skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really want to argue that the UK educates students without a single excerpt from the Magna Carta, without a single Churchill speech, etc.? That you went through twelve years of schooling without ever being exposed to a historical figure's own words? You were never assigned a single autobiographical work to read from?

Be my guest, but good luck getting anyone to believe it.

edit: I'll just note, additionally, that you stated "nothing in a classroom is a primary source". Even if it were true that yours was an unprecedented aberration, that general statement remains untrue.
We play using a "central timing clock" for the games at WDC - 45 boards over three days (Friday 9am Friday 5:30 / Sat 9am / 5:30pm / Sun 9:30 am) - and they keep the games moving very nicely. 34 minutes per game year, with adjustments being done on the clock. We had one game go to 1916, but most games are done in less than 6 hours.

We've had two solo wins over the 36 boards played so far.
Here’s an article from a while ago about Chinese business culture: http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/bro-code

Have you ever experienced anything of the like? How is beind involved in Chinese startups as a non-native? (I’m assuming based on your post)
The USP of Snapchat was that parents could not go through past messages as these would get deleted once read. So, if you had planned a night out on the town doing silly things you could still pretend to the parents that you would being having a sleep over at a best friend's house. Even if they went through the phone with a fine toothcomb the parents would not find evidence of plans for wrong-doing.

Facebook is not about regularly messaging your best friends, it is about messaging/stalking people you knew from school onwards up to now, including workmates, parents and other people you don't message important things to, such as plans for tonight.

Snap are pretending here that their 'besties' market isn't already consumed by WhatsApp!, which it is, so Facebook have already eaten their lunch there. They don't actually acknowledge their 'secret sauce' in this memo, which was the instantly deleting messages that appeal to teens.
I don't disagree at all, but between Wikipedia and StackOverflow, I'm slowly becoming suspicious that crazy, legalistic communities may actually just be really good at moderation?

For all of their faults (and there are many), Wikipedia, StackOverflow, and to a much smaller extent even Hackernews all tend to be kind of good at what they do, petty rules notwithstanding.

Although, Reddit exists too, so maybe I'm just cherry-picking examples. I don't want to fall into the same trap that people did with excusing people like Linus.
Wow, yes what a speed increase and it works just fine anyway! Thankyou!
The docks, here in Helsinki, are integrated well with the bus & tram API/app. That means you can see how many bikes are sat at each dock-point around the city, in real-time, which is pretty good.
That was answered in the post:

> I've put off finding a new therapist and psychiatrist because of the same catch-22 that was affecting me earlier, being depressed removing my motivation, but writing this post and reliving the last few months has reminded me that nothing good will come of continuing that.
I think of any social media company as an interface into a network. If the network isn't fundamentally the moat then that's a problem because the interface can often (but maybe not always) be a commodity. In the early stages, a small social media company may use its novel interface as the moat. Interface moats can be fragile but they buy the company some time to grow the network and gives the initial set of early adopters a reason to join. However at maturity, the interface alone can't continue to be the only thing that can defend or provide a moat for a business.

The problem with Snap (as you pointed out) is that the network characteristics are similar to Facebook's or Instagram's....aka friends and family....aka people in your phone contacts. Facebook's fundamental value is that they were one of the first ones to capture the graph that already existed in your phone and brought it online at scale. However, the actual network they built isn't as novel or as difficult to build as something like Twitter which is a graph that existed nowhere else before.

LinkedIn is similar to Facebook in that the business contacts probably already existed in your phone or on a bunch of business cards. But because we don't want our professional lives and our personal lives to share the same spaces, LinkedIn was able to capture the professional opportunity by bringing business contacts online.

What does this all have to do with Snap? Well Snap has the unfortunate position of having similar network characteristics to Facebook's while also being in a similar social space albeit heavily skewed younger (I consider Instagram to be in a roughly similar social space). Snap probably felt like the demographic skew alone would be enough to balance out this weak position but I suspect they're finding out quickly that it is not since Instagram is proving to be a thriving space for young people too.

On the other hand, networks like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Nextdoor are all either unique networks underneath the primary interface or they share different social spaces that people usually don't want mixed. Anyone can make an interface but it's incredibly hard to grow a network in a particular social space. The latter almost always makes for a stronger moat. Snap needs to figure out how to make progress on the latter because I think many of their large problems stem from not having enough of a moat at the network level.
Won’t look too kindly?

The alternative to antibiotics in a lot of these cases is death.

Not sure anyone would look at that “unkindly”.
Is that socialism though? It did begin that way but sticking a label on a savage dictatorship doesn’t make it true.
In 20 years time it will seem barbaric that doctors used to treat us without even looking at our DNA.
"Reconsider the necessity to find a good therapist."

When I had depression I found this a very difficult and frustrating task that was depressing by itself. I don't want to say that most therapist are bad but they are humans and it's very hard to find one that matches well with the patient.
At least we know our established treatments generally do actually improve outcomes rather than worsen them. Establishing that as a criteria for adopting a new treatment was a real step forward.
>The biggest mistake we made with our redesign was compromising our core product value of being the fastest way to communicate,” Spiegel stresses throughout the memo regarding “Project Cheetah.”

Hmmmmmmmmmm. The Google Mail redesign comes to mind. Gmail has 1.4 billion users. (April 2018 figure, Gmail's Wikipedia page.)

Google management, if you're listening: the writing is on the wall. You have it there black and white: "The biggest mistake we made with our redesign was compromising our core product value of being the fastest"

In this comment I outline some reach goals for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17873576

(That comment is written in a wishful style, what I know you can do and what I imagine you can do.)

You can do it! Just hire the best. Put the best on that team. 1.2 billion users mean you can afford it. You can do it.

Do it. You can do it. I believe in you with all my heart.
Also the + operator is typed with Num; from a Haskell repl:

λ> :t (+)
(+) :: Num a => a -> a -> a

In case of average we need /:

λ> :t (/)
(/) :: Fractional a => a -> a -> a

So our type is going to be constrained by Fractional instead of Num). So an implementation could be (from here [1]):

import Data.List
average :: (Real a, Fractional b) => [a] -> b
average xs = realToFrac (sum xs) / genericLength xs

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2376981
Agreed about app-based hailing being more efficient, but I think it’s not germane to the issue at hand – those same organizational improvements would be seen if Uber classified its employees as employees, or if a city’s licensed taxi providers could get their shit together for a good app.
pull down to refresh

much smoother scrolling
While overprescription of antibiotics to human patients has been a problem, I think that the antibiotics usage that the future will really look back on unkindly is the massive use of antibiotics in the livestock industry. Wastewater from that is a major contribution to bacterial resistance.
Reddit is certainly trying to pivot toward social media, with probably the least enthusiasistic and most hostile user base for that change they could possibly have.
I'm unconvinced a prescribed two day set of days off is really the right way to balance work and leisure.

People end up focusing on milestones like TGiF or humpday, working for the weekend, etc.

As automation and globalism and remote work become more pervasive across industries, I hope to see more flexibility here rather than less. Culturally it would be unacceptable to take a random three day weekend and work 6 the next, but I think the benefit to mental health and productivity would be measurable. The always available culture in tech is a mess.
Website seems to be down ... Slashdot effect ... But i really like the idea :)
Not if there's no actual data points left in the middle.
Some more info on the actual tech: https://www.norsepower.com/technology and https://www.norsepower.com/rotor-sail-solution

Obligatory wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship
It's either code that is purposefully built to turn into nice documents (using something akin to Sphinx or Doxygen, potentially hosted on readthedocs.org) or a tongue-in-cheek excuse for not writing documentation.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/10/iphone-8-...

They have tried to pull this stunt multiple times already. But have been forced to revert due to the amount of negative press it was getting. It's astounding that they tried it more than once.
The amount of Edinburgh tenements which have far-too-many bikes wedged into the stairwell used to be a constant source of surprise to me!
Mostly all of the hits you take at China can also be said about the United States business, employer, & employee atmosphere. It's just everyday global unchecked Capitalism. Wait until we see the effects of the new Supreme Court heading into a new Lochner Era.

Chomsky points out that going to work in America is akin to walking into a Communist Dictatorship where you lose all of your rights [1].

[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/preface-an-interview-with-noam...
There is something special about serotonin - throughout evolution, it has been an important part of regulating social emotional processing in animals and humans. It strongly regulates the function of the salience network in the brain, alterations of which are associated with anxiety disorders.

Like other neurotransmitters, serotonin is specifically synthesized in a specific brain region, the raphe nuclei. (Dopamine is from the substantia nigra)

Brain circuits have lots of overlap but they definitely have specialization. Case in point, genes associated with serotonin processing have SNPs for depression-like illnesses.

Sapolsky gives one of the better lectures on the specific features associated with abnormal serotonin, dopamine, or neuropinephrine signaling, and their associated symptomology. Ultimately it's the job of the psychiatrist to figure out what's out of balance based on behavior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
It's infuriating how notorious the USA is inserting copyright BS in every single "free trade agreement". Is it really necessary to always glue a piece of shit like that to a good thing like a free trade agreement being introduced? Can't we just agree to trade freely?
For one thing, they are contractually obligated to pay Google and Amazon at least $600mm per year for the next few years.

So that’s $150mm per quarter, as a minimum (if their usage doesn’t meet that amount they have to pay the difference).

They are paying something like $200mm on R&D/quarter, and over $100mm on advertising and administrative each.

Their “cost of revenues” (I’m not exactly sure what this means for them...I wonder if it is discounts offered to advertisers) is another $190mm.

So a few hundred million here and a few hundred million there adds up to a $350mm quarterly loss.

What’s interesting is their R&D expenses have dropped 20% from the year ago quarter, while their sales and marketing have increased substantially. That does not bode well for the future either in my opinion (although it’s easily arguable that even $200mm per quarter on R&D seems excesssive for Snap).

Edit: I quickly compared them to Twitter, which isn’t known as the most leanest of run companies in the first place, but Twitter’s R&D costs are $139mm/quarter compared to over $200mm for SNAP. Their administraative costs are $74mm/quarter, compared to over $100mm for SNAP. How is SNAP spending so much more money than Twitter, and clearly producing a fraction of the output?
Keep seeing your therapist along this journey - it will help you 'take a time out' to think about your situation and validate your progress.

1. Break your fall.

Depression, and any 'invisible' illness, are highly distracting. Like trying to getting an A while getting electric shocks during every class and study. It can be done (not by me, but by some I guess) but it is really really hard. You'll miss obvious problems, solutions, and obvious signs that act as cues at other times. You need to turn down the voltage a bit.

First, quick fixes. These are antidepressants. They are a good temporary measure but not more than 3 maybe 6 months. Depression kills all forward progress, and antidepressants can release some of this pressure temporarily - freeing you to begin moving to long term solutions. That is really all antidepressants are good for.

2. Find out-of-the-box effective solutions to your depression - immediately.

First, I have been helped by western herbals (St. John's Wort is proven long term effective but takes time to get going), ayurvedic Indian herbal treatments (start with Ashwagandha), Chinese herbs, gut related bacteria and probiotics (strong ones like kombucha every day - not gentle 'nudges' like yogurt).

Focus on the medicine vs the doctor/treatment. Dr visits can take a month or more and are expensive - your health can't wait. Focus on the herbs themselves vs visiting the ayurvedic practitioner, acupuncturist, or Chinese Herbalist. Via the internet, I stole bits and pieces of the most effective treatments in non-western medicine and cobbled together my own solutions.

Second, Yoga exercise routines, and add the Yoga mindfulness stuff later if you can (but at least the exercise routines). You must do this. Yoga is proven and will help you - but you can't stop there (and will find it hard to start if you have not broken your fall yet). Exercise and treatment must always be combined.

Third, mindfulness. Know you will make it through. You may not know how yet, but you will make it. Fake it 'til you make it is a proven strategy - but not enough alone.

3. If you do not have the ability to share your focus with your job (balancing your health treatment and your job) get a quick fix (antidepressant) going right away to 'turn down the voltage'. And let whatever happens to you job - happen. Panic and anxiety about a job you may be losing is waste of your very precious and limited resources (you may even find your wrong about your fears!).

Remember your solution order -

1. Break you fall (quick fix) and turn down the voltage a little.

2. Come up with long term solutions/strategies to turn it down a lot, and keep it down.

3. And finally - focus on your job last. Your good health will do much more for your job and life than your very best but highly distracted efforts can ever do.

Best of luck - I will be watching for your updates.

You have a chronic problem - you must treat it like one.
There's a good example of what pawelmurias is referring to on the Wikipedia vote page linked in the article [1]. Here are some quotes, from two editors on opposite sides of the Breitbart argument:

"I find it incredibly hard to believe that [Editor 2] is still pushing this issue aftermore than a year and a half, and after his having narrowly escaped an indef CIR block [...]" -Editor 1

"Please review WP:ASPERSIONS, and leave me alone. Or, try again to get me banned. These types of comments add nothing to the discussion and aren't, in my opinion, proper conduct for an editor." -Editor 2

"I'm a regular RSN contributor, and you are not. [...] As for casting WP:ASPERSIONS, you should probably hold your tongue before insinuating that I am stalking you: if I recall correctly, you spent about a month following me around and delivering backhanded insults at every opportunity before being told by several admins to knock it off." -Editor 1

I usually think better of editing Wikipedia for fear of being drawn into something like this. Even the most seemingly innocuous, well-cited edits can end up getting you into trouble with someone.

I think Wikipedia is a wonderful achievement, but it often isn't pretty behind the scenes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not...
If I could go back, I would’ve rephrased my original post so that it didn’t seem like it existed just to contradict the upstream posts.

People were talking about using runtime specs to annotate and validate the subset of information a function may care about. Which is certainly something I wish I could do in more languages, though ideally as much at compile time as possible.

Of course, runtime specs in Clojure let you make more assertions than just structure, so structural typing as seen in TypeScript, for example, certainly don’t go all the way. It just helps address what I thought was being discussed.

What is the ideal middleground? I think one possibility would be if Clojure
was statically typed to begin with yet had the syntax of spec/schema.

Though I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing anymore.
Perhaps, but you can replace "Americans" by "Americans who have more political influence than just voting power", and then the statement would be more correct at least.
The Hiring Post (2015)
You don't even have to go into the future to find unkind looks here. Operators making the decision to use ABX the way they're used in livestock are morally guilty of negligent homicide whether or not it meets a legal standard. It's unconscionable at this point to treat them as just another industrial input.
Ceaucescu's hated austerity was because it was attempting to pay off the national debt to western countries.

There are plenty of other notionally capitalist countries that have suffered bitterly under a similar kind of debt yoke (e.g. Greece).
I have quit jobs for less, but I suppose nobody can have an opinion on what they'd quit over (or over and over) without being in exactly that situation. You know what's easier than saying what you'd do in a situation? Discounting what someone else might do by putting qualifiers on their ability to even say it.
Is finding the hiring page part of the technical interview?
"It was five days long, with days of rest staggered across the week. Now, the Soviet economist and politician Yuri Larin proposed, the machines need never be idle." This is actually totally sensible and was practiced in the factory where I once worked.
It's described right in the article: embed the victim page in an iframe. Because of the same-origin policy you shouldn't be able to access its DOM, but with this trick, you can.
You are thinking pretty narrowly. Why not take a 3 day weekend to start the year and then do it again the next 51 weeks?
zoinks! I did the port but somehow missed my HN moment. Someday I was thinking this might be worth a show HN, if I get some more web pages up exploring what can be done with the system.
An oxymoron that seems to depict very well what the OP sees as the current state of affairs. You might not agree with the assessment, different matter
For the year ending 12/31/2017 it looks like $1.5 billion in R&D and $2 billion in sales, general, and admin expenses. https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/snap/financials?query=income-s...

Q1 2018 financials here: https://investor.snap.com/news-releases/2018/05-01-2018-2115...
'Crony-ing' over spilled milk
Generally, sometimes. Medical research consistently has issues with independence and reproducibility.

One example of many:

https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1073

It's not that the principle of peer review is wrong, it's just very hard to apply it fairly and objectively when money - huge sums of money - are involved.
I find it quite frankly disturbing that the solution to such a learned insecurity should be just drugs.

Who besides you is saying "just drugs?" From what I've read, the greatest success comes from drugs and therapy.
> More like a psychological test to screen out those that get too riled up over stuff.

If that's is the case, then a nasty side-effect is to weed out the people who as a general principle refuse to put up with abuse as a basic condition of their potential job. Maybe a small deal if you're only hiring James Bond-style spies, but a big deal if you're mainly hiring analysts.

Imagine in a FLOSS project that I force all pull-request makers to read through my recursive, non-deterministic set of makefiles and fix a bug there. How many high-quality pull requests will I accept under such a system vs. simply assessing pull requests on their merit?

Of course that's not a fair comparison. I apologize to polygraph operators for it. :)
Nintendo patents case that turns your iPhone into a classic Game Boy
>To make English spelling more "logical" (so people need to remember less useless information!), we should again look to Mark Twain:

>> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/twain.htm)

And we should also look to George Bernard Shaw. He proved that, in English, "fish" can be spelled "ghoti":

gh (= f) as in "laugh"

o (= i) as in "women"

ti (= sh) as in "nation"
As someone who spent a good amount of time on an SSRI, I get where they're coming from. The people who prescribed them to me seemed to think I was fine, and saw no reason I should try to get off them despite personality changes and what I would term "an inability to experience". It was as though I was only able to observe my own life from the outside.

The problem with SSRIs isn't that they can't be useful, it's that the medical industry is full of people who don't seem to know how to use them. They just wanted to throw a pill at the problem and get me out of their office as fast as they could to extract maximum profit out of my visits.
I've realized this: Philosophy is the science of shit we really know nothing about yet. Since we know nothing about it, we don't even know where to start. Our body of knowledge is in a state of primordial chaos, so philosophers come in and establish some ground rules that help us make sense of the chaos. THEN we can begin to learn. The philosophers generally have to retreat once we start building up a decent sized body of empirical knowledge and move onto the next frontier.

That's why these days, philosophy is concerned mainly with a particular frontier: the human mind, especially its subconscious processes. Neuroscience is advancing at a steady clip, but it still doesn't have answers for things like how we acquire knowledge, how we know something is knowledge, how we process language, how we assign meaning to words and symbols, etc. Once the neuroscientists crack those nuts, I wonder what philosophers will retreat to. Morality and ethics, perhaps, about which gathering imperial data is difficult to impossible.