skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks dude. That was nice to read.

No, I'm not very confrontational and in general I've learnt to act normal very well. If you met me at a meetup or something you probably wouldn't guess I'm autistic at all. I've honestly spent years working on my social skills and it's paid of quite well.

In interviews the issue really only comes in when I'm asked really vague questions like, "what gets you excited?" I don't really know how to answer those kind of questions so I start stumbling. I also have the same problem with certain technical questions. I was asked to explain regexs recently and I find that very hard because I struggle translating the conceptual ideas in my into words.

Also when I'm in an office I get quickly tired of pretending to be normal. If I'm having a rough day I don't have the energy to pull it off and then problems start cropping up.

I don't know your friend, but we sound different honestly. I pick up things insanely quick. Things like programming and maths just make sense to me. I don't need to get into special programmes because when working on my own I know I can out perform the majority of people. My issue is 100% with other people judging me for not being able to understand irrelevant things to my work such as social etiquettes and my slightly unusual methods of explaining myself.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm annoyed at the suggestion that I need special programs. Growing up I always loved being autistic because it made be able to do cool things like teach myself to code. I was always in top sets for subjects like physics, maths, etc and I was one of the strongest developers on my course in college and university.

I don't need help, I just need people to be understanding that some people like to be left alone and take a little longer to figure out a good way to express themselves. My issue has always been that people don't like that I'm anti-social and they don't have time for my less eloquent explanations.

Edit: Additionally, I do often say, "sorry I'm autistic" and ask for help. For example it's very common for me to say, "sorry I'm autistic, have I upset you?", or sometimes I will ask if they want me to stop talking. I find it very hard to read those things.

But in interviews I'd never mention I'm autistic. If I'm given a job I want to know it's because someone thinks I'm the best person for the role. I don't want sympathy. I just want people to stop being so judgemental towards me.
India Eyes a Return to Mars and a First Run at Venus
I've lived without a car for most of my adult life (mid-30s now), and never owned one. In rough order of my own preferences, I've tried all of:
1.) I buy it someplace close and walk.
2.) I have larger-than-usual bags for my bicycle
3.) I order it online
4.) I pay for delivery
5.) I piggy-back with a friend who's driving to the same store and doesn't mind dropping me and my purchase off at my house.
6.) I rent a car
7.) I take it on public transit
Sorry I only found a trivial one! Will try harder. Seriously though - this is a dreadful statistic isn't it? I've marked you up - feeling better?
Sounds more like the doll is akin to a Bluetooth headset. It's got a mic, a speaker, and a BT transmitter which provides i/o to a mobile application running on a smartphone or tablet (much the way a Bluetooth headset would operate with a phone).

The mobile application does any local processing and handles queries to remote servers and such.
Western Europe? Do you mean the landmass that extends all the way from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific? You can walk all the way from the Bering strait to the Atlantic Ocean, and down to the tip of Africa.. thats a pretty large landmass and there was no gulf between Asia and Europe. (its pretty inhospitable in parts I agree, but the Mongol Empire reached the Mediterranean)
The article didn't specifically say war, just multiple competing states. This drove up trade, but also division.

European history has had more conflict that any other region.

Also, War has undeniably driven technological advances throughout history.

Conflict does not create riches, you are correct.
Competition does create riches ( and sometimes conflict)
I believe the logical conclusion to this scenario is that Mr. B suspects the stock price will drop. He has borrowed from Mr. A, and promised to give it back later. When the stock price drops, Mr. B re-purchases a share at a price lower than what he sold it for to Mr. C.

Mr. B returns the share to Mr. A, and pockets the difference. This isn't fraud, it's relatively common.
The breakthrough happened in a white boarding session. "One of our team members said, ‘How about we change this? Instead of drinking the bottom up, we drink from the top down.'
"Job satisfaction?" Don't you just mean "Job?"
We use google spreadsheets and gspead/Python for analysis of our AdWords. The AdWords api is a PITA and so we just have a sceduled export to a google spreadsheet that we can then easily access. Works very well!
Just wrap the condition inside another pair of parentheses; that should get any linter off your back without needing to deal with the annoying flipped conditions – and if someone doesn't know the code base has a 100% coverage of Yoda conditions, they might just think there's a bug on the line when seeing it for the first time (unless you add an explanatory comment each time, at which point the assignment inside the condition has bought you nothing, as you might just lift it on a row of its own before the if statement).

C++, for instance however has language syntax to prevent confusion when using this idiom – declarations inside conditionals:

if (auto val = getval())
foo(val); // executed only if getval() returned something that evaluates to true
// in a boolean context

Considering that PHP already has the useless var keyword, they might just adopt something similar in the future

if (var $val = getval()) {}
I've open-sourced my React Native carpooling app, PÜL
-Woodworking
-Teaching older people on how to use Feature phones/Smart phones
YTD by revenue:

Stock > Job > Books > Affiliate Websites

Stocks are auto-invested each month.

Job is not passive.

Books were written a while ago. Some by me most by others. Probably a couple hours a week evaluating how they're doing. Sometimes I'll do sales, etc. Less passive as I'm trying to grow their revenue.

Affiliate websites are all 100% passive at this point. I automatically generate content for them. Maybe an hour or two updating the VPS/WP.
> No ads

HN does have job ads for YC startups (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). The one on the front page now is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13670103. You can tell it's a job ad because it has no vote arrow and no username. This "reserved slot on the front page for a YC-related ad" approach has been HN's way of giving something back to YC for years. I seem to recall a post by pg announcing it in the early days.

We're diversifying that front-page slot to sometimes show startup launches instead of job ads. Those stories begin with "Launch HN". We figured that would be better both for the YC startups (since just-launched ones aren't ready for job ads yet) and to the HN community (since Launch HNs are hopefully more interesting than job ads).
https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/02/nasa-scientist...
LLD is included in the upcoming LLVM 4.0 release
Usually this is part of the fine print when you sign up for a margin account. By the margin agreement, your shares can be lent out at any time. Don't like it, use a cash account.
Where Flying Cars Might Take Us
I feel like I'm constantly trying to evaluate if I'm being too tough or too friendly, and I'm not sure how to recognize the truth. And I think it varies by employee.
Yes?

Having checkout handle creating branches is strictly a shortcut. The other option for the shortcut would be for `git branch` to sometimes alter state in your working directory (it currently never does this). The non-shortcut version (which works today) is to only create branches with `git branch` and only checkout branches with `git checkout`.

If you look at it from the perspective of "checkout is the thing that screws with your local working directory", it is organized logically.
CLM?
This is absolutely correct. Hotels are optimized for a very particular pattern of travel: individuals or couples who use the accommodation solely to sleep. Many, many other use cases are actually more economically serviced by vacation rentals, mainly due to the availability of a full kitchen and comfortable, aesthetic, and private common spaces such as living rooms, pools, decks, and hot tubs as part of the offering, and greater flexibility with location.

Consider, for instance, the following:

* 3 or more couples wish to travel together. They'll be doing some touristy things during the day, perhaps, but half of the fun of the vacation will be hanging out and bonding in the evenings, having wine in the hot tub, deep personal conversations in the living room, whatever it is they do. A 3+ bedroom vacation rental will accommodate this more economically than any similar hotel situation, even when they do exist.

* A family wishes to travel together. They have an infant, a small child who is a picky eater, a ten year-old boy and a thirteen year-old girl who refuse to share a room, and one of the parent's mother who will take care of the infant at "home" while the rest of the family does some of the more challenging activities. This group probably doesn't want to eat out for every meal and needs a comfortable and pleasing space for the grandmother to stay in for long periods of time during the day.

* Three or four bikers have found a beautiful route in a less-travelled semi-rural area. The nearest hotel is 15 miles away with no bikeable route, but there is a vacation rental just one mile away on rural roads. No need to bring the bikes into the hotel room, no need to rack the bikes on the car to get to the trailhead. Get the bikes from the garage and go.

* A small startup team is attending a conference. They'll be having business meetings all day, so it is important for them to be together to prepare their pitches in the morning and be together in the evening to review the results and strategize. Local hotels and restaurants are full of their competitors, and a private space will help them to focus.

* A couple has always wanted to visit an amazing locale. One of them has a significant food allergy to an ingredient commonly used in local cuisine, and the area is not known for being accommodating in this way. Because of the allergy, they are used to cooking for themselves, and would prefer to do that rather than, say, eat hamburgers every day at the hotel restaurant. Having a well-equipped kitchen is important to them.

I could keep going. The vast majority of my travel is in situations like the above that are more possible, economical, and/or pleasant in vacation rentals than in hotels. I've been using them 3-6 times a year for the past 15 years. (I used VRBO before AirBnB.) I can't imagine going back to staying in hotels for most of my travel.
Fully managed easily scalable nosql DBs have been available for many years as CouchDB variants from multiple providers.
>And yet companies losing barrels of money get their "I'm even more in debt now" VC posts upvoted as news.

Does this happen that often? The only times I can recall are when they are already really large companies and the comments are usually filled with people talking about how ridiculous it is.
Actually, Mr. B borrows from a broker. If they are shares held by the broker in inventory, then the broker is Mr. A and obviously your description is wrong.

But even in other cases it's wrong: the shares may be from Mr. A's margin account with the same broker, in which case the margin account contract included the right for the broker to lend the shares; so Mr. A has already been asked about loaning shares and accepted.

Similar analysis can be extended to the case where Mr. A is either another broker lending inventory shares to the broker lending to Mr. B or where Mr. A has a margin account with such a broker.

No one is lending shares unless they own them or have a contract with the owner where the owner has agreed to allow such lending.
I really appreciate you taking a look as well as providing your feedback.

Regarding the design, I just wanted to get something out the door quickly with a suitable look out of the box, so I decided to use MaterializeCSS (http://materializecss.com/). It's getting the job done so far, but I may revisit the design after I get all the content up.

And I'll look into poppler. Thank you for the recommendation.
Google Forms got a big re-do in the fairly recent past and it's an excellent product. My partner uses it a lot and she calls the results her "apps" becaues they are saved to her homescreen on iOS. She has some pretty sophisticated forms going because there's a "Go to section based on answer" feature that lets you build conditions.

If you haven't checked it out in a while it's worth a shot.
If you can give me a proper linux-based command line client for optimizing images, I'd buy it.
- Improvely (https://www.improvely.com) and W3Counter (https://www.w3counter.com) are my SaaS apps and make about $600K ARR. I check the support e-mail twice a day on weekdays and once a day on weekends. There's typically less than 20 minutes a day of work. One day a week I block a few hours to hack on new features or tweak ads or something productive.

- I have a couple open source projects, and hosted "webmaster tools" type projects, with one-page websites like http://www.daterangepicker.com that get ~10K visits/day, and run one AdSense ad on each page, which brings in a couple hundred dollars most months.

- I run a web store where I resell another company's products (with permission) targeted at a different customer group than their own website. I advertise it on Google AdWords and Bing Ads on just a handful of keywords. Fulfillment is automated through the other company, so I haven't touched the store except to update the design every few years, and it brings in $500-$1000/month in profit. Sorry, don't want to link to this one, too easy to copy.

- Dividends from stocks and high-dividend-yield index funds are totally passive. But first you have to earn and save the money to invest in them. I also have some money in REITs, investing in real estate without having to buy and manage the real estate.

- I used to run some referral ads on my sites for a merchant account provider I used 5-10 years ago. A couple businesses signed up through those links and still use that company for their credit card processing. The commission agreement was a lifetime residual based on their monthly processing volume... I'm still getting $100-200 transferred into my bank every month from that company even though I haven't been referring anyone to them for years.
Five factors greatly reduce the amount of food I carry home:

- eating out at restaurants

- having a case of Soylent at home

- eating weekday breakfast and lunch at work

- living alone

- going to the grocery store more often (sometimes two or three times in a single weekend) so I can carry less home on each trip

These things are only feasible because I live alone and I'm in my 20s.
In the correct usage of the term, "fake news" does not refer to partisan opinion. It refers to sites that completely made up stories or conspiracy theory peddling, often with click-bait friendly headlines.

Natural News for instance is a widely cited "fake news" site -- it basically denies the science-based medical community in favor of an "alternative" form of medical quackery, often with a huge dose of "establishment" paranoia and conspiracy theory. (It is not surprise that Natural News is owned by someone who sells supplements and alternative medicine.)

So, for instance, a political decision by the India government that affected the Bill and Melinda Gates vaccination program over there, largely to diminish a perception of foreign meddling more than anything else (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-health-bmgf-idUSKBN1...) gets turned an implication that Bill and Melinda Gates are killing hundreds of girls in India with an HPV vaccine that contains "extreme side effects" (http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-14-india-tosses-out-gates...). The only "proof" Natural News offers is provided by links to the front page of several other suspicious conspiracy-theory websites.

This is the type of thing easily seen as "fake news". I don't think there's anything even in heavily partisan media (your Fox News and Huffington Posts) that come as close to having as many falsehoods, let alone in more sober media.

I really dislike how "fake news" has come to represent "news that has a different opinion than mine", because that was not what the original context was about.
> Because profits go up, but wages are stagnant. Corporations are increasingly cutting benefits, pensions, and treating employees as contractors and outsourcing. Millennials today are poorer than their parents were. This is the age we live in, profit maximization over everything else. The rich got richer, but the middle class and poor haven't seen any of these gains. Why should anyone believe that anything would change otherwise?

CPI (a measure of living cost--note that living standards increase)-adjusted hourly wages have increased 8% in the past decade. That's not that good, but we're looking at one of the richest countries in the world.

But PPP (measure of purchasing power) adjusted GNI per capita in the U.S. has increased by 25% in the past decade.

If you look at India (where huge portion of the world lives), PPP adjusted GNI per capita has doubled from 2003-2013. You'll probably retort "that's just numbers", but I live in India ;)

Similarly PPP adjusted GNI per capita has increased greatly in most poor countries.

> This is the age we live in, profit maximization over everything else.

In which age people don't want more money? Corporations are owned by shareholder who are people who want to make more money like everybody. Obviously, they will profit maximize.

> If the only jobs available are low paying with terrible conditions, then that's not a society you want to live in.

You misunderstood my point; I mean that automation increases real wages thus creating jobs.

> Its convenient to hide behind the economic theories

Haha, the good ol' economist bashing.

Those stupid eCONomists with their statist-tricks who just play around with graphs. /s

Kind of ironical when you hear HNers talk about supporting science w.r.t climate change but when it's economics suddenly many are the opposite. I guess people only support science when it confirms their priors.

Economics is a real science just like physics, mathematics, etc. Papers are published with statistical rigor and empirical testing. Indeed, economics is complex and counter-intuitive because the world isn't simple.
Companies need to know that all photos aren't created equal
Ask HN: Convert Huge PDF into OCR?
I have a 4,000 page PDF document that I need to convert into OCR. I'm currently, using Nuance but it takes hours and it even sometimes fails after hours of converting. Are there other software, online services, methods, etc. out there that's more reliable or faster? I would love the HN community feedback. Thanks!
"Typical margin account agreements give brokerage firms the right to borrow customer shares without notifying the customer. In general, brokerage accounts are only allowed to lend shares from accounts for which customers have debit balances, meaning they have borrowed from the account. SEC Rule 15c3-3 imposes such severe restrictions on the lending of shares from cash accounts or excess margin (fully paid for) shares from margin accounts that most brokerage firms do not bother except in rare circumstances. (These restrictions include that the broker must have the express permission of the customer and provide collateral or a letter of credit.)" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)#Shorting_stock....
Okay first of, before I read the rest of the article, I want to complain about the statement:

> While you can hack together a “list” that will be backed by a Vec of nodes with indices to the next / previous item, this approach is quite wasteful – and gains little compared to using the Vec directly.

How is this wasteful or hacky?? This is THE proper way of writing data structures that are not strict trees. Sure, this isn't the correct way to write a list data structure, but there's almost no reason to use a linked list in general.
It's generally the suburbs and rural areas that get subsidized, not the cities. Cities get more spending but they have so much more economic activity that they end up paying even more in taxes.
Getting fired from my job. ;) Got 1 month severance and a job the same week.

By far the best passive income so far this year.
I honestly don't see very many of those voices around anymore
Agree with everything here. For us non-technical people, it's just a matter of skipping over the programming stuff. You just have a blindness for these articles - after a bit of practice they just disappear and all the other gems shine through.
It's borrowed through an intermediary which Mr. A gave permission to for borrowing. Probably in the small letters of the contract.
They are also opaque to the type system.
Should active projects really considered passive income?

I'd consider passive something that requires virtually no involvement: stocks, bonds, real estate, etc
Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
Hugely so— much of the density of Japan's cities today, and many traditional cities worldwide, comes from small single-family homes and apartment buildings. They just don't have parking lots and huge roads between them.

High-rises aren't necessarily very dense, especially if they're surrounded by a lot of open land— for example, NYC's high-rise housing projects are often less dense than the low-rise apartment buildings they replaced.
It's quite literally written.
Ticketmaster Accused of Hacking Rival Firm’s Database
> I may have to review my own paperwork, because I don't recall giving permission to lend out my stock, or yielding my interest in related lawsuits. I've never short sold, so I don't know how the agreement is intended to work. But if they're not on the hook legally, (which seems like they ought to be?) then it seems like it's up to the broker to make me whole.

The problem here is for the broker, not the person who owns the share. If they loaned it out that's their issue, you'll get your money. That's why the broker is the one making the money on loaning out short shares, they also assume the responsibility.

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/shortsalebenefit....

> The main reason why the brokerage, and not the individual holding the shares, receives the benefits of loaning shares in a short sale transaction can be found in the terms of the margin account agreement. When a client opens a margin account, there is usually a clause in the contract that states that the broker is authorized to lend - either to itself or to others - any securities held by the client. By signing this agreement, the client forgoes any future benefit of having his or her shares lent out to other parties.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried disabling texture streaming globally but unfortunately it didn't help. It's not a texture that's ending up pixelated but rather the edges of the 3D model, as if it's being rendered at some lower resolution and upscaled or anti-aliasing isn't being applied properly.

Another example: https://i.imgur.com/tuvcAA8.png - FXAA is turned on yet the edges are all jagged and pixelated.