skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best of luck with your depression. I'm sorry to hear you are suffering. NPR today had a piece on deep brain stimulation as a treatment for depression. Very preliminary research and very invasive but something is better than nothing. [0]

Also, Michael Pollan's latest book on psychedelics is very interesting and has a specific chapter about using psychedelics to treat depression. It might be interesting to you. [1]

0. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/29/6718660...

1. https://michaelpollan.com/books/how-to-change-your-mind/
Hope you didn't ask her for a second date.
Looks really interesting! I was evaluating grid/table projects a while ago for use on project where I wanted high performance with big data sets with custom row rendering and it's obviously a nontrivial problem. There's tons of libraries out there, each with their own quirks and endless issues being posted on their bug trackers.

I ended up using https://www.ag-grid.com/ which started charging for features and appears to making good money. Have you considered going this route?
I’m undergoing EMDR for PTSD from childhood trauma. It’s kind of amazing how well it has worked for me, much more so than I had expected (I was skeptical at first). It hasn’t completely wiped the feelings and memories away but they are much easier to cope with and process.

I’ve tried nearly everything - Medication, counseling, support groups. EMDR has been the most effective treatment I’ve found so far.
> The sexual revolution dramatically reduced the reciprocal obligations men used to have in connection with sexual activity: i.e. taking care of the resulting kids.

This kind of miss a massive aspect of the sexual revolution. It dramatically reduced the reciprocal obligations women used to have in connection with sexual activity: i.e. giving birth to the resulting kids. Roe v. Wade decriminalised abortion nationwide in 1973. The sexual revolution happened between 1960 and 1980. A rather big coincident that.
VR training to reduce sexual harassment is not a gimmick
The only successful applications of business blockchain I've seen is in businesses where nobody trusts the brokers. For example, the diamond business has to keep track of where the diamonds came from and nobody trusts the brokers to not lie, so blockchain works here.
There's also an "Intro to LibrePCB" talk recording from FOSDEM this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-h5y6tK34 It explains some of the core design concepts and the rationale for them.

In case you don't have time to watch the video, here are the slides: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_librepcb/...
The percentage of people saying blockchain doesn't have a substantial use case, is about the same percentage as there were in the late 70's or early 80's saying the internet didn't have a substantial use case.

Initially, few people thought file transfer over the internet was a substantive use case because the transmission speed was too slow. Then throughput capacity picked up, but people then shifted the argument to something like, "It's good for medium size file transfer, and I guess I can sometimes send this clunky email thing instead of picking up the phone or sending a fax." This process repeats itself, with goalposts ever shifting, until someone talks about the possibility of selling everything over the internet, starting with books, and most think it's nutty, but believe hearing "you've got mail" every morning might get mass adoption.

I'm not sure whether 'blockchain' is a database or a universal computer or a new software primitive. Or whether we can even tell. What I know is that it is at the very least some sort of network infrastructure (in the most abstract sense of the term). Just like with the internet (another network infrastructure), the space of substantial use cases increases as more people and technologies are connected to it.

Could it end up being a dud apart from some random use cases? Emphatically yes. Could it end up being pretty important? Possibly (we don't know).

Ironically, the best evidence I have for being agnostic about the potential of 'blockchain' is the number of educated and non-educated people making wild claims about the benefits of decentralization, etc.

When the telegraph arrived, a substantial mass of people said it would usher in world peace. When the internet arrived, a substantial mass of people made wild claims about breaking us free from corporate power, educating the masses, etc.
QUIC-Tracker: an open-source QUIC test suite
>Any such process would have to be difficult for external programs.

Why? If the user already has a malicious 'external application' running on their system with sufficient privileges to do any of this, then they're already screwed, and they have bigger problems to worry about than malicious WebExtensions.

More generally, I don't think we should hold applications responsible for the security or behaviour of parts of the software/hardware stack at equal or higher privilege level to them, including other applications. Mostly because, well, they can't do anything truly effective in that regard.

I see you're worried about average users unknowingly installing random malicious crap, and I've seen a lot of that myself. I think the way forward is pretty much what is being done on mobile platforms currently: universally applied application sandboxing, usage of existing fine-grained access control models (and also the development of ones that are saner to use), and better communication to the user about what their applications are doing and what the permissions they are requesting actually mean. Yes, it's still a clusterfuck, but it's an improvement.

A security model involving applications in an arms-war with one another, using increasingly byzantine restictions in an attempt to prevent external manipulation, feels less like something I would want any part of, and more like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

: Although I think Google went too far on the "lock things down completely" side of things when they made it outright impossible to, say, use rsync to backup or sync the entire contents of a phone's sd card to/from the network
How much do you have to save on your phone bill before you can buy a house?

The difference between a cheap Android and an old iPhone isn't going to be enough to buy a home, or provide food for the family every day, or pay for (or off) an education, or pay for medical expenses, or buy a reliable car, or any of the other truly expensive things that those with wealth take for granted.

Judging the spending habits of the poor on small luxuries is a common way we shift the blame of poverty onto the poor. It allows the rich to feel better about themselves and about the society they've built.
Tabulator is licensed under MIT so is free for all to use, even on commercial projects.
He has the right to sell the physical artifacts, its the IP laws that complicate everything.

Yeah, I'm not sure where Al Lowe got "German company". Sierra for a long while was owned by French company Vivendi, though. It's Activision Blizzard that bought all of Vivendi's game assets (not EA).

There might be a German Company involved in sublicensing LSL games specifically from Activision Blizzard? Most recent sublicense was Replay Games, I think? I don't think they are (were?) German either, but I'm not sure. There was a lot of weird drama with the LSL sublicense between Kickstarters and Activision Blizzard side projects, and I didn't follow it very well.
I have a similar opinion of the credit card companies as you. But in my opinion, the way to take a stand is to get the credit card, never give them a penny of interest or fees, take all the benefits from the card, and grow the share of people with credit card customers from whom the cc companies lose money.
Suggestion of the day: They should integrate Google Voice + Android Messages / RCS to make a true iMessage competitor (with encryption / web sync / etc) AND THEN replace all references of _consumer_ Hangouts/Messaging with this new service. Here's where they could integrate it:

-Gmail (as either the hangouts widget replacement or a new Gmail Addon)
-Google Maps (so that any conversations you have show up in your main messages app too)
-YouTube (why did they even make YouTube Messages? Put this in there so those messages show up in this unified app)
-Google Sheets/Docs/Slides (so all comments / conversations can then be seen & referenced in this unified app)
-Google Assistant Conversations (so you can see what you've written, but also have the conversation handy - similar, but more streamlined, to how it was/is in Allo)
-Duo (so it's tightly integrated & conversations just magically work - similar to FaceTime/iMessage)
-Google One (so all customer support conversations can also be bundled & seen in one unified view)
-Hangouts Chat / Hangouts Meet (so if you use those services, they have a channel in this app too)
-Anywhere else you use a Google service to type things!

This would be the ULTIMATE messaging app. Here, I'll even throw in ways to monetize (so that it can live on forever):

-You have your main chats, but also all these premium "channels"/"add-ons" (like the ones above) that outside business could integrate into within this app. Charge them similar to how WhatsApp is doing it
-Create an add-on store for stickers/fonts/themes (similar to FB Messenger) but integrate into Play store for more revenue)
-Sell this service to GSuite customers as a call center / messaging-based customer support service
-Create an SMS api for developers and charge for its use (like Twilio and company)

No ads. No subscription service (though I'd happily pay $1 per year - which at their scale could be billions). No hassle. No fragmentation. No problems. World hunger solved

/end rant

P.S. - If anyone wants to make this service, I'd happily co-found a company to do exactly this.
Most VR is a total gimmick. Here the CEO of Vantage Point explains what really, really good VR training can look like on the Innovation For All podcast.
Hint: maybe people are not interested in using XMPP anymore and it is time to move on?

It's like gelatine salad. It's food but people these days do not have much appetite for it anymore.
To all fairness, you are right about oracle stuff ingrained in bol.com, however, I am not sure if I should go in detail, but the whole thing used to be like - Maintain event states with "versions" table and then run hadoop, spark jobs on them, and snapshot the latest computed state to oracle so that they could run BI on it.

But I understand now what you actually mean. I wouldn't call it ETL, as ETL is more about prepping the data for BI and not cooking data for search.

yea, I remember they used to have redwood for scheduling PL/SQL queries but I think majority of ETL jobs for BI were in hadoop/spark/flink.

Having said all these, I think it is quite some neat and cool engineering work, I hope you guys are successful implementing the solution.
Even accountants hate AWS now.

Since June AWS entered compliance with EU VAT regulations, but they are unable to exactly match bills, VAT invoices and actually charged amounts since. The discrepancies are sometimes tens of eurocents, enough to cause headache with tax audit.

I raised the issue and their reaction was "yes there are discrepancies but our invoices are valid and talk to your accountant"... So they are fine with their incompetence causing problems for customers, for months. This is a big red flag for me.
I have the opposite experience. I hated the new UI they came out with recently and apparently so did 90% of my contact list. I used to always have it running now I barely open it.
Same. I make good money, I have cheap Motorola Android phone and a $12/month talk/ text plan. It's fine for email, surfing, YouTube, etc. (on wifi; there's no mobile data, but free WiFi is easy to find)
I'm more lamenting the electrification of something that doesn't need to be.

My mother drives the Venza short distances. Since the Venza is so electronic, the battery dies constantly on her since it doesn't charge enough while driving. So much so that I bought an external battery to boost the car for her - probably once a month if I forget to drive it myself (longer distance). Multiple mechanics say battery and alternator are fine.

> I could just fold the seats down for access to the trunk.

In the Venza, the lever to fold the seats is accessed via the trunk. But you can't open the trunk when battery is dead. Luckily the Venza is a station wagon, so I did crawl over back seats to get the battery.

I find japanese products to have excessive electronics, buttons and beeping. I'm happy to pay for a higher priced German car (in response to the lower TCO comment)
Sweet, Thanks!
Where do you see 2 headers? It only renders a single header per column unless you do something else, and everything is a customizable set of sub-components that you can switch out. Do you have an example of the double headers?
I forgot to mention in my main reply, I did set up a binary Boolean signal system as part of my exploration of hypnosis years ago. At first it was finger twitching, but then later the system was arm twitches, right for affirmative, left for negatory, non-response meant I[1] was framing the query in a way that precluded an unambiguous y/n answer. I made use of this "comm channel" for years, occasionally friends would remark on my odd arm twitches, eventually they "wore off" in the sense that I didn't need them anymore.

Anyhow, this is what I meant about "trivial". These days you could wear e.g. a Fitbit on each arm and "Ta-da!" you've got a BCI. You wouldn't even have to stop by RadioShack (RIP) or wire up IMUs to an Arduino.

[1] At a minimum you have to postulate three "entities": the perceive, the conscious mind, and the unconscious mind, for the model to make sense. In the above "I" the conscious mind is posing queries to "me" the unconscious mind, and I'm not mentioning the Perceiver at all.
That just might be the most dedicated answer I've ever seen on Stack Overflow.
Ironically, having ADHD makes it much harder to do all those things required to get Adderall.
(actually Turbo C++ 1.0)

Having said that, it would probably also build fine on Turbo C also.
It's more real-time capable than classical forum software meaning you can use it as a channelized chat system.
Yeah I assumed something like Palo Alto’s or maybe ASA’s could do more since (I believe) they’re doing actual inspection but I’m only familiar with them in passing.
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That I did not know. Fun.
Notice that the claim:

"DNA is extremely important, but it makes no sense if [it is] not in a cell, in an organism, in an ecosystem. Other interactions are at play, and this application of algorithmic information cannot capture the extent of that complexity."

Completely mischaracterizes the research (Zenil et al.). They are looking at networks evolving over time of interacting elements. Such elements are genes but networks can also be metabolic or signaling and everything they say still holds.

The subsection about chasing dynamic evolving targets even addresses the question of ever-changing environments that have some raised here. So the approach is way beyond treating life as 'DNA' but even so, I doubt anyone would object about the power of CRISPR-CAS9 only because it targets DNA... DNA is still the most fundamental element of life and other tend to embrace mysticism and are quite cartoonish about life.

Anyway, my recommendation is, do read the paper.
Yeah, this is a problem for me. I'm a long, long time Google Voice user. It is my main phone number. I do all my calls and SMS via Hangouts on my computer. It's pretty rare for me to use my phone. I'm going to be lost if I can't do this any longer, honestly.
Is there a non-profit that would be willing to buy this stuff specifically for archival purposes if a bunch of folks pooled their money to that effect?
+1 to irccloud.

that said, gitter has many useful features that aren't available on irc: inline code with syntax highlighting, inline images, etc.
I have LastPass installed and thought the binary component was only for native desktop applications and not for their extension. I do not recall installing any binary components for the LastPass Chrome extension, but it's been awhile....
Honestly, I don't know who to believe.
Foxconn is Taiwanese, not Chinese. It is an important distinction, since Taiwan already has fairly good fab tech.
Feasible. But let's not pretend it would stop nuclear ICBMs from launching.

Which is, paradoxically, why massive numbers of traceable nuclear weapons + early warning actually make the world a safer place. (At least for major-power, global conflicts)
ECB [EuroCentralBank] takes on PayPal with instant payment system
Pollsters routinely measure how people feel about one thing or another. The results have substantial impact on policy and positions of leaders. Your point simply isn't very good.
Then hire another factory to clone that BOM optimized part for v2 :p
Did you read what I said about that?

> The index fund managers are not long term investors in these corporations. The people who own the index's shares are, and they are deferring their votes to the managers right now.
> If you're talking to someone at least 40 years old then it meets the 3 conditions.

If they were like 20,000 years old, they might have some wisdom after going through natural ice ages and other cyclical patterns that take more than several lifetimes to go through. 40 years? When talking about a planet billions of years old with long hot/cold stretches lasting thousands of years each? Polar shifts? I'd wager they don't have enough data gathered during their insignificant blip of a lifetime to make speculative global warming claims.
I think at least some of it comes from the fact that Kahneman didn't write the article. The article is composed from both his speech that was referenced and from the book that he wrote, and kind of marries them together in a weird way. I find articles like this extremely thin because they usually synthesize points with very thin lines. Original authors will have hundreds of repeated examples and data sets, of which Kahneman is one of them. He certainly didn't win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for nothing -- he has serious data to back up his research.

If I had to summarize Thinking, Fast & Slow up in one sentence: human intuition shouldn't be trusted when it comes to statistics problems, because humans aren't naturally statistical thinkers.

All of the research in the behavioral economics category shows this pattern very well. GPA distribution among populations is statistically quantifiable. Due to human cognitive biases, however, it appears to be a problem that has an obvious answer by intuition, and that answer is wrong.

The specific three qualities that are outlined as giving way to intuition boil down to having a large body of evidence and a very tight feedback loop, which statistics does not have but things like emotion reading do have. If you get the emotions of your significant other wrong you'll immediately see the repercussions. Casually misjudging someone on the street because of statistics will never see you being corrected.

But really, I think you should just read the book. This article doesn't even come close to doing behavioral economics justice.
For FDD LTE: You have dedicated frequency bands for up and downstream. So full-duplex vs. half-duplex.
Can you post screenshots of what they look like? I can't even see them without creating an account and logging in, and I don't really want to do that sight-unseen.
"Hey kiddo, do you want to skip doing homework and brushing your teeth today?"
> A good predictor of whether the Chinese government would react to a group is the threat that group poses on the national integrity of China.

I think the more accurate interpretation, which applies to authoritarian or totalitarian power, is that they don't tolerate competing power structures. A competing power structure, whether a political group, a labor union, a spiritual organization, can easily become a political organization and therefore a threat to the power of the government. If they are organized and independent, they are a threat. The government's motive is to protect and enhance its own power.

Think about the Falun Gong: Certainly they were no threat to the "national integrity" (whatever that means precisely) of China. Also consider labor and human rights movements, who have no interest in separatism. In fact, democracies are much more stable governments in general, and are more likely to preserve "national integrity".

Think also about the Chinese military, which IIRC is under control of the Communist Party, not the government. They are careful to not allow it to be an independent power structure - an independent military has been the downfall of many authoritarian governments (usually replacing them with another authoritarian government).
Facebook and Google are still breaking campaign laws, says Washington State
Interest statement: I've been personally involved because my company's database plays a key role. But the launch of this is of greater interest as well.
ag-grid community edition is also MIT licensed.
My point is that it will make it easier for employees stuck in a bad spot due to employee abuse to switch jobs. Lets say they join the company you cite and the boss dumps 80 hours a week worth of work every week and doesn't pay overtime. Currently it's a huge hassle and risky to switch jobs, so that employee may continue thus hurting the job market. If you give the employee the visa, they can shop around for jobs like citizens and the company they left will have to find someone else to replace them, hopefully at better market rates this time.

The biggest leverage the companies have on immigrant labor is the threat of being fired and deported, if you make that less costly and not turn their life upside down in a day, the problem will be lessened and make the job market more fair and competitive for everyone looking for jobs, and also greatly hurt staffing companies. It also lets the employee say "No." more easily when asked to work 80 hours for the fourth week in a row with no extra pay. This is the reason companies lobby against making this happen.
I think you misunderstand me. It’s not that it’s a veneer, it’s that the veneer is tolerated despite resulting in voter suppression.

Voter suppression should be a universal bad in a democracy no? It’s not only bad when done for racist ends.
> So, how does a single, or even a 2 driver truck prevent this TODAY

See my last paragraph.

Defending an unmanned vehicle is the walls vs guards argument: it's far harder to build an impassible, unguarded wall than it is to build a difficult, guarded one.
It's a thing but many people in the US are very bad at driving [in the snow]... and don't care to use snow tires. They want perfect handling and acceleration in any condition and not having to switch tires or use traction aiding devices. But, it's also a thing of, "I want it just in case..." I've seen enough off-road ready cars here that have never seen anything more intense than a puddle. This is a country that buys Jeeps en masse but they're stuck doing city duty their entire life.

Something fun to read from a few years ago: http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/remembering-snowmageddon-201...

That was from 2 inches (5cm) of snow.

Americans in general don't buy what they need or will use. They buy what they want.
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