skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This sure sounds like an argument that the truth can be bad for you.

To me it sounds like the social construct surrounding the truth is harmful. That those with a disability should be coddled lest they offend. That we should be understanding, accommodating, that we shouldn't expect much or worse, that we should medicate them into normalcy.

Bullshit.

It's when your behavior is rejected, when you meet with poor results, that you have a true incentive to improve and push yourself forward. It might be painful and difficult, but the end result can be greater than what you would have had if you were born "normal".

The only thing this environment of diagnosis, acceptance, and tolerance is creating is crippling fear for the parents and an environment that coddles the child's disability, instead of motivating the child to overcome it.
Hrrm, I misread. Looks like the $ doesn't go as far as I thought (for $180 you get the playset, not the world kit). Interesting concept but on second pass this is a little steep.
Crazy idea: what if cargo ships towed behind them a "cruise barge" - basically a section of cruise ship that people can rent cabins on to go from point A to point B -- its basically like a cruise ship - but its only on the barge behind the cargo ship - maybe not as luxurious as a cruise ship - but might be another way to charge given that no matter what the cargo ships will always be traversing these routes on the seas.
> My main objection to pushing STEM down to the diaper set is that it all seems to involve screen-based learning tools, and I am sure that little ones don’t need more screen time.

This thing seems pretty cool. On the whole, we probably need to have more of an awareness of how important tactile and spatial factors are in child development. But the top selling point, according to this reviewer, is that it protects your child from the "screen time" bogeyman? Spare me.
It was also at about 200,000ft at the time. There's not much air up there. I'd bet that in terms of impact, 780MPH at 4,000ft is significantly worse.
The importance of stakeholder management in software testing
I thought the problem was there is no tally of people killed by police. There's no central registry, no requirement to report. The only stats collected on this are people collecting news clippings, but of course many things don't make the newspapers. Probably the police kill fewer people than non-police killers, but we don't really know.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-year-after-ferguson-...
I'm considering tackling this book: "Einstein's Theory: A Rigorous Introduction for the Mathematically Untrained" by Øyvind Grøn and Arne Næss which claims to provide "an introduction to the theory of relativity and the mathematics used in its processes".

This preview on Google Books [ https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=7zFalCF_LiEC&printsec=f... ] appears to show it starts from basic mathematical principles and builds on from that.
Buddy all three platforms mentioned here run on the same arm based Qualcomm SOC. If by vm layer you are implying that there needs to be any translation done for differing underlying processor architecture then you are mistaken.
I feel like I'm all over the place in this thread!

> Treatment options are often of doubtful effectiveness, and those that are shown to be effective are generally very blunt instruments.

I have to agree with this, but the alternative is often self medication. Before getting on ADHD medication, it was the norm for me to get a 2-liter of caffeinated soda merely to be able to focus on playing games or coding (for fun!) in the evening. Diagnoses have the potential to hurt as well as help, but IMO it's best that we can provide the tools for bettering yourself (also applicable to welfare spending, heh).
In-Depth Explanation of Income Inequality (2015-09-14) [video 8:37]
I'd guess maybe educational purposes? Forcing people to write the code line by line can have instructive value.
Completely agree that it's wrong for certain use cases. And it is a complex tool, but I personally like the flexibility.
Given the context, he probably meant cracking a private key given just the public key and accessing servers at will.
Another similar company is Pinrose: https://www.pinrose.com/. They make their own scents, match you via personality, and just signed a distribution deal with Nordstrom. Very cool people.

Their founders are also women, which is just as irrelevant in this comment as it is in the title of the post.
This is for teaching code.

I want people to see my code, but I want to remove as many of the conveniences that enable them to just copy-paste that I can -- while not severely hindering my own ability to write and maintain lessons (once code is in PNG...it's quite difficult to grep and/or re-edit), because I believe having to just physically type out code slows you enough that you actually think about the code.

Also, having to type out code pretty much forces you to get into the habit of using keyboard shortcuts, particularly auto-complete.
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I'm opposed as well (I think big piles of personal info are radioactive), but it's worth pointing out that this usage, of finding folks after the fact, should be easy to do in a way that allows proper judicial review, even if the process is expedited. Working from an actual crime makes a lot of things more straightforward vs trying to justify surveillance of someone thought to be a risk, or connected to a risk of some hypothetical future crime.
No, their view is entirely realistic. San Frqncisco zoning laws are controlled by property owners who have every reason to prevent high density housing because they're all getting rich off their tenants.

As for your comments about closets... The only reason people are even considering living in closets is because property owners are preventing new units from being built all over the city.
Hi! I'm having trouble with both of these.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/95 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/81

Also can you comment on why a jsconfig.json file is needed, as opposed to some in-editor setting, or reading from the config files the user already has installed, like an .eslintrc?
> It's when your behavior is rejected, when you meet with poor results, that you have a true incentive to improve and push yourself forward. It might be painful and difficult, but the end result can be greater than what you would have had if you were born "normal".

Ridiculous. "Just cheer up, you'll see that depression isn't so bad."
tl;dr - everything that can break will probably break. Everything else will just get torn to shreds.
Given the recent economic boom/bubble we're experiencing, chances of NOT being required to participate in the lottery are pretty low. Not zero, but pretty low.
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As a counter-example, before I knew about Aspergers/high-functioning autism I was always frustrated and confused about my social difficulties. I forced myself to join social groups and do public speaking in an attempt to improve, but nothing made any difference at all.

I learned about Aspergers in my early 20s and very quickly a lot of my problems made sense. I stopped worrying about the social difficulties and started focusing on building skills where the condition would not hinder me. This is actually why I initially looked into computer programming.
He introduced the campaign finance bill that forced the government to argue before the Supreme Court that it had the power to ban books with political opinions it didn't agree with, the same argument that led to the Citizens United decision.

Did you oppose that bill at the time, on the grounds that it would lead to such ridiculous arguments? If you had, you would have been the only one. Most First-Amendment nose-thumbers loved that bill. I suspect their hearts were in the right place, just as I suspect McCain's was (then, on that topic; various statements made since have been disconcerting).

It would be nice if the rich bastards didn't play the body politic like a marionette, but this isn't the way to change that.

The fact that you didn't lead off with a reference to the Keating Five indicates to me that you don't actually know much about McCain or his career.
The Wikipedia page contains a link to some 6939 Mon here: https://x181.secure.ne.jp/~x181007/kamon/goodslist.cgi
Just because something isn't necessary doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. Your comment isn't necessary, and it isn't making a friend of me. Does this mean that it's your fault if I attack you? That you should have backed out and minded your own business?

That's a stupid and suicidal policy.

>Far from a mere "factor," it's been the single most consistent and driving force behind all terrorism against us.

So you say. But I can't distinguish that whether that statement is fact or ideology. So I don't believe you, and I shouldn't until you've got some convincing evidence that it's true. You can tell me a story. I don't want a story.

And I really don't see how people committing acts of terrorism are making good decisions that we should support by giving them what they want for doing so. Seems like a bunch of grudge-holders that need to grow up before negotiations become an option.
Brilliant, as always.
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Even if you added deaths by police and deaths by terrorists together, it would probably still not be in the top 50 leading causes of death (I'm still trying to find data with all causes of deaths in the US).
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Syrian refugees don't pose a serious security threat to the U.S., because math
No, they want to collect everything to find something to hang you with after the fact.

There is way too much volume and noise to find threats in the hurricane of hay flying past to find the needles in real time.

But if you have someone specific to start targeting, you can quite easily take their whole life apart and find their friends and make all these connections after the fact.

The goal isn't to stop attacks, it's to ensure that nobody goes unpunished.
You can achieve that just by having them write code that doesn't do exactly the same thing you've shown them.
Nah, there's a big discount because preferred shares have downside protection (as well as a few other valuable things general) so common stock is valued lower. Generally a 70% discount or so.
If you have an approved H1B, you can take a year off by resigning. I don't know of any employer who would you give you a sabbatical; citizen or not. You can use your remaining H1B time with the same or any other employer. As I see it, this is the law of the land, take it or leave it; complaining is not an option IMO.

Also, I don't see how you can start something on your own (excluding freelancing) if you're taking considerable time off; maybe I'm wrong. You cannot just take time off when you feel like it, a competitor is most certainly going to eat your lunch.

To me, this is a lame argument that "if I get my gc I can start something on my own". Really? Totally anecdotal and bay area specific, but the ratio of recent gc holders starting a new venture (note: new venture, not an existing venture) to number of people getting their gc is tending to 0 (I'm exaggerating but it's a pretty low number). Chances are, this person has spent a lot of time in an established company waiting for his/her gc, bought a house (therefore enslaved by a mortgage), possibly have had kids, and lost most of the technical and any entrepreneurial skills required to compete in a cut throat environment. I do not see such a person taking a risk, even after getting a gc. Will expediting handing gc to applicants change this ratio? Who knows? It's a moot point.

Again, this is totally anecdotal, but I see a considerable difference between me (I work in a startup) vs a lot of my friends who don't. I'm not saying I'm superior than them; but I see that they just don't realize what's required to start/run a company. It's no piece of cake.
So it's Robot Turtles IRL? My kids dig Robot Turtles and would have fun with this.
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Thanks a lot for all the details! It sounds like something that could fit into my day style. The only thing missing, and the one I want to rectify after I go back from abroad, is the gym thing - I want to schedule serious gym time after work. It's true that my body isn't usually tired at night.

As for caffeine - I hate coffee, it makes me sick. Club Mate is expensive over here, but it's my choice of a drink when I need the caffeine boost. Gonna check out CogniTea though. How many bags/day you drink?
Yup, after a few visits back home US immigration officers have asked me variations on if I was planning on returning to Canada. Regardless of my feelings or intent, the answer is "yes, I plan on returning", especially when a guard is explicitly trying to catch you with intent to immigrate.
Cool site! To add a bit, straight-line distance is only one factor in remoteness. There are parts of Washington's Cascades that are only a few miles from a road, but would take a day or more of agonizing bush-whacking to reach.
I've tried it while 1.13 was in dev, and damn, it's really easy now to use JS libs in Dart.
A big problem with the discussion around mental health issues is the idea that your thoughts are a part of what you are, and somehow it is OK even if these thoughts become a problem for you. It turns out that what appear for us as thoughts are just complex chemical reactions occurring in our brain. You can definitely change this chemistry using substances (for the better and for the worse). The same thing also works the other way around: uncomfortable, stressful thoughts can lead to chemical imbalances in the brain, because they're just the same thing. We need to better accept this fundamental fact of science and use it in our favor, not fight against this as if we depended on our mental moods to exist as an individual.
Try the same with C:/test.txt. Open Explorer and see if the file actually appears in C:/.
You know the answer to this, but that's not the point. The old system did not prevent crooked agent to have access as well.

The problem here is much bigger, because they assume that no one in the world (including foreign governments) would be able to figure out how to exploit backdoor(s).

Imagine a foreign government eventually would discover it. Such knowledge would be extremely powerful weapon in cyber warfare. What McCain is suggesting is extremely dumb, even if he's not concerned about our privacy.
It depends on the state of the company. In the beginning, the share price between common (employee) and preferred (investor) stock can be very significant (10x or more), but as the company gets closer to IPO, the value between common and preferred stock converges to 1. Some unicorns get around this issue by issuing RSUs that retain some value even if the share price drops.
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It's really nice having all the music you like safely stashed away on a local hard drive, no cloud anything, where there's no chance that any future copyright-mafia skullduggery can take it away from you.
they're not stupid. they just make and spend a lot more money than you.
"Importantly, plasma vitamin C concentrations greater than 10 mM are easily achieved in humans"

I wish they had stated what kind of dosage that means for a human of a given mass.

Interesting that the "high-dose" regimen (4g/kg) would be 280 GRAMS (big tablets) a day for a 70kg human... with no noted toxicity!
Controllers are neat. I've had half a dozen of them of various types. It isn't just the controlling part- but the overall interface and instant cross compatibility.

All of my eurorack modules from different vendors mesh together; plus they play well with my Minimoog Voyager, Machinedrum, guitar pedals (some input/output CV). Yea, MIDI kinda allows for this, but really not still in the same instant way.

Even modern MIDI devices kinda suck at implementation (see the new Roland Boutique series, which don't output MIDI CC from their faders and knobs.. and even if it did, I couldn't route an LFO from there into a CV processor on a Korg via MIDI).

MIDI is more of a "I wonder if this works and has the bandwidth", whereas CV is more, "If you see it, you can do anything you want!"
There are other examples of this in history.

A good one is the invention of the modern billiard ball. Balls were made from ivory and were very expensive, which prevented the mass popularity of the game.

Michael Phelan put in an ad in the paper offering $10,000 (the equivalent of millions today) to anyone that could develop a substitute for ivory. The result was cellulose, which later begat Bakelite, a perfect substitute.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-post-billiards-age...
It isn't true-Scotsmanning, it's a factual statement. Make no mistake, I too consider Rand Paul to be among the higher stock available in the U.S. mainstream political scene.
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It can range quite a bit, but you can figure around the 25 - 35% range as a rough estimate for most venture backed companies. Companies that are near-to or are already cash flow positive can move the needle higher.
That's an interesting thought - is 780mph at 4000ft worse or just different? It's clear that the lower your altitude, the more air there will be to "interact" with - however, even at an extremely high altitude (with virtually no air), at those speeds I would imagine that there is absolutely 0% chance of survival given all of the heat generated (among other things).
Also relevant:
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/170248/fds-final.pdf
Sounds good. I guess I can just try, since I will use OPT with STEM (maybe) anyway. Thanks!
Well that is a bit exaggerated.
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Slap those people until they start saying MS-SQL, that's what I've always heard where I work.
Is $80k on the upper level? I mean, not rich, but is it enough to live comfortably? I know in some countries you are making as an SE as much as the baker in the neighborhood bakery!
Depends on the stage. Early stages the difference can be 1000-10x. Later stages the difference is much less, 10-1x but usually by then companies start issuing RSU's not options.

RSU's are stock given with the current valuation (eg. you get 10,000 shares, which are worth of $1M with the current valuation). If the company IPO with that valuation, you get ($1M - taxes). If they IPO with less or more, you get less or more.

Difference is that with options you actually have to exercise (buy the stock) with the given strike price.
Makes sense. I think the overall size isn't that interesting though, without scaling by what you are actually doing with it.
See what cell phone manufacturers are doing: segmenting the market by launching dozens of different models at the same time (half of them barely usable, but that's a topic for another time), each with a different set of "features" - little less RAM, little more storage, sensor A and B included, sensor B and C included (note that a model with sensors A, B and C is usually missing).

A sane situation would be when they'd be launching a single phone packed with features - powerful CPU, lots of RAM, lots of storage. Or maybe two, second being the "economy version" or basically the previous year's top model. But launching dozens of models a time means a lot of unused cellphones floating around, a lot of incompatibile parts being produced, and a lot of people learning for the first time that you don't go cheap on a smartphone because companies are very happy to sell you crap that barely works at all.
Kinderlab Robotics' Kibo Robot (http://kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/) also features a tangible, screen-free programming language where the instructions are wooden blocks that kids put together in a sequence. They are a funded startup shipping mostly to schools and museums, and the whole thing is backed up by a long line of research first at the MIT Media Lab, and now at Tufts. Previously, the founders created ScratchJr. Worth checking out.
The Mac versions are still pretty terrible and are missing loads of features.
If you believe it, it will come true!
Really! To me, this suggests that the fundamental problem is the enormous size of USA. If it were replaced by twenty other nations each a twentieth the size, could the parasites even afford to subvert the popular will and well-being? Divide all those bribes by 20, and you're not left with much to corrupt a reasonable person.
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I would like to see these numbers by each and every precinct or branch.

There was a post some time back about some new building and equipment a Florida PD built with their stolen money.
Not when you're competing against every other payment processor.
Starbucks is almost done moving away from Square for CC processing.
When the big daddy of startup investing Ram Shriram talks, you just listen
Anyone have link without paywall? :-)
Its a shame the pictures' title tags aren't entertaining.
Great article by Bill Gurley that explains some of the factors that drive revenue multiples: http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/05/24/all-revenue-is-not-creat...
People that don't suffer don't need help, but those that need help can't get it if they don't get diagnosed.
My diagnosis (slightly different) came at 38 years of age, and in the few years since, everything has changed. I've lost so much to my disability that it's hard to process at times.

What I do know, is that before the diagnosis, before all the different kinds of treatment and support, I didn't understand what I was missing. While I like the eccentric me, I am no longer forced to only be that. I have forged a relation to my daughter in a way I didn't think was possible. I don't only exist now, I live. Everything I am is coalescing, solidifying. I'm finally me, all of me. I live in a different world now, a world I can finally understand, because I know in which ways it looks different to me. Each year now feels like several did before, my life suddenly became much longer.

So while it's all nice that people discuss the finer points of whether diagnosis is a label or not, but if those arguments leads to somebody like me not getting diagnosed at all, the effect on their quality of life will be devastating.

I was 38,but for the most part I was little more than a teenager, my daughter needed a father. I can be that now.

But, obviously, no-one should get sent to the doctor because they don't fit into peoples preconceptions or society's most shallow norms. Most medications influencing the brain are crude and comes with very real risks, they should be handled with care.
The report breaks things out better:

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hb9411.pdf

Table 5 sort of shows what I was getting at, burglaries of lower income households dropped a lot more than burglaries in general. One explanation of that is that lower end break ins aren't worth it anymore.

If that is the case, the average would go up without the rest of the burglaries really changing.

(I guess that could be described as a change in the distribution of burglaries rather than a shift in the distribution; I read your reply here as pointing to a shift)
How about we (the USA) as a country re-adjust our attitude/foreign policy? That goes light years further toward averting any future terrorist attacks. I don't condone ISIS even one bit, but we would be fools to not admit our role in shaping their current behavior.

So either we give - by adjusting our attitude or if we choose to stay entrenched on our position, then go all the way and nuke the crap out of them.

I don't like middle of the road solutions... maybe it's just me.
Very strange. I'd assume they'd fence it to known associates.
Well, by definition, the Private Use Area is for private use. An OS vendor can put whatever they like there, as can a user.
Jack can't cash his shares. At least not for a long time.