skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A line that struck me as familiar: "I should add that my hearing’s getting worse. Which doesn’t help at all."

I wonder if the author is sure his hearing is actually getting worse or his perception is getting worse?

I once thought the same thing. tldr: Nope. My hearing is fine. Anxiety causes my brain, afaict, to always be on the lookout for threats. No sound was being filtered from my conscious. The perception was that I "couldn't hear". I could hear fine, but I couldn't filter out unimportant from important. The result is something that seems like bad hearing.

Taking anti-anxiety drugs solved the problem for me. Like magic I could hear fine. Conversations, even in noisy situations, became easy to perceive and follow.

I couldn't find any documentation on this at the time. The doctor didn't think much about the idea. I wonder if anybody else had the same experience?
The point is that it gives you an opportunity to better understand someone else's subjective experiencing. That can be an enriching experience whether you relate to it or not. If you do relate to it, it might be comforting to know that you're not alone. If not, it might help you be more empathetic toward others. At the very least, it is interesting to many people to understand how others see the world.

Regarding eye contact and such, there is no officially mandated normal amount, but there are certainly social norms, which some people are able to follow much more instinctively than others. That said, I agree that a large part of the issue can be that people with social anxiety, or just insecurity, tend to worry about it more than others.
I believe it's officially called "auto-steer". I don't think Tesla calls it autopilot.
The $149 each I paid for a couple of the maxed out tablets was money well spent. I still keep them on the coffee table and pop open a browser when I want to look something up really quick. As long as I don't leave WiFi enabled when not in use, battery life is measured in months.
Did you mean Agilent as in Agilent, or Keysight, or Avago?
I know HN keeps saying that great coders are hard to find, but the hardest role I've filled at my startup was for our chief content creator. People who get writing AND marketing are exceptionally rare.
I had a life-changing moment at 12 or so when I saw a local "human interest" TV show about a kid who had trouble reading body language so he decided to manually figure out body language and social queues, just like you describe. As I saw this I thought to myself "You can do that?!" and set out trying to train myself. It's definitely possible if you put your mind to it.
Better Health. One Connection at a Time: Java Developer
I also have social anxiety and this is exactly it (your comment). Most people say I come across as intimidating and it takes a long time for me to become "normal" around someone, and have been told that I don't show any emotion.

But really, it's because the only emotion I feel is fear, and I try very hard to hide it. That's it. Thinking about it logically, it makes little sense. Similar to how a person may have depression, and to the outer world, their worries/fears may seem minute; yet to that person, it's all about the feeling, and the feeling is very real.
If it's an academic paper, by all means, be complex.

But if its an article meant for the general public, it's your job as a writer to make it more palatable.
Ah, the memories. Also, the hacks. Quantum Link had bugs where people could create illegal usernames, or invisible usernames (Q-Armor) that made it hard for online sysops to deal with you.
Judge tosses Wikimedia’s anti-NSA lawsuit because Wikipedia isn’t big enough
As a history buff (mostly civil engineering based, roads, bridges, tunnels, railroads, etc.) I find these historic maps extremely useful.
Stewart Butterfield and Slack
This part from the last paragraph was particularly interesting:

The Yamnaya rapidly supplanted local farming populations in Western Europe between 3000 and 2500 BC. “How is it possible that the local farmers have been replaced by people from the steppe? A pandemic is a good possibility,” Krause says.
DolarToday is awesome an interesting way, it publishes what is Cucuta exchange rate for Bolivar, which is taking a drubbing and gives a wonderful insight into the economic meltdown that is taking place in Venezuela for the past 2 -3 years. What Chavista politics/Socialism can do to a country.

The official exchange rate is 1 USD = 6.3 Bolivar but Cucuta rate is 1 USD = 820 Bolivar. Venezuela is basically trying to muzzle dolartoday, because there is impending election in December where Maduro et al. will like be facing a drubbing. So, the powers to be in Venezuela are doing everything possible, including shutting down this site, so that they can project both inside and outside that everything is hunky dory.

Venezuela is a cautionary tale of Latin Socialism.
I don't understand. It sounds like she's just saying they are calling HP to buy drives for their own servers. Which easily may have been true right?

It doesn't sound like she's saying they're now buying HP servers.
This is exactly why I wish we had more decentralized software that runs only on the client. It's the only way to truly lock yourself out of your users' data.

Even so-called zero-knowledge centralized software like iMessage is only a centrally mandated update away from turning their backs on their privacy policy.
Their lungs are cheerfully cranking out carbon dioxide for the chance to do it again, so running out of residual volume or pulling nitrogen into gas has a lot of give. So you're the one with the strong negative response when people suggest hitting an exercise heart rate and recovering with solid food (root vegetables,) eh?
I think it's a stretch to ever think there was practical development for energy occurring at those facilities. When you think for 10s about the efficacy of dropping a deuterium pellet every 100ms into a laser chamber that literally needs the lasers to fire 3X orders of magnitude faster than currently possible to sustain a fusion reaction you come to the realization that this was always and only about weapons research.
A Faster Cutting Plane Method and Its Implications
Dolphins often seem to want to befriend us
Sweet, now I can get drunk while I clean my toilet
Perhaps not in the content. But I'm not so sure there might not be actual legal issues (in jurisdiction that have privacy/data protection laws) with regards to stuff like being able to see patterns in login-times (based on post meta data), and similar. It's tenuous -- but just because things are a) on-line in the form of the main hn site, and b) accessible through the api, doesn't automatically mean that giving raw access to the data doesn't carry with it implications for whether or not the data should be considered personal/(more)sensitive.

I'm assuming this data set offers something the API doesn't (that's the point of uploading it, right? Other than just being an easy way for others to "back up" the hn data) -- and that can very well mean there are privacy/personal data implications.

I'm mostly stating this because of the principle, not because I think it's anything wrong with this concrete upload of hn data (and wrong != legal/illegal anyway).

As an example, at least in Norway, while you may have two separate databases that are linked to people, such as a database of cars passing through toll booths, and credit card charges from a large bar/restaurant chain -- it would generally be illegal to link the two.
generally people don't seem to enjoy conversation with me

Based on what evidence? Have people told you this or is it your perception that they don't enjoy conversation with you?

If multiple people have told you that they don't enjoy conversation with you then... GREAT! You have data! Go ask them what it is they don't like. If you can agree that they have valid concerns then you can work on fixing those things. If you don't agree then that's ok too. You're being yourself.
...or at least updating it before knowingly posting dated info to HN.
HP is everywhere in the enterprise, from servers to desktops and every peripheral in between. I doubt they are going away any time soon. But as tech evolves, it does seem like the company is being left behind. I predict another IBM in the making.

You know they still sell mainframes? You just don't typically see that in the news.
I've been experimenting with nootropics lately, and I think taurine and L-Theanine can help you greatly, with very low risk of side effects.
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Athenahealth, the company I work for, makes cloud-based medical systems with a heavy focus on user experience and interoperability. Our More Disruption Please team is working hard to bridge the gaps in the healthcare continuum, and we do publish our API: http://www.athenahealth.com/developer-portal

Oh, and if you think your code's good enough to fix healthcare, we're hiring ;D
How does it JIT on iOS given that normal apps cannot write to executable memory ?
Asperger's is now called Autism Spectrum Disorder (High Functioning Autism). Please don't use the outdated term anymore. It has become mislabeled and misused over the last decades and is thus very unspecific and misleading.
Anyone have any examples? Only documentation is javadoc and the examples links are all 404.
What is your source for #2? The NHS (i.e., not the US) doesn't mention that technique.

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/2301.aspx?categoryid=72
You know the feeling when you're a kid in elementary school and you have to present in front of the whole class? It's like that.
Actually at the time Facebook was buying a large number of servers from HP and having them built with Fusion IO drives for their database systems. Not sure when they scaled that back to their own custom built stuff.
It's a poor clone at that. Note the Russian? keyboards on the stock art (in one case, flipped horizontal!).

A bit sad really, it was a nice bit of tech, for all their hubris.
My favorite standard example sentence (of ambiguity, that is) is "we saw her duck".
Madam C.J. Walker, an early 20th-century black woman who built a hair company
Show me the downvotes
Ask HN: What would it take for you to switch to Windows 10 Mobile?
I'm a huge Windows Phone fan, and I find the Windows 10 Universal app vision attractive.

Yet, I can't think of many reasons why most people would switch to it.

Would you ever consider switching? If so, why?
No true Scotsman...

Monoliths have the advantage of being able to trivially take out a global lock.

Removing global locks from a monolith to migrate to a micro-service deployment adds a ton of design and engineering cost.
No, I don't think it could easily have been true at all. Google puts the worst, cheapest drives they found on the side of the road in their servers. HP sells a 36GB SAS drive for $2000.
Does it support the full jdk?
With something obstructing their airway, I would have assumed they were trying to cough. Inhaling a tiny drop of spit can be enough to give me serious breathing problems, not because the spit does anything but because I have to cough so much afterwards.
I used to be very scared of talking to unfamiliar people, but I no longer feel the fear. I'm thoroughly desensitized to it from lots of socializing in the past, and being employed at various companies for years where I need to talk to coworkers. I guess it's been replaced by an aversion to the whole situation, a mild distaste for meeting people. It's like I have a lot of mental baggage holding me back, which perhaps came from lost friendships and relationships. Maybe it's also remnants of the strong anxiety I used to have.
It's a morbid fear of social interaction. Some situations are worse than others. And, for me, it isn't caused by confusion over what to do in social settings (although when I was younger I had confusion due to lack of experience in social settings).

I don't have any difficulty with social cues or understanding innate human interaction. I am popular in the workplace because I'm forced to interact with others. Almost all my friends are from work. By contrast, none of my neighbors know me and probably think I'm odd because they never see me. That's because, when I have a choice, I will always pick avoiding social interaction due to fear. Whenever I leave, I check the peephole to make sure no one is around. I have gone a week or more without leaving my home. If not for needing food and to go to work, I could probably go months without leaving. And this is driven by fear of human interaction.

I can appear completely normal in social interactions. I understand eye contact and not to linger too long. I understand the need to balance talk and listening when having a conversation. I get jokes and subtle humor. Fist pumps get me excited. No one had to teach me these things. And most of my co-workers think I'm completely normal in social settings, though on the quiet side. But when given a choice I withdraw due to fear. In High School, I spent every single lunch hiding in the library or a bathroom stall. I did not know what the cafeteria looked like. I didn't go to a single party or a single date due to crippling fear. But this fear was not the result of feeling confused over social cues or behavior.
Great. See how far you get when you ignore the majority's sensibilities in a democracy.
I loved Qlink so much! My BBS and Qlink made life fun. I was sad when they made people move to AOL even though I had long moved on to other things.
The repo's README mentions a vim plugin to highlight Unicode homoglyphs. As an Emacs user, I did a quick M-x package-list-packages, thinking I'll find at least half a dozen equivalent Emacs packages.

To my dismay, there were none. So I spent the rest of my afternoon correcting this glaring deficiency. Fellow Emacs users, protect yourself from Unicode trolls and grab it here: https://github.com/camsaul/emacs-unicode-troll-stopper
Radiolab has a good episode on Dr. Heimlich: http://www.radiolab.org/story/heimlichs-maneuver/
Very impressive work, here's the arxiv link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04874
Autism Spectrum Disorder is even less specific, and is in the process of being mislabeled and misused in this decade. Pick your poison?
Makes sense. After EC2 evaporates our cash it has to precipitate somewhere…
> "I wonder if all I’ve done here is to describe why introverts frequently describe being social as tiring. Extroverts have no problem with any of this"

This is good, but he loses me with this line at the end.

Extraversion is defined as "being predominantly concerned with obtaining gratification from what is outside the self."[1] Someone can have high social need without high social skill.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion
Technological evolution has a momentum of its own
YouTubers Just Got YouTubered
Doesn't sound like the author was too keen on creating those jobs, eh?
Unfortunately, yes it is. http://status.popcorntime.io/
Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL v3 Is Now Available
I have an easily searchable name. I tried Profile Engine with my name and the information that came up was totally inaccurate (list of friends contains no one I'm familiar with, list of interests are all things I'm not interested in besides "reading"). Is this more accurate if I sign up for an account or something?
I know that I also dont maintain a lot of close friendships outside my family and SO. I am relatively self contained and don't seek a lot of advice or counsel. In that sense I'm very much a lazy friend as well, I don't want to put a ton of effort into them. I don't know if that is similar to what you are describing.

Perhaps being somewhat more self contained than others is a learned behavior to have helped us deal with being socially anxious. Would make sense. I accept it and it doesn't bother me about myself.
Walgreens Scrutinizes Theranos Testing
This same case involved, in addition to Wikimedia, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, PEN American Center (a writers group), Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and the Washington Office on Latin America (a social justice group).

With all those groups, with all that's at stake, the decision essentially reads that no matter how much traffic they can't use statistical likelihood to overcome the bar to standing created by Clapper v. Amnesty.

In the end, this means the NSA will never have to face overview as long as they don't tell anyone what they are doing. If we can't in court say they are definitely capturing someones traffic, they can't even use the courts to conduct discovery on what is happening.
I nominate this for 'bullshit headline of the month' award. The legal reporting is good, the headline is asinine nonsense.
Joyable – Overcome Social Anxiety, Judgment-Free
Every time you write "tl;dr" you demonstrate that you don't know how to write. Your most important idea should come first by default.
Turn It Up to 100: A Pragmatic Qualsys SSL Server Test Score
hahahaha oh wow. yeah, no.

EDIT: It is the game of thrones version of product development, except no dwarf or sexy people.
To be fair, I can't really tell from the website what this is and why I would want it ("doesn't Android already have a JVM?"), and Kotlin could easily be defined as "a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on Android" as well!
Kind of sounds like a pitch for org mode too!
Valerie Henson's commentary on the Synthesis kernel (2008)
Also, what happened to his team of "night-time hackers" who actually built the MVP. Did they have any say in the decision to shut down or were they just cast aside?
cool. I asked him to drop you a line
British activist Jacky Sutton found dead in Istanbul airport
Too, too true. I wouldn't hold my breath for Maduro and friends to lose that impending election, though. As another elected autocrat once said, democracy is like a streetcar: you ride it to the right stop, then you get off.
this is a really good idea.
A better way of looking at it:

https://sivers.org/multiply
This is an odd blog post for a company people consider to be utterly paralyzed and incapable of shipping new features.
You do realize IBM has hired the top OpenStack talent that was previously at HP building this public cloud.
solving the wrong problems in the wrong ways

Can you please elaborate?
I have a theory that at some point in their development everyone has this type of anxiety however most people in their early youth have selected for themselves a particular strategy to avoid being perceived as 'weird' which they adopt for life. Many people adjust this as they go throughout life, or adopt several strategies, but others simply stick with whatever worked for them at an early age.

The rationale is that it's always better to be perceived as anything but "mal-adjusted and weird". Here are some strategies which are considered considered better than "strange": "tells too many bad jokes", "too negative", "drama king", "never stops talking about his own achievements", or even "jerk".

"Oh he's just another class clown, or just another person who habitually points out flaws in others", or just another <insert stereotype here>. Basically as long as you can make yourself conform to an easy to understand conceptual framework then other people mentally model you together with an archetypal social role so to speak, and then you'll be perceived as normal.

While it's easy for me to summarize the negative sounding "non-awkward" strategies I must also point out that for every negative one there is a nice strategy available too. Choose wisely.

The nice versions require more patience, and practice to execute convincingly and there greater room for error. The primary benefits of selecting a nice strategy usually only surface over the medium to long term whereas the benefits to being a bully for example show up immediately (you're mean not weird, you're less likely to be picked on yourself, nobody thinks your shy, etc)

Any of these strategies once incorporated can make you seem well adjusted and can with time become second nature. Once you have one of these in your repertoire then you can just reach for it whenever you would have otherwise experienced anxiety over possibly being considered weird.

This whole situation presents a problem for people who feel like they might want to develop a more moderate or atypical personality. They hear the advice "just be yourself" and they think "oh, that means the world is my canvas and I can just paint whatever I feel like" but no in actuality "just be yourself" only works if you've already trained yourself to project one of these preordained social personas. In that case you can gradually begin to incorporate your own style into it but anything else going to end up being labeled as weird.

It's not a hopeless for those who want to have a distinct personality, all you have to do is FIRST learn to successfully wield at least one of these socially preordained strategies and then later layer your distinctness on top.

Of course nobody is willing to admit any of this, because generally speaking to let the cat out of the bag does two things:

1. it makes people feel silly or embarrassed, and lowers their feeling of self-worth (even though it shouldn't)

2. to speak of it makes you sound.. well 'weird'
>It's not clear to me that the voting population has required significant convincing to stay 'tough on crime'.

That's the key. Ultimately it's the public which decides how tough sentencing is. People who are trying to blame shadowy capitalists or (laughably) libertarians are really barking up the wrong tree. We have a whole bunch of people in jail because the public wants them there.
This blog post doesn't add up for me, but I can't put my finger on it.
This is good work, and should be within the capability of any upper-division physics major. I think that the important point is using the Euler method for the DEs, rather than attempt to find some closed-form theta(t).
Actually entrepreneurship is ALL about market opportunities and ideas. All you do is maximize all the odds and leverage everything you have for a win. Winning is all that matters, and winning as big as you can.

Now if you want to take on a big challenge, change the world, and build something magical, you can and you should. However none of these are required, and each of these is more likely to be a problem.
Sounds like analysis paralysis to me.
> down-votes for disagreement rather than lack of content

The debate about downvotes for disagreement rather than lack of content has been going on here for years. For me, it's as clear as day that this is getting much, much better. From about 2012 to early 2014, there was some type of either bot or some very, very eager HNers who would rapidly downvote topics they didn't like, 3-4 downvotes within the first 5 minutes, even if it was a quality comment. I would regularly upvote comments even though I vehemently disagreed with the commenter just to offset those downvotes. I find myself having to do that much, much less now.

It is clear that HN is getting more "traditionally" polite as well as what many would consider politically correct, so if that pisses you off then I can definitely see how the site would seem to be worse.

But I strongly, strongly disagree with the Reddit thing. By the way, take a look at the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It says:

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

If I'm not mistaken, that guideline has been in place since I got here back in 2010-2011 or so, so that should tell you something. People have been complaining about Reddit-like comments on HN since at least back then.

(As as you will have noted, people are quick to downvote comments saying HN is becoming Reddit for this very reason)
Its a pretty challenging industry, isn't it?
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