skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'll pardon my diagnosing you over the internet, you sound very depressed. I've been there and it's difficult to deal with, but not impossible.

For one thing, you've got to take a step back and realize that you're distorting things quite a bit. For example -- "I have to lie ... to sell myself". You need to focus on your strengths, for sure, in an interview -- everyone does. But that's not the same as lying, and thinking of it that way is turning it into an all-or-nothing proposition. Either you are a perfect, all-knowing software deity, or you are a liar pretending to be competent while hoping not to be discovered. These kinds of all-or-nothing scenarios, and other distortions, are very easy to fall into when you're depressed. Or so I've read, and confirmed in myself and others diagnosed with depression.

In any case I would suggest that your first step (as in, today) be to hunt up a therapist or psychiatrist. After all what is there to lose by doing so? It's a challenge in and of itself, so you might mentally make room for the possibility that it might take a few tries to find someone who gets you. Also http://devpressed.com/ might be worth a look. But this thread, and that site, should be in addition to talking to a mental health professional. I'm not a doctor, I think you should talk to one.

Good luck, and if you want to talk, email me (in profile).

EDIT: I see xaa has also recommended you talk to a professional. I'll echo some of their advice, particularly that part of the challenge is the same as most doctors -- you're going to have to be the expert on your own case. That doesn't mean you have to do everything alone, but you have to recognize that they're going to stick with a standard playbook, and you'll need to advocate for yourself and work to discover what works for you and what doesn't. Also agree that therapy/psychiatry isn't a cure -- it's a mental tool box. But it can be a very powerful one. Best of luck!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_cell

The has energy come from somewhere. In an electrochemical battery, it comes from chemical reactions with the electrodes, which consume the electrode material.
I don't understand what advantage does this bring over a small tank or something with caterpillar if they were used in a war? Caterpillar seems to be more effective than legs, especially in dirty environments of a war. Can somebody explain that to me?
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It's not that people accept the radical arguments, it's that they subconsciously shift your emotional reaction to less radical arguments to make them seem more reasonable.
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A single AGM-114 Hellfire missile costs over $100k, on top of the costs of arming and launching an aircraft for sortie. I have to think a Spot-derived, four-legged land-missile that can be launched from a truck would be price-competitive.
The code is open source, so you could
Absent cost and energy storage / delivery data, this is 1) noninformative and 2) bordering on gullibility marketing.

Yes, galvanic cells work. No, they're not magic. No, the salt water doesn't "power" the solution (it enables electron flow between cathode and anode).

It's also not a rechargeable process, though it's possible to recycle the cathode/anode, generally.

Solar power or other storage cell technology would be of similar use.
I received one as well.
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> Arguments virtually never convince anyone, so this is all a moot point.

I would tend to agree with you that when two people are arguing, there is very little chance that one will convince the other. However, one of the things I like to do on HN is read arguments between two informed people on a topic in which I myself an uninformed and unopinionated. So for my personal benefit I would urge the people of HN to keep arguing. And to cite your sources.
People forget that Kennedy's actual request was:
First - "before this decade is out, is landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth"

Second - "acceleate development of the Rover nuclear rocket"

Third - "accelerate the use of satellites for world wide communications"

Fourth - "a satellite system for world wide weather observation"

Too bad we only got 3 out of 4 and are still stuck with cans of flammable mud.
> My guess is (based on his past statements) that he doesn't browse the web, or browses it through emacs sending mail to him (really!)

Just FYI, pg described his browsing setup at one point a few years ago, and it was actually fairly similar.

(It was in a follow-up comment to "Disconnecting Distraction", if I remember correctly. I don't do it myself, but it can be a great way to force yourself to be productive and only read the things you really want to read, instead of getting sucked into aimless browsing. When you think about it, it's really just a poor man's version of Pocket or Instapaper.)
They said ocean water is 35g salt per 1000g of solution.
http://www.salt.ph/

Urine is 40 mEq/L which is approximately 2.3g per 1000g of solution.
http://www.healthline.com/health/sodium-urine#NormalResults5
http://www.elephantcare.org/millequi.htm
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-milligram.htm

This puts you at 6.6% capacity or 31.5min of light.
I've never had issues with intents on Firefox for android, including in the play store. If there are issues, then users of Firefox chose to take them on. Who knows, maybe they value their software freedoms more than the ability to open a link in a different app.
Where I learned to program: http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/man/pics/vic20man.jpg
>I dont understand the compat-centric decisions being made for major version changes

Compatibility is the only thing PHP has going for it right now. It feels like the only PHP apps out there are 'legacy' ones, new projects are written in newer stuff.
It was published on an Android fan site but didn't identify a specific developer:

http://www.androidcentral.com/heres-whats-google-play-store-...
Great.. Just watched this youtube video Energy from Salt water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMdS65_E_X4
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Web browsers have nifty features like tabs. The official Google Play Store app doesn't. This is a common problem with standalone apps actually.
I do not disagree, my hope is that, as with other technologies, especially dual use ones, we will be able to keep them biased toward the positive uses.

Robotics, like genetic engineering, nano-technology, and data mining can do good things and bad things. It is important to focus on the good things, remain cognizant of the bad things, and maximize the value. I would be sad to see robotic quadrapeds "banned for civilian use" because they can be weaponized, because they can also get to people in need in dangerous and hard to reach places.

In a more current events sort of way, I am in favor of severe punishments for people who weaponize drones and fly them in public places, or people who manufacture and sell such drones, but I am not in favor of banning personal ownership of drones. I am willing to risk that someone will show up where I am with such a device, and the risks to my personal safety if they employ it in a deadly way, in exchange for the freedom to own and experiment with drones in a responsible way.
Very narrow minded and ignorant, typical of a certain type of developers. Video game development has contributed volumes to algorithm optimization, physics and physics approximation, computer graphics, design, industrial design, astrophysics, etc. Virtually every field of computer science.
Writing procedures in TSQL seems much more natural since it's so close to bog-standard SQL. Here's the body of a procedure that returns multiple result sets in TSQL:

SELECT Id, Name FROM dbo.AppType;
SELECT Id, AppTypeId, Name FROM dbo.App;

With pgsql you have to use `RETURN QUERY` and both tables have to have the same column definition. If you want to do this in Postgre, you have to resort to using a completely different programming language such as Javascript via plv8 as you mentioned.

The code to do the above in Javascript is not as straight forward. All of a sudden, you have to know a completely new object model which you then use to prepare and execute statements or control cursors. The code to return multiple results is no longer straight-forward SQL-like code...it's Javascript.

Other languages can be executed in the MSSQL process too though, if that route is preferential. .NET languages are the standard there, but C++ can be used and even Node via Edge.js.
From the description:

Spot is a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated.
Anyone who thinks io.js has "won" is a) living in the tech bubble and b) missing the point of the fork.

The community at large is unconcerned about io.js, they are developing for node.js because that's how they (we) all make money. Node was in no danger for that fact alone.

The winner here is the open source community. We now have 2 excellent options: a beta for the bleeding edge, stability for the enterprise, and forward progress for both.

ES6 is great, but for anyone who wants to write isomorphic code without a lot of pain in compilers, is limited by browser adoption. Expect that to be at least 3 years out, during which node will continue to succeed.
I put a lengthy response here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9028669
> That assumes a company writing its own closed-source software is capable of keeping up with an entire community. If that were the case, we'd have had a proprietary version of the Linux kernel long ago, and it'd have completely replaced Linux in all the areas where Linux currently thrives.

Uh, yes, that's one of the reasons the license itself doesn't make much of a difference. If you want to fork the Linux kernel and not give back -- and companies do that in our world -- you'll quickly learn that the license is the least of your problems with regard to staying up to date.

> Also, assuming the case that Open Source is more efficient, some of us don't want to wait around for inefficient closed-source-based companies to fold, because they can use the large savings they're sitting on to take a very long time thrashing around and doing damage before dying or adapting.

That's a valid point. Then again, reciprocal licenses are based on the assumption that, fundamentally, they'll get faster results with legal action (or threatened legal action) than the results you can expect from the the added costs of running a fork of an open source project. When your first cease and desist letter works, that's true. Then again, the IBM vs. SCO fiasco showed how long it can take to get vindication from the courts.

> ESR's type-A and type-B universes both presuppose free markets and perfect market efficiency. There's a difference between wanting that and assuming that it's already the case.

You don't have to have perfect market efficiency. Thinking about how things would work in a perfect world is often useful for understanding the imperfect world we actually do live in. The world we live in does involve a very impersonal market that will relentlessly tell you when you're in the wrong business, or trying to do something in a silly way. People have an ability to ignore the market's message, but it certainly exists.
I don't really get feeling bad about kicking the robot, must just be that it looks so much like an animal. Speaking from military experience I can say being able to kick it out of the way is extremely useful, it may be between me and the closest cover from enemy fire, or it might be about to step on a mine or IED.

Looks very promising, hopefully future versions can come with built in light armor. That would be a dream come true for many grunts out there, letting a robot carry your extra supplies and also provide cover from small arms and shrapnel.
Game developers also belong to that group of people who squeeze work out of every cycle. Less than 18 months ago, two of the most commonly used devices contained:
512MB dedicated RAM (with 10MB of VRAM) (xbox 360) and
256MB RAM and 256MB VRAM (PS3)

alongside very aged processors. The hardware was almost 10 years old in both cases. Even the current gen aren't particularly powerful, coming in at 8GB ram with a 1.75GHz processor, and a GPU comparable to a 3-4 year old PC for the xbox one, and 1.6GHz processors, 8GB ram and a slightly beefier GPU in the case of the PS4.
Google broke Youtube with IE mobile years ago by simply refusing to serve up HTML5 to it. It's just the way they do business.

Relevant items on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=youtube%20windows%20phone&sort...
Generally It's not enough to live on. However there is a thriving black market, prostitution or just "hooking up" with wealthy foreigners is common. For example a bartender at a resort will likely have his/her own bottle of alcohol behind the counter and sell that while pocketing the cash, later when they check the alcohol everything lines up for drinks sold vs revenue but the bartender skimmed $x in revenue off the top. Underground capitalism/entrepreneurship is how people get by (risking serious jail time daily).
My thought as well. And a vastly more interesting conversation to have.

My sense is that with ubiquitous WiFi and IP based protocols, I can ditch my Smartphone for most uses, and with it the massive amounts of intrusion and data surveillance it represents. A small "feature phone" (with vastly superior battery performance) for general comms, and functioning as a modem in a pinch, with a tablet that's used in a cache-and-burst mode most of the time, and with more continuous connectivity where that's available.

Mobile phone operators are well on the way to making themselves obsolete.
Hey, we talked about this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9027332
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What can I say? our bots just really hit it off.
So is "jesus", and that doesn't seem to be true here. I find this list highly dubious, compared to others I've seen (and, long ago, obtained myself.)
I'm not supporting the idea that we should police what people are saying or limit their freedom, I don't condone that.

However I do think there's a place for civil discussion and the idea that we're a social species attempting to all understand each-other, what each-other experience in life, and how we can all interact in a way that's collaborative is extremely important to our collective improvement, I think.

So sure, say whatever you want to say, that's your own right but it will inevitably cut you off or out of the collaborative environment some people desire to be a part of and work hard to create, that is if what you say isn't shaped in such a way to honor and respect other people's own individual experiences and preferences.

My words were intended to be a reminder and not to be taken as policing (even if I wanted to, I can't!)

I firmly believe personal desires and preferences can be freely expressed in a manner that honors the person holding them and also honors the possibly different preferences and desires of other people.
Show HN: Taking snapshots of the active processes in your system
I wonder what new features will they unveil soon. Because this professional video suggest it's a serious project.
Technically, you can't know if the code running in the piñata is the same as the one published on Github.
Narrow and egocentric view of the situation. This is not about developer (your) freedom (to use, to change, to gain over) but is about user freedom. Do a little research about RMS's history and what he defends instead of just reading some (context) limited mailing postings to have your conclusions.
Hah! All I know is that I haven't.
Or the dogs are encased in a rectifying antennas and they say "yumm! recharge time!" The whole point of weaponizing something is to make it resistant to the more obvious attack strategies :-).
Is it a GIS application?
This is a small perl program that I wrote to draw the active processes in a GNU system.

Text is in spanish, but you don't really need it to grasp the idea. Just take a look at the figures or, if you want, play a little with the code. Before to use it you will need to have installed graphviz and libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl

This can be used to 1) play and learn about how programs interact in a gnu system, 2) discover the programs that are "memory eaters" and 3) be able to take quick snapshots of your system and save it in several pdfs if the computer starts to go slow for any reason.

Of course you will only be able to drawn the processes that you own. As root you can see the whole thing.
We could have an open, user-controlled, ad-free Facebook
Yeah, but also AJAX.
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No, I still think there's a sexist tone, but I will concede that it's more crass than sexist.
Isn't this the type of scenario HIPAA is supposed to cover?
Apparently if you open a link to the Play Store, Firefox just opens it normally and lets you reopen it in the app if that's what you want, rather than immediately dumping you into the app and randomly breaking stuff like tab support in the process.
What photo would you seed the algorithm with? As in, do you have a preference for facial features? a Tinder for the blind population would be pretty awesome.

If everyone was forced to take a 3d photograph (MS kinect scan maybe?), the algorithm would work even better.
Yup, you're right. Featured + advertisers found on gun forums should solve it.

Time for me to think/ask an advertiser about what he wants (i.e. ability to login and see impression/click counts, etc.) and what the CPM rate(s) should be.

I appreciate the time you took to think through that.
I recall reading that hyphenated domains were penalised on Google but I have no idea if this is still true.
http://jquery.com/browser-support/

jQuery 2.x dropped support for <= IE8.
Preserving arcade games [video]
The Baroque Cycle is an undertaking, since my first read of it I have moved on to the audio books, subway listening being easier than subway reading.

Cryptonomicon I am at about 15 reads (including audio book listens a few more), and maybe a handful for Snow Crash, Anathem and Reamde.

My book of choice for re-reading is Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, by Jeffrey Archer. I must be at 50 re-reads of that now, and I own two first editions. Strange what catches your mind!
>The offense tied to Brown's "linking" was dismissed

This masks the scary reality that someone was indicted, arrested, and prosecuted for posting a link (not to mention that it was dismissed as part of a plea - not for lack of legal merit). While in this case there were other charges as well, there didn't have to be - all of the same pre-trial horrors (including possible detention without bail) could have occurred with only that charge. The fact that such a charge may eventually be dismissed/beaten at trial after your life is burnt to the ground for posting a link is little comfort.
It's not. It's a scam; the battery is the metal.
The full size military one, known as LS3 (Legged Squad Support System) which is now undergoing field tests can carry several soldier's packs, so it should be able to carry a person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr-wBpYpSfE
Also a simple mantrap would snap it's leg or at least make it impossible to walk further
So, yes, you're clearly right. The appearance of publicly visible places is public information - anyone can go get it, and nobody can legally stop them.

But there is definitely a meaningful difference between searching on Google and travelling to someone's home. In particular, travelling to someone's home is a symmetric relationship - if one has a security camera, one can see everyone who has visited.
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It'll happen because China, India, Brazil, Africa etc will face new problems at a new scale that YC are physically and culturally too removed from.
most important question I can think to ask is, is the anode field replacable with a commonly available item or is it special order?

if its field replacable then you've really got something remarkable.
Try just doing

sudo discoveryutil udnsrestartquestions

instead. The one time I had DNS issues (only once!), I ran that command and all of my DNS issues immediately resolved themselves.
catching up? io.js is waaaaay ahead of node both in terms of features and community engagement
I appreciate what you're saying but even then, the data you infer this way (apart from the breach itself) is highly suspect. I don't think you really get a view for how much it costs to break and time is a poor proxy.

It's really worth reading Schneier's comments on security contests. https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/1215.html...
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I see the misunderstanding. When I say "contribute code freely" I mean "without restriction."

You are certainly aware that the vast majority of code is under strict restrictions and will be leveraged for competitive/controlling purposes rather than being shared. Employees wishing to freely contribute code in these domains will have their requests denied.

We've both been employed by large SV companies; we both know how this works. The majority of software will be used in an attempt to control the market.
I've no doubt memory is slow, taking up to 100-300 cycles in NUMA systems. But a single threaded server accessing local memory won't may those costs as much. Are you saying that a few random memory accesses are slower than sending and receiving a packet on two machines?

Redis has a great position as a persistent, shareable, data structure server, but replacing in memory hashtables where they work doesn't seem like one of those cases.
It's not easy working in a hostel. No desks, often a party atmosphere, and 20 backpackers sharing a single wifi connection.
Well, you need to correct this a bit.

Anthem will not be emailing individuals, but apparently will be sending a snail-mail packet of information including an offer for credit-monitoring services. And they have been contacting, via email, the benefits/HR people of client companies which used Anthem for group health plans for their employees.

(that all comes via my employer, which has been sending me updates about this)
I'm not surprised. I've never actually gotten replication groups and access control to work properly with MongoDB. So I gave up and relied on network/firewall-level security. I guess some people don't even bother with that.
I'll bite. It's because the HN community is by and large composed of highly skilled individuals that often work way up the food chain in these tech companies. Even if they don't directly, they very likely know someone who does.

It's not just Stripe, it's Twitter, Facebook, Google.

... and if nothing else, because it works. Look at this thread, he's been working on this problem for 6 weeks. He posted here, and got semi-public apology and a direct cell no. for a person who can help in less than 2 hours.

I think it's amazing, and I really enjoy seeing threads like this.