skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did the tests work? I've been professionally tested for ADD, and the "tests" were just the very same questionnaires for ADD that you can find on the Internet. And surprise! The diagnosis was the same one that I would have come up, or that anyone who knows me would have come up with. I.e., yes.
Is it actually true that real loss isn't necessary to be unethical? You couldn't possibly provide an example? I am having trouble imagining such a situation.

(I would argue in terms of importance, ethics > crime)
Most of it comes from a series of awful compromises with the military. The Air Force wanted it that big so they could put up and recover very large classified cargos from various places, iirc in less than one orbit.

Also, if the shuttle had actually been used as much as intended the cost wouldn't have been nearly as much.
Why on earth would you put your copy and configuration in your code base, and not in a CMS (for copy) or a database (for configuration)?
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Lapham's Quarterly is unique, and a pleasure to read and hold, but, to be fair, I wouldn't really call it a magazine. But Lewis Lapham has certainly made Harper's into the most interesting, subversive, funny and whimsical high-brow general interest magazine in circulation. The last few issues, though, have taken a slight dip in quality, so I'm following it with some concern.

Like the New Yorker and Vanity Fair, and unlike the Atlantic or the NYT Magazine, Harper's prefers on-the-ground reporting over covering "issues" or "trends". But the writing quality in Harper's tends to be much superior to that of both the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Harper's best features are usually non-mainstream, and even intentionally bizarre stories.

A few years ago, Gawker had a great review of Harper's, called "Harper's Doesn't Want To Grow Up": http://gawker.com/5042234/harpers-doesnt-want-to-grow-up

To get a taste of Harper's, take a look at their regular science column, which I find hilarious. Here's the last one: http://harpers.org/archive/2012/10/0084112.
I post it to HN every month but it never gets more than a few votes...
Most of the european news website are also censored, by law.

Moderators are paid to remove comments, or whole threads. Some words are banned. The purge is even worse that at CBC.

As you said, the real problem is you can't really guess what people think, or how many share a viewpoint, unless you have a bot fetching the page and watching the disappearing posts.

And that worries me too.

At least on HN you can see hellbanned with showdead (hello josephcooney! you may find this discussion amusing, I find it at least better than european style censorship)
All your points (well, aside from mingw itself) are great ones. Cygwin is 100% a monster. But it's a monster that works the way I expect it to. MSYS is often lacking in things I consider basic that I miss going from OS X to Windows and trying to configure it is a super-pain-in-the-ass.

Colinux is actually pretty cool, but the need for an X server and the setup time is a pain in the ass.
> Not to be rude, but it's unclear whether the author has had an actual professional diagnosis.

I had a professional diagnosis, and the diagnosis was just done via the same sort of questionnaire that you'd find on the Internet. (Though perhaps the tester was also observing my behavior, and the like.)
There's at least a bit of irony that you can't deploy a fix right now.
Good question, DFC.

I've taken up meditation as well and long-distance swimming. I've found it easier to do both of those since I started coding. I find it much easier to set a goal for myself and achieve it rather than think about it, start, stop, start, stop.

Cure may be too strong of a word. As I mentioned in the post, I think my brain as begun to rewire itself for period of intense focus rather than incredibly short sprints.
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> The decision was an extremely bad one and the passage by Holmes was inflammatory rhetoric since the case was clearly never about shouting fire in a theatre, it was about peacefully and reasonably protesting unconstitutional action by the government.

It's an interesting theory that the thirteenth amendment prohibits conscription, but it's never been upheld in court.
Only problem with this is that window.onerror isn't available in webkit.
No, the point is that for these users, the vendor loses the $1 or whatever worth of hosting costs, not the $50 or whatever retail price.
The Baffler and N+1
http://thebaffler.com/
http://nplusonemag.com/
> we're willing to pass laws and endure a certain level of self-censorship to avoid provoking violence out of these people

Benjamin Franklin addressed that issue
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Sometimes, I wonder what's the next target after free speech.

I don't think farmers are a strategic objective. If I had to make that call, I'd go after woman rights, and trade that against something strategically insignificant concession (say like "allowing" farmers to keep raising pork).

(EDIT: Fixed Franklin quote. human memory failure :-)
Almost exclusively. I'm so good it makes no difference.
window.onerror is available in all browsers. The issue of window.onerror is that the information it provides is not very good: there's no stacktrace and there's no detailed info, just a line number and a message.
You can make a reusable launch vehicle that's economical. You can also make one that is incredibly expensive, if its poorly designed. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Kind of like how most cars are cheap on a per-use basis, but it would be insane to use a formula-1 racecar as your daily driver.

That's basically the shuttle. In fact, it's worse. More like putting that F-1 engine in an 18-wheeler sized truck, only doing 2 trips to the grocery store per year, and having the ferrari racing team's engineers and mechanics rebuild the engine and replace the tires after every trip.
> not that long ago we didn't know that we live on a sphere

Actually, the ancient Greeks knew it was a sphere, and everyone knew by the Middle Ages. Surprisingly perhaps, given their other astronomical work, the Chinese were the last hangers on. The notion that we discovered it relatively recently seems to have been due to a propaganda campaign in the 19th Century.
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So is your value add that you are actively steering traffic to the test sites (Google Consumer Surveys, Amazon Mechanical Turk, etc.) or simply creating basic landing pages and relying on the customer to generate his/her own traffic?
I see what you mean but I have the opposite feeling: the thing about Islam and all is just a minor part of the self-censorship and new taboos problem in the West, and this article should not focus only on that.
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Looks really nice. Keep up the good work guys. Now it's time to rumble : )
Will give this a go next week with a limited number of our admins
The WTC attacks were committed by people who were in the country legally, either at the time or they had overstayed a visa. Those attacks would not have happened if the individuals involved weren't granted visas.
The Baffler is great, but has mostly cultural analysis pieces and almost no original reporting. I think N+1 resembles pretentious college publications, and frankly I find it quite boring, though I may give it another look.
|"You are wrong because of things you cannot know" - impossible to argue with, not very useful.

This is not debate team. The point is not to frame the discussion so you can "win".

Whether you want to admit it, there are things you can never know. That's incontrovertible. You have two choices: you can throw your hands in the air and say "oh well I'll never know" or you can start to learn how to sense when other people have a depth of knowledge or experience that is unavailable to you, and use their knowledge to help you act in the world.

Many very bright people are constitutionally incapable of working this way. Unless they can reduce a concept down to first principles that are grounded in their personal experience, the concept is wrong to them.

To me, that's a huge epistemological limitation, and I think it will hamper your ability to grow intellectually. I have found that with certain things I had to first accept them and live with them, after someone I trust and respect, with different experience than I have, suggested they were true. Only later, after living with and applying the ideas, was I able to rationalize them.

This realization is the greatest gift Feminist theory has given me, as a thinker.
Quick question, do you actually think it is the 'militant' or the 'islam' that scares the west?

And once you figure out the (right) answer to that question, please rewrite your post to replace 'islamists' with 'militants'.

The real lesson here is what better way to mobilise a generation of a nation into militancy than occupy their country, sell off their assets, kill 5% of the population and then insult their religion.
> the same sort of questionnaire that you'd find on the Internet.

Unfortunately the methods vary, and not all professionals care to (or even are trained to) conduct the more elaborate diagnoses. However, for differential diagnoses (ie, the most difficult to make - 'is this really ADHD, or just the way that Joe's depression/OCD/etc. happens to manifest?), there are some more elaborate diagnostic methods. I can't comment firsthand, but I know these tests can span multiple media (in-person interviews, written self-evaluations, third-party reports, IQ tests, fine motor skills tests, achievement tests, etc.). I had a friend who went through a battery of these tests before her final diagnosis.

Very few people actually bother, because it's very expensive (and often not covered by insurance). The only reason you would go through this is if you want to be really sure that you have ADHD, or if you're trying to identify whether cognitive treatment (ie, therapy) is appropriate or whether a hidden neurological condition, etc. is actually the problem.

However, even for a professional, it's almost impossible to make an accurate self-diagnosis (or even a diagnosis of one's own children, for example). It's just too easy to fall into the trap of confirmation bias - or worse, ignore signs that may be visible to others, even if obscured.

I do agree that it's unfortunate that not all professionals are properly equipped to make these diagnoses - this is especially the case for children - because it leads to an overdiagnosis among healthy children, while those with less obvious (but still debilitating) symptoms slip through the cracks without ever realizing they have a problem, since they are able to 'make do'.

> (Though perhaps the tester was also observing my behavior, and the like.)

I am almost certain that this was the case as well (at least to an extent)!
This looks fantastic, I think I'll be using it soon.

What are the limitations of the free trial and how long does it last?
Quote him correctly:

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

It is important to do so; "essential liberty" and "temporary safety" are not the same as "liberty" and "safety".
>"Blasphemy" is one of those things I do not get. Religious criticism seems to unearth the general insecurity that people have about their religion (whatever is might be).

You don't get it because you're not a devout Muslim of one of the more violent sects, and this is a pretty common problem with people in the West. There's no point in trying to divine motivations in this particular area without understanding the Weltanschauung.

It's not about insecurity. They believe God wants them to punish (with death) people who insult Him.
No I don't. You are right of course.

I just find the term "hate crime" a bit pointless. As if violence against a person is worse if the motive was hatred or that person is ... {pick any of: gay, black, white, atheist, catholic, protestant, American, muslim, ...}
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indeed, thanks for reporting, will fix it in the next version
No mobile site.
Semantically, there isn't really a contradiction. I can spend €9 a month on a subscription to Spotify and in reality I didn't buy anything because no ownership of anything was transferred to me.
You can disagree and say that I bought a service, but that is the point of the article -- market your stuff to Generation Y on their "terms".
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You are right. My mistake. I fixed that.

Freedom of speech is an essential liberty. The #1 most essential liberty, to allow science, progress and democracy
I don't think the inclusion of arm64 and the multiplatform ARM code are devoid of value. In fact, I imagine the fact every Android smartphone in the world eventually being able to share the same 3.7 kernel binary is proof enough it's important.
Programming seems like the kind of thing that would increase your focus over prolonged time spans. I'm surprised meditation isnt mentioned more often when talking about ADD. I feel this is the most obvious thing to try if you feel your capacity to focus isn't as great as you would like it to be.

Try it out, just sit in a quiet room for five minutes and try to focus on your breath. It'l probably last a good 3 seconds, but keep trying it works like a muscle.
thanks, this helped me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2231897/potential-issues-...
http://www.errorify.com/ is also using sourcemaps (and you don't have to make non-minified code public), with no dependencies (like jquery, ...), totally crossbrowser and provides optional code rewriting. And has unified dashboard http://www.errorify.com/features

@glesperance
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The idea Ulysses reinforced in me is that anything, from shaving in the morning to looking for a place to relieve oneself, if perceived properly, is beautiful, or funny, or tragic. It becomes significant to the extent we consider it. Or, humorously: https://xkcd.com/915/

Perhaps I was peculiarly ready to read the book because of my Catholic intellectual family, and an education that included reading Edith Hamilton and a reasonable translation of the Odyssey. When I was nine, I learned to love challenging language and imagining alien culture as I devoured the complete Sherlock Holmes. I'm sure Ulysses contains many allusions I missed entirely, but perhaps not too much. I read much more slowly than some smart folks I know, but part of that is hearing the sound of the words in my head while I imagine what perceptions and beliefs the speaker is responding to (which will never be exactly the reality in which they are fictitiously or actually embeded).
Ponder this: you have a fixed layout for devices ranging from 3.5in to 10in in size. Assuming you optimized for a he 10in display, does it seem reasonable that the same layout works at 1x and 0.35x zoom level, at all DPI values?

Seems best to let users choose to not zoom if their devices are broken, than to tell devices to turn off features. It is a sad bug that my Browser respects requests from web sites to hobble itself. I would rather pan and scan then stare at tiny text.

Your site works with zoom now, thank you!

TC etc are all websites I don't read on my phone (or at all, generally).

Also, your site disabled zoom even when I requested the Desktop version. If you inherited that bug from Bootstrap, that is awful of bootstrap to do.
Agreed. In fact I would go as far to say that All systems should be deliberately connected to a network physically accessible from the outside world. That way you cannot hide behind the assumption that you have not inadvertently connected.

All security layers have to be based on what you are allowed to do. Cutting abilities in a non-privilege-restriction manner is just asking for people to figure out another way to get through.
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> please rewrite your post to replace 'islamists' with 'militants'.

No need to rewrite anything, it's both their hostility and philosophical differences that scare us. Overcoming that fear and reaffirming our values is the basis for one of the most important texts in the European culture — The Song of Roland.

EDIT: I do know what you mean and I'm sorry but those are just feel-good platitudes. West quite obviously is not afraid of militant Christians or atheists. Mostly because there aren't really any left, and those who still hang around don't regularly erupt in violence, but also because they're much more like us and it's easier for us to understand their particular extremism.
Great suggestion. I've actually picked this up as well in the last few months. I sit for 10-15 minutes at a time and find that it goes along really well with programming.
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This is funny because this relates to me so much. I know exactly what you mean when you say when thinking of a solution, you let your "ADD" (mind you I'm not diagnosed so take what I say with a grain of salt, I would like to get it checked though) go and have several attempts to solving the problem in your head, I do the same exact thing.

A problem I have though is that I can be focused when actually programming but then I can lose it just for a second and then the last 15 lines of code is just chinese to me even though I wrote it myself.

Another problem is simple math within a more complicated problem. For example, I'm still at university and when taking an exam for say, linear algebra and have to multiply matices, I could be stuck on like 22+17 and for some reason I can't get 9 out of 2+7, it's a weird feeling because I know it's correct but I guess something in my mind doesn't feel confident about it.

Also I fall asleep when I force myself to focus. Interesting courses that I'm excited to actually learn, I end up passing out in lecture regardless of the amount of sleep I had.

Then reading is annoying also I can read lines over and over again, I see the words, they go in my brain but nothing logical comes out.

I still love programming though =P
I'm a little surprised that this technology is only available to schools, and not to individuals. Is there any effort underway to change that? It seems like these games could be big on the various app stores (e.g. DragonBox), or in partnership with some of the big learning sites such as Khan Academy.
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Wow. That is honest.

So are we just going to opine on the state of affairs, or should we take action?
Surprising that the land of Pachinko doesn't have an equivalent of "I'm Feeling Lucky"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko
I to want to start meditating. Thanks for the suggestion!
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This hasn't solved the problem though, it's just passing the buck. If the app facilitates what people perceive as spamming, shouldn't that be something you want to look into? If you can improve the experience for the recipients of these e-mails, then you can be more honest about the app's association with them, and possibly draw more customers in from a "secondary" userbase.

Yeah, maybe this is hard to solve, but startups are always claiming that they're solving hard problems. So...solve!

I also enjoy enchiladas by the way.
For what purpose are you writing software, and what is your desired destination?

Do you want to program something interesting for you? (then figure out what you want to program, figure out the technologies it would take to make it happen, then learn them, and do it)

Do you want to get better at the trade so that at some point someone will pay you to program? (then go through MIT's OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm on CS topics to build up your fundamentals, then start reviewing/helping/hacking on open source for a while)

Do you want to use programming as a tool to do other things that you are interested in? (look around at what topics are necessary to understand, learn more about those topics, and go for it)

Personally, I knew when I was young that I would be into programming; when I was 5-7, we did LOGO in school, but there weren't really any programming courses worth anything in my high school (Cobol, Fortran, Hypercard, and Pascal), and I took the two electronics courses that were offered. I held myself back until college, where I did my best to learn and program as much as possible. After college, I went to grad school, continued programming as much as I could (I wrote an editor in Python for Python, dozens of data compression libraries, several distinct MUDs, ...), and got a PhD in theoretical computer science. Since then, I've been working in industry (because the academic market is crappy right now).

So I again ask; what is your destination? If you don't know yet, that's okay. You can improve your skills, your fundamental knowledge, and your technique without taking formal classes (see my link to MIT's OpenCourseWare). Heck, you may even be able to do so without talking with others (though it is hard). Once you do figure out your destination, it's a lot easier to ask for directions to get there.
Check out Web2py which is a simple download and enables super easy development of Python-based web apps.
I tried to find projects or libraries that have implemented the split hashtable, but searching for "split hashtables" gave few relevant results.

Does this go by other names?
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Well of course, pretty much any data looks linear on a log-log chart.

The real question here is what the formula is between the rank and the number of views. You absolutely cannot derive it from the log-log chart.

My point from the beginning is that it's not a power law (y=c*a^bx, where y = views, x = rank and the rest is constants).
Dealing with organizations that haven't discovered the internet (Rails Rumble)
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I think it's a thoughtful post. It's clear that he doesnt like discrimination against anyone, and is proposing how we should act in order to treat everyone in an inclusive and fair manner, for the benefit of all parties.
If you ever build this into an easy setup UI, I think this would just be humongous. This combines what I like about about.me and what I find useful about tumblr. I've been trying to customize my tumblr for a while now to look almost exactly like this, but you did it FOR ME!

You're the man/woman
Ask HN: What is the best way to train new users on software?
I'm a grad student who is currently building a software startup with a couple co-founders. While our end goal is to build software that helps people share files/relationships/emails in the enterprise, to start we wanted to see if we could make email search better.

We started with Gmail since it's a little easier to develop for than Outlook and we created a pretty cool Chrome plugin that basically allows you to have 3D search within Gmail and Google Apps email accounts. The problem is that it's not the most intuitive thing in the world. To start we put together a short video walking people through the process of using the tool but have found that very few people actually watch it. Would we be better off using a greyed or blacked out screen with white arrows pointing to various features the first time someone logs in ala Pulse News Reader? What are some other ways we can train users on the various features?

I really appreciate the feedback and advice!

Oh and our current plugin/video can be seen at http://bit.ly/V10fFK
errorception 's founder gave a nice talk on all the various techniques here http://errorception.com/slides/jsfoo#summary-so-far