skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will power is inheritable.
Someone else that replied to me was right. Affiliate links are fine, but just say something like "There are a couple affiliate links in here, but I promise these opinions are real."
Facebook Dating is coming to the U.S. in 2019
His GitHub account suggests he hails from the Chicago suburbs.
Oh, sorry. twic basically got what I meant. I'd expand the example a bit to demonstrate how to use different implementations of things:

var db IDatabase
{
if dev_mode
db = new InMemDatabase()
else
db = new PostgresDatabase(dsn)
}
var users = new UsersRepository(db)
var catalogue = new ProductRepository(db)
// ...
var cart = new ShoppingCartController(users, catalogue, logger, metrics, ...)
This is an old one:

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us"

https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/we-shape-our-...

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/26/shape/
>an individual providing support to a leading terrorist in Iraq and Syria

That's a pretty weak outcome for such egregious privacy violations.

If they'd "stopped 17 plots to kill 100 or more Americans" then maybe I'd concede that the program is effective (though still immoral IMO).
While I can see your point, usually people considering suicide aren't looking for a way to get revenge or get back at anyone. They're suffering and can't see any way out. Like people who cut, or turn to drugs or alcohol to numb the pain they can't deal with, suicide ends it, once and for all.

As they say though, it's a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Yes, I'm often asked about why too. I used to be bothered by this because (like you) I'd find that people often don't accept my answers. Right now I don't give a clear answer (e.g. Q: "Why don't you drink?" A: "Because I don't want to.") because many people who ask don't seem interested in my reasons beyond using the reasons as an opener for a sales pitch about drinking. E.g., if I say that I don't like the taste, they'll insist that I haven't tried the right drink yet, sometimes going as far as to recommend a particular drink. If someone said they didn't like mayonnaise it would be particularly weird for someone else to insist that they try a particular type of mayonnaise, but the same logic apparently doesn't apply for drinking.

There's also the problem that many drinkers believe non-drinkers judge them, and I feel that if I gave some of my reasons, the drinkers would feel judged.
Programmer solves 20 year old, forgotten crypto puzzle
It's not clear how police are taking this information. Do they have physical possession of a device? If so, how do they break in? If not, how is the information extracted?
"...being bilingual delays the onset of dementia by four and a half years..."

Wonder what knowledge of computer language(s) does for the dementia factor.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Index controllers beat the ones for the Vive. (they're being sold standalone for people with a Vive already)

Either way, controller fidelity is nothing if you can't use the headset without motion sickness, and framerates (+latency) are really important for that.
Makes sense. The founding team came out of large scale brain imaging research, but the goal is that anything you'd do in a notebook / web UI environment (like Jupyter, RStudio, etc.) you should be able to do with the Gigantum Client.

The difference from the standard approach for those tools is that we automate some command line operations (Git, Docker, etc.), and provide UI for the rest. We provide a stable foundation for how to organize data using Git LFS, along with an optimized S3 storage back-end if you need to cherry pick large datasets.

Our main goal is to improve the quality of "academic" science, but we're open to anything that fits!
Because there is value in having people in personal contact, especially if they are expected to work in a team. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have the option of dropping by a coworkers office for a 5 min quick chat or a 3 hour informal meeting on a whim, where we might pull out our notebooks and pull up relevant files and email threads. Deep thinking can't happen on a slack channel, it happens during the skull session.

California is also a powerhouse of a state. It has the 5th largest economy in the world, and the most productive state government in the U.S. Ambitious projects actually get attempted and built in California unlike so many of the stagnant states in the U.S. Another reason of why SV and not Idaho is the academic research environment of the bay area and the ease of recruiting the excellent talent that comes out of California's universities every spring.
Sam Aaron (original dev behind Overtone) has been focused on building out Sonic Pi ( https://sonic-pi.net/ ) for a few years now and it's an amazing tool aimed at simplicity (literally aimed at ten year olds) and power (used for gigging).
It reminds me of the nanomachines in vacuum bubbles featured in Stephenson's The Diamond Age. And maybe earlier in Bruce Sterling's work.
The way we handle this is that we only trust our users based on their past performance on "gold standard" cases, regardless of their credentials. So if a med student (or even a layperson!) looks at cases on the app, they aren't contributing to labeling data that we provide to customers until we've learned to trust them based on their performance on hundreds or thousands of past cases. At the same time, we don't trust people just because they're a doctor if they don't perform well at the task :)
You’re just trolling now. Other tools are not useless, but improving them will not replace talking to humans.
Talks on Telephone Systems and Voice over IP and Managing Technical Debt
Why should suicide be seen as anti-social? You are trying to force those who just want their unbearable pain to be over to continue to live. I never understood it being seen as selfish for a similar reason. I disagree stigma will reduce the suicide rate - when I do feel very suicidal, I can tell you I don't care what anyone thinks. Pretty much the only reason I am alive is I haven't figured out a way to actually end it that's somewhat guaranteed, painless, and irreversible - I know if I were to fail an attempt and end up in the hospital, people like you would force me to stay alive, weather it be throwing me in a padded white room or giving me drugs. Oh perhaps if I'm in enough physical pain, my pain will be legitimized and I'll be allowed euthanasia.

And yet, somehow I am the anti-social one.

[this is a throwaway account so that I can talk openly about being depressed and suicidal]
Speaking as the project lead for Matrix - we are hoping that we will see some kind of financial support from Purism to fund the prioritised bugfixes/features/support they need around Synapse and Riot to ensure Librem.one's (and the Librem 5's) success.
> It also doesn't help that French and Quebecois French are different dialects to the point of almost being different languages.

No, just no, they aren't and I can speak both.

I don't know if you are a native speaker, but It's tiring to have your own language (or 'dialect') explained to you.

For what it's worth, France has dozens of regional dialects as well.
> violate GDPR in Europe and they should be fined out of existence

No they shouldn't. What they should do though is geoblock all access coming to their sites and services which they can identify as coming from EU origin, plus add to their site EULA that anyone under EU jurisdiction is not authorized to use their site under any circumstances and such access will be considered unauthorized access, which is a criminal act.

> If you want to hire people, look at their CV and talk to them

That's two of the most likely sources of lies. Neither has much value.
That was the first piece of code I learned, too. It's a small miracle I somehow still managed to fall in love with programming that semester.
Good lord guess I'm never upgrading my Vive
Except that makes it super easy for anyone to fill that void. Someone who you've pissed off could write some trash about you and it would become the #1 result on google.
people who benefit financially or politically might disagree.
Show HN: Volkswagen.swift – How to Cheat Apple's App Store Review Process
There's no shortage of data to prove that increasing the driving age to 21 would save a massive amount of lives, although that would reduce car sales. Car wrecks are the leading cause of death for teenagers. Lowering the drinking age would prevent alcoholism and increasing the driving age would save lives but our laws aren't based on data or science.
I recently realized I had learned late nineteenth-century French at high school... I had French from 1982 to 1989. My teacher was in his sixties, and being a friar, had never been to France, or even Brussels. He had been taught by another friar, also in his sixties, back then. My teacher was taught in 1946, 1947, his teacher in 1900 or so. Even the audio materials were ancient, dating back to the sixties... When I started reading BD's, I was in for a rude surprise!
Is there /any/ part of the nation in touch with the rest if the nation's concerns, aspirations, feelings, values and needs? I seriously wonder who would rank best there given the fact the nation is a big place and even those who travel a lot are in their own bubbles. Are farmers out of touch for considering owning many acres normal when they are less than 2% of employement - let alone that most don't own their own land?

As for the corrupting influence I must disagree.
The navy’s blue camo was intended to hide stains, not people. The colors match the paint of the ships. It’s sole purpose is to extend the life of uniforms longer than khakis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Working_Uniform
Actually compared to Europe America is rather puritan.
>The public cannot possibly assess their performance.

Respectfully, that's not true. Secret programs can still be judged on their inputs and outputs: eg "we spent $50B and averted 17 attacks, saving potentially 15,000 lives and $500B in economic damage." What possible information can that give an adversary?
Did Game of Thrones Sneak a Video Game Reference into “The Long Night?”
If you already have the Vive, you can get just the HMD for $500. It's compatible with the Vive's v1 lighthouses and controllers. Or, you can just get the controllers and continue using your Vive.
Busting the myth that depression doesn't affect people in poor countries
I've looked a tiny bit into this sort of thing (using Metal compute shaders), and the problem is that, even with all of Metal's optimizations around CPU/GPU synchronization, the overhead seems to be too high for real-time audio DSP in practice.

The thing I tried experimentally implementing is basically a 128x128 matrix mixer with a little bit of extra processing. On a three-year-old MacBook Pro, the GPU barely had to lift a finger to crunch the data, but the round-trip latency was still high enough that it would struggle to keep up with anything less than a buffer size of 512 or so at 48kHz (which is on the high end for live mic processing). It would be fantastic for offline processing with larger buffers, though.

I haven't tried CUDA or OpenCL, so I don't know if the situation is the same there—but of course they have the problem of vendor support as well.
Do you really think the tech part of Netflix had any involvement with this show?
I, too, am skeptical. I theorize that the massive data collection is for control purposes. But watch out - the first people to come under surveillance are those who object to surveillance.

More seriously, if you google "jane harmon alberto gonzalez" you'll find a nice, complicated scandal from GW Bush years that never got the play it should have. Sure, Representative Harmon seems to have done some things wrong, but the real issue is "...Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez later quashed a DOJ investigation into this incident in order to secure Harman’s support for the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program."

That's right, the Attorney General of the US might have (probably did) blackmail a US Representative, using surveillance data. We're all accustomed to autocratic executive branches now, but that's a bridge too far, if you ask me.
Python is strongly typed. It is not statically typed.
What is your Excel replacement?
Is there liability in this situation? It seems to me that a group of parents whose children (1) watched the show and (2) then attempted suicide have a case.

You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater, and you ought not be allowed to yell: "suicide is a legitimate way to get revenge" to a group of at-risk children.

People should go to jail.
You control your willpower.
Gliding into Model-Based RL
Bird coming back to SF with new plan to drop off and pick up scooters on-demand
As an American who enjoys drinking, I find it shocking, too. Not that people do it, but the extent. I've had few experiences as miserable as being hungover. I've been really hungover twice in my life. After the first time, I said never again. After the second time, I said I really need to come up with a system to avoid this.

So I have a simple system I call Proof Points. I think I've shared it here once before. It's like calorie counting, except you track alcoholic intake as alcoholic proof (% content x 2) x oz of alcohol (yes, I'm an American). Do some trial and error and you should be able to find a range where you feel good drinking but don't end up the next morning not knowing where you are or even feeling noticeably lousy.

For me, the range is 300 to 400 proof points. Yeah, I can't always know how much alcohol I'm getting in a drink I order. But I'm able to ballpark it. And it's been effective for me. Even times when I drink a little too much, I'm sure it has stopped me from drinking way too much.

Take it with caveats up and down. Don't mistake it for BAC. I never drive if I'm drinking because, as I understand, most legal limits are now so low, you'll hit them well before you expect it.

I think this actually would help curb the drinking problem among US students and all the attendant ills that go along with it. Perhaps if it was offered as a nicely designed phone app. It could serve as a counter-pressure, more or less effective depending on the circumstances, to the peer pressure that the article identifies as a major driver of excess drinking.
Did I hear leftovers?
yeah internet scalpers suck!
>I love the dependable simplicity of Go.

If you like Go, you'll love the simplicity of Brainf-ck, a clean design which is easy to learn, simple syntax, and supported in almost all computing platforms.
Lyft is definitely trading below IPO prices, but Pinterest is definitely not.
The correlations part specifically, what does it do, what’s the modelling approach, and is there more info about it anywhere?
> How many soldiers are deployed to three or four different environments?

A pretty normal year for a regular, non special-forces, soldier could be an exercise in the bush in Kenya, in the artic circle in Norway, in the jungle in Belize, in European temperate mountains, in the desert in Oman...
I hope you'll consider writing up your results in a blog post or something! As I just mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I have experimentally found latency with Metal compute to be too high to be feasible, but I would dearly love to be proven wrong, if there's a trick I'm missing.
Coming soon: Facebook banking and insurance. More affordable rates based upon inferences from your data. Facebook will have privatized China's social credit score.
I'm actually happy to see this. Strongly feel that the current generation of headsets are not good enough and VR needs at least one more cycle of pushing the envelope at the high end price point before finding mass market success.

Unfortunately, GPU performance per watt/$ seems to be capping out just short of the goal.
Facebook isn’t introducing the privacy focus Mark Zuckerberg touted at F8
I think that there used to be a possibility that if you played the game, kept your end up and looked after your mates you'd be seen right. Some people still try and make that happen, but we all have to understand and acknowledge that no matter how hard we work, how well we do, how decently we act, at any moment our peers, organisations and country may turn on us and render us into destitution and disgrace.

So we have to bleat on about how valuable we are so that we have some idea that our families are not going to have to sleep in the street.
In California it is misconduct which disqualifies you, which doesn’t include more common “with cause” cases. I don’t know about other jurisdictions.
Fully agree - I work with pharma as an independent (and used to work at GSK & Sanofi before that - effectively medical statistics). I'm currently working on a gene therapy from a biotech, if it works it'll be amazing, and be a semi-cure, holding functionality where it is, but even that isn't a perfect cure.

I've also worked on 2-3 immunotherapies, they again can be amazing and turn previously uncurable cancer to long term survival (of duration unknown), but only in a fraction of patients - to work on them was an honour. Most therapies are incremental improvements, which can make a big difference to patients, but there is still unmet need.

GSK when I was there were explicit, half the drugs they wanted to develop internally, but using the commercial knowledge and experience guiding drugs though trial and approvals, also wanted half of drugs to be invented outside, and be commercialised by a company who knew how to do that!
Any info on the motivation for making an entire language instead of a library for an existing language (e.g. for C, Python, or Go)?

Especially if the syntax mimics C-like languages, what important advantages do we get?
Maybe I’m confused by your question. I believe Google and Facebook rely on ads for most of their revenue.
I've been thinking about working on something similar for a while now, but this seems like an interesting project to contribute to instead, great work my man.
I've a question though, what factors contributed into you choosing Javascript to implement it? and does it support python beside Go and Javascript?
How many answers are there to a yes-or-no question?
OpenGL textures point to some refcounted thing, but the handle table is not per-process but per-context, and the contexts are not thread-safe, and the contexts can become invalidated. So it is similar in many ways but there are too many differences in general.
It seems to be part of a larger PR effort to appear socially acceptable and relatable in a post-Snowden world.
I'm on a Macbook Pro and would love to try this out. Aside from installing on bare metal, would VirtualBox be the second best option?
The content is on CC4.0 and not going to be paywalled.
I can see how that could be the perception. However, if the generic company is certain they could successfully challenge the patent, they'd never enter into such an agreement because there is a far higher payoff to move forward with the patent challenge.

It's the gray area cases that end up in pay for delay deals. The ones that neither party is sure they will win. So they cut their loses and negotiate middle ground where each of them get a piece of the pie.
The most important part of starting a new business is making sure the business doesn't die. You need to write software and find product/market fit. Anything that detracts from these goals is a problem.

If you're bootstrapping, pick technology that you're familiar and comfortable with. Great businesses have been built on the back of PHP. Do not attempt to build a business and learn new tech at the same time... they are different tasks.

If you have some investor money and will be hiring people, optimize for productive, non-bleeding-edge tech that will be easy to hire for. Go for something well-known with a wide talent pool (ex: React).

Once your business doesn't die, you can go about fixing the tech stack and making something better. This is not a waste! You probably would have to do this anyway. Your first choice of technology almost doesn't matter in the long run. Optimize for early velocity and then figure it out later.
I thought you were headed to a thesis that testing is driving teaching, which would be supported by examples like, "practice writing brief essays without referencing the text - because that's what standardized tests require"
“In reviewing Open Media’s request to place advertising at the airport, we determined that it did not serve all of our stakeholders as we felt it pitted two groups against each other and it also has potential to add undue stress to the travel experience,” wrote spokesperson Brock Penner.

Just so much wrong in this quote, three questions for Brock:

Which stakeholders aren't being served?

What two groups are being pitted against each other?

Is stress that results from knowing the extent of your rights 'undue'?
It's not absolutely worse, but the first derivative is worse -- marginal improvements get worse ROI as time passes and progress gets made.
You control the things you do. Willpower is a trait like IQ or being tall.
Why would they ever not use this data adversely against customers? Insurance companies already have offered an OBD tracker that would supposedly be used to prove you were a safe driver and therefore lower your rates. Why on earth would they not use this data to say "well you check twitter on the highway every morning, therefore we are raising your monthly payments by 20%." This is the entire insurance industry business model.
It accelerates it by 15 years per language, in my experience.
As someone that's studied Spanish intensively for the last four years, I've come to the conclusion that fluency is somewhat arbitrary and also that learning a language should be a goal directed activity. Are you learning the language to travel? Are you learning the language to read the classics? To integrate with a family, etc? I have mental mile markers, which are mostly comprised of situations where I've embarrassed myself in the past. In looking back on these mile markers, it becomes obvious how far I've come, which should feel great; however, I think most of us are attuned to focusing on our deficits rather than our successes ("I should have been able to understand that conversation I overheard, etc"). At the end of the day, I think of language learning as a lifetime journey rather than a destination, and this has allowed me to make peace with my deficits. I also think there's no substitute in the world for slogging through hundreds of improvised conversations, with our barbarisms in full view, and learning a little bit each time. People idealize fluency as some kind of holy grail, but at the end of the day, we're really just trying to communicate with each other, are we not?
Or like $400,000+ if you are hiring a team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers to design an make it for you because neither you nor any individual on your team has his entire set of skills.

Or like $1,000,000+ if you are hiring some company to design and build it for you
Something I can finally contribute to on HN!

There’s probably a few causes for how we abuse alcohol in the UK.

1. Most pubs close relatively early (11pm-1am), so after work you don’t have too much time to spend before you have to decide between a club or home.

2. Anecdotally, although most people know their limits. I see people in my circles tend to drink at the rate of the fastest drinker and “catchup”, especially if doing rounds.

3. We do have a bit of a binge drinking culture. Our culture (in my opinion) tends to encourage getting drunk (as long as you don’t cause harm to others).
Is the US perpetrating military-grade psi ops against other country's electorates? Not trying to be glib; if you have evidence for that I would be all eyes.
Python 3 Pandas in Jupyter-lab mostly. But before that I used Origin (it's a a paid product and does not really scale).
Holy crap that's so cool. Thanks for that info.