skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and I am certain that everyone's experiences vary.

For instance some people enjoy things they consider frightening - others hate it.

My suggestion is that there is not a direct causal link between a higher or lower level of seratonin and a mental state called anxiety.

The same bodily state can enjoin one to flight or fight. Attitude, history, personality, self-belief and training can alter ones attitude to the same hormonal situation.

Changing the way one thinks about things can be very effective. I do not mean to trivialise such a change, this can require professional help, such as congitive behavioral therapy.

I posit there is not a one-to-one correlation between seratonin level and a mental state ( fright or excite ) but that other factors confound it.

Perhaps this is why these studies have come to seemingly contradictory ideas about seratonin levels and mental states ?

Links between the chemistry of the brain and distinct mental states seems less well established than proponents of the 'chemical-imbalance' school of therapy maintain.
I use Fitbit for a while and it motivates me to move more. Engage in challenges with your friends and that will make it more appealing and engaging.
I think it's untrue, but more true for middle management positions.
What if you use multiple computers for the hardware and manually control communication between machines.
Basically use hardware only for pure functions and store state out of band... Project output to a shared screen. Similar to how manufacturing of parts is split to different untrusted factories. Do the merging step on a breadboard or $10 commodity circuit that you fully control.
It's good to get people thinking about all the things included in the calculator. Most people are totally clueless when it comes to the real cost/value of owning. They only see what someone bought a property for and what it sold for some time later.

A home you live in is almost always a net cost. It's not really an investment so much as its a cost avoidance (vs renting). Buying more house than you need "because this is an investment" is almost always a bad idea if you live in the home and thus are the one footing the bigger tax bill, interest, maintenance, utilities, improvements...
Me too! I used to burn like a factory. Big meals including breakfast, snacks all day, weighed 140 lbs. Then I started gaining, so I cut out snacks until after lunch. Then until after 2:30. Then altogether. Then I cut out breakfast. Nowadays I sometimes skip dinner too.

Ultimately I expect to be eating a slice of bread at 1:00 and exist on oxygen otherwise.
> the court said that CloudFlare has to block every user with a domain name that contains “grooveshark,” no matter who owns the site

> What is the legal basis for this?

I wonder about that too. The court is ordering CloudFlare to disrupt the businesses of companies not party to the suit, who have likely not been notified and may have been found to be not infringing if they were in court.
Quoting:

>>> Among the conclusions from the study was the confirmation that prolonged semi-starvation produces significant increases in depression, hysteria and hypochondriasis

>>> Participants exhibited a preoccupation with food, both during the starvation period and the rehabilitation phase

>>> There were marked declines in physiological processes indicative of decreases in each subject’s basal metabolic rate (the energy required by the body in a state of rest), reflected in reduced body temperature, respiration and heart rate.

Depending on the amount of calorie deficit, the symptoms may not be as sever, but they are there. I don't really understand why you can't accept basic science.
That's an odd statement to make, since freedom is indistinguishable from having control.
It's not about immigration. HR people are talking things like that on seminars for people looking job in Poland :) And they're using such argument so people would create accounts there. So, by reading your comments it's more BS of hr people for theire on benefit.
Another tiresome tactic that recruitment firms use is to leave up ads for roles that were actually filled months ago - either to attract CVs and/or make them look busier than they actually are.

Edit: There's probably a book waiting to be written on the dodgy tactics of recruitment firms. Mind you, I became a bit less harsh on individual recruiters when I was in an office that shared a floor of a building with a recruitment firm and got to see how they treated their staff. They were too cheap to hire meeting rooms when they were doing staff reviews so we regularly had people getting complete bollockings in the shared kitchen area - which isn't much fun to witness and a pretty ghastly way to treat your own staff.
1) we check you out.

How? Are you keeping the details of this secret?
I adore every person who advocates a mostly linear history and is able to elucidate that efficiently and elegantly. :D
Science is only applicable to physical phenomena with physical causes due to consistent natural law; "supernatural" is a term for things that don't meet that description. At most -- e.g., for physical phenomena with nonphysical causes, or causes that are not governed by consistent natural law -- a scientific approach to supernatural will simply identify gaps in the ability to construct a scientific model no different than if the governing natural law were not correctly identified out the physical causes were outside our current ability to detect.

The issue is not the interest of scientist, is the applicability and function of the method known as "science".

Global flooding isn't inherently a supernatural event, and can be investigated with science, but science cannot, by its very nature, address any supernatural cause, ask it can do is produce a natural model of causation.
> Russia isn't interested in software freedom, they're just not interested in something from outside Russia they can't control

Which is exactly what the first paragraph states: "are pursuing measures to rid vendor lock-in of strategically important software"

Why should Russia (or any organization, from 1 person up to nations) prefer vendor lock-in over something that they can control?
I have almost always got jobs by sending resumes out, I have no social network to fall back on. I have a job, I will not start a linkedin profile.

Sending resumes will get you jobs, knowing people is not the only way.
23% of interviews have a drug test. What's the incentive behind that?
I'm actually a YNAB user. My wife and I started using it recently and really enjoy application. The budgeting system works perfect but there are a few features I wish it did have.

1. Target goals - Take the thinking out of saving for a target, you should be able to tell the system I want to save x in y time and it should tell you exactly what you need and if you adjust your budget when the new target date will be.

2. I want to be able to enter my bills into the system when the arrive at my house and have it remind me to pay them X days before they are due. I don't want the paper bills sitting on / in my desk until I pay them (QuickBooks can do this).

Also checkout:
https://www.everydollar.com/

I believe Dave Ramsey and his people have put this together is free unless you want bank connection BUT still makes the end user think and do some work. I a totally automated system is BAD as people put their fiances on autopilot.. this SHOULD require some work.
Disclosure – How do I report a security vulnerability about a trusted
The wrist band lock seems rather impractical the majority of circumstances that you'd encounter in the aftermath of a disaster or in refugee camps. And the advantage of no assembly seems to be a rather small advantage compared to the cost (a rather bulky construction). The amount of shelters you can put on a truck (http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52e6ca70e4b0aeaf06546d...) seems to be quite little.

I like the techy look and the idea seems cool, but it also seems to look like a very technocratic approach to shelters. This might work well for first world countries that have to deal with the fixing shelters after a disaster when conditions are quite good. But I can't see this helping out afters disasters like the one in Nepal.
Elixir Processes Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Crash
In my experience Austrians and Swiss are dialect-deniers. They don't want to admit that Austrian or Swiss are even German. "Some words in common" is the most you'll get them to admit to.
This seems like a pretty paranoid generalization. In my experience linkedin is more of a way for recruiters to just mass-email people that fit keywords so they can keep their numbers up. I don't put much about my socioeconomic status or race on my linkedin....
>The downside might be that the EU countries never have a tech sector as great as the US but man, in the end it's worth it to protect the people from anti-consumer behaviour.

Thanks, and I can see your point. Except for this last part, I'm having a hard time understanding the rationale. Do you mind talking more about how more government intervention and regulation could benefit consumers, compared to the current situation. How will 'the people' be protected? How will the government make better decisions than they can make for themselves?
I don't understand how a smaller technology sector correlates to less 'anti-consumer' behaviour by companies?
To avoid addictive folks who will have a high incidence of no-show when on a binge. Or long absences while in jail.
Does anyone know if the EU requirements for mandatory warranties on products affect free software and the ability to distribute them without warranty?
So, the distinction that I've learnt is that functions return values and procedures are run for their side effects.

So, strlen, for example, is a function, and printf is a procedure.

(Yes I know prints returns an int, but it's run for it's side effects primarily.)
Author here. Agree.
ReactOS is free and open source and is released under the GPL license.
ReactOS is free and open source and is released under the GPL license so anyone can see the source code.
Why does the US have more funding? Investors will invest where they can get the best return, there is no bias to country lines.
Graphene can do anything, except leave the lab.
It's not a major benefit, but it doesn't hurt. It's just an online resume, and you'll occasionally get spam from recruiters. I did work at one marketing agency that would, every week, send out an email to every employee (~40) saying who needed to get X more connections on linkedin that week. So I guess some people are crazy about it.
The OpenBSD license template is slightly different, eliding the "/or". http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/shar...
Yeah, I also don't have time to rad the whole thing but even just the first few pages are fun, for example:

Rule 21 assumes there is precisely one religion (not zero and not more than one) and it is christianity (there, I broke rule 9). In fact religion seems to get a lot of mention.

Rule 30 includes capitalization rules for Greek and Latin (which BTW are different from the Greek rules for ancient Greek I leaned in school) as well as French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, German, Danish and Dutch.

And yet, right in the front they capitalize "the Press" which doesn't seem, on a quick skim, to have been covered in their own capitalization rules!

Unicode should take up these kinds of rules. At least in some languages like French, they are well encoded, and in others, like German, are actually specified by international treaty!
> A home you live in is almost always a net cost.

Plus it "prevents" you from moving somewhere else. Or let's say, it increases the friction of moving somewhere else. Most home owners stay at the same place for the rest of their lives.
HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike
Google Adding Plant-Based Options to Its Worldwide Food Program
The idea is that you are contractually constrained to invest into a long-term asset (the house) on a monthly basis. In principle people who rent are paying less each month and should on average do just as well if they invest that money elsewhere, but in practice they tend to spent the extra money. Once they reach retirement, they have fewer assets.
Someone should explain to them that open source software without being actively developed by a global community of high skilled enthusiasts (doing it for their own use) is doomed to lag, stagnate and die. Even a Linux distribution will lag and stagnate without active community. So many did. It just a law of big numbers. Even Solaris forks are effectively dead - who would write all the drivers for all these new chipsets?

Long time ago Russian military had a brilliant idea to maintain their own Linux - it was an epic failure. And always will be.
I like to be able to (temporarily) revert an entire feature branch, which merge commits help with. Is there a way to easily do this without them?
I'm fairly confident of this as well. It's definitely a tactic I've seen used in the past when dealing with recruiters in the UK.
Why most popular GitHub repos are all web related?
Look at it like a computer game. You do things and you get points. You can then use those points to 'unlock' certain achievements, beat your old high score or try to beat your friends score.

Some people like turning things into games as a mechanism to achieve certain goals.
Easy answer. C# WebApi
And GPL source: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/download.php
The speakers are generic off the shelf $1.80 drivers found in cheap headphones.
I'm also an (ex?) compiler engineer and I've played a little with FPGAs and computer architecture. In addition to the obligatory processor design, I recently created a open-source place and route tool for iCE40 FPGAs:

https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr

Together with Yosys (a Verilog synthesis tool):

http://www.clifford.at/yosys/

and the IceStorm bitstream creation tools:

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

it provides a full Verilog-to-bitstream open source toolchain for the iCE40 FPGAs. There is also a low-cost (~$21) USB development board:

http://www.latticesemi.com/icestick

Unfortunately, this toolchain doesn't support VHDL, so I can't try out the OP's TPU.
Does this take into account the risk of a housing market crash? For me, the biggest reason for renting rather than buying is to avoid putting all my bags in one basket; I wouldn't buy $500k worth of shares of one company, so spending $500k on a single house seems similarly risky.
No, this is not true at all. LinkdIn is pretty much a joke at this point.
ReactOS has a plenty of drivers and programs, because the idea of ReactOS is to be 100% compatible with windows 2003+
A Papal Message That Spares No One
A lot of the time there are good reasons, but the funding structures of this kind of large-scale science also generate some perverse incentives. No-one's employed full-time to "be a scientist" at the kind of scale that a space mission takes - at best some of the people will be tenured researchers, but their loyalty tends to (reasonably) belong to their specific institution. Usually at least some of the people involved will be commercial contractors who will then move elsewhere once the money goes away - and it will, as soon as the probe is launched. Finally, science tends to be funded on a grant basis, and these grants are always for specific things.

So imagine someone working on the Foo Mars Orbiter. They're probably employed by the University of Bartown, and their work is being funded by an NSF grant for the Foo Mars Orbiter project. Neither of those bodies is interested in making something reusable for another satellite ten years down the line: the university may well not be involved in the next one, and they're unlikely to get much academic prestige from having their designs reused, they'd rather their professor spend time making their paper nicer and getting it in better journals. Meanwhile the NSF wants its grant to be used for the grant's specific purpose, not as a general slush fund, and will be hostile to any expenditure that's not directly related to getting the Foo Orbiter into orbit. Even if the team did put together something reusable, the team's going to be dissolved as soon as it launches (with a skeleton crew remaining to check when it arrives) or at very best once the primary mission completes, so no-one's going to be in a position to handover the assets to the team making the next satellite. If you've ever tried to reuse some code that was written two years ago by someone who thought it was a one-off and has since left the company, you get the idea.
Well, it's more complicated than that. Your hand will start to tremble uncontrollably when someone looks at you. Your face will blush, your legs will start to shake. You might eventually go and vomit. Elevator filled with people is of course extreme case. But I was in the elevator alone. I just couldn't open the doors of the office, take a sit in my corner and greet all these great guys that I've worked with for many years.

I'm not sure what caused that. I've actually acted as a project manager in my early twenties and everything was fine (I could handle meetings and all that idiocy just fine). Then it all went downhill and I can't tell if the onset of these symptoms was gradual (and I was just simply ignoring them) or if they appeared suddenly.
Though, just a language simplification of the MIT License. (not that that is bad). However it is not as permissive as the 1-clause BSD spelled out in the article, since it still requires copyright notice in binary distribution. The Boost license is one of the licenses I remember to be in effect the same as that 1-clause BSD license. Which is nice since you can use the Boost header-only libraries without having to consider where you going to credit them, much like any standard library in most languages.
Here is my take....

1. People think they can afford to buy a place at $X

2. People find a place at $X+Y and say "it'll be tough, but I love this place"

3. People find out actually owning a house costs $X+$Y+$Z and they can barely make their house payments and supporting costs

4. Eventually (after enough mortgage payments) your principal payments become large enough to take on the form of "forced savings"

I think this might work for some, but there are plenty of examples where people lose their homes because they underestimated the costs. Someone get sicks and goes on LT disability at 60% of their salary and end up missing mortgage payments.
I can imagine what the theory is, but does it make sense in practice? Do you know which industries it tends to apply to? Would a developer be asked to take a drug test?

It's interesting, because I've worked with a lot of people in a lot of places over the years and I've never seen drugs as a problem that impedes workplace attendance / performance. Alcohol / hangovers, sure - plenty of times - but they're not testing for that, right?
Yeah, I just don't observe that many people keeping their genetics in the fridge like that woman. Just from the fat people I meet, I've heard very few pull the victim card. I think it's overblown how many fat people do act like that, not a "significant number" in my opinion. Maybe it depends on the place/culture, but I don't see it
On Care for Our Common Home
Well, unlike satanic ritual abuse, the dark web actually exists. But yes, there is an element of moral panic to it.
The one they used when they didn't make FaceTime an open standard from the get go. Clearly they knew they couldn't make it an open standard when they announced they intended to, but they still made the promise.

This isn't unique to Apple, but it's stupid to ignore reality. At the end of the day, they haven't release Swift. Banking on it now is, without a doubt, a foolish gamble.
Component-based JavaScript architecture in Targetprocess
Sizing up Navabi, the German startup tapping into plus-size fashion
UN report promotes encryption as fundamental and protected right
They gave numbers on Tor but not on either of the other 2 dark networks mentioned. They also don't have any size numbers; is every wordpress blog considered a "site"?

I'm also not completely clear on what they think is a myth; it would be helpful if excerpts of other media were included and shown to be false.

edit: there's a legitimate point that people confuse the deep web with the dark web, but that doesn't make either a myth.
IdeaPaint+Takes+its+Innovation+from+Walls+to+Mobile+with+New+Bounce+App+
Tamr Receives $25.2M in Financing in Series B
SVG Is the Future of Graphics and Here's Why
There are a few ketogenic soylents -- check out the sidebar at http://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/
Pirate Bay says Australia's proposed website blocking won't deter downloaders
Got me thinking about a Bill Herd video about working on the C116.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPD5N43VIsk

Specifically the part where he talks about sorting out the joystick port.

More hardware than software but still...
I always look someone up by LinkedIn before meeting them. Usually people do the same for me. It's a good way to see who you know in common (better than Facebook on a business level) and in general saves a lot of time. Almost everyone I meet for work has a linkedin profile -- though literally just yesterday I (independently) met two people without a linkedin profile: one a quasi-celeb and the other someone simply so specialized in skill and so appropriately connected that it just didn't add value for him.

Now there are drawbacks to linkedin. For example some people will link to just anyone. I only link to people whom I actually know well enough personally to have a good opinion about them.

The linked in interface is terrible. It generates too many messages and basically just sucks. They know, and it sometimes improves, but there you are.

You will get recruiter and other spam. But then again the whole point of it is to connect people professionally, so...
You're looking at it the exact right way. Risk is a two sided-coin. If the local housing market does well, you can make out like a bandit. If it doesn't, you can lose a lot of money.

No different than owning $500K worth of share in a public company.

Nothing wrong with buying a house, but people should be careful not to have their net worth all tied up in a single asset (house or not). The one rule I've heard is 90 minus your age. When you're young is OK to have a high percentage of your net worth in a house, but not when you're getting close to retirement. Too risky.
It could be inferred in some languages (notably MLs).
This is absolutely true. As a person who loves building stuff, it's pretty easy to remain into a state of denial that you're not spreading the word out if you're busy building the next great feature or revamping your UI yet again. From my own experience, this comes almost naturally to hardcore product guys. In your early days, I believe it is critical to have one co-founder who is solely focused on selling - when you are busy building.
Who Cares About Your Data Privacy?
It sounds smart. Just swap out the sha1 for public-key signatures and rename the "value chain" to "block chain" and Bob's your uncle.

No but seriously: "SHA which I have chosen in this article has 160 bits, so after more than 2^160 entries have been put into the DHT collisions will occur"

Collisions are largely related to the content that you are hashing. If you are hashing sequential 160 bit chunks of data then Joe's math is theoretically correct. If you are hashing DVD ISO images then you can use math to predict why you should never use sha1.

If you needed to cram it into 160 bits for some hardware reason then you could implement some form of write failure recovery to redistribute writes over them remaining available key space but this would get slower and slower the less and less space you have unless you implement some kind of free space map.
How Microsoft Can Spy on You and How to Stop It