skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Text-based speech has always had a hard time conveying emotion. No need to feel bad about not detecting sarcasm here, we're probably all oblivious to an extent.
? What's Kickstarter When It Comes to Crowdfunding?
If it had an effect, it would be apparent after 11 years.
+100 this sums up a lot of what I was going to mention I do as well.
There's some evidence to suggest that they could also mitigate or repair TBI and other types of brain damage. Hopefully the NFL will throw some money at research and end up becoming a proponent of this type of cure.
Read the article. They specifically talk about human brain cells.
Do we have quantitative research into other forms of physical activity? You're right, athletes still commit suicide, but marathon runners still drop dead of heart attacks too - does that mean the general consensus that running is good for your heart is a bad one?
I usually use jq [0] for this:

pbpaste | jq

[0]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
PSA: I'm a fan of static analysis tools but if you are in the position of making decisions about technology at your organization, please be aware that they are NOT a substitute for nuanced and detailed design.

In my personal experience, combining strongly-typed compiled languages with extensive static analysis has helped "eliminate" bugs at the syntax level, and to some extent at the semantic level. But the stuff that really causes issues is often at the level of the pragmatics of your software. (Going vaguely off the definitions here http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/383/syn-sem-prag-meta... )

I think given the overwhelmingly large number of frameworks around, people tend to make snap judgments around how to use these tools (and the names of these tools don't help - "Findbugs" is a bit overkill :).

Make sure your software has a real set of designs before you start writing code (i.e. block, sequence, control/data flow diagrams and use-cases) and it'll be worth more than any static analysis tool, and it takes far less time. Static analysis can be layered in later if you have time.
Why Erlang in Rust? Ever thought about a no-std Actix clone?
When discussing whether go has generics, "plain go" is a reasonable thing to say.

Besides it's a compiler. It's going to take an input in format X and translate it to an output in format Y. That's just what they do. Syntactic sugar debates aside there's still no generics in there.
You're probably thinking of MDMA, which releases serotonin. LSD doesn't release seratonin, but it does have similar shape to serotonin and therefore can trigger the same receptors that serotonin does.
> The things I mentioned are mainly about experiences

I've become convinced that clothing and shoe shopping is also "mainly about the experience" for many people.

I don't get it, and I'm happy to see enough others who don't get it so that there's a critical mass of consumers for the business that provide the things I enjoy to thrive. But I do believe it's a matter of preference (and perhaps also of environmental/economic impact).
There are a number of body building supplements with some wild side effects. And if you look at body builders, at the elite levels...that just isn't healthy what they do to themselves to get ready for a show. Getting down to less-than 5% body fat, that isn't good for you.

But, going to the gym and lifting weights, and eat like a normal person...that is fine.
Many companies go bad because they do give away too much equity then there's not enough left for subsequent raises

Citation please, because this sounds outlandish.
tbh many of the adults i know have no ability to judge which lines of questioning are fruitful or not specifically because they're so "on rails" or "adultlike".

for them a fruitful question is defined as something along the current trajectory. but they never ask if they're on the right trajectory because that wouldn't be something on the current trajectory.

see the issue?
Promoting climate-smart agriculture
Google disables inline installation for Chrome extensions
> and the US is known to have some of the most permissive free speech laws.

But look at all the US kids having armed police sent to their homes because they swore on Xbox live.
I decided to leave a PhD program a few years ago, which left me feeling some existential angst. Leaving a PhD program was a little like leaving a job, friends, and a higher calling all at the same time.

I restarted doing a martial art about the same time, which gave me regular socialization, exercise, and something to get good at that wasn’t coupled to my career / work identity. It was kind of a package deal.

I am not religious, though I’m familiar with church from childhood. I’m reminded that there are some practical downsides of not being religious. In some ways, martial art is my secular church.

Humans, even introverts like myself need some level of socialization to stay healthy. I’d advise anyone to find their “church” even if it’s not religious or spiritual. Some characteristics that I think make for good groups:

- Things happen at specific times. You don't have to plan something unless you want to. If you don’t show up, someone wonders where you are and maybe asks about you.

- Everyone isn’t like you. You interact with people who work different jobs, make different money, come from different cultures, and are of a different generation.

- It’s a regular place that can become familiar, and that you have some interest in its care

- The unifying task isn’t too utilitarian. It’s good to have something that improves you, but isn’t itself that important.

I think as a society we’ve lost the notion of personal social health in favor of a completely individualistic notion of mental health. My suspicion is that many of our mental health issues are the result of / are exacerbated by bad social health.
The best of both worlds. Do the warm one and finish with colder water as far as you can comfortably take it. Do this repeatedly and over a 30 day period you should be able to go fully cold without an issue. Then you can lower temperature on starting temperature and in another 30 days you can go cold all the way.
My statement also had a second part which you seemingly missed for the sake of your argument.

Calisthenics, or bodyweight, exercises are perfectly viable for becoming fit and require nothing than you being able to find a nice spot on a floor. If this hypothetical person is that strapped for time, then how do they even get any sleep? That's an even bigger issue than not being able to work out consistently.
They may not have had a sales guy come knocking on their front door, but if you think they weren’t marketed to, then Tesla did an excellent job of marketing.
Many here likely feel that they've been subjected to too much hype.
If one of Musk's companies ever needs to train a deep learning sarcasm detector, these threads provide an excelent dataset.
> I'm not sure where this requirement of one bedroom per child comes from. Really, that's just a luxury

Relavent

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=552528...

> The average American house size has more than doubled since the 1950s; it now stands at 2,349 square feet.

> Back in the 1950s and '60s, people thought it was normal for a family to have one bathroom, or for two or three growing boys to share a bedroom. Well-off people summered in tiny beach cottages on Cape Cod or off the coast of California
That's ridiculous. One counter point: Ionic is going to ship web components to many thousands of app store and web apps shortly. A lot of people won't even know they are there, since they look and feel like any other framework component (if they are using Angular, for example). It's happening whether you realize it or not.
It's pretty easy to buy a couple 28oz cans of tomatoes, a jar of minced garlic, and some olive oil and simmer for a half hour. That's like, what, 15 minutes more than it takes to make pasta to begin with. Generally I agree with you, though.

I'd like to be able to buy ground sausage, but a lot of packaged ground sausage has added sugar, as do a lot of packaged broths and bouillon cubes. Broth and sausage are great ways to add some flavor to staples like beans and lentils and it's really unfortunate that it's so hard to find packaged versions without sugar.
Noooooo! interface{} is a raw type. It’s like “Object” in java land. It has no meaning in its own right, and needs to be carefully checked whenever you want to actually use it. The proliferation of interface{} across the go ecosystem is really unfortunate, and will be hard to correct once generics are finally supported.

I haven’t dug too far into the Fo code yet, but I’d guess that it’s doing something akin to type erasure in Java, and adding conversions and type checks transparently when compiling down to a go binary. Sort of like how if you ever pop open a class file and dig into it, you’ll never see any references to generics. Everything compiles down to objects in the end with generated type checks.
I think that you misread your parent, who was, to my reading, saying that the fact that powerwalls apparently needed a hard sell was proof that they were not good products.
this is how it starts...
I read Polymer is switching to JS modules with 3.0, sounds like a right step for Web Components :)
"Worse is better" meets "If you could have invented Facebook, you would have invented Facebook."

Linus was better being "wrong" for 25 years than Tanenbaum and GNU Hurd was being "right" but never shipping anything of non-toy importance.
Maybe steroids increase depression more than weight lifting reduces it?
> - If you don't have a family, start it ASAP if you can.

I'd be a bit cautious recommending this. Sometimes kids are born out of "trying to make something work" or otherwise using the pregnancy as a fix. 2 of my children were brought into the world this way and I can tell you it didn't help me manage my mental health at all.

Just my .02, only the OP knows if this would really be a good idea for them.
You mean the Planck length (related to the Planck constant, the speed of light and the gravitational constant).
Misleading in that, when you hear layoffs, you immediately think "financial trouble" because that's usually the context that you hear about layoffs.

These articles you hear about Tesla are sometimes factual, but they're not published because they're factual. They're published to do damage and affect stock prices in a way that make specific people rich. It's the equivalent of playing poker, and affecting your neighbor's hand by distracting the dealer.

Every week there's a god damn article about Elon's "fall from grace" (what?) or about how he's trying to prevent unionization (you mean the fake unions that Ford has been trying to start, but workers aren't interested in?) or about subsidies (which are still a fraction of oil subsidies).

As a result, he made the mistake of criticizing the ethics of the media. So start expecting him to get the Gamer-gate treatment as the media pile on him even harder than before with fabricated news.

Every time I read a negative piece about Elon or Tesla, I worry "oh shit, is this the one?" and I look into the article and it's absolute bullshit. At this point, even if I read an article and it appears to be factual, I'd say the burden of proof is on the naysayers, and not on Musk or Tesla, given past performance.
> involved in multiple IP lawsuits and one other major civil matter

sounds like breach of contract, not crimes though. shrug
That's like saying "electric cars are never happening". Both already are happening.
As a small publisher since 2004, every day for 14 years, I am sick and tired of Google's serfdom. Their monopoly on ads, their Panda updates, etc etc, do not respect anyone else, but Google's interests. They will make internet into a strip mall like entity with the same boring list of players, the monotonous list of websites, all for their own profit and monopoly.

Internet is supposed to be about the content, ideas, journalism, etc. But there is virtually no VC investment in the content. Nothing. That is scary, and Google is single handedly responsible for it.
Millions of Customers. Billions of Dollars. iOS Architecture at Scale
Facebook's responses to the recent Senate privacy hearing [pdf]
Press Warned about USB Fan Given Out at Trump-Kim Summit
Sure mate, no, you're right. Everyone who can't find time to consistently exercise is just slovenly, and for that reason fuck 'em, they don't deserve mental health.
Can you expend on some of these, or give a reference? Specifically, why does going to high voltage limit resistive losses? Why does really high V mean massive pylons? Why is low frequency AC massive?
That does not really follow, nor is it a good point. A product offered by a company can be a huge part of the web, and if RSS and Google Reader were equivalent it still could've been popular. One can dispute both, saying that it was only known in a small circle even back then, but none of those points speaks to that.

> That people are still angry over this shows how out of touch many developers are with the real world / average consumers.

I'd rather see it as a lesson on how long developers remember if they feel betrayed by a company. Google Reader + Google Plus real name policy + its integration into Youtube was like a perfect storm to undermine Google's popularity, and then came Snowden. But it began with Google Reader, and I think that is why people remember.

PS: Given who the author is I think no one can fault him to give in his reasoning much importance to RSS.
Didn't know that the compiler itself isn't using the same packages after going in a bootstrapped fashion.

Using the existing packages is a great approach as I think that Go standard library has one of the best packages supported for AST/lexing/parsing family, in comparison to Python and Ruby. Haven't worked with Rust.
Every mental health professional I have seen has suggested some sort of medication. And when I say suggested I mean pushed. It's like dude, how many times do I have to tell you NO.
Possibly an aversion to seeing con men succeed at the con.
I do not believe we are at a special tipping point in this history of automation in the economy. Automation has been removing certain jobs from the economy for thousands of years. All-in-all (certainly in the 20-21st century in the US at least) unemployment has ebbed and flowed. When automation occurs in an industry it generally allows for greater production and cheaper products which raises the standard of living of everyone. There are many new jobs that exist today that didn't exist 100 years ago or at least were in very small number. Here's a nice podcast on the topic https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-i-want-the-rob... :)
In the meantime, I am thinking of changing my Google DoubleClick "essay" from "essay" to "overview".
That's exactly the problem big pharma has. They fear massive losses for their various anti-depressants. Revenues have been guaranteed up to now, as patients become dependent on them and have to take them for years. (With regards to depression for example, LSD often is a one-time application the effects of which last for months. Price tag: $10 max.)

So their strategy is:

a) eternal astro-turfing and fear mongering in forums such as this one.

b) developing new substances which may have similar effects to LSD etc. (even if less successful) and can be patented.
Thanks for the tip, but I avoid that because it ruins readability on mobile IMO.
I am highly supportive of DE Shaw's efforts to make the world better. On the other hand, OP has a point: many of these sorts of things actually do not have a payoff. I knew some guys working on protein folding in the 90s. No payoff. One of 'em must be close to retiring by now. Shaw offered me a job to do an innovative kind of FTIR back when I graduated in 2004. Pretty sure that didn't pay off either. For that matter Shaw's original research was into the 'transputer' which also didn't pay off.
The man's a risk taker, and perfectly entitled to spend his post tax income on whatever he likes. But a lot of science and stuff is dead ends, and, of course, avoiding known dead ends. Might very well be a dead end. He's been dumping considerable resources into this project since 2001; that's rather a long time ago now.
As a person who has been to psychedelic hell, I can say a nice part about it is that it ends. Having people around you to help you assimilate complicated experiences is key. If you're on the edge of a manic episode, it can definitely be a catalyst, and I've seen difficult things come of it but sometimes difficult things are manifestations of things we need to deal with.

The benefits of responsible psychedelic usage greatly outweigh the risks. I haven't seen any evidence that permanent psychosis after psychedelic usage is statistically significant compared to psychosis in the general population. Honestly, riding your bike to work is more dangerous.

Something that's hard to quantify (because it's been illegal to study) is that people who use/abuse psychs before slipping into a permanent psychosis may have been on a manic upswing that led to the risky usage of the drugs. I've seen that happen to people in hypo mania with weed, alcohol, shopping, and the greatest offender and most predictable, cocaine. This can lead to PTSD and further self medication that can become a race condition that lasts a lifetime. The fear, shame, and personal loss can be crushing without the support to handle it.

Permanent psychosis or schizophrenia are so poorly defined. One of the hallmarks of schizophrenia is that it doesn't get better. So if you had an episode and they diagnose you then it does go away, well they guess you didn't have it. The more modern thinking is that schizophrenia doesn't exist[1]. There are so many factors that lead into an unmanageable mental state, not the least of which is our bizarre modern environment. IMO it's a miracle most of us are able to pass as sane well enough to keep the trains running on time.

I just don't buy the "don't do it, you might go crazy" though. But if you feel like it's not for you, it's probably not for you. Thoughtful enthusiasm is so important. Also knowing what you're taking and where it came from.

If you or someone you know struggles with mental illness coupled with drug use, there is real help for it and free resources. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and it's Dialectical[2] cousin are showing amazing results. SmartRecovery[3] is a fantastic free resource. With free daily online chat groups (audio, video, and text) as well as in person meetups all over the world.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201603/...

[2] http://www.millercounselingserv.com/uploads/9/0/5/1/90518949...

[3] http://www.smartrecovery.org
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Ah, but marketing isn’t simply coercion or persuasion. For instance, if you’re gathering requirements from customers before, during and after the development of a product you’re doing marketing whether you realise it or not.
Musk and Tesla have marketed their autopilot and handled autopilot accidents very poorly. Musk has been indignant at suggestions that Tesla needs to raise more money this year. That attitude in the face of a financial situation that seems to obviously require an influx of cash (while dealing with major production issues) has not helped their public perception.
>It will definitely slow down innovation

It will definitely slow down innovation. Some projects / aspirations will come off the table completely. Mars? Forget about it. All your mars money will be treating AIDS/Malaria/Cancer/Whatever. All NASA and space exploration money will go to feeding poor people and refugees and all manner of charitable causes, these causes will only ever multiply ad infinitum. I think there is really only money for one or the other. You can have a comfy easy welfare state life, or you can explore and reach for the stars.

You can't do discount Mars, or space exploration on the cheap, you basically can't have both. Your welfare state will make it so that you don't ever really have enough money to actually do any kind of space exploration. Sure you can send cheap drones locally within the solar system, but that's all space exploration will ever be from now on.
Crossing the street is dangerous but mostly under your control. Unlike a trip. Anyway the comparison is lame.

The comparison with an exercise program is lame too. Of course an unusual big effort or training load is bad and might harm you or kill you.

A bad diet like paleo or keto might lead to an early death as well.

The numbers show that many people are prone to mental issues or have them. Not a small percentage but a big percentage concerning many millions.

Even responsible psychonauts warn against psychedelics in the wrong setting. But you do not know in advance if you will have good or bad trip.

All noteworthy positive studies are published by medical experts.

All medical experts warn against the casual use of psychedelics. Psychedelics should be considered as medicine and not as easy harmless miracle drugs or party drugs.
Elon Musk as manager of a firm or manager of a household?

There is social utility in the efficient allocation of labor. While there are plenty of justifications for devoting resources to help people find new jobs, and reduce frictional unemployment, keeping people in jobs where their compensation is not cost effective relative to their output impoverishes an economy and the people in it.

If on the other hand Elon Musk as a household were maximizing his personal return on equity in Tesla for the sake of purely wasteful personal consumption that would be another thing. However, he seems to invest almost all of his wealth into his companies.
It is a great specialty. Sure doesn't hurt to pick up others along the way, but having deep Angular 1.x specialty 5 years from now will have you flooded with maintenance, upgrade and conversion gigs, and big ones.
Valve opens public beta for Steam chat redesign
Sydney Coles – the stepdad's BBC was too much to handle
Yeah right, read the couple lines that are intented as one-line TLDR and dismiss it as arrogant nonsense; you probably won't be writing drivers anyway.
We're here to contribute to human progress
I think the patch should have been to rip out eval() and build/use a shunting-yard parser/evaluator. A quick search found this: https://github.com/ircmaxell/php-math-parser

Leaving a call to eval() with user supplied input, no matter how well filtered, seems like way too big of a risk.
According to the LKM Howto, support was added around 1.2 (1995).

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/x73.html#AEN90

Around 1.2.8 HJ Lu added the ELF kernel module support:

http://tech-insider.org/linux/research/1995/0526.html

I remember a lot of this and feel old now.
My problem has always been that he pushes these altruistic goals "green earth"/"space travel" and then executes it with the most extreme version of capitalism available. It's like an ad campaign to him.
Google Home can now handle three queries at once
agreed. in my mind, the last really good piece they had was when they sent simon ostrovsky to the war in ukraine.

the quality went downhill and i've stopped following them a few years ago. but back in the day, they were excellent as far as gonzo journalism goes.
This is a very cool idea – have been looking for something like this for a while to get out of the echo chambers that we tend to form in our social circles.
No, interface {} is more like void pointers in C and C++ or Object in C# and Java. It can hold values of any type. One of the major selling points of actual generics is that they provide type safety, but interface {} doesn't provide that.
Books for tech leads
Which books would you recommend a Tech Lead to read? I am looking for books related to people/team management etc
Well... I hope this is something GPDR covers. If there was a case to start seeing the impact of the new law, this seems like a good example.