skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Disclaimer: not a mental health professional, but someone with personal experience in this matter)

BPD is one of the cases where our current approach to mental health falls short in a way. We only consider someone mentally ill if their mental dysfunction impairs their life. If someone’s mental dysfunction only ruins the lives of the people around them, that’s not technically a mental illness.

Borderline is a perfect example of this. It’s true that a borderline will compulsively sabotage their own relationships, as well as any other relationships surrounding them (borderlines are great at turning third parties against each other and are savants of “Lets You And Him Fight”), but if they manage to find the right enablers, or jump from relationship to relationship fast enough, they can manage to avoid suffering too much from their dysfunction while leaving a trail of damage in their wake.

That’s why borderline is so fundamentally hard to treat. It’s so easy for some borderlines to develop the coping mechanisms to evade the consequences of their actions that they’re not affected, and “fundamentally caring about someone other than yourself” doesn’t seem to come naturally to a borderline.
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It appears to be covered under antitrust laws and so is only applicable when the creation of a monopoly is likely, but there are situations in which it is illegal. See [1].

I disagree with your claim that there would be no one for VCs to invest in if the law were enforced more broadly/frequently. The important part is that the law isn't applicable to all unprofitable businesses. Only those that are unprofitable because they are pricing below cost.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
ah i see. might want to disclose that then. i have no problem with it but it might confuse people that you are adding your own rating somehow
Edit: Before I was skeptical as to how much Amazon could bring down costs, but it looks like there's enough variance among pharmacy chain pricing for generics[0]. That Amazon could make massive strides if it could offer all drugs near the lowest sale price.

[0]: https://www.goodrx.com/
Actually, it was that Numberphile video's description where I first saw the link to the to the Old Calculator Web Museum. Great video.
Though your comment is downvoted, it is broad terms quite correct.

There is strong evidence of a genetic component to BPD. It is a personality disorder and therefore a result of (abusive) training in childhood. And it is possible to learn to improve one's emotional instability.

I do have the sense that you're simplifying the issue in away that disguises the more complex reality of BPD. I do not recall the genetic factors pertaining to emotion. A failure to regulation one's emotions is partly connected to a general impulsivity which arises in a traumatic environment where you are always on high-alert.

NB.

It's always interesting what gets down-voted on hacker news. The police will chastise commentators who are too emotive in their phrasing but not the downvotes who most actively prevent open discussion.
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just build on it, he's trying to monetize it not ask for donations
It's not difficult to have what's called a "full-spectrum conversion" done on a typical digital camera body. Usually it's just a matter of pulling the filter/hot mirror from the sensor. Then appropriate filters are chosen to screw into the lens which block visible light but allow infrared or UV. UV is trickier because glass blocks most UV already, and modern coated lens block it almost completely. Lenses which pass UV and are corrected to focus visible light and UV to the same point are eye-wateringly expensive. Example here: https://www.jenoptik-inc.com/product/uv-vis-105mm-slr-uv-vis...

Here's a pretty good guide to conversions and lens options (some of which are inexpensive)

http://www.savazzi.net/photography/uv.htm

And a few examples down this page of flowers in UV (said to correlate with how bees see flowers and know where to land for pollen)

https://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-ultraviolet-wratten-18A.h...
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I moved to the bay from D.C. and while the exterior packaging was different, the commonality of positioning amongst the two cities was actually quite similar. In fact, I found more tolerance to alternative viewpoints in D.C. than I ever did in SV. This notion that SV is an easy going place of acceptance is a bit of a facade. You're accepted, if you accept their viewpoints on topics. If you don't, you either keep your mouth shut, or leave.
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I think “software business” often applies to businesses that have no physical product or human provided services and thus much higher gross and net margins. They are simply a tech enabled service provider that has to operate on very slim net margins. Totally different than surveymonkey or a pure SaaS business that has 90% gross margins.
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No one should carry that much in cash ever.
It bothers me that the top comment is a snarky dismissal from someone who doesn't have any idea what's going on. I've already learned not to expect quality discussion from HN regarding cryptocurrencies, but still, I'd like to think we can do better.
> Prior to iOS 11...

I don't think the issue went away with iOS 11. It's still happening in iOS 11 for myself on an iPhone X as well as some of my colleagues.
I know eh? But at Tesla's ridiculous market cap, it's more likely Tesla would buy them (crazy!) than the other way around. And I can't see that happening, or working well at all. Whatever departments put together the Volt and the Bolt seem like some kickass engineering teams. But not so much the rest of GM, which looks like a pretty typical internally dysfunctional mediocre large corp from a distance.

Then again, Tesla is showing all the signs of a company that has grown too fast and with too much hubris.
Thankfully, pharmaceuticals are regulated, whereas chargers and t-shirts aren't...

Do you really think Amazon is going to let anyone sell any drugs?
Oh please, there's a difference between "conservative" and "batshit crazy". If you get up and say you don't think medicine can/should be socialized in America, I don't think you're going to get ostracized at most companies, that's a serious debate and there are many sides. If you say gays shouldn't marry or that CNN is fake news media, yea you're going to get ostracized.

Not because you're conservative, but because you're an idiot and are making your coworkers super uncomfortable. The same would happen if you went around saying "people who wear red jackets are inferior" when one of your team members wears their favorite red jacket to work everyday.
Have you always observed this behavior in your wife?

And I am curious, what happens when you delicately attempt to discuss this with her.
The problem is that the first group is lumped into the second one. I live in the Midwest, which by all rights is a very conservative region of the country even in the urbanized areas, and conservatives are generally regarded by liberals as bumpkins that accidentally wandered into the city, even when re-iterating their disapproval of racism, sexism, and the alt-right until blue (ha) in the face. This is what's driving classical conservatives into the closet, and potentially causing them to actually embrace the more extremist ideologies.
fear -> anger -> hate -> suffering

Sadly some programmers went down this path when they first encountered Perl - that gnarly Perl 5 regex that stopped them in their tracks. WTF they cried - and they never forgot that feeling.

The flipside to Perl's expressive power is the potential to disempower those that don't look deep enough to get it.

Perl 6 takes this expressivity and whipupitude to another level. I suspect this Advent post has touched a raw nerve with some commenters because they feel disempowered all over again.

Please don't be!

Perl 6 is a playful language optimised for fun:
https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/20/perl-6-christma...

Look deeper and you'll be rewarded.
For now, there's a footnote at the bottom of that page :)

Sure, I need to make it more clear.
fyi http://audiosear.ch/ just closed doors after years of struggling to do in-episode search. its an expensive problem to tackle and something people clearly don't want enough for Audiosearch to survive. its easy to ask and imagine for these but running these services is extraordinarily hard.
These are great, but she totally missed the opportunity to list about 20 skills that were important to have for the job. Those skills would encompass upper management, project management, deep technical expertise, willingness to be hands on and work as much as necessary at times, and possibly also cover some support shifts.
There are many news outlets that provide high-quality conservative viewpoints. e.g. The American Conservative, Reason, Washington Examiner etc. The insightful and different viewpoints here help me understand an issue better.

Several of my friends are conservatives - and they span ethnicities, religions and economic classes. I find conversations with these folks quite insightful and fun. A bit harder to find these folks in Silicon Valley but not impossible. ps: I'm brown too :)
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Maybe that implies that we just need to start teaching analysts to write code, but the problem is that when you switch from spreadsheets to honest-to-goodness text-based code, you're just trading one set of problems (spreadsheet mistakes) for another (bugs in your code).

In the end I'm personally still in favor of Excel because it has a much gentler learning curve, though you are right that bulk operations in Excel are ripe territory for errors. I don't think it's "nearly impossible" though, it comes down to following best practices the same way you would in any programming language.
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I've always explained it to friends like this:

You're a professional baseball player. The team has never seen you play, but asks to see how many pushups you can do in a minute. Then sees how good you are at jumping jacks. These things test your athleticism to some degree, but really have no bearing on how good of a baseball player you are.
That's their decision to make.

And why not? It's their money.
Advent of code just started, so you might try that:
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Whatever this app is, it would be really helpful to not do the jagged edge thing on the top as it makes it completely unreadable for me. I use the top of windows to line up text and without that ability, I basically cannot read the words.
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> CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming.

Well, that's because CS programs are designed to teach CS, not to be a vocational school for programmers.
"The yearly GDP of a sovereign nation, albeit a relatively small and poor one" is a lot more meaningful than $50b without context, I'd think.
An example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitra... (part of an in-depth series).
I can absolutely recommend the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, too.

StartUp by Gimlet on the other hand while entertaining doesn't provide a whole lot of valuable insight in my opinion.

Personally, I'd recommend these podcasts:

- Sales for Nerds: https://www.salesfornerds.io/ Pragmatic sales tips for people with a technical background.

- $100k Freelancing: http://www.100kfreelancing.com/ Advice on how to grow a freelancing or consulting business.

While the following technically aren't about startups or business in general they deal with a lot of - sometimes related - matters and insights that can help with becoming an overall better person:

- The Tim Ferriss Show: https://tim.blog/podcast/ General advice as to how to become better at many things in life, including business.

- 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/ Interesting, groundbreaking, sometimes quirky, pieces of design from around the world.

- Design Matters: http://www.debbiemillman.com/designmatters/ Interviews with designers, artists and people from related backgrounds.
A bullet in the skull.
Edit: For people bringing up Sarbanes-Oxley, I will paste a comment made by a user in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827298)

> "This is not even a little bit true. What you're implying is that businesses are required by law to keep all internal communications in case someday there's litigation, and that is just flatly false.
Deleting data once litigation has been initiated is tampering/obstruction. Deleting data when not under litigation is the company's choice, with very few exceptions. Many companies explicitly require all communication be ephemeral - email, messaging, etc. it explicitly only preserved for X days and then deleted entirely from all systems."

"That they were so concerned about covering things up meant that they could have known what they were doing was a crime"

When the government says "Only criminals want privacy. Why do you care about privacy if you're doing nothing wrong", every one is up in arms (and rightly). What happened now?

"However, companies have an obligation to preserve records that may be reasonably seen as relevant to litigation. Chat logs that could help get to the bottom of the trade secrets case are now inaccessible"

Why does someone automatically have a right to know what communication took place just because that knowledge would help incriminate the communicator?

There seems to be a double standard in the community here when it comes to privacy. Usually, everyone's all gung-ho about privacy and encrypted communication and VPNs that don't keep logs. At that time, no one seems to be concerned about who is using that encrypted channel and for what purpose. But now suddenly Uber did it and it's bad?
FPC version 3.0.4 has been released
If you've still got it, see if you can get an Enlgish ROM. Sounds like you might have been running the Chinese version.

What do you mean by the display sucks outside? Couldn't you see it? Was it night time?
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I use something similar from Raaco for my (kid's) Legos. Same grid layout with inserts that lock in place with the lid (no migration of contents if you hold vertically)

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Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing how a company that doesn't own cars (to the point they insist they are "a software company"), pays thousands of drivers, and whose users don't need driver's licenses; is going to magically turn into a company that owns a fleet of state of the art cars (and parking spots and other land), doesn't pay drivers, and whose users will probably need driver's licenses. These are polar opposite businesses. You don't do that while you're hemorrhaging money and while it's uncertain you can even do that other business in 98% of the world.
Realistically, the best way to learn a language is to make a small project that does something useful. But if you're still wanting to do challenges rather than a project, you're just in time to participate in Advent of Code 2017 [0]. The only 'gamified' part is the leaderboard which is based on how long it takes you to generate a correct answer since the challenge became available.
Another challenge that, while not generally suited for a PHP programmer but still possible, is the Synacor Challenge [1] , which involves creating a virtual machine and running a provided binary in that virtual machine to find codes to submit.

[0] https://adventofcode.com/
[1] https://challenge.synacor.com/
In the broader picture, this seems pretty unreasonable. What if you used iMessage in the context of your business, or if you communicated entirely over the phone verbally? Is it fair to assume if there is no evidence of problems that it was simply deleted, as the judge said? That's like trying to prove a negative, is that really legal?
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I consider myself analytically-minded, and statistics still gives me a headache. Most people understand basic relationships: "These numbers are different, but not meaningfully so" or, "These two elements are more strongly related than these other two."

The problem is threefold:

1. Learning statistics is a tautology. Meaning: the best way to learn statistics is to already know statistics. Go google how to do basic significance calculations in, say, Excel. The first paragraph of the resulting articles will dive into t-test and twin-tales and P-values and on down the lines. Ask someone how to do a simple comparison, and they'll digress into null hypotheses and "what test did you decide to run". You'll probably see some nasty formulas and opining about which PhD-level approach is better. It's just opaque.

2. Tools are professional grade. Software needs to bridge the gap between users' intent and their ability to do the analysis. Statistics requires R (you have to know how to program and statistics), SAS ($$$), or another package that limits barrier to entry. Most people know how to ask the basic question, but no idea how to get the answer or interpret the results.

3. People who know statistics can't interpret results to laymen. I see this a lot in business: really bright folks build segmentation models and predictive models, you start talking about cohorts and medians... but that's where it ends. Your c-suite doesn't care about that: it cares about the so-what.