusion as well)
It's seriously great you see it that way. I wish there were more people like you.

As a bootstrapper, I compare it to my other (eg. living) expenses. $70 feeds me for several days.

You mention IntelliJ. I use another JetBrains IDE: PyCharm. A two year subscription cost me $66. Sure, I will have to pay again in two years time. But I would argue PyCharm is much more powerful than ST.

That's no criticism of ST. It provides tremendous value and as I mention in the post, I did buy a license. But I don't think that most people consider $70 "personal pricing". I wish it were that way because I'm selling a (ST-inspired) desktop app myself [1]. But I don't think it is.

[1]: https://fman.io
What research are you referring to?
I would try termius but I believe I have the entire Linux setup now on mobile. I am using Vim.
Auto immune diseases are all untreatable and severely reduce quality of life in some cases. One thing proven to slow their progress is stress reduction.

As you can imagine, being less stressed is really hard when you have a chronic illness. This is exacerbated by doctors ignoring you. Having anyone spend an hour to help you in any way is such a relief. I wouldn't be surprised if this played a large role.

As another example, my wife and I have had six miscarriages. We're 25 and both healthy and the many doctors we've seen agree. Well if the doctors don't have a diagnosis, they don't wanna see you.

When it comes to recurrent miscarriage, there is no treatment. They suspect there are likely auto immune diseases we don't know about. Indeed, this seems likely. Most studies on potential treatments cannot be reliably replicated. The only thing that has been shown to reduce miscarriage risk in future pregnancies is tender loving care-- having a doctor who will talk with you for hours whenever you want, and being taken care of.

So now we see a new matronly obstetrician. She's a bit quirky but we feel like she won't abandon us like the other doctors did. Her appointments are multiple hours long, and she's happy being paged in the middle of the night when we've found out we're pregnant again. At 5 am when you find out you're pregnant after five miscarriages, nothing is more calming than a soothing voice on the telephone

This doctor has also encouraged us to seek out alternate practitioners, like acupuncturists and massage. She doesn't believe in their treatments working per se (she's an md and is happy providing real treatments), but I think she understands they these practitioners will at least make you feel calm and taken care of. Whereas I used to laugh at people who would see them before, I get it now.

When you have a medical condition that is chronic and there's no end in sight and no cure available, you need a friend more than a doctor, and unfortunately, there's not much overlap between the two
dynamo and cassandra use consistent hashing of the primary key, ordered numbers are already hashed randomly.
It's not really the press that does this, it is the human psyche. It is why we have celebrities, in any field. Humans love to idolize others, for various reasons that have been deliberated upon for centuries by those in philosophy and psychology.
Facebook mines WhatsApp metadata [1]. I'm not sure I'd elevate WhatsApp over iMessage, despite my respect for the OWS team. Signal is definitely the most secure.

[1] http://bgr.com/2017/05/18/facebook-whatsapp-privacy-fine/
I am currently into voluntary poverty but that does not mean I could get a cheap laptop. I am currently far from my home, where I have a Ubuntu desktop as well as laptop.
I'm in the UK and evaluated CrashPlan a couple of years ago - IIRC, it was so slow it was going to take several weeks to upload my 1TB of data.
I see a lot of comments stating that mathematicians have high IQ and high test scores. Is there any data to confirm that or is everyone just speculating?
I read the book around a year ago and I remember him pointing out the uncertainty to his claims. It was simply his personal research and views which I think should be taken at his face value. Sure, there might be a few things wrong here and there but that book left a lasting impact on me with regards to how I perceive day to day generic things.
I'd answer: who are you to measure the value of your friends?

And also, if you have a hotdog stand, you cant pay Elon Musk a lot more than you would pay any highschool kid.

You say they have similar jobs, I'll say they aren't , one way or another. If they truly are similar jobs, then one of your friends is getting above his value, or the other below, with the consequences that come from that situation.

Value is truly a complicated thing to measure, and it has many axis where it can easily go "out of whack".
> if you are bothered by their attempts to safeguard their income stream from competitors who have a much easier time curating their own walled garden, you should cease using Google Search on Mobile.

You're making excuses for Google, but forgetting about smaller, independent companies. It is not in our interests to have our content appified and restricted inside of Google's walled garden. When a big company like Google (or its competitors) attacks the open WWW, then web publishers should oppose it.
This is the reason that Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs isn't really a course about programming but rather one about how to think about problems and their solutions. It does use programming as a tool in that process.
But he's not offering advice. He's offering a data point. There's nothing wrong with that.
Whats it like playing Monument Valley 2
> The best all-purpose cryptographic hash is probably truncated SHA-2 512

Could you elaborate on that please? Why would you consider it as the "best all-purpose cryptographic hash"?
I know your channel very well. Its praised everywhere because of such good content. I will be happy if you go through my main concern in the details and read the above discussion. Thanks again for such a wonderful channel. I'll surely learn from it when I'll cover the prereqs to understand what you're saying in those videos.
If Google is about cataloging the world's information and making a profit via advertising, then it might be in their interest to have healthier consumers over anxious and perhaps sick (mentally vulnerable) consumers. For example, they might prefer making a dollar in revenue selling a pair of eyeglasses over selling a bottle of night train.

In a symbiotic relationship it's in your interest for both entities to remain healthy.

In the alternative scenario, ultimately it ends in selling a casket, however presumably there is more money to be made in a healthy and happy customer.
Surprised not to see an ECS shoutout yet. I'm curious what the rap is on that that makes people walk right on past the AWS default option.

I've been really happy with ECS. Tons works out of the box. Last piece for me was figuring out a good way to do cron, but I just figured that out. http://blog.ratelim.it/blog/cron-jobs-on-amazon-ecs-with-dat...
It's possible that the fact that you have to pay more for it is actually what produces the beneficial effect.
thankfully europe hasn't followed the us over the cliff of endless VC money and bad business ideas
What about Telegram? Is there a reason you haven't listed it? I find it better that WhatsApp.
Initialization in C++ is Bonkers
The longer they remain paying customers for cell phone plans and cable bills, the longer they'll likely remain google customers.

Or, perhaps this falls under their "do no evil" mission statement!
From the release notes[0]:

> Support for NAT-T is now enabled by default. The IPSEC_NAT_T kernel configuration option has been removed. [r315514] (Sponsored by Yandex LLC)

All I can say is thank you! I use FreeBSD as, among other things, a VPN server/client and having to recompile my kernel to support IPSec (in 10.3) or to support NAT Traversal (in 11.0) has honestly been my biggest annoyance with FreeBSD. This will make upgrades a LOT easier for me.

Once 11.1 is released, I'm upgrading all of my machines.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/11-STABLE/relnotes/article....
Not contradicting your statements, but I thought I would offer a single anecdata point for a different perspective.

I take Alprazolam (generic for Xanax) in a low dose (0.25mg) 2 or 3/day. This makes the difference between my being able to work and not, so in my case it is certainly effective and beneficial. I haven't noticed adverse side effects at this low dose level.

After over two years of use, I haven't felt any need to escalate the dose. I have only one experience stopping (as an experiment). Disabling anxiety returned in less than five days and persisted without change for 3 weeks. Stopping was otherwise not difficult, certainly not "seriously horrible". Resumption of the med after four weeks off returned me to manageable anxiety levels in two days.

I've considered the tradeoffs inherent in long-term use and have decided for now to continue. Things that could change my mind about this: absence of relapse into disabling anxiety after an experimental stop; unambiguous demonstration of damage caused by long-term use; appearance of a better alternative.

Check with your doctor before using this med. There are contraindications and adverse interactions with other meds.

Further, anxiety is highly idiosyncratic, therefore YMMV. My mother was essentially disabled by chronic anxiety for her last 3 decades, and I suspect I'm predisposed to chronic anxiety. Others will of course present differently and need a different treatment plan.
Fine particulate matter was the lede of last century too. Asbestos (mesothelioma), talcum powder (ovarian cancer), titanium dioxide (it's in everything), plastic microbeads (voluntarily discontinued), 9/11 cleanup crew issues, Doritos flavor dust (I saw an article on this somewhere...)

How do we solve particulate getting in your brain though? Nanorobots for removal?
Great list! Donkey Republic ("global" but from Copenhagen) is missing though:
https://www.donkey.bike

And the one in Stockholm, whose domain is very close to yours!
http://www.citybikes.se
Was iXSystems a contributor to FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1?
DNT is flawed. As an user, I have no way to verify that DNT is honored. As such, I assume nobody respects DNT and proceed accordingly by taking my own tracking countermeasures.

You can also assume DNT is pretty much ignored. For instance, if I set DNT and I visit a website adhering with those EU cookie regulations, while I'm still being shown that cookies are being used to track me and that by using the website I agree (never mind that 3rd party cookies are already being sent)? I already stated that I do not want to be tracked.

Oh, but maybe you would assume setting the DNT preference in the browser does something meaningful, such as disabling 3rd party cookies, disabling beacons, ServiceWorkers and cache lifetime?

Nope. There is no point in honoring DNT: you are either tracking or not tracking your users depending on which resources you're including on your website. If you don't want to track your users, do not include 3rd party resources. If you do include 3rd party resources, then it's it's up to the 3rd-party to honor DNT.
> Anxious people are more likely to over-consume

Do you have a source for that ? (Eg empirical study)?

> are more likely to 'stay tuned in'.

Same?
I thought "genius", properly defined, was an ability to perceive things before the general public can. They discover not only what we know is difficult, but completely change how we think about that aspect of the world. Intelligence is important, but only one part of that quality, and does not have to necessarily be among the highest, as traditionally measured. As Nietzsche is often quoted, it lies on a line very close to madness.
I understand the frustration with AMP from a developer's perspective (SEO, stealing traffic..etc).
But as a user I tend to click links with a thunder bolt icon(AMP/Instant article) because they are just faster. I don't really recall any bad experience.
Colin's response nails it on the head (but also, some of the people Cathy is talking about are really, really scary smart).

For what it's worth, around 15 years ago, I personally had a "traumatic" and relevant experience involving the author (Cathy O'Neil) of the article we're discussing here, which I've never told anybody about. We are both number theorists, with a similar educational track (Berkeley, Harvard, etc., at similar times). She and I were hanging out in a pub in Cambridge, MA, and I was showing her a list of research projects I was very excited about and working on.

First, some background about me. In grad school at Berkeley, I had changed from worrying about "being a genius", to just being completely obsessed with doing mathematics research all the time, and actively simply not thinking about myself or social things. I had many clear experiences when working on research problems in which if I thought at all about myself and whether or not I was "smart" (or anything social), my progress would completely stop; however, if I could clear my mind of such worries -- about myself or others, then I could prove theorems and do good mathematics. So at the time I really embraced mathematics research itself over social concerns.

Anyway, Cathy and I were in a bar, and I was showing her (on my laptop), my list of projects. I really hoped she would find some of them interesting, and we might coauthor a paper together, since her thesis research was closely related to mine, but approached things from a completely different (more geometric) direction, which I personally found extremely difficult (at least, I didn't have the "interest" to master that approach, in the sense of Colin's comment). Well this is not at all what happened! Instead, of getting excited by any of the projects I proposed, Cathy got really, really angry at me for (I guess) intimidating her (?). I was never sure. I genuinely meant no harm.

For me personally at least, somehow worrying about the social aspects of research mathematics too much would make it impossible for me to actually do mathematics. I wonder if some of the other people Cathy alludes to in the article are similar, and if this has consequences. Anyway, it was a lesson to me at the time of the extent to which having a sense of "being in the zone" and not thinking about oneself (or social and emotional issues at all), can simultaneously be very conducive to research mathematics and also really piss off certain people.

I make no claims to be a genius or "emotionally mature" at the time, and I'm a different person today than I was then. However, there is (at least for me) a real psychological conflict between the social aspects of thinking about research and actually doing research; it is a very difficult challenge to balance the two.
>People are stressed because they are never free.

I disagree that this is the root cause. News media and social media have both become extremely efficient and high speed conduits for "stress loading" upon our population.

A local news story used to only isolate the stress to a small locality; now, however, mass media is amplifying and propagating this local stress all around the country. It's only going to get worse.
I did not say anything about Amazon, Google, Apple or other companies because those were not the subject. Note the 'not many' in the comment you replied to. The fact that other companies are bad does nothing to diminish what MS did (and I haven't seen Google finance a lawsuit against Linux yet, for one thing).

The reality of the present is that Microsoft is still at it with their telemetry, forced upgrades and piggy backing of things that further drive their business on what are supposed to be security updates.
What does this do that's different from the existing "favorite" feature?
Travis Kalanick may temporarily step away
Since they use their own in house crypto, most people don't consider it trustworthy:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr...
Introduction bot for slack teams
Well then I guess switching from combustion engines to electric engines will reduce this contamination. But how much new stuff that uses nano particles for all sorts of things is going to mess up our bodies and cause other health problems they will be dealing in the next century if we're still around.
This is a bit of a lame answer, but generally I put any potentially tracking content in javascript. I make sure my blog renders correctly without javascript. Finally, I put a warning saying that if the user does not wish to be tracked, then they should disable javascript for the site.

I can't really see any other obvious way to deal with it, unfortunately.
Yes, I do feel overwhelmed while reading Hacker News, 'cause it is the only community where I feel free from getting absurd ads. :)
But how do you even know which origins are trackers, as a site owner? I know that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are, but what about GitHub? I guess, one way to find out is by viewing your site in Firefox w/ Tracking Protection enabled, and checking if any requests were blocked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clich%C3%A9#Thought-terminatin...
Are you sure the symptoms you got by tapering off were because you not longer have the drug you need in your system, or because of discontinuation syndrome?
I think you underestimate how much influence media has on people.
I don't use GA, instead I have Piwik that's configured with to respect DNT.
Telegram can be confusing for users. Encryption needs to be turned on, and isn't available in group chats.

https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/papers/84.pdf Is super interesting when thinking about secure messaging from the perspective of ordinary folk.
I wish companies also realized this. We need to recognize and reward effective groups, not super good individuals. It doesn't matter how brilliant an individual is if they aren't in a group that will leverage that genius. Whatever, still somewhat mysterious, factors make that group work overall are the things the company needs to not trample on.
i used to have a pair of huaraches, but only the sole was from car tires.
What your describing is more like what ISPs will do without net neutrality. Browsers have financial incentives not to do that (e.g. there are well know free alternatives, and it's an important feature of android or windows that you can browse the internet).
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Excellent response.

The only thing I'd like to add is that you cannot design a system that allows for individualism and yet somehow does not require individuals "to be in a rational state of mind".

Besides, that is like attempting to "protect" a drug addict from the consequences of their actions. It is the one thing in the world that is worse for them than letting them suffer.
My personal website is without js and cookies - no tracking. Stats from server log.
2 replays ( "Letter To Editor" )

"The effect of nothing? Time to abandon the concept of placebo" ( Traeger, Adrian C.; Kamper, Steven J. )

Pain: June 2017 - Volume 158 - Issue 6 - p 1179

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000884

http://journals.lww.com/pain/Citation/2017/06000/The_effect_...

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"Are placebo pills presented as experimental treatment a true placebo?" ( Mestre, Tiago A.; Ferreira, Joaquim J. )

Pain: March 2017 - Volume 158 - Issue 3 - p 535

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000793

http://journals.lww.com/pain/Citation/2017/03000/Are_placebo...

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One option (which I'm using) is pretty simple: do not embed external content. When I need to refer to a youtube-hosted video, I simply put a link. It's not even because of DNT, but in an attempt to make lightweight and accessible websites.
AFAIK, Moxie(OWS Founder) was responsible for the integration of the Signal protocol into WhatsApp. So, if there are any design/implementation flaws in the underlying protocol, wouldn't they also be in Whatsapp too ? Again, this might not be the case and everything might be properly vetted but this just slightly increases the chance of an error propagating and be in both the messengers.