skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think depression may stem from the feeling of helplessness.

Being forced to perform meaningless tasks (because that's high school), having absolutely no power and control over your own life, and probably vitamin D deficient too from being cooped up inside all the time studying.

You could say many teenagers are already predispose to depression during these turbulent years. Their mind isn't completely prepared quite yet and having tyrants run your life doesn't help.

This trend of overemphasis on STEM education and grueling test prep in an effort to game the system started with Asian societies and it's slowly spreading to upper-middle class in western society.

I don't think the true upper class ever cared much for STEM education (legacy admission, "donation", MBA, ...).

This is not really a good path to go down. Not all of us were meant to be engineers and doctors.

Just look East and you will catch a glimpse of the future.
Massive youth unemployment, many of them overeducated.
Japan is dominated with contract workers. Korea has their "880000 Won generation".

Yea, their suicide rate is high. The problem is, everyone wants a piece of the dream and we can't all have it (or maybe we can?). They import manual labor from SE Asia just like we do with illegal immigrants here in the States.

With no hope of moving out on such meager wages, you'll have resentment and withdrawal from society. Is it any wonder that their birthrate is going down?

I feel like any technological advancement we come up with would still not be enough to overcome this problem. Mainly because the people with the power to make the change have every incentive not to do so.

Humans are imperfect. Human society will always be imperfect. The rift is a part of our genetic and the majority of humans will always be chained to indenture servitude. In a way, all this madness will always be a part of us.
Are there any actual studies on this kind of diet yet? I feel this author's anecdotal experiences are colored by other changes in his life style.
> With the right tone and body language, people just open up. It's wonderful.

Also, your boss might be genuinely curious. A lot of people who employ this technique precompute trajectory for arriving at their conclusion. They're often right, but the times when they're wrong are really interesting.

Bottom line - I agree with you. Don't be condescending, because you might learn something from the people around you. :)
Hey Man. I'll review yours if you do the same for Mine? :) although you may be a bit closer to release.

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-> net-net I was tempted to download it. But didn't look much past the closed beta.
- how long till I know if/when I get approved,etc.

-> the one thing that left me wondering was why is it better? Is it more thoughtful, can it cross post,etc. seems like it minges all the streams together,vs separate tabs for each. I guess having one view for all my personas makes sense?

-> someone mentioned video - I hate it too, but in this YouTube world, peeps are more than happy to do in 3 min in what can be done in text in 20 sec.

--> maybe an form entry too for GA. I'm thinking I need to rework mine.

-- I found a free eye tracking app called Mouseflow. Should prove useful.

Hope this is useful. Use my contact form on Mometic.com if you want to discuss.
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/nbpromo/dearzynga.jpg

I like how the pixel art game made by apparently three peope has better art than zynga's clone; one would think they could at least compete on graphic design competence.
It would be awesome if someone created an AMI after they finished those driver steps, at least. If I do it I'll be sure to post back here.
I don't find soylent appealing, and I think ultimately you're probably mostly right, but there isn't a lot of good science supporting your position. You touch on two really big debates in nutritional scientific community:

> people who eat diets very high in plant content tend to have extremely good health

Key word tend, causation has been so hard to prove here because they tend to do a lot of other things as well.

> I myself recovered from heart disease by eating only plant foods, plus legumes and mushrooms. I lost 70 pounds in six months.

A ton of health problems also seem to resolve by simply losing weight. It's, again, really difficult pull apart the effects caused by diet content vs. diet amount.

Also:

> another is the greater quantity of fiber, compared to the average American diet. but Soylent is a drink. you'd get more fiber eating a hamburger.

This part is actually just incorrect. Soylent has 38g of fiber per serving. I'd also add fiber can be a big negative for some people's guts. The jury is very out on fiber. It tends to be a modulator either way: having gut issues? Add some fiber! Still having gut issues? Cut out the fiber!

Again, I mostly agree with what you are saying, and I think it's probably the truth. But it's important to know that the science is really conflicting, and that nutrition is really really difficult to study in a meaningful way. It's easy to look at the last 50 years of nutritional science and say "wow those guys got it so wrong," that I have to imagine we'll be continuing to do that 50 years from now as well.

What is supported by the current science is calorie counting and macronutrient composition as far as energy + protein ratio. Beyond that (meal timing, micronutrient composition, carbohydrate source, carbohydrates vs. fat etc.), there is really very little concrete science. It would be great if we could fund some more studies. Regardless of what you think of Taube's theories, I think his work at NuSI is going to be some of the first good science to really look at this stuff. We'll see though.
I think you're being too cynical about campus health services. A lot of those people really do care and they just may not have the resources to do everything that they would want to do.

College is important, but definitely not as important as your mental health. If you feel like you need to take a semester off and de-stress, schools generally offer leaves of absence. Being with your family could be very helpful.

You could also think about cutting back on the number of classes, to avoid stress. When I was in college, I went to a lot of clubs and meetings for various things, and it helped reduce my isolation. I didn't end up really liking most of those clubs or activities, but there were a few that really helped. If you try a few, you might find one like that!
That's happened to other companies. Havok, the physics engine people, went through that. The founders and early investors way overexpanded the business (they had locations in three countries), blew through the initial funding, and tanked. Another group bought the business cheaply, replaced the management, and eventually sold out to Intel.
I can only see the O in the top left.(I am partially color blind, but forgot what colors I can't see.)

I do know this--I worked as a Electrician, and at Telecom repair companies. Since, all the manufacturers of wire had slightly different hues due to production, I would alyways carry samples(pre labeled in my tool bag). As far as I know
I never made a mistake, but always double checked if even slightly unsure. I think the color blindness made me more aware of errors. I never told anyone, and would make up something if I needed perfect eyes. My favorite, and sadly not a lie was, "I'm hung over Joe". What color is this?"

My grandfather who saw the world in black and white worked as a Printer, his entire life, in different departments. He was so color blind he memorized where individual traffic lights were placed (red on top in the U.S.). He only told family members of his condition. No one knew he was color blind in all his years as a Printer. This was through the 40-80's. He even got awards he used to put on his living room wall. Today--he probally wouldn't even get through the interview?

As to color blindness being a handicap--I'm not sure. I know in past wars, they used to use color blind guys when looking for troops trying hide using camafoge.(They could just spot the camafoge vs. the natural terrain?). There's also some speculation some great painters like Picasso, Van Gogh were color blind? I don't know if I would want to see the world differently. I do know I have always been more concerned in function over form in projects. I just don't care about the colors as much as some, but I do care about the lines/perception and
workable layout in building anything(websites to houses).
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I'm always perplexed by the tendency to overcomplicate nutrition. With all due respect to your anecdotal experience, I find that food and its apparent effects on the body is the biggest source of pseudoscience and modern day wives tales.

Look: we're the most evolved, advanced creatures on the planet. People around the world live off of meals as simple as a bowl of rice. You can eat anything, and as long as it provides you some calories for energy and meets some basic macro-nutrient requirements your amazingly efficient human body will process it and you'll continue chugging along.
Oracle launched their own Linux distribution several years ago; basically a from source rebuild of RHEL.

Given how they're treating Solaris, and the lack of resources they are devoting to it, I would wager that it is no longer the case.

Frankly, I'm surprised at the lack of care Oracle seems to exhibit toward Solaris. When the acquisition happened, I assumed the worst for most elements of Sun's business, particularly their Open Source efforts, but I didn't think they'd let Solaris just die, which seems to be what they're doing.
> This person seems extremely picky.

I don't understand this? Why not disagree with the valid points he made, rather than just calling him picky? When you use a device a lot, as you would an ereader, I can imagine these problems becoming magnified.
Can SmartOS run on AWS?
I think the ad itself is what they were making fun of
Well, I guess all that talk on the BSD Now podcast a few weeks ago was nonsense then? I'll go back listen to them again and pick out the episode along with a timestamp, if you'd like.

Anyhow, I'm not referring to the OpenBSD performance improvements being a reason to port it over. You're right: it isn't an issue for FreeBSD. However, it benefits FreeBSD if the version of pf used is simply OpenBSD pf with SMP support and a few other bits because that means that means less stuff to maintain.
There's no way for this to happen anyway, since the tax filings of American oligarchs are already fiction. With this system, they would even more aggressively crack the whip on their their lawyers and accountants to hide their wealth from the government.
Pycket – A Tracing JIT for a Functional Language [pdf]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_%28pronoun%29

"One" works in some cases. Unfortunately, not when referring to something directly. I'd love to see "onesie" used for that, but it's not going to happen.

If nothing else, one could use "one" to establish singularity when they use "they" later on.
Fun fact: $2k / month is 200% of the US federal poverty line. Nearly half of all Americans make less than $2k / month.

(This does not change that you can live like a king for $2k / month in some countries, but if you're making $2k+ / month, you're already doing above average for the USA.)
Appropriate usage of data structures
Appropriate data structures, when used correctly, can improve the speed/memory efficiency drastically. But I believe that many people resort to using hash tables at the end of the day just because they are the easiest to use. So, I was curious to see if you use (or maybe built from scratch) any data structures (trees, graphs etc.) regularly at your work or for your side projects?
We don't. tDCS is in its infant stages but because it's easy to do there is a TON of research coming out. Low hanging fruit is as treatment for depression. Much harder is any kind of cognition enhancement. DIY tDCS has been around for a few years, but this is the first example of tDCS self-science that at least tried to collect useful data (that I'm aware of).
In addition to the physical characteristics of a cathode ray tube itself, there is an orthogonal set of visual artifacts that follow from quirks of the analog NTSC signal encoding, and in the case of the NES, certain technical compromises in the design of the picture processing unit (PPU) that result in "ragged" vertical lines and chroma/luma interference; see [1] for documentation and example images.

It would be cool to see an NES emulator that combined an accurate simulation of the PPU's quirky NTSC encoding logic (already present in some emulators) with the kind of CRT/phosphor-simulation shown in TFA.

[1] http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/NTSC_video
i'd be interested in seeing a screencapture of this.
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I feel compelled to respond to this, as I know from first-hand experience it isn't true. The pressure is definitely there for Canadian high school students, and 90 isn't enough for some schools anymore. Programs like University of Waterloo's Software Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering and University of Toronto's Engineering Science all require 95+ AND extracurriculars. Same goes for the "best" schools in other categories - Queen's Commerce for business, McMaster's Health Science for premed, etc...
> the Soylent project's based on a very flawed assumption, that you can isolate the number of nutrients necessary for sustenance.

Sorry, we certainly can. Ask anybody who's been in a coma for a while. We've had that technology since about the sixties.

The rest of your post contains so much wrongness that I don't have time to elaborate my arguments against it.

> 60,000 unique nutrients

None of those are relevant. They aren't sufficiently electrochemically stable to resist your stomach acid and turn into vastly simpler things. They also aren't really used by anything; we understand the vast majority of our body's major biochemical pathways and they don't use particularly complicated stuff.

> plant foods, plus legumes and mushrooms

Which is, hilariously enough, not at all what we evolved to eat. I can believe that you had a major disorder that made meat not particularly good for you, but generally speaking we're omnivorous hunter-gatherers.

> Soylent contains a much smaller number of nutrients.

One reason why I trust it more. I bet you that some of those 60k are downright poisonous. Remember: organic just means you get randomly diseased insects in your food rather than carefully-chosen, relatively harmless, and easily-washable pesticides.

> you'd get more fiber eating a hamburger.

... Stop peddling trash. Berry smoothie. There, fiber in a drink.
Isn't part of the problem that words such as average, mediocre and adequate is mostly used to refer to bad things?

My favourite joke from Community is in an episode where they are shooting a commercial for the University and how this gets completely out of hand.

In the end, when the review commite sees the final result one guy says "It's good" and the other chimes in "It's better than good, it's good enough"

This is funny because "Good enough" is usually not considered to be good.
I've always thought that was interesting in regard to my dogs. The same (expensive) kibble day after day yet they seem to thrive on it!

.. whereas I'm fretting over finding the right "balanced" combo of foods to eat every day and trying to gauge whether or not I'm making the right choices by how much energy I have and what the consistency of my bowel movements are. Oy!
Did you mix it well and drink it chilled?

The first time I had it, it wasn't mixed well and was warm (didn't taste that great). When it was mixed well and cold I liked it.
As this user states, these issues are easily googleable and well known already.

They could read the amazon reviews page for the kindle to learn these specific gripes.

What they need is not someone now who sees the problems with the product (believe me, they know the problems), but someone who sees all these problems as it's being created and people who are able to produce reliable code that fixes it now.

The cow has left the barn on the point where this person would have been most useful.
This sort of thing happens to founders from time to time. I'm more interested in Lane's claim that OATV and First Round didn't see any money:

https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585808886508040192

This is interesting, because according to the screenshot from PitchBook elsewhere in the thread, OATV and First Round both participated in the Series B, which was the last equity round.

If that's accurate, in order for OATV and First Round to get nothing, whoever did that debt financing in 2014 would have had to have gotten 100% of the proceeds, with none left to trickle down to the Series B.

We don't have the details, of course, but taking on debt and then selling for less than the amount needed to cover the debt a year later certainly sounds like a party foul. If your company's in such a precarious position, normally you can't even get debt financing.

Based on the equity rounds, the founder has nothing to kvetch about - they raised and the company didn't get to where it needed to be. But if I were investigating this, I'd dig into the terms of and decision to take that final debt round. Could be nothing, but there's a lot that could've happened there that'd make a founder tetchy.
I have an older kindle with shoulder buttons and a keyboard. That interface would be vastly superior to a touchscreen except that Amazon unaccountably left the numbers off of the keyboard. Far and away the most common use I have for the keyboard is jumping to a particular location, which calls for me to input numbers.

The Paperwhites I got for my brother and sister use much more convenient number input (touchscreen) and have much nicer cases. I prefer my grey screen to their white, though.

If Amazon just released a kindle with the same four shoulder buttons, the same screen, a lighter-weight case, and number buttons so I don't have to navigate an on-screen symbol display with a hard-to-use D-pad, I'd be thrilled. The buttons don't need to be reimagined. I don't get why they left.
But what if you disregard the author and judge the content of the essay itself?
No, SmartOS can run your own quasi-AWS on metal.
I think by rainbow color codes the OP was referring to the color codes on through-hole resistors.

But I can't imagine that impacting your ability to work as an EE at all. Especially since almost everything is surface mount these days anyway.
He mentions lack of including any allegedly dyslexic-friendly font as one strike against Kindles. I thought that there wasn't actually a lot of evidence those work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexie

I hate justified margins though so that's reason enough not to be happy with Kindles.
Years before Soylent was created, I tried the old Slim-Fast diet shake plan (a shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, and a healthy dinner). It was basically vitamin/mineral laced chocolate or vanilla milk, and while it tasted decent at first, I couldn't get over the monotony of it. I tried it for a month and I did lose about 15 pounds during that time, but the utter blandness of it drove me back to standard food and the weight came right back.

I love to cook, and there's just something about the crunch of roasted veggies, the savory taste of grilled meats, and the warmth of a good stew or soup that I had to have. Call it a "first world problem", but living on sludge, even good tasting sludge, isn't truly living for me.

Of course, at 37 years old I'm overweight, diabetic, and at risk of heart disease so I have to do something. I've already started on my goal to be a healthy weight and have my blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol under control without medication by the end of the year. First step: Halve my caloric intake, not by starving myself but simply by reducing portion sizes. I don't have to fill my plate to get enough calories for the day; half a plate gives me enough energy and nutrients in a meal. Step two is walking at least a mile a day, gradually upgrading that to 2 miles, then jogging 2 miles a day once I've dropped enough weight that my knees won't suffer.

If I make it to my weight and health goals by the end of the year, I'll start working on building up some muscle to help keep the fat at bay at my sedentary job. It sucks being not quite 40 and feeling a bit over 60. Hell, my dad is in far better shape than I am!
That was brutal. And 100% on point.
Try typing this in the browser console (might need to reload the game first)

nethack.apply_tileset('http://cook.web.eschelon.com/pictures/geoduck20x12.bmp', 12, 20)

I felt that a complete ASCII port worth a separate project, yet it might not be that interesting as we've already got NAO.

But if you guys feel that a ASCII tileset is ok, I'm happy to add it. How about this smaller version?
I've been wanting to do this myself and prepared by registering several iterations of steam + host + box + cloud + remote.

The major annoyance is that since Steam doesn't let you do it outside your LAN, you have to use a VPN solution to make the remote server appear like it's local. I've been building my infrastructure and prepping for everything with the hope that one day they'll allow for the ability to enter a remote address.

If not, and when I'm ready, I'll just have to get my users to download some kind of utility that automates all the VPN functionality, graphics driver installation, and server-side management.
There are a lot of examples of sensory augmentation like what you're talking about with magnets. Basically the brain seems to be able to adapt to almost any sensory input.

There's a company that was testing a device that turned the pixels on a low res camera into electrical impulses to a tongue mounted sensor plate.

There was a study where people had a belt fitted with vibrating motors and a compass so that the part of the belt facing north always vibrated. The people in the study begin to feel where north was.

There was a another study where an input from an ultrasonic rangefinder on a scalpel was converted to an electrical stimulation and surgeons could feel how close their scalpel was to a surface.
That's pretty horrible. It doesn't serve any good purpose except for the nefarious purposes of social engineers.
Wondering what is the wireframe tool used?
Yahoo! Answers results are often quite entertaining. I treat it as a comedy site.
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Maybe it's personal, but I, too, hate the full justification. US newspapers used to do a lot of that, too, whereas European one didn't. It is shown that full justification is detrimental to actual reading.

That being said, I don't understand why he involve the Echo. First, it's a totally depend product, and second, it's the most used internet radio and music payer I've owned.
Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots
It's not a CRT thing, it's a NTSC thing. He seems to be trying to emulate NTSC (analog broadcast TV) color, not RGB. NTSC color signals have much lower bandwidth than the intensity signal. You can only go through the entire color gamut about 10 times across the width of the screen. So, for NTSC emulation, you should convert each scan line from RGB to YUV, then low-pass filter the UV component, then reassemble. You'll now have sharp edges where the intensity changes and fuzzy edges where the color changes, just like crappy old NTSC devices. This is strictly a horizontal phenomenon - in the vertical dimension, adjacent scan lines can be completely different colors without artifacts.
What never fails to surprise me is our proclivity to think of things in terms of a simple order.

Surely, the there is enough diversity in humanity to disallow for so one-dimensional a topology.

(I say this after having been subject to years of down-nosery.)