skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great read. Very relatable.

I think one of the most difficult aspects of having moderate-to-severe social anxiety is that people often misinterpret the anxious quietness as standoffishness — then of course after you've experienced that enough times you learn to compensate by being overly friendly or enthusiastic which ends up weirding people out just as much.
Kubuntu's Release Manager Calls It Quits
For most of the backend, I try to stick to one browser. Right now Chrome gives me all the request details and other things I need. But I want to see where FDE stands on this.
I think you are confusing investment and cost of operation. Investment is building the new technology, cost of operation is the cost of providing consumption. Increasing investment today will indeed increase production in the future - that's the whole point.

*They are, after sitting there idly for a while. The bank CEOs have to pay their mistresses and so on...money sitting idly..."

The production is either consumed, invested, spent on government or exported. P=C+I+G+NX. You seem to believe it can be neither C nor I (well sometimes), so are the wealthy spending all their unconsumed income on government or exports?
I was hoping this was an article about how Adobe has found a great new way to engage their employees - but it's really just a press release from Impraise

(TLDR version: $7/employee/month)
Compulsive Texting Assocd with Poorer School Performance Among Adolescent Girls
The website literally looks like an ad for Apple products and certainly no "CMS."

It doesn't help that it looks like Apple's website (navbar, colors, etc)
It's not hard to get them out of poverty. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjZjPbHrFE
And ICD-10 codes are used for a variety of purposes -- statistical

And that's where it goes off the rails, this revision is trying to serve too many masters, in which actual health care is subservient to collection of data for the usual nosy suspects. Did anyone even contemplate the trade-offs?

And even then, look at all those codes for bites of fingers. Are you really insisting they will provide anything other than fancy looking statistics for self-important bureaucrats?
WSJ seems to do it regularly in 2015[1], though they're not totally consistent.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=h-p+site%3Awsj.com&oq=h-p+si...
Who needs cloud computing anyway?
Two questions:
1) are there technical restrictions for using this mesh network with remote aerial sensors, i.e. does it hurt badly when nodes move?
2) how well would it perform indoors in manufacturing plants? I'm thinking of low-cost adhoc industrial IoT prototyping.
Nitro Founder Sam Chandler Is Bullish on Australia's Tech Start-Up Future
The Role of Compulsive Texting in Adolescents' Academic Functioning [pdf]
There are items in there that are deleted/[dead] on HN (and not very recent). How come?
Texas has over 5 times the population of Norway and I don't think there's ever been a spree killer there that even got close to Breivik's 75 victims (but I'm happy to be corrected). But it seems likely spree killing is more common in Texas than Norway.
That's the best news I've heard in a while. I was just complaining earlier today, that I hate the way I have to login to so many different EMR systems to look at my medical records, and there's no interop between them, or (mostly) any convenient API to download data.

I want record from my GP? FollowMyHealth.com

I want records from my cardiologist? UNC's EMR system.

I want records from my bariatric doctor? Duke's EMR system.

I want records from my dermatologist? Yet another system.

I want records from my othopaedist? You guessed it, yet another system.

What I want is to be able to put ALL of my medical records, AND my "fitness" information (stuff from Strava, Fitbit, etc.) into one freaking place. This current setup is horrible. :-(
Got it. After reading about all three on the web I found out that Chrome's a memory hog and sucks up the battery. So FDE stands between Safari and Chrome on the battery/memory line?

"FDE is slightly better in performance" - than Chrome? Haven't tried it on Mac, but on Windows Chrome seemed snappier than Firefox / Firefox Dev Edition.
I was like this, to an extent, as well in my early twenties. What I realized was that I _didn't_ want to be like this, and like anything - it takes practice.

I consider myself smarter than the average Joe off the street, and you do too. Otherwise you wouldn't be reading HN :) So social cues, reading a crowd, and being engaging, it all takes practice. Yes, some people develop this naturally and don't need to consciously practice, but others don't. So just like programming, stop saying "No, I just don't get it", and instead reason why you don't and next time nail it.
Can you ace this spooky Halloween quiz?
See also the Ideological Turing Test:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_Turing_Test
A. Scott Anderson: We all must take steps to prevent cybercrime
Entrepreneurship is more about conviction, determination, and will than ideas and market opportunities.

To me, this letter is basically saying you're just not up for the challenge. That's fine -- it's certainly better to admit it now, and it's likely a rational decision.

But the best companies usually aren't created by rational thinkers. The best entrepreneurs can take a horribly broken system and contort it in ways that nobody else even thought of, and then execute on a vision to make it the new reality.

You're not telling your investors "this market is too tough, let's not go here", you're basically just saying "This market really needs to be un-fucked, but I'm not the guy to do it".

Nothing wrong with that, let's tell it how it is.
> Everyone's unfair favorite is "V97.33XD: Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter."

Not as unfair as it seems! Someone got sucked into an A-6 Intruder on a carrier with only minor injuries due to his helmet shredding the engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxcSY1AwrM
Hmmm. Much of what is described here is not social anxiety. He is really describing what seems to be Asperger's. The two are very often co-morbid and can be confused as being the same but they are not. While they often occur together, they do not always occur together. You can have one and not the other.

I have social anxiety but not Aspergers but I have spent time with others who have Aspergers. The thing about staring into someone's eye and not understanding social cues/norms is a trait of Aspergers and not social anxiety.
The Selected Works of Arne Naess

The Foundation for Deep Ecology conceived and funded this monumental project to collect, revise, and publish some sixty years of writing by one of the most radical and sagacious philosophers of the twentieth century, thereby bringing the full range of Naess’s work to contemporary English-speaking audiences.

http://www.deepecology.org/publishing_arne.htm
Unaccountable police give the same results as uncontrolled chemo.
I'd always heard that from customers, but I so rarely came across them, that I never really looked into them for myself. Makes sense though, commercial laundromats aren't going to mess around with poor quality machines. Speed Queen could be the ticket.
https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
From the DirectProject blog, on 08/11/2011:

"Moving on... It's been a fantastic ride"
Good to know. And btw, just in case anyone reading would get the wrong impression from my previous comment, I'm not saying I think the lungs could technically digest food.

Basically, in my experience, if I've ever inhaled water (never food) I generally find that there's several minutes (or hours depending on quantity of fluids) of intermittent coughing where I feel like my body is doing something to make it easier for me to expel the fluids.

In terms of food, depending on quantity I was imaginging over course of several days (weeks?) perhaps the body is able to expel the solids in similar fashion.

My roommate was not a very talkative person, but we did hang out quite a bit while he lived with us, and nothing ever appeared abnormal, and he never got sick so I'm guessing he just kept the messy details to himself.
This applies to good code just the same.
Nor are they addressing the reproduction of the classes shown by historical materialism to be just as fundamental a building block as the legalistic ones.
Fantastic job, if only verbal communication were as easy as written. BTW I have already deleted and rewritten this comment several times.
Pirate Party Beats Iceland’s Government Coalition in the Polls
Btw, I really like your query.

I modified it to get the story for up to 7 levels of recursion:

SELECT p0.id, s.id, s.title, level
FROM (
SELECT p0.id, p0.parent, p2.id, p3.id, p4.id, COALESCE(p7.parent, p6.parent, p5.parent, p4.parent, p3.parent, p2.parent, p1.parent, p0.parent) story_id,
GREATEST(IF(p7.parent IS null, -1, 7), IF(p6.parent IS null, -1, 6), IF(p5.parent IS null, -1, 5), IF(p4.parent IS null, -1, 4), IF(p3.parent IS null, -1, 3),
IF(p2.parent IS null, -1, 2), IF(p1.parent IS null, -1, 1), 0) level
FROM [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p0
LEFT JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p1 ON p1.id=p0.parent
LEFT JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p2 ON p2.id=p1.parent
LEFT JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p3 ON p3.id=p2.parent
LEFT JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p4 ON p4.id=p3.parent
LEFT JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p5 ON p5.id=p4.parent
LEFT JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p6 ON p6.id=p5.parent
LEFT JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p7 ON p7.id=p6.parent
HAVING level=0
LIMIT 100
) a
LEFT JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.stories] s
ON s.id=a.story_id

(having so many left joins consumes a lot of resources, so to run it massively I would look for a different strategy)
Functional Programming and Fold
could you put it in a sentence a clueless earthling like myself can understand?
Two books that also help:

How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Carnegie

The Definitive Book of Body Language, by Pease

Those two books basically cover verbal and nonverbal communication.
> And even then, look at all those codes for bites of fingers. Are you really insisting they will provide anything other than fancy looking statistics for self-important bureaucrats?

While I don't know the history of the particular codes, a lot of the hyperspecific codes are driven by needs of insurance payers (public and private) and their desire to incorporate elements that would otherwise be identified in (comparatively costly) non-automated review and provide the necessary resolution in coding that they can be identified and distinguished without that review and the associated cost.

Driving down that area of administrative costs is a different thing than providing fancy looking statistics for self-important bureaucrats.
The Founder of Zara Is Now Richer Than Bill Gates
Microsoft Edge status and roadmap
Beta – Aangle – Reaction Videos of Anything on Your Phone
Aangle basically lets you record anything on your screen with a floating window that shows your front camera. We even let you record both camera's at the same time!
Sounds to me like they're relocating beavers.
Groundbreaking computer program diagnoses cancer in two days
Relevant and prescient Onion video: http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-offers-that-cloud-thing-eve...
Achieving Age Diversity in Silicon Valley
My gut is that Bing is mainly a byproduct of Microsoft's interest in search. It's a critical technology for integration into a host of products. Building a search engine for the web has always looked like a long term research project that's great if it makes a little money, while things like searching for contet on Xbox Live or files on a disk was always where Microsoft's primary interest was. If they could put pressure on Google, so much the better, but moving forward and away from browsing file system trees and algebraic querying is more important.
On the first point I think we are talking about two different things. I am not talking about the entire signup list of Old Reader, I am talking about a user of Old Reader that uses Google OAuth to access Old Reader. In this case Google already has this particular user data.

Don't agree on the second one. What it does it serves the site owner needs. They can choose to provide OAuth or not. Some provide it to make it easier for their users to login, and they also provide their own authentication otherwise, other sites use OAuth only and some sites just their own. Most see it as a benefit for their users to only use one login. The benefit for the OAuth providers are stronger relationship with that particular user.
I believe your generalizations go too far. The "crazy" founder who succeeds despite all odds is only one archetype. There are others. Many outliers are successful by creating new markets.

This guy (T.A. McCann) has successfully built and sold a startup, so he doesn't lack the will -- he just lacks the will for this business.

Markets can be so tough that the time/cash/energy to succeed in them means the opportunity is not as attractive as others.
I was thinking about that... The average person is using 5000 words. We could assume that the poems do too.
(5000^4/ (300,000,000,000))/(60*60) = 0.57 hour with 4 words at 350 billion guess per second (http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-crack...). 1300 years with 6 words.
The more relevant part about passcodes (4 or 6 digits) is described on page 12.

It's not fully specified, but since the PDF mentions "iteration count" then Apple is using some sort of KDF after you enter your PIN to make brute force attacks harder to perform. It also mentions the following delays:

Delays between passcode attempts
Attempts Delay Enforced
1-4 none
5 1 minute
6 5 minutes
7-8 15 minutes
9 1 hour

There's also an optional setting you can enable so that after 10 failed consecutive attempts the device's data is wiped.
The treatment that article describes is called exposure therapy. It's pretty much the standard of care for treating anxiety disorders. If you're afraid of flying, you fly. If you're afraid of people thinking you look weird, you walk down the street with your clothes on inside out and backwards. If you're afraid of inconveniencing people, you drive really slowly and just imagine what the people behind you are thinking.

Eventually all this rewires your brain so it figures out you are not in fact going to be eaten by a saber-toothed tiger every time someone laughs at you. It's a lot of work, it's painful, it's hard to stick with, and it works really, really well.
That's BS. The entire event was televised on C-Span, it was covered on every nightly news program (in California anyway) and got plenty of (mostly positive) newspaper coverage as well: https://www.google.com/search?q=washington+march+farrakhan&o...

I apologize for making a generalization, but whenever I see anyone of any political alignment suggesting that their issue of choice is being ignored/suppressed the mainstream media, the claim is almost invariably without merit.
The Rise and Fall of .Ly
Big publications like the WSJ frequently have an official "style guide" -- an internal document that specifies for the sake of consistency how people who write for them should handle things like acronyms, abbreviations, punctuation, slang terms, and so forth. Sometimes they also make these documents available for sale to the public. The WSJ does that: http://www.amazon.com/Street-Journal-Guide-Business-Guides/d...

If you're logged into Amazon when visiting that page, use their "Look Inside" view and search for "Hewlett" and it'll jump you right to their style rules for stories about HP.
Probably it was saddest 30 minutes of her life o.O
So you either use versioning or RESTy immutable endpoints. Anything else is going to be unmaintainable
Without doing some research I'm not sure that this could ever have worked anyway. Unless things have changed a lot in the last couple of years, medical practices are allowed to and generally do charge a non-trivial copying fee for providing records to patients; these fees have legally set base cost and per-page caps that I believe are updated yearly.

I'm sure some of this has changed as offices shifted to EMR (Electronic Medical Records) systems, but many offices don't scan the entire existing chart into a new system - just the key parts relevant to current care (e.g. labs from the last 6-12 months, etc.). The full chart is still in a tagged manila folder on a shelf or in a box depending on the office.

I've not regularly seen practices charge for sending records to other medical practices or for providing limited information to the patient directly (e.g. copies of labs), but that's usually not for an entire chart it's for items that can reasonably be faxed. Where I have seen practices charge it's when they also have a regularly scheduled outside service that comes in to scan entire charts that have been requested and for some specialties (e.g. neurology) those charts can easily be 500-1000 pages. I suspect that if a patient wants an entire chart transferred to a new practice that the old one will require that they request and pay for the copy, then it's the patient's job to get it to the new folks.

Changing systems can also be a problem; I know of one specialty practice that has a firewalled-off 2003 server with their old EMR on it because when they migrated to a new system only demographics and some other basic information could be automatically imported. When previous patients schedule appointments, they go into the old system and export all the relevant records to PDFs, then import those into the patient's chart in the new system.

Given the still-widespread need to either scan a bunch of paper, retrieve records from multiple systems, and pay for printing or burning to a CD I see no reasonable way for a company to offer that service free or even inexpensively.

Update: here's a nice resource on per-state costs: http://www.lamblawoffice.com/medical-records-copying-charges...

In Illinois, for example, it can legally cost you a minimum of $25 even for a single page, though as I noted most offices don't seem to have a problem with not charging for small numbers of pages.
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Whenever I see the s// syntax my brain dies a little bit. Please use regular English, unless you are actually referring to a matter of coding. I know it's a shorthand, but nobody really cares about saving the words "instead of" and it's really hard to read when inlined into an English sentence.

If you are coding regexps, go ahead by all means but please do not embed it in English.
I didn't read the entire article, I stopped after a couple of paragraphs. The problem as I see it is companies are trying to hire coders when they really want Software Engineers. Or maybe I should say they are trying to buy a Software engineer but only willing to pay the coder rate.

A good Software engineer can design a program or system and not even have to know the programming language, they understand software and how it should work. I have on many occasions told our SQL coders/programmers where problems are and how to fix them without ever having programmed in SQL.

The key is the Software Engineer understands the fundamentals of the system as an engineer and understand how everything goes together and should work. For example, if you are designing a business system, you engineers understand how the business works and how the program can help it. The coders know how to implement the design but not the why's.

If you are hiring outside vendors then it is even worse. They are coders that know nothing about your business or your project or what you are trying to do but they do know how to code something, let you try it, have you change it and try it again and change it again and try it again an...you get the picture. If you hire a software engineer that understands software and learns your business, they can develop design documents that can then direct your vendor. This creates a better product the first time and at a lower cost.

The schools today are creating more and more programmers and fewer Software Engineers.
Stanford Sex Scandal
I generally agree with your statement but personally I'd pull back on calling start-ups as R&D replacements. There are certainly a few start-ups taking big R&D-type gambles, but I think most people are working in some sort of technology-applied-to-old-industry role.

Therefore I'd liken start-ups to product team replacements or consulting + validation as seen from a big company's perspective.
Medium is a wrapper layer around Twitter social graph, for people who want to rant or self-promote more (because 140 characters isn't enough for a rant or self-promotion disguised as content). When you sign up for Medium, you login with Twitter account. Then you automatically get posts from all the people you follow on Twitter who writes post on Medium. This means if you have a lot of followers on Twitter, you instantly have a lot of following on Medium to begin with. All these other comments about how "beautiful" it is, or how "it gets out of the way", etc. are nothing more than just side benefits, they are not the reason why it's getting traction. Same as how Meerkat got immediate traction by implementing twitter login while its previous products with basically the same technology never got any traction.
Yeah, you're right.

My first thoughts were:

- Introversion != social anxiety (disorder)

- Nonverbal communication problems != social anxiety (disorder)

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the article is great in the sense that it describes the author's experience vividly. It just doesn't seem to be generalizable to all those affected by social anxiety disorder.
The what and why of product experimentation at Twitter
I'll never forget what they did to Palm, so wither HP, wither.
>For starters, the meme is demonstrably incorrect.

I'll bet you that black people in general in Ferguson, Mo. would tell you that they are better off now then they were before the protests. Since there was also rioting and looting and vandalism and violence, there are also probably people who believe that the rioting and looting and vandalism and violence are what's responsible for their improved status. It may well be that the rest of the country became more conservative after watching it; that would be a shame, and I'm still not convinced about that, either.

>I am to disregard one injustice in the supposed interests of addressing another injustice.

What injustice? You saw where some vandals in Oakland vandalized some stuff? We as a society mistreat a group of people until they take to the streets in protest, and when a few of them get too rowdy, people such as yourself get uptight about that (the protest, not the decades of injustice). Also, note the ease with which agents provocateurs can derail any social justice protest/movement merely because people such as yourself can't/won't distinguish between the two.

>Perhaps a more strident declaration of loyalty to The Cause is required?

That kind of wit might be why people tell you to get over yourself.

>That said, I'm also bothered by the idea that I have to express sympathy before being permitted to be displeased with an injustice. Can I criticize attempting to assassinate the POTUS without commenting on the cause of independence for Puerto Rice?

Probably not if you want to be taken seriously.
Study: CEO effect on firm performance could be mostly due to chance
Just google the title and you can hop right into the story.
Just stop caring what people think. It's up to them to signal you to stop. Talking about synths too much and they get uncomfortable? "Oh sorry I'm just really passionate about synths and I can fly off the handle sometimes!"