skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i am supposed to be taking lithium but have refused medication for a few reasons.

mainly everything i have been prescribed has screwed me up further -- lithium specifically felt absolutely amazing to be on, i felt "content" and started feeling more balanced and creative etc... however i was sleeping until noon and felt a weird fog and felt like i couldn't program well (which is pretty much the only thing i do).

edit: the above fogginess may have been from the seroquel actually i can't remember.

I tried other medications but has other weird effects (i'm not good with drugs).

secondly, the suicidal thoughts weren't fading and I was very focused on the drugs as a means to my end (they were hidden from me by my wife because of this and she would give me my dosage when it was time).

i have to use a number of techniques to keep me grounded and most of the time I'm fine (i meditate, read, listen to specific types of music, exercise, etc) however there are triggers in my life which i have no control over and i lose control (ex wife making my life a nightmare via legal system, lack of funds etc).

to be honest i'm sort of fucked. i'm an aging dev with mental health issues, little to no support from family, can't really do meds because it fucks up my ability to work. sucks
I noticed some electronics components I order are coming from Thailand. Stem is strong in those regions and China's workforce are demanding higher skills jobs. While factories are moving towards automation because of rising wages.
Current. I took both roughly two years ago for Duke TIP.
As your sibling already replied, you'll likely find answers here:

https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html

And HN discussion (with over 600 comments) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806114
Great article! It's really fascinating to see data indicate correlation between a weak centralized government and generally bad outcomes (higher infant mortality, lower literacy rates).
"Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan Cantrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

He starts with a nice history of SunOS and Solaris, goes into open source, then midway through (33:00) he goes into a brutally honest rant against Oracle. Even better is that Oracle was one of the sponsors of the conference.
My half-suspicion is that there is some faction threatened by how swimmingly things have been going for the past year and a half that is trying to stir the pot, and divert attention away from worthwhile national investments into another boondoggle.
(Not software related, but highly educational)

How bacteria "talk" - Bonnie Bassler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWurAmtf78

Stefano Mancuso - The roots of plants intelligence TED talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Vck2iPvBs
VC backed startups are only about 1% of the total:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230011
He didn’t made any claims other that those which were well proven and reported on.

The other half of this thread is a conspiracy.
Terrible vocational education system. Everyone wants to do a BCom or BTech and be a manager.
Psychosis is not required to have a diagnosis of bipolar and frankly I do not personally believe that it should be included in bipolar(it should be a separate diagnosis). IMO and many other psychologists opinions is that bipolar by the general public is often viewed as a mood disorder(not the psychosis part).
I'm talking about a much gentler approach than taking drugs.

Best.
Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll

1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan

and the history of the Naval Act of 1794
Except when this would drive negative feedback loops. The following scenario may not be frequent or probable, but it is definitely plausible:

1. A rural area has few healthy eating options.

2. Everyone who cares about this sort of thing and has the means to move away leaves.

3. Healthy stores close because there are not enough customers.

4. Only junk food options remain. Now you've essentially increased societal segregation...

This may sound ridiculous, but it is already seriously hard to eat healthy in many areas of the country.
The Birth & Death of JavaScript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

A talk from the 'future' about how everything became 'YavaScript'.
As an author of Template Haskell the expression trees you build are not constrained by types (other than Exp); you won't see a type error due to a problem in a Template Haskell function until you try to use that function in another module, and it produces Haskell code that in turn does not compile.

As a user of Template Haskell functions you will mostly complain about the slow compilation time, the jarring syntax, poor documentation (since so much of Haskell documentation relies on types) and the error messages when you do something wrong.
In Racine County, houses are being designated ‘blighted’ to make way for Foxconn
SVN is still perfectly acceptable for many users and developers. Yes git may be superior for x, y, and z, but if you have a bunch of infrastructure set up around svn then you have to weigh the “benefits” of git over the cost of migration.

I know for many purposes git’s lack of monotonically increasing version numbers makes tasks that are trivial in svn much harder. To the extent that many projects are investigating commit hooks that literally modify commit data to include a revision number.

Let’s be clear here though: I am not saying git is bad. What I’m saying is that git may not be a trivial switch, or superior feature set, for everyone out there.

That said - it’s always amazing to see anyone still using sourceforge (or that it still exists) precisely because of things like this, or the malware injection they were doing a few years ago, etc
I think Daniel would know more about this - I'll see if he has a comment.
You think it's odd that in Europe, where the UK/Ireland play a substantial role, that meetings are conducted in English? Especially at tech companies, where US-based companies play a substantial role in the world?

From my experience, English is the common denominator of languages across Europe and tech. Most tech documentation is in English.

Regarding your postscript edit, there are many global participants of varying agendas working to disrupt faithful discussion of real issues and it is easy to be misconstrued, so I wouldn't take it personally.
It's actually not totally true. There are tons of pcb fabs in NA. But it's a lot cheaper in China.

R&D costs are just more expensive here or it takes longer vs in Shenzen.

3d printing has also drastically reduced time to production as you can iterate the design during development.
For context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3bld4lTG0.

Classic stuff.
I’ve read that blog post a while ago and sorry but it just doesn’t cut it the problem with applying game theory in these cases is that you don’t actually have access to correct intelligence and information both in terms of the actual events as well as the motives and parameters under which all the parties operate.
I'd imagine because that means no steering wheel, no manual controls, etc. All that weight can be replaced with redundant everything: engines, brakes...
> Knowledge that one need not use heroin this day has never saved those who are its servants

Recovery rates for heroin addicts "ranges from 35-65%" [1]. And Facebook isn't as addictive as heroin.

[1] http://crehab.org/2017/08/14/heroin-addiction-why-the-recove...
Prof. Harold Thrimbleby, “Designing IT to Make Healthcare Safer” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I

It might not sound like much from the title, but it's really worth a watch. Thrimbleby talks about UX (captivatingly, even though I'm not usually particularly interested in it) and the many, many bad examples within healthcare tech that leads, directly, to people dying—such as his mother. He also has some really interesting points about tires at one point. I'm not sure if I'm selling it.

These two are also really good:
Steve Rambam, “You've Lost Privacy, Now They're Taking Anonymity” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZrq2iK87k
Lepht Anonym, “Cybernetics for the Masses” (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOAmxFEMkQ

And this one always makes me chuckle:
Bryan Lunduke, “Linux is Freaking Weird” (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbAXKMCDkY
Please don't break the HN guideline against name-calling in arguments, regardless of how wrong another comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Low cost airlines like Ryanair manage to fill flights without overbooking.

Presumably the reason why US airlines overbook is to maximize yield since almost always some passengers don't show up. Any reason why non-US airlines don't do the same? I suspect it has to do with ticket regulations but would like to learn more.
Turbo Pascal navigational aids that saved my life in 1991
As long as there's some minimum floor for public education. Otherwise there's a grave risk that we end up with even more class stratification and impeded economic mobility than we have now.
Almost all of these are quarrels with Git's UI/UX, not with its model of representing data. Tools like https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/ combined with a git-flow workflow (or anything similar) solve practically all of the mentioned shortcomings.
How we need to remake the internet
It may not be so "wow" now, but at the time it happened the Photosynth TED talk with Notre Dame blew my mind and has stuck with me https://youtu.be/M-8k8GEGZPM

Remember at the time of this talk things like Google Maps were still very new, and nowhere near this level of performance.
No, the last person you should ask about education are the people who teach teachers. Unless they're the kind who looks at meta-analysis and goes "huh, the textbook is encouraging stuff that's essentially a placebo".
If changing a VCS root for building, testing and packaging a project is a major task, you might be using a janky CI/CD tool.
Bear in mind that in 1999 they could not have done a modern-looking website even if their designers had crystal balls and could see what the web would evolve into. The browsers did not support the fonts and styling, and most people were on dial-up so anything image-heavy would have been unusable.
CSS Grid Changes Everything - https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk

The speaker is good but I think I like it just because it fixes the relationship between HTML and CSS.
The ideal situation is for the WHATWG document to be a roadmap of what vendors have discussed and tentatively agreed on, and the W3C document to be a periodic snapshot of what's actually been implemented.

That wouldn't make either one of them "bad". The issue here seems to be W3C wanting to push forward things that the vendors haven't agreed on or implemented yet.
>"Don't project your morals onto the rest of us"

I'm not projecting "my" morals onto anybody. Intentionally overbooking and knowing full well that you are going to bring inconvenience and stress to people is just plain fucked up. That's not really a grey area. If you bought a ticket to a movie and then were asked to leave the theater before the movie started in order to make room for someone else who bought a ticket you would be livid. The same is true for any other "ticketed" event.

>"I have flown over 2 million miles in my lifetime and I have never seen someone forced to give up their seat."

Here you can read all about it:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/travel/passenger-removed-unit...

And that is not the first time either. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
As the business in these cases usually takes place in a form of lie of omission, that slightly bigger amount of data that is collected than promised, that slight adrenaline kick which free IoT toothbrushes were supposed to give OP that should have shut out all doubt about the situation.

And if anything could proof excess data collection or whatever violation of privacy or human reason, it wouldn't be found in the carefully curated communication by any of the companies involved, but the source code that comprises the software running this thing.
Very few large things make it into the fossil record ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837795 ), and a small fraction of those are discovered. It's possible, but I-beams are rare compared to plastic particles, which are basically carpeting the seabeds, rivers and beaches now.

"microplastics everywhere". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43363545

"Microplastic pollution in oceans is far worse than feared, say scientists", "pervasive and persistent nature" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/12/micropla...

"The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris"
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royopensci/1/...

We don't know what the effect of millions of years on this debris will be, but I am suggesting that due to the fact of the human species as a geological force, most of the rocks from this era will be a bit unusual in composition.
I read this as 'US launch market is not corrupt because EU's is more corrupt.'

Maybe the US launch market was still corrupt, even if worse exists.
Migrating a large project from svn to another centralized storage is pretty simple but you need support in all your other systems (builds, issue tracking, ...). That might limit the choices of centralized vcs available.

Migrating a very large subversion repo to git is not trivial. The KDE team spent a lot of time just developing the tools required to do it
https://github.com/svn-all-fast-export/svn2git

But even with those tools it’s still quite a process. If there are lots of large binary assets (often the reason for using centralized to begin with) the adoption of Git-LFS, GVFS etc is a time consuming process.

I have waited years just for the tools to mature (LFS etc) and now I expect to spend a few weeks at least, migrating our single svn repo to git.

Switching from SourceForge should be a no brainer though, completely agree with that - even for projects that stay on SVN.
Ten or twelve years ago a truck driver tried to sell clothes to me for peanuts in an industrial zone near an "outlet factory" south of Madrid. I was puzzled by the scene, specially for the details. Now it suddenly makes sense. Maybe the legitimate shops refused the cargo suspecting it was counterfeited or stolen. Oh, and guess where the truck and the driver where from.
> There's probably still a shadow account of the data you gave them.

Let's hope not, for Zuck's sake, because he just testified in front of Congress that when you delete your account it's gone from Facebook's servers for good.
>I see the world as composed of interconnected entities which metaphorically influence and resonate with each other, and there is a lesson in the creation of (metaphorical) power by the closer synchronization of these entities.

Well, half of Sedona residents would agree. But that doesn't describe anything specific of the physical world that a post on physics (as the post appears to intend to be) would cover.
This could be a very convenient tool! Is it an open source project? If it is, I can imagine using this to quickly create landing sites or web sites for code projects. No worries if not.
As an outsider looking in i can't help wonder if it lost something on the way.

The impression i had of Netflix from back when was that it had all this weird and wacky stuff reaching back to the straight-to-VHS rental era.

This because at that time the big studios allowed Netflix to digitize a crapload of their back catalog for a song, because they didn't have the first clue if anyone would have any interest in it at all.

But in recent years the studios have learned, and wants to cut out the middleman. Thus Netflix has moved on to producing their own stuff, while what used to be on Netflix may be on any number of studio services (if said services ever get off the ground, thanks to their paralyzing fear of pirates).
Writing Quality Code in Erlang - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQyt9Vlkbis
Who else offers free Subversion hosting?
All the people they use are very "convex" to put it nicely. I wonder if that makes the algorithm easier?
I think you win, ha. If I'm right, I found your brother's thesis, but other than that I can't find a thing close to a book. (Unless you published it in Britain for some reason during the 70's, in which case, possibly?)
>1 in 10 Americans in survey say they deleted their Facebook account over privacy

So, we might not have gained more hope on privacy issues, but at least we now know that a lot more people will outright lie and BS when polled on the matter, than we previously thought....
Most companies in 2018, shouldn’t be hosting their own data center at all. If Netflix of all companies thought it made more sense to move all of their infrastructure to AWS when Amazon is a competitor, that should tell most other companies something.
regardless, i had some sort of psychotic attack which lasted for several days along with a list of other symptoms which are fully documented, observed and on record. i have hardly been able to hold a job since that event and am stumbling through life.
It is very fascinating. There is a LOT of nuance behind the question of why certain countries manage to industrialize/develop and others fail to. And then answer isn’t obvious or simple. I think this is a nice article about this specific topic: http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/
It's not. If you want to eat healthy, go to McDonalds and get a burger. Go to Walmart.
Agreed to be over-diagnosed by who? (genuinely curious)
Ask HN: Practices for leading a programmer team juggling fixed-price contracts?
I am a new team lead of about ten programmers working at a company that works with several customers at a time, almost exclusively with fixed-price contracts.

This has always been done by dividing the team between the contracts as needed, one or two programmers per project, with programmers following the project for its duration except occasionally helping with other projects. Projects typically run from six months to one year but some have follow-up work for maintenance and feature requests.

The company has historically had only very minimal software development practices but the programmers, program managers, and company management are very open to change. The one thing that is extremely unlikely to change is the vast majority of the work will continue to be fixed-price contracts.

I am starting to institute some technical practices from Extreme Programming:

- Unit Testing (to be followed with a shift to TDD)
- Refactoring
- Continuous Integration
- Coding Standards
- Pair Programming

Because the contracts are fixed-bid the projects have used a very waterfall approach, but requirements are often vague and even when they aren’t there are still requests for significant changes with every release. This seems like a good fit for a more iterative approach common to agile methodologies like Scrum or the less technical parts of XP.

My questions:

1) How establish agile software development practices in a waterfall organization, maybe eventually transforming the overall organization, but for now using agile development practices within a waterfall organization? Are there books for this? Is this Water-Scrum-Fall and is that better than waterfall?

2) How to handle more projects than than there are programmers, beyond simply increasing staff? Maybe end the practice of assigning programmers to projects, instead pooling all projects into a single backlog and establishing relative priority with program managers?
How do you get rid of the heat in the ocean that allows for less oxygen to dissolve in the water?
Razorpay (YC W15) Is Hiring Senior Product Managers in Bangalore
About the company:

Razorpay is revolutionizing the payments space in India with the mission to simplify online payments. Started in 2013, the company is growing aggressively with multiple product offerings addressing needs of the Indian merchants and consumers. Our revenues grew 15x in 2017 over the previous year as we expanded our merchant base from 20,000 to 65,000 businesses, including the likes of Goibibo, Yatra, Zomato, Zoho, DSP BlackRock and Zerodha. The company is targeting to reach a base of 2 lakh businesses in 2018 and impact lives of 25 million consumers by 2020.

Product Manager (PM) / Senior Product Manager (SPM):

Responsibilities:
* Take complete ownership of the product you are working on - performance, roadmap, execution and outcomes
* Use analytics, market research, customer feedback, sales insights and competitive analysis to understand opportunities and convert them into product solutions/features
* Lead a cross-functional team in creating and launching products that businesses, customers and developers love
* Prioritize features and products based on user needs and strategic vision of the company
* Document product strategy and feature specifications that are comprehensible to both business and technical stakeholders
* Figure out go-to market strategy and work with stakeholders to realize the best results

Qualifications
* 2+ years (for PM) and 5+ years (for SPM) of product management experience with delivering products at scale.
* History of leading and executing in fast-paced, high-growth, uncertain environments
* Empathy and appreciation for user (customer, merchant and developer) needs
* Comfortable using data and analytics to inform product decisions
* Ability to lead cross-functional groups and drive action
* Prior technical experience or payments industry experience is a plus.
How I Start: Clojure (2015)
useless on mobile safari can’t even watch the video or see any of the copy
6 Things You Should Never Say in an Interview
Ask HN: How can I waste my time?
There are tons of ask hn's that inquire about the best way to do a given thing, or figure out the best in class, how to be successful, etc.

But a lot of actually being better, happier, and more successful involves NOT doing certain things. Thinking about that got me curious enough to make this question. There's a whole class of things not indicated by existing ask Hn's.

I know this site is startup/tech focused, but I'm intentionally not specifying any sort of topical constraints on this question. Business weaves into life and back again - anything goes. More, I'm intending this as a sort of catch-all for advice you'd like to give but never had the right question to prompt.

When you think back about your biggest mistakes, regrets, or even/especially hard-earned lessons where your understanding of the time you spent in the past has completely shifted, that's what this question is after.

How can I waste my time in the worst (or best) possible ways?
I wish there was some post in the same vein as "Repository Formats Matter" comparing Git and Fossil. I.e. not one that describes differences in incidental UI features and how they happen to be exposed to the user now, but what the intrinsic differences are that make certain things intrinsically hard or impossible in one of the two systems.

That old post, by Keith Packard: https://keithp.com/blogs/Repository_Formats_Matter/

I've read through the documentation on the Fossil file format: https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fileform...

Maybe I'm just being dense, but e.g. in the case of the wiki which Fossil advertises as a core feature over Git, it's not clear to me how it wouldn't be implementable in a similar way in Git by some convention of creating commit objects & having some web UI that understands that convention, and if so the real differentiation is just in the porcelain part of the UI.
Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – how that could change
I think everyone here realizes that broken CSS and image links makes it a completely moot comparison.
Mercantilism still doesn't work, but like most bad things in capitalism, the corrections can take so long they may not be worth the pain they cause.

The idea is that we take advantage of China's willingness to make stuff for us (west) cheaply while they grow their exports, then when they try to raise prices, we switch away. The risk is the switching costs are expensive.
David Crane - The Internal Magic of the 2600: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr-t9plOkHY