skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The authors discovered that people whose water had the least amount of lithium had significantly greater levels of suicide, homicide and rape than the people whose water had the higher levels of lithium. The group whose water had the highest lithium level had nearly 40 percent fewer suicides than that with the lowest lithium level.

I can't but help wonder whether higher levels of lithium also correlate with a clean water supply, which would indicate a more affluent community. It may simply be the case that those areas with cleaner water have a better economy, and thus less crime, etc. Although lithium undoubtedly has antidepressant effects.

It's funny this article popped up on here. Today I was actually reading about how chromium picolinate was found to have a positive effect on those with atypical depression. It can be purchased from any vitamin store. It makes me wonder if trace elements (lithium, chromium, etc.) are vital to the brain's proper functioning via some as yet undiscovered mechanism.

Also, why is it that you have to have a prescription to get certain compounds, but other ones you can just purchase yourself? Is it simply the potential for toxicity?
If you are using SELinux and libvirtd, the sVirt integration between the two automatically keeps one vm from attacking another vm should there be a way to compromise the host kernel.
Understood. YC has a unique opportunity here to play a leadership role in algorithmic awareness, http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/papers/pdfs/paper188.pdf & https://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/uncovering-algorithms-...
> she's going to put down green paint.

But what appears green to her may not appear green to a trichromat.
right, my point is that it will almost certainly be illegal to use this to text and drive. in fact I think it's probably already illegal:

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/cell-phones-driving-c...
That's not the part people care about. People promoting a culture where it's okay to lie to others because "hey, it's not illegal" is everyone's business.
Ah, Electronika. They made an interesting PDP-11 clone desktop computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKNC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika
I think the problem is that there isn't really a $400 category for mountain bikes.

There is the $100 walmart/acadamy bikes, made without regard for quality/weight/etc. And then there are the $1000+ bike store bikes.

That said, if you look at kids bikes at the local bike shop I think you will notice something. Those bikes tend to be just as good as the adult versions (good components, strong frames/etc) but they tend to cost under $250.

I think it says something.
People don't come to religion through a rational and dispirited analysis of all available evidence. Why would you expect them to hold leaving religion to a higher standard?
I'd still worry if she were 34 or 44 or 64?She wouldn't stop being my daughter. Should I feel sorry for your kids or are you not a parent?
Awesome demo :-).
I built an anonymous android tracker. It allows people to track an android cell phone for 4 hours without having to use a user name, password or email. Just a disposable tracker.

https://www.mycelltracker.com/
I have nightmares about the kernel penguin in this coloring book.
Both the beamforming Wikipedia article and the OP basically say "by having several out of phase antennas you can create constructive interference at the intended receiver of the signal". What am I missing?
There is hardly a bike frame on the market that can survive actually hitting a tree at even 10mph with the rider on it.

Most of the frames are extremely strong vertically, but if impacted on the side or directly on the tubes crumple like the couple mm thick aluminum/carbon they are.
You can do that with pathogen very easily. See my vimfiles repo: https://stealthis.ca/vimfiles.git/tree/bin/update
eh, in sf, you get a ticket for killing cyclists. Sometimes not even that. It's really not a big deal. So it isn't as if the cop got a special deal.

"We do not know of a single case of a cyclist fatality in which the driver
was prosecuted, except for D.U.I. or hit-and-run," Leah Shahum, the
executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, told me. [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to...
Not to detract from the flow of the conversation, but do any of us Atlanta-area hackers have any formal events or get-togethers? I'd love to meet some of you and hack on stuff.
It's pretty obvious that you do follow carefully selected sources of information, yup yup.

But you still haven't cited a single study.
Who really needs Product Hunt?

1) Moms: Well, since they make "all" the buying decisions for the family.

2) Small businesses: Sadly enough, your local dentist, or local mechanic, still need to know what are the latest, shiny tools for their trade.

Software engineers and product makers, I just do not see their monetary value, other than testers for PH.
You'd have to be in the path of a cosmic ray shower ,near some dangerously critical nuclear decay, or near the beam-line of a particle accelerator.
why is this even on hacker news? posts like these are so discouraging for women like myself trying to get more involved in this community.
As I answered in the issue [1] the problem is likely caused by the task timeout. Maybe vim-plug should delete the repo directory if timeout occurs during the installation. A workaround at the moment is to increase `g:plug_timeout` so that it never times out.

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/issues/75#issuecomment-...
I was looking for something similar frantically the other day when I couldn't use pixlr (it needs flash and my laptop was very old).

But, how do I insert an image from my computer as the layer?
Oh ho ho. I found a problem! Sign in with {Google+, Facebook, Twitter}. I'd like to use none of those, please, and still interact with your site. G'night.
Made me think of crystal radios for some reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
What qualities? You have said that no one there acts in a racist way. No "person of color" who applies for a job is treated unfairly. Thus no racism occurs.

You can only imagine racism there if you see the races as "classes" (i.e. in the sense of Marxist class warfare) and feel that each class (not the individuals within it) has a right to a "share" of the company (i.e. a quota of jobs -- regardless of whether anyone in a particular class ever actually applied for a job and was treated unfairly). I know this is what the leftist professors in schools of "grievance studies" are peddling, but they have tenure requirements to meet. What's your excuse?
But if the only reason decreased suicide rates are observed is that the members of society become slightly more docile (obviously to a much lesser degree than those on prescription doses), it makes it a lot more questionable whether this is a valid way to tackle the suicide problem.

It would be one thing if micro-doses of lithium were sold as a supplement, which individuals can opt to take. But the article goes as far as to suggest adding it to drinking water -- it seems very irresponsible in my eyes to leave it to the government to decide "how docile" the population should be above the natural level / what trade-off with suicide rate is acceptable.

There are better ways to deal with the problem of suicide than pushing society slightly closer to the "souless robot" end of the spectrum.
The Kenbak-1 was first available in 1971, and it was invented by Americans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1

http://www.kenbak-1.net/
Is that a physical limit or a filesystem limit?
Yes, you want to prove to your users that you understand the problem and that you are the solution. You can be the solution without the product by helping them best use the traditional system you are trying to disrupt. Grab a good community of beta users and hook them into your market research. We started with a survey then a phone call and now we take them to coffee to really know what their needs are. As we build product, we're testing our UI and UX with these initial users heavily involved in our market research. We've found that they are more likely to provide feedback because we're truly building a product specific to their needs. Demonstrate you can solve their problem however you can then build the product of their dreams.
As a teenager, around 1980, I had a part time job at the public library in my town. Our librarian was a privacy nut -- a fact that I appreciate more and more. She made a point of telling everybody at the library that the circulation records were sacrosanct. She even scolded me once for commenting on a book that a patron was checking out: It was none of my business.

She had concocted a byzantine checkout system that would have made it almost impossible to search the library's circulation records. It was part of my job to send out overdue notices. Once the records had been used for that purpose, they were destroyed. The library kept no long term circulation records.
FBLA Guy or someone @ ATV? ;) Yik Yak guy here
Usually the rider won't be still attached to the bike at the point of impact.
the story checks out yeah.

what a wonderful song I'm listening to it now.
Because conspiracies drive page views.

If a website can pin something on Big Pharma, well, it must be true, because a huge increase in click-through revenue doesn't lie.
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> Is it simply the potential for toxicity?

Probably not. Acetaminophen is otc, yet rather toxic. I've always thought it was the potential to have unearned fun.
Wow. Wait... so if someone does not support whatever Google wants, they are anti-competitive?
It's nice that this service is trying to make it easier, but why should anyone trust tinycert? How can I trust that tinycert won't issue certificates without my concert? Or sell my private keys to others?

The commands really aren't that complicated. You can (and really should) learn how to do this if you need to issue certificates.

Also, deleting CA's doesn't seem to work.
Wavefront – Declarative Programming for the Cloud (2013)
People use the same argument about a lot of things, but we still eradicated smallpox despite how profitable smallpox treatments must have been.

Really, it's a horrible argument. It presupposes that everyone working for Big Pharma is a sociopath who only cares about the next quarterly report.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312411
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I would agree to an extent with that, but I guess with street signs you are still looking outside the car as opposed to inside it.
I've always been much more worried that the solution to the Fermi paradox is: we ARE alone as sentient beings. That we're the jewel of the Universe.

Sure, it's highly unlikely. But imagine the profound tragedy that our self-extinction would mean.
Go list, your Swiss army knife
Biology isn't made of perfect sliding scales between two extreme problems, where in the middle you have 50% of both problems. Instead, in the middle, you usually have neither problem.

For example, the amount of moisture in your skin: too little and it cracks and bleeds, too much and you get fungal infections. But adding moisture to cracked-and-bleeding skin isn't making it "a bit more fungal" -- it's pushing it into the healthy buffer range.
The USG is based on the same hardware as EdgeRouter Lite but integrated with the UniFi controller to make for a more plug-n-play integrated system.
Hi lucky - I've been in the same industry for 4-5 years and have been offering hosting (as a reseller) for 1 year. We broke 100 hosting clients recently and are hoping to own our own infrastructure one day. We recently put an admin in house who is able to handle all support and day to day server admin of the servers we lease. The way I see it, all of our clients need hosting and I'd rather be the ones charging for it then someone else. I think one of the reasons we've had so much success with hosting is that our clientele are mainly very small biz clients, many of them on static HTML sites, Wordpress themes, or Magento carts which require very little ongoing maintenance.

I definitely am not trying to argue any of your points, but rather chime in with some of my experience.
For more nostalgia, check out http://www.emulator3000.org/hq.htm. Many many Elektronika simulations in one package (Win/Linux).
Stress can really drive people to make bad decisions.

He should step back, take a breath of fresh air, and then get back to work.
My advice - don't sell.

First, it's hard to put a value on it. It isn't clear than the buyer would make enough revenue to keep up with the expense of keeping it running.

Second, you aren't obligated to respond to everyone who sent you an E-Mail or message. Wait a couple of weeks, and then start looking at them.

Third, you aren't considering user retention. You had 6k unique visitors today. There is no guarantee you will still have 6k unique visitors in a month.

Fourth, as long as your income from ads and payments cover the expenses, leave it running.

Finally, if you do retain an audience of 1k+, now you have a customer base for whenever you launch your next project.
what I meant was use marijuana as a way to control depression. How the hell can killing yourself be better? Obviously they have not smoked good weed.

The article does point this out which I think is also relevant.

“ .. if you do anything, such as smoke a bunch of
marijuana in your 20s and 30s, you may wipe out all of
the inflammation in your brain and then things start
over again. And you simply die of old age before
inflammation becomes an issue for you,” Wenk states.

Nixon's ever lasting war on drugs to distract the world from the ongoing humiliation in Vietnam conflict is the greatest trick the devil has ever pulled.
looks like .5 mg/L from Wikipedia
Hey, I'm Renato.

I really don't know what to do. Many people told me if I hire a team, or at least one developer, this would help me get going with the game. This does make sense.

However I've been extremely stressful for the last hours. I guess this really is a bad decision, but one that would free myself for university and other projects I have.

The problem is I can't stand to spend my whole day working only on Hacker Experience anymore. I already have other projects that I want to work full time with.

Happy to hear any advice from you. I have no experience at all with business, marketing or even start-ups. I'm just a programmer.

Thanks!
Actually, nowhere near "everyone working for Big Pharma" needs to be a sociopath for the industry to act sociopathically. In fact, it can happen with as few as one or even zero sociopaths, since the organization has properties of its own independent of the constituent humans. My favorite exploration of this idea is the TV show "The Wire."
Jonathan LeBlanc of PayPal, Rob Spectre of Twilio, and Neil Mansilla of Mashery are examples of great developer evangelists.

Here is a list of interview questions to ask a developer evangelist candidate:

https://github.com/MurtzaM/Developer-Evangelist-Interview-Qu...
Maybe they should consider using medical marijuana for such patients, it might have some unexpected benefits which seem to be the pattern we see with marijuana as more studies are done on it. Give it chance rather than having them kill themselves in a foreign country where it's better to die than smoke weed.
I hope the schedule interacts with Google Calendar because it would be useful to have it in both places, since my calendar syncs with my phone. Looks useful though.
Betalist (which others mentioned) seems to deliver at least 300ish signups for a generally useful service. Unfortunately my latest project is targeting only Heroku users who need to install SSL [1] so I needed to do something else.

The best thing I found was actually Twitter. I setup a search column in Tweetdeck that would pop an alert on my desktop if anyone tweeted "Heroku" and "SSL" in the same tweet. I'd then just @message them and ask if they'd want to try the alpha (Heroku has strict phases with increasing numbers of users you need to onboard before they'll release the add-on to General Availability).

If someone agreed to be an early tester, I'd try to "upsell" them into taking the time to do a Skype onboarding call with me where I'd just watch them in real time try and add a SSL cert to their app. This was likely the fastest and most productive thing I've ever done to rapidly improve the product, hugely benefical.

1 - https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl
I encourage every one to give a close reading to MIRI & Bostrom, and to avoid any merely shallow critique. They deserve a close reading, and likely have given it consideration.

For a different perspective from Bostrom's see Land's

http://www.xenosystems.net/stupid-monsters/
the fourth one is really impressive.
Placing a metric on something I thought of as subjective is definitely interesting...
That was way too much fun. At the beginning I thought to myself "gee, this is a simple and boring game." And then I played it to a score of 208, haha.

One thing I found interesting while playing was that the game never deals you a losing hand. It got faster, sure, but only one egg is added per step so you always have time to move.
Anti-Marijuana mercenaries operating in the USA
Sort of an aside, but wtf is the car they are using in that video? It looks like a Ford Mondeo with a Bentley hood ornament; otherwise it's the ugliest Bentley I've ever seen.

Did they do that as a joke (including the SANDWCH license plate from the video production company)?
And what suggests that we aren't "in the middle" already? With your hand moisture analogy - for the majority of the population, natural levels of moisture are perfectly fine, and no intervention is required. Perhaps natural levels of lithium are optimal too.

I'd imagine there are many, more complex, factors involved in brain chemistry / mood suppression, so it would be a lot more difficult to determine where this middle lies.

If you're using high suicide rates to suggest we're not in the middle and need more lithium in everyone's water, I'd have to disagree. In the vast majority of cases, a better healthcare system which ensures those who need it are connected with mental health professionals would help nip the problem in the bud. Rather than solving it with these lithium microdoses, causing to those on the verge of suicide to not have the lucidity of emotion to commit to the act, and the rest of the population having their brain chemistry played with too.
Good timing. It happens I'm going to Ashland, OR next week. The town is famous for the Shakespeare Festival (world-class performances) and Lithia Park. The latter is a natural lithium containing mineral water source. It's easy to sample, just a short stroll from the Elizabethan theater, a drinking fountain bubbles up the spring water.

ATM I'm not sure of the exact concentration of the minerals, but from prior years, saying it tastes really bad isn't nearly a strong enough description. Other water supplies containing Li may be quite acceptable, but except for Ashland palatability isn't the main issue.

In the article, the cited concentration of Li at 0.170 mg/L, if referring to Li+ ion alone, the water supply would actually contain ~1/100 of the lowest therapeutic dose of Li. Medicinally Li is provided as the carbonate salt. A minimal dose is 300 mg/day, which contains ~ 30 mg elemental Li. Consuming Li-fortified water 2 L/d -> 0.34 mg Li or >1/100 of low medicinal Li dose .

Of course in nature Li is always in ionic or combined form, but the article didn't give details about Li concentrations, so it muddies the water trying to parse Li effects in any number of ways.

Here in Portland OR, city water is sourced high up near Mt. Hood from condensation of atmospheric water (mist or rain) and piped the short distance to the city. It's basically like distilled water, very low in mineral content. So low in fact, the federal government insists that alkaline minerals are added to the supply since distilled water is acidic and leaches lead from old plumbing.

However, Portland has among the lowest suicide attempt rates in the US. Our neighbor to the north, Seattle WA is among the highest, along with Salt Lake City UT and Dallas TX.
http://socialcapitalreview.org/seattle-region-ranks-2nd-of-3...

Other data would show something different re: suicidal behavior but contradictory data sets are kind of the point.

Li could be a factor but I'm skeptical. We must remain alert to the hazards of drawing conclusions from population-based observational data. In this domain, experimental studies are difficult to design and conduct, but further study to narrow down confounding factors would be useful.

What I do know is water purity is sacred here. The last fluoridation campaign failed by about a 3:1 lopsided vote.

What chance would there be of adding lithium to our water supply? I think it would not be voted in.
There's a hackerspace in Atlanta but I've never been there.

https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Info
>(Try patting your head while rubbing your belly counterclockwise)

What? This was exceedingly easy to do. And I've never heard of this.
Ballpark pricing and schedules. I don't need a video right now, but knowing budgetary figures lets me know when a video is even a viable option for something.
probably closer to $50k
One I wasn't aware of. Thanks.
We run it on iSCSI LUNs straight from our SAN so this hasn't been an issue for us.
Indeed, this should be changed. The root is 2048 bits, but it's still unacceptable to issue 1024-bit certificates.
How to come out the closet
Sorry for the late reply here, It feels like NPM's package mirrors go down almost every week and often for hours at a time. The whole thing feels thrown together - even the output from the installer colours successful commands as RED so when you are watching a build you think 'Oh crap somethings broken! - oh no, wait it's just NPM again...'
Holy shit, people. The point of this product is not to enable tweeting. Did you miss the ever-present navigation hud?

This is a good product. Don't you use nav? What's better: Looking at your nav screen pinned to the dash or in the console; looking down at the phone in your lap, because you know you can't be seen holding it; or looking at the road with augmented information?

If you think HUDs are more dangerous than squinting at road signs or reading maps, then you can petition your legislators to make it illegal. I'm all for it, though, because I know the alternatives are worse.
If the host kernel is compromised (where I assume SELinux is running in this scenario) wouldn't that render SELinux itself suspect. It seems like SELinux's integrity must be dependent on that of its own kernel, or have I misunderstood the scenario you describe ?
No, I did read the article, and the premise is amusingly stupid. The message is not the messenger.
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I really enjoy this theme of a struggle to communicate or make sense of non-Earth origin life. You mention the Solaris really changed your views of the universe. I highly recommend Diaspora by Greg Egan or Blindsight by Peter Watts if you haven't already read them.

Diaspora fundamentally changed my view of life and the universe.
Sorry for the very late reply here. We feel that Sentinels are clearly an afterthought, hacked on the side of Redis to tick the failover box. My main pain point is that they actively re-write their config files kept in /etc which is appalling behavior - especially if you want to manage your configuration file with some sort of automation such as puppet. The actual failover process is slow no matter how you tune it and because of this the window for error is high during this time. Data loss with Redis failover seems not only inevitable but also probable.