skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drug trials for mood disorders (etc) often show a really strong placebo effect, and I've heard some speculation that this happens for a similar reason.

People running the trial really want you to complete the study. The payments are structured to encourage this, but the staff also try to be warm and friendly to encourage you to come back, and this (along with getting out of the house and checking something off a to-do list), helps lift people's mood.
I've used Hockeyapp a few years ago for testing iOS apps and the whole workflow was a nightmare because of Apple's restrictions. You had to get users to send in IDs, add the IDs to Apple's site, download a file with the IDs in them, add the file to your app then build and deploy each time you wanted a new tester. You can't run OSX on e.g. AWS/EC2 so setting up continuous integration was troublesome and there was only unofficial third party tools for building from the command-line. Xcode and app installs would also fail all the time with obscure errors about certificates and Googling for solutions turned up hundreds of threads with different solutions and other developers being stumped.

Have things improved?

Beta testing with Android is easy. You can build the app on any OS you want from the command-line and send the app to anyone with no restrictions.
Antarctic base waits on 'Halloween' ice crack
Just say "you look at the manhole covers and ask 'why'; I look at the same covers and ask 'why not'"

That's the secret answer at McKinsey.
Jordan works for 2-pore guys . A start up who aims to repurpose blood glucose meeter tech to allow people to test their blood for other things in a similar way .
Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell
> This article is indeed very shallow and clearly author hasn't bothered to do some research.

Well, yeah, but the thing concerning here is HN upvoted it to the top. I have nothing against the author.

> As for k8s - would recommend it for anything from hobby projects to large prod deployment

That's what I am saying. IMO, the reputation that it has to be used only if somewhat wanted to manage very large number of servers is a little misleading. I think Kubernetes can feel very intimidating at the start but it's not that hard.
A very large part of comedy is knowing your audience.
This is from 2011. I'm not an expert, but things might have changed since the publication of the article.

That said, I remember reading this when it came out and it was very enlightening.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. That is very helpful!
Could you maybe tell me what parts you are specifically referring to? Because we actually try to collect as less information as possible. So do we for example not even ask for the name of the users. The only thing we ask for is an email address.
The tracking (with for example Google Analytics) is used to know how many people are active and how the page is used to know what features to concentrate on to improve link.fish further (surveys are nice but are never as exact as actual usage data).
We also do NOT display any ads nor is it every planned (hate them myself). What is maybe planned in the future (and can then also get deactivated for future paid accounts) is to send users special offers in which they could be interested. Like for example if somebody bookmarks a lot of apartments we can assume he wants to move and so he is maybe interested in getting 20% off for a moving service and/or DSL.
Because we will not do any of that soon and currently I am only interested in honest user feedback you can simply sign up and write me an email to jan@link.fish . I will then make sure that as soon we have pro accounts you will get a free one. Thanks!
Amazon.com also has a tendency to combine different (but related, sort of) products into the same page as different "sizes" or "styles" supposedly of the same product.

Reviews from all of these are merged, as are the Questions & Answers.

For a current example, https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056OUTBK/ref=oh_aui_de... combines listings for computer cases in a variety of tower and rackmount sizes, server racks, drawers, and rails. Separate items all available as options on this page.

For reviews, Amazon now labels them with the "style", i.e. one review is for the "Server Rails" style, while another is for the "Server Case" style (though there are a half dozen different "Server Case" style items on the page, each with different characteristics). Questions & Answers are just a free-for-all that requires humans to sift through context and figure out which product is actually being discussed.

One of the questions on the linked product page, ironically asks, "Do I need rails to mount this in a rack?" It's a complicated question to answer because the question could have been posed about one of the many 2U or 4U cases ("yes", unless maybe one of them ships with rails) or it could have been asked about a tower case ("no, this isn't rack-mountable"), or it could have been asked about the rails or the rack themselves (as humans, we screen these possibilities out by context and logic), or about the shelves offered (not a completely unreasonable question -- maybe a shelf could be sold without rails?).

Or if we're not so observant, we click Buy after reading Q&A and reviews, only to later learn that we bought a different "style."
I've been staring at the half life 3 loading screen for the last 6 hours. I don't think it's going to start.
I made major dietary changes before I went on meds. My overall health improved a lot, but mental health improvements were insufficient.
Drug overdoses, which can be decreased with better mental health care, better pain management, and more equitable societies

Accidents, which can be decreased with better public policies, better education, and automation
If you think the NYT is unbiased, you might do well to read a few alternative sources for a while to compare and contrast. Once you've been to other lands, it's easier to spot the oddities of one's usual locale.

But more importantly, even if the NYT were entirely unbiased, that does not mean that it's good for your mental state to be reading it. Being exposed to a lot of problems that you cannot do anything about might not be a good thing.
I'm considerably older, and I too have no nostalgia for the past, but I certainly have a broader view on many tech topics than my younger colleagues. A couple of days ago I was explaining to a couple how at one time the line printer was the primary output for users, no monitor of any kind. This made separate characters for line feed and carriage return important, in that you could program with them to create better (but still very primitive) graphics.

But today is certainly the golden age of software engineering. I'm still excited about many things, and learned about a significant new area of interest to me just a couple weeks ago.
Same here, same age range. I miss nothing about the 80s or 90s except not investing in the right skills or stocks earlier. Today is full of far more potential and choice, imo.
The repo for stockfish.js can be found here https://github.com/niklasf/stockfish.js

(maybe someone more familiar with the lichess architecture could go into a bit more depth here)
I regret not getting more into Math in college; only got as far as Linear Algebra even though I was pretty good at it, even relative to people in the class. For some reason, I did believe you had to be really exceptional to major in Math. I think it was, in part, because there were a couple really talented kids in high school and everyone including the teachers put them on a huge pedestal. I never felt like I measured up, and if you were smart but not the type to dominate math league, something like Chemistry or Biology were more suitable. Having since met many math majors and even phds, I know know my assumption was kind of false. I look at those talented kids; they're doing advanced degrees or research at top tier universities, and I realize that wasn't the route you had to be on. Oh well.
If you try to make a Signal-compatible server you'll be pushed out of business though. It's shared source, not open source.
A lot of this is because of 3rd-party sellers. To make things easier, I usually filter by "ships from and sold by Amazon". Some of the pricing and "styles" for 3rd parties are ridiculous because they're algorithm-driven. That's likely why the $9.99/oz price happened. https://www.fastcompany.com/3060803/algorithmic-pricing-is-c... has some context on why and http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 talks about how . TL;DR Amazon picks (using their secret algos, ofc) which selection should be the default among the sellers. Everyone wants to be that to get more sales. Sellers then fix the price to a different item which has the price sometimes fixed to that other item, or potentially a loop with more products involved. They then proceed to algorithmically price each other far beyond normal costs for the item.
DI frameworks were not originally introduced to replace boilerplate.

They were originally intended to move the behavior changes provided by DI from compile time to configuration time.

This was especially valuable when you are delivering enterprise software to sites you don't control and you need to support a wide array of integrations.

They also happen to reduce boilerplate & DI can help with test-ability so they were adopted for that as well, but if you are only doing DI for tests and only using a framework to reduce lines of code it's a fairly widely accepted anti pattern.

I believe your basic assumptions about DI are wrong. The reason it hasn't taken off in the golang world is that the kind of software it was used for is less common & if you are writing it you'd not use golang for a host of reasons, none related to initializer syntax.
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Bad Broadband Market Begs for Net Neutrality Protections
You should try meditating a few hours a day.
I suspect the reason they felt better and more vital is that the change of mindset and environment altered their biochemistry.

How we feel and what we think of ourselves affects our levels of Testosterone, Cortisol, Serotonin, etc. Even a 5 minute conversation can give you a T boost of 30%+ ... or believing that you're perceived as high status alters your Serotonin. Those hormones in turn make you more vital.

So who knows what was the reason... maybe more social interaction with strangers? Or simply putting their mind into a different, better place?

http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/TheBiochemistryofStatusandtheFunc...

http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/topics/courtship/roney%20et%20al_200...
It's LOSE, not loose. Sorry, this is apparently the one occurrence that sent me over the edge.

Lose rhymes with news. Loose rhymes with Bruce. If you can say "Bruce is in the news," you're halfway there.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bruce+news&kp=-2&ia=news

You can lose a fight, lose money, lose your wallet. You can fight a losing battle, you can be a loser baby. Rikki shouldn't lose that number.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zqf35Rm1Fg&t=00m23s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA

You can be born to lose like Ray Price or Ray Charles. Or you can be born to lose like Lemmy. Or like Johnny Thunders you can be born to lose, but then everybody always wonders if it's really "Born Too Loose." Don't pay attention to that shit yet, that's far too advanced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ4fMEJUDhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsOmizjm0Xw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWB5JZRGl0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLowvi4bP18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQoDCEKZyQw

Loose is mainly an adjective as in loose booty, loose women, loose screws. You can hold on loosely, you can bust loose; you have the choice of givin it up or turnin it loose, you can be on the loose, or you can be let loose from the noose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HIIErMKNnY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwHi10qX8u8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=921kqkHOHDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx7XbV82JfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA&t=00m31s

You can't really loose too many things (as a verb), unless you want to sound somewhat archaic... but if you did, it would essentially mean "turn loose" or "make loose." Like "Loose the hounds" or "Loose the shackles," or "Loose the fury of Hell itself upon those who mix up 'loose' and 'lose.'"
Is not it better to serve scripts from your server? It gives you more control and you don't have to share your visitors data with Google. With external hosting you get more downtime, and in some countries Google servers are blocked so you get less visitors.
I don't have the resources right now to condense the arguments or cite the evidence, but the Skeptics with a K podcast [1] has recently done a whole series on why the article and pretty much every other study mentioned in the comments so far is not any evidence of "the mysterious power of the placebo" but actually misuse of analysis on experimental biases. Well worth a listen.

[1] http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/category/podcast/skepti...
I think you mean speed of a cheetah? They/we definitely have the cheetah beat on stamina, as you describe.
sure, it's "because" of the third-party sellers but it's still amazon's fault. If they want to provide options for third-party sellers in their product listings, it's amazon's responsibility to make sure those listings are correctly categorized.
At least Wire doesn't refuse to start and works fine even if I refuse to allow it to read my contact list and the software was open sourced:

https://github.com/wireapp

Signal doesn't work without a phone number and it doesn't have a web app, otherwise it's great if you only use it on the phone.
This was (intentionally?) painful on my Nexus 5. Interesting nonetheless. I suppose it wouldn't be windows93 without some degree of discomfort.
Propranolol is one of the most common pharmaceutical treatments in the UK, alongside SSRIs and SNRIs. It's more common for social anxiety or phobia than generalised anxiety. It's a particularly popular choice for the treatment of young people, because of the suicide risk associated with SSRIs.

Pregabalin is growing in popularity as a second-line treatment if SSRIs or SNRIs are ineffective or poorly tolerated. Some caution is necessary here, due to the uncertainty over dependency, the potential for abuse and possible risks of suicidality. It doesn't appear to be more effective than the common SSRI treatments, although it may be better for treating psychosomatic symptoms.
I don't think either of those are counterexamples to your heuristic. Your heuristic just highlighting your biases around those two conflicts.
It's been a good joke for a while, let it run in the bg of your workstation for years and see how high a level you can get! http://progressquest.com/
Height and eye color are measurable and meaningful. Intelligence is neither.
> My issue with AMP being used inside Google the Search engine

I'd suggest trying an alternative, maybe https://duckduckgo.com.
> Being a middle class grown up is not inspiring. Work, code, moderate exercise (no more football), meetings, dinner, pay bond, repeat. Its been pretty much the same for the last 15 years in my case.

I'm only in my late 20s, and I have a friend group that I gather is unusually social, but I sense this type of malaise in my friends too.

I don't understand it at all! I have personal projects in fields I'm no good at, I play and write music, I play intramural sports, I'm learning another language, I read voraciously, I periodically take sabbaticals to do extended travel... My problem is that there aren't enough hours in a year. I can't personally relate to the notion that life is unchallenging, and I would like to understand it. Sure, unlike in school, stimulation won't force itself on you ad mandatory, but that seems like a weak complaint.

One of the only explanations I have for it is that working too much leaves people too mentally exhausted to do much else with their time. If I was stuck with 40 hrs/wk + 2 wks vacation a year I would be pretty miserable, and it occurs to me that this is something I had to recognize and take action on personally. And note that I'm not talking about lower-income folk, for whom "work less, make less" may be unrealistic. As you mentioned, we're talking about middle class or higher.

I've heard that other industries can be far less flexible in terms of how accepting they are of unconventional schedules like time off on between work. Does that fully explain the mismatch you're describing between "I feel unstimulated and yet don't have stimulating hobbies while also having the extra resources to buy the extra time in which to do these hobbies"?

Sorry if this is sort of rambling, but it's something I've been wondering about for at least a few years. I used to think I was odd for not being cut out for the de jure work schedule of the US (not even talking about extra work), but it seems far more universal, even if people won't admit it to themselves and thus do something about it.
Physicists uncover similarities between classical and quantum machine learning
Pretty sure the weather is always the way it was when I was there every December, so not a fluke.
The Effects of Exercise on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Why are you calling these 'fakes'? As if most of likes were real ones.

There are whole FACTORIES of likes in China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwXlunXn0Ws
She’s accused of pushing him to suicide. His Google searches say otherwise
SSRIs are a much better choice for doctors, but they're not necessarily a better choice for patients. For a doctor, it's a no-brainer to sacrifice a bit of efficacy to avoid the rare catastrophic risks of TCAs or MAOIs. For a patient, the choice may be more nuanced. The side effects of SSRIs aren't particularly dangerous, but they're often very unpleasant.
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Utterly brilliant! Anyone studying computer engineering should understand that Turing Machines exist outside of electricity, silicon and logic gates. This should be the first lesson of the first class of any computer engineering course.
Ask HN: Why no stable binary kernel interface for drivers?
Linux does not have a stable binary kernel interface for drivers. This enforces either that all the drivers must be in the kernel source tree or that drivers become broken with kernel updates.

I don't want to have a political debate here about free software. But I can see ideological reasons for how Linux try to force hardware manufacturers to share the code for their drivers.

The (proprietary) driver issue is a big pain for people who want to use Linux for desktop as a workstation e.g. development. I would say that it is the biggest obstacle for adaption of Linux desktop.

Why couldn't we have long term supported kernels with decoupled drivers?

Discussion: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.0/00998.html
Not to sound negative, but is this something we should really be exposing? It feels like the only ones who gain from this are hackers and password crackers, no?
Took a cursory look for now; few things I love:

- Half Life 3

- Defrag <3.

- Running Windows93 inside Windows93 inside Windows93 inside Windows93...

A work of art, indeed. Kudos!
I might be misunderstanding where you're coming from, but presumably the concern isn't for medicating the anxiety, it's for the prevalence of anxiety itself. If there's a novel high incidence of anxiety across the population, how is that _not_ interesting?
Is the concept of concern for other people really that alien to you?

Hell, even if we stick with your model of "why would I ever care about another person's well-being", understanding that anxiety is apparently so common can help an individual better understand where his anxiety is coming from (eg perhaps weighting universal factors more heavily than personal ones).
The largest virtual universe ever simulated
> It's easy to find sound recommendations for which algorithms are well-studied and essentially safe; it's less easy to find guides that compare and contrast algorithms along nuanced axes like computational cost, interoperability, security margin or adaptability.

I might be hugely mistaken, but isn't the current situation that almost all of the "essentially safe" hash functions are good enough for almost all uses? I understand that the amount of choice can lead to analysis paralysis, but sensible solution generally is just pick one (possibly the one that has a reasonable implementation most readily available) and move on. Sure, the almost randomly picked algorithm might not ideal on all possible metrics, but perfect is the enemy of good.
Agriculture was probably not done by choice. It is incredibly time intensive, and early farming societies had severe problems of malnutrition. BUT it led to population explosions, and was good for the elites, and agricultural societies displaced hunter-gatherers as a result. I wouldn't say "most decided" to become farmers though. More like "a few were forced to become farmers, and their descendants out-numbered and out-competed those who did not adapt."
I thought about it but the thing is that anything like this is probably going to be used for undesirable things by undesirable people and although my moral compass isn't exactly strong I didn't really want to be involved in that.
It's really tempting to buy a few $99 bikes from Walmart and setup a bike share.
Scaling engineering efforts in software – Organization benefits of microservices
Just a suggestion... Open up the calculator and do 0/0.
You can see common repositories numbers side by side. Were you expecting something else?
> drugs like LSD are illegal because it might change how your brain works

Drugs like LSD are illegal because people enjoy them in a non-medical context, enough to become a visible cultural phenomenon. This is the entirety of what motivates (or at least used to motivate) US drug policy.
He talked with her once in pub, she got angry so it did not worked out and that is cruel? Seriously? Reverse gender, a girl got long monologue to dude not allowing him to speak who failing to get his turn got angry and left (or whatever). Normal encounter between two people, nothing to sugest it had anything to do with gender.

For that matter, I don't see dudes being blamed for being angry. It is normal emotion. At worst, it is assumed that they are either alpha or on the spectrum. But you brought up gender which has nothing to do with anything here, not me. She was not friendly to girls who would act the same.

Academic peer has nothing to do with anything. And I did not blamed him. I provided interpretation that does not rely on her being "intimidated".
Talking to E.T.? Why Math May Be the Best Language
Whatever your past, it is irrelevant now and future the only way forward, so smile and enjoy your ride together with the people you love (mid 40s here and still pushing, ehehe).
Where is the project hosted?

I'd like to throw some event handlers on "Puke Data" to allow changes to the dsp graph.
I'd like to throw in that Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is quite a famous staple of stoic reading, but it's mainly a compilation of lessons from other great stoic teachers that resonated with him.
Hi I'm the author of this article. Please give me your thoughts on the content and tell me if I can improve the language, english isn't my native language.

Thanks!
On HN, there's no harm in waiting until a thing actually happens. It's not as if we lack for Uber threads.
I think the goal of AMP is to keep user at Google website and better track his Internet usage history.
> On 64-bit processors SHA-512 truncated to 256 bits is faster than SHA-256, and has the advantage of being safe against length-extension attacks (which are a major gotcha of SHA-512 and the rest of SHA2).

Unless you are doing hash trees, in which case SHA-512 is slower than SHA-256, and length extension is not possible.

Point is there isn't and shouldn't be a blanket solution.
Ironically, it's hard to reverse engineer iMessage because the encryption is so good.