skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those stereotypes are mostly benign ideas such that intelligent people recognize them as exaggerations or fictions. That is clearly not the case with this comic. It is attempting to make an argument, not an absurd joke. I didn't see a single comment about this comic about how funny it was. And "A Tragedy in Four Panels" would be an awful set-up for a joke.

Whether or not Calvin actually has ADHD is impossible to discern in this comic. I don't see a psychiatrist in one panel saying, "No, I think he's just really creative and playful," and then the parents get a second and third opinion until they get the pills.

Instead, the author is implying that the medication's benefits are immaterial, the details of the diagnosis and other treatment are immaterial, that pills naturally squelch creativity and playfulness, that they suck the color out of the world figuratively, and that all of this is an end state.

This comic could be twice as long with some more gray, a concerned parent, another trip to the doctor, and then a final frame of Hobbes and Calvin working at the desk together.

Or it could refrain from turning Hobbes into merely a doll and instead have him just hang out, ready for Calvin whenever he's done with his work.

Or it could show Hobbes become a mere doll for a few days, his parents come in to ask why he's not playing anymore, then deciding to not give him meds on weekends and vacation days.

Or it could show that the medicine wears off near the end of the school day and that his evenings remain playful.

But none of these are as sensational and none of them give voice to the widespread belief that ADHD is a fiction and its medication a societal blight.

I'm sorry to seem so hard on the posting of this comic--I'm not. On the contrary, I think it provides a nice platform for analyzing what's wrong with it and how that reflects common beliefs. The first time I saw this comic, I liked it. That was before I was diagnosed as ADHD and began doing my research about it.

For me it'd be like a comic from the 50s where the protagonist says, "My grandfather smoked 2 packs a day and died in his sleep at 100!" while towering over a bunch of simpering nerds clutching the surgeon general's warning.

There's just a lot of popular resistance to the reality of ADHD because it is a relatively subtle condition and also a complex one. The valid criticisms to be made and questions to be raised are valuable, but it's a shame for them to be lost amidst sweeping and largely misinformed generalizations.

Again, no hard feelings or anything. This is a subject about which I care deeply, and thanks again for posting this comic.
Thanks, but looks like its mainly for background jobs and not built to serve images on the fly.
> because the battery easily pops out

Yeah, I now consider the no-user-replacable-battery drawback of the iPhone as a feature. The least pieces and hatches, the better. Although, I have replaced it on my 2yo 3G, along with the screen.
It's a lot easier for a good programmer to learn how to trade than for a good trader to learn how to be a programmer. Though most programmers make terrible traders and most traders make terrible programmers. A lot of depends on the company you are at, the more foresighted ones, were grooming guys for this role 5-10 years ago. And more importantly establishing a tradition of `trade developers.` Typically though the traders that become good enough programmers took an engineering discipline in college. Also, some of them are just so smart / driven that coding something good enough to make money is something they trudge through, but their code usually the ugliest thing you'd ever see this side of php.
A specific bank in particular?
we do the same thing. We have a few remote developers, so we set up our own private server.

I use XChat on Ubuntu, and it is perfect for my limited usage.
Many OS X text fields have built-in support this -- hold option and drag for rectangular selection. (And as someone else already noted, emacs of course can do this, albeit with a somewhat different UI mechanism -- see M-x apropos rectangle.)
Interesting, this reminds me of a book I thought about writing at one point titled something like "How To Tell What Is True"

Which would cover topics like:

* Peer review
* Double blind experiments
* Anecdotal evidence
* Statistical Significance

But I sort of lost interest and ended up just making it a blog post instead...
http://www.startbreakingfree.com/504/how-to-tell-whats-bulls...
c is for change, as d is for delete, i for insert, and s for substitute.
What's good about your story is exactly what's frustrating about this comic: context.

Your diagnosis was valid. The Ritalin was a step in the right direction if not the end solution, far from a tragic development. You had continued interaction with professionals to find the right treatment, and in the end, there was a substantial net benefit.

Thanks for sharing. Glad you found something that works for you. Adderall XR is what's worked for me as well.
Too many free passes for Apple in these comments.
You should blog even if you have no readers
When the Powerful Feel Incompetent, the Rest of Us Feel Their Wrath
> is preferable
...
> or creates a new global variable

You're the first person I read who actually defends this feature of JavaScript. (Crockford lists it in his "terrible parts" I believe.)
When the clothes dryer is in cool-down mode and approx. 1 min from completion, why can't it send me an SMS message?
Apple haters.
Has anyone here used Image Juicer?

It looks interesting but I found the documentation page to be pretty lacking. The simple example they show just allows you to pass a height and width parameter, but the home page says you can do cropping, watermarking, etc.
"I have no faith that a cryonics company is going to last for more than a few years."

Alcor and the Cryonics Institute have been around since the '70s and don't appear to be in any danger.
It's a hybrid of programmer, trader, and quant. The article doesn't mention this, but they know how to program and how to trade. They come up with, code, and write the algorithms. At a prop firm it is usually used by a desk of clerks / traders at that point, who tweak dials on the software depending on market conditions. It's a lot more than just writing code. Going the startup route requires adding on the businessman, sales, negotiating hats as well as taking management of the desk and the traders / clerks. It's a not a trivial step by any degree, however compared to the value the trade developers are adding to the trade versus how they are being compensated, some how been willing to take on that extra burden to get a chance at a better deal.
Why Software Project Estimates Fail
I'd imagine a windows tablet would come mostly at the expense of an android tablet market share.
Deleting From A Collection in STL is hard
Oh no, the YouTubers! Please. Huge cred to ryanjmo for being open, it should be like this.
Reading that "state of clojure" link below they know about the stack traces:

"Poor / incomprehensible error messages and stack traces are far and away the most common complaint."
I'm looking for a job in the Chicago area. A quarter century of experience doing firmware for real time embedded systems. C and assembly language programming on a dozen DSP and CPU chips.
He should avoid using words like "urgently". Causes me to expect they're going to rush it out prematurely and embarass themselves.
Bad advice... The money on Android is terrible compared to iPhone. I know this from continuing experience.

Anyone doing mobile and wanting to bootstrap needs to do iPhone first.
I also dislike a lot of what's supposedly JavaScript's "nicer" parts. I guess I just have bad taste :)

I like it because it involves one less keyword in the grammar vs the Python 3 solution. Though tptacek makes a good point (I haven't myself had trouble with that, but I can easily see why others might.)
It's really hard to say without knowing the position. I've seen it go both ways. Some places it's the entry level get in the door while we evaluate you position and if you're good we'll move you over to trading. Some places it's all they ever want you to do with no opportunity to move to the trading side.
Any way to build the agent from source? I run Arch Linux on my Linode and would love to try out the added functionality.
Like the iPod killer? Or the iPhone killer?
Thanks, will take a closer look, but pricing seems
off (1 cent/mb/month over 50mb)
Fluorescent office lighting
Actually, I'd rather just see cents go away for everything in the US and deal with integers for everyday purchases and floating point when necessary.
They are owned by a public company though, so they may have some sort of rules in place for talking about acquisitions before they happen.
When all you've got is a humorless, all encompassing ideology, everything looks like a nail.

Cheers,

Carson
This CEO Sucks Less: John Pepper of Boloco - The Consumerist
I would love this site if it existed. I also have a list of projects that I would love to work on, but I like working with other people the most so I haven't started many of them. This site would also be a great place to meet new people with similar interests.

It would probably be difficult to go from a joint "proof-of-concept" project to a company unless all parties are on the same page. Like you mention, maybe the site could have optional legal agreements or something. Perhaps you could partner with something like LegalZoom.com to take care of those agreements for the users.
We talked about this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1558165
Making Smoother Animations with JQuery
try http://cdn-cloud.appspot.com/
despite the name "cdn", it provides functions for scaling
Putting location on the hiring page would be helpful. Spoiler: http://runa.com/contact-us/
I always wondered what closures actually were. I'd read up on them, but apparently Python didn't have them so I always felt that I was missing something.

Thanks for clearing this up.
Hopefully they will let a small team of specialists handle this challenge instead of throwing a lot of people and money at the problem.
I would also love to help build a web app for a site like this. I tried to email you, but there is no contact info in your profile. Shoot me an email (in my profile) if you are interested!
Accusing anyone whose good a programming of only have said skill because of class priviledge (a generalization that may be true in the aggregate but unfairly applied blindly to an individual) seems like a horrible way to combat the lack of women/minorites in the IT field which is driven in part by generalizations that may be true in the aggregate but are unfairly applied blindly to individuals.
Yeah I have 2 (probably more) Clear Channel stations in my city and I can drive clear across town without hearing anything but ads and a dj talking. Then they proudly claim 50 minutes of (insert music type). Yet I just drove 20 minutes without a single song, and it happens all the time.

It seems worth investing in a station to replace these. (anyone have a good source on how to start one?)
"BUT if that man dares drink a single beer with his dad before being shipped off to war, he will be treated like a criminal. His dad may be taken to court and punished for letting a minor have alcohol. The 18 year old could face severe punishments, including not being allowed in the army."

That is not true in most states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_A...

(still a bad law, I agree)
A recommendation on a good console-based IRC client that doesn't use the alt-key for any shortcuts (interferes with my XMonad setup)?
Off topic, but why do you have all of your files browsable at http://idont.no ?

You should set up a landing page at least, so visitors don't just see /www directory.
hah oops, must have missed it.
Luck Doesn't Exist
A lot of contrib stuff has matured and is now in the core.
Well, if you want to sit with us at Antidote, there's no reason we would stop you!

EDIT: Translation - sure let's hang out. Seems worth a try. You can send email to this user name at yahoo dot com.
Dynamo-Style databases smash the competition
Dynamically reloading classes is a nightmare in production systems. I'm not a .NET guy by any means, but one thing that it has that others could use it code signing. This is precisely the opposite of dynamic reloading and it's much more valuable.

The win-win is leveraging the power of a dynamic language at development time and the power of something like the JVM at production time.
Stop the Vertical Tab Madness
Your response evidences that you did not read the article.
Lack of transparency e.g., government, markets, business etc.
Which analytics system to record events in XHR?
Hi,

I want to record all events on a widget which is not in an iframe. So Google Analytics doesn't work.
The only way is to make XHR calls to record the event. Typically I could use:
$(domelement).bind('click',function() {
$.getJSON('kickassanalyticssystem.com/record/event/domelement/click');
});

The question is what is the kickassanalyticssystem.com?
I tried Chartbeat.com but their API only allows retrieving information,not recording events.
Ideas?
Thanks!
Taliban Study WikiLeaks to Hunt Informants
There was an Aussie guy who ran British Airways for a while and then left to do other things. I remember an interview with him and they asked why he left the airline industry. The answer was something like: "The entire industry, from the Wright brothers until today, has made a net loss. I'd like to try something that makes a profit".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Eddington
a whole nother.
From their site:

You can pass other info in the outputs hashes, like labels, your own ids, or whatever. That extra info will be passed back to you in the response JSON.

So I assume it is a case of emailing them and asking for an exhaustive list of what can be passed to their api, the documentation definitely needs work.
I dip my toes into IRC now and again, but keep getting frustrated by the learning curve. Yes, I get the basics of joining channels and chatting. I can see that there's a ton of efficiencies IRC power users have figured out that I haven't.

Any good resources out there for climbing the learning curve to journeyman IRCer?
Cognitively, it's not the best ordering for the information. Better to anchor something starting with the capabilities. Starting with the limitations is starting with zero, then subtracting. It's much harder to imagine negative dollars than it is to imagine a pile of cash with a bit of it taken away.
Does it actually reference the parent, or does it just make a copy? One is a closure, the other is an implementation artifact.
Much functionality was moved from clojure-contrib into new namespaces in clojure itself; clojure.jar is now bigger by roughly the same amount that clojure-contrib.jar shrank :)
If I have to install ant-virus software on a tablet, then they have failed. They really need to figure out a way to take some of the current lessons from iOS and Android to heart and build something that is dead simple, integrates well with Exchange, easily managed by IT Admins, and doesn't require maintenance.
I wonder if somebody could start an insurance product based on consolidating the risk among iPhone app developers for damages due to arbitrary App Store rejections/delays. It would cover stuff like this, "Acts of Jobs", etc.
You're talking about hackers, right?
If you can't make a language fast, make it parallel
I'm answering to you as I just finished my daily guitar practice, with stupid scales practice (triplet/reverse triplet/minor 7th flat five/pattern 1-5) and I still hate it.

Advice: Don't do "stupid scales practice". Instead, try playing around with a few scales, aimless soloing basically. You'll build up as much muscle memory, probably muscle memory that will serve you better as the motions will be closer to what you will actually be doing when playing for real.

Furthermore, it'll be fun, as you get to compose and come up with new tunes. I never did "practice", because I play guitar for fun. I'm good enough at it just playing whatever I like whenever I like. There's no need to force yourself into boring practice if you're not trying to become a professional guitarist.
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpImageFilterModule
You are seeing it at the wrong angle. The point of the article is that the privileged ones got their computers early just because there parents could afford it. You make it seem like everyone had a choice of getting or not getting one computer and most of the others chose not to get one. But in real world, not everyone's parents are rich enough (or aware enough) to get them a computer when they are 8.

I personally got my computer when I was 15, not because I didn't want it till I was 15 but because my parents could not afford it (and I got it even at that time because my sister took up a course in computer science in high school and my father got a promotion which increased his limited government salary). I had been interested in computers from the age of 13 (well that was when I had really got familiar with it, before that it was just voodoo to me), I tried to learn some programming in (gasp gasp) C, by reading books which I purchased from a crap dealer and stealing time on school computers by doing extra work for teachers. I wanted a computer disparately but could not get it. Why? Because getting a computer is indeed a class privilege even now (btw I am 19 right now so all this did not happen a terribly long time ago).

Try to think of people other than at school. Those people had the privilege but chose not to exercise it, but there are people (still) in the world who cannot afford a computer for their children even now.
The lesser of two evils.
Google _was_ a web startup, and there's no reason that it couldn't have come out of yc. Also, a fair number of yc startups are not "web startups", whatever that means. (do you have to make hardware to not be a "web startup"?)
No, I don't think so. Closures in Python are very similar to Scheme (or modern Lisps). Python doesn't have an equivalent to set!. Instead assignment both defines a local variable (if it doesn't already exist) and sets it. You can use "global" or the new "nonlocal" keywords to prevent the definition.

Personally I don't mind the Python approach. It's more convenient than let/set! and I very rarely miss being able to set a variable in an outer scope.
Thanks, looks useful, but didnt find any Terms of service or pricing info..
irssi. <esc># instead of <alt># for window switching.
So many of the programmers I graduated college with were only book smart. They couldn't problem solve or do anything a book did not tell them how to do. They even had extremely high GPAs because they would memorize so much information for each test. It was only the project classes that hurt their GPA, sadly my college didn't have enough of those.

Its those kind of "programmers" that these tests are designed to find. A lot of companies seem to take it to far, as if to brag that their entry tests are harder, possibly even deterring the people they want.
Yes, but might I point out that it was news that it was unacceptable? It's actually a new development, compared to the past twenty-ish years.

See also the recent spate of articles about anti-poor white discrimination at colleges. Emphasis recent.

Also, the full Sherrod story if you really dig into it is yet more complicated; at first she was clearly racist in the news, then clearly not, then if you really look at the whole story you get something much more... inbetween, to be gracious about it, which when it comes to degrees of racism is still not exactly high praise. I would still not want my government full of people like that; her non-racism is more of the "some of my best friends are white"/"not that there's anything wrong with that" sort of thing than true colorblindness.
I've been impressed with Dragonfly, "a Rack-based ruby gem for [image] processing/encoding on the fly"

http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2010/1/2/dragonfly
You ain't kidding.

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&...
It is unclear whether Microsoft's future tablet will be successful or not, but most of Ballmer's comments seem fairly reasonable and he never uses the phrase "iPad killer"
Everyone starts at 0.

Write something you feel pationate about. Spread the word and you're bound to get 1 person to read it. With Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites spreading the word is easier than ever. If you have core knowledge of something people will want to read it.

People follow people to see what they've had for dinner these days.
Does World of Warcraft count?:)
Secret Code Phrases to Get What You Want from Your Graphic Designer
Newspapers delivering "news". One have to search hard and deep to get some truth in the morning. People reading "news" making the "journalists" write more "news" also annoys me.
I'm quite intrigued by the solicitation for FPS experience on the Clojure developer page.
#webdev on EFnet
Optimal strategy for men is to procreate as many children as possible. Beauty is a rough proxy for health. In a prehistoric setting, young beautiful women should procreate more healthy children than older uglier ones.

Since women cannot just procreate that many babies, their optimal strategy is to nurture and care for the ones they have, with as much help from the father as possible. In a prehistoric setting, wealthier men should make better providers and taller men should make better protectors.

It is all evolution.
Is there a way to view this without downloading Silverlight?
After thinking about it and talking with some of my colleagues, I think it would be less of a talent acquisition and more of an IP acquisition. And it would have to be a pretty valuable one at this point, as taptaptap are making some serious cash right now.
I'd recommend streaming 89.3 The Current from Minnesota Public Radio.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/

It's fully independent music radio station that's publicly funded. They don't play commercials, and they play a wide variety of known and unknown music. I first discovered it when I moved up here (the Twin Cities) away from the Clear Channel dominated airwaves and I haven't turned back since.
EasyBCD & TrueCrypt, tools for the HDDs pros updated
Colleges getting sponsored by Microsoft, Sun and corporations using those technologies. Churns out developers not having a choice of languages, and ends up working for the corporations sponsoring the college.

A circle destroying innovation.
Fixing jQuery Animation Choppiness with a Framerate Plugin
I don't think the quote calls anyone lazy. All he's doing is pointing out the contradiction between saying "I would do X but I don't have the time", and engaging in time-filling activities. It's fine if your other responsibilities (family, etc) don't leave you able to take on something else. Nobody is criticizing you for putting your family ahead of your startup - you'd be insane not to. But the first step in overcoming an obstacle is honestly identifying what that obstacle is.
Does it matter now though? Today's 20 year old was born in 1990. When he was eight, everyone was able to afford a computer.
It's for a server that couldn't run redis/memcache and barely has enough memory to run mysql. As I said on the blog:

"if you can use memcache, do so, this was something I put together to use on a system in which I couldn’t use memcache. A simpler file cache may have been more appropriate, but I prefer that all my key values stay in one file."