skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't need to be that sophisticated.

If we take the "trauma/PTSD" example based on some studies e.g. the Holocaust survivors one [1] it seems that some genetic or epigenetic changes do occur the outcome of those changes is still debated.

My own personal view of this is that genetic memory is basically a way of an organism to signal to the next generation how to better utilize it's current genetic toolkit to better survive.

And we have other examples of it, obesity for example has clear influence on the genetics of male sperm and these changes disappear after weight loss is maintained and would reappear if there is a major weight gain.

To me the reason for this is pretty clear your body assumes that if you are collecting fat there is a good reason for it, and transferring that knowledge to an offspring would increase their survival rate.

Another good example is predators anyone who's been around one knows the feeling you get even when you can't see them (on an anecdotal level I'm one of the last ones to get the goosebumps from something like a wolf or a mountain lion and I have a horrible sense of smell, I've known some people with effectively a super nose that would get the hibbie jibbies much more often in the woods or during trekking and I'm pretty sure that it's still because of predators we can't see but still pickup via smell even if it's unconscious) and it's quite different than the feeling you get around other dangerous animals like big bovines big deer (including elk/moose) that can be pretty darn dangerous in some situation it's not even the same scare/feeling that you get from big dogs.

To me that idea that we (or I am) a descendant of people that happened not to be eaten by wolfs and lynx because we somehow were sensing them due to random mutation seems to be highly unlikely especially since I've known people that get the same sense from animals that cannot really harm us today like the Bobcat which is while a Lynx is more the size of a very large house cat or a medium dog than a big cat.

To me it's much more reasonable that some ancestors encountered a predator, deemed it as an extreme threat and that experience was in some way or another encoded into our genes that would allow us to identify them better.

Now I'm not saying that experience can alter the orienting or defensive responses/reflexes but they can fine tune them to specific scenarios, even only as this seems to be the most efficient way of doing this.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/daily-videos/can-trauma-be...
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I'm not sure if the app works as advertised. I submitted my claim and 4 weeks later their team is still reviewing it. A question to their support team has not been answered for 2 weeks. All in all, it looks like a scam to get inbox access.
> more transparency than ever before

So we have more transparency with these completely opaque ICO situations where the company name and country of operation isn't even clear? Versus the highly regulated filing requirements and GAAP independent audit requirements of a public company? Huh?
= Facebook cryptocurrency to be announced within a year?
Benefit fraud in the UK is estimated at around 1-2% of the total - a small enough amount that it shouldn't be the focus of policy instead of the 98-99% of genuine cases.
Terminal.app does that too
All your complaints about C are valid, except I'd say defined but stupid behavior buried somewhere in a gargantuan language spec is effectively the same as undefined behavior.

The difference is, C lets you control how much baggage you carry along and C++ doesn't. If I want a higher-level abstraction in C, I can usually implement it pretty well using inlines and macros, void and function pointers. Will it be pretty? Hell no. Will it have all of the syntactic sugar that the C++ version does? Nope. But it will work and be usable and most importantly the complexity/risk that it carries along will be exactly what I asked for (because I know how to manage it). Using a feature in C++ means carrying along all of the baggage from its dependencies and interactions with every other feature.

If programming languages were cars, it's like the dealer saying I can't add one option to the base model. No, I have to buy the top-of-the-line model with dozens of features I don't actually care about and will never use, costing far more and oh by the way that model has door handles that will cut you. That's about when I go to the Python dealership down the street, or just stick with good old C.
Ask HN: Why are there still recruiters?
Not only this, but why has the recruiting profession exploded with the growth of the internet?

You would think that recruiting would have been made obsolete by a system where anyone can browse for jobs and apply from anywhere provided they have an internet connection.

Is there some underlying economic reasoning that explains why the middlemen persist?
No, please. If you want an improved UI, fork the project, do it, and let's see how much people follow you. But don't try to force it down our throats.
For example, one of the arguments in my official indictment was that I had visited the United States and Canada, countries favoured by supporters of the movement that the government believes was behind the coup.

That's crazy.

But why is he already out when he was sentenced to six years in prison on December 20, 2017?
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The stigma is lessened, but not entirely gone... you can be "cool" despite playing D&D, but definitely not because of it.
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If you do get bit. Get your tick tested. https://www.tickreport.com

I’m from Massachusetts and spend a lot of time on Nantucket, which is like ground zero for Lyme (lots of deer, no predators). A service like this can really give you peace of mind if you do get bit.

Also worth noting, a tick bite is not like a snake bite. It’s not really like being instantly injected with a venom or a foreign pathogen. From what I understand (after I got bit and looked it up) the tick really needs to be dug in for about 24-48 hours to cause a problem. So it’s more like the tick is giving you an infection, and in the course of that passing on these terrible diseases (sometimes).
Personally, I prefer a whiteboard kanban made up of post-its over any work organization software. When remote workers are involved, then I reach for Trello.

Communication tools are a different matter, but generally, a mindful email culture seems to work well.
Office for Mac has the original menus _and_ ribbon. Just the old toolbars disappeared.

Best of both worlds.
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In my experience that is absolutely not true. Perhaps you need a better lawyer?
Can you be more specific? I'm sure it happens a lot, but if the product is delivered successfully then no problem, right? UK unemployment is very low despite massive uncontrolled immigration from very tech savvy populations, so there's not exactly large pools of unemployed domestic software engineers for governments to tap.
Killer whales mimicking human vocalisations (kinda sorta)
Not saying we shouldn't be concerned unless this can happen to us, but a brief google turned up these[1][2]. I didn't find many stories that started out as professionals, apart from someone who did law at university then couldn't find a job. But the stories are interesting. Might have to dig out my book which is somewhere at home.

[1]http://www.oxhop.org.uk/ourvoices/mystory/
[2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-one-woman-went-pro...
Of course they'll never be perfect, but the official estimate would need to be off by at least an order of magnitude for it to matter vs. the harm done by government.

If it's that far off, there's at least half a dozen editors of major UK papers that'd be rubbing their hands in glee at the opportunity to further demonize benefits claimants by exposing more benefits cheats and/or by exposing flaws in the reporting. That this isn't happening despite both commercial and ideological gain to be had in doing it if they could, is to me a strong indication that the numbers aren't that far off.
The problem is that if a user opens a word file and it is different in writer than it is in word (where they created it) they will not even take the time to notice the nice UI, they will dismiss writer entirely as unreliable.
That was a really cool read, especially after visiting the Grand Canyon and driving from there through Four Corners and Mesa Verde to Santa Fe. Mary Colter's Desert View tower is still in good shape at the Grand Canyon, and I wish we'd checked out her hotels that are still there.
This seems to me to be a special case of a more general problem which we've been seeing for decades, which is that unexpected dialogues can manifest themselves and then respond to user input intended for whatever application they were interacting with before the dialogue showed up.

I've never been able to understand why the operating system does not manage this case and ignore input that occurs within say 0.25 seconds of the dialogue's appearance, on the grounds that humans generally can't react so quickly to something they just saw, so they must not have really meant it.
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Conversely, you’ve now put notifications in the most difficult to reach position on the screen.
So the "bad UI" thing was fake news, it seems.
Yes: the article's author, Michael Mosley, has written a book on HIIT and is constantly advocating for HIIT (and similarly the 5:2 diet) via his employment at the BBC.
This is why I like Ubuntu Unity's notifications:

- you can't click on them

- if you hover them with the mouse, they go transparent

- if you do try to click, the click will pass-through to the GUI element underneath.

They never ever get in the way. And you can find them again if you miss one. I like 'em.
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Even litecoin (average of $0.30) and ethereum (average of around $0.10) have TX fees that aren't "insanely low" compared to bitcoin right now. And "bitcoin before it was "allowed" to hit the cap", of course tx fees would be low... Bitcoin was never designed to scale like that, fees are a core part, and "bidding" to get in a block was always a core part of bitcoin, it wasn't until the last year or so that it started showing due to usage.

The fact is that there aren't any cryptocurrencies that are well tested and widely distributed that can handle any significant usage cheaply and quickly. There are some very promising options, but none that are fully ready for primetime in my opinion.

Still, I wasn't trying to start up the argument about transaction fees again, just pointing out that they are at a 12 month low right now in bitcoin. And the comment that was implying transaction fees are really high right now is outright false.
Yes, so he's redefined democracy to refer to some sort of Chomskyian utopia which doesn't exist anywhere.

Switzerland has referendums on everything, so yes they have raised taxes sometimes, but they also have very local government and their canton's have spent years engaged in vicious tax competition that at times got so intense some of the local governments started losing money...
I have a 1080 GTX. With my electricity costs, NiceHash says I'd generate $100/month in profit. Not too shabby.
I think the suggestion is that they'd be unable to detect it in many cases. And that's a fair point - of course some portion of fraudulent claimants will succeed in hiding it. I just don't think it's likely to be a sufficient portion to make much difference.
> If only 0.002% of the 700M+ iPhone users have a similar experience on a daily basis, collectively these notifications are causing over 8400 hours a year of pain to users.

This echoes the Saving Lives[1] anecdote:

> "Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"

[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
I've always wondered why Apple doesn't put navigation items on the bottom of the screen much the way Android has soft keys on the bottom. It would solve this problem and also make one handed navigation easier (or possible at all).
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release fail:
sudo apt-get upgrade libreoffice
libreoffice is already the newest version (1:5)
I've played a fair amount of D&D, but I've always enjoyed other RPGs quite a bit more. There's a huge variety of games out there covering every genre and playstyles ranging from the densest exercises in tactical spreadsheet juggling to storytelling fare so light it's more like improv than gaming. My tastes lean much more towards the latter. Try looking up the FATE Core system, there's a lot less dice and rules but just as much fun and adventure.
So how do I (perma-)link the user to the latest status page?
There is always pathfinder organised play where you are playing third-party scenarios.

You can look for local groups on warhorn https://warhorn.net/
Drug addicts are not rational actors.
yes, that is exactly why almost no (end-user) product explains this on their landing page :)

but a user might see the merits of being in control of their own data, and knowing their privacy is not violated by some nefarious use of it..

with all the free-use software platforms nowadays the user is not even the customer.. the advertiser operating in the background is.

makes me feel bad, especially as the software providers are becoming absolute monopolists :)
> One of my students Google-translated some research papers for me into Turkish, but they were held back on suspicion that they included secret codes — presumably because they contained so many equations.

Such a fearful and non-results-oriented suspicion. Even if a physicist were able to hide messages in equations, what malicious activity did they believe he could accomplish?
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Please cash that out before this whole Tether mess unwinds.
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>> Is their clothing somehow inherently offensive, or do you just dislike it because it doesn't fit your own aesthetics, and/or because you associate it with a negative type of person?

The latter, the association. My aesthetics are questionable in various ways all by themselves. But associations are a different thing.

People pre-judge each other on clothing all the time, and people very often broadcast who they are and their group affiliations through clothing. If a pub is full of people in football shirts I'm probably not going in because it's not my sort of place. I have no desire to be around loud sports appreciation. It's not because I think they're beneath me but I know what to expect.

The question of class and chavs is an interesting one to some extent - I don't judge them because they are poor, working class people. It's the behaviour, the general poor education etc. I don't think it's wrong to judge this as bad, nor to associate particular behaviours and outlooks with clothing when there is an associated look - I'm an old goth, we definitely had our look and our commonalities.

Let's turn this around - a woman goes to the supermarket in her food-covered pyjamas, with a kid in tow, screaming at them to 'shuh uh!'. You're not going to make any judgement on that?

How's about a massive guy with long hair in a metal t-shirt and a denim waistcoat? No preconceptions?
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How timely, considering I am intermittently getting gateway timeouts on HN right now.
Yes, and this is fast. I can spin up a new server, have it configured, started, updated, and joined to my kubernetes cluster in 12 seconds (!).

And it automatically handles updates across the cluster - only a certain amount of servers restarts at a time, allowing you to stay constantly up while handling updates automatically, and potentially scaling out in seconds.

It's sad RedHat EOL'd it immediately.
In your friend's situation, did he or she not notice the tick? Or is it just that the Doctor didn't correlate the tick bite to Lyme?
While I completely understand the problem, I do not like your solution. To me it doesn’t look as good as the original and takes away a lot of space for information within the notification itself.

I’d rather build in a hidden timer, so taps on a notification only trigger an app change after a certain amount of time. E.g. 0.5 seconds after it popped up.
Yeah, but when you ask a Chinese person how to pronounce Xi or Xiu the X -> sh. That's why I went with Shee also when I read this.
> every time there is some new research on "how to achieve okay results with less movement and/or time" people will move less

Moving more doesn't necessarily mean you'll be healthier, the entire point of the article is that a shorter time spent doing vigorous exercise is better for you than a longer time spent doing relaxed exercise.
and I thought this behavior (which drove me crazy) was a bug: you try to click them and they fade away. what were they thinking?
If you've never seen such then you have lead a charmed life indeed.
Distributions always lag a bit behind upstream releases, so don't expect a new release of any upstream software to be available instantly in Ubuntu/Debian/etc.
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He was an Oxbridge academic (like his friend Tolkien) which I would have thoughts qualifies him as an "intellectual" to most people.
The site claims that google drive, dropbox, icloud drive etc are all rsync based. That seems.. unlikely?
And significantly more complex than a 1990's website having a a drastically different and unrefined business model connected to an actual trading vehicle. Try running a startup and let us know how long it takes for the average startup to start bringing in consequential revenue.

It's clear there's lots of unfounded disdain for crypto among certain software engineering camps as crypto is a combination of software engineering and financial engineering which is downright repulsive to certain purists.

If you step outside of this line of thinking and understand the power of a trading vehicle and it's ability to finance operations or fund research, that might shed some new light on things.
One thing to note about getting ticks tested is that your local health authority might provide no-cost tick testing.

This is the case here in Ottawa:

http://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-health-topics/lym...

Unfortunately we know all about this because our dog got bit, got Lyme disease (even though she was on the preventative medications), then developed a rare complication (heart condition). It's really made going out on the trails a less fun experience when worrying about ticks.
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Not if you let your email hoster spam filtering though? I've been doing that for ages and never had an issue with spam.
But one can argue about clicking the top while doing things like scrolling upward and ready to click on an article on the page. There is a better fix then shuffling the notification elsewhere. I argue a temporary freeze is better - if there is no response from the user after one second, the user is free to swipe up to hide the notification. This will prevent accidental click. Yes, there is a possibility of in-between temporal display-and-click, but will probably yield a better result. This needs research. One has to identify common hotspot. This can be, however, at the expense of user experience. But we can find a common ground or offer it as an option.

Another possibility is snoozing notification by learning how often a user will read notification immediately, so that notifications will not display for sometime.
Well, that’s no longer an easy fix now that Apple removed the home button and uses that area for gestures that replace it.
Yeah, I suspect this is the main underlying reason behind the drama - Looking Glass is, ultimately, an advertisement.
and nothing proves that this strtegy was necessary to their success. What would have happened if they had used open file formats ?
So weird to read that they are moving production away from China because of high labor costs.

Truely the beginning of a new age.
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so every antivirus out there?!
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So you're saying that on a 4 inch screen, notifications should be made even smaller. Hm.

Not everyone has the Plus model.
Andrew Ng's VC fund will use their own teams instead of listening to pitches. What can we read from this? (1) the market is saturated with 'wannabe startups' that talk about ML but don't have a clue (2) VCs get many of these pitches 'X but with AI' with noone knowing ML in the team.

Andrew has the reputation to do this and not be hated. But you know who did exactly this? Rocket internet, the clone-war masters.
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Speaking of which, what's up with the Twitter frame on the status page? I keep getting HN errors quite regularly, but the Twitter bot reports that the most recent failure happened two years ago...
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That might be fine. They'll continue to live in the notification tray, waiting for you.
Colossal? Known for a while already. Just Google for US financing Hitler. Lots of documents. Without the secret support of the US banks and the industrialists Hitler would have had no chance to get elected and start the war efforts. Before the 40ies it was not so secret, as the biggest papers rallied for him and his fight against communism.

Well, the US style of fascism after WW2 can of course not be called as such in the homeland. The regimes it installed over the world were purely fascist military dicatorships, inside the country it was a modernized version of fascism, commonly called cooperatism. But since the 70ies scandals worldwide european lefts simply call it fascism again. Nothing changed since the 30ies.
Depends on your local PD. In my town I'd say yes but I understand that in other areas that would be a bad idea.
She points to the actual historical figure who the cartoon character is most likely based on.
I'm brand new to the IPFS concept, this looks really cool!

I was surprised to see that the page served via IPFS supports HTTPS, do you happen to know how the secret key is securely shared among nodes in the decentralized environment?
I mean, your status page itself may be on ipfs but since ipfs isn’t natively supported as a browser protocol, your “decentralization” fails since you’ll likely need to host the http <—-> ipfs gateway somewhere. Might as well stick your status page on a couple of vps (literally just two on two different continents) and round robin them.
Much of that is going into housing, so what little is left is likely not enough for the full gamut of professional services that these individuals likely require.
One thing I'm missing (or misunderstanding) about IPFS is updates.

In a centralized system, like HTTP, a site has a single address: something.example.com. Any new entry (e.g. blog post) I create gets its own entry address, but is also referenced from the main site address.

As far as I understand, IPFS contains static copies of documents, so any document that would be the "front" page would have to be copied before updating with new entries, and would receive a new address.

How to let readers know that a new entry is available then? Would there need to be a centralized place referencing all existing entries?