skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting, but perhaps not surprising, that that obituary does not mention how critical Erdős felt his amphetamine use was to his work. A famous anecdote:

"After 1971 he [Erdős] also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of
whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month. Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence, mathematics had
been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the
bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use."
I'm a similar person.

>So I'm on the austism spectrum... I also suffer from depression... I still have noticeable anxiety in social situations, and I tend to avoid them whenever I can...

Is this self-diagnosed or do you have a formal diagnosis from a clinician? I would recommend getting a formal diagnosis if you don't have one, as it offers you certain legal protections and opens some options for help. All of the things that you describe are well known syndromes and are, to varying degrees, treatable. I recommend seeking a psychiatrist / therapist at a teaching hospital, if you can, as you have a better chance of getting higher quality care.

>I've spent my whole life trying and failing to start my own thing so I can get away from people...

Aside from a few extraordinary talented individuals, the day of the solitary hacker is over; software engineering is a team sport.

What worked for me is to:

1) Accept that you're not going to fit socially in the way that normal people do. Aloofness, as long as it's not taken to extremes, is actually OK.

2) Find professional aspects that you are willing to work extra hard in in that others will value, e.g. hard working, willing to take on dirty jobs, or developing a technical specialty. People are willing to forgive your social limitations if you are of value and not otherwise unpleasant to be around.

3) (The following is going to sound extremely weird to people not suffering from autism.) Develop an synthetic set of social behaviors that cater to your limitations. For example, I memorize certain canned responses to use during short social interactions and use other other techniques to cut the interaction short if needed to in order to prevent awkwardness from arising.
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Who cares about being upvoted or downvoted on Hacker News? There are no guidelines or standards for voting, so there's no context to glean from it, unless a comment gets voted into near obscurity (those are usually objectively bad.) Karma is a meaningless number that tells you little about the quality of the person it's attached to.

This forum is full of programmers, designers and UX engineers. There's nothing wrong with criticizing the site's layout or interface, that's a sign that you actually care about it.
I went to Burning Man with a good friend of mine, who also had mainstream tastes, and his experience is well summed up by this comic:

https://i.redd.it/d003u7o3ivnx.png
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That might work /for you/ what works for me is being shown the algorithm (the path to the true answer) and ALSO being shown WHY at the same time.

And yes, the rote practice is what makes it sink in. I just also need the WHY so that it makes 'sense' what I'm doing and to help me understand why I am doing it.
Top Women in Tech Follow Mostly Men on Twitter, Not Other Women
Inb4 a million comments on Erdõs' amphetamine use...discussions of his life inevitably boil down to people talking about the famous bet. Rarely his contributions.
... and just be sure to convince them to buy instead of just annoy them.
Was it? From the article you posted:

> even though the video creator said that she was catcalled by people of all races

> Hollaback! responded to the criticism by noting that this video was only the first in a series of many videos that would document different forms of street harassment, and said it regretted any racial bias in the video.[12][13] An analysis of the video documented that most of the scenes shown in the video were taken in neighborhoods with predominantly black and Hispanic populations, raising the question of whether the video was shot mostly in these locations, or whether harassment was more prevalent in these locations than in others.

Your summary is dishonestly inaccurate.
by rich and highly developed, i mean things like "having a package manager that hooks me into mendeley, zotero, and github, has an integrated linter, supports build and live-preview, and lets me run custom macros with whatever keybindings i prefer". "runs everywhere because it's in javascript" doesn't necessarily get me any of that-- the editing functionalities in this tool seem rudimentary so far.
Why not modify https://vuejs.org/examples/hackernews.html and have all these features for yourself?
If she mostly learned the old way, get her old books your self and finish the job?
Clojure Is Boring
The future as depicted in various fictional sci-fi works is more or less here. Rail guns, check. Autonomous killing machines are not quite there, but the unmanned ones are becoming ubiquitous. VR, check. New, synthetic drugs appearing with increased frequency, check. Self driving cars, check. Advanced gene editing techniques, check. Elon Musk promised us interplanetary spaceships by 2020. The only staples of sci-fi missing are aliens, AGI, and sustainable fusion.

Gibson said it best. "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed."
Ok, good analogy on how _businesses_ run their internet security.

However, the government, and the DNC too, are only interested in security when they can't just use their thugs instead. We're way behind in cyberwarfare precisely because our federal government thinks like a thug ... or in other words, like a big dumb criminal.

The DNC gets political mileage out of being hacked because they can create a controversy (blaming Russia) and look good (their opponent isn't as anti-Putin as they are).

Why should they ask their contractors for better security? They pay top dollar and are getting what they want: none of the hassles of real security, and if ... when they get hacked, they get to choose their response:

(1) blame Russia

(2) blame Trump

(3) blame the contractor

(4) blame the government

I'm sure there are more response strategies, I'm just too lazy to think them all up. The point is, they're not ignorant of their incompetence. No, they are very competent and manipulating the ignorant masses who will believe them when they announce "Russia did it!"

(Everything I just said applies equally to the R party as well.)

If the DNC, RNC, or federal government was even halfway smart in their criminal mindset, they'd secure their systems. Maybe plant some honeypots. Probably fire all the government contractors who are leaving them wide open.
Huh? I said otherwise smart people are losing their minds over this election, not that everyone is stupid. Your list underscores my overarching point though: there is incredible motivation from many parties and many parties with resources to see Trump fail, at every stage from the primaries to the GOP nomination to the eventual election in a month, that if there was real dirt on Trump that could make him dance like a puppet (or otherwise be manipulated, or tarnished so terribly), it's incredibly unlikely that such dirt would only be known to Putin.
Many perspectives can be synthesized from a few cameras. Or people expect intelligent dust.
That has downsides like, for one, requiring allocations for every state transition, and the runtime infrastructure (plus loss of static assurances) required to do downcasts when one needs functionality that only exists on a specific state. For closed state spaces like this example, a discriminated union is far more controlled and has many advantages, whereas subclassing is often better suited to open (or large) sets of states.
You do realize T-Mobile is on a full EEE trip there?

Look at Germany, where they existed for a while already, and have pushed against net neutrality, refuse to peer with companies unless they get paid, replace ads in websites with their own with MitM proxies and so on.

T-Online/T-Mobile are the worst of the worst.
When this time comes, the problem will be sabotage/theft. I think this will be a problem with all autonomous vehicle technologies, and it's often neglected in conversations on the subject.

Imagine you get to the point of perfectly autonomous trucks. They are designed to never harm a human, so they can be stopped dead by somebody simply standing in the road (while his accomplices unload the cargo).

When you need to hire a security guard to accompany every truck, the cost savings of self-driving vehicles don't look so good.
Only peak time (e.g. 8 PM) utilization matters and caps generally don't reduce it. It's definitely true that increased peak usage requires ISPs to upgrade their networks, but their pricing is almost totally disconnected from costs.
It is domain-specific, but the domain is rather large. In the vast majority of life science fields, LaTeX is not accepted for journal articles, even in fields where you might expect it. In medical informatics, for example, direct LaTeX upload is uncommon, which you might not expect for an informatics journal.
New Zealand has moved to such a system. We went from having essentially one ISP, with shit data limits and high prices, to having a huge amount of ISPs, with more reasonable prices and the vast majority of them offer unlimited plans.
The most important thing to remember: you're not a programmer, you're a creator. It would be like a carpenter thinking of themselves as a wood cutter. Instead a carpenter will realize a need for something specific and make it. So my question for you, what do you need? Figure it out, sketch out the UI, data structure etc in a notebook, figure out what tech you need to build, and then start coding.
TIL that Shepard Fairey did the Mozilla logo. That's hella cool.
>They were also worried about how small the total market cap

>I do not think it is impossible to build an open source business (I think Wordpress is an example), and I do not need to raise VC.

Is the right market here not everything like A16Z told you? The market for wordpress is crazy large with several blog platforms seeing 100+ million dollar exits and it seems no one who gets in this space fails--clearly the market is large.

I also look at other open source projects that have "made it" and they just seem to be tackling bigger markets than you are. Is there a chance the market of what you're doing just seems big to you because of personal interest in the product? (Not trying to be inflammatory with that comment)
The average driver having access to flying cars sounds like a nightmare. Let's perfect self driving cars first before my klutz of a niece has access to flying missiles.
I understand the appeal of Minecraft mods, and I've read about some of them...I just haven't played any (at least, not any complex ones, and not in a long time).

Let's Plays have never been interesting to me, though. Either they feel like a waste of time because I'd rather be playing, or they feel like a waste of time because the game doesn't interest me enough to want to play it.

For Factorio, I like that there's a progression. There's an end goal to the game (build a rocket and get off the planet). Mechanisms have a purpose (efficiency and multiplication of player effort).

In vanilla Minecraft, I built things like hidden bunkers that would open up holes in the ground when you push a button, just because it was cool, and I imagine I'd have a similar goal if given more tools; maybe I'd build a TNT factory that auto-loads a cannon and blows up big parts of the map. In Factorio, I'll build a huge train network as part of a pipelined production process, with each train programmed for specific routes, conditions under which it leaves specific stations, etc. The goal doesn't feel the same, and it's nice that the game itself doesn't have the same feel as Minecraft.

I've also only played vanilla Factorio, but it has official support for mods, so we'll see how flexible those end up being. I don't know much about the API that's available to developers, so I can't speculate how much they'll eventually be able to change the game.
Paying attention to the downvotes on your comments isn't terribly helpful on HN. Mostly it just leads to more downvotes.
I moved to US a year ago, there is always spin in the media, so if I can help providing some useful information would be glad to do so.
Agree with this. I've been their customer for a number of years and am very happy. Their support, transparency and philosophies are wonderfully refreshing.

I've never really understood how it's OK for ISPs to market contended, capped connections as if they were dedicted leased lines. At what point does contradicting yourself in the small print with 'fair usage policy' and 'up to' become illegal?
Oh okay, in that case my apologies for the misunderstanding ;)

Firefox is said to support it in the nightly releases, but not yet in the official releases. This is the last time I checked about a month ago (I no longer use Firefox.)
I guess I don't agree that this is the common definition or use. Maybe it will become so.
Ask HN: Why is FizzBuzz more important than actual experience?
I've been interviewing for a Software Engineering position lately and every interview process includes multiple FizzBuzz style coding challenges and puzzles. Usually the second interview is over the phone and is 95% coding challenges and if you don't happen to do well then too bad, you're out. On the other hand I've never once been asked about references. I also have numerous open source projects with high quality code and actual products with actual users. Only a tiny fraction of places actually look at any of it but all definitely care more about their contrived coding challenges than anything I've actually done or experience I have. Even worse are the cases where the company asks you to do a long coding problem on your own without compensation on top of all the coding challenges. Is it really better to have a company made up of people who are good at solving puzzles in front of people rather than people that have proven they can do a good job? It didn't use to be this way so much. Are we really better off now?

(I admit part of this is me venting since I can't do even basic coding in that environment no matter how much I practice. But I'd be more than happy to go over stuff I've done and code I've written and to refer you to my past employers who have always loved my work. In reality I am usually the person coworkers or friends come to when they want help solving a difficult technical problem but I don't solve it in front of them on a whiteboard. I understand employers want to make sure they don't hire someone that can't code but if someone can prove they can then why bother with the rest? Plus, are there good programmers out there that can't tell if someone is bullshitting about their ability to code?)

edit: It's not that there is no point whatsoever to coding challenges but it seems people put more weight on them than anything else technically related.
They're talking about this, and it definitely looks like some kind of marketing stunt:

http://www.fujitv.co.jp/kimyo/rinna_blog/

Edit: Jumpscare warning.
Russia is not a super power and to be honest I am not totally sure even USSR ever was.
It all comes down to effective in theory vs effective in practice.
Yep. Larceny is one of the fastest compiled Schemes.

Doesn't mean Picrin is slow, though. It matches Chicken in most of the stats, and Chicken uses the same process (Cheney on the MTA), but Chicken is compiled. Picrin is bytecode interpreted.
Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs
Generally agree, but I think that by 1880 the British had finally come to their senses and given up on Arctic exploration. Franklin's expedition [0] was 1845 - 1848 or so, and the subsequent extensive searches for him into the 1850s provided a lot more knowledge of the geography, but they seem to have also made everyone finally confront the futility of the task. The British Admiralty didn't fund another expedition until 1875-1876 when the Nares expedition to reach the North Pole failed [1], and the general conclusion was that there was no Open Polar Sea. They gave up on Arctic exploration after that.

So maybe shift 1880 back to 1840.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Arctic_Expedition

EDIT: formatting
SCARIEST TRUMP VIDEO EVER
The worry was more then reasonable the lucky outcome of worst scenario not materializing is not an evidence that there was no risk.
Fundamental mode
Can you clarify this? Are HN posters allowed to use the term 'minorities'?

Are posters allowed to comment on perceived differences of behavior among different demographics?
Downvoting currently sure is broken. An hour ago, when daring to suggest the Russians might actually be responsible for the DNC hacks, everything I've posted for the last week silently earned a down vote.

And while I don't particularly care since this is junk account and its not my website, I imagine it could be interesting to someone.
I don't think it matters to Trump supporters if Mandiant found Putin hacked into DNC computers from his laptop.

In what I think are Robin Hanson's terms, for Trumpists the enemy in near mode is the Clintonistas.

Once the Democrats are defeated they would change again, like defeating an end of level boss, geopolitical concerns would become less abstract.

This is good for Clinton though because it should consolidate her base. Democrats will be feeling more patriotic than usual. I really am not sure whether geopolitics with Russia becomes more far or abstract after the election if she wins.

For my part I do not think she is a known quantity as many people have said. Familiar but not known. A known quantity is what people said about Merkel but then she became unpredictable. I have this suspicion that Trump is unpredictable in predictable ways but that Clinton could be just as unpredictable.

What I really do not know is what Clinton's position is on 'the decline of the empire'. Have there been acknowledgements? Declarations? Business as usual?
Not really, any sort of diversion from planned course can trigger an alarm that can eventually call the cops or something.
So many to choose from!
Security guard? Sensors, cameras, alarms etc would be fitted and sufficient to deter most thieves. The truck would sound an alarm and even notify police automatically if it detects unauthorised unloading.
Sex, violence, and the eros of evangelicalism in an East Texas hell house
First, the bulk of consumer use does not require high instantaneous bandwidth. And from what I recall, cable companies generally throttle those uses anyway!

But the real value of the comparison is seeing exactly what game cable companies are playing. Their last-mile links happen to have higher bandwidth, but really they do not want to actually carry the corresponding traffic. So they advertise the irrelevant speeds in big print, and then do everything they can to restrict the actual service provided. Meanwhile I'm consistently doing >2TB/mo on DSL.

Don't let CableCos' misleading advertising fool you, the US's last-mile communications infrastructure basically stagnated two generations back. Competition between cable and DSL is the official national policy, and moves like this one make it quite clear that they are providing similar service.

If you're in an area that still has a CLEC, you might even find a provider that actually has technical people answering the phone!
It sure as hell seems like natural evolution is being applied to the social sphere. Statistically, children from "well off" families do consistently better across all life pillars (health, money, family, friends) than poorer families. Come on, financially richer families are less fat/obese than poorer families. This is a direct link to living and longevity (Darwinism).
As a side note, I've been working through all the MAKE electronics books posted here a little while ago. Will this game help me in designing real life circuits?

Still impressive, didn't know you could make assembly programming into a game!
If I understand correctly, the HTML is not actually published. So there are no benefits to having a better semantic structure to it - think of it as a rendering target for the sole purpose of making it look nice on the screen.
Your points don't hold up, because Apple has to worry about platform security, not just browser security. And taking Microsoft and Google as examples does not support your argument. Mozilla, maybe (though possibly just by having fewer users as compared to all of Android and all of Windows) but again they don't have to worry about platform security as much as Apple does.

French law is outside of my expertise. I'm just talking common sense here. I do recognize that there might not be much overlap between the two in matters of technology, though.
This is what an A.I.-powered future looks like
> An analysis of the video documented that most of the scenes shown in the video were taken in neighborhoods with predominantly black and Hispanic populations

They said they filmed 10 hours of video and then apparently chose the worst instances for their much briefer video showing harassment. It's quite possible that she walked through many different neighborhoods, but those hours of walking simply didn't produce the harassment desired for the video.
This is a great talk. Marek does an awesome job of explaining something that is very technical in a clear and casual manner. I definitely learned some new things.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79u7bURE6Ss
>If one TB is exceeded, $10 is charged for each additional data block of up to 50 GB/month $200 overage charge limit - no matter how much data is used

>Unlimited Data Additional $50/month No overage charges — no matter how much data is used each month

Can't they just cap the overage at $50? Why the nickel and dime-ing just to get an extra $150 from a handful of customers who forgot to monitor their usage and make a phone call?
In other words, the only real advantage Microsoft has is in enterprise channel sales
They were extremely limited in the resources they could bring to bear on the genome.

Sequencing was expensive and complicated, so even by sequencing several people the best they could do was make one composite image of the whole genome. Representing things as a graph would have provided no benefit at the time, and so people didn't do it.

Now we have thousands of public sequenced genomes. We need a new model for how we manage genomes. We are also learning how much is missed in the standard linear model of the genome, and need a way to incorporate new information into the reference. This all takes time.

Graphs are a good ways of encoding using our prior knowledge of genomes, but they are also difficult for researchers who have grown up on linear systems to understand.
I don't see the market I am targeting as huge, and I agree with you that it is probably easier for Wordpress to succeed than SageMathCloud. I'm perhaps too realistic about the potential market for SageMathCloud, which was a reason why A16Z wasn't interested. If I took VC funding I might not have the option to focus on a smaller market.
He's not the only one. As I was driving home, alone, a few days ago, I heard my brother's voice say will you pick up some In N Out on the way home. Not one minute later, he calls me and asks for a double double meal. It most definitely was not deja vu, it was a bug in the simulation's audio streaming socket, a veritable glitch in the matrix!