skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think social interaction is making you anxious; instead your anxiety causes you to construct a model of reality where social interactions are bad.

Imagine having a live grenade in your pocket. The grenade is just powerful enough to seriously hurt you but not kill you. It's also unstable and will randomly go off once or twice a year (and will be replaced with a new one when it does). Now imagine if you were required to carry this grenade around every time you have to interact with humans.

This is similar to what social interaction feels like to me. I am autistic and have trouble with nonverbal communication and reading between the lines. Any and all social interactions can lead to this 'grenade' exploding in my face. It can be something relatively harmless as being embarrassed or people getting angry with me to the point where I almost got into legal trouble for following instructions that were 'obviously' not supposed to be followed literally.

Next to that, it's also super exhausting because none of it comes natural to me. If you want to walk to the other side of the room, you just will it and your legs move. Imagine if you couldn't do that and had to consciously tense and release each muscle in your legs to walk. Social interaction is like that to me. Everything is a conscious action, from trying to fake eye contact (and for how long), to posture, to choosing my words, to watching the other person's face/body and trying to figure out what that is saying.

And last but not least, none of it is rewarding to me. When a 'normal' person has social interactions, this is supposedly pleasurable for them, which motivates them to seek it out and take risks while doing so. None of that works for me.

I don't think it's strange that something that is exhausting, randomly hurtful and not in any way rewarding causes me anxiety. Having to do that 8 hours a day, just to be able to afford food and a roof over my head makes it even worse.
> I don’t know how many technical authors were employed
> by Apple at that time, but I suspect it was a
> far higher proportion of total staff than it is now.

Or maybe the proportion is the same, but Tim's shorter release cycle has resulted in the OS permanently being in a state of churn.
We're pretty close to being capable of launching a Bracewell-von Neumann probe if some billionaire had the urge to do so. But so far as we can tell, the galaxy is not already full of self-replicating interstellar probes. Where are they? The uncomfortable implication is that we are the first/only species to get this far.
A Guide to Russia’s High Tech Tool Box for Subverting US Democracy
It's hard to tell what's satire and what's serious when people are talking about bitcoin
Please explain your statement and engage in meaningful debate. This comment, taken alone, is just empty venom, and if I wanted that I'd be on Facebook.

The article is driving at a point the current generation should be able to relate to: previous generations enjoyed benefits the current one does not, making it much much harder to support a family. Stagnating wages, dismantled social benefit programs, movement to defined contribution over defined benefit retirement, dramatic rise in cost of education, the destruction of organized labor... I could go on and on.

So, feel free to explain why the article is off base. I'd love to hear your perspective, if you can explain it constructively.
Yeah, I was going to do something like this, then I thought "you know, I don't know dude's life at all, no reason to assume anything in my experience would be at all useful, let me just step back a minute before I insist on myself and try to help out without knowing how to be effective about it." Turns out that was a good idea.
Ask HN: Best Rental House Aggregator (NYC Area)?
Hey HN, does anyone know the best online tool to find a rental house near NYC with these kinds of parameters?

I'm trying to use Trulia and similar tools but I can't find a way to narrow it down to my criteria:
- House (not apartment or condo) on 2+ acres of land
- 1.5 hours or less from NYC commute wise
- Preferably not in NJ or Long Island
- Not in a cookie cutter neighborhood where you can see your neighbors everywhere
- For rent, but possibly open to purchase later on down the line

I also would be into a tool that helps me aggregate listings from lots of these places since it's hard to keep track of it all.

I know have kind of strange criteria (?), but yeah that's what I'm looking for. I've yet to find a search tool that does well in getting me what I need so I just spend hours trawling listings. I suppose I could use a Real Estate agent but how do I even know where to find one that I can trust, if that's the best way? Am I just a stupid millennial that doesn't know how to find a house?

More background if you're curious: my girlfriend and I are pretty sick of NYC and ready to move somewhere with cleaner air and more room for activities. We wanted to try renting before looking into buying later on down the line.

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.
"what about a distributed p2p YouTube clone"

Same reason Bitcoin and its ilk can't scale. Decentralization throws in essentially a log x exp growth rate on bandwidth and storage for every additional peer on the network. Technology can't keep pace, period.
If any industry would like to absorb the 27 million underemployed or unemployed, then they could if they were willing to invest in training them... versus offloading to upstream providers like schools. Of course, you could instate a hybrid approach between company training and traditional schooling as well. And it'd be a smart idea!

My question has always been: why aren't companies doing this?

We're talking multi-year (1-3 years) investment in training. Why not?

Seems crazy, but it's not so crazy if companies would:

1. Provide clear training milestones of accomplishment (tied to compensation advancement)

2. Support trainee with necessary personnel and materials

3. Backload compensation

Think about it, the company starts you out at say $8/hr. Then for each progressive level you ratchet up to $10, $12, $15, $18, $22, $26, etc. This ratcheting can happen as quickly as the trainee progresses -- no set time limits.

The beauty is that this provides ample motivation; it's easy for a candidate to see how they can achieve success. It also reduces the company's risk, should either side determine the relationship isn't a good fit; the company will have minimized their financial outlay.

I understand that most startups can't do this (unless it's an explicit part of their plan), but I don't understand why larger cash-rich corporations don't do this. It seems like there's massive untapped potential out there.

Don't we believe Google would be able to take a sufficiently motivated individual and turn them into a world-class engineer after 3 years, at the most, of focused training? I think the odds in favor are far greater than 50-50. I mean, who would turn down a job at Google starting at $8/hr with the chance to rocket up to $50/hr (ignoring wage depression as supply increases).

So why hasn't Google tested this? How much do they spend on trying to find the "best" instead of creating them... that's a question I wish I had the answer to.
> Only one group has published their findings here http://insight.jci.org/articles/view/89376

that is a very interesting paper, ty for linking it here.
No, people metaphorically slumping over and giving out is what affects me. The way they walk is not the symptom that I care about, that's why I mentioned votes and wallets first thing. There is a difference between "I don't care if I walk like a zombie as long as I'm not one in my brain", and "I don't care how I walk, no matter the reason". You may not care, but that does not make me not care.

Plus:

> The problem of text-walkers has become such a problem that cities such as Antwerp in Belgium, has introduced ‘text-walking lanes’ so that they do not irritate or endanger other pedestrians.

> The scheme is the brainchild of a local mobile phone business, Mlab, which says many smartphones are broken in collisions between pedestrians.

> China has already started segregating footpaths with special lanes for those using their phones.

> Initiatives are also being introduced in a number of European countries to place fixed warnings on the ground to alert pedestrians to the presence of roads and tram tracks.

The streets are already plastered with ads, now they'll also get plastered with reminders of just how cringe worthy so many people became so quickly. I know this is arrogant, but I'm just as unapologetic about that as smartphone addicts are. Kinda like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=8m18s
I'd posit that ethical reasons are a great basis to choose software. You either support the values that your software espouses or you don't. There isn't a correct answer there.

Stallman has a "Why Open Source Misses the Point" article that I find pretty compelling. It suggests you should support Free Software because it's the right ethical thing to do, not because of the many instrumental utility arguments of the Open Source movement.

He calls out specifically the notion that Open Source is intrinsically higher quality than commercial software. Indeed there are many high quality, well-functioning commercial bits of software out there.

So, either the ethos of Free Software appeals to you, and you should choose it regardless of whether it is the highest quality, or you don't, in which case the function of the software should be your guide. I personally find the ethical argument compelling, and so often do forego "better" software in favor or freer software.
Yes, but that "some effort" also has a development cost, which might be worthwhile or not, depending on the use case.

Going a bit off-thread, Ada, Object Pascal, Active Oberon, D, Nim, Modula-3, Swift also offer such capabilities.

C# also has on their roadmap plans to adopt more features from System C# and Midori, specially when coupled with .NET Native and CoreRT.
Yes, the video mentions the machine is a used one, formerly used in SF. They mention it wasn't altered at all to keep the certificates but they try to learn and in future may improve it. The Tesla reference is about a vehicle that would autonomous drive in the tunnel, it will not resemble a Tesla car but feature a cabin and use some components like battery/etc.
No, but it's about our perception not entropy.
I'm always unsure about marketing. I do think that the balance between the thing you're creating, and the marketing of it is a clean 50/50 split. Creating something great is extremely important, but telling people about it is equally so. One of biggest lies is "if you build it, they will come." You actually have to grab them by the necks, and show them what you've built.

I think the second biggest lie is the opposite of the first one - that people don't care. My side projects are in game dev, and sometimes it feels like people are actively trying to ignore your stuff. The truth is, there's so many amazing, next-level games out there that being just great, isn't enough. I used to price my games at $1, because I was desperate to be heard. But the fact is, this isn't the real cost for most people. For most people, the real cost is oppurtunity cost. Yeah, I could play your game, but I'd rather spend my time playing the game that's 10x better.
Your copy says:

"Instead of paying $1,800+ per project, or hiring an in-house UI designer with a $70,000+/year salary, Fairpixels Pro gives you the best of both worlds at a fraction of the cost."

At the same time, your cheapest plan is $1750/mo. I get that it's "technically" under $1800, but are you expecting startups to have multiple projects per month to make the math work?
Mars soil is apparently toxic chemicals [1]. Antarctica is looking good in comparison.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/06/mars-covered...
> Well, for one thing, it's the best model our society makes available for raising and supporting kids.

You're not required to have kids.

I guess what I'm trying to figure out is why even start a relationship if you don't get anything out of it. Never mind getting to the point where you start producing kids.
I'd be surprised if they use diesel engines. Seems like dealing with the exhaust in a closed environment like that would add too much risk and complexity.
Websites to find remote programming full time jobs
Looking for sites where there are good paying remote full time programming jobs.
"Perhaps you want to say that men just like it that way. Perhaps you want to say, like Geoffrey Grief, writing in Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships, “Men are more comfortable with shoulder-to-shoulder friendships while women prefer face-to-face friendships, which are more emotionally expressive.” Shoulder-to-shoulder meaning: engaging in a shared activity, like playing a game of pick-up basketball, as opposed to confiding face-to-face and being emotionally vulnerable. This may be true for some men, who, like some women, need less intimacy than others. But when asked, men say we wish we had more intimacy in our friendships with other men."

Oh, the irony.
Finally found a magic word that gets me somewhere in the search engines... git2html.
[Hypercubed/git2html](https://github.com/Hypercubed/git2html) is the first hit. reading as we speak. Any alternatives / experience greatly appreciated though.

Can't find anything else really, and most discussions are years old. Anyone?
What irony?
Sad to see this simple reply downvoted for no reason by a bunch of Apple fanboys.
Interesting article! I worked with complex span tasks in grad school, and just had people silence their phones :(.

I wonder how many reaches participants made toward their phones when they were in their desk or pocket (even if they were off) ..
you can try doxygen. It generates class list and file list.
I completely understand what they're angling at.

Any pattern of frequent infections (most commonly in the ears, sinuses, throat, chest or digestive system) indicates an impaired immune system. Early signs of this in childhood can be extrapolated to explain more serious conditions an adulthood.

For me it wasn't the ears, but it was the chest, sinuses and digestive system, from at least as young as 9.
Exactly this, though word it more nicely and in such a way that the benefits obviously accrue to them, rather than the more abstract "economy". They want to treat it exactly the same as a commercial offering, so you should too. Just note that the licence you endeavour to develop the software under lends them additional flexibility to, for example, hire other support workers outside of your contract.
Plist files have XML, binary, and JSON-like serialization options, and have been in use for longer than JSON has existed. Any Mac developer will be familiar with them, and have access to multiple APIs for handling them. Of all the things in MacOS to criticize, this is just ignorant.
Indeed, separating Facebook as is would be close to impossible.

However, a first step would be imposing FB to expose all features and user data using an open protocol to be defined.

That would be a good thing on its own, given that it would make possible for other networks to federate with Facebook. (And when you think about it, it's much closer to the usual Internet, think of SMTP, BGP... A monolithic service like FB is actually the exception!)

Moreover, it would set the ground for splitting Facebook into two (or possibily more) federated networks.
They're not flexible. They want their pound of flesh. That said, if the contract terms between the two companies are agreeable to those people, or if the contract was negotiated under a process no prone to conflicts of interest, then all is good.
why can't anyone see my comments?
A quick test show that Chrome, Firefox and IE accepts dotted, long, class a, and long with auth in decimal, octal, and hex notation. Firefox also accepts long overflow.

Non of them accept Dotted overflow, Class B or Class C.

Decimal Dotted http://192.168.0.1/

Decimal Dotted Overflow http://448.424.256.257/

Decimal Long http://3232235521/

Decimal Long Overflow http://7527202817/

Decimal Class A http://192.11010049/

Decimal Class B http://49320.1/

Decimal Class C http://12625920.1/

Decimal Long with auth http://fake.site@3232235521/

Octal Dotted http://0300.0250.00.01/

Octal Dotted Overflow http://0700.0650.0400.0401/

Octal Long http://030052000001/

Octal Long Overflow http://070052000001/

Octal Class A http://0300.052000001/

Octal Class B http://0140250.01/

Octal Class C http://060124000.01/

Octal Long with auth http://fake.site@030052000001/

Hex Dotted http://0xc0.0xa8.0x0.0x1/

Hex Dotted Overflow http://0x1c0.0x1a8.0x100.0x101/

Hex Long http://0xc0a80001/

Hex Long Overflow http://0x1c0a80001/

Hex Class A http://0xc0.0xa80001/

Hex Class B http://0xc0a8.0x1/

Hex Class C http://0xc0a800.0x1/

Hex Long with auth http://fake.site@0xc0a80001/
You haven't been around much, then.

The seven-segment display inside the elevator in my former dormitory labelled the ground floor as '0', and the one below as '-1'. There was also a voice announcer, but I don't remember what it said on floor -1; I didn't go there often.
Unfortunately, your points aren't numbered, but I'm confused by a couple of them.

- Finder has had tabs for a few releases, and I can't recall the last time I had multiple Finder windows open at the same time. I use tabs for everything.

- By "sliding cell" do you mean the columns view? I use the list view roughly 100% of the time, so I'm no help there.

- On my system, quicklook opens a preview to the left of the finder window, so it doesn't cover the finder window. I think I must have moved it over there in the past, and it remembers.

- My system shows me every single dotfile, hidden file, and everything. I don't recall which setting I used for that, but zero things are hidden.

- Do you not have right-click, Services, New Terminal Tab at Folder? If not, then that must be something I installed in ages past.

Finder isn't perfect, by any means. It conflicts with how I like to do things semi-regularly. But I think a few of the issues you've raised might be solvable. At least that would lessen your pain a little.

Some of the differences between the defaults and what I see on my system might be down to this: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
Notice that it also says "≤ 4 Business Day Turnaround Time", so technically $1750 buys you 7.5 projects every month.

Whether they can actually deliver finished designs every 4 days is a different question.
impressive little language

iolanguage.org/guide/guide.html#Introduction
ruby now is just about web.

python is used in more categories than just web (science, ML, AI, web, glue language, etc.)
Indeed. Had a friend with CFS and they finally tracked it down to undiagnosed Lyme disease that she's probably had for years. And that's no more likely than any number of other causes for any specific person with CFS.
> find it outrageous I have to pay various fees to use/access my money while it is used to enrich others.

Where are you banking? My bank pays me interest, even on my checking account, and I don't need to worry about a burglar taking all my savings. There's no reason you can't keep your money at the bank, stop using credit cards, and pay everything in cash; all the bank will know is that you withdraw $200 every week.
I Haskell a Git
If Tesla 'merged' with SpaceX and Boring Co. on the public market you're talking about a company that could have a $100B mkt cap as soon as next year, the slight and continuing unofficial convergence of all of his companies is a bit odd
That's a link from almost a year ago. The complaint yesterday was that Trump engaged in a series of "bothsidesism" tweets condemning the violence but not the racism. He kept going back to the well over the day because he'd forgotten stuff (e.g. he talked about the dead cops in the helicopter crash but not the dead woman killed by the driver) without actually addressing the root cause. And one of his comments had a bleedingly obvious dog whistle ("we should cherish our heritiage" or the like) which called out his support for the white nationalists (and yes, they got this message: multiple posts on e.g. stormfront celebrated this).
I've been feeling the same way since moving to Portland... been here a year and my closest friends here are still the 2 guys that I went to college with who happen to be local.

I've also been thinking of taking a martial arts courses, but am also looking at local community groups like Neighborhood Emergency Teams for emergency management.
But bosted through the scaleability of technology and optimized by programmers.
Yep. The usual incarnation of the scapegoat is "policy." It sounds much better to blame a byzantine rulebook (which is the perfect tool for diffusion-of-responsibility) than to reveal that the strategists have decided to throw a subset of customers under the bus. In the case of monopoly, sometimes it's not even a subset.

Incidentally, this also explains why there is zero interest in making rulebooks available, conscise, searchable, etc. All of these would improve fairness, but rulebooks are actually an instrument of power, not of fairness, so existing power structures will typically oppose any such changes.
Yes, but lots of people are suggesting regulation, which is more than just criticism.
What if you invest on Bitcoin
Because sometimes you just can't help it, or very difficult not to.
Where I work now they have attached too much overhead per story. Time tracking, statuses in jira, separate confluence page with stringent rules about the content etc. So we now make huge stories in order to actually get to spend some time implementing stuff.
What about getting a dog?
> You're not required to have kids.

No, but a lot of people want to. (A lot of people have kids without the formality of a relationship, too, but that's a whole 'nother kind of problem.)

I guess I'd say that for most people there are a lot of reasons to want to be in a relationship - good reasons and bad ones alike. With rare exception, nobody goes into a relationship expecting that it won't improve their life in some way, and if you're not seeing what you might get out of one, then I can't see any reason why you should start one.

It seems like a lot of people do eventually discover that they don't get out of a given relationship what they hoped they might, or what they previously did - but that's also a whole 'nother kind of problem, and because it often involves strongly felt responsibilities to people other than oneself, a kind that is rarely easy to solve even if there's no clear way to incrementally improve upon the status quo.

I don't think I've done a very good job explaining it here, but I'm not sure how I might do a better one.
Would it be ok for the companies to agree to license (non-exclusive perpetual bla bla) all technology free of cost? Would that be legal?
Reminded me of Paul Hammant's posts:

- https://paulhammant.com/2012/04/24/call-to-arms-average-stor...

- https://paulhammant.com/2012/11/12/smaller-stories/
I don't think we should pay much attention to this stuff until they actually start building TBMs or have some technological breakthroughs.
Thanks for the heads up. You're right.

There are gems like,

"Players occasionally need to abandon
long term strategy in favor of short-term success."

and

"Because of the interleaving data sets in the simulators, players may not
initially understand why certain actions have unexpected effects. One of
the compelling reasons to play is to discover and understand various
causes and effects."

Good advice for any game designer.