skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same. I just had a bot liking my 5 most recent posts in a row although they are very different from each other.

The follow-unfollow pattern is done by bots controlling accounts as well I think.

Making the likes anonymous, as on reddit or HN, would be a big step forward.
Not in China.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-set-to-overtake-us-a...
Are those options or do you use CouchDB for your primary DB and MySQL for your report writing with an ETL process taking data out of CouchDB every night?
Reminds me of this piece re: other fields:

President of American Association of Buggy-Whip Manufacturers takes a strong stand against internal combustion engine, argues that the so-called “automobile” has “little grounding in theory” and that “results can vary widely based on the particular fuel that is used” [0]

[0] http://andrewgelman.com/2014/08/06/president-american-associ...
It seems to me there is much promise in influencing the natural carbon cycle in these kind of ways. Apparently natural processes release and absorb about 800 gigatons of CO2 annually against human emissions of 29 gigatons or so, so there seems a lot of scope to try to tip the natural balance a few percent. Especially if we go carbon neutral and are then looking to reabsorb a bit.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natu...
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I dont mean to sound insensitive but why did you raise money without "product market fit?" I hate the phrase but accept its use. 220k for an idea without a sales or go to market strategy strikes me as terribly tragic. And based on the details you've shared, most of the burn was on people costs. So you had an idea, raised money, hired people...and NONE of them were full time sales?

Return the money. Take a vacation. Get up off the mat in due time. But NEVER ever start paying people (or yourself, most important) without a clear path to revenue.
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I don’t support vacating the weed charges. I support legalization of weed and its products —- I think schedule 1 is wrong.

But people who broke the law (and got caught) when it was illegal are law breakers.

As Joey Diaz says —- if you got busted for weed, you’re a momo.

If Seattle voters approve the vacating, then so be it. That’s their prerogative. I don’t support it though.
We probably are going to head further back toward the old catalog mode that is online purchasing.

But.

It's a drop in the bucket compared to the debt load killing box stores from all the leveraged buyouts, and that has nothing to do with consumer demands. It might have something more to do with corporate raiders running out of factories to raze.
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Apparently they used ELISA.
U.S. won’t restore grizzly bear protections near Yellowstone National Park
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I'm younger than you, but the best thing I could say is this: follow your career dream. If that means starting a business, working for a particular company, totally changing to a different line of work, whatever, just do it. Colonel Sanders didn't even open the first KFC restaurant until his 60s. It's not going to be easy, but you can get what you want!
Gets me thinking of the prison in Minority Report.

What do pre-crime do to someone they grabbed for what they were supposed to do if pre-crime didn't intervene? Put them in a stasis tank while they get to watch their supposed future crime on repeat.

What would even be the goal of such a prison?
Yes!

https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack

https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/2tluxv/yaap_fullau...

Edit: I remember looking at BotHack at the time and being surprised at how extensively and elaborately hard-coded the strategy and evaluations were. This is definitely not machine learning!

Edit 2: HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990869
Made a PR to switch to runes for iteration. Runes are canonical in Go for unicode codepoints and also have no memory allocation, so they're wicked fast! More importantly they make the code compatible with unicode names.

You can also save on a ton of allocation if you reuse unleaked position slices on each match. It may also be nice to have a maxMatches argument that lets users set a limit, which would save on unnecessary allocation.
I’ve been in a similar position as you. I’ve spent the last 8 years building a b2b company. It’s a hard long road. I can hear the unspoken panic in your writing. It feels like you are flailing around and giving up already. You really need to analyze the reason you guys are failing without all the emotion if possible. You say that you didn’t learn anything valuable. That is absolutely not true. Think back to why you thought this was a good idea in the first place. Think about all the lessons learned with your failures. You actually got people to do some pilots. Making money is freakin hard. Ignore the prsssure from investors for a moment. They knew they could lose their money. You need to personally decide if you keep going or do something else. I can promise you it won’t get any easier though if you stay in the startup world.
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Anyone get that Metallica(?) video going through their head, about the soldier?
I think economic commentators often miss this point.

Its also why I think any coming recession will leave the tech industry relatively unharmed.
Not advice, but for my 40th I visited nearly every important friend I've had. Several I'd basically lost touch with. I asked them deep questions about their lives and hopes and perspectives. It was quite a journey, and was heartening to connect to times long past (though I wasn't left missing any of it). The biggest thing I gleaned was the dissipation of angst among those with families.

As for advice; stay mobile.
Have you tried out one of the standard 'distance' metrics like Hamming distance or Levenstein distance? This would at least give you an objective measure of success. Whether that's something that actually works for what you're trying to achieve is of course an open question, but both Hamming distance matching and Levenstein distance matching (the latter is harder but probably better for your purposes) are very well understood.
> The bank’s boss, Paul Pester, said TSB will waive £10m in overdraft fees and pay extra interest on current accounts. He has hired a new team of IT experts from IBM who have been told the problems must be fixed by Saturday.

(a quote from a different article).

This guy is an absolute joke. Just because you want something fixed quickly doesn't mean it's gong to happen. Bringing in an outside team is already a REALLY bad sign, but demanding an outside team to get up to speed and to implement a complete fix in two days? Yikes.
The touchbar model of the Macbook Pros must be the most divisive piece of hardware created this decade.

I actually love the new Macbook Pro. I had a 2011 and 2013 MBP, but both died. In the interim (2015 or so), I purchased a Dell XPS 13” Developer Edition that came loaded with Ubuntu. It was a pretty good machine, but I longed for the MBP. When the new model finally came out, I was unimpressed. I didn’t want to pay top dollar for an older model, but I couldn’t type on the new keyboard. Regardless, I purchased it, and eventually gave the computer to my wife.

Then I got a new job, and they offered Windows or Mac. I chose the Mac, and lo and behold, I was given the same computer I had before. And now I love the damn thing.

Granted, most of my time is spent at my desk with an external monitor, external keyboard, and external mouse. But I’ve found that I no longer hate the keyboard. In fact, I quite like it. I surprised myself there.

I still don’t love the touchbar though. I think that was a swing and a miss from Apple.
Just because someone has bad ideas (or ideas you disagree with) in one area, why would that mean all their ideas are bad?

To take an extreme example, Bobby Fischer is easily in the running for best chess player of all time. He was also an anti-semite. Does that somehow make his chess less good? Should we ignore that he was an anti-Semite? No! But should we cut all his games from chess books because of it?

Indeed, if you read many biographies one might quickly reach the conclusion that many of the world’s most accomplished men and women are also among its most flawed. Science, literature, and art would be set make many centuries if we had to discard all the work of those not meeting modern standards of decency.

To be clear, I don’t think Thiel is anywhere near as extreme a case as Fischer. I disagree with his politics (just the ordinary libertarian Baloney), but I think he is right on this point.

My advice to you would be to learn to separate ideas from the people that originate them, or you’ll miss out on so much great thought.
This is a super bad assumption. Given what we've already seen around GPL trolling (Mchardy et al), that may not mean a whole lot.

I would bet you a large amount of money Oracle would come after you anyway. It's just how they operate.
Nature does have an "Open Access" option in their policy:

"Authors wishing to publish open access retrospectively should contact the individual journal editorial office, and will need to sign a new open access licence to publish form (LTP) and pay the journal's article processing charge."

http://www.nature.com/openresearch/about-open-access/policie...

However, they don't disclose how much money it costs to convert one's work to open access, and whether this option is available for all Nature journals, the main Nature journal, or just the specialized subject journals, such as Nature Machine Intelligence.
this is my surprised face.
I more meant for your offering.

If the market is simply tradeshows, then surely there is many ways to pivot in this market?
I find the best way for my feeble mind to understand more than 3 or 4 dimensions is a parallel coordinate graph where you can view the relationships between two of the dimensions at a time. You can do this interactively in R using plotly:

https://plot.ly/r/parallel-coordinates-plot/
Health risk of chrysotile revisited
PCP gets an unjustly bad rap. Most people would be quite surprised to find out it's quite similar to Ketamine, a drug that many don't hesitate to party with and has recently shown positive results for treating depression.

"PCP makes you feel invincible and violent" is an urban myth -- one that Ketamine somehow doesn't share, despite its great similarity to PCP.

Of all drugs, the one most strongly associated with violence is alcohol. Yet hundreds of millions if not billions of people think nothing of using it at parties, bars, at home with their family, in front of their kids, etc. -- often with disastrous results -- yet it's perfectly legal.
>Many alcoholics are born that way. They do not have the same liberty with regard to alcohol as others do.

This is a patronizing and disempowering statement with no scientific basis.
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What's the question, exactly? Are you feeling like you might have reached your sell-by date and are looking to avoid getting the chop because ageism? My advice, do nothing out of the ordinary. Dont freak out and try to cram the latest (or any) javascript framework. Dont start scanning hn anxiously trying to intuit which hot new language/framework/library/text editor is going to be the key to continued relevance in the industry. Dont do anything. The tech stack most devs cut their teeth on 20 years ago is still running more of the web than any four competitors put together with zero change on the horizon. Let the kids distract themselves and each other with the recursive wheel-recreation. Keep trucking.
It’s totally inside the scope of your product to work. You sold someone on your expertise and ability, but hadn’t done enough homework to know that your web app wouldn’t work in one of the most important ways their customers would interact with it?

There’s a lot to learn here, but step one is owning up to your own mistakes and not blaming others.
Well, the one thing Wren is missing is static types. But then it probably wouldn't be small anymore.
My takeaway from this thread: People are tyrants. They want the freedom to enjoy their own lifestyle, but are not tolerant, and so do not want liberty generally. The want to use the State to force people with different values to refrain from impinging on their lifestyle.
I think it would be useful to give details. If we knew what the product was and what didn't work we might be able to help.
Yes, exactly.
There is both a social and an economic argument here. Strong Towns mostly makes the economic argument.

The economic argument in this case is: when the market selects for the lowest price at the present time, without taking into account long term trends, you get big box stores which are more sensitive to boom and bust economic cycles than locally owned small businesses are.

So we must look at a longer time horizon than most financial firms or public companies do. Because society works on longer time horizons than public companies. We as a society should decide we want many retail and restaurants that keep an area strong over decades, rather than a few big box stores that can go out of business as the business cycle changes (in part because they are more dependent on high debt loads and low margins). If that's what a society wants, it cannot depend on a totally unregulated market, which in practice has a short-term view - a negative externality of not considering long time horizons.

Strong Towns is saying 10% lower prices today in exchange for higher uncertainty and stability in the medium and long run is not what society should want. It's also saying society should not subsidize big box stores and malls by paying upfront costs for roads and utilities to those malls, because maintenance costs are much higher than for dense downtowns.

Those are all good economic arguments.
Banks can't have any downtime. They need to be able to process EFTPOS and Credit Card Transactions 24x7. Now, not all systems need to be always available in the bank, but the key ones do.
How old are your children?

If they’re 10+ I’d suggest taking one with you to visit old friends. It can be a great way for them to learn indirectly about their father and I’m sure they’ll look back on it fondly as well. Nothing beats hearing salacious stories of one’s old man from eyewitnesses. They’ll appreciate it years from now.
/xpost from the PR :)

Wow! mind = blown. Please let me digest this code. I will merge later today. I'm probably going to come back and ask a few questions. I wouldn't want to pass up the opportunity to learn from you.

Thank you very much!
The trouble is that the law is initially interpreted by social workers with a rather sour attitude. Thus "without supervision" could be that you were inside and they were on the lawn, and "unreasonable period of time" could be 5 minutes, and the rest of the law is also met if you assume that there is a pedophile around every corner trying to snatch a kid.

Utah recently had to redo some similar laws to prevent them from being abused.
Filtered cows blood causes growth?
You must pay to read about a great man who's vision went beyond money and to the core of humanity. Paywalls suck.
It's an argument about (1) longterm thinking, not the short term thinking that a totally unregulated market leads to, and (2) avoiding hidden subsidies of national chains due to the way we budget for infrastructure (governments subsidize building, but not maintenance).

Because govts subsidize building roads, but not maintaining roads, this gives a big advantage to new malls, which get built more cheaply than they should be. To the disadvantage of existing downtowns, which have high maintenance costs which the government does not subsidize.

So a core of the Strong Towns argument is a real economic argument. It's just a more complex economic argument than merely calling for a totally unregulated market. It's an economic argument that takes into account externalities, distortion through road building policies, and societal-level timescales (3 decades, not 3 years.)
The trouble with that is it can upset family and friends. You may want freedom to use drugs yourself but would you want people selling heroin to your kids at school? Hence we have drug laws basically everywhere on earth.
< 5. But good idea for the 50th maybe ;)
> anti-human

No moreso than Galileo or Copernicus could have been called "anti-Earth", for "refusing to properly grant the Earth its sacred superiority to all other celestial objects".

At the end of the day, we humans are all just squishy machines, that happen to have one sole component between-the-ears that can't yet be duplicated (let alone bested like any other aspect of us) by artificial means. Like any other machine, humans are all means not ends (barring the silliest sentimentality).
What a friend did years ago was put up flyers in local office buildings.
NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/28/606801096...
I think the statute of limitations for complaints has passed.
I am 38. I feel as sharp as ever. I have two kids as well. I don't have any earth shattering advice for you. Keep hacking. As a consultant for the last ten years I think this may be our sweet spot in our 40s and 50s. The pay is great. People listen, even young startups. We can leverage our experience. It isn't perfect, but ageism is a zero factor in my world and I enjoy computers as much as I ever did. We (myself and two partners) have slowly grown a consulting company to almost 15 employees over the last 5 years. I have never been as rewarded and actually humbled in my career spanning almost 20 years. Work with people you like, stay curious and keep at it. Not much else to do :)

edit: and teach your kids curiosity... So many kids stare at screens and seem to lose the spark I think I had at their age. Pardon my navel gazing.
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Updated the question. I am after any valuable life advice
I'm 43. My advice is to prioritize:

1. Health. Your health is the most important thing. Yes it's more important than your family. You're no good to your family sick or dead.

2. Family and friends. It's a lot easier finding another job than another wife. You're at the age where you should be working smart not hard. You're too old to be sacrificing your time and your health to make a corporation money by working 60 hour weeks.

As far as friends, I've had to make an effort to keep in touch with friends and cultivate friendships. It's well known that men don't focus on deep friendships like women do.

3. Work. Keep your skills up, study, and stay current with technology. By the way, you don't have to keep up with the cool kids. There are plenty of boring corporate jobs where you can put in your 40 hours a week and go home. As long as you keep your skills up, you really don't have to worry about ageism.
Would you support the imprisonment of someone who was proven to have smoked cannabis back when the state viewed it as illegal? Shouldn't we imprison all those people too because 'they broke a law when it was illegal'?

What an astoundingly dim/daft position.

Would you support the imprisonment of a doctor or woman who performed an abortion prior to Roe v Wade? How about two gay men performing sodomy?

What more important, some pedantic reverence to the law or focusing on what's ethical and not?
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Official org announcement: https://journal.burningman.org/2018/04/news/official-announc...
Pretty fitting, considering what Burning Man has become.
"But given that current defenses against detecting processor-level backdoors wouldn’t spot their A2 attack, they argue that a new method is required: Specifically, they say that modern chips need to have a trusted component that constantly checks that programs haven’t been granted inappropriate operating-system-level privileges. Ensuring the security of that component, perhaps by building it in secure facilities or making sure the design isn’t tampered with before fabrication, would be far easier than ensuring the same level of trust for the entire chip."

They admit that implementing their fix could take time and money. But without it, their proof-of-concept is intended to show how deeply and undetectably a computer’s security could be corrupted before it’s ever sold. “I want this paper to start a dialogue between designers and fabricators about how we establish trust in our manufactured hardware,” says Austin. “We need to establish trust in our manufacturing, or something very bad will happen.”

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hi...
Yes, I primarily work in a small clinic setting, though I've also used Epic in a hospital setting and have been similarly unimpressed! ;)

In general, I think that EMRs try to cram as much information onto the screen as possible, without enough thought toward what pieces of information are useful at particular times. It's like the opposite of the experience that I have on a well-designed website. Most of my complaints are around that phenomenon, as well as all of the unnecessary clicking / scrolling required due to poor design. I also think that the cost of implementing / migrating these systems is insane, especially when that just adds to our already overpriced health care system. It's hard not to think that companies that build EMRs prefer to be as closed and proprietary as possible, to prevent an easy switch to a competitor.

A few things that I do like in Epic and think are generally good features in EMRs:
-lots of shortcut keys
-saved phrases (I think they're called "smart phrases" or some nonsense like that)
-single click connectivity into clinical resource websites and some hospital portals
-modern browser support (I seriously used to use an EMR that could only be accessed on an old version of Internet Explorer -- "just make sure you don't let the computer update the browser")
-eprescribing

My favorite EMR of the 10 or so that I've used was at the VA. (I've heard, though not verified, that that EMR was licensable for almost no cost outside of the VA, but was ignored in favor of "nicer" systems.)
I don't know if it is the same now, but it was extremely simple in appearance with some basic fields for writing notes, an image viewer, a quick way to order and review labs, etc. Looked almost like a terminal. Copy/paste functionality. Most importantly, because it was used at every VA in the country, I was able to easily review records/labs/images from, for example, a 65 yr old veteran who had just moved from across the country. No faxes, no scanning. It is this sort of uniform system for data access that we are missing right now in medicine in the US and it is wasting time, costing us a lot of money, and damaging patient care.
Stay fit. Trying to get back in shape is much harder after 40.
I mean, it is though.

Consider the quality of life that could've been achieved with the same energy cost, material cost, and eventual environmental cost--all so that nerds can collect Merkle pogs.
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Who's buying while they push the ticker this low? The upside is the cashflow is steadier:

Facebook considered the 'data breach' regular operation when it concerns advertisement. This 'Cambridge Analytica' used it for political reasons, which ofc is unheard of, and a total breach of trust.

The price goes up because they're getting away without as much as a scamp. The media coverage shows them much more prepared than for e.g. the senate seemed to have been. "Senator, it was all legal.". - "Thanks Mark."

Reduce the upside today, receive it when "the following breaches were all technically legal, I'm sorry about the dystopia, xxx Mark." doesn't scamp the company either. Good cashflow.