skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will watch Disney movies with my wife who has epilepsy and suffers from not knowing where she is or what's going on after a seizure. She's seen them all a ton, for the first time a long time ago, and they're easy to follow and non-stressful. They're also distracting enough she won't keep realizing she just had a seizure and burst into tears (and then forgetting again 5 minutes later and repeating the process).
Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted
This is why a lot of cognitive psychologists study abnormal psychology. It's when things break that you can find out what's going on.

I do think being able to blank things out (including times of immense pain) is a feature that increases survival rather than a bug. If you are excessively afraid, your ability to pass on your genes goes down.
Earnest question: Have you used a monoid?

I know my original comment is sort of bratty, and I was confusing monoids with monads, which... is a different functional thing that people apparently use?

It feels like mon(a/oi)ds are a concept that gets regularly explained on various blog posts. I read/skim the blog post and don't understand what they are or how they're useful (which is clearly on me). And then I read the comments, and they're split between some folks saying "I still don't get it" and others saying, "Yeah, these are common, easier than you think, and incredibly useful in Haskell/Scala/Clojure/F#/whatever". And then the world moves on, and the cycle repeats the next month. It doesn't seem like the number of people who say "I still don't get it" ever goes down. Which is why the comment about how they're not happening.
Your comment's emphasis of the "3 hours a year" tells the reader that you have a "deal-breaker threshold" with respect to this, which is tied to the value of the "number of hours per year" parameter.

(But of course, your threshold is at the optimal sweet spot value, between "fool" and "inhuman").
The difference between 'good' and 'bad' cultures is that a 'good' culture was curated so as to remove founder traits that do not increase the company's chance of success.
1) Why do you imply this is a 'failure mode'? You're imposing a very rigid perspective by using that term.

2) People are being abused at this very moment, it's not something that has only occurred in 'ancient times'.
I really enjoyed reading about Storm too: http://nathanmarz.com/blog/history-of-apache-storm-and-lesso...

This kind of "competition" leads to analysis paralysis though. Its much better when there is a single winner...
Law of unintended consequences?

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/15/pbdes-and-neurodev...

edit I didn't notice but zerocrates had already pointed this out.
The chart is a cumulative chart to hide the fact that the source data is only eight data points from various blogs. That's very sleazy and borderline misleading because it creates an extrapolation as mentioned in the comment above.

If you are interested in making this a series, use robust data, or don't do it at all.

Additionally, an area chart is the incorrect type of chart for this kind of graph, since the area under the curve does not represent the total number of users. (You'd use an area chart of the y-axis is number of new users.) A line chart would be more accurate.
"but I can tell things like when people are BSing, how tough they are, if they get along, and surprisingly often, considering I only have 10 minutes to observe them, whether they're good people or not."

How do you know you have this ability and it's not just bias? I really don't mean this as snark, but increasingly more research confirms that humans far overestimate their abilities in this area. In my own case, as I've grown older I've come to realize that I'm not nearly as good a judge of character as I thought I was in my early 20s. So, again, not snark, but how do you know? Have you set up a control group?
A lot of that $2B cost comes from requirement that everything should just work, and therefore thoroughly tested, because customers don't want to have it broken in space where no one can fix things and have to send another one... which costs $2B... see cyclical reasoning? If launches would be cheaper, customers could afford to make less expensive payloads - after all, if it breaks, they can just send another one.

A primary reason why payloads are so expensive is because launch services - used to be - so expensive. With lowering the launch price payloads can become cheaper.
The business model for the self-driving car is a computer-scheduled, dynamically-provisioned taxi service cheap enough that nobody needs to own a car in the city. Because self-driving cars don't need to park (they can just move on to the next assignment or deprovision), if they catch on then in-city parking decks can be redeveloped into business space or park space.
Exactly. We're painfully aware of our mistakes.
Since the page makes a big deal about how powerful it is, I didn't think it would be the smallest one.
To be clear: I spent about half an hour working on updating things for head Rust. But when a language changes as much as Rust does, at some point, if you haven't kept up with it, it's basically impossible to update, it's simply easier to nuke it and start all over. This is why we have always recommended that people use the nightlies rather than the releases, because even upgrading per-point release is quite difficult. Not only that, since it's unclear which version of Rust this even compiles with, it's not as if I could install an old Rust and submit particular, concrete improvements for a Rust of that vintage. Starting over from scratch _is_ a concrete improvement, because it's the actual best path to moving forward in this particular case.

Have I mentioned how much I can't wait until 1.0.0 actually ships?
Skinfer – a tool for inferring JSON Schemas
Great to read more about startups from jl! Please keep posting, maybe you could split subjects across several posts next time and have more room for specific stories (if you can share them).

What are the most common types of "startup shitshows" that YC sees besides cofounder disputes? Which are unrecoverable?
Also, just moving to a place with a better per capita income doesn't mean you will suddenly have that higher income; the whole reason certain places have a higher income than others is because there are high skill, high paying jobs in the area. Moving to the area doesn't suddenly give you the skills needed to get that high paying job. In addition, the cost of living is going to be higher in a place with a higher per capita income, so you need that higher paying job just to be able to afford to live there.
I would guess the issue with this is a lack of working short term memory. You could show her but she's not going to retain the information. By the time she saw photos in the story you just read, the worst of her episode had passed and she was returning back to normal. The issue is likely more to do with confusion and not understanding surroundings more than it has to do with not knowing who he is.
The mass grave underneath a supermarket: Extraordinary Paris burial pit found
Uber buys a mapping company
> About 10,000 people are killed each year in drunk driving accidents in the US. 30,000 a year die from falls.

That number is highly biased towards the elderly. "Falls" are basically another kind of "died of old age". If you exclude people over 55, you get about:

- ~6,700 deaths from drunk driving

- 2,459 from falls

If you look at all driving fatalities (because we fleshy humans can be impaired by more than alcohol and often make mistakes), you have

- 25,499 deaths

Cars are deathtraps.
Unhappy Meal: €1B in Tax Avoidance on the Menu at McDonald’s
How to block autocomplete of passwords in modern browsers?
Depends on the part/alter. Some have a different image of themselves and wouldn't recognize "themselves" in the picture. Some may think you're trying to trick them.
(Article 18 UDHR)

And how do you propose to enforce that right?
Hey this is Josh, the other Outbound founder. Good question, sandstrom. The key difference with Customer.io (other than SMS and mobile push) is that we're built on your event stream: we use events to send messages but also to tell you what effect each message you send has on customer actions inside your product.
This is a good article. It presents a provocative idea, exploring the use of CSS in clever and not obvious ways.

It's sort of but not really "hackish" because he uses perfectly legitimate, if relatively obscure features of CSS, things we ought to know but haven't studied enough.

The result is an elegant approach to responsive design. Templates and other tools no doubt use such approaches under the hood. A few lines of CSS doing the job without having to drag along the bloat of a framework is a very good result.

Having the knowledge to directly apply CSS to achieve design goals is enormously powerful and worth learning about.
But why are they so uncivilized? The main mission, supplying medicines in the face of oppressive government regulations, is a noble one, one that people can get behind. Just look how the alcohol gangsters of the 20s are idolized.

If they were focused on the core mission of delivering and only killing people as needed, they'd probably have a stack of resumes metres deep. I'm sure Silk Road had its pick of candidates if it needed to hire for a sysadmin position. And you can always remind people you'll kill their families if they snitch.

Is it just a shitty cultural thing? Or is there an actual plan behind being savages and basically making the entire world think they're just untamed animals?
> Let's look further at this short selling behavior as it scales.

I'm not talking about general short selling. I'm talking about this specific case.

He discovered the company was a fraud, shorted the stock, and then exposed it. That stock had to be sold, to someone else, for the short to be profitable. This means he knowingly participated in the scam.
I think (I'm no neuro-*) that one of the things that make the brain so hard to understand is that a lot of the things that a brain is capable of doing could very well be just a side effect or emergent behavior, instead of something that's actually "architectured" (if that even means something..) or designed to do that.

Maybe that applies here and so only the emergent behavior was disrupted instead of actually a "piece" of the system?
Its really not a video for her benefit. I hope it will keep her attention and calm her down, but I really believe there is the possibility of getting shot by some bystander and believe a video on her phone might calm the situation an allow people time to think.
But if you install Wireshark does it capture traffic on the LAN (ie that doesn't begin or end with the current PC). I never had any luck with that on Windows.
As mentioned in this link, 10 months ago, they had let go of three of their mods, including LobsterMitten (who is coming back onboard):

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/23245/State-of-MetaFilter
The Oculus guy was killed by some gangsters on the run from police, so your theory is unlikely.
It would be great to have the note kept in sync with the comments section on a file/folder when you Get Info on it so it's easily passed along to others. But i'm not sure if that supports formatting/bullets, etc.

Currently if a file is moved around, does it keep the note? Can you add a note to any URL, or only ones you've bookmarked?

Very slick looking and great idea, i'll be buying
It's a sad day for Mefi but Matt is such a great guy and deserves his break. The mod team is very strong and I have no doubt that Mefi will continue to kick ass in the future.

It's impossible to sum up just how much Mefi means to me but thanks for everything, Matt. Really.
Alibaba to Open Data Center in Silicon Valley
Yeah, like Google is into much more than advertising now. Taking out drug money would be a massive crimp in their style. In fact, I'd be surprised if it wouldn't pretty much destroy their style, and suggestions to the contrary are just given by the government to continue the drug war.
Monands are fairly mandatory in a lot of functional programming for I/O, most of the time you don't realise your using them.
Garbage article. There are no "brain enhancers", only stimulants, both commonly used (coffee, tea etc) and pharmaceutical (amphetamines et al). Look up Bacopa on examine.com, specifically the studies on Memory Enhancement. For the ones with participants in the target (aka non-old) group of 18-45, it's about 50-50. After supplementing over several months.
Now that I think about it, I could have used implicit converters to make it look more like Python, but that would probably lead to confusion.
> Are there any lessons you have learned from existing language projects that use this process such as PEP (Python) and JEP (Java)?

Nothing that I can think of that's particularly insightful. Just the basics that, yes, people want to be involved, and that it takes a good amount of effort—technical, mental, and social—to get a proposal to the state that it needs to be in to land in the language.

> Personally, I like the fact that you have them in Github so it's easy to tag, comment, revise, etc.

Thank you! I have to give credit to a team-member who suggested this, but I really really like this model. It lets each proposal be its own little mini-ecosystem and, I hope, should make it easier for multiple people to collaborate on a proposal.
Not that it's any more or less tragic, but I've always been astonished that Silicon Valley is so car-dependent. We've concentrated the most brilliant minds in the world in this small area... and then force everyone to pilot two-ton bullets to pick up groceries?

Not all workers can demand decent living conditions, but you'd think the competitive draw for workers in Silicon Valley would entice company towns to, I don't know, add segregated bike lanes so programmers' kids can get to school safely. Add public parks and dense housing so you can walk down to the corner coffee store or take your dog for a walk. Ban cars from certain streets to encourage local commerce and nightlife. SOMETHING.

Google's at least trying to improve Mountain View with their new campus (and Apple is very much not trying to improve Cupertino). But what the hell. An international group of wealthy geniuses can't get it together enough to demand marginally walkable lifestyles?

And people wonder why everyone commutes from San Francisco.
> Does anyone really believe that today's Internet has improved our ability to winnow truth from misinformation, disinformation, and plain ignorance?

Yes, you'd have to be completely insane not to think that.

It's by far not 100%, and it will never be, however in many parts good high quality information is available that would otherwise be unattainable to the average person. This effect is also amplified the smaller and more remote the community is that you live in.

My parents live in a small town in germany, and they rely a lot on me to get basic information about things like operation procedures they will be undergoing, diet advice both in the form of explanations of basic structuring, as well as studies about snake oil products they get offered, prices and quality of random pieces of hardware or technology they see, and the efficacy of gardening advice and tools they get told about by other people in the town.

That article reminds me a lot of the old adage that people who begin sentences with "Actually," should rather not be speaking.
(int) Addition, (int) Multiplication, String Concatenation, AND, OR, XOR? I think I can say that I've used all of these.

I find this is a bit of a nicer treatment of monoids (still F#): http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/monoids-without-tears...
You can think of schizophrenia as a hardware problem and of DID as a software issue (not bug, but maybe mis-configuration?). With high enough trauma (and applied early enough, while the brain is still developing) anybody could develop DID; some are more prone than others of course.
But there's not a single case, there's 100% leak prevention. You'd think at least one family would have fled and made it known. Nobody but dead men run opsec that tight, right?
That will reveal the false positives, but not the false negatives.
Proof of Concept.

You are on to something with the display/search. Maybe sell to newegg?

I think a valuable approach would be semi-automated import of data from various sites (write some adapters) and then have a manual check/proof stage before it makes it into the live system. One thing I noticed, is that some stuff is refurb or on the end of the product cycle where the value gets a whole lot better. It would be cool to know what the price of an item over time is and how likely it is to be discontinued [0] . Like the refurb samsung tablets or the lenovo [1] ones.

The next step is to scrape reviews (forum posts xda, amazon, newegg, etc) of each item and roll them up into something meaningful using sentiment analysis.

[0] guess they are broken now http://camelegg.com/products?pc=Tablet+PC+-+Tablets

[1] Might add, http://outlet.lenovo.com/outlet_us/
This isn't quite fair - it's not so much that it's horrible to say, but that it's easy to say when you aren't emotionally invested in the relationship. Nobody would criticize someone who jumped ship if this episode happened on a first okcupid date. There's a reason this subject didn't come up in their conversation for eight months, and I don't blame her for that.

On the other hand, I know a guy who was about to break up with girl when she got a cancer diagnosis. He stayed with her for years, miserable, because he didn't want to be that schmuck.

Relationships are complex. It's poor form to criticize someone who stays, but also poor form to criticize someone who leaves - there's a lot more going on than just one issue, even if it is a big one.
Yes, you would have to have some sort of questionnaire for the user to complete, along the lines of the TurboTax wizards or legal document assembly software, with questions based on the algorithm's analysis of the contract. I didn't see anything like that on the website, but it is certainly doable. At the moment, the website is only accepting residential real estate contracts which is why I used them as an example.

As a member of the State Bar of California, I can only wish it acted as a guild protecting my interests. Quite the contrary, it has an adversarial relationship with its members from overseeing the attorney discipline system to enforcing continuing education rules. It is more about consumer protection than attorney protection. I see your point, though.
Can you give more specific examples of "We all dissociate, but to a much lesser degree". Looks interesting to do more googling on that, but I have no keywords.
> you stupid :-)

Obviously he was making the exact same point you are, but because he makes it with some subtlety, he's the dumb one?

In any case, there's no real evidence that Americans are significantly less smart than members of any other country: http://www.photius.com/rankings/national_iq_scores_country_r...

All countries are made up of people, and all people are basically the same.
My credit card company allows me to configure email alerts. Kind of nice actually.
In computerland, technologies trickle up. The PC, the iPhone started out at home, found a niche in business, and then took over.

With cycling, innovations trickle down from the top. Starting out with a flat-bar hybrid is not starting at the top, and seems like a really weird choice. Hybrids are marketed to beginners, or mountain bike people who want to train on the road with the same hand position they ride off-road.

Sofware may be "eating the world," but Asian manufacturing has been eating the cycling market for 40 years. Shimano, specifically, is a far more profitable business than any of the branding companies or manufacturers. If you aren't going after Shimano, you're fighting for scraps.
Judge OKs $415M settlement in tech workers' lawsuit
30,000 is a pretty shocking number. There's a lot of work on falls prevention in UK health and social care. The prognosis for someone over 65 who falls over is not great, especially if they break a bone in the fall.

There's some interestin brain stuff going on for some of it. A person with failing vision (and dementia can cause some loss of vision even though the eyes and optic nerve work fine) will learn the layout of their home. A care worker comes in once a day and moves something? That person falls over.

Someone from my local MH trust realised that people with dementia in hospital could not see (because dementia) the zimmer frames and weren't using them. He painted them red. This means people can see them (red is one of the last colours to go) and thus they use them. This simple measure has reduced falls and the associated deaths and injuries.
Redmond, Washington isn't in Silicon Valley...
Startup Advice from House of Cards’ Frank Underwood
This was in Orange County (oculus guy)
When the cartels have state-level resources, at one point do we stop treating them like criminals and start treating them like enemy states?
Downvoting doesn't always mean you did anything wrong, it can mean you have incorrect information and the comment being gray is there to warn people.
She has a mental disorder. Steven Novella, a clinical neurologist, explains quite nicely the difference between disease and disorders: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/adhd-is-real/
Ask HN: Can you teach yourself systems design?If so, what are the best resources?
yeah, not wanting to die is probably enough incentive for whoever replaced the last guy who found a cartel.
Monads have become a borderline buzzword these days. You're obviously the expert on Rust here, but it feels like it would be sufficient to just call it errors-as-values.
You appear to have a superficial view of character. Looks and awkwardness don't equate to, neither do they correlate with, a person's character (moral qualities). The 3 can occur in any combination and a person can perceive poor character from each combination.
Sometimes one can feel it as a headache or inability to stay present. At other times it can be instant.
No nationality means no identity or rights at all.

I don't think any of us here knows what that means.
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