skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being able to identify the caller means I can't report it to the FTC for spamming me with "you've been approved for a $250k business loan!" and "this is cardmembers services for both Visa and Mastercard" scams.
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Battery University typically looks at a discharge as a discharge.

For example: Discharging the battery fully might yield 200 cycles, but discharging a battery 50% might yield 500 cycles. Obviously with the 50% discharge, you're only using half the capacity, but when you multiply the number of cycles by the capacity used, you can compare them.
That's a Wordpress plugin I have to make registration easier... Not secure enough?
I think what happens is people try to formalize all the fun out of music because they don't know any better. They fall back on the broken rote learning they got back in grade school, and the results are predictable.

I usually write out songs in my head as changes in pitch, then work out notes and scales later in my DAW. I learned to keep time by drumming on the wheel with music when stopped in traffic. I can't remember scales for long, but I made a point of committing the notes of the keyboard keys to memory so I can quickly memorize a scale and experiment with melodies.
OK, but understand that you are also disagreeing with the site you linked itself. Look at the 'data trend' link.

Not trying to be inciteful- kind of a personal issue with me atm, perhaps with you, too.
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Ask HN: How to cope with depression
I'm struggling with depression, and don't know how to manage it.

Just to get my background out of the way :

I'm a programmer and have been severely under performing at work (to the point of almost being fired), and routinely question whether or not I deserve to be alive. As a result of my difficulties, I've begun seeing a therapist and psychiatrist. Both feel that I should be on anti depressants, and I am not opposed to this.

Short of medication, however, they haven't really offered any strategies I can implement. Perhaps that will come later, but for now I was hoping to hear about what may have worked for others. All the logical advice (exercise, go to sleep on time, live a healthy lifestyle) are things that I struggle to find the motivation for. Perhaps the medication will help in that department. However, I'm concerned they will dull my focus (which is a bit silly, considering I can't focus at all right now).

edit :

I am sincerely grateful for all the thoughts that have been shared. I've read every post in this thread. A few follow ups :

1. I understand the limitations of asking for advice about mental health online, and I want to reassure any/everyone concerned that I will not make any treatment decisions without the input of the specialists I'm seeing.

2. Related to the above, reading about the (mostly successful / positive) experience others have had with medication has been very reassuring. I did have some lingering skepticism about SSRI's (which may or may not have come through in my original post), and I am very glad to hear that medication has worked well for others. Maybe it's a bit silly to have an opinion partially validated by a peer group, but so it goes.

3. This is probably as emotional as I've been in weeks : reading through the responses here makes me feel like I'm not alone. Thank you, very, very much.
But really an orchestra is just a collection of various "speakers" -- tools producing sound waves by causing vibrations in different ways.
There are better instruments for sharing this information. You can use task tracking software, you can use emails, etc. No need to stand up for that in the middle of the office, every morning.
Competition won't change economic reality. Verizon's average revenue per wire-line user is $125/month (mostly FiOS), and the operating income margin on that is 1-5% in any given quarter. Unless a competitor had fundamentally different economics than Verizon, there's no way it could profitably serve those low-income communities.

The city's approach, direct spending focused on deploying cheaper wireless technologies, is the least distortionary and most cost-efficient way to proceed. Better still would be just giving those poor neighborhoods cash and letting them decide whether to spend it on broadband, or food or clothing.
So... how is this better than Apache Cordova?
I assume that you're doing client side encryption here right?

To try and guarantee that the Javascript you are delivering is from your server and not MITMed 'by the man', doesn't everything need to be over TLS/SSL and certificate pinning needs to be in place?

I'm no security expert, but there are plenty around who can confirm or deny that.

Edit: The password is being sent in a POST without any encryption to protect that request, or am I missing something?
The comments mention this is also a problem with Django's CSRF cookie when using GA?
Ask HN: Which laptop you recommend for web development?
I currently own a Macbook Pro 13" from 2012 and I want to upgrade my machine. I'm a web developer and this will be the main function of the computer. I'm thinking in a MB Pro 13" because the mobility or a MB Pro 15" because the screen. Which one you recommend? I hear recommendations.
Statistics and citations today is the Bible quotes / racial stereotypes of yesteryear. Some modern-day pseudo-scientist poster will cite some study that says "80% of chargers waste power if left plugged in at 100% charge" will then draw the logically faulty conclusion that therefore you should unplug your charger. The fact that the statistic study necessary had to ignore extra variables like if you have a lot of stuff plugged in, whether you're drawing power from a set of solar panels on your roof, whether you are using a super-special non-power wasting adapter, etc., necessarily makes the citation not a thought more credible than your great-great grandpa quoting the bible to tell you that you should marry your own race or citing stereotypes that you shouldn't trust your friend because he is Asian.

True science, that is, proposing hypothetical models, analyzing results, and admitting no real results can be drawn due to insufficient model complexity, has been thrown out the window by pride and laziness.
seriously, i can get a battery for my T410 for ~20$ on amazon, i'm not going to spend my time plugging and unplugging.
Management that is grounded in reality.

Coworkers whose personalities are not, shall we say, in need of massive debugging.
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You created a bimodal distribution because you only talked about two types of people. Some people start later in life, but have an incredible talent for programming. Some people start early because they really like programming, but never achieve the highest levels of proficiency because they lack some natural talent.

Like most things, programming is a mix of natural talent and practice. Some people have incredible natural talent and will succeed no mater when they started. Some people will achieve a very productive level of programming with less natural talent because they put in the work to achieve it. There are more than just two archetypes that make up the landscape of developers.
Because it is patenting math. Which is a law of nature, which gets discovered. And the patent statute says that laws of nature (such as E=MC^2) can't be patented.
> Paid vacation days set in policy (I will assume "unlimited" means none.)

That's probably a good assumption. In the future, I'll ask for the mean and median vacation days per employee for the previous year if that's listed as a perk.
I think you didn't read much of the article past the headline -- the article is about how FFT allows for efficient compression of just about any human-audible sound, which allows us to send around the files more easily & efficiently. Your first example is about classic lossless formats, and your second example is about synthesis (which for the time being is significantly less expressive than recorded sound)
Yeah I was going to say that I'm not certain it's taxed more but it just seems like it is because I always end up with something like 50% of what the actual bonus was. Also healthcare and things are still deducted from the bonuses I've seen which I'm not sure is normal.
Assuming your computer has a replaceable battery, which is not the case always. Replacing a $80 battery is worth it to avoid stress, but replacing a $2000 ultrabook may not be.
It uses Cordova somehow:

> When the platform supports hosted apps, we create them natively, when they don’t we use Cordova to pollyfill the functionality.
Even if true, a bimodal distribution of suckers and winners is very different from having to meet a treshold in certain skills to be able to code at all. Not everybody can become an architect or a mechanical engineer either, but I never hear my engineering buddies talk about the mythical 10x civil engineer.
Why should FTC be able to help you? Phones work internationally.
Not sure I agree it's easier as you get older. Our brains seem to be wired to pick up new languages & skills most rapidly when in youth.
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That's only because we let that system be gamed. It doesn't have to be that way. Telcos always know who they're billing for a call; they have the capability to make caller ID reliable.
Based on what I've seen, anyone can write code, just as anyone can learn math or write a story. Further, anyone who devotes time and effort to writing code (or doing math or writing a story), who immerses themselves in it, who learns and practices, can write code well. Thing is, most people aren't motivated to do everything well. People find enjoyment in different ways; some through working with their hands, some through solving puzzles, some through talking to people. I wouldn't say this is purely natural (I didn't discover programming until later in life thus I'm nowhere near how skilled I'd be if I started at 10, although once I knew what it was I knew I would enjoy it), but I wouldn't say it's purely up to environment either. Anecdote: I introduced a friend of mine to programming recently. He can do it, and he's not bad at all, but he'd much rather be face-to-face with someone than staring at a screen for hours.

So, anyone can become a good programmer, but most won't want to be.
> If more competition were introduced beyond the sporadic RCN and Verizon FiOS available to some buildings, it might bring down prices for all.

How would you suggest that happen outside of something like this?
Their backers may not have asked for DRM support, but they did ask for supporting services that require DRM, such as Netflix.

I participated in the kickstarter. What I am interested in is less a physical product and more an open platform, but I suspect we won't actually be getting that.
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It's worth it. My only regret is that the bundling/sales model just makes it hard to track what you have and also to fill in gaps in your collection.
There are at least two flavors of A.I. "Strong A.I." seeks to build something human-like and could pass Turings immitation game test. The new movie Ex Machina explores this test. "Weak A.I." replicates just a single cognitive skill like game playing, pattern recognition, natural language or something more trivial. Most recent A.i. worked on the latter, or its theoretical background.
That's nice to know.

However, i'd rather buy a new battery after 5 years (if my laptop is still fit and the battery is dead), than having to complicate my life and think about when to unplug or charge my laptop multiple times each day for 5 years...

My Macbook air from mid 2011 is currently at 100/6700*5629 = 84% battery health.
(6700 = design capacity, gathered from "ioreg -l -n AppleSmartBattery -r".
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It's totally possible that there are companies out there with "unlimited" vacation that would be OK with you taking a month off. However, in my experience, even when you have an assigned number of vacation days there is still pressure to not use them. I can only see unlimited as "don't take more than this person". My boss had told me a few times that he takes vacation days and works on them as if to hint I should be doing the same.

So my thinking of "unlimited" vacation days is in the same way ISPs offer "unlimited" bandwidth :)
Phone numbers are going to (eventually) disappear. They are inefficient, hard to remember and not human-friendly (they are great for computer-based routing :P ).

Easier thing we can do, is to map them down like we do it with IPs and domain names, but as usual, this is far from being a practical solution.

Best think is to let conventional telephony die and VoIP take over its place.
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Well, there goes the server. If you're having issues, wait. I'm about to switch servers.
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Solutions to problems aren't worthless. A "critical" solution is worth a lot, and presumably Samsung paid the engineer a lot to build it.
Many laptops (such as all current Apple models) have built-in batteries. I guess you could remove the battery with special tools, but putting it back in may require re-gluing things.
Encryption is server side. Your file is uploaded, encrypted, then deleted.
Just anecdotally, I've had the shittiest experience in recent memory with CoreOS. Their choice of BTRFS bites me pretty much daily whenever logs start writing stack traces for errors. A similar problem happened when Deis chose CephFS for their registry container.

While I'm a huge fan of Docker I will maintain that CoreOS is not ready for production in most capacities and recommend against using it in its current form.
The swords illustrate the seven basic "strokes": six in a "flower", and one stab (the bottom one). Mastering all of the ways to get your weapon from point "A" (near you, in a proper guard), to point "B" (somewhere inside of your opponent), through one of these directions, is the purpose of the book.
Mikael Colville-Andersen's TEDx talk is what first got me thinking about this: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxCopenhagen-Mikael-Colvill...

(I don't think biking without a helmet is better than biking with, as the title suggests, but I wouldn't be surprised if helmet laws/media campaigns are harmful.)
I don't think you've seen the systems they use in developing countries. Phone networks are almost a century behind the internet. It's not something that's easy to fix, nor are there too many situations where you would need to rely on the CID to identify the caller.
But the password and file are sent over the wire without any protection?
Privacy.

Wow! This is a real sleeper. You risk unknowingly revealing your location when commenting on this type of story.
Do you mean to imply that Goldman's employment contract somehow neglected the bog-standard "work for hire" clause that every other employment contract pretty much ever has included?
However, in contrast to the D&D inspired popular view, warhammers and maces were specialized anti-armor weapons, not an alternative general sidearm. If you were going to carry a end-weighted weapon, it might as well be an axe. You get the same sort of momentum advantage, plus the benefit of an edge. The popular view of battle axes is also waaaay out of line with reality.
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> Any programmer's own code is open to whatever they want to do with it.

Sure, if someone else didn't buy it from them by paying them a wage.
I think an environmentalist just died a little bit after reading this.

But yes, this is the only sweeping statement that could be universally applied. Anything else is just anecdotal and something to talk about at the next happy hour.
Also, I should state that I am getting SSL working atm.
I what is missing from the article is an understanding of the incentives of academics. Quite often putting a piece of research "to bed" is the goal. Why? Because any good academic has a long list of things they want to get to.

Very few people want to get mired in the (inevitable) problems that arise in a paper for eternity. This is why there are review papers that summarize the state of the knowledge at a given point. These articles are useful summaries of what came before and what (at least appear to be) dead ends were found.

Maybe I'm missing some point with the author's article. But getting units of production out and finished (i.e. papers) is a useful process. I'm not sure what would be gained by keeping documents editable forever. Scientific literature is not code.
When I get these calls I always debate trying to get their info so I can report it but it is just sooooo much easier to hang up.

For the bank I always hang up and call back. My money is worth the extra step.
If your employment contract includes the "work for hire" clause (which nearly all of them do, as a matter of course), and you don't get it waived, then no, it's not your code to do with as you please.
Folks say that, but I think its mainly immersion. We are reluctant to spend the time/energy to immerse ourselves in a new thing when we're older.
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The title made think this article was going to be about how to write science. Writing of all kind benefits if you incorporate elements of a story.
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This isn't remotely related to this discussion.
I am currently just brainstorming. No need for commitment.
I would think your ultrabook would be past its manufacturer's warranty anyway at that point anyway and would be a candidate for some sort of DIY battery replacement.
If you need free just to get it working I think Cloudflare offer that: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl

StartSSL as well.
There is a blogpost: http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
This article does not actually address the cause and effect relationship between equity and employee motivation. From the title and introductory paragraph, it seems as though the author will talk about what actually motivates employees, and how common perception of employee motivation is a myth.

However, the article simply does some math to show that equity SHOULDN'T motivate employees, and never talks about whether or not it DOES motivate employees. Even if the numbers don't work out in a developer's favor, that doesn't necessarily mean they do the calculations up front and and totally rationally.

People still buy lottery tickets despite the poor odds, and developers will continue to be motivated by equity even if it is irrational.
I just leased a 2015 VW e-Golf last week so this is particularly relevant to me. It will be a commuter car and from the few days of driving it so far, this will be perfect for me. The amazing thing is getting into the car and having it be perfectly silent. The next thing that astonished me was just how fast it could be from a standstill. Plus it's a Golf and my love of Golfs can be found by looking through my comment history here.

I'll admit that I'm still dealing with a bit of range anxiety, but I haven't come close to being truly scared of running out of juice. I generally run it in Eco mode w/ the regenerative braking in mode 1 or 2 so I often make back 10-20 miles of range during hilly drives.
Isn't it possible to consider each little 'chunk' of knowledge, data, information as a node in the dependency graph, as opposed to one whole paper?

We could also have a hierarchy to represent layers and composition of knowledge.

Not to say it is easy, but it looks quite possible.
Virtually everyone on the Internet is using an OS that has the built-in capability to encrypt files with AES. Why would anyone delegate that to a server?
It's difficult to argue the idea that any manufacturer of a device containing a battery cell would not engineer the system for the proper balance of longevity, capacity, and durability to result in acceptable quality to customers.
Emphasis on "well designed". The 500€ laptops I've experienced in the past weren't and you could murder the battery like this in couple months, no matter the brand (HP, Dell).
This is a very common case. Both sides attempting to communicate their point and get acknowledgement that it's been understood and at the same time neither side making an attempt to understand. Sometimes it's not even a disagreement, just a difference of expression, aka. 'in violent agreement'.
This vulnerability would appear to be mitigated by using a CSRF secret in a server-side session rather than solely cookie based.

For example, Cookie: SHA1(salt + secret), then CSRF-TOKEN header/value is taken, the salt extracted, hashed against the server-side secret and compared.
Does nim allow statically flagging procedures as unsafe to assist in the separation of ffi and safe procedures?
Can you reference (or briefly explain) that?

I can find that King's Quest is a game, but I can't make the connection to this discussion.
I wonder which party should pay the bounty in this case. He seems to have reported it to Twitter, however wouldn't it be Google's responsibility to fix this?

Seeing as how it's a combination of an issue in the web server parsing cookies, and the client setting malicious cookies, I'm not sure which party should be responsible for the bounty.
This is how "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" calcifies. People point to old systems like this (when they are working, that is) all the time as proof that developers are too obsessed with shiny new things. And I'm not saying that isn't true, but there is such a thing as being too conservative.
This seems like a form of elitism very specific to programming.

I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and barely did programming until I began my first job out of college. In many people in the programming space, I see contempt that coding was something I didn't start until later in life. When I interviewed for Electrical Engineering positions, no one ever scoffed at me, "you haven't been computing the impulse response of a filter for 4 hours a day since you were 12? There's a massive difference between engineers who have done that and those that haven't."
Unless I misunderstand your point, how do you create complex data without complex code? I agree with the sentiment, but priority queues don't organise themselves. It seems more like its about the abstractions you use.
The only thing that changes economic reality is competition.
This actually wouldn't be too hard. First, lets consider that a quarter million is not a lot for a company. Also, if the company has a significant reach, or has significant expenses there is potential here to move the needle. If you have a company that has millions of users and you manage to earn or save a few cents per user (say, drive down the bandwidth cost) you can make a quarter million in profit for the company in a weekend. That said, if you have an employee who can make in one weekend twice what you're paying them in a year, they should probably be compensated with more equity.
Generating capacity isn't the only concern. Distribution capacity is another issue. Thankfully, the vast majority of the projected 30% increase in consumption will not coincide with summertime peak ( air conditioning ) loads, but it may be enough to worry some utilities, especially in the congested Northeast corridor of the US.