skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anxious kids certainly existed before Instagram, but many of the parents I spoke to worried that their kids’ digital habits — round-the-clock responding to texts, posting to social media, obsessively following the filtered exploits of peers — were partly to blame for their children’s struggles. To my surprise, anxious teenagers tended to agree. At Mountain Valley, I listened as a college student went on a philosophical rant about his generation’s relationship to social media. “I don’t think we realize how much it’s affecting our moods and personalities,” he said. “Social media is a tool, but it’s become this thing that we can’t live without but that’s making us crazy.”
You could write this with simpledomhtlm + php + cron or a raspberry pi (cron) and then send yourself a webhook notification via slack or configure mailgun (mailing client) or firebase android notification (haven't done this).

Inspect the page,find the structure, isolate or if it is easier to just dump the entire plaintext and use strpos to find a specific word.
>medieval peasant drinking mead all day by a stream with his friends

Mead was expensive since it require lots of honey and was mostly used for special occasions. Most they did drink weak beer because they had learned that in some places peoples drinking water did die more often than the peoples drinking beer. The beer was weak because they did not know how east works and it was probably flat. So don't confuse it with what we know as beer now.

I do also have a hard time believing they in general had more freedom, maybe the top 10% had more freedom than what many have now? Which is far from what the top 10% have now
This should be possible with IFTTT too.
this definitely count, and it doesnt feel like work for me too :)
I wonder if a person with a well paying job would be allowed to live there. I, for one, would love to be in a cheap place for stay
Hacker Stole 30GB of sensitive data on Australia's military capabilities
poor NSA... Now they surely won't be able to obtain the source code
> Our forebears lived very violent lives.

I've been reading some books on the subject that claim the contrary, also based on archaeological proofs (and on identifying faults with the existing studies). So I wouldn't state that with such confidence.

See RoboTeddy's comment for some details on this POV.

And also, if we look at bonobos, another primate closely related to us, we might get a completely different perspective on life in the distant past. It's just that we discovered chimpanzees first.
You're entirely correct, but we've become infected with SOE-think. Eventually you are always going to have a compromised node, and defence/detection in the node is hard and constantly evolving. The kernel attack surface is still large and complicated.

In contrast, network interfaces are well controlled. If people started with 'deny all' in their fw permissions then added the minimal necessary holes then lateral movement would be a lot harder.

I think the best argument for selinux/apparmor is that a lot of application specific security hardening can be packaged into standard configs. In contrast, there is little to orchestrate this for VMs/containers/physical hosts. Inter-VM/CNTR network control seems difficult (open vSwitch).

If we could have easily configured, hypervisor enforced firewalling and encrypted tunneling then that would be more useful confinement.
Best i5 processor laptops
Given the frequency and severity of both security incidents and privacy-related issues in recent history, I would be pretty confident in betting that no technology is ever fully “secure, private and completely under your control”.

At the very least, you know that the fancy new brainPhone will load tons of third party analytics JavaScript...
WORDPRESS SEO: SHOULD I NOINDEX CATEGORIES/TAXONOMIES PAGES?
That's awesome, what was the sms api/platform that you used and how much?
And both styles lead to equally unreadable code. If you can't take an average new graduate, put it in front of your code and have him be productive in your codebase in a few days it's no good.
Addiction is usually linked to substance abuse or similar.

Other forms of "addiction" are difficult to cleanly disentangle from people simply liking things for their own reasons, acting on their own free will. That's how you get things like TV being described as "addictive" though I never heard of anyone going into prostitution so they could afford their cable bill. Perhaps there are stories of it happening somewhere, but such a story would be rare and shocking, whereas prostitution for feeding a drug habit is unremarkable.

But let me turn it around. How do you define it? Above I've seen people claim that anything that has advertising in it must by nature be "addictive" but that would cover 20th century newspapers, and again, I never heard anyone describe them as addictive or display uncontrollable cravings for newspapers.
With Pandora I can give it one song, and get a playlist out that won't repeat for a couple of hours (I really wish it was longer!)

With Spotify, I enter in a song, and get lots of stuff from that same artist (something Pandora can't do!) and then after that's done, a bunch of repeats.

Then again my problem may be that I'm trying to use Spotify the same way I use Pandora.
This is such a bad excuse that comes up every single time on such topics. Your life is what you make it. You can perfectly have a modest family life with a limited number of posessions : how about all those families who travel or sail the world ?
If they have this much trouble with security imagine what else they might be failing at unbeknownst to us.
The Contrasting Roles of Planck's Constant in Classical and Quantum Theories
(Anecdata)

A Canadian friend of mine is now a US citizen who immigrated to the States on a NAFTA related (T?) visa. Now that he's losing his eyesight, companies like Apple and governmental bodies like the Obama White House invited him to advise on disability issues. His presence is definitely a plus for the disabled in America even if you argue that a native born citizen could have achieved the same results.
Compare+the+Cloud+will+be+at+Cloud+Expo+Asia+-+Day+2
Prepare for the Most Versatile Under Construction Page Plugin for WordPress
Yes, probably some drug or kind of simulation is enough. /s

The question is ill posed since our brains are not wired for consistent happiness.
You are probably mistaking it with being contented which starts by admitting defeat.

And this is all orthogonal to efficiency or productivity which ate important social goals if not strictly personal ones.
(Sometimes they partially coincide.)
Formal Proof – the Four Color Theorem (2008) [pdf]
Hahaha (risking downvotes; I stand tall, bring it on)
But isn't it just a character substitution? TeX uses & and \\ for column and row separators, CSV uses , and newline. There's no way I'm writing either of them by hand, so why do I need to convert from CSV?
> - User automates saving of all store coupons to his loyalty card without ever looking at the coupon. This defeats the idea of coupons (to encourage you to try something you would not have otherwise bought). If everyone did it, coupons would cease to exist.

That sounds like success to me, though not everyone will agree.

> - User automates getting into desired university class by hammering the registration site repeatedly. Needless to say, if everyone started doing the same thing, no one would benefit.

This was circumventing a bad process; people would benefit if everyone did it, because it would demonstrate a need for a better process.

> - User automated complaining to the water utility about a problem in front of his house. Once again, it might work for one person, but becomes completely ineffective if everyone does it for problems in front of their houses.

If everyone does it then perhaps they’ll fix things—or admit defeat and stop giving people false hope by allowing them to report such things when they have no intention of doing anything about it.

> - User automated late delivery complaints to post office to get compensation. If his script becomes too widely used, the monopoly post office will simply raise prices or stop offering compensation.

Or, just maybe, fix it. One can always hope.
Well put, after a bit of reflection I mostly subscribe to the concept of several "approximate models" wherein "objective" truth lies somewhere inbetween.

My own hallucinations were auditory and in the instances where they weren't random noises they only said my name, often in "plausible voices" (i.e. voices of people I had talked to recently or were nearby) and as such I don't ascribe much meaning to them. I can however see how other psychotic symptoms I've had followed the "approximation"-pattern -- had an incident where for about a day I was convinced my left arm weren't actually my arm and was most likely grafted on by aliens. In hindsight, this probably manifested this way at least partially because of fear of being different due to my diagnosis.
If we define "the bar" as "people's expectations for what a useable module system looks like" you can set it without being novel at all
At least in Vienna and Berlin a lot of modern small 1-2 BR apartments are the same apartments that 100+ years ago housed a whole family (or 2!).

For example we (2 adults + 1 toddler) live in an old 70m^2 (750 square feet) apartment that's built in a way suggesting it originally housed 2 families in the 2 large rooms (what we now use as 1 bedroom and 1 living-room) and shared the kitchen/bathroom. So it is very likely 8+ people lived here, and it is now considered small for the 3 of us.

The apartment building is from either the late 19th century or early 20th century.

I imagine a lot of these tiny "single-person" apartments in Paris used to house a lot more than 1 person 100+ years ago.
What's their excuse this time ? A single worker brought in a cat that bit our entire server facilities power supply ? Or some random guy who handled credentials was picked up by Aliens.
No, as the headline says: this is housing for the homeless. If that's a problem for you, just verbalize it and you'll see how that sounds.
The State of the Octoverse 2017
Robert Kennedy's 1968 speech on the GDP is relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/may/24/robert...
Probably cos you’re following Doug Bates — he’s quite a well-known Julian...
I think Eloquent JS is a fan fruckin tastic book, overall. BUT, I have one quibble (about the first edition; I haven't looked at the second).

Its preface and first few chapters sort of present itself as a book intended to teach the absolute basics of programming to someone who has never done any programming at all before. A first book. And I think you'll find that if you give it as a sole resource to someone in that position, it just moves too quickly through the fundamentals. It's definitely a second book or a third book, or a book for reading after someone made it through a few of those ultra-beginner courses on Codecademy or Khan Academy or wherever.
Same thought for me. Very cool site.
patterns are lossy abstractions though. That arrogance might bite ya one day.
Turning on and off the bedroom heater in 1 hour intervals during the night.

Also It begins warming up the bedroom at 9pm and shuts off at 0830am.

I use TP-LINK HS110 which uses wifi. Super nifty. I can control it remotely also with and app, and by sending packets to it over my local Ethernet.
Will Elon Musk be our savior or our destroyer?
Allah was used by Christians and other monotheists before the term was co-opted by Muslims. There were many Christians in the Arab peninsula before the Muslim conquests. It is derived from Elohim, the Hebrew word for God.
I re read your comment and it totally went over my head three or four times last night.
AWS Developer Tools Expands Integration to Include GitHub
Do you happen to know of any fuller description, maybe a blog post, of the Chef Zero + minimart (etc.) setup? (Or, really, any similar setup.)

I'm having a bit of a hard time 'getting' the handling of secrets, etc. in such a setup.

(We're currently using Ansible, and frankly it's turned into a huge pain -- even on just a few hosts it's incredibly slow and horrible to debug. I'd really like to eventually transition to a more "build-a-pristine base system image" + "self-by-applying-more-recent-playbooks" type approach.)
I run a system called Cleanfeed, which is VOIP designed for live radio broadcasts. Sounds like it might be a good fit for your needs:

http://cleanfeed.net/

It handles all the audio routing for 3-way (or more), and recording too if you want it. VOIP interviews can be unnoticable -- in practice you have probably heard remote interviews on the radio done with systems like this, and may not have even realised it.
I wrote a bot to read the top article titles and comments (10 articles at a time) on Hacker News and it just runs every hour. Plays out loud on my speakers. Uses a rapsberry pi, python and AWS Polly, I put the code up on github if anyone is interested. The voice kind of gets monotonous but I've found Kendra's voice to be the best IMO.

Last edit: since the free tier has a 5 million character per month limit (AWS Polly) I wrote the script to check if my one desktop IP is connected and if so it can run as I'm not always home/desktop off.

So I can keep working and when it plays I pause my music and listen to it. Takes about 20 seconds to do the 10 requests limited to 1500 characters per audio file/synth request.

Edit: to be clear you don't need a raspberry pi, just a computer with web connection, runs python, with audio output and scheduler eg. cron.

I just have a raspberry pi webserver at home that is always on, also does other stuff like measure a solar cell's voltage every 10 minutes. It doesn't do anything useful at this time just gathering data and plotting it on a site/working with ADCs/building web API to receive data (want to make it world wide).

https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/python_aws_polly_hacker_ne...
To be honest "Allah on mirror" sounds like "Jesus on toast".
Why are you so swift to cast this as political? All this suggests - at most- is that individuals might have decided they wanted to be muslims, or more likely just liked the iconography. Whichever way you slice it, islam is a part, however small, of Sweden's history, on account of its symbolism being found on Swedish historical artifacts.
Interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including 100K stars
Feels like an SEO hacker trying to understand and influence a black box search result ranker like Google's. Which is kind of nuts and you'll always be a step behind. Would be pretty cool and interesting if a recommender like Spotify would publish a guide on how to get the most out of their system. Like what you did, but from the builders themselves.
Benefits of Argan Oil for Baby Eczema
Looks cool.

I notice the readme says, "Deploy on AppEngine on the same project where you use BigQuery". What if you use BigQuery in lots of projects? How hard would it be to extend to handle that scenario?
The 13 Best Online Shopping Sites to Buy
MachineLabs is running a crowd funding campaign to democratize Machine Learning
Would be fun to do a serious analysis of HN discussion, on the same topic, separated by 10 years. I don't mean identifying the occurrence -- I mean various characteristics of the discussion.

For example, perhaps certain facts have been more/less passionately supported after 10 years. Also aspects like tone.
Couldn't they slow down the cooling fans? Or was it a passively cooled PC?
I could certainly get rid of a few things. And I often feel that accepting gifts is somewhat of a burden. I enjoy owning things that I have even occasional use for, though.

If I have a lot of things that I can't name a solid use for, then I feel bogged down. If there are a lot of things that I want to do that I don't have the equipment for, then I'm unhappy. It's less about the objects than what the objects let me do.
Matt4077 is correct. I do not care what people do.
Yes, I expect that if Trump continues on his protectionist direction in some industries, there will be consequences in other ones. Why should the rest of the Western world allow Amazon, Google, Hollywood etc. to dominate their respective fields without tariffs or restrictions if the USA becomes protectionist where it suits Trump?
Park and rides are extremely expensive, and provide little capacity. At $20k to $50k per parking spot, filling trains that move 20k people per hour becomes a very expensive proposition!

Much more likely is transit oriented development, where the 5 to 6 blocks on either side of each station is built up to let people live a short walk from transit.
I wrote bot to checkout cinema timetables and movie scores (metacritic, rotten tomatoes and our local service) when asked - (me and my girlfriend are a bit movie-nerds). Also when you send him location in Poland it responds with the most accurate weather graphs you can get here. I'm planning to split it to two bots and expand operation of the cinema module to whole country.
I'm not going into Internet political discussion, because it never leads to anything constructive, so I'll just ignore a good portion of your comment. My described incident was different because it was pushed heavily by Russian press and letter was sent to the member(s) of Lithuania parliament trying to cause a stir, so it wasn't just some random BS, it clearly had political motivation to deteriorate relations between locals and NATO soldiers. Also, it was heavily investigated both by police and by media, so if it had had any factual base, I'm sure something would have been found (and here are also some people, who would love if it was true, so there was plenty of motivation, not just formalities). A town this rape supposedly has taken place is very small, population of ~30k, so I'm sure somebody (relatives, neighbors, random people etc.) would have noticed at least something.
Instant messenger app AIM is shutting down in December
Rebuilding slack.com
> Kabat-Zinn is experienced meditator and I'm not surprised if his therapy works when he is involved.

Isn't the premise of MBSR, mindfulness? What in your opinion, is the delta that makes such therapies different than plain mindfulness?
Science is about gaining knowledge. Society has the responsibility to ensure that people are treated equally. Enforcing social equality requires recognizing/acknowledging how that knowledge can be misused. Blocking science is not the answer, enforcing equal treatment under the law is.
Why should salesperson talk only for 10-15% of the time during sales pitch?
If you're genuinely curious in reading a refutation, then you should read through the 10-year-old HN discussion linked above.

Or, try googling. For example, here is a relevant discussion on NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/01/14/169374400/why-do...
I'm not a minimalist but I do try to consume less. I see it as some sort of personal hygiene. Just like I barely drink soda anymore or avoid junk food. I see consumerism as a pitfall of our society and at least I try to be aware of its mechanisms. I also try to give a new life to my old things by giving it to less fortunates.
Food for thought:
Put 20 people in a circle, each growing, cooking and eating their own meal. GDP=0
Put those same 20 people in the same circle, each growing, cooking but instead of eating their own 'buying' the meal from the person to the left for a fixed price. GDP>0
GDP isn't what it's made out to be.
BitVault – Swiss Bank in Your Pocket
Nevermind that rail in LA waits for cars, cause we can't delay cars more than 50 seconds, oh no!

Seems ridiculous to me, when a train approaches an intersection, you should have bollards come up and the train should always take priority. Moving hundreds of people is a higher priority than moving a few dozen, but yet the train is the lowest priority in LA intersections, and grey crossings aren't properly defended against idiot drivers crashing into trains.
I have nearly life-long chronic major depression that can’t be cured with socialization, sex, money, sleep, diet, exercise or various forms of therapy. I’ll take a random stab that it is mostly genetic and partly by having had a tyrannical, histrionic, screaming father whom caused frequent stress: this then setup poor vagal tone and “walking-on-egg-shells” hyper-vigilance which then neuroplasticized towards reinforcing pain-depression complex of the military-industrial kind.

I now have depression again after mirtazapine tachyphylaxis. It’s a widely-hitting NaSSA and powerful antihistamine (which also means hypnotic). It’s also the most effective antidepressant (I was on a heavy dose, 60 mg) but it causes weight gain (+25% body mass) and G.I. slow-down. That’s great when it works, but now I’m letting the old black dog have another ride as buproprion XL 300 mg isn’t doing anything useful so far. Maybe, still really foggy, confused and increased pain perception.

Not being depressed is awesome: like the clouds parted, quieted inward observation, less reading, less writing, less sleeping-in, pain set aside, more energy, enjoyment and orderly thinking; almost manic but, presumably, not bet-kid’s-education-fund-on-18 far.

Looking at next alternatives:

* Bupropion XL 450mg

* AXS-05 (60 mg DM with bupropion)

* Venlafaxine ER

* Venlafaxine ER + Lamotrigine

* Venlafaxine ER + Mirtazapine

PS: Paxil gave me serotonin syndrome and Zoloft did jack shit.
ScreenFlow 6.2 Serial Number Cracked for Mac OS Sierra Full Download
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship
I'm not sure what's worse: the fact that Equifax just got $7.25M for identity services from the IRS or the realization that the IRS just spent $7.25M on data they can get for free...
I'd be really interested in #1. Even with facebook's open event search and meetup radius based search, still find it hard to find somewhere I'll want to be.
Good job.
it's by the BBC
> * Reasons why their population didn't explode despite lack of contraceptives (no crops --> no e.g. maize that can be turned into mash for kids --> kids breastfeed for years longer, which apparently acts as a contraceptive.

Actually, it's far more probable that population were kept low because everyone got killed at a very high rate compared with the rate of reproduction. With no medical care to treat diseases of wounds and with both man and nature invested in killing off people, population growth tends to be kept low.
Life expectancy at birth was low because of high children mortality. If you've made it to adolescence, you could expect to live 50-80 years.

https://condensedscience.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/life-expec...
Sucks extensions don't work on phones (Chrome) I was doing a similar thing just grabbing topics when you go down a rabbit hole to remember random stuff you learn.
I actually completely agree. I usually work with people who have already had some exposure to basic programming concepts and I think it's wonderful for them. But for someone looking to get started there are presumably better resources.
Here’s 10 Best Linux Desktop Environments
Interesting, but is there actually a practical benefit of having GigaBytes of the word yes being generated or is this all just optimisation porn?
Terrible cluster of Raspberry Pis
I am not saying that you should kill yourself to preserve the environment :D But the question is if each act, that you do and destroys a planet, is really worth it. I think, that governments currently don't give it an adequate attention by creating proper laws, so it is up to people to think about it.

Here in the EU, you have to pay for the electricity and for the water, so people are not keeping freezers or taps open. You have to pay for the food as well, I never heard about your 40 %.