skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice of images is backwards, that's the only way to describe it. Lenna as reference image was a suitable choice in the 1970s, when IBM engineers would attend live sex shows on the company's dime, but nowadays she raises eyebrows, and we are stuck with her.

The imagery is a statement, and it makes you ask yourself how the place is run. How would someone who isn't exactly like the rest of them fare, someone who is older, female, gay, or not a foosball-playing craft beer fanboy brogrammer? It's a common observation of foreigners that Americans have a very hard time with diversity. A walk around any college campus confirms this. Where are the punks, hippies, and queers? And what's with all the girls wearing hotpants? It's as if they were some kind of uniform.
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Cash flow is what it sounds like: the money flowing into and out of your business. Your company could have a million non-paying users (with the number doubling each month) and a market value of a billion dollars, but if you don't have enough money in your corporate checking account to pay your salaries, rent, web hosting and other expenses, your company is dead.
Citation needed on this: but from what I understand, the way your brain processes vision is that some of what you "see" is in fact the past. The visual cortex keeps recently seen things around and the incoming visual information is mixed with the past images to create the present (almost like compression in a video). Thus it would make sense that after staring at the green lines for awhile your brain is using past information when looking at new lines and hence the illusion.
That's just an observation of the exchange rate as it appears to be between large banks. Nobody is required to offer it to you.
Somewhat small bug: The edges wrap around, which you certainly don't want for image filters. Especially noticeable with the blur. You want to use either clamping or mirroring at the edges.
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I learned this in Theme Hospital 15 years ago.
Why did you want to avoid deduplication? You can't even tell it's happened as it only works on the char[] which is internal to the string. Did you find it didn't work as expected.
There are some very terrible coding decisions made within the minecraft community.

The open source server (which is based I believe on the orginal server) actually doesn't use function names to describe what the function does, but functions are given names like, "a","b","c","d" in alphabetical order.

Which means you'll see instances of

d.e(a.b(c.f(new b.g())));
My qualm isn't with the pharmaceuticals companies, oddly enough. I have issues with the psychiatrists mostly. They rely far too much on literature and don't listen to their patients. Also, the patients are overly supine and continue treatments that aren't effective (or are partially effective with significant side effects). This combination of behaviors is toxic and leads to reduced quality of life for the patient.
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Raspberry Pi gets a brand new browser
What about the initial email, just dropping the I? I get email like this a lot in the professional world, and for whatever reason I've found myself sensitive to it:

Dear Dr. Pennebaker:

Was part of your Introductory Psychology class last semester.
Enjoyed your lectures and learned so much. Received an
email from you about doing some research with you.
Would there be a time to come by and talk about this?

Pam
This library is most famously used in Redis (I believe antirez wrote it for that purpose).

Previous discussion on HN 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209646
I really hope they took the Hawthorne effect into account:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

I'm not sure if it's the plants themselves which generated the positive change, or whether anything else (paintings, something personal/warm) would have generated a similar response.

And while I rant about my awful working conditions, at least I don't have my keyboard fixed into place !!
You may wish to do multiple backups, because otherwise something like this could overwrite your backup when you pull data if you didn't notice it.

If you do incremental / semi-incremental backups, or use a file system with deduplication, your space requirements don't increase that much.
Hello, the app is pretty basic at the moment with just textareas for a few preset sections you generally find in a resume. I'm looking for feedback on what features developers would want when creating an online resume/profile (similar to creating a LinkedIn page), thanks!
I'd argue against your point that many software jobs have been outsources/offshored - at least not any more than other major western economies. The UK has a relatively large software industry - game development, european headquarters of various large technology multinationals, a thriving tech scene in Silicon Roundabout / Cambridge / starting in the north of England, and a fairly large hobbyist arena. If anything, this push will bring the jobs that have been offshored back to the UK as the talent pool grows.
This isn't science, it's sociology and psychology in equal measure. Reaction time is an innately crude measure, and extrapolating from reaction time to intelligence is dubious at best. To see my point, imagine using it to measure Stephen Hawking's intelligence.

I'm a pretty bright person, but I'm almost 70 years old and I just don't have the reaction times of a young person -- or that I did when I was younger and a great deal dumber :).

If readers watched me typing at my keyboard, some would likely find it frustrating and might wonder how anything useful could possibly issue from all that slow pecking. But the end result is a crude approximation of intelligence -- created slowly, and in a way that would flunk the kind of examination on which the linked study relies.

At the very least, the study relies on a superficial correlation between reaction time and intelligence in young people, while ignoring the fact that as the years pass one's intelligence might increase, while one's reaction times decrease.

When I was about 20 I took an IQ test at NYU, one that relied more than anything else on speed of response. The outcome was that I got the "very superior" designation I expected and was accustomed to in those days. But on reflection I realized I had taken so many of those kinds of tests that I was simply nailing the test, not the property it was meant to measure. If I took the same test today I would probably not do very well, but I'm certainly functioning at a higher level than I did then.

Closing remark. When Alfred Binet was asked what IQ was, he replied, "It's what my test measures."
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Also a nice reminder: "Never write your own crypto"
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Interesting, I would like to see a 3d map project of the hole human body, in this way you can learn without opening books and staff :)
This more probable than you think. Java code is likely to use Collections.shuffle(). That method uses internal Random which is used only for shuffling. Shuffling is unlikely to be used for other purposes than shuffling cards. There isn't that many ways to shuffle them either.
So, the 2 suggestions are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spathiphyllum

(are those the Peace Plants pentabular refers to?)
About 10 years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD, and as part of the testing I was given an IQ test. I don't recall now which test it was, but the scores were given in four categories, and while in three of the categories my scores were very closely comparable with each other, the "visual intelligence" score--which included a computerized reaction time test--was significantly lower.

As I understood their explanation at the time, this sort of discrepancy between category scores was common among ADHD sufferers, though they could only speculate as to why.

(My own explanation of this that feels right for me based on my own experience with ADHD is that some parts of my brain are operating at different speeds than others, but total appropriate coordination of action requires all the elements to be in sync. And when these elements are out of sync, they result in the symptoms that together are recognized as ADHD.)

Point being that I'd be curious to see if the drop-off in reaction times correlates in any useful way to the rise in ADHD. Perhaps there's a connection there (even if the reaction time test is pointless and ADHD is just a mass-delusional means to excuse epidemic amphetamine abuse).
I appreciate skepticism about the state of pharmacological treatment of depression. Point 2 is important: it is in fact the case that several meta-analyses of the effects of anti-depressant drugs show only modest benefit in moderate depression. However, the drugs do work, they just don't work very well in many cases. The study you cite does indeed find a clinically significant effect in the most severe cases, and the drugs have a smaller but statistically significant effect in less severe cases.

Additionally, the brain is complicated, and just because mice genetically depleted of serotonin do not show depression-like symptoms does not mean that toying with serotonin levels in a normal brain cannot alleviate depression. Even if depression isn't brought on by lack of serotonin, it can still be the case that potentiating the effects of serotonin can reverse depressive symptoms. In fact, antidepressant treatment does alleviate depression in mice, and my understanding is that the effects of antidepressants in mouse models are actually far stronger than in humans in a clinical setting.

There has been some work to track down how antidepressants work in animal models at a systems level, e.g. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627309... suggests that administration of antidepressants to chronic stress model mice reverses the suppressive effects of chronic stress on growth of new brain cells in the hippocampus, and this may be related to their therapeutic action.
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The "us" is any organization that wants to build a Maker City startup.

Burning Man is an example where people just decide to pickup and go somewhere, but that's not a realistic model. Nor is starting a city off at 500k population. You are right, cities have to start small and build incrementally by providing value. Like any good system :-)

Any new city has to offer what all the old cities offered: opportunity and a chance at a better life. If they can't do that then they won't flourish. If these benefits can be offered then history shows people will move, especially as home ownership has dipped in recent years.

The idea is that we have an opportunity to build around new resources and new ideas in the same way we built around gold or shipping in the past.

Only gold has been spun into digital.
What's the point of using sync commits if you don't actually ensure that the data is on two machines before the transaction is committed?
I am willing to accept that "audio engineering is much more complex" than I seem to think it is, and because of your comment I will look more closely into things before making any claims like that again.

Would you be willing to explain in more detail the "good reasons why they're not a one-size-fits-all solution for audio effects"?
An argument against the significance of the correlation is that old people's reaction times decline, while their intelligence may continue to increase. Consequently a test that measured abilities other than reaction time would favor that age group over a test series based on reaction time.
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I think eliciting that kind of disappointment in the audience was part of the "point" of the character :)

The Wolf also said the coffee was pretty good, by the way.
Programming salaries in the UK aren't really that high, plenty are advertised at sub £20k.
Mortality [0] among Americans from ages 6 to 28 was about 1.1% in 2010. Take the sum of male and female living at age 28, divided by the sum of those living at age 6. That's about 99%. The change in the number of survivors is the mortality rate.

That would be about 9 individuals in the sample size of 790. During the period of the study mortality would have been a little higher, since life expectancy has increased about 6 years since the early 1980s.

But the study counted 26 deaths (that they knew about). Being poor's a killer.

[0] http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
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Creating Java objects using the Builder Pattern, with extended pattern
Objectification is in the eye of the beholder.
The Pentium 4 and the G4e: An Architectural Comparison (2001)
I actually killed all data and voice on my phone. It's the cool thing to do if you're looking to create something drastically new in the world.

https://www.techendo.com/posts/how-i-killed-my-cellphone-pla...
There have been some promising studies showing rapid-onset relief for major depression following the administration of ketamine. Glutamate seems to be getting more attention these days, in terms of its potential role in mental illness.
I wonder who's manning this submarine [1].

[1] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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In the event tptacek doesn't show up to explain how awfully wrong this is, I'll do my best to fill in.

An attacker who can predict your PRNG and guess a seeded value knows a potentially infinite number of future random numbers. Now all he needs to do is guess what random numbers, from a very small pool of possible numbers, will show up at what time. Devs often code assuming that PRNG numbers aren't predictable at all, so compromising your RNG is like setting your password to "hunter2" in a situation where nobody thinks about limiting the number of guesses.

Such attacks were famously used to steal a lot of money on PlanetPoker, one of the first poker websites. RNG attacks are also deadly in encryption, where it's reasonable for an attacker to be able to make millions of guesses from his laptop computer.
I think that's an artifact of decompiling the minecraft binaries because the original source is not available.
It was in a typeahead search application built on 20GB of names. These names have common first names and last names which were stored as different strings. With deduplication, string memory was reduced to 20%

Will benchmark that application with +UseStringDeduplication
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It has the minor problem of dropping a significant, not-to-be-assumed part of every sentence.

I see that commonly in three scenarios: 1) irc 2) from people who learn to write English as a second language 3) from people with whom I have a familiar relationship - generally rendering the pronoun unnecessary.
Are the salaries set in bitcoin? Or Canadian Dollars and then exchanged for bitcoin on payday at market rates?

Either way, It seems I'd rather be paid in dollars for the stability then have the ability to trade these for bitcoin with dips in the market. Unless my salary is set in bitcoin and I'm counting on Bitcoin inflation to outpace dollar inflation.
yes, the guy is suffering from common cause fallacy. That being said, you can discover lots of things from little words like that.
The upstream minecraft server is a JAR that was run through a Java bytecode obfuscator, which mostly works by renaming all functions and fields with names like that. I'm not aware of any open-source server built with such unreadable naming from the start, but there are definitely _decompiled_ versions floating around. Since the original JAR was obfuscated, these decompiled versions are only partially deobfuscated, if at all, hence the unreadable names.
I've never once purchased a Bitcoin and it will probably be quite a while before I consider ever purchasing Bitcoins, but it seems to me the Bitcoin craze has settled down and it's value has somewhat stabilized (for now) making this sort of thing "possible", though I'm still surprised it's even happening. This I believe will be a fad that will be phased out once people start requesting their wages paid in euros, pounds, or other forms of legitimate worldwide currency, using this as precedent. I don't particularly agree with the offering, but it's neat to read about at least.
Who set that channel up? It's not registered and has no ops. Is that by design?
Secure Shell: How Does SSH Work? (2013)
Do you have any evidence that Paul is actually a Scientologist, beyond his sharing - in broad strokes - one of their opinions?
Oh, this is really annoying! During my around-the-world solo sail I was warned to stay away from Socotra, described as a den of pirates. Being alone on my boat made me particularly wary of such places, but based on the linked pictures, it seems I missed an amazing experience.

The nearby African coast is now the site of many more recent pirate attacks, including the attack on which the movie "Captain Phillips" is based.

An account of my sail: http://arachnoid.com/sailbook
Looks like he's counting plies rather than moves, and the spike at the 80th ply is caused by the 40-move time control

http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=39&view=category
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I always request to sit somewhere where there is at least some natural light, mostly for my well being, but the plants offer a nice excuse as to why I have to be near a window.
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So what was the downside of deduplication? Why did you want to avoid it?
Yet another example of how actions speak louder than words.
I found myself asking the same thing, and ended up finding a Python program:

http://www.pythoncentral.io/finding-duplicate-files-with-pyt...

I plan on giving it a whirl, to help me clean up my backup drive.
lol, you get your salary, the next day, down 4 percent...
Porn is a slang term and the definition can be fuzzy depending on context. I don't think it's very common. Lenna is the only on I can think of, and it's more of historical accident.
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