skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had to deal with panic attacks my whole life and most of the time I can link it up to an invisible stress meter building up until it triggers an attack. Sometimes I sort of mentally ignore how much stress I'm putting on myself due to work, life circumstances etc which doesn't make me realize how much stress I'm actually under until a panic attack finally hits.

Breathing exercises and realizing that that I'm going through a panic attack usually helps defuse it a little though most of the time you can only just wait it out.
That reminds me of a line from Green-Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf that I've always liked: "Setting suns and lonely lovers free"
I've gone from reading 10 books a year to reading 25+ books a year over the last few years. Mostly I've cut down on my screen time. I am on a computer all day for work but once I go home I try to spend as little time as possible on a computer.

What do I do now? Come home, do yoga for 15-30 minutes, make tea, meditate for 10 minutes, read for 15 - 50 minutes. Then I'll allow myself to do other things that may occupy my time.

I'll admit that as a single man without kids I have a lot more freedom over my schedule but this is very similar to my morning routine. At the minimum I've got 30 minutes of reading and 20 minutes of meditation in my day every day. This has done wonders for my ADD brain.

The other big thing is focuses on books I know I'll enjoy. For me that means Sci-Fi fiction novels and Magical Realism books. Also if I find myself not wanting to pick up the book then I'll move on from it.

Right now I'm reading alternating Murakami book, Vonnegut books, and books from The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell) series. Are they all at the level or War and Peace? No. But I enjoy them and that's what maters.

P.S. I've got a kindle paperwhite which is IMO the best e reading device I've ever used. It sits in my draw while paper stack up around my house and near my bedside. It just doesnt feel the same. It's great for when I'm going to be traveling and need a few novels but dont have the space in my travel bag.
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The topmost of notches. Very reproducible and user-friendly. https://devblogs.nvidia.com/docker-compatibility-singularity...
Here's a quick primer on user data in ad bidding.

OpenRTB 2.x user object: https://developers.google.com/ad-exchange/rtb/openrtb-guide#.... OpenRTB is used by publishers (Web sites) to put ad impressions up for realtime bidding (RTB) on exchanges like Rubicon and AppNexus. Ad-tech companies representing advertisers - often the largest advertisers - then place bids. Depending on how one counts, 40-50% of online display advertising occurs via RTB[1].

When people talk about how their personal data flows from publishers to advertisers, for this ~half of ad placements, RTB is the method and OpenRTB (particularly the user and geo objects) is often the protocol.

OpenRTB 3.0 signed bid requests from publishers: https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/openrtb/blob.... This is conceptually similar to DKIM for email sources, and is expected to transport whether GDPR applies and consent has been obtained.

OpenRTB 3.0 full draft spec:
https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/openrtb/blob...

[1]: https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/programmatic-digital-display...
Fiction has suffered the same bloat. Used to be that letting an author ramble for 200,000+ words was considered indulgent. Dune told it's entire story in around 180,000 words, I can hardly say anything more intriguing is going on in Song of Ice & Fire at 1.7 million words.
Dynamic ethics was what came to my mind.
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well most of these concerns are from people that actually never tried to run with razor pages, which is really sad.

as said my background was basically 5 years or more working in mvc and even partially working on the framework itself. and I would say that Razor Pages is a good starting point for any application.

currently I think both, Razor Pages AND MVC is important, but it's so easy to use both, so there is no problem. If something grows to much you can easily split it into the old traditional MVC paradigma, but actually most of the time I migrate directly to a web api instead of dotnet core mvc.
(at the moment I have 2 mvc controllers, which are basically the same as web api 2 endpoints (no view/no model))

also razor pages is kind of MVVM which is common more (i mean in the javascript world more stuff is mvvm than mvc, not sure why java/c# can't follow that aswell?!) and more for UI related frameworks (which razor pages of course is) but most people didn't realized that on this github issue..
That's because it's a point release. See 1.3-M1: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.3-M1 (blog https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/07/see-whats-coming-i...)
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Haha both of the April supposed chemical weapons attacks were a fraud. That's why no one reports on them anymore. In order to offer useful "little history lessons", you need to pay attention and remember farther back than last week. You're destroying your own "civil fabric".
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It was (3), as is the norm in the US.
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Assuming the documents are digitized, would probably be pretty easy to put together a neural network that pegs "interesting" documents for review. Not that it should be used as an authoritative judgement, but it sounds like so much stuff gets through the system just because there aren't enough eyes to check everything for the obvious markers.
Thanks

It explicitly says I'm not allowed to tell you that the auto upgrade doesn't work for me and there's no details on how to do it manually.

Sigh I'll try again in a few months.. maybe.
I bought a 5-stage RO (reverse osmosis) filter on Amazon. This review of my filter [1] says the RO stage filters down to .0001 microns.

"Stage four is a high quality .0001 micron reverse osmosis membrane. This is where most of the hazardous contaminants such as arsenic, lead, and barium are removed."

Does this mean I'm safe from microplastics?

[1] http://www.yourwaterfilterguide.com/apec-roes-50-review/
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Eating 'right' is only half of it. Many folks don't realize that they also should exercise.
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C# emerged around the time that Java IDEs emerged. Basically, MS did a decent job with the C# language and tooling. However, it was very much inspired by Java, Java IDEs and Microsoft's own Java IDE (Visual J++).

I think IBM was first with supporting refactorings for Java in Visual Age and Eclipse. Refactorings themselves emerged out of the Smalltalk community.

MS was very motivated to support that for C# as they were getting worried about losing marketshare to Java at the time and because J++ got a lot of negative press (compatibiltiy issues, vendor lockin, the usual MS stuff). In the end C# was held back by the same factors that held back J++ and it took them until very recently to openly support it on platforms other than Windows.
I look at Slack and think, how hard can it be? Then I look at the graveyard of crappy competitors and think, ok maybe there's something special about Slack.
Do you have chronic pain or another chronic condition? I'm trying to find out if they're common among people who are non-confrontational, perfectionists, and generally suppress their emotions.
Centralized control of resources creates a single point of failure and makes corruption more attractive than if regions / states only paid taxes to the federal government.

Africa is resource rich. If left alone, African countries might be as influential as the Saudis. Gold, colbat, petrol, diamond and other resources would be far more expensive to buy. Thus, a divided, corrupt Africa is in the best interest of developed countries.

It's said that Kwame Nkrumah, a man who helped hasten the independence of a few African countries including Nigeria was ousted from Ghana through external help (CIA?). Because he was working towards an industrialized, self reliant and United Africa.

I also read here on HN of a Swiss banker whose job it was to offer attractive loans to African leaders for projects he knew would never be repaid. And collect payments in intentionally undervalued natural deposits and/or concessions for their multi national companies. He would in the same deal help setup untraceable swizz accounts for these leaders. And teach them various means of looting their countries dry. And threaten the leader who doesn't play ball with immediate repayment of compounded loans.

Lastly, like the war on drugs, I believe that Africa's war in corruption is corrupting the continent far more than all other factors combined. Here's why:

New leaders spend their first two years fighting corruption, trying to recover loots because the treasury's empty. Thus houses will be seized, companies repossessed, accounts frozen...

Thus the current commander in thief and his crew would invest in foreign real estate, companies, offshore accounts... Thus impoverishing the country further.

Obviously, the solution is that they shouldn't steal. But that's not an option. Because leaders who don't steal are mocked by the populace - true story. Money equals power. Thus, honest but powerless ex-leaders are easily framed / scapegoated by their successors.

To protect their interests, the truly corrupt never leave power. 40 years in office is normal. And their children gain official posts as soon as they are born - no joke.

That's my two cents.

100 years from now, hopefully, transparency will get better.
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I'm not very interested in fantasy, but the idea that writing is more long-winded than it used to be doesn't really survive even the most cursory survey of literature from the 1800s. Or if that's not your speed check ancient literature and see if you find it more to-the-point.

You're the second person I see in this thread complaining that texts have become too bloated and using this exact example. Perhaps the guy is just a hack.
I agree, and even reading this piece, I just couldn't. For factual pieces, just give me the bullet points.

Perhaps the the worst consistent example is the New Yorker - I just read, uh ok, skimmed, a piece about Elliot hedge fund. It's many many pages long, but could be summarized in a paragraph, or a page, to add some supporting examples.

But, there's a big difference between reading for information, and reading for pleasure/escape.

I get quite frustrated by information pieces fluffed into literature, but can still find the time for engrossing stories and captivating writing.
The density is terrible and the read process is destructive.
From the website:

> the purchase of the book is totally optional, so please do take the time to look around my site

Also, the book is only 13 pounds, so I don't they they are making a lot of money out of it. Perhaps they use the money to keep the website running?
Is this completely based on 2016 numbers? 2017 saw an increase from China:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-carbon-iea/global-...

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-se...
The people inside the democracy. They need democracy.
No need! Everyone is already so happy with the electron version; why would they waste more money improving your experience?
Well that and scanning text for fast insight combined with your current knowledge is a kind of skill. I can't tell you how many P1s I've solved with 5-10 mins of googling and a gut check.
>It helps that a tumultuous couple of years in the world’s democracies have made the Chinese political elite feel increasingly justified in shutting out voters. Developments such as Donald Trump’s election, Brexit, the rise of far-right parties across Europe, and Rodrigo Duterte’s reign of terror in the Philippines underscore what many critics see as the problems inherent in democracy, especially populism, instability, and precariously personalized leadership.

In other words, that a democracy might actually function as one -- oh, the horror -- reflecting what people want, instead of what the elites and the well off 10% wants them to want, or present as TINA.
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What would be the Chinese incentive to lie about this? How hard is it to check the validity of their claims?
This link doesn't tell us anything. It just goes to a landing page that leads to a sign-up page. This submission seems more like an advertisement than an interesting article.
> but it's just not that major an issue.

Maybe not to you.
If you came fishing for sympathy, keep looking.

In the future, if you're doped up, stay the hell off the roads before you kill an innocent third party. I don't much care if you get completely smashed on your own time, but risking others is criminal.

And what's with showing up at a kids' birthday party stoned?

Incredibly irresponsible and antisocial on so many levels.
who downvoted? some short seller? some day trader? somebody who doesn't work for a living but lives off the work of others?
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> As a concept, containers never really lived up to their potential. "A Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application." As long as that application runs in linux.

I like the concept of containers as a lightweight alternative to virtualization. I even use containers (FreeBSD Jails, specifically) for some particular use-cases where I need stronger isolation than separate UIDs, but don't need a full-blown VM. I don't mind this use-case at all.

I really dislike the reality of containers which seem to be "Our deployment procedure and dependencies are so insane so there is no hope of packaging this as an RPM or DEB, so here's an entire userland for you".

As an example of papering over a crazy deployment/dependencies nightmare: I remember seeing a project[0] which used four Docker containers to apply some machine learning based automation to Hue lights. Two of the containers are basically infrastructure pieces (RabbitMQ and Cassandra), one container was dedicated to the machine learning piece and one acts to tie the other three together.

I have no idea why this project needs to run four separate operating system instances to do this job. If I were building it I'd do it as one application, so no need for RabbitMQ, and I'd use an ORM to let the user choose which database is most suited. I'd have an SQLite database as a reasonable default. Maybe I'd have an option to publish stuff to some kind of message queue so that it could be consumed by other systems.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea behind this project and want to try it out, but it really feels like the author went container-crazy because they could and didn't stop to think about whether they should.

[0] https://github.com/tlackemann/hubert
As a former hipchat customer atlassian just totally missed the mark.

The updates they put out for Hipchat during slacks rise were new emojis.
People here know that.

But they also know many doctors aren’t able to help much with panic/anxiety, not because they’re ignorant or incompetent but because the causes and effective treatment options vary so much from person to person, and the whole topic is not very well understood by anyone, really.

One of the treatment options suggested above (CBT) is a conventional medical approach.

The others are often reported to be beneficial for some people and are not commonly reported to do any harm, so it is fine for someone to suggest them.
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I view this as a positive factor in the fight against plastic waste in the ocean. If we know where the major sources of the waste and concentrate efforts on removing 50% waste in those places, it could have a larger effect than removing 90% of waste from smaller sources such as developed nations that are already putting some effort into not polluting the environment.
Yeah that's a good way to recognize what is happening objectively at a higher level rather than just responding to the amygdala. Your effectively observing the moment.
> there's no details on how to do it manually.

The document I linked too contains the language and std-lib changes between 0.18 and 0.19, for the rest you use new packages.

If you don't want to upgrade that's fine, but you're literally staring at the information on what to do.
Wow...great point, 7% female founders in the first 9 pages, and out of 300+ members only 1 AA female and 1 AA male...

Yeah, very telling indeed.
I understand why Reason would want to make a cause célèbre out of Backpage --- libertarian founders prosecuted for a case combining the First Amendment with hysteria over prostitution! How can they resist! But I think they've been bamboozled by their subject.

Surely, months after Lacey and Larkin's arrest, in writing a feature story built on interviews with the founders of Backpage, Elizabeth Nolan Brown would have taken the time to read the actual indictment against them. But if she has, she sure doesn't expect you to, because she doesn't expend the slightest effort in rebutting the claims it makes.

Take referrals to NCMEC, which Brown mentions 5 times in this piece. The indictment mentions it too, right before quoting an email by Backpage staff saying that referrals to NCMEC are to be capped at 500 per month or 16 per day. The obvious concern here would be that Backpage was not in fact reliably forwarding things to NCMEC; only slightly less obvious a concern is that they had so many problematic ads that they had to manage the volume of stuff they were sending to NCMEC, which takes some of the bite out of Brown's argument that child exploitation simply isn't a major problem in the adult services industry.

Rather infamously at this point, Backpage is accused not only of running ads for child sex traffickers, but of doing so knowingly: for years, under Lacey and Larkin's management, their policy --- as Brown writes --- was to check ads for suspicious keywords. What Brown doesn't tell you is that their software then stripped the keywords out of the ads and ran them anyways.

Nowhere in Brown's piece does she address or even mention the allegations that Larkin and Lacey and Backpage's whole staff took pains to conceal what they were doing, for years had a policy of denying knowledge of any prostitution on their site at all, or structured transactions and laundered money to conceal their proceeds. That doesn't fit in to her story, so you don't need to know about it.

I'm not arguing that the indictment is any more a reliable source than Brown is. I'm simply observing that there is a lot of misinformation out there about Backpage, mostly from people who have read neither side carefully, and you'd be well-served (if you care about this stuff) to read both sides.
> What does open source and being altruistic have to do with each other?

Would you spend time out of your day to contribute to software that requires your users to sign up for someone else’s spam list?
If US parties hasn't trained their followers for decades to believe any nonsense as long as it helps the party Russian hacking wouldn't be a problem. In my view it would be more important to get rid of the constant campaigning, distortion of facts, undermining of democratic institutions and partisanship. The Russian hacking seems just a sideshow that uncovers homemade problems.
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Lets assume well paid developers of $150.000 yearly, 5 man for 3 months is less than $187.500 is wages. Lets be generous and say we double that to account for other expenses. It's $375.000 for a feature that will be a reasonable sales argument.
Blockchain doesn't automatically mean decentralised. _HOW_ is this blockchain decentralised? _WHERE_ does the trust/authority come from? Theres very little information on it other than "because blockchain".
FWIW you may be interested in Purescript, it's less developed than Elm but is more on-board with abstractions & the like.
What if you created elm.js and compiled your code, and fixed what doesn't work according to the changes (https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/upgrade-docs/0.1...)?
I missed the part where you detailed any of your problems with it.
Nobody bothers to read TFA before making snarky remarks?

"That’s the conclusion reached by scientists who looked at the country’s estimated carbon output between 2007 and 2016, as the country’s rapid industrialization slowed and its consumption of coal declined. The research is published in the journal Nature Geoscience"

The research was done at the "University of East Anglia in Britain" -- it's not merely some report out of China...
> We don't know why Docker did this.

I'll take a guess: Money.

How do you generate profit if you built something wonderful but the competition already built everything around it that you wanted to sell later (Kubernetes & Co)? User data.
What the hell is this outlet? It looks like a staging ground specifically targeted to indoctrinate liberals/center-leftists into hard-right/Trump culture.
To be completely fair to everyone else here, it's easy to do something like that in an authoritarian environment. You can build something like Three Gorges because you don't care about the people jumping up and down saying "No". You can also mandate the use of solar and wind energy in a way that you just can't mandate things in other nations. You don't care about the other branches of the energy sector that might be hurt by your policy of "playing favorites". You can swing a pen and hundreds of thousands in carbon heavy sectors are, all of a sudden, out of work. It doesn't matter to you, because you don't have to win elections.

I don't doubt that China is ahead of schedule. In fact, I'd be shocked if China was not in the lead globally on adjusting our energy generation mix. They'll have really clean looking dispatch stacks long before we do in the US, but at what cost? (And I'm not just talking about financial costs here.)

That's what we have to keep in mind. The fact is that addressing climate change is usually much more than a technology problem. How easy those non-technology aspects of the problem are to overcome greatly depend on what you are willing to tolerate from the authorities charged with addressing the climate change issue.
Not so strange if you realize that an IDE needs to do essentially the same type of things as a compiler in order to offer things like refactorings, autocompletion, etc.

Idea developed Kotlin as a better Java. Most of their IDE is now written in it. Deep integration with the IDE was a design goal from day 1.

They release the IDE plugin and compiler with the same version number. They are basically developed together. I usually find out about new Kotlin releases because my IDE prompts me to update the plugin. Happened to me this morning with 1.2.61.
FYI, this is based on a paper published in Nature : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0161-1?WT.feed_na... , and not a government announcement. I don't have access to see what they're using as their data sources, so I'm curious how much they relied on official Chinese government data.
The start of recovery for me was reading a book by Pema Chodron about not trying to get rid of the intense feelings and experiences like this. With enough experience and meditation and a practice called morning pages, I’ve learned to harness the extreme energies involved and make them a massive positive instead of something to be scared of, holding me back. It took a long time but fully worth the effort. :)

Edit:

A favorite passage from Pema’s book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=a6sRdYLlmqIC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA...

An article about morning pages:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/03/morning...