skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, the physical evidence shows that there was no such singular major cataclysm.

Could such evidence exist? Certainly. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuruppak mentions that "At the end of the Uruk period [around 3100 BC] there was an archaeologically attested river flood in Shuruppak". This marks the end of the antediluvian rulers of the Sumerian King List. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List#Antediluvia... .) Therefore, there are physical remnants of a local flood from 5,000 years ago, which correspond to historical records. If there were a global flood then it too would leave physical traces.

Floods are not uncommon events. In some areas they occur yearly, in others they occur once a decade or one a generation. There are myths around the world which refer to the sun, to the moon, to storms, and to other natural events that were not singular in nature. Floods should fall in that local category.

You hypothesize that 'we all spoke the same language' before this event.

The Chinese flood myth concerns events that took place about 2200 BCE, and emphasizes how human efforts were able to mitigate its effects. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_%28China%29 .) This is 1,000 years after the flood in Shuruppak.

We have written records of Egyptian, Sumerian, and Eblaite, dating from before 2300 BC. Indeed, the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt started about 1,000 years before the Chinese flood.

Therefore, the Chinese flood myth cannot be about an event which occurred when all humanity shared a common language.

Therefore it cannot be the case that all great flood myths refer to the same singular event at you describe. Which means we cannot look to the comment element - a large flood - in order to make an inference that there was a singular event. We would have to use other common elements, and there are no other world-wide common elements.
My own license is a more family-friendly variant of the WTFPL: http://www.johntait.org/webhelp-mobile/WYLPL.html
Slightly off topic, but did anyone else find that the form they used was in every way worse, both from a UX and just general design perspective, than just a nicely laid out 'normal' web form?
I have had exactly the same issue, and have used a meditative technique that I learned in Nepal to help with sleeping:

Count from 27 to 1 with each inhalation. If you miss a number, ie between 15 and 14 you lost your focus and thought about something else, and missed the count, start over.

My experience is that generally I will fall asleep before I get to 1, and on extreme cases it will take going from 27 to 1 more than once, but it always ends with sleep.

The only difficulty I have now is being disciplined enough to not think "I got this" and try to sleep without the technique. Often what happens when I think that is I toss and turn for 3 hours before I just give in to the technique and finally fall asleep.
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My system is to use a standard, common word, such as "cat." Let it begin with a capital letter followed by the service name. Last is a favorite number; for example, Catinstagram17 for Instagram and Catfacebook17 for Facebook.

Even if your password is stolen from Facebook, the hacker can't use it to brute-force themselves into your Instagram account, as the password won't match. Instagram and other services usually code and "salt" user passwords with a hash system. For example, the Catinstagram17 to you is obfuscated in the checked against file at the service and it looks something like this: "9dC90Oy26#^Y." So, along with all the other encrypted user passwords in the list, they likely won't see your pattern.

For the banks and work with heavy restrictions, such as special characters, I just add that to the end.

*DIY is "Do it yourself," and DRY is "Don't repeat yourself."
Not all trademarks are equal. For "well-known marks" infringement can be considered to occur even with dissimilar goods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Well-known_status.
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Most of the figures here looks wrong, Chinese is almost in one block (where is Cantonese ?), French numbers are too low (Africa is not even counted), Russian seems also too way low, the real figure is almost twice as this, English is also too low. I also think there is more German speakers in Austria than Poland (you can't see Austria).
Yes, but worth noting that for Paris Convention countries (nearly the whole world) "well-known marks" are afford protection even without registration in the specific geographic area.
If there's sleight-of-hand going on elsewhere in the process, even more important not to imply it in the wrong place.
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Should read "more than 50 million people" for each language.
The paradox being that SSRIs have been shown to be beneficial for social phobia ...
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. Happy Father's Day
What about Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon 'direly' needs investigation?(Genuinely curious) What can the government do to aid said problems?
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Well, here's an update. 24 hours ago I've posted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9738698 thread.

That's a big step forward for me, because due to all the commenters (thank you), now I have a much clearer picture about what I want to do.

Main specs:
- anonymous (all the data will be tied to a dropbox/google drive user id, OAUTH login only), no emails/names/addresses/IPs logged on purpose (on purpose = by me, I don't mean http log files, access logs)

- intelligent forecasting/financial planning (I have a lot of ideas about this one, something I really need)

- no bank connection(way too sensitive data), just OFX/QFX/QIF/CSV importing without personal info

- as simple as possible, yet beautiful/useful web/mobile interface

- monetization without ad networks (I am still thinking how to handle this anonymously)

- family accounts (idea)

Basic specs:

- add transactions

- various graphs/reports

You would need this app, for the bigger transactions. You don't really have to log that you bought a $.40 coffee today.
If you plan to buy a car ($10,000), a cofee/meal will not influence this too much. You need an aproximate budget, not exactly until the last cent.

WHAT'S NEXT?
- create a landing page to get some early user signing-up for the launch

- create a build-blog (I noticed this worked for groovehq I think and for many others)

- add some early design mockups

- invite users for beta testing

- launch

Did I miss something?
If you would like a non-copyleft free software license consider using the ISC license. It removes language not required by modern laws. It's the preferred license for the OpenBSD project.

Here it is:

Copyright (c) Year(s), Company or Person's Name <E-mail address>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
It is the dehumanizing effect of division of labor in action - programmers are not supposed to have ideas about product features, product people are. Programmers are supposed to execute and this is what is tested in these interviews.
Express is a micro framework, Rails is not. Rails covers more ground. You would want to compare security of Express to Sinatra or Grape.
Sleep deprivation is one of the most reliable and strong antidepressants, but also one of the least practical. Some clinics actually make patients stay awake for a period of time. I don't recommend "self-medicating" on purpose, though... In many case this makes everything worse.
Personally I like typeforms but I think they work best in a modal rather than embedded.
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Yes, the paper [1] is fairly careful to point out that this is studying a neurotransmitter pathway's association with social anxiety disorder, which might be useful information in later establishing etiology, but doesn't do so on its own. Their causal hypothesis is actually (if I'm reading it correctly) the reverse of the direction people are assuming from the headline: [other physical features of] social anxiety disorder may cause excessive serotonin production, which may in turn produce additional symptoms, rather than excessive serotonin production being the root cause. That is, unusual upregulation of some pathways involving serotinin sits more towards the end of a causal chain than at its beginning. (Some of these causal chains are more like feedback loops, though, which makes it extra difficult to sort out what constitutes a root cause.)

From the paper:

> Although we cannot test causal effects in the present study, we speculate that, because raphe nuclei serotonin 1A autoreceptors exert inhibitory feedback on serotonin synthesis and firing, downregulation of inhibitory raphe serotonin 1A autoreceptors previously reported in social anxiety and panic disorder leads to increased serotonin synthesis, and augmented reuptake may be a compensatory mechanism.

[1] http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=23197...
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social phobia = psychiatric disorder, in case i can't speak in public? do i have to speak in public? i'd be very careful with that kind of judgement. in general, having experience with how "modern medicine" and society in general handle such proclaimed "problems", psychology is a great deal of bullshit.

i myself don't like masses of people. i embrace this preference. and i love it. most amassment of people aren't even useful.

to everybody who's eating chemicals because some say you don't fit in: STOP IT. tell them to fit in. don't sell yourself and everybody like you to pharmaceuticals and others.

btw: did they actually disable copying of text (on iOS) on this site?
What if those with social phobia are creating those serotonins to counter-act other social-phobia-causing stuff?

IMHO, this article really shouldn't say serotonin causes social phobia based on 'social-phobiacs have lots of serotonin'
SoundCloud announces rate limits for third party APIs
"Effective July 1, all requests that result in access to a playable stream are subject to a limit of 15,000 requests per any 24-hour time window. Currently, this is inclusive of all requests that are made to /tracks/:id/stream."

Pretty big blow for the third party ecosystem..a ton of music related services will see some issues now.
WebGL is based on OpenGL ES, so look at the es2 column.
Oh! Man, that sentence was difficult to parse that way. Thanks, I really tried hard to make sense of that sentence.
The stock picture looks like a character from the HBO show "Silicon Valley" without the facial hair: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dkrzZ8-gfn0/maxresdefault.jpg
Here is something I've wondered about for a few years: Can we actually feel wetness or only the temperature difference of wet vs dry? In other words, if the water, air and skin temp were the same, could you feel what part of your hand was in water?
Open Data + Right to Information = Right to Data
He conflated exciting with "new development in computer science".
The best interview I had was one where they brought in the whole team of 8 or so people to interview me. They asked me questions but there was a lot of joking around as well and it gave everyone in the room a good sense for whether I would fit in with the group. I have a small fear of public speaking so it was very much not what I would have picked for myself but it turned out to be pretty great.
The ideal outcome for that point of view is that it would be a direct legal requirement that software is distributed in preferred modifiable form. No licenses or contracts necessary.
No, he was not. His own attorney said that it was likely that even if convicted on all charges, he might have received no custodial sentence. The "30 year" number is an entirely fictitious "whale sushi" PR stunt by the DOJ.

http://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-ele...
Is that unnamed dot in "German" meant to represent Austria? It is currently unlabeled, so just guessing.

Australia's population is also around 22million, not 15 million. I struggle to believe there are 7 million non-English speakers in Auatralia.
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Coggle explain why they're planning to charge for private documents
> how much do journalists care about the truth vs selling a story?

Not much. And it's the same the world over.
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I don't know Rust, and the only thing opaque to me in that line is the `'a` syntax. I suppose it is related to memory safety.

In plain English:

`search_entry_hashed` is a parametric function. It works in a type safe way on any kind of K and V. It takes as arguments a reference to a mutable hash table, a hash function and a key, and returns an `Entry` object whose precise type depends on the type of the parameters.

You could hardly express that more succinctly. You can't understand it by skimming it, but it is a complex definition.
Am I the only one thinking that:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS... and continued

is incredibly important.
No, it's just syntactic sugar. They're not a basic construct of the language. JavaScript has objects and it has prototypes on objects. ES6 classes are sugar over this. Classes in other languages, however, are the basic construct.
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So Datomic over KV storage or DHT? Could be useful, in case of a very efficient implementation.
Agreed. Also, I usually blame the hardware quite fast... Have seen enough faulty gbics, or wrongly plugged cables. But then that's what you see as a sysadmin, not as a (game) developer...
My cofounder is my former manager. We worked together for 6 years before leaving and chasing the common dream we had of starting our own business.

I made friends at school but very few of them would I consider doing business with, much less starting a business with. I suppose it depends on how you select your friends.
Interesting. I picked the 320 Kbps mp3 for each of the samples. There really is not much difference with wav at this bit level. I would have like to see some examples at 160 or 192.
Anybody who's read or skimmed around in this (I haven't had a chance to yet) have informed commentary on the differences between this edition and the current CMOS?
I expect the client would have lost

Really? If I buy a domain that refers to someone else's business and redirect it to a porn site, I would expect a complaint against me to be upheld - it's at least trademark infringement, if not some form of defamation. The fact there was work involved and the client didn't pay doesn't change that.
I loved how easy it was to scan list of upcoming events but I did run into an issue when looking for events in London.

The 'City, State, Country' format led me to input 'London, London, England' which didn't feel...right.

Generally the first few results on any given day were for London, but it also gave me events in India, the US and Canada (I gave up checking after a while).
My prejudice towards Buzzfeed
honest question: is that phobia a real problem for you? or did somebody tell you it is?
Fitbit – I don't get it, please explain it to me
My wife has one, and I looked at the dashboard. I get that it tracks all your activity and sleep, but I'm not convinced that it has long term appeal. If you think otherwise, fire away.
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Yes, and the stories of Homer helped Schliemann rediscover the location of Troy. The Inuit of northwestern Greenland had a myth that the three pieces of the Cape York meteorite were a woman, her dog, and her tent that had been 'hurled from the sky by the evil spirit, Tornarsuk.' (https://books.google.com/books?id=6saFpP5aticC&lpg=PA212&ots... ). We know that everything about that is wrong, except for the 'from the sky' part.

My question is, given a myth, how can we identify the kernel of truth? Did humans in early Zuni culture live "crowded tightly together in total darkness in a place deep in the earth known as the fourth world"? Or is there something else we should consider that kernel?

If we are not careful, then we can look to a modern myth, like the 'myth of Superman', and posit that the breakup of Krypton explains why there are meteorites.
BSD license does not cover warranty. There is a risk author gets sued to oblivion.
Seen that job listing for a while, its no coincidence
Nice. I've always wanted to implement something similar to that gesture for timebased selections.
The 1-Clause BSD License seems to be similar to the Boost Software License (http://opensource.org/licenses/BSL-1.0). I think it's a pretty good fit for foundation libraries.
No, an important aspect of mental diagnosis is that the patient is actively troubled by the problem but is unable to change on his own; otherwise it is more of personality. If you just hate socializing, you don't have social phobia. If you sincerely believe that washing your hands every ten minutes make you cleaner and do so, you don't have OCD.

Psychologists are not as eager to judge as you might imagine.
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>You can quickly lose a trademark if you don't actively defend it (weird, considering patents and copyrights) so companies quickly get over zealous. //

It's oft repeated but not true AFAICT. Genericisation can be a problem, but another company using something as a trademark for a distinct type of good/service won't make your mark more generic. You lose a registered trademark by not paying your renewal fee.

If you wanted to codify someone else's use then you could grant them a license, you don't have to sue them or start infringement proceedings or whatever. You're free to ignore one infringement and pursue another.

This is like saying you have to prosecute every person who steps on your land or you lose the right to prosecute trespassers; if you allow a right of way to be established then yes that's probably not going to help you. But you're allowed to let someone in to your garden and you're allowed not to sue people who make incidental incursions.
This is not a very straight-forward question to answer. The short answer is that both CMS and ATLAS detected a couple thousand Higgs events.

The long answer depends on your definition of detected. As you probably know, the Higgs decays into many different combinations of particles. In some of these cases, we have very little chance of determining whether there was a Higgs in the event. In fact, only in H(iggs) -> ZZ -> 4l(eptons), do we stand a reasonably good chance of saying whether a specific event contains the Higgs. In this channel, CMS and ATLAS both observed ~20 events.

The next two most sensitive channels are H->WW->2l+2nu (neutrino) and H->2photon. In the most Higgs-enriched regions that have been constructed, the contribution from Higgs is ~10% in H->WW->2l+2nu and ~20% in H->2photon. So in these channels, we have very little chance to say whether a specific event contained a Higgs, but if we look at all the events, we see features that wouldn't be present if there weren't any Higgs bosons. The contributions from Higgs in these channels are a few hundred events in CMS and ATLAS.

Then there are even less sensitive channels, which means we have even less chance to say whether a specific event contains a Higgs. CMS and ATLAS probably detected a few hundred to a thousand or so events each in these channels.
Everyone should write their own license. This will increase freedom and democracy.
For a moment there I thought it was Ubuntu
How will specifically writing your own license increase freedom and democracy??

What everyone should do is choose a license.
The engine of the mmorpg Ryzom was released as open source:

"Ryzom Core is the open-source project related to Ryzom Game. Written in C++, Ryzom Core contains the whole code (client, server, tools) used to make the commercial MMORPG Ryzom. Ryzom Core is a toolkit for the development of massively multiplayer online universes. It provides the base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the development of both client and server code."

Repository: https://bitbucket.org/ryzom/ryzomcore/overview

Confluence: https://ryzomcore.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RC/Ryzom+Core+H...

http://ryzomcore.org/
> The results strongly suggest that every human trait is heritable as they didn't find one trait that had 0% heritability.

I can't find that conclusion in the article. I guess that there is some selection bias here. Even if some trait has a very small inheritability, the p values are very big and I guess it will be dropped from the original article because it's not interesting.

For example: "Preferred fingernail color" is probably not inheritable.
Your guess about 'a is correct. 'a is here used to signify that the return value can only be safely used while the value table exists and is not being concurrently modified. This implies that the value is not copied on return, but only a reference into the table is returned.
About WebAssembly, there is already an asm.js interpreter in emscripten
but what are you talking about? have you seen spring boot? There is no .xml file to be empty to start with. Please research technologies better before you judge them.
(In no particular order)

- HiFiMan
- Grado
- Sennheiser
- Beyerdynamics
- AKG
- Philips
- Marshall
- Audio-Technica
- Brainwavz

There are many other/niche brands as well. There are several great audiophile magazines that can help sort through the options.

Most brands have headphones that will do fine without, but some of the higher end options may need a DAC to power the headphones (e.g. the DragonFly USB DAC by Audioquest), so be mindful of that.
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So it is like a simple kitchen timer but with a linear rather than a circular interface.
When an irrational fear prevents you from doing something, that's basically a definition of psychiatric disorder.

It doesn't matter if you have no great desire to do it in the first place. If someone thinks an activity isn't useful then that can mitigate a phobia, but it's orthogonal to the actual existence or not of a phobia.

Nobody is judging you for your preferences. "won't" and "can't" are different things.

So if you're calling the overuse of chemicals bullshit, fine. But don't call a clear diagnosis bullshit.
First off, thanks for sharing your experiences. I am standing up a system right now that will use PostgreSQL RDS and it's good to know what kinds of bumps in the road to expect.

I think I am fine with most of those, since I am saving on labor costs. Periodically taking an app down for maintenance is par for most courses. And even on the last bullet, I've seen really talented database guys make mistakes and have small amounts of downtime. Perhaps what I should have said was "high enough availability". If I needed 5 9's, I agree that RDS is probably not the tree I want to be barking up.

Cheers!
It's a bit pedantic but worth noting here I feel. A trademark is an indication of origin, you get that by using it in a trademark-y way. What you are talking about are registered trademarks.

Ordinarily you get some very limited protections by virtue of use but registration is the right way to go.
The parent's comment is dripping with sarcasm
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