skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quote: This list is basically a curriculum for decades of learning about the wonders of computers --- now "decades" would rather suggest that they not be perused as a full-time occupation.

To your point: mostly agree, but for anyone who lives and breathes your spirit, a collection of 110+ books isn't a dangerous distraction but a welcome enriching augmentation. After some hours of coding the brain demands, deserves, benefits from --- a break. Every couple of weeks, a full day or 3. After some months, even a full week. My point? I noticed that even reading "books that deep -dive into interesting technical topics" is recreational and leisurely compared to high-intensity coding (different brain areas get stimulated and others get rest, I guess?) --- so no need to watch sitcoms, reality TV or anonymous image-boards for "a brief intermission of needed low-brow relaxation" (although nonetheless just-as-permissible).

So this list is most welcome for whenever "book pace" is biologically-mentally demanded (or simply wanted) for-a-change and for a bit.
I don't think there's anything wrong with us. First of all, no one says you should do anything. We're asking kindly because we can, and you can do all range of things from ignoring us completely to donating $1M like WhatsApp founder. Because you can too.

Second thing is that's its much easier to ask open source aware HN reader for $50 than a huge megacorp hive mind for 50c. Not to mention every 'end user dollar' is worth much more for the foundation given the regulations, where to keep the tax status we need to show up numbers supporting in people, rather than businesses.

And finally, many of these companies do give us money and code, some in the open, some anonymously due to the reasons known only to them.

Just a food for thought for you when you'll be thinking about these donations :)
Also from Germany but moved to Japan for work. I never suspected ADHD until someone here on hackernews hinted at it, and even then the idea just seemed absurd. Went to a doc and they suggested doing a "NIRS scan" while I perform a basic task (in my case playing rock paper scissors). I only later read that NIRS scans are only being trialed for ADHD so it seemed more like a quick money grab, but in either way my result graph looked a lot different than what an average graph should look like, hinting at depression and ADHD.

Had a conversation with my doctor about my symptoms and how I feel and concluded that yes, I pretty obviously have ADHD and that it might be the cause of my depression. Went to a second doc for a second opinion as well and he also concluded ADHD. So yeah, I was a little shocked but as someone else said "I suddenly felt like my life story made sense". A lot of the problems that I attributed to my personality felt explained. I talked to older classmates as well and even they said that yes, looking back it was pretty obvious that I have ADHD.

He directly prescribed me a test batch of Atomoxetine (strattera) for trying. At this point I still didn't think I actually had it but went with it anyway.

The side effects were nuts for a couple days but I pulled through. Because of the slow onset it's very hard to actually 'see' a difference but oh man, it feels like life became a lot more manageable: Less arguing in my head, less impulsive behavior, I can keep habits like going to the gym up without getting bored, less of a fight to start a task and so on.

Atomoxetine allows me to be myself, minus a few of the ADHD quirks. I still have attention issues, or am jumpy and hyper, but it is less than before and more manageable by me.

I am worried that once I go to a different country I will have exactly what you described: That I will be in a long queue waiting for my turn, or that clinics are just full and reject me. My current advantage is that I speak Japanese and that ADHD here is still a kind-of new field. Not many Japanese adults go to get diagnosed, so the Japanese docs are free while the English clinics are booked out months in advance.
I live in Norway also and was wondering about buying a conversion kit, do you have links to the kit you bought?
The racing analogy might have some flaws. Seat belts and helmets are for protection, they don't aid you in driving. Ice axes and supplemental oxygen aid you in climbing. You could very well climb without them. They are not safety devices. Seat belt is by definition a safety device which will save your life in case of a high speed accident. I think the only seat belt equivalent is the climbing rope.
You are reading too deep into it. The situation is that the cops have too little downside and too high an upside: since they never get convicted for these crimes, you need little to nothing to convince you that deadly force is fine.

Cops need to go to jail for this. Its as simple as that. And they will find the way to not shoot like that anymore.
It looks like a default approach to provoke and escalate confrontation. A few days ago I watched the video of a police officer armed with a rifle arderimg a drunk guy to crawl on the floor. The drunk crawled wrong, so he was shot and killed. Turns out he was unarmed and innocent of any crime. The officer apparently will not be charged. Here in the UK this would be completely unacceptable, but in the US it’s routine.
I have been in the exact same situation 6 years ago. I found a good job that I accepted but my girlfriend found a job abroad the week after. I decided to let go of the offer I had already signed to relocate with her.

It sucks big time to call someone and let them down (especially since I called on Christmas :s). But it's much more desirable than joining anyways with after thoughts.
Worse thing you can live with is regrets. They'll find someone else in a couple weeks.
> I have a modification to many eyes that makes it relevant, which is many eyes make bugs shallow when the code is simple enough.

Many eyes would make many bugs shallow if there only were said eyes.

The problem is that very few people lift a pinky to help audit & secure the software they use. Nobody reads the code. And then when disaster strikes a particular well known & widely used project and people start paying attention, they notice the code is full of low-hanging fruit that anyone could've fixed (nobody did).

Even when people read code and find bugs (as I often do), they're too busy to actually report let alone fix them.

It's so comfortable to pretend that someone else must've audited the code for you because it's open sauce. So you don't have to :-)
I use Mailnull extensively, but I still get a lot of spam directly to my Gmail address that I've had since 2005.
That's the point. And as a new investor, your power would be less than that of the holding company.
The Forces Governing Scaling Startups
> Taiwanese doctors don't get paid in money.

> They get paid "credits" which have to be exchanged for money based on a parallel financial system.

This is really interesting. Had a quick google and couldn’t find anything. Do you have a link with more details?
Because they have fake reviews for their own stuff: https://www.fakespot.com/product/fire-tv-stick-with-alexa-vo...
I don't see how that effect matters in IKEA but not equally less or more in other furniture shops.

Rather, that's a far more important factor when it comes to charity shop / thrift shop, or the more expensive version as you mentioned: antique/vintage shop or auction.
JehanneOS/jehanne: Jehanne Operating System
im always curious where the notion that 'everest is the worlds highest stair stepper' comes from. everyone i know whos a serious alpinist still holds it in pretty high regards for any number of reasons.

which serious alpinists no longer do much on everest? of course its not a climb for mountaineers trying to put up a new route/make news due to the fact its the most climbed 8ker but i can think of 3 big names still guiding it regularly and conrad anker who may be the "most famous" mountaineer summited in 2012 according to his wiki. i could see honnold trying to summit everest in the next few years as well.
Chap I worked with used to fly back to Terhan for his dentist as well as visiting family - said his old dentist was cheaper and better than UK. Just wondering if part of that is simply cost of living difference?
That's a reason why [some] people love to craft their own clothes, or parts of their clothes. To add a unique flavour in which they themselves put effort into.
Mathematical proofs of code are not suitable for most systems.

Even unit tests which don't involve proofs can be a problem sometimes because they lock down API inputs and outputs. It's already a major problem when a developer wants to change some code and they have to spend hours updating unit tests every time. When in small teams, heavy 100% coverage unit tests slow down productivity, possibly by 5x or 10x.

I imagine that adding proofs as part of the unit test suite would further increase the productivity cost overhead by a massive factor.

In software development, you should avoid treating the code like if it's special or perfect because it's not and it will need to be changed in the near future when requirements change (and they will always keep changing). So locking it down into a specific state with proofs all around it is a bad idea for the vast, vast majority of cases.

We need more wisdom in software development and that means taking a step back, looking at the big picture and asking questions like what are the negative side effects of each new methodology that we are introducing into our projects? There are always downsides, and we're crazy to pretend that every fancy new methodology is a silver bullet.
You're arguing that coercion is bad. I don't need to be persuaded of that. I'm suggesting that potential increases in coercion be tolerated if they can be part of a tradeoff that results in fewer deaths.

I also didn't mean to suggest anything about increasing the total amount of equipment carried by an officer. Are you suggesting that proliferation of a greater total number of weapons is a likely practical outcome? Variety coincides with proliferation, or something to that effect?
Hi, I'm the guy maintaining the dataset. There are two ways the dataset is updated : people can use a Google Form to add a portal are signal a mistake in one records, that form seeds a spreadsheet which is a scheduled source for the dataset (the OpenDataSoft data platform makes it really easy to schedule the sourcing of data). The second way is just to update the data by hand because a lot of people just prefer to send us emails.

So the dataset is always up-to-date : https://data.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/open-data-sour...
Thanks for contributing, quote from OA

"Finally, it began to institute global budgets — caps on the total amount paid for all care — in the hope of squeezing providers into becoming more efficient."

OK, what happens when a part of the system hits the cap in a given year? Rising obesity -> cancer/blood pressure/type 2 diabetes in a decade or two based on UK experience. In UK we spend a large % of GDP on the NHS but that % can't keep rising forever, so I'm interested in alternatives.
The most interesting opinion about this subject I've read comes from a comment, in the popehat blog, by an experienced military:

There is plenty of reason to restrict the use of SWAT teams, but not to abolish
them. They are needed now and then, when there is an actual hostage situation or
an armed gang that tries to shoot it's way out. They should never be used for
routine search or arrest warrants. That not only endangers the possibly innocent
target of the raid, but it undermines the team's training – they become used to
tearing up houses where no one is resisting. There's a dashboard video of the
Jose Guerena raid. My drill instructor would have said they looked "like a monkey
fucking a football" – and I was in the Air Force, ground tactics weren't even on
the curriculum. I've seen considerably more forceful comments from Army and
Marine Corps infantrymen who actually have had to break into a house against
armed defenders. They milled around, exposed themselves to possible fire through
the open door, and got into each others line of fire. They did NOT identify
themselves as police that I can hear on the audio track, so Guerena was justified
in hunkering down in a defensive position with a rifle. If Guerena (a former
Marine) hadn't been far more professional than any of the cops and not fired
without identifying his targets, several cops would have been down.

Then there are the SWAT members that "accidentally" (that is, negligently) fired
a round and killed an unresisting, unarmed suspect because they tripped or
bumped their elbow – an accident that can only happen if you are in violation of
the two most important rules of gun safety: don't put your finger on the trigger
until you have decided to shoot, and don't point the muzzle near anything that
you do not intend to shoot. We know they were running around with their finger
on the trigger – in a situation where there was clearly no need for shooting –
because modern firearms in good working order just don't fire unless the trigger
is pulled. The military just doesn't tolerate that. If a non-police civilian in
my state had done this, he could have been sentenced to life for manslaughter.
But if you are a cop, you can recklessly kill someone and the prosecutor will
throw the case…
Bitcoin powered philanthropy
Is there a blazingly fast library for ray object intersection? Ideally usable from python? As I understand, ShaderToy uses implicit object description, and calculates ray object intersection numerically. It is somewhat of a abuse of OpenGL, since a scene in ShaderToy only has 2 triangles covering the screen, and the rest is calculated using pixel shader which calculates ray object intersections. I would like to have result of this intermediate calculation (point of ray object intersection).
I know what market liquidity is, but if I were to purchase or sell large amounts of Bitcoin I think it would definitely affect the price. I don't think Bitcoin has high liquidity at all.
It works for asleep as well given the user would need your password to log back in after waking it up from sleep.
tried couple of products... seems to be working great. For example, this is spot on:

https://www.fakespot.com/product/hanger-hooks-nuolux-hanger-...
Yeah, Gentoo would be a great and obvious example of that, as well as BSD ports collection which had to be compiled by yourself back in the days. Or baking your own *.deb or adding your own APT repositories. Building your own Raspberry Pi even though its a guide. Using an iFixit guide to repair hardware even though you're just following a guide. Lego without deviating from the guides. That kind of thing.
A new #Facebook security feature reveals fraudulent Facebook-like mails
That is very true, I’m a fool for not having thought that ultimately it all has to culminate with humans that cannot be ’owned’.
> Code is punk. Go start a band.

Although I understand the spirit behind this, code is most certainly NOT punk. That's what the JS / PHP / Flash script kiddies from the early 00s wrote. Or rather, it shouldn't be punk if you want to build something that is reusable, maintanable, and solid.

The sad reality is that code is jazz - you can get started with Autumn Leaves or the blues, but if you want to go far you better be prepared to learn tons of theory.

But I agree, you don't necessarily need to do it upfront.
The Future of the Ionic CLI
It really does seem that simple. Most people will behave similarly in similar situations and American cops have so many perverse incentives.
> a) The international poverty line is currently set to $1.25. This means that, e.g. someone who makes $1.26 a day would be counted as "above the poverty line"... which is very much not the same as "not poor".

You have to define 'not poor' somehow if you want to measure poverty and do something to alleviate it. The definition of 'not poor' intended by measures such as the poverty line is: The basic needs are met.

> b) And more importantly, there is no reason to assume that the fact that people are marginally less poor today, than in 2000, is thanks to free market capitalism, rather than despite it.

So, what alternative explanation other than free markets do you have?

> In fact, there is another metric of financial well-being, than wages, or absolute or relative poverty: inequality. And that one is _rising_.

That's a common fallacy. I'm not poor just because Bill Gates is rich beyond all means.

Inequality is just that: Inequality. It could be an indicator of financial well-being but it's not sufficient proof someone or a large part of the population is poor.

Socialist policy today is often obsessed with the idea of inequality, which is a shame because in many cases financial inequality at least might not be the true underlying problem that needs to be solved.

I consider increasing inequality not so much a problem in terms of current poverty but as to continued economic prosperity and subsequent improvement of living conditions: If wealth is concentrated at a few corporations or people, possibly inherited through generations, that means that capital is less likely to be invested in new, risky businesses but instead will be lying around accruing interest.
It's hard to know the intent of a developer by reading their code. You could always add a bunch of comments, which would help, but in the long run you risk them getting out of date.

My unit tests are basically "comments" for my code, that show me how the code is supposed to work. When I make changes, the tests will tell me if I broke the intentions of the initial developer.

Sure, when doing big changes, just updating and maintaining the tests is a lot of work, but so would maintaining documentation and comments be. So we have less documentation and fewer comments, and more tests.
My Dark Souls inspired VR horror/RPG, Left-Hand Path, which exited Early Access last month:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760/LeftHand_Path/

It's held at mid-80s positive reviews after that, and numerous people have said it's the scariest thing they've ever experienced in VR. A good start to what I hope will be a long career making VR games.
How will you add liquidity to LTSE, as (from the little details given) it seems like the market will be moving very sluggish because trading volume is "conceptually" limited.
Thanks for the recs! Will check them out.
As partially libertarian, I am appalled at the police for this. Even though police is necessary to enforce private property, life and liberty, that doesn't mean they get to do whatever. They have to be responsible. Cops are citizens employees, they are servants for the general public.

In an intuitive sense, the cops can be improved if politicians worked on legal reform for cops. But instead, they squabble over israel, buying new military planes, government shutdown, elections, etc etc etc. The more things the government does, the worse it does all of them.
Hm, I'm getting:

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domain disabled (in reply to end of DATA command)
FWIW, Netflix and Facebook each donated gold-tier (25-50k USD) this year[1]. I would be very surprised if none of those companies employ engineers submitting patches upstream -- obviously for some things it doesn't make sense (proprietary drivers for PS4 hardware, etc). A cursory search turned up this[2], for example.

[1] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/

[2] https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_tls_improved.pdf
The vast majority of that "cheap" meat is heavily processed and extremely unhealthy for you. I would say that it is a major contributor to our obesity epidemic. The average american is consuming far is excess of the amount of protein they should be consuming. In reality, they should be obtaining their protein from plant based sources which are high in fiber and lack of negatives of meat.
In Norway the banks started using 2F in the late 90s I think. I remember sheets of paper with codes that were only used once. Each action (login or transfer) would prompt for a specific number that had to be entered. Fortunately they changed to electronic tokens in the early 2000s
Most people don't realize this but lot of products I'm seeing these days are priced almost 20% more on Amazon than many other places. For example, Nest was on sell on Amazon about $100 more than in Costco during Christmas period. Amazon has successfully trained people in to thinking that everything there is lowest priced and you just need to click button to get the goods. Further more, many of the items now are actually fake even when branded. In many categories like cables, batteries, cameras - you are actually very likely to buy either Chinese branded or fake branded items from Amazon then the real deal. For example, virtually 1 out 4 product listing on Duracell are actually fake Duracell. It will still say "Sold by Duracell" and available on Amazon prime to make it completely legit but its fake supplied from Chinese seller. The funniest thing is that during Black Friday, many of these product prices went up while Amazon advertized sale on the site, truly cashing out the trust they have built over the years.

Amazon is becoming jungle in truest sense where your money would be eaten away if you are not careful. Bezo keeps talking about "customer obsession" but he seems to complete ignore all of the above.
What percentage of the population suffers from these plant food allergies?
The problem in India is that everyone looks around and sees what industry is making the most money and jumps in there. I know a ton of people who have switched from textile to diamonds to construction and so on because their friend is doing well in that industry.

Similarly, now a large number of actual ponzi schemes have come up in this space (Bitconnect, Dekado, etc) and if you look at their websites it is very easy to tell (Dekado claims to use arbitrage buoyancy software to generate 1.5%+ return per day). The problem is logic doesn't apply here when your friend has made XYZ dollars in that coin. Greed gets the better of you and you invest knowing that it is not possible.
Requiring your phone would be problematic, since there are many ways you can die in which your phone could be lost or destroyed: fire, car crash, plane crash, drowning, a violent robbery, etc.
https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKk

3Blue1Brown’s playlist on neural networks. Like other 3Blue1Brown videos, the visualisations and explanations of the math/concepts are so amazing, they give you the intuition behind the neural networks naturally.
A great article mostly nailing problem descriptions. This is usually represented too briefly. I believe “The Entropic Organization” (Teo) would be a highly cited book, cited by all kinds of management books emphasizing the solutions. Please, write TEO.
This comment makes a lot of sense to me. SWAT / Armed police aren't inherently a bad thing. There are cases where they are needed, we're just overusing and undertraining officers.

I'm Irish, so while we do have some branches of the police who are armed, most are not. I wonder how the armed Irish Gardi would stack up training wise against armed American cops (ignoring the fact that every state / city would be different..).

Would our limiting of arms to a smaller group result in better training and responses? Or are they just as likely to mis-fire and fail to identify themselves?
What's the ROI? I tend to agree with the author on this subject here. In my case I care for just enough git to get by so I can focus on the projects I'm using git to facilitate.
Also cattle ranching is the largest source of man-made methane emissions as well as the leading cause of amazon rainforest deforestation. Since people don't want to discuss the meat issue, it is easy for Brazilian ranchers to burn down millions of acres of rain forest every year to create cattle grazing land.