skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an instance of the Worst Argument In The World (http://squid314.livejournal.com/323694.html).

Neurotransmitter imbalances (e.g. clinical depression, AD[H]D, anxiety disorders, etc.) are not diseases. This doesn't mean that people who have them are okay; it just means that thinking of them in terms of what you normally associate with the label 'disease' will lead your thoughts astray.

Instead, neurotransmitter imbalances are genetic impairments. Like, say, nearsightedness.

As with nearsightedness, neurotransmitter imbalances are just annoying natural features of some people's bodies. As with nearsightedness, it kind of sucks to be those people, but they don't generally know what they're missing, because they've always been that way.

But, as with nearsightedness, prosthetics have been invented that "even the playing field" between those with and without the impairment. And, as with nearsightedness, it's readily apparent to those who use the prosthetic that they were impaired, because they now have access to experiences that they may have heard unimpaired people speaking of, but never previously got to experience for themselves.

(And, as with nearsightedness, this has caused the genetic defects responsible for the impairment to spread rapidly through the population; because the impairment is no longer a disadvantage, there's no longer any evolutionary pressure to protect the genetic code responsible from mutating.)

Try imagining telling someone with nearsightedness that they should just learn to cope with everything being fuzzy, instead of getting glasses. Imagine condemning the boom in contact-lens sales as "overmedication." It seems ridiculous, right?
What are the chances that it is just ocean debris?
I would say it's quite high.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_garbage_patch ?
You're right, my mistake. I'm old enough that I should remember, did it look silly when Time Warner was bought by AOL for $164B shortly before AOL's growth and profits stalled (leading to a $99B write-off and tanking the stock from a market cap of $224B down to $20B)? Yeah, maybe a little.
I tried to implement a back button for Bloomberg while I was there. I came up with a few hacky prototypes before giving up, and never showed it to anyone. The software just wasn't designed for this.
Friend, hundreds of people may have died. Do you think cheap funnies are really appropriate?
It's so other people can watch you seeing your tweets without being able to actually see your tweets.
But after the engine stops, which would hopefully take no more than a second or two, the key can be quickly returned to the ignition point, without actually restarting the engine.

So at worst the steering would be locked for only a second.
Philosophy, Stoicism, Buddhism are helpful in dealing with reality, adversity, mortality etc. But to deal with people you still need positive thinking, love, the Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey etc. self-help canon. A yin and yang dichotomy, not mutually exclusive, but complementary.
>MySQL is fantastic for probably 90% of what you'd ever think to use it for

No, it is tolerable if you don't know any better. That's like saying a gremlin is fantastic for 90% of what you'd ever think to use it for. If you have a choice, and know other cars exist, then you wouldn't think to use it for anything. If you don't know other cars exist, then you can hardly be believed for claiming it is "fantastic". Mysql is a nightmare. It is incredibly crippled, full of limitations that force you to add complexity to your code to work around them, and offers nothing positive to make up for these downsides.

>but both will get you a very long ways before they are ever your main problem as a startup.

Haha, tell that to our SQL server guy who got stuck doing a PHP/mysql project. He didn't get through the first day without coming to me asking "how do you linux people function when your database can't do anything?". He ran into three separate mysql limitations in the first day he was using it.
Without a doubt: education. Specifically, my dream is to open a series of public, alternative schools where children are educated about existentialism, their role in the universe, and helping them to understand that most limits in life are artificial and made up (and ultimately to embrace creativity and harness it for good).

I haven't quite pinned it down, but I'd like the curriculum to be project-based with a handful of field trips peppered in for perspective (alternative being the keyword, with things like working at a homeless shelter for a day, spending time with an elderly "mentor", picking out something they want to see, etc.)

One day.
Ask and you shall receive http://hnplays2048-democracy.herokuapp.com/

Edit: Now integrated into the OP's app
I've worked on a few large scale financial databases and none of the ones I've worked on use transactions (using Oracle). Most of them are insert only with bi-temporal data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal_Modeling
Maybe Erlang will finally get more popular.
Seriously. No numbers, no benchmarks. Hearsay sprinkled in. Just another fluff piece without any meat.
blockchain.info is great compared to some black box wallet but their model can't provide per transaction two factor, meaning once malware has your keys in memory you are good to go and you are going to have a real bad time.

That's possible with multisig and GreenAddress offers 4 different kind of 2FA: Google Auth, SMS, email and Phone (robot call)
Or as an alternative, perhaps it could allow each person 1 vote per 5 seconds, while keeping moves instant, so each time it is a subset of people
It's nothing really new, though. Some hippies in the 70s (check out Easy Rider if you have never watched it) tried to live away from civilization in small communities, living off farming and trying to do without money. Not sure how most of them ended up, though. Probably not well.
Facebook DeepFace using Human-Level Performance in Face Verification
AMSA: One of the objects on the satellite image has been assessed to be 24 metres in size #MH370 #Malaysia

Src: https://twitter.com/ABCNews24/status/446508379783974912

From their press conference, held about 30 mins ago.
What a crap article. Just because this guy can't focus on his work, doesn't mean multiple monitors are bad.

When I work, I don't like getting distracted. And I certainly don't fill my other screens with Twitter and whatever the author is implying, unless it's work related. End of discussion.
I did this a year ago and took four days a week for the relative pay cut. It was the best thing I've ever done related to work.

My one day off is for my own projects, and it has also become special time I can spend with my wife (I was able to convince her to do the same thing at her job).

I can't imagine going back to a full work week. All I can imagine doing is taking another day for my own projects when I can support it financially.
You send a blind girl to fetch the medicines for you just like in The Village :)
24m is too large for some junk?
As I mentioned in the article, it's like saying "please read the Wikipedia citations". You can get plenty of benefit from the main Wikipedia article itself, but it's nice when the comments are sane and contain signal, as they can help you drill down into the claims of the article and evaluate them.

It is definitely optional, comments are like annotations to the article.

Counterpoint: sometimes I skip to the HN comments before reading the linked URL to see if there are any major problems / concerns / flaws in the article. Kind of conceptually the same way people use Amazon user reviews when determining if they want to buy a product or not. Crowdsourcing credibility..

The manufacturer (writer) tells one story, the consumers (readers) may tell another. If you want the bigger picture, it is nice to consider both. But you're right that a well written article should stand on its own, the comments shouldn't be necessary to complete the article.
I don't think Gates et al are outliers. Most people who make $10m+ from their own efforts do it at least in part because they enjoy working and the vast majority I'd estimate keep on working in some form although they may shift fields such as Gates moving to philanthropy and PG moving from Viaweb to his other stuff. It's more lottery winners who were not so in to their work who quit and then generally run in to a bunch of problems afterwards.
I agree that there may be space for vertically integrated presentation/reporting platform, but do you think this space is as lucrative as the actual data streaming? My guess would be that financial services customers would be very price insensitive to mission critical/directly revenue generating data/analysis (hence, Bloomberg's subscription costs) while a reporting platform would be just a nice plus but a much harder sell. Thoughts?
Are you looking for someone 3 days a week? If so, feel free to contact me.
Start9
I know it's not the point of your comment, but I really hate when people complain about rich people wanting to pay less taxes. They already pay far far more than everyone else, in total amount, percent of income, and even percent of income relative to total income. By wide margins.

And to use Gates as an example, I'd much rather have him spending his money than the government spending his money. He's better at it, and does more good with it.
It's a hybrid model, but primarily flat.
Oops. Sorry about that.
Don't forget that while you're working from home, other people will be at work, so you might not see any other person 8 hours a day. This could be harder than you think.
> Creative workers don't output more than 25 quality hours a week anyway.

This is key. Most employers don't realise what a great deal this is. They are paying much less for probably the same amount of output. The person might even be more productive because they are more rested and can think better.
> There are an awful lot of people on the Earth who live without the resources I have and, I could argue, are happier than me...

Again, the myth of the extremely happy have-nots. This is coming up regularly on HN, and it's based largely on ignorance. People who have much less than you are not more happy. Access to resources, energy, improves quality of life in every way, and increases relative happiness as well. If that were not the case, then nobody in the lesser developed world would want to have a car, to eat more stuff, to have more money to spend and send their kids to school. But actually, they do, because they strive for more stuff that will make them more happy.
Possible. Our Foreign Minister wouldn't comment except to say that the government is providing all resources at our disposal in the search.

Some more info: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/could...
Discourse is focused around community creation, not necessarily comments per se. That's kind of a secondary use and it is good from a dogfooding perspective.

I'll tell you this: Discourse is a zillion times better at making my admin / moderation tasks easier than the TypePad commenting tools it came from.
Thanks for the feature, dbieber!
We already have the following problem with politicians:

1. Something must be done
2. X is something
3. Let's do X

You'll just make it worse.
Anarchy lasted minutes before the democracy babies came running in.
That's really well-thought-out; are you guys hiring?
teamviewer.. i guess.
Be it stoicism or any school of thought that recommends a way of life, the key fallacy to avoid fall into is that it is these principles that make you happy, or productive, or wealthy, or healthy or whatever. While such principles can be temporarily crutch for a person, over time the crutch gains the status of legs instead of people using it to learn to walk.

My mind keeps coming up with generalizations all the time. For example, "the more space you have for your family, the less valuable time together you spend". Needless, useless generalizations like this about just about everything. So I've formed a mental habit of just pausing and asking "really?" .. and soon these just go poof.

In other words, I automatically question the validity of any concept I construct. This way, I'm free to stick to one temporarily and have no qualms about abandoning concepts that aren't valid for me.

The nice thing about Derek's post is that he's just posing the question and leaving it to the reader to ruminate on what answer would mean to them. The skill to pick up here is to ask these kinds of questions ... like all the time.
Getting a job after failing a startup
Oh. Yeah, it was really meant to be taken as "No one knows what they're doing [all or even most] of the time."
No, it's because you're not considering properly the problem at hand. You're comparing apples and oranges by comparing consumer hardware capabilities and the capabilities able to be achieved for a hardened service environment solution.

It's the same reason why we don't just go and install a new quad core x86 on rockets for their guidance.
It's disturbing that leaking trade secrets is a criminal offense. I though it was a civil matter.

Does this mean journalists will now go to jail for exposing "trade secrets"? What if these "trade secrets" are against the common good?

I see such a law as a conflict to a free society. Not that we really live in one. At this point, we might as well throw the Constitution into the garbage :-(

And since corporations are considered people, why aren't corporations arrested and thrown in jail for stealing from the public?
> Then starting two weeks ago, they all think it's terrible.

Because it's time to start to invent new Bullshit™ marketing terms.

Anyone remember XP? You can find more of them here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_methodolog...
As a fellow Malaysian, we should cut the government some slack. This was a thoroughly difficult case - even with international assistance, we still couldn't locate the airliner.

That said, our government is incompetent, that can't be denied.
Utter chaos going on in the game over there. But it's a fun experiment.
Users should only be able to vote once (maybe be allowed to change it, but right now someone can overrule the consensus by hitting an arrow key as many times as they can)

Nice work though!
Dunno. I inherited money and have been in roughly that position for much of my life. Try to have fun and make stuff that's cool?
For a quite in-depth comparison of various RDBMS, check out http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/
Australia sees possible plane debris
This seems like a great base. I'd love if there was a step-by-step guide to creating a cryptocurrency though. I'm trying to learn about it (without intending to release another onto the crap filled market) and there's not many guides. It seems like a well kept secret for now. Simply cloning one is giving me enough trouble, I can't generate the merkel root and move on from there. No documentation.
I literally was going to do this this coming weekend, same name even!

I was going to take a much different approach however - I was going to use rabbitmq speaking STOMP over a websocket [0] with two queues, one for client moves, which the server would consume and write to the moves queue, which each client would consume. This would allow the server to do more fancy rate limiting / throttling as not to just lead to a message storm. This, along with storing the game state in a db, allows for scaling out app servers.

0 - https://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/05/14/introducing-rabbitm...
where does it get the music from?
Are you talking about the parking break?

That should certainly have enough force to hold a car stopped or at least stop a pair of wheels from spinning.
I don't think that is true. There are a lot of new firms targeting individual investors (even some YC funded). You are going to be competing against the brokerages themselves which are constantly pushing more sophisticated platforms for active traders.

Most individuals should not be active traders, and for non-active traders then your product has to compete against something like the Vanguard lifecycle funds which are damn good and cheap products.

I really want to believe there is a value add in products like Betterment, but is Betterment really significantly better than a Vanguard fund? I doubt it.

It might be possible to charge more than Vanguard, but I think that most who do are preying on the ignorance of investors, and that's not how I would want to make a living.
Loud Fund – Crowd funding Music with a twist
Democracy mode is great! But a couple of players (and I) figured out that multiple key presses by a user are counted, so we have more of an oligarchy determined by whoever can spam keystrokes...
Wordpress doesn't work with Postgres out of the box, so that's a big chunk of the internet right there that is using MySQL.
Quest Bars – Variety pack taste reviews
That's a great answer, and it's encouraging.

Yes, I'm talking about the US. Louisville, Ky., to be specific.

I haven't been blown away by what I've read in the RFI responses, but, then again, they're pretty high-level. http://www.louisvilleky.gov/economicdevelopment/OfficeofInno...

The city does seem to be doing what it can to encourage and help providers, but I don't think they are willing to invest capital. Not sure whether or not that is a dealbreaker.
I disagree. This is the only time I've ever had any problems with Python package managers.
They were all investment bankers. Originally they were competing with Factset and Thomson, not so much Bloomberg.
You should have asked him about the fun contortions sql server people have to go through to do offset/limit (though apparently this has been improved recently): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2135418/equivalent-of-lim...
Adobe's Controversial Subscription Model Proves Surprisingly Popular
I love that one of the papers sighted in defense of the argument actually states that the argument is an example of Bayesian analysis gone astray as its conclusion.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.49....
I like this one a bit better because it shows vote totals and has a visible countdown:

http://voting-2048.herokuapp.com/
Also, good VR requires rendering at 90 Hz

The DK2 can only do 75 Hz. Anything more than that is wasted.
Why can't we fine Obama for blacklisting a Whistle Blowing Employee......I mean how is someone whistle blowing on a corrupt corporation different from someone whistle blowing on a corrupt government agency? Seriously we have our priorities wrong, cause corruption in government is way worse than corruption @ Dish network, seriously.
it's a node app and it connects to a bunch of IPs.. not sure what they are though..

node-webk 3868 198.87.51.56:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 74.125.215.179:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 lax02s20-in-f2.1e100.net:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.67:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 a23-214-2-217.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.82:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.56:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.67:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.67:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.82:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.82:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.82:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED)
node-webk 3868 198.87.51.67:http (ESTABLISHED)
HN Plays 2048 (democracy)
I came here to praise 'Where is Variance not a good fit?' as well. This is a great introduction, I wish everything had this level of detail on the landing page. I find it infuriating (everywhere from Unix command line to websites for new tools ) not to have a clear answer to the question of 'why you should/should not use this.'
> I'm a bit minimalist, and it sounds like you are too. I hate carrying more than one bag when I travel, and the thought of having a ton of stuff I don't need makes me really, really uncomfortable. It's surreal.

To me it's like material things takes up valuable space inside of my head that already cramped more important. It's like even if you don't use the stuff you own, it still takes energy to keep track of it.

The paradoxical thing is that in a way I'm maybe more materialistic than everybody else because I get very attached to things. When I buy things it has to be perfect, and the process of finding the perfect product is sometime so cumbersome that even if it's something that I actually would need, I spend a week researching about what to buy and then end up just skipping it thinking "I managed so far".

Now I gotten so used to this pattern that I've started to actively buy as little as possible just to spare my self from this time consuming process.

> Do you use this "never satisfied" outlook for personal improvement?Do you use this "never satisfied" outlook for personal improvement?

Yes, absolutely. As I don't look for endorsement from other people, and money does not either interest me, that's the thing that keeps me going. If perfection and personal improvement wasn't important, then I really wouldn't know what would get me out of bed each day.
Isn't Obama busy with Crimea?
I hope you can understand the difference between a currency and a social network.
I like this one better: http://voting-2048.herokuapp.com/

Edit: pull request here if anyone wants to see the code:

https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048/pull/13
As per that, the vast majority of mass is small and sub-surface, not visible from satellite or ship.
No joking, people who wanted to could easily take advantage of this.
Hadoop Pioneer Cloudera Raises Whopping $160 Million
I'm guessing the hint is in their wording, CryEngine as a service. They're looking to shift to making money off the engine from services they provide to developers (eg a marketplace for assets, or any number of a dozen other possibilities).
The Agile Holocracy
Counterpoint - In TwitchPlaysPokemon democracy mode was always a lot more boring, and a lot less fun, than anarchy mode.
"Floors become ceilings" as they say.
Marketing is a really vague thing to ask for help with. What are you looking to accomplish specifically?
I have posted a spacetime diagram of the LIF falling through the horizon of a black hole on PhysicsForums here:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=4694521&postcoun...

The post explains the key features of the diagram that illustrate what I've been saying in this thread.
What chain-splitting bug did btcd have?
Yep, my bad. Added that too now. (changing not allowed)
Presentation is pretty important in much of the business because that's how the products are sold and fees justified.

Let's say your firm trades bonds. Your product is your expertise in trading those bonds, and you have to sell that expertise. How are you going to do that? Much of it is still reputation, but the days of closing a pension fund with a few martinis and your good looks are coming to an end. You have to have the numbers to back up your claims.
I still use MySQL but that's because when I started my last big project, Postgres was still iffy in places (replication, etc) and no where near as popular.

I might still use MySQL for future projects because I still have to know it and I already have it in use.

But if I instantly had no legacy to support and starting a new project, I wouldn't hesitate to use Postgres.
Pull Request if anyone wants to see the code. Sorry this is in 2 places.

https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048/pull/13
it has been added and is awesome
The Rudder Fallacy – Adopting Lean Startup