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IMO it’s a perfect opportunity to get programs we should already have, like universal healthcare, off the ground

The bemoaning by corporate media is hardly surprising. They want people to stay in one place. It fits the meme they know

But to quite the late Anthony Bourdain, “Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

Do we really need to babysit this much permanent infra that are massive office buildings and shopping malls?

Surely we need spaces to work and trade physical goods, especially if we’re on the g

I think this is the next step of globalization

Look at the Cold War era. Of course it made sense to hunker down. Where were you going to go? Europe and Japan were bombed to hell. The USSR?

This is the last 60 years coming to an end

Time for new patterns around what work and life should look like
>clearly stated that this wouldn't happen

No he didn't. He said "We love GitHub login. Your GitHub account is your developer identity, and many users are accustomed to signing into developer tools and services (e.g. Travis, Circle) with their GitHub accounts."

That leaves open the door for migrating all github accounts into Live accounts within a github namespace. The could have already done it but aren't letting it leak into the github UI yet.

>Use your GitHub account to sign into MS other services.

This isn't an argument they won't do it. It suggests that they will even more.

Implementing GitHub login for Microsoft's other products can be split into three categories of possibility:

1) Other MS services add support for GitHub's authentication systems.

2) GitHub accounts will be mirrored into Microsoft's existing account system.

3) GitHub's backend migrates to Microsoft's exiting account system.

The question isn't "if" but "when and with what UI" #3 will happen.
I guess it would be better to say that most people like having a stable and reliable income.
Good stuff, but I've learned the hard way that most therapists have no idea what they're doing. If someone is not feeling better after 6-8 sessions, they need to get a new therapist. It's all too easy to get into a codependent relationship with a therapist that only enables the depression or anxiety to persist.
I dunno. I grew a (small) software-user community once and it was initially done using a single account - my own - in a support forum. Eventually there were a few more staff accounts - one for each - and some very active forum members. That was ethical by any reasonable definition.

I don't intend to mean that what Reddit did is very unethical - or indeed unusual. And if anything it was a good idea and it worked. But what we did strikes me as different from using multiple accounts to impersonate different users and chat with yourself's and your colleagues' multiple personae.
People already panic on flights. On my last NRT-LAX flight a woman totally freaked out and started running up and down the aisles screaming. Unfortunately, the Singapore Air crew was far too polite and spoke soothingly to her for far too many hours of a very long flight.

I've also seen someone freak out during turbulence on a CDG-IAH flight. The Air France flight crew was less patient and dragged her into the back of the plane where she was presumably restrained or sedated or something.

If you've never been on a flight where someone lost their shit, you don't fly very much. Or at least you take short flights.
These aren't even software patents. They are patents on mathematical procedures.

Just skim over US20180075343A1 [0] to see what I mean. It's not a patent on a particular application of sequence processing using neural networks. It's not a patent on a particular neural network architecture. It's a patent on the generic use of neural networks for sequence processing. It's not a specific process, it's an idea that encompasses a broad class of processes. There is no sane patent system in which that should be patentable.

Frankly, I don't have a problem with patenting specific algorithms or software implementations. Those, to me, are specific processes. These DeepMind patents are on another level.

Edit: I'm not a patent lawyer. Please correct me if I've read that patent wrong. It's basically a neural network mini-textbook/literature review.

[0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180075343A1/
Found this link via Google:

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/07/13/gitlab-integration-f...
You'll need better evidence for comingling of funds than that. I'd have a better case for saying that the immense profits from BCAC are what enables Boeing to even bid on defense contracts.
On Training Efficiency and Computational Costs of a Feed Forward Neural Network
There could be a causation link between alcohol and suicide, but whether suicidal thoughts lead to alcohol or alcohol leads to suicidal thoughts is unknown.

Alternatively, both alcohol and suicidal thoughts could be the result of a 'hidden common cause', such as drugs or unemployment.
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I had a similar experience when driving by the house I lived in when I was at my worst. It was a dark subtle dread unique to that experience. It made me come to realize just how badly I was and how far I have come
I've noticed a sharp increase over the last year or two maybe in the number of companies that will bypass the awful classifier and connect you to a human immediately if you yell the word "fuck" into the phone because the machine thinks it's got an angry customer on the line. IME it weirdly has to be the word "fuck" and it has to be loud. I don't pretend to know all the ins-and-outs of IVR systems, but it seems like maybe one of the bigger service providers these companies use have this one weird trick programmed into them?
That argument isn't nearly as persuasive in kernel space as it is in user space. Certainly not when performance and bleeding-edge techniques (orthogonal to or even in opposition to the normal idiomatic patterns newer languages emphasize and optimize) are as emphasized as they are in Linux. How many bespoke hash, tree, and queue data structures exist in the Linux kernel, each with purposeful but complex data and execution flow dependencies unique to their context? Every time someone tries to unify two, one more pops up. Point being, the Linux development model--partly because of the nature of the work, partly because of the particular culture--absolutely defies attempts at drawing lines between safe and unsafe so the latter can be isolated. Code that doesn't heavily rely on unsafe techniques, directly or indirectly, wouldn't normally be in the kernel, anyhow.

And particularly in a kernel environment even @safe code can do things that violate or exacerbate assumptions elsewhere in the code (e.g. complex RCU protocols), thus Linus' preference to avoid languages with a lot of implicit machinery or non-obvious execution flow. So it's not like @safe code can simply be removed from the equation.
LibMan is nothing more than a friendly file downloader, it's very different from what webpack does. If you that's all you needed then webpack was already unnecessary.
Google <yourcountry> meps and you'll find a Europa Parliament site with a list of MEPs for that country. You can then find who represents your area
Localization strings might make sense. But graphics and audio? Seems a little cumbersome to have to re-blob the graphics resources into the database each time you make an update.
No Protected cloud for you: ASD knocks back Australian firm, but not Microsoft
One great man's account of dealing with depression (the term hadn't been invented yet at the time of writing, but you will recognize the symptoms)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26244.A_Confession
Download:
http://manybooks.net/titles/tolstoylother08a_confession.html
You'll need some evidence for that.
It's never a good idea to involve law enforcement in anything, if you can avoid it. It's such a wildcard what will end up happening.
Stanford's Sapolsky on Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)
I'm far less progressive than most HN commenters. For me, his columns were well-written and well-reasoned. I disagreed with half of them.

What I liked most is that he made me think.
What magical new inventions is he thinking we should produce?

There’s plenty of demand for healthcare services and infra, but no social will to force the political will to fund it

Everyone has an opinion about how the rest of the world isn’t doing what they think it should, given some high level abstract view

Few offer concrete ideas
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> How do you know?

Fair point. But even if another of the 297 of 1,000 were in reality black, the OP didn't know and the OP's point about not being part of the problem still stands. Right?
Again or for the 1st time? They're focusing on the entreprise business and moved away from the consumer business. So my guess is that it's pretty hard to be "cool" in the entreprise world... Look at salesforce has been trying so hard, it doesn't change the fact that their products don't mean anything to the majority of people. So my answer would be... maybe?
Which country was that in?

How did you change your approach to job hunting?
Going to HQB is (was) valuable because:

1) You get a visceral read on what's up and coming - every month and half it's different but volume doesn't lie. Reading the tech news you're in a filter bubble for whatever company is spending the most on PR but on the street you get a real sense for what's being made in volume. Pulling the threads on why this new widget is trending this month is always educational.

2) For prototyping something I find HQB quicker - you can get supplies, programmers, and adapters all in under an hour - usually it was just a new test fixture for isolating a QA issue you've found but having it down the street is wonderful. For production, yes, by all means go through your supplier network.

3) Going in person let me build up guanxi with the niche vendors where I was a repeat customer. As a 6'4" huge foreigner I left an impression, and in turn was able to leverage that network to find things I couldn't/didn't know of. WeChat has streamlined this but the tone is completely different there between people I've met in person and people I haven't.
Yes, to finish medical school after something like that is pretty amazing!
The problem is you buy crap you aren't actually going to eat.
Well... sort of, but why call it 'inflation'? That certain age groups tended to act in certain ways and were impacted by differences in price trends in different ways -- that's accurate. What's misleading or confusing is to then redefining the already-muddled term of 'inflation' from an absolute index to multiple indices and then trying to say that because Index B went up more than Index A that some group of people were much more impacted by Index B than another people were by Index A.

The Fed has a price index that most entities in the US use to measure what it calls inflation. There are plenty of arguments out there that go into detail about how that index can be misleading and how certain institutional prerogatives encourage the people who maintain that index to keep it misleading (e.g. many entities are obligated to increase salaries and pension payouts tied to the CPI).
I'm not saying "Google's Awesome!". My point is that the view you presented is far more biased than what I get from my colleagues and friends that stayed in academia. People running around like headless chickens in the "MS buys GitHub" thread was unfounded, and it is unfounded here.
Pretty sure most people doing "gig economy" crap arent doing it because they wanna do different tasks, and arent leaving it because they wanna do the same thing each day.
I mentioned the IQ stuff because I found it to be a strange example. By definition of IQ, it shouldn't exhibit any issues so long as the random sampling is done correctly.

In addition, there's a difference between saying "p is low so it is unlikely that the null is true" which is absolutely correct, and "1 - p is the probability the alternative hypothesis is correct". Certainly in physics people don't believe the second, I don't know about social sciences.
Four years ago I was at this point. I talked with a number of psychologists and therapists about this. One of them said: "Have you wondered if your anxiety is really because of your relationship". And so began the steps to disengage and end the relationship.

I don't regret it now. I could not and still cannot keep my empathy separate from the suffering of others. The alternative would have been to harden my emotions and become like a rock. My opinion is that depression does transfer and it is contagious. Just as laughter and joy is contagious. I choose my company wisely now and cannot bear to be around negativity anymore, it just catches and makes me numb to everything.

I choose being sad and ecstatic even while they alternate to extreme highs and lows. I refuse to heal anyone anymore.
The last generation of AMD chips before ryzen were eating power like it was cake. You don't want your ultrabook to sport a gigantic power block and last 10 minutes on battery ...
Hackers Have Stolen $1.1B in Crypto This Year
That's one theory. Another is that our society has so many more intangible responsibilities, obligations, serious decisions, and opportunities for failure (oh and consequences, every single action through out the day brings consequences that our minds are overloaded and constantly anxious.

And research has found that anxiety and depression are tightly linked.
> You're treating humans like simple physics formula: change a variable on one side of the equation and the other side of the equation changes in kind.

Energy balance is a simple physics equation. Yes there are adaptations as I noted in my previous post, but they don't change this basic fact, merely how conveniently it's achieved.

> That's the catch, isn't it? You can't just write that off. Motivation is part of the equation.

Sure, and why not make the initial conditions of the Big Bang part of the equation while you're at it? Then nothing is your fault or within your control, and you can just do whatever you want and blame god for the way things are.

Dismissing personal responsibility in your life is not a valid option. Your citations down below demonstrate that roughly 50% of variation in personality are heritable. Relinquishing the other 50% of your personal responsibility is a sure way to ensure that nothing changes.
I don't fly that often anymore but this rule has been universal in USA and abroad for decades. I don't doubt there are some cabin crews that DGAF, but they are exceptions.
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61 by suicide
both top the charts and are within 1% of the fastest on the chart so pretty good for the go dev and MS.
Their HQB stand was usually a 'satellite' showcase for their factory which was located in the greater Guangdong province. Usually Bao'an. Now they're closing their showcase in the mall and just having an online presence and a factory showroom (if you don't mind a one hour drive).
You clearly have never looked at a floppy before making "that won't work" comments, but floppies have a sync hole that is aligned.

And having made multiple copies like that, I know very well it worked pretty well as a method -- it's very likely why that method never became the 'uncopiable' it was claimed to be when it came out.
Hi @greysteil :)

Couldn't agree with this more. I also have a low-priced SAAS product [0] and spent a ton of time early on talking to new users who signed up. I wouldn't even call it "sales". I just wanted to hear from early users' own mouths why they had signed up, what they hoped to get out of the product, and how it was working for them so far. These conversations (which I still do today) provided invaluable insights into how to improve my product.

[0] https://github.com/marketplace/pull-reminders
It's an interesting way of looking things. Depression is as complex as the brain which produces it, however. This may be a part of it, but there are many pieces in that puzzle.
I was recently reminded just how unusual this place (HN) is - I think there was a common thread between HN and Reddit, and so I followed the link from HN and read a fairly tame comment that drew quite shocking personal vitriol, and there was no community correction, no obvious moderator action. I closed the tab.

The weather "out there" is pretty horrible. It's much nicer here by the warm fire.

And we should thank pg, dang and the many other moderators and commenters for keeping that fire going. communities at scale is hard.
This is great, it's one of those ideas I'll come back to later and think about again, applying to different stuff.

Economics is such a tragedy, because on the one hand it's so elegant and satisfying, but on the other it seems sufficiently incomplete to be considered broken. Maybe it's the newtonian version of something.
All the stuff I've seen has been on listservs, sorry.

Bundling consent inside a contract is prohibited, but the theory is that by providing a paid option (which wouldn't operate under the consent basis) OR essentially a free version if you allow them to process your data, they come out from under the bundling problem. It's questionable, certainly, but the supervisory authorities could go either way with it. They'll be under pressure to allow it, as without that, WaPo and other companies with similar models will likely find it cost-prohibitive to allow EU citizens to have a free option and will paywall it entirely for them.
Race does seem to have some information value to explaining police shootings, but it's not as information efficient as class.

I defend the right of officers to employ force, but I don't defend every instance of it.
You're getting downvoted, but I am not sure that's really fair.

I've been thinking this topic today. I happened to lose a (young) family member to suicide a couple days ago and, shit, that bothers me immensely.

Every time the subject of suicide comes up the first thing that is said is "call the hotline," however, in the last couple days, I have been questioning if suicide hotlines are evidence based. I have zero idea if the topic even has been studied, or even if it could be studied. I wonder if our resources can and should be better allocated. I wonder if people are calling suicide helplines instead of calling their doctor.

Or even people are saying it just because it makes them feel good. Because preventing suicide is actually hard and telling someone to call a phone number is easy.

I'm just pondering right now, I have no answers.

Personal story: I called a suicide hotline once and it was extremely unhelpful. It was the opposite of helpful, it actually made things worse.
Chinese hackers stole secret plans for new US Navy weapon
This is a neat way to highlight interesting things going on here, but as others are pointing out, it surfaces the challenges of a temporal ranking system creates...this was a very manually curated post that could probably be easily automated.

A few of us have been chatting at https://hackerforums.co because of this after a thread here made me realize many others pined for the bulletin board systems of old. It’s much quieter than day 1/2 but it’s still healthy.

I have a draft thread in the works that highlights how it’s all running and how it’s done growth-wise since launch, hoping to get it posted next week.
That blog is just beautiful. I really like this simple style which still looks really well polished.
Is it better for the economy for people to buy coffee from Starbucks or from 7-11? One is much cheaper and frees up money to be spent on other things.
Why do we need to keep inventing new terms, though? We have perfectly apt terms already, "decentralized" and "distributed", with much more exact meanings.
Well to be fair pretty much everything kicked the P4, the only way for it to compete was "let's go higher" (clock wise). Then they reached the higher ghz barriers and were in deep trouble until they figured out to re-purpose their core-m mobility chip into what become the basis for all their desktop core and i* cpu. Meanwhile AMD was owning everything.

Without their anticompetitive behavior, Intel would have lost their place back then already.
Saw this on the of a bus in SF and started laughing. Low pay contractor work is the way to get unchained in SF? You won't even be able to make rent unless you're in the top percentile.
I just re-read your message and thought of something with regards to the 30 stocks you are playing with.

Suppose you have $10,000 in AAPL for 52 shares.

You can buy AAPL Jan 2019 195.000 call for $1170 for 1 contract.

Now suppose you plug this option in here, http://www.optionsprofitcalculator.com/calculator/long-call.... and you will see if AAPL goes to $200 for July 28th you would be 30% in profits whereas your shares would only return $8/$192. You can also buy puts when you think it's too high instead of selling the contracts so this way you can arbitrage.

This might work for you as well, http://www.theoptionsguide.com/long-straddle.aspx

Edit:

You can also sell puts every week for the shares you hold and just collect premiums instead of holding dividend paying stocks.
Yep. I remember tons of marketing/advertising people going around enthusiastically talking about how chatbots are "the next big thing." No professional UX people or engineers were really pushing the tech that I knew.
How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions
I'm not sure, I'm not in Athens, but I've been trying to find a new apartment for three years in my city and the pickings have been extremely slim.
> Posting comments in relevant threads is slower, but it can drive a surprising amount of traffic over time, and the conversion rates will often be much higher than a 'featured' placement.

Could you elaborate on this? Do you see ongoing traffic coming in from comments on old HN threads (even old ones)?
It will, if it actually gets built. The Heathrow third runway will be subject to the mother of all protest movements and legal challenges, so it'll be a decade or more before it could possibly get built - well after the remaining 747s are due for retirement.
We did the same thing at Gingr. My co-founder and I were doing sales on our own for almost a the entire first year. We gave the product away for free and visited businesses in person after sign up to build a personal relationship.

One thing I’d add is that we approached these businesses like partners, not customers. Our pitch is that we wanted to create something great (that would save them lots of time) and wanted to hear directly from the horse’s mouth what would make the product great.
Given HN's recent bashing of Google for abandoning it's Don't be Evil mantra this seems like a rather absurd position to take. "Google totes won't abuse this at all!"
Zork is one of the first games in this genre and it's surprisingly good at parsing commands.

You can play it at https://classicreload.com/zork-i.html or http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/5zyoqrsugeopel3ffhz_v...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
Third Law:
* A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.

In other words, neither genes nor your family environment while growing up can account for a substantial portion of your adult behaviour.
Chatbots were the "next big thing" just like how "Blockchain but not Bitcoin" is supposed to be the next big thing.

It's just bunch of people who look at existing phenomenon that's working (people use chat a lot on the phone), and then trying to turn it into something completely different (if people chat a lot, that probably means people want to buy stuff over chat a lot!), powered by dumb money (stupid VCs in case of "chatbots", and stupid ICO crowds in case of "blockchains")

The reason these things don't work is because the people who build these things don't truly understand why something is working, because the original product they tried to replicate was not easy to understand.

Same reason why it's so hard for dumb electronic companies to copy Apple. They think they know, but all they're copying is the superficial stuff, and they never work.