skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the qualitative difference is when the personality traits interfere with basic living.

To put it differently, everyone is producing brain cells. Some people are producing more brain cells. However, when they're producing so many brain cells that the brain stops functioning properly, we start calling it a tumor.

In the same way, everyone gets nervous and anxious from time to time. As a personality trait, I'm more high strung than most people. The fact that I don't like roller coasters and crowds due to that reason is just a personality trait. The fact that I once lost necessary medication because I was too nervous to speak with the cashier at the drug store made it a disorder.
Because they'd still get advertisement money from sponsored listings vs. no advertising money.
> The end doesn't justify the means

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

The problem is actually on the other side. The means produce the end. Not intentions, not the morals of the persons involved, but the means. Fascism, for example, is the result of fascist acts, no matter who does them or their reasons for doing so.

That fact seems to be lost on "good people".
> So is it simply a matter of degree, and the "disorder" label just gets applied when the traits get strong enough for others to comment on?

Yes, it is the degree to which traits manifest, but it's not simply a matter of others commenting on them. Typically the degree to which these disorders manifest needs to interfere with living a normal, productive life. That can mean something different to different people, but it's safe to say that if your narcissistic rage prevents you from getting/keeping a job, that your case is likely a certifiable disorder.

The trouble with personality disorders (which are pretty interesting, btw) is that if you ask 10 mental health professionals you will probably get at least 8 differing opinions (these numbers are fabricated on the spot, the point is that there is a lot of variation). Combined with the fact that personality disorders are largely untreatable the whole thing becomes a spaghetti mess.

Studying personality disorders is really interesting and can offer a lot of insight into normal social interactions but I would caution people about second-year syndrome [0]. Keep in mind that, as someone else pointed out, these disorders are extreme cases of normal behavior. Don't get all freaked out when reading about mental disorders because you think you exhibit signs of schizophrenia, histrionic or narcissistic disorders. You do, we all do, it's normal - just not in the extremes that those with actual disorders exhibit.

Disclaimer: I am not a mental health professional, though I do work with them and their clients daily. I also minored in Psychology, which is valuable for a C.S. major when it comes to social interaction or marketing your skills/ideas internally.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students_disease
Wow. Being a new resident to the Bay Area, this is a potential deal breaker for me, and I had no idea the public transit was stripped out.

Granted most excursions don't necessitate the public transit directions in the Bay Area, it was amazing to have while traveling to new cities.
This was done a while back, was it not?

edit: I may not have been thinking clearly, I forget that I stay on the Dev channel.
Re movie watching, I used to watch movies on my 3rd gen iPod Nano - beat sitting in an aircraft for 11 hours with nothing else to do. On a phone, way nicer. You have to consider the visual angle rather than absolute screen size. My Galaxy Nexus has a 12cm diagonal; at 30cm from my eyes, that's over 22 degrees of viewing angle measured diagonally. At a distance of 9 feet, that's around a 42 inch screen. It's better than the setup I use to watch movies with my girlfriend (we don't own a TV) - and that works fine, it's a lot better than the 13-odd inch TV my family had in the 80s.

I'd love to own an iPhone - but only the hardware. I'd want to run Android on it.
I use my current Nano exclusively for running. I can carry a bunch of music (or audio books, or podcasts) in a device that, for practical purposes, weighs nothing.

I can use the built in clip to attach it to a shirt edge, or just put it in a pocket. Neither of these modes of use are possible with my iPhone.

I really, really hate armbands for iPhone running, and my iPhone bangs about in a crazy way if I run with it in a pocket.
I completed & submitted the form but there's no way to see other entries, just to create a new form or submit a new entry. Do you have a link to the completed doc? Thanks.
This is a big deal for casual games. Currently you can only have a single audio channel in mobile Safari which is horrible for game play. If Apple adds an in-app purchase API to mobile Safari you could see a whole new ecosystem develop.
Other metastudies show only a weak effect in the most severely depressed patients.

That's not the conclusion in the articles you posted. From the PLOS Medicine article: These findings suggest that, compared with placebo, the new-generation antidepressants do not produce clinically significant improvements in depression in patients who initially have moderate or even very severe depression, but show significant effects only in the most severely depressed patients.

And from the JAMA article: The magnitude of benefit of antidepressant medication compared with placebo increases with severity of depression symptoms and may be minimal or nonexistent, on average, in patients with mild or moderate symptoms. For patients with very severe depression, the benefit of medications over placebo is substantial.

These conclusions are the opposite of your statement.
If the project manager throws out a feature description like that, just say "Yes" and throw it to the bottom of the backlog - it'll be revisited when it's well defined.
This is a really interesting insight. I have seen so many instances of prescriptive Scrum with no explanation as to why that it's appropriate, i.e. Cargo Culting.
Can you get bluetooth 4.0 to passively listen to active NFC signals?
Beyond Product Design: Company Design
Yeah, I feel like this is one of those situations where companies go to war and consumers lose. Apple didn't create their own Maps to disrupt the space or because they have the same passion for wayfinding that they have for music; they did it as a power play against Google.
Google has promised this already, and it should be out relatively soon. It's not clear what all will be in it, though.

Apple Maps is a regression in certain areas (public transit, as noted above), and advances others (the turn-by-turn experience), so it's a mixed bag.

At the end of the day, most of these things are reconciled through the app ecosystem: if you are heavily dependent on public transit, Google and other app providers support you well. If you're a driver, Apple and TomTom provide worthy solutions. And so on with walking and biking directions. We, as consumer, get choices and it's relatively easy to switch between them.
IPhone 5 Announcement Owns Techmeme
Screenshot of Techmeme.com from 9/12/12 2pm PST. Has there ever been such a disruptive device/technology?
CliqFlip | Meet New People Online - Opening it's doors for second beta
CliqFlip is onto it's third beta and with lot's of feedback/suggestions we have made massive improvements. We are looking for some beta testers on our newest version to hopefully make this into something great.
The ++ in C++?
Oddly, GP's account was made for the purpose of writing that comment. I'm unsure what that means.
Sorry about my somewhat harsh reply. I come from the UK where irony/sarcasm use is far more common than it appears to be by our cousins in USA. I sometimes forget this and really should use more neutral arguments!
I'm kind of annoyed how it nuked the userscripts I had already installed without any kind of warning. Would have been nice to have the choice before they were all removed.
>We suggest Chrome team to follow Opera’s approach, or at least whitelist UserScripts.org globally.

I could be wrong, but I don't think userscripts does any significant culling of their catalog; downloading an arbitrary script from there is just as dangerous as anywhere else. This whole thing is just silly, you have to confirm the installation of a javascript extension. If you accept that it's your responsibility if it turns out to be a keylogger or what have you, not the Chrome team's. They're shooting everyone in the foot because someone might accidentally shoot their eye out.
rsync isn't a feature of android. Rather, the OS permitting something like rsync's functionality to run on it, and not in a silo or standard bucket basis - that makes all the difference.

That is, it's not this particular niche. It's the enabling of the existence of such niches in the first place.

Nobody in the population is average (this mythical "general population"). Everyone is odd in their own way. A product narrowly targeted at the average will lose to something more open. I believe this to be an almost natural law, like how free markets are better than the planned alternatives.
“If you see the office, you’re going to want to work here.”
“If you see the office, you’re going to want to work here.”
"iOS apps vs. Android apps is subjective"

True but saying The Dark Knight is better then Clooney Batman is also a subjective judgement. Despite being a subjective judgement, if an overwhelming number of reasonable people agree with something you can comfortably assert it.

"didn't bring anything innovative or new"

Well console quality graphics will certainly be new if they deliver on this.

Wideband audio + beamforming promises superior telephone performance which the iphone has always been sort of meh at. I'm only aware of one phone each that brings either of those (latest evo has HD audio and HTC one has beamforming) and none that have both
Rumor?: Apple to buy Google for $250 Billion
I was under the impression that things like browser apps are still just wrapping UIWebViews and such. I know this is the case for Chrome - the (heh) chrome is different, but the browser itself is the iOS stock. Is it a technical restriction rather than a philosophical one?
> First, Kansas City is located in Missouri, not Kansas.

Both Kansas and Missouri have a "Kansas City" and the two cities are adjacent to each other.

> Third, Google was founded while Sergey and Larry were studying at Stanford University, which I've stated in my other comments, is one of the most optimal places to start a company.... Nearby or on a college campus.

I think that Stanford is a unique and wonderful place, but there are lots of college campus' and a fair number of comparable schools, but only one SV.
custom t-shirts ftw.
Show HN: Automating Web page screenshots with PhantomJS and Python
Improved java street address parsing library released
Is this not in effect on Chrome Canary? I use two two Hacker News related userscripts, and both are still working. Neither of them ever stopped working.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138469
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138037
They're usually not public, so finding one would take a lot of digging.
"To me, the whole point of the movie is: 'The end doesn't justify the means and when someones tells you so it certainly means you are heading for fascism'."

I don't recall it being very well played out in the movie, but I can make a pretty strong case that what Ozy does is necessary and that he's hardly either a "villain" or a "fascist", at least in the novel.
The technology is significantly more complicated than simple search and replace a bunch of variables. Trust me, if we did millions of stories by swapping out the same sentence every time it wouldn't work.

Also, the part of the value of what we do is describe "insights" not just spit back raw numbers (which again wouldn't be very valuable).
> Copyrights for Back to School so as not to copyright infringe.

Does this make any sense at all to anyone else?
Ok, how about Facebook, Dropbox, AirBnB...?
>Enterprise Administrators: You can specify URLs that are allowed to install extensions, apps, and themes directly through the ExtensionInstallSources policy[1].

[1]: http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#Extensi...

EDIT: I just tried this on my Chrome 23 install and it appears to do nothing.
Why I won’t be buying the iPhone 5
The nano has a spring loaded clip on the back so you don't drop it.

The nano is for listening to music while exercising.

Although I just checked the product announcement, it appears they removed the clip! Probably want you to buy some armband or clip sold separately now.
>My original point boils down to one simple thing - the people who are good at dealing with people are more instrumental to creating big companies and fortunes than the people with technical expertise. Getting the most value out of the deal comes back to dealing with people. Selling the most widgets is about convincing a lot of people. People, people, people.

Re-reading the parent comment, I see now that I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought that you meant that 'great men' who created "the modern corporation" and other social structures are what drove innovation over the last century.

I agree that social stuff has a lot to do with an individual's ability to accumulate money, and that a social specialist can still generally go further than a technical specialist (though, both get a lot of mileage out of knowing a little of the other's specialty.)

I do note that the world is dramatically better for the socially unskilled now than it was 100 years ago; the trend is that nerds are more and more valued, to the point now where some of the socially skilled manipulators actually pretend to be nerds.

but yeah, re-reading, I misunderstood your point. I don't really disagree that business people tend to make more money than technical people. (though, like I said, the trend is favourable for the technical folks.)
Even if you miss...
Can I ask what you use it for? Regression testing? A web directory?
The Midwest Approach - Lessons from the CEO of Answers.com
64 rasps x 256mb = 16 gb total ram
I think these mental disorders were pretty strongly depicted in both the comic and the movie, and that was one of the points Moore was trying to make: having that kind of power corrupts and only the corrupt would want that kind of power.

Some of them had good intentions, which is not mutually exclusive with being mentally ill, but they were all horribly flawed.
Ask HN: What books are you reading currently?
I've rekindled my interest in books and literature (general reading as opposed to technical/progrsmming books, I read quite a bit of the latter but have neglected the former for about a year) and was wondering what books are currently being read by the Hacker News community (fiction or non-fiction).

I have currently just started reading The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and Kingpin by Kevin Poulson. Both books have definitely captured my interest
I'm not sure about real-life speeds, but the iPhone's 802.11n is the bare-minimum 1 antenna, 1 channel version. Even my 3-year old laptop has a 300 Mbps chip built in.
According to the comments on the original article, that location is /var/tmp. Apparently it's some sort of convention/standard.

First time I've heard about /var/tmp.
Maps on my phone are crucial to me. The single most important feature is offline use - I often sit on the Underground (no Internet) going in the general direction of my meeting, but needing to know if/where I need to change lines, and then how to get from the tube station to the meeting location.

So while this looks like it will fill a gap on iOS, it's something I'm unwilling to wait for.
Hey kaolinite, where are you based? Are you still in school?
A large screen is not always a feature. You can type on an iPhone screen with one thumb, I couldn't comfortably manage that on my old Evo 4G. The DPI is the same as last year's iPhone, basically identical with the Lumia 920 due out later this year (330 vs 332).
Once again, I feel the need to point out that the term "psychopathy" is not used clinically (and neither is 'sociopathy'). Robert Hare et al. do have a rigorous definition that distinguishes psychopathy from ASPD, but this definition does not appear in the latest DSM.

Also, the line between ASPD and NPD is somewhat blurry in this article, possibly because in reality these disorders are often co-morbid. The main difference is that narcissists usually conform to social norms and laws, and do not generally pose a serious threat to society. A narcissist might verbally berate someone who stands in his way, but he is unlikely to resort to violence at the drop of a hat, for example. Confer "conduct disorder".
Very nice. I'm surprised, though, that they didn't go the OOP route, since they're transitioning a lot of other core procedural functions to objects. Even if it would be a super-simple class interface (almost to the point of not being strictly necessary), it would at least be consistent with the general drift of next-gen PHP.
"This is revolutionary!"

Did they say this?
Cost isn't the biggest benefit, the biggest benefit is exposing kids to the operating system (Linux) that runs the majority of servers. Those servers increasingly run our world.

It doesn't matter if the teachers are clueless, some of the curious kids will start messing around with the command line, and a whole new world will open for them.
I disagree. There is so many social websites out there that you need your users to think you are the only option, If your service is down, people will have a look at others', and might them interesting.
There are at least two other ways of running userscripts in Chrome, neither of which impose this restriction:

Tampermonkey: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhdgffkkebhmkfjoje...

Blank Canvas: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pipnnjjknlabchljab...
> > With Scrum, there is an explicit commitment ... on what stories are going to be delivered within the sprint,

> No, there isn't. You adhere to your burn-down, not to your feature set. Scrum is time driven, not task driven.

Of course there is. There is no burn-down, no 'time', without tasks. So while in a pedantic sense you're right that you commit to 'time', time is measured in stories.
After a bit of experience with scrum, one of the things I"ve come to appreciate is that it's not a one-size-fits-all methodology. I think the spirit of scrum (break work into chunks, have working code at each stake in the ground, define a project in terms of user stories, etc) is more important than the letter of the law, and being able to tailor the process to your current reality is more valuable than dogmatic adherence to some prescription.
I use a WP7. I like it, its quick and usable. Some parts of the OS really work - eg the messaging app. But generally it is quite boring and visually sparse. On top of that the interface has a lot of rough edges. Simply, it needs a more polished visual style, with more colour, detail, and life.
the Avis "we try harder" thing has always been a favorite of mine... i guess i always do feel like being the underdog makes me work harder.

anyway, i'm sure most folks at YC feel like they try harder too. probably we're more similar there than different.

but yeah, i don't mind being the underdog.
First, I hope you take what I am going to say as a compliment. Since I've heard nothing but good things about your company (specifically from a guy that is very technical that told me about it originally that I highly respect so you get blessed by that association).

The thing that is holding you back is that you are very honest and conscientious. All you have to do to determine that is to read your page on "colo" at your site where you are very frank about the fact that the rent might go up. That is very atypical in business. I've seen the same ethics hold many people back. I'm not saying at all that everyone who makes it big is unethical because of course that's not the case. But I've seen many people who haven't made it who are just to damn honest and I've seen many people make it that are just unethical and easily pull the wool over people's eyes.

Now of course everyone fibs a bit here and there. It's not like a person is either totally honest or a total cheat. There is a gray area and it's a continuum.

Anyway that's my take on things. I can point to the obvious example of Jobs and Woz (of course Woz had no business sense but the fact is he really didn't even know it was possible to be screwed by Jobs so he couldn't even protect against it.)

I think you have a great thing going. Personally I feel you should move away from the hacker market and move more mainstream and raise your prices. Or perhaps develop a different site to address that market. If you are interested, I'd get involved in that possibly.
It's definitely good to understand the underlying math, and it's a good article on "this is how to translate a formula into Ruby code", but given that the article is positioned as "We needed to solve this problem, and this is how we solved it", it seems like it'd make more sense to focus on solving it with the least work and the best performance, which is why I mentioned GSL.

It's great to see other people doing statistical work in Ruby, though, so please don't let my criticism keep you from continuing to do it! :)
No, I don't think it's stupid of people to expect that manufacturers make good technology. As a matter of fact, I expect manufacturers to make good products. I expect manufacturers to produce what they promise to produce. I don't expect companies to deliver on things they don't talk about, though. If they produce something new, that's great!

What I think is stupid is people(mostly tech "journalists") that go "I'm disappointed that this device doesn't have this thing that isn't on the spec sheet and was never announced by the company that makes it as a feature". That's the rough equivalent of being disappointed that you don't get everything you wanted for Christmas as a kid. It's silly.
Just because something bears a title doesn't make it so.

Perhaps his professor _was_ accurately describing how the profession as a whole uses the manual.

You can diagnosis pretty much anyone with narcissism.
I just read about this the other day in The Slow Web [1] by Jack Cheng:

"iDoneThis is a part of the slow web movement. After you email us, your calendar is not updated instantaneously. But rest up, and you’ll find an updated calendar when you wake."

I like that it can be used as the opposite of a todo list. Instead of a list telling you what to do, you tell it what you've done.

1. http://blog.jackcheng.com/post/25160553986/the-slow-web
Top items to track in a mobile application (what's your list?)
This is what I came to say as well. The native apps lacked so much functionality that you would have to go to the web app to perform certain actions.
I wasn't condemning the BBC, I was criticising the guy.
The thing about HTML5 is that it does not enforce any real design patterns, so if you are not very careful with the design of your application, it will quickly become a horrible mess. I expect that is where the parent's disdain is coming from.

Interestingly, when you do introduce design patterns in your HTML5 app, it starts to very closely resemble a native application. At that point, there is little advantage to using HTML5 over native environments from a developer's perspective. The only real win from HTML5 being its ubiquity.