skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found basic cognitive behavioral therapy techniques like the "three column method" to be immensely helpful in dealing with negative thoughts/moods. Especially in combo with meditation. Copy of the book 'Feeling Good' is about 10$ and will teach you how to do it and give lots of good examples in different practical contexts, or just google 'triple column method cognitive therapy'.

Steps are generally: write down your automatic thoughts when you are feeling bad, identify how they are irrational or distorted, write down more accurate, balanced, realistic ones -> feeling better.
They went through a round of liability when expert systems were medical introduced in the 1980s. I dont know if they ever past the toy stage,

Expert system-like rule-checking is imbedded in pharmacy programs and the such. but not advertised as the central engine of the code,but an auxilary.
I didn't literally mean everyone. I meant the overwhelming majority of people.
You were arguing a barrier to entry, not quality. My point was there's not a wall in front of this stuff as you say. You moved the goalposts to "acceptable VR experience," which is a different topic and largely subjective.

I also never said the experience was terrible or "kinda worked." Quite the opposite, in fact, I rather enjoyed it even at a lower quality because I understand the limitations of things. Outside of Lave I stayed right at 70fps and could turn my head from left to right without even a millisecond of delay. It was actually the most fun I've ever had in PC gaming. But you're right, because I didn't have everything turned up to maximum, I should rethink my enjoyment.
julia evans did a great survey on this: http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/27/guys-guys-guys/
Secret t-shirt message explains why Microsoft skipped Windows 9
Thanks for replying and thanks for the article too - great read with some fantastic photography.

Really interesting to hear how you provision servers, had no idea that OS X Server came with tools for that, but it certainly makes sense. I wouldn't have thought Apple would have put much time or thought into creating tools for large deployments, but glad to hear that they have.
Yes, you're absolutely right. We use conventional Linux servers for application, database and storage for exactly this reason. The Mac Pros are a good value for an image rendering machine, but not for general purpose server stuff (in my opinion).

It's also a bit dear for use as a desktop machine, but it is pretty nice to have one hanging out for on your desk for a few weeks.
Rethinking and Repackaging iOS Apps: Part 2
But unlike those systems there is no payment or ownership transfer system.
It's simply not a difficult problem: there are no consensus requirements between individuals, so scaling can't be made any harder by increasing N.
Show HN: Scan yourself into virtual worlds using just your phone ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
IIRC Inkscape's trace is based on potrace originally (or uses it under the skin?). It can/does also use autotrace too.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tools#Alternatives_t...
Group Currency
I'm working on a cloud platform that does this, with a schema layer to enforce types, validation, links, and other meta properties.

It's not publicly announced yet, but if you're very interested in playing with it, ping me at eric at schema.io.
Why shouldn't these records be available for free, even better yet accessible thru an API? Would the 'bad apples' still be able to operate in any area of government if there was true transparency?
I did apply to and do YC, and then I ran that company for 7 years. Had it been going better I would have been happy to run it for 3 more!
Google will spend $150M this year to diversify its workforce
But they got to a $40B valuation or whatever.

I see a very similar thing in the Bitcoin world. Build something, ignore all regulations, get VC, get big, then write your own regulations that advantage you relative to "legacy" businesses.
I believe he implied the income was great, not that you would continue to enjoy the work, so it was hard to pivot into less-technical fields even if you wanted to.

I like software, but for instance, I really couldn't make the same as a photographer (plus, I don't want to shoot weddings or people or stock photos and stuff...).

However there are some great examples of stock traders becoming potters and things like that, so it CAN be done, you just have to change what things you are addicted to - or earn a bunch first :)
> LCDs like that of ipad/nexus don't work for me

Why don't they work? Also, do you mean that you are looking for an e-paper solution?
A true Hayek currency would be backed by a market basket, not just gold.
> You're a well-meaning person, and you want to avoid causing unnecessary harm with your words.

I don't like the weaselly binary assumption here. You are implying "You are either a well-meaning person or you are not." That's an unbelievably narrow (and, honestly, childish) view of human interactivity. It also implies that you alone hold a monopoly on how "well-meaning" is defined and that it is your sacred duty to impose that doctrine on others.

You're basically attempting to confuse people into accepting your moral ethos as a candidate for common assumptions of what "well-meaning" should be.

This is underhanded and not well-meaning at all.

Perhaps you should try avoiding causing unnecessary harm with your words next time.
He didn't say he was happy with his life. If that's all he said it wouldn't be ridiculous, obviously.
I'd trust the algorithm more than whether there is really gold somewhere. The best block-chains havent been broken yet. Gold could be nonexistant or stolen.
Afaik duokan for kindle is the best alternative. Also , the place to ask is mobileread.com
Everyone who sells products or interacts with the public has to deal with "fake" and "petty." Cops don't need exceptional treatment.
Apple excels at human-facing industrial design and software user experience.

Neither of these are relevant in a rack-mounted environment with heavily customer-written backend/batch software with no user interface
Thousands of rogue restaurant websites diverting customers to OrderAhead
> This entire article is about railing against the police, yet the unions are never mentioned as part of the problem. Very interesting indeed.

For context, The Stranger is Seattle's free alt-weekly. They have a very strong leftist bent, consistently endorse pro-union politicians while calling them "independent" without a hint of irony, and are unlikely to press this issue very much if at all.
"What's wrong with your life" is not the same as "Why do you want to kill yourself?".

And even then I would categorize these reasons as quite irrational reasons to kill yourself. People who are not currently in that particular state of mind don't see these reasons as rational and valid.

My point is to not argue with some one who is suicidal about his reasons. Even not with yourself, if you do have suicidal thoughts. Take the symptom seriously, start treatment, but don't take the thoughts and reasons themselves too seriously.
If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make programming less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make art less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make music less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make writing less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make football less intimidating for newcomers.

If we embrace this idea that "it's cool to be okay at these skills"—that being average is fine—it will make architecture less intimidating for newcomers.

There's nothing wrong with a skill that takes time and effort to become good at, and there's no reason to cater to people who aren't at least novices. Well, not unless you're trying to artificially inflate the labor pool so you can pay programmers less.
What's the noise level like with these machines? The typical pizza-box servers aren't exactly quiet.
I was bothered by the extreme depth of field in images next to the text.
"The processes I use, investing in good tools and underpinnings, and paying attention to good features of other people's software, makes it easy and quick to try out new ideas. Some of them are really worth it."

What processes is he using? What tools and underpinnings that allow him to quickly try out new ideas?
No. Someone may well work out perfectly logically that there's nothing more for them to do in life. And that's their choice. You're pathologising someone just for coming to a certain conclusion.

Of course, people might also make emotion-based decisions to kill themselves, which might be a symptom of their depression or whatever, but that doesn't mean that all suicide must be a mistake. You'd kill yourself to keep the Borg or the Alien from getting you, wouldn't you?

If you're pro-choice w.r.t. abortions at all, then you should really be pro-choice w.r.t. suicide. If your logic for the first one was "it's their body, so it's their choice", you're inconsistent in your logic if you oppose the second one 100% of the time.

> illogical

Given that there's no good reason to be alive in the first place, it's perfectly logical. It's only ill-logical if you assume that what's good for the (selfish) genes and what's good for the individual are the same thing, which they're not.

Just let people make their own decisions.
To elaborate a bit on why it's considered controversial, I recommend this article by Douglas Hofstadter, from Metamagical Themas: https://books.google.com/books?id=o8jzWF7rD6oC&pg=PA152#v=on... . It's a pretty rigorous treatment of a pretty weird issue, and it's got pictures!

To roughly paraphrase: If "guy" means "man or woman", and "gal"[] means "woman", the two words we actually have are "person" and "woman". The implication of that should be unsettling to anyone who doesn't truly believe that women are a distinct group from the general, male, population.

[] Or whatever.
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yea. Agression implies intent. Microagression does not.

Which can actually be kinda confusing to folks not familiar with it, but this is true of many sets of jargon, not just Social Justice.
I'm guessing because the records aren't all digital and there's some clerical work needed to either digitize them or maybe do some redaction or editing to make them suitable for release (e.g. I'd hope they would strip out social security numbers if collected)
This image (of the Pando Daily article) captures the irony :)

http://i.imgur.com/tGg4zEd.png

(arguably they aren't Dropbox/AirBnB yet, but still something)
We haven't done any in-depth technical articles yet, and there's the worry of giving away our secret sauce, but it is something that I'd like to explore more in the future.
I'm anticipating the follow-up question: how do I get this event in front of these businesses so they know about it?
Github is down again! And Slack too. The only page of slack.com that is available is their status page that says: "All's good under the hood, boss! Slack is up and running normally".
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That depends. For some the guilt may be enough. For others it just makes them more miserable or they point out that it is not really fair that they should suffer.

My parents love me, but they never asked me if I wanted to be born. If I was in pain that couldn't be treated and it made my life not worth living I would not feel obligated to continue living for their sake.
This seems very (very) strange to me. Did a simplified mockup in Java using a ConcurrentLinkedDeque. Got an absolute speed-up of ~8 going from 1 thread to 2 (or 4)...and that's on a laptop.
Did you perhaps measure CPU time rather than wall clock or push entries scaled by the number of threads? Didn't find your test source on GitHub..
1) A Bloomberg terminal can tell me prices, volumes, who's buying ect. They can't tell me about my marginal utility had I bought an extra unit because I didn't buy it. Furthermore, a BT works with dollars, euros and Yen. Not utility. There is a mapping that assumes $US -> utility. But that's not necessarily a valid map.

Surely economists use a functional form for utility in their models. My objection is that utility (if it exists) has a functional form that is unknowable to us. That they've chosen a functional form and called it a day is not the same (a bit like when I choose B3LYP for my DFT functional, validated it a bit and, ultimately, called it a day w/ a smile)

2) I think my language has seemed a bit caustic because I was annoyed at OP's proposal for a Turing test to allow a debate. I think the conversation should definately include economics. And ethics. Now, 60 years after we built the interstates we're starting to realize the damage we caused by ignoring other voices (sometimes the damage was willful - see Ryan Gravel '99 thesis). Perhaps we would be wise to listen to others before we make societal decisions (TARP's an upcoming one that comes to mind)

I'm working on Bayesian models right now so I do appreciate the power of modern computational techniques.

Anyway, ethics has an "economic" streak to it with utilitarianism. For what it's worth I'm more of a Kantian, but I appreciate what a utilitarianist adds to the discussion.

3) Predictive models are all false. But some are more false than other, no? Newton is smack on for anything the vast majority of engineers will ever do.

Economics, while I respect the points, seems to have had a bit of a bad predictive streak. It's great at predicting what has happened when it'd fed what happened before. But that's modeling after the fact.

Again, I don't think the economics is BS or should be discounted. History also has poor predictive capabilities and yet we learn from it. But I make no secret at getting annoyed at the suggestion I have to do a Turing test on Tirole's life work when the fundamentals of the field are in question.
There's been a whole lot of these cryptocurrencies supposedly backed by something that all failed... I would look at this with a whole lot of skepticism.

Check here for a partial list of some of these coins: http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
Thanks for posting this. This is the second article in the series (although it took forever to finalize).

We're also working on a third, which I think will be in the format of an interview with the Mac Pro chassis's designer.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

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A (incomplete) list of package managers
Greg isn't a founder of stripe.

Larry and Sergey have been working on Google for 17 years. Mark has been working on Facebook for 11. Drew and Arash have now been working on Dropbox for 8 years. Brian, Nate, and Joe have been working on Airbnb for 7 years.

Things change, of course, and you shouldn't work on a company that isn't working for 10 years. But I think it's a reasonable question to ask.

If you go into something with a plan to do it for only a couple of years, you are unlikely to create anything important.

I don't buy public or private equities I don't want to hold for 10 years (I have held some Apple shares 17 years now!), and I don't do jobs I can't see myself doing for 10 years (I ran my company, which was an ok but certainly not huge success, for 7+ years).

I think more people would benefit from taking a long-term view on where they decide to spend their time and money--it's a really useful way to think about opportunity.
I don't understand this mindset of not using technology due to a lack of trust. I can easily understand not blindly following an AI's findings, however they should probably be item #1 for the attending doctor to investigate.

The worst case scenario is that the doctor disagrees with the findings and continues investigation. The best case scenario is that you hit the nail on the head much more quickly than if it was an entirely manual process.
Folks is a classist, and refers to commoners, which might be considered offensive to those in the audience with aspirations, as well as to those in the audience in the upper class.

Note, that was slightly tongue in cheek, but this is apparently what we do with words today... find some way in which they could be considered offensive, and then immediately begin to take offense at them.

While I understand that there are indeed legitimate reasons to encourage people to choose their words thoughtfully, I can't help but wonder how terrible life will be when choosing to take offense at the innocuous becomes more prevalent than simply choosing not to take offense. The latter is, I believe, the more enlightened path.
Yeah it's a very complete project. And we saw "Look Ma No OS"[1] today on HN about Erlang/Elixir-on-Xen with the LING unikernel. But it is Haskell that I'm personally all hyped up about lately; and OS-less-ness is to me merely a potential secondary advantage of going back to "compiled" (I come from Ruby/Python before that Java before that C++).

My main reason for going with Haskell is that I know the costs of bugs, and feel that I get to old for fighting bugs on tight deadlines.

1: http://slides.com/technolo-g/intro-to-unikernels-and-erlang-...
Money is a foundational technology for society. The core hasn't changed in thousands of years. It predates high technology and information systems.

Traditional money alone is obviously outdated.

The situation we have is as if World of Warcraft had only one stat for each character (money) and no way to track what was going on wih the environment aside from user reports. And the server somehow could not regulate anything in the simulation without it being done by a user.

Economists have done an amazing job with one number, at least in terms of finding ways to game the system and multiply one's point total while ignoring billions of people. But we need automated and mainstream systems with more than one dimension.
You have to look at it as an entry barrier that protects them against competitors too. If they are the only ones offering this setup, they can charge very high prices and recover the initial investment relativelly quickly.
Sure because cops don't deal with the public in the same way as, say, an Avon representative. Attempts to blur this are doing cops an injustice. They are a special case in almost every way.
How gifting tripled my revenue or :Listen to your customers dumbass
Mindfulness is not enough. For one thing, being mindful of your breathing won't help you a bit when dealing with unpleasant thoughts. But you can start to become more mindful of these thought, especially when not in a formal meditation.

The "observing" of these thoughts alone can improve the situation a lot.

Mindfulness training also improves the prefrontal cortex and thus the ability to control impulses and thoughts. The idea is to evolve the ability to choose to have a certain thought or not.

Knowing what to do is one thing, doing it is another. Meditation can immensely improve the latter!

Meditation is not a sufficient treatment for depression or suicidal thoughts, but it can help to avoid relapses, and it helps to deal with the consequences of recurring depressions.
From the site :

"Building on OS X technologies means we’re dependent on Apple hardware for this part of the service, but we aren’t necessarily limited to Mac Minis. Apple’s redesigned Mac Pro seemed like an ideal replacement, as long as we could reliably operate it in a datacenter environment."
Yes, that's exactly what this is doing :) But it's doing that in a specific way to keep the sort order equal to exponential decay, and make sure that the numbers don't cause floating point overflow and rounding errors.

Reddit does boost the score of newer posts. It doesn't do that for the value of votes though. Reddit simply adds the (scaled) timestamp when the post was created to the score of a post. This way newer posts get a higher score than old ones. Reference: http://www.outofscope.com/reddits-empire-no-longer-founded-o...
What military? Most have different requirements for soldiering and officering that don't allow track switching. In modern ones, it's level of schooling, while in older ones it might be nobility of blood. You'd have an extremely hard time even making the argument that going from officer to general is meritocratic in the U.S. right now.
VoltDB is pretty fantastic at counters.
(VoltDB Engineer)
Slack is up. And github too.
I was an undercover Uber driver
Do you read the same free alt-weekly as I do? The Stranger criticizes the Seattle Police Officers Guild (or SPOG) quite regularly.

See http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/12/22/spog-is...

and http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/reform-in-reverse/Content... for examples.
What Is a 360-Degree Customer View?
it's like people paying for test prep classes. personally I'd never pay for it since there are free books available everywhere, but looks like there's demand for it
It's hard to judge and yes it's of course a PR piece.
That said there's an interesting part to it.

Where it applies, I'd welcome computer based decision or control (for ex. surgical operations where precision is a must) over humans. I'd trust it with my life more than the humans directly, ultimately. We're just not as reliable as the tools we create.
Depressive brainstate will make you think that those are unreasonably hard to achieve, and cause them to be unrewarding (except the drugs)

On a bad day people can find "go to shop and buy myself an icecream" an insurmountable challenge.
Neural network chip built using memristors
I can't imagine all the technologies and skills you guys have acquired.

If I may derail the conversation a little bit, may I ask if/how you use the things you've learned today?

I mean, is it things like paradigms that have stuck with you like OOP/functional/w\e, or do you always structure your exception handling in a certain way, no matter the language? Are there skills/technologies you've been using since you've started? For example little scripts of basic that you've never let go off that automate things like setting up build servers and the like?
SmartAsset (YC S12) Is Looking for a Financial Analyst in NYC
H-Squared's product isn't terrible by any means, but I see it as phase 1 of at least a 2 or 3 phase solution. If you were running one shelf of Pros in a rack, it wouldn't matter much -- but at 10 racks of 88 Pros each, you'll run into cooling issues unless you put more work into it.

On the topic of density: our chassis was originally specced to support 6 units rather than 4. I vetoed that because it would require a second top-of-rack switch, and would have been too power dense for our current site design.

44 turned out to be the magic number this time around. The design is also flexible enough that if the specification changes dramatically in future Mac Pros, we can tweak as necessary to achieve ideal density.
The Vive ships earlier, so Oculus will actually be second fiddle.