skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really enjoyed this article (in a sad sort of way). I read an article in the NYT that was sort of similar about a month ago (just looked it up: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kr...).

Now, I really don't know a whole lot about these subjects, but it strikes me that a basic income system would serve society as whole very well here.

In fact, I've always had a theory that the best way to do things would be what I call a "relaxed meritocracy." Basically: everyone has access to housing, food, medical care, and education at a decent standard -- the bare minimums for life, plus a little bit on top so that it's not horrible. (Like living at a dorm room in university.) Then, capitalism on top. Incentive to do well, and the freedom to experiment with stuff that may just crash-and-burn. And nobody is ever well-and-truly left behind.

Can someone please poke holes in why this would be a bad idea?
From my own experience, expectations have a whole lot to do with where your life goes. In my house, there was never any question that my siblings and I would go to college as certainly as we went from 1st to 2nd grade. There was never any discussion otherwise. And now that I have kids, the same is true. College is the next step after High School as certainly as High School is the next step after Middle School.

Looking back to my High School days, I see friends that didn't grow up with these family expectations and see that their life-path has been more difficult than mine. I recall difficult times in my own college days when I pondered dropping out to take a blue-collar job, but I knew what my family expectations were. I continued on when others with different expectations would have quit and ended up with the menial job I considered taking myself. I'm not sure how the schools can raise expectations of these kids when they have some many negative role-models around. It's a tough problem.
Dropbox is guilty of not responding to resumes even after 3 months. You are not alone.
I live in Ontario.
I pay for my condo via direct debit from my chequing account like everyone else.
There is a speed hit to reflection. As for the tag issue: writing your own marshaler isn't actually a huge problem. I have been meaning to write my own json marshaler for a while. I personally find the solution much more paletable than many other ways of marshaling in and out of json.
In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment for a Novelist
On detecting talent: my time washing dishes with the creator of Adventure Time
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Even with all our advanced modern knowledge we still barely understand how the brain works much less what happens when it doesn't "work" and even that depends on how you define "doesn't work". I suffered from a major depressive time about 12 years ago and taking a drug helped me get out of it and it hasn't returned. But there is no way to know what went wrong much less prove that the drug had any actual clinical effect; at least it appeared to make life possible again. Some day we might actually understand enough brain chemistry to know the exact mechanisms. Today it is still a lot of guesswork.
Because my company accepts Bitcoin for their services. They pay me with that Bitcoin.
It's up to me to exchange it for cash (if I need it) or pay for my things directly in Bitcoin if possible.

It's not difficult. There was a time when people would ask "What can you buy with Bitcoin?"
Today it's the opposite question. "What CAN'T you buy with Bitcoin?"
Also a good read: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/done-and-gets-thin...
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Extension functions:

"For those familiar with Objective-C, this is similar to categories."

Or just the same as extension methods in C#...
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I make a huge bowl of pesto every week

I'll take your excess basil if you're in the Bay Area, they're always running out at the supermarket and interrupting my pesto schedule XD
I'm not so sure about the utility of this in my case. I usually end up using python for scripts, with perhaps a one line batch file that runs it with some default arguments for convenience.
That entire map is complete and utter baloney as a general guide, though it may mean something in terms of skikit-learn.

Hastie has a decent classification of the strengths and weaknesses of different learning algorithms in his book. It's not a decision tree. It will never be a decision tree.
This implementation is not perfect, although it's interesting that it supports Windows. I personally don't care about that, but it brings the idea to create some sugary wrapper around Bash that allows you to use Bash v4 features such as associative arrays in Bash v3, and wrappers that allow functions to return arrays and other typical headaches.
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I believe the reason why they were 30 minutes to get to me, was that it is an area with a lot of homeless people and I think they assumed that it was one of them that had passed out.

I do believe if it was a non-homeless person they would have helped more, and tried to convince the person to be helped.

I am glad that you helped, I feel very sad about all the people that are less fortunate than me that I meet on my way.
Programming is relevant to more than just computer science grads- it seems like every week there's a story of a motivated professional who is not what you would typically call a programmer finding a way to automate a task through programming and saving huge amounts of time and money in the process.
I would have preferred a bash/powershell solution. Hoping no one is still writing batch files on windows... even if he is still using xp
So the original Swing Copters?
Yup, that's all we end up doing, but it would be nice to have something that combines both programming bliss with end product being just one Bash script that runs on every Linux distro.
> The therapeutic action in mice, which is replicated in the study I linked to and many others.

Would that be the same therapeutic effect that was falsified in the most recent study, the one that showed no correlation between serotonin and depression? Neither study represents anything like a conclusive outcome, but both must be read with an open mind -- who funded the studies, how strong is the evidence, what are the p-values, and so forth.

But let's step back. Do you know what's missing from this exchange, and do you know why such exchanges tend to be so wordy and inconclusive? Both of us are discussing symptoms, descriptions, not causes. This issue will never move forward until people move beyond psychiatric descriptions and locate a biological cause for depression.

Science requires a focus on causes, explanations -- descriptions aren't enough. And this is not science, because psychiatry is not science.

For those who doubt the central role of explanations in science, I have an anecdote -- Doctor Dubious invents a new treatment for the common cold. His treatment is to shake a dried gourd over the cold sufferer until the patient gets better. Sometimes the treatment takes a week, but it always works — the cold sufferer always recovers. So, why doesn't Doctor Dubious get a Nobel Prize for his breakthrough?

The answer is that the procedure is only a description — shake the gourd, patient recovers — without an explanation, without a basis for actually learning anything or being truthful about the connection between cause and effect. It's the same with psychiatry.
Will she recognize Skype next month? I find printed manuals have to be changed every time Skype updates something...
If muscular men were dramatically underrepresented in STEM careers, and particularly EE, then I would have a problem with that.

If you really want to pursue this line of thinking, what if a female nurse had posted a hobby page wherein she documented all the ways nurses most often contaminate hospitals or traumatize children, and all the "example" nurses in the pictures were male.

But really, that's not a perfect analogy. Female bodies != male bodies in our culture, particularly in STEM careers. It is at best impolite (and at worst creating a hostile work/study environment) to use these images in a page on a university website.
Prone: Interactive debugging exceptions in Clojure web apps, with demo video
Well, I probably would be annoyed/mildly offended if it was truly graphic. E.G. if it was a clip from one of those beheading videos, or hardcore porn, or... Choice of images isn't utterly irrelevant.
I've been growing some shiso in my Aerogarden - http://i.imgur.com/zitLRIV.jpg - and it's to the point that I have to replant it due to rampant growth crowding out half the other plants after I already pruned what you see there.

Herbs are easiest I think. Mint is super low maintenance and nice for flavoring water and for cocktails. Thai basil can be tasty, and other varieties of basil are also fun. I've had no luck at all with thyme, but... eh. I'm also growing lavender just because it smells good.

Veggie-wise, you can try fast growing sprouts and microgreens, perhaps? I'm also trying my hand at some bird's eye chilies despite lack of temperature control and general warm weather in SF.
I get a 404?
>Would you prefer he used "objectified male bodies"? "objectified trans bodies"?

I'm sure the OP is level headed enough to not prefer the author have used any image that objectified a human being, regardless of their sex or gender.

> Also, how does being in a position of responsibility somehow magically disallow you from expressing yourself honestly?

I agree that the level of imposed responsibility is meaningless, but the problem still remains that women are being objectified and it's a normal and casual part of our culture.

>Close-minded lot.

Unnecessary. This exact jab can just as easily be used to get a rise out of your ilk.
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Permalink results in 404, but the post is still viewable on the blog homepage: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/
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Exploring a Tree One Cell at a Time
I worked on a Flight Simulator project that used RGB splitting for three monitors.

In fact we had 4 monitors running off of the one Amiga. We had graphics cards that gave us a convenient byte-per-pixel display for polygons and scaled images on the main screen, and three small Mono monitors for instrument display. The instrument displays were each drawn into a single bitplane and a copper-list-of-doom mixed them with a noise bitmap and other failure modes to make a single rgb image which drove the three mono displays. The screens would then flicker, roll, and fade according to their damage status and all we had to worry about is drawing to the bitmap.
An Icy Answer to the Mystery of the Moving Death Valley Stones
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Tiny, Vast Windows into Human DNA
Lately everyone had been adding "So" to the start of their explanations.

"So we're seeing Russia attack Ukraine..."
"So people are finding e-cigarettes..."

I find it's a way to make thinks appear like facts, without the proof.
So I like the idea of a cleaner higher level version of BASH that still works like BASH but doesn't have the baggage of it's evolution.

Key feature has to be output that is no less readable than the average bash script. Which it seems to be.
Thanks for pointing to a cached version. ...strange that the original is unavailable.
I think that objectification is part of the reason that many cosplayers do not dress as they do on a normal basis. We live in a culture of sexual repression, and as a result: sexual objectification.
> We just have a currently useful tool to help, SSRIs.

Yes, but the quoted study shows that serotonin and depression aren't correlated. If that is so, if the study bears up under scrutiny, then SSRIs cannot possibly work. The prior FDA meta-analysis shows that SSRIs don't work for the majority of patients, this new study explains why.

> Maybe with these type of studies we'll see more accurate medicines.

Let me suggest an alternative -- instead of searching for a better description of depression, we should seek an explanation, like in science. Armed with an explanation, we could treat depression's causes, rather than its symptoms.

But we can't do this with psychiatry -- psychiatrists aren't scientists and have no respect for evidence.
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I can't think of a case where seamlessly having two different targets like this has worked - particularly if there's pressure to really support all of the features of both.
As long as the patricians view those below them as subhuman failures, they will never allow it.

They think that if someone is not just like them, it must be because of some grievous personal fault.
Here are a couple more:

7680x1600 version: http://www.helpertubes.com/images/iss_shuttle_7680x1600.jpg

9516x2320 source: http://www.helpertubes.com/images/iss_shuttle_9516x2320.jpg
It was set up without structure when decentrality suggested the channel in an Ask HN post[0]. Because of its current state no one can claim ownership and grant OP's. If someone affiliated with YC/HN emailed Freenode staff they would grant them ownership and they could then give out OP's to trusted others seeing as they probably don't have the time to moderate it. It would be great if #hackernews stayed like Hacker News and didn't evolve to #startups. Not ripping on #startups, but it would be great to have a slightly more "hardcore" and on topic alternative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8249277
RAW's 'Quantum psychology' is probably the best distillation of those ideas. At first sight it seems like a bunch of hand-waving hippy nonsense, but underneath are some actionable and practical techniques for improving critical thinking and self-directed neuro-linguistic programming (though I can't remember whether he uses that specific term).
Not really the point of the article (which was very interesting), but Plato’s Symposium is not the origin of the double body creation story, that's straight from the bible.

God created man and woman as two halves of the same body, then split them later. The reason for doing it that way is that when they marry and join intimately, they recreate that original unity - only this time face to face instead of back to back.
Agreed. Powershell has almost completely replaced batch scripts, and is actually a fairly pleasant language to work with.
We're talking coding here, not computer science. Computer scientists make the developments that then get engineered in to the tools we use to code with, the platforms we use to code on, etc..

People using computers more in a greater range of disciplines at a deeper level doesn't seem like it would necessarily impact on CS at all - there might be more standardisation reducing the demand for new tools. There might be more focussed advances where one or two CS workers get their work adopted in to current tech. Both these things would lead to less employment of CS grads (in CS) wouldn't they?

It might also be that specialists without domain knowledge are not as desirable as those with domain knowledge who can go on to train in CS (or to add IT skills, which I just noticed are wrapped up with the stats you quote for CS).

To add an extra prong to the enquiry, does http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_mathematics.htm showing only 55% of those studying mathematics having a job mean that we should not teach mathematics to the general school population?
Being on a Mac, I wasn't aware that Skype updated very often.

And to the OP, it doesn't sound like this product is grandmother-friendly yet.
The ‘Cosmos’ connection
Manuals? It's a 6 step process for logging in and trying to talk to her sister, IF she is also online. If Skype changes that process, I'll have to write up another one, not that it'll be hard though. Still, I guess I should re-figure my question.: Can I write a process, in under 10 steps, that my grandmother can use to talk, face to face via video, to her sister in another timezone with this program?
South Dakota artists explore dark matter
"Why did the substance become known as serotonin rather than its first name, enteramine? The most likely explanation is that it was first synthesized and made available for research by the American drug company, Upjohn Pharmaceutical, who chose the name 'serotonin.'"

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v21/n1s/full/1395355a.html
It makes me wonder if we'll even have much more understanding of the brain in 100 years than we do now. At least, understanding at a level that lets us effectively stop the root cause of many complex mental disorders without deleterious side effects.
But this just puts the power of computing in the hands of the grubby proletariat rather than preserving it for the rich. Surely that's not a Conservative policy move ...
Totally agree. Powershell is what you need to use on windows. It's been available on the default server install since 2008 R2. No need for batch scripts anymore.
Hey really like the notepad! Can I use it on other computers, like my laptop?
In the Mind of the Fractal King: A reconstructed interview on life and fractals
I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. As it is, "not unsafe" is a pretty soft statement to make, it isn't a declaration that there will be zero problems, it just reveals a certain amount of confidence that the procedure will be successful in humans. Perhaps they could have found a better way of phrasing it, but I don't see it as intentionally misleading.
Is a Quantum Time Machine Possible?
It's exciting to have an IRC channel with like-minded people, I wasn't aware of #startups either. The ability to link a HN username to an IRC handle is also nice, however the bot is quite verbose in the channel.

Couldn't commands like !username be issued in private messages instead of the public channel? Worse than the bot responding in public, it has two lines when a nick doesn't have a username linked to it. In one example, someone was looking for user information and was drowning out conversation in the channel with bot messages (probably unintentionally), making 4 or 5 queries, most without a linked username.

Another suggestion: stop the welcome /msg from hnguardian for people who either don't have a HN handle or don't want to link it. I realize it may be somewhat counter to goals of HN (since it would likely prefer people to both have a handle and link it) but for those who'd prefer otherwise it would be a better experience. This is probably only possible with registered IRC handles, but would be a step in the right direction.
Somewhat seconded. I don't believe I'm allergic to any particular plant, but I'm allergic to mold and I've heard from several doctors that indoor plants often grow a lot of mold in their soil.
thats like saying soap causes dirtiness- the plants show up because there is already a problem
This has not been my experience. I've only worked at 2 startups, but in both cases one of the founders had the CTO title and in both cases the CTO was one of the best programmers at the company.
Unemployed 9% on the page you link to.
You know what? I'm not either a doctor nor a psychiatrist, but what you've described sounds like chronic fatigue syndrome, not depression. Or (second vote) hypothyroidism, which also can create some of the symptom set you describe.

Both depression and CFS have no known causes, which makes their diagnosis problematic and their treatment even more problematic. But overall I would suggest that you look at CFS -- IMHO it seems to be a better fit to your symptoms.

Again, I am not a doctor and this is just an off-the-cuff opinion.