skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I am well aware of Reich and Lowen. As I am in therapy for trauma I have concluded after many experiments that bioenergetics is not complete, and in case of trauma is not very helpful.

The way to heal trauma is to create a safe environment, and for the individual to gradually also come out of dissociation that comes not only from drugs but also anger... one has to put the shield down so to speak.. to be able to regain the full range of physical and emotional sensitivity and feel alive in this world.

With that said, it is one year of self exercises from a bioenergetic book that helped me become aware of the anger I had repressed much of my life. And that was the necessary step to go and reach out for assistance. But once I started therapy the exercises just made things more difficult.

I found the same with chinese plants. Some plants clearly have noticable effects on emotional states, such as Bupleurum, Cyperus, ... by helping release constriction in the solar plexus / liver area. However afterm onths of experimenting with them and in the context of trauma, I can only conclude that it made things more difficult.

In the end, it is consciousness that heals. So no amount of plants of bioenergetics sexercise can heal trauma. That's because they are still a way of controlling experience, while healing is the opposite direction: to release control, to allow everything to bubble up in awareness. Control comes from the left hemisphere, and is precisely what created the suffering in the first place.
Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted
Does learning to program safely come before or after one deploys the code to an IoT device or other networked service?
State is the wrong entity here. A population tends to create a culture, and a culture's interplay of ideas runs on its human network. Which is not to say that a culture is conscious either, and in all likelihood if it does have a kind of consciousness it's one that we will not be able to understand.
>I think that sentence is good, it's just a matter of changing the 'to' to 'and'.

Which was pretty much my point.
"The problems with surfacing this man’s group to Facebook users is obvious to literally any human. But to Facebook’s algorithms, it’s just a fast-growing group with an engaged community."

"Most people who joined the group looking for information presumably don’t know that the founder is notorious for legal and informational hijinks."

Those two paragraphs appear back to back in the article and are completely contradictory. 5000 people joined because it isn't "obvious to literally every human."

[edited to add quotation marks to make my comment clearer]
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+ Lamdas without the clumsy API Gateay (or at least a simple 'pass thru' mode).

You can call AWS Lambdas directly through the AWS SDK (or dozens of other event sources like SQS, Timers, etc.)

+ Allow us to keep them 'hot' so latency is low.

You can keep lambdas "hot" with periodic invocations, it's not standardized, but it's a thing

+ Give us a way to access some kind of persistent file storage with 'fs'.

There's also access to 500mb of data on /tmp. It's not always cleared after each invocation of your function, especially if it's invoked multiple times in succession, so you can use it as a "scratchpad" that provides some soft caching under high load.

S3FS works if you just want to expose S3 through an 'fs' interface.
Yes, in fact. Part of my job too. We have servers accessed through Tor as a rudimentary DoS protection.
They shouldn't. This was a business analysis. Apple doesn't want to have 70% of market share, they want 90% of profits.

Apple and Samsung are the only companies making a profit selling mobile phones, and apple makes vastly more profits than samsung does, with a much smaller fraction of the market share.
I apologize if it seems like I'm making a moral judgement.

I don't think it's any more ideal to have to opt out of communications, I'm merely saying that expecting not to have to opt out is a misjudgement.

I'd rather more closely understand reality than hope it gives me exactly what I want. Facebook does not owe me anything.
Like... physically?
Still on Visual Studio 2010 here... The pain is that everyone has to move at once due to the way the project files are upgraded when you open them in a newer version.
I don't know of any. I don't consult for the mainframe systems themselves. Usually I get pulled in when the client realizes that their last mainframe developers are years away from retirement, and they cannot find any new mainframe developers to hire. That starts a mad dash to migrate/replace the mainframe solution without disrupting the entire business. Despite the existing codebase, these projects are very difficult because noone knows how they work anymore.

At one of my clients they had one mainframe developer left that knew their systems. She had already tried to retire, but they got her to agree to stay on for 5 years in return for bags filled with money. That meant they had 5 years to rewrite on a platform they could actually hire people for. 5 years to replace a system with decades of history.
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I suspect it comes across as slightly naive to this audience. The comparison between ANNs/AI and the actual human brain comes up a lot in the general media, and this leads to lots of misconceptions about AI/ANNs/deep learning, and this makes (my opinion) people in both the fields of neuroscience and machine learning a bit salty.

Inescapably, much of the high level ideas in ANN-based machine learning ("connect a bunch of nodes", "integrate and fire", "convolutional neurons/ receptive field") are cribbed directly from neuroscience.

Spiking Neural Networks (see SpiNNaker) and Hierarchical Temporal Memory (see numenta/nupic) aim for more biological plausibility, directly.

*ANNs == artificial neural networks
And, perhaps more importantly, nuclear energy in the coast, which Brazil is already investing heavily in. IIRC, our third nuclear facility is set to open in 2018.
I see this type of organization often. I wonder if there needs to be a deeper evaluation of the costs of delegation. Institutional knowledge becomes even more abstract when trained algorithms and their developers are in the mix.
Beating Twilio on either point is setting a rather low bar for comparison. Neither are Twilio’s strong suit, imho. Not saying Twilio is bad, but they are certainly not cheap or rock solid reliable.
Because long ago (and probably in a different product) making a function call was significantly costly and worthwhile optimizing away via macros.
It's a few hundred dollars if you have the market volume to sell it at that price. IBM have the volume (presumably mostly for servers) so they can do it. You can't spend the amount it costs to make a new SoC based only on the "hope" that people buy it; you need a business plan that says where the volume will come from, and there aren't enough customers for a developer box alone to provide that volume, so the dev box uses will always be a sideline from something else.
A modal editor is not necessarily less efficient in keystrokes than one using control keys; modal just means you don't have to hold your control keys down while completing the command.

Using keyboard commands is often faster than pointing with a mouse, if you take advantage of structures in the text; e.g. "select everything inside the parens." And if you're doing that all day, it becomes second nature to build macros on the fly.
What would I consider acceptable? That's actually a good question, maybe I am just a bit hard to please. Now that I think about it again after a few days, you may be right, and I may just be too hard on Germany here.

It's probably just that I think that we should theoretically be in a good position to lower the divide between the rich and the poor, and instead it always seems to widen. I tend to forget that in a lot of other countries the situation is even worse, and maybe I should be thankful for what we have already achieved.

Thanks for the perspective, and a good Day of German Unity to you!
I expected this, so I first deleted all posts, comments, events, whatever could be deleted, unfriended everyone, replaced everything that could not be removed with random strings, including my name and profile url, and then deleted the account.

Even if it gets reactivated, it will be useless.

It's annoying that this has to be done. There are several other well known companies that make account deletion a stupid hassle. Amazon for example should have already archived my account automatically after not being used for 7 years at all. Apple is another idiotic company that makes it hard to remove stuff from your account (you have to have a mac to disassociate credit card from your account, their web app doesn't allow it for no reason whatsoever (despite being able to add CC info there), only iTunes app on the mac can do it)

Companies should think more about account removals.
The post speculates 2037 - 2080. So yes similar timescales from the 70s til now.
You don't go to jail for bad bookkeeping as a contractor. You just have to pay back what you owe with interest.
For me one of the showstopper for webapps on iOS was that there is no immediate, synchronous way to communicate data between the native part and the visualisation part. Since the only way is to communicate via messages which are painfully slow.
Good question. However, I'm rooting for them "We founded MessageBird in 2011 after experiencing firsthand how poor the quality of service of most communication providers was at the time".

It's 2017 and the incumbent (Twilio) can't explain why I get delays in inbound SMSs.

They blame it all the time on carriers, but if they can work directly with carriers to improve QOS while having Twilio-like ease of use they might have a winner.

There are other providers that promise better QOS than Twilio, but they're very enterprisey (meaning long sales cycle, no ease of testing, etc).
Apple's net income (ie, profits) is 20x higher than Amazons.
Question: Do you use the resumes submitted for the job-openings as training-data for your product?
I think you are thinking about the memory that 'in' and 'out' point to aliasing each other. That's handled with the "restricted" keyword, as you say.

I'm talking about something else, the issue of 'in' and 'out' pointing into the stack, so writing to them changing the value of the local variables. That is basically treated as UB by every C compiler, and no compiler I am aware of provides any switches which would make it easier to handle, it's just horrible and your code behaves in different ways depending on the compiler and optimisation level.
That’s a very pessimistic view of what science can do. It’s true that the softer fields are harder to experiment in but scientists have many tools for that – it’s not like people just gave up the first time they hit a problem harder to test than Mendel’s peas.

As a few examples, you could do broad reviews to see if different cultures have different outcomes (e.g. the former communist bloc countries having higher percentages of female engineers and scientists undercuts the arguments that this is dictated by biology), draw comparisons from other fields (e.g. the same justifications were used to excuse gender ratios in law, medicine, music, etc. but cultural changes brought greater equality on a timescale far far than biology could change), or try to find underlying biological explanations — e.g. we didn’t need a cultural change to explain why women aren’t power lifting as much on average because there’s an underlying mechanism and there are individuals who have outlier levels of testosterone & other factors and those people generally perform as the biological mechanism would predict.

Most importantly, this could start by questioning the assumptions used to explain the status quo. For example, did the requisite skills change after the early 1980s when female CS participation declined? Lots of men like to excuse different participation rates with some argument based on mathematical or spatial skills, which could be tested to see how many successful people rely on those skills vs. more equal fields like math or chemistry.
Be interesting to see where the tipping point for adoption would be for companies (guessing if you're using plain SMS, the switching cost from Twilio or Textburst etc... wouldn't be great). At what point does the cost become painful for a small biz doing SMS, and if you can create a plan to grab those before the next growth phase, could be a good strategy.
GM is going All Electric
Ah if you're on a small screen, make sure to be scrolled sufficiently up to the top before clicking through, or it'll be real confusing.
That seems like a curious hire to make.
Can someone comment on the state of Docker on FreeBSD? I know I can have jails but what about Docker?
Carphone Warehouse gets into the perfume game with 'Unboxed' scent
So does Russia.
Guys I applied but you just just sent me an empty email. Is it part of a plan?
It would be interesting to see this as per-capita statistics, then compared to OECD countries.
It was also free.
> Languages like Coq require you to prove a function halts before it will compile.

Well, that's incredibly stupid. That means you can't write, for example, a web server in Coq unless you intentionally introduce undesirable behavior to satisfy the compiler.

> because you can't prove all functions halt it's a waste of time proving any functions halt

No. That's obviously a straw man. Can you please consider the possibility that I might not be a complete idiot?

My argument is: because the halting problem is undecidable, there are an infinite number of properties of programs that are also undecidable. So there are only two possibilities:

1. None of the infinite undecidable properties of programs are things we will ever care about or

2. There are properties of interest that cannot be decided by static typing

Which of those is the case is an empirical question but I submit that #2 is much more likely to be the case. Therefore, static typing cannot obviate the need to be prepared for your program to exhibit unexpected behavior at run time except in the most trivial cases.
How well does it scale to many simultaneous users?

I am using this for a side project. We have training classes where sometimes 10-20 students connect to Windows servers using RDP.

At times we get a weird key sticking/lagging bug. We haven't figured out how to fix it; we think it's a JVM memory issue but we're not sure.
You do realize that many of the "companies" to which you are directing this will likely never see it here, because they likely don't read HN.

With that said, you are also not viewing the issue holistically. There is an 'incentive' for these companies to roll their own apps. Those same apps. allow them to track, monitor, advertise to, and otherwise monetize their customers and/or their customers metadata. Yes, likely very shady, but also likely allowed by those same customers because the "do you agree to our terms" page up front did include those terms, albeit in dense, small print, legalese, and the customer pressed "agree" or "yes".

So you will also need some argument to convince these same companies to forgo the ready revenue stream they see forming from these apps when trying to convince them to go with an industry standard such as U2F or TOTP.
I agree and the author, Alex Madrigal, seems to be ignorant to the history of the dissemination of misinformation. He commits the same error as other journalists complaining about Google/Facebook algorithms by not mentioning their "human judgement" within news orgs causes similar problems.

Let's look at how the news publications handled the "truthiness" of Iraq WMD:

- No skepticism that WMD exists: September 2002 article (WMD fever 6 months before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq)[1].

- WMD not found: January 2004 article (10 months after the invasion when soldiers found nothing.)[2]

Before March 2003, all the influential news orgs in USA such as NYTimes, Washington Post, and all 4 major tv networks pandered to the Bush administration's "slam dunk" narrative for Iraq having WMD.

You can't make excuses for those USA news orgs and say they were tricked. That's because the news outlets in Europe (especially the journalists in France and Sweden) were more skeptical about WMD and wrote that attacking Iraq would be a big mistake.

It's fascinating how the journalists write as if they're on a perch of higher judgement over the mass of helpless readers when they themselves fall victims to the same scams of misinformation and spread that misinformation to audiences just like bad Google algorithms.

(See documentaries "War Made Easy"[3] and "Buying the War"[4] that show how journalists lack independent critical judgement and fall in lockstep to spread misinformation.)

>There’s no hiding behind algorithms anymore. The problems cannot be minimized. The machines have shown they are not up to the task of dealing with rare, breaking news events, and it is unlikely that they will be in the near future. More humans must be added to the decision-making process, and the sooner the better.

But humans and their judgement are not even up to the task of slow-moving news like the buildup to war. For the Iraq fiasco, maybe the better solution in 2003 is "more algorithms" in such that USA readers would end up in a 50/50 split with half believing Iraq had WMD and the other half remaining skeptical. Instead, the polls showed that majority of Americans believed Iraq had WMD.[5]
How did they get that wrong belief?!? The mainstream news, that's how. (Facebook "fake news" didn't exist in 2003.)

Yes, Google needs better algorithms; but I'm not convinced that people like Alex or government officials should be the ones regulating the algorithms. They have a proven track history of being as flawed as the readers they're trying to inform with the "truth". (Thought experiment: if Google search results in Feb 2003 had returned more results saying "no proof Iraq has WMD", American journalists and the government would have criticized Google's algorithm for spreading "fake news"!)

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-ir...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/01/spies-l...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DjSg6l9Vs

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KzYL6e3sV0

[5] http://news.gallup.com/poll/8623/americans-still-think-iraq-...
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10 Missteps of Windows on Phones
taking your argument to its logical extreme, the goals of the system are met so long as the median and averages look favorable relative to other countries... an ultra wealthy 1% can offset the relative lack of wealth in the rest of the 99% and the median can still look good - I think this is the point you may have been missing above
I deleted my account there 10 years ago, about a year ago I needed an account to join a memorial group for someone. Facebook somehow knew that the email address I used to sign up with, which was new, was related to my old email address and tried to link my new account to my old data which was still there.

It also still knew a heck of a lot about me including suggestions for people I had just recently met. And some of them I only met once, in passing, never exchanged info with, and never saw again.
That. CRDG. Sigh. And I'd be the guy going - What the F is CRDG and why am I supposed to install it? Guacamole is no better but at least I get to enjoy a moment a pleasure thinking about dip before I need to a) Google around trying to figure out what the damn thing is and b) set it up.
> Working on learning Git [...]

He's working on those things. I didn't get the impression that he tried to pretend to be a senior developer.

I really dislike the attitude that he has to "talk the talk as well as walk the walk". I know exactly what you mean and it's very important especially while freelancing, but in this context it sounds condescending. To paraphrase your words: I wouldn't hire someone who judges other people who just talk about their experiences.

@jcun4128: No worries, you don't have to meet some type of stylistic standard to express your opinion on HN (except the standards outlined in the HN guidelines, of course - and your comment satisfies all rules). Your comment was absolutely appropriate and reasonable.
Does this mean we can develop using some not-Xilinx proprietary crapware?
In general yoga is always great. The quality really depends on the teacher however. I had a teacher of Iyengar style who was somewhat strict in his approach. His heart was in the right place but he was too focused on "correct" posture.

After a good yoga course of ~1h30.. your mind should feel quiet. If it isn't then it's not a good course. Over time, you should also become aware of bodily tneisons in various areas. ANd perhaps even become aware of old memories, perhaps even cry. Those are completely normal aspects of yoga when it has a therapeutic potential. It happens as consciousness is more evenly distributed in all parts of the body. It restores the left/right brain hemisphere balance, it takes you out of the map, and more in touch with reality in its raw form.
"A study commissioned by the Austrian government claimed that a safe return would be impossible without a specially designed case to protect it from the vibrations caused by flight. According to the study, it would require a plane 984 feet long—the length of 2.7 football fields—and 164 feet high to buffer the vibrations caused by take-off and landing. Since no such plane exists the repatriation seems unlikely in the short term."

What a lame excuse. Have they ever heard of ships? You know, those things that got the thing there in the first place. Granted maybe the study linked in the article also considered the vibrations from a sea journey but in that case it was poor wording on the writer's part. Not to nitpick too much =). Interesting read nonetheless.
Can you expand on why non-native iOS apps struggle with displaying real-time data, and why anroid’s struggle with responsiveness?
Apple’s frameworks are relatively stable.

Maybe we shouldn’t be building frameworks on top of frameworks on top of other languages?

Maybe officially supported tools/languages are often a good choice.
Argument from authority?
Maybe some day, when people won't prefer native apps over webpages.

What good does it do to make a webpage using technologies that will have support two decades from now (by the way, that isn't happening either), if what you need is people using your webpage/app now?
How many of these things would be needed? It seems a great idea if you can harvest the melt water directly, but the idea is to let it seep into the streams and rivers. This thing looks big, but compared to the volume of water carried by even a tiny stream it is nothing. Water for drinking is measured in liters. Water for agriculture is measured in terms of acre-feet (just over 1x10^6 liters). I'm thinking perhaps a million such structures would be needed to make any real difference to agriculture below a particular watershed. If they all need underground pipes then this would become a huge project, akin to more traditional approaches such as dams.
> That's a world of difference from an Electron app, which typically needs 200MB just to open.

This is sort of an unfair comparison - the JavaFX one is mainly smaller because it doesn't include the distribution of Java and all the libraries, which is if I recall correctly about 200 MB, while Electron commonly includes all libraries and the renderer. I will give you that the Java distribution can at least be shared by many applications, but you can definitely get into some nasty versioning situations with that.

On the other hand, if you were to compare this with say a Qt application, it'd be about ~20MB all in, ~10MB if UPX'd, no external dependencies needed. Or just the size of your tiny executable if you're working on a Linux distro that ships those deps already.