skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answers are "sometimes" and "it depends."

I'm of the opinion that research dollars should go towards more cost-effective treatments. Therapy appointments are in general pretty expensive, both in actual cost and in time spent. However, one treatment method I found out about recently seems to tackle both these drawbacks of traditional therapy. That treatment method is called cognitive bias modification.

It's based on the premise that anxiety disorders and related mental illnesses are maintained by cognitive biases in the sufferer, attention and interpretation biases specifically, and by changing these biases people who suffer from mental illness can see relief. One way to accomplish changing these biases is by presenting people with stimuli they would normally encounter in their environment and training them to identify positive stimuli, in effect modifying their attention bias towards positive stimuli.

If you do a search for cognitive bias modification in your device's app store, you can already find apps that claim to help. The efficacy of these apps is not scientifically established, but it does point to the promise that CBM therapy can be both cost-effective and easily accessible. It might not even be necessary to subsidize people's access to this kind of therapy, but instead to simply subsidize the production of apps that assist with this kind of therapy.

Here is a paper explaining the current state of the field (as of Dec 2011): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092585/
I know my words are probably going to sound quite harsh, and I realize that there will be people who will take offense, still this is my opinion on the matter, and this being the Internet you're obliged to read and then ignore it ;p

To me it seems that choosing whether or not to live is a very personal choice, arguably the most personal choice you can make. Not wanting to contribute to a goal another might have is fine, nobody should be forcing you to contribute to anti-aging research or experimentation. However I don't think you should have a say in whether or not another ends/extends his or her life. It follows that you aren't allowed to forbid research into this area either, you might think it immoral, dangerous or distasteful, but it's not your choice to make.

There are a lot of arguments against changing what people think of as the 'natural order'. Various people are concerned that it will lead to overpopulation, perhaps it will. Perhaps when it gets really bad wars and/or famine will break out. Nature doing its 'job'.

Perhaps it's selfish of me, but given the choice between inventing a 'cure' for aging (that I can then subsequently use) and dying when 'my time has come'. I'll pick the cure for sure. I do care about the consequences, just not enough to stop me from producing and using said cure.

And I think that goes for many people. Only they're afraid to make that point and/or follow through with what they are actually advocating. Why else would you prefer dying of old age, to not dying at all?

If you truly think it's better to die of aging, and thereby preventing <insert horrible future> why don't you just decide to end yourself, and leave others be?
The minimum wage in New York is $8.75. Someone working 40 hours/week for 52 weeks/year, which is a generous estimate due to how many minimum wage employers hire and schedule employees, would earn $18,200 every year. After 15% in federal income taxes, that leaves us with $15,470. Let's assume they pay nothing in state/local income taxes. Let's also assume they live alone and have no children or family to care for-- all their expenses are their own.

Assuming that they pay $1000/mo for their apartment (let's be generous -- this includes rent and utilities), that leaves them with $3,470 every year to cover all other living expenses.

If I spend $50/week on food (which is conservative for NYC), that adds up to $2400, which leaves us at $1070. At that salary, if you spend more than $70 in a YEAR on clothing, healthcare, toothpaste, public transit), then you won't be able to afford $1000 in bail. I spend more than that every year on public transit alone (MTA 30-day pass costs $116.50 -> $1398.00/year).

It's really not hard to see how a $1000 bail can be out of reach for the poor in New York.
Author seems pretty certain there are no applications and that his/her definition is just arbitrary but I wonder... ?
Apparently they moved on past freezing now, in an attempt to combat just that.
I'm keen to the demand level via our research. IMHO it's not worth it for their business size and growth plans. Their other initiatives are far more lucrative. There's also a lot of competition at that level.

I think of this more as a convenience feature for their existing business that adds value. They use this instead of the "project page" design that the other code sites used, and it gives their users more control over the presentation. Which is awesome, and feeds into my conspiracy to get everybody to know and use HTML for presentation. :)
Heh, if you can actually get people to do all of that, it will be $150 well spent.
Yes, we experienced the same :(
Americans also have a uniquely individualistic philosophy of life. They are big on "personal responsibility" and free will. I see lots of people with no sympathy for people who are caught up in the justice system, based on a belief that they "chose" to do whatever they did, and are inherently evil and deserve whatever they get. We love retributive justice here in the USA. That will be very hard to dislodge. It seems abundantly clear that there is no such thing as truly (i.e. supernatural) free will, and severe punishments do little to deter crime.

The phrase "they are just x" gets thrown around a lot. They are just animals. They are just monsters. They are just evil. As if these qualities are discrete things that exist by themselves...

What can we do to convince people that criminals are not, in fact, "just" bad people?
Higher end jobs have not been automated to any significant degree yet. Accounting, something you'd assume is easy to automate with software, is still growing. There are more than ever. The only automation done in the legal industry is word processing software and legal search engines--which actually still really suck compared to google.

All these claims about the professional class being put out of work are based on a superficial view of the industries. Lawyers don't exist to spit out the law for you.

Any AI that can lawyer for you is advanced enough to write software itself.

We still haven't even automated repetitive jobs yet. Maybe these people's kids or grand kids will have to worry about it, but not them.
I am, because I'm there to have fun. Looking at DB benchmarks can be fun, but there are other reasons I do it.
It looks like 'FarmHash' is the successor from the CityHash authors. Does xxHash have 128/256-bit variants?
In the past month or so I've been using it astoundingly often. I really enjoy having such a site available and I appreciate the generosity of it all, but it could really (IMHO) use a cleanup. Perhaps a pass over the book URLs for 404s, cleaning/merging the duplicate categories, and perhaps a more rigorous way of preventing them from happening again (suggesting existing topics on the submit form?)
I'm sure there are plenty of people here that would be happy to contribute content, code, design, or whatever.
Too bad you didn't get past the vague thought because there must be things we can do to accelerate health research, in general. Should we donate money? Should we all become scientist? Should we all start wearing wearables and try to make some sense out of the data? Should we submit our DNA and data to a research center?

At any rate, aging is going to take a long time to solve. Throwing time and money directly at it might not be the most effective solution. Maybe we invent an AI to do research and it eventually solves the problem, for example.
White paint (or IR-colored paint, in this case) is worse than a mirror surface; it starts out at a disadvantage already. By assuming a mirror surface, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt- anything else would be even more useless.
I think its a symptom of some bigger issues. Specifically that many of the decisions in the US are being driven by fear and the increasing role that money plays in politics (and elections in particular).

Instead of addressing problems in a way that would be most effective for the individual and society, we are so afraid of having "bad" people on the streets, that we lock them away, sometimes for years, without a lot of evidence that we are doing any good (in fact, there is evidence that once someone enters the prison system, they are likely to commit crime once released)

On the political side, we are unnecessarily removing transparency from the government and sacrificing constitutional rights in the name of protecting ourselves from terrorists and people involved with criminal activity. The potential for abuse with this type of action is huge, especially if you get the wrong people in power.

I don't think we'll fix these sort of problems until we change our mindset and get money out of politics.
Children make adults self-entitled. Younger brains are stupider, and prone to cruelty before they learn compassion. The tyranny of youth prevents us from ever maturing as a species, having to relearn the same lessons over and over again. If we could stop wasting our time with the inefficiency of use, perhaps we could finally start adapting and conquer our own flaws.
I haven't had the impression that language geeks[1] complain a lot about Python. They certainly complain more about other dynamic languages.

[1] I don't know if I've seen enough designers' opinions about it to say anything.
The ES-2600 series comes in 4 to 12 cores, so that's still a pretty wide range of compute power.
Let me further refer you to Obama's book, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance"

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. THE MARXIST PROFESSORS and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."

In other words, by his own admission, he sought out and aligned himself with Marxist professors.

It is surprising to me why smart people who can read can't see this ideal in Obama's policies, politics, and governance.
Silicon Valley’s Eating Up Super Ritalin. I Got the Best of It
So, if you plot a three dimensional graph of y = f^(N)(x) (axes: x, y, N), I wonder what it would look like, for, say, f(x) = x. Anyone handy with Matlab?
Much of the time sales' over-promising comes as a result of some management or client services functionary that's not a technical product manager but thinks they are insisting that $requirement definitely will be possible once $feature is in place, which definitely will be on time, so no need to communicate with the dev team at all on that.

(It's often the same middle management that omits to let the dev team know the system is supposed to work on IE8 until the client complains.)

Sales commmonly direct their sour taste towards the developers...
>"People here don't care about the future, they just want to live forever."

Living forever is caring about the future. Just not caring about the future in the way you deem "right", or "true".

Also, wanting to live forever has nothing at all do with the birth, nor does it mean that birth can't occur anymore. How about you leave your doomsday straw-man out of this, please.
Intuitive essence of fractional derivatives: Interpret the n-th derivative as the coefficient of \epsilon^n in a "generalized" Taylor expansion of f(x+\epsilon). If the "function" behaves weirdly enough to not have a nice Taylor expansion with integer powers, then you can essentially extract the behaviour under increments by \epsilon. HTH. (IANAMathematician :-)
Same here. Any ideas on the problem?
Or as I call it: "the download.com strategy." Honestly SF are scumbags.
Ask HN: What are the best practices for storing API keys?
If I have a web service which uses other 3rd party API and I want to store the keys securely, what are the best practices around that?

I've looked at vault (https://hashicorp.com/blog/vault.html) which seems ideal but still in production.

Also AWS's Key Management system (KMS)(https://aws.amazon.com/kms/) seems promising but only provides ways to store native AWS keys. Would I then create a database which held the keys encrypted using KMS keys and SQL access keys?
WHAT DISTINGUISHES YOU FROM ANOTHER
FWIW Fastly invalidates objects, services, and batches of objects globally at ~150ms via an API. They have a different approach to wildcard/batch invalidation: it groups based on a prior-set header that can be programmatically based off of URL paths (or a bunch of other things).

Disclaimer: I'm employed by Fastly :)
Please, enlighten me on what you think weddpros is saying.
This extension will help you find the source for any extension you encounter on the Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...
I would be interested to see what the x64 versions were like.
Tried Fedora 22 on my laptop - installed from the live image dd'ed to a USB stick

Gnome 3.16 looks well slick although those new scroll widgets take a bit of getting used to (middle click for drag-scroll), e.g. Terminal | Edit | Profile then try changing the terminal font.

Playing mp3 music: gstreamer1-plugins-ugly package not available in Fedora repository. RPMFusion repository does not seem to work at present, the /etc/yum.repos.d entries refer to rawhide as well as Fedora 22. So I just used an old copy of the Fluendo mp3 codecs from Centos 6 installed with rpm -i --nodeps. I find it strange that in the second decade of the 21st Century playing a music track should take a significant amount of tweaking. Just works on Debian, who are very careful about licensing.

NTFS format external hard drive: ntfs-3g and fuse installed, but my (harmless) 500Gb external drive does not automount. Entry present in dmesg but can't see it in Files.

'Software' application reports failure to install just about every package, command line install using '# dnf install foobar' works much better.
but they don't believe in several aspects which are typical in mainstream economic branches, such as using statistical modeling and mathematics to draw conclusions about economic status or action

To be fair, that doesn't mean they are wrong. Certainly we've seen plenty of cases where people built incredibly complex, elegant and expressive models of economic systems, which turned out to be completely broken.

That said, I know of at least some Austrian economists who think the Austrian school should make some effort to better ground their ideas with mathematical formulations, but I haven't followed things closely enough to know if much, or any, work has actually been done in that regard.
Maybe keep the menu open by default on desktop?
Also, don't push the content when opening the menu?
OSS can just use trademarks to stop SF from redistributing the binaries under that specific name (thus will kill their search rank).
Reminds me of user agents.
I wouldn't. Working with Free Software seems perfectly aligned with "Igniting passion".
Is the author's definition consistent with that?
Cybersource's support line plays a recording stating that they are aware of a problem, but there's no info on their website.
C free golang 1.5
> In fact there's no obvious button for all the settings, just the label and an icon, but apparently if you push the label for Wi-Fi it's actually a button, but there's literally no affordance that it is such a thing.

This annoys me. I see what they were trying to do by giving you more options but the touch target for small for the label button that I fat-finger this a lot and end up doing something like turning off Wi-Fi.
I used to work at Conectiva in 1999 and I remember to look at Mandrake/Mandriva spec files, I did remember your contributions (also from Pablo). Good old days. Later both companies get merged. Respect.
Why bother creating a third outcome? If a defendant is found not guilty, then the expenses and time of arrest/imprisonment/trial are damages and they should be fully compensated. Anything less is externalizing the cost of policing onto innocent victims, accompanied by all the usual problems from moral hazard.
You and Your Research by Richard Hamming

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
From the top of the page:

"There is! For readers not already familiar with first year calculus, this post will be a lot of non-sense."

FWIW, it is a pretty straight forward explanation of 'half-integrals'... which by induction means there are 'half-derivatives'.
Why the SVG Filter Is Awesome
Buffett: Raising minimum wage ‘would almost certainly reduce employment’
Bizarre. Happens only in landscape mode.
MIT's opencourseware would be a good start. They often have links to free textbooks. Their course on Principals of Microeconomics (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-01sc-principles-of-m...) has a free textbook.
Show HN: Twitter bot finds optimal meeting place given user locations, #hashtag
Solving whether your neighbor can eat is not a technological problem. There's already plenty of food. I'm not sure why you'd waste everyone's time using that example.

If you don't want to work on that problem I understand. Which of the other top 100 problems are you currently working on? There are 7 billion people on the planet. There are more than enough people to work on all of the problems.
I don't know many people who can comfortably absorb a sudden, unexpected $1,000 bill for anything, whether it be a car repair or bail. People plan their month of expenses around their paychecks, and often have close to $0 left over when the next one comes.

Consider yourself lucky if you can afford an emergency fund, but most people live paycheck to paycheck.
I think you're getting downvoted because it's easy to read your comment as blaming the poor for their predicament, but you raise a good point. The goal is to allow people to go home until their trial, but guarantee that they will actually show up for their trial. For many people, especially poor people, there is no bail amount that will accomplish this. It's either so much that it can't be paid, or it's so little that there isn't a great incentive to show up in court. There's no in between. This seems to point to a big problem with the entire concept of bail.
They organize themselves in a pyramid structure, which is a feature of capitalism. Even non-profit organizations are made this way which is more a phenomenon of society imitating society rather then what would happen naturally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System
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Want! I have actually used such a converted phone at 31c3. Someone from the Warpzone hackerspace in Münster, DE has built one. He even managed the trickery to drive the original ringer with a simple battery.
I don't know if it has been considered, however we do have a strong pattern for using DRDB.
Self preservation is possibly the most powerful instinctual urge humans experience. It doesn't seem very likely that child-bearing people will stick to their mortality pledge when faced with death.

I'd expect this approach would just slightly delay the population issue meanwhile creating a massive black market for pledge-breakers.
Yes, that is what I believe. I do not believe paying taxes confers ownership/access/etc over products produced with said tax dollars.
America loves to arrest poor people, it's not surprising that they have trouble making bail. I would bet a very large number of the people unable to come up with $1000 or less were unemployed.

Additionally, Republicans don't trust giving poor people cash, so the meager welfare system we have involves things that can't be used for bail (food stamps, discounted housing, medical care, etc).
I would rather die by my own choice, once I no longer feel I contribute to the world(s) that I and my progeny inhabit. Even then, there are things I might want to do -- learn languages, master calligraphy, etc. In a hypothetical diaspora of space exploration, the option to be immortal sounds like a HUGE benefit.
AOSP has GPS APIs. Maybe you're referring to the combined wifi/cell/gps location API in Play Services. It's built on top of the AOSP location API. Anyone can write a similar library.
Not to put too fine a point on it, since overall your calculations seem fair and your conclusions reasonable: but at $18200 with $10300 in deductions and exemptions the person's AGI would be only $7900 and hence all of their taxable income falls into the 10% marginal tax bracket. Of course this neglects payroll taxes (you did as well) but also ignores the EITC so suppose these roughly cancel. This results in the tax burden being $790 rather than your calculated $2730. That $2000 is a huge deal to a minimum-wage earner. Your back of the envelope calculation in this specific area was off by 450%.
We have the same thing in Germany. The problem is not, that the politicians are to ignorant or adhere to wrong believes, but for example our chancellor first met with the big corporation bosses -- and they told her, what "innovation" is in their opinion. And of course, the big corporations have a total different view of innovation than others.

It is like asking the dinosaurs, who the most fittest species on earth is.
Part of it also goes to the passion of the founders. At Zillabyte we really did want to build something people would love. I don't know what the conversations were with our investors afterwards, but I saw there was a partial release of our code on Github. If you have any interest in distributed computing go take a look. If I were more technical I would have started building onto it myself to keep the mission going.

https://github.com/zillabyte
about how many api keys are we talking? im using enviroment variables for the job. Might not be manageable if you have many keys though
Just to be clear, the official publisher page for SICP includes (and in fact) hosts the contents of it: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ (includes links to programming assignments etc.)
So, supposing for the sake of argument that scientists had discovered a way to allow humans to live healthily and happily until the age 200, how would your position change? Surely you wouldn't want to murder everyone at the arbitrary age of 80, because those eighty-year-olds are so darn 'ignorant' and incapable of change?

From there I ask: how great or small is the moral difference between preventing such technologies from coming to fruition, and killing people off once those technologies have been developed?

Antibiotics are a Good Thing. So is having doctors wash their hands. If we can use science to buy some more time for humans to live, all the better. I know it's hard to believe, but maybe not having people literally lose their minds and decay to the point of death between ages 70-100 would be kind of nice.
That would work for Neocities. Wildcard pricing is unfortunately a little out of our budget, but if you were interested in coming to an arrangement with us (we could say powered by Fastly on the site, for example) in exchange for a reduction on that, let me know. :) contact@neocities.org
Apple responds to iOS unicode bug
> I was getting pretty bored with the typical engineer personality types in every company I went to

I know what you mean, but I haven't given up yet. I still can't believe that a field this dynamic and intellectually challenging is so devoid of... personality and wit?

Its probably different in the valley, but this has been my experience in Europe. After 7 years, I still don't get it.
Couldn't that be kept compatible by allowing tautological assignments to True/False (True = (1==1), that sort of thing) but throwing an error on all other assignments?

Also, I don't see how that wouldn't be compatible with forbidding assignments to True/False. It'd never execute the except block.