skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've made a strong statement concerning how one should diagnose a disorder. What evidence do you have that this is an effective diagnostic tool? Or is this based on your experience as a physician or therapist in a clinical context?
Shorter list :

- Read the "Epistulæ Morales ad Lucilium" from Seneca

- Read the "Bhagavad Gita" to avoid being stuck in a given interpretation.

- Shy away from religion. Find the truth by yourself

And therefore make your own list of how to live your day. Feeling grateful and trying to see the lord in every being you encounter, friend or foe, is is mine.

Also "no man does evil knowingly" seems wrong - sorry, but a tiny minority of people really want to see the world burn.

Just remember there are very few of them, that by default you should assume people have good intentions but sometimes fail.

EDIT: Following the excellent comment of nerdfiles one can only see with "showdead" option, order of reading is important, and my suggestion might not be the best.

Not everyone can start with Seneca. You will certainly need a starting point to take advantage of the stoic teachings, ie something to help you see how useful stoicism could be to you.

This starting point is Logic for many people, but it can be anything that tries to teach how to look for the truth and to pinpoint problems. I personally found Atlas Shrugged very interesting, others will have different tastes. The Dharma can be useful. Richard Feynman work is great. A vast personal experience could also help, since people who have traveled the world usually develop interesting insights.

(BTW nerdfiles, your account has been blacklisted)
Thank you. If anyone thinks they can beat Apples infrastructure, good luck to them. Buying components by the 10s of millions, and getting completed products to customers from the factory to the end user at the other end of the world in a day or 3, whilst managing to have low inventory. Brand new iPhone models excluded...
Leading the article with Britain under Thatcher as - presumably - a good example (of Government reform).. Not their brightest move to anyone British that grew up in the 80's and not in the "elite" classes. I was not compelled to read further, which is a pity, since the Economist can have some quite incisive articles sometimes.

But then again, I guess I'm not their target audience. I'll try and read it again, once I've stopped gnashing my teeth :/
U.S. Income Tax Turns 100 Years Old
Ruins of an Alternate Future – Jinhua Architecture Park
It's not entirely accurate because of this. HNSearch API allows you to list users ordered by karma. According to that, I'm ~120. According to this site, I'm 94. Heh.
Which open source technologies are Enterprise ready?
I just started a contract job as a front end developer with one of the larger financial services companies in the US. My primary responsibility will be to convert the website over to Responsive Web Design.

Considering all the regulations that financial companies must adhere to, the technology choices available must be proven to be secure and mature. If I have any chance to influence the work environment there, I better also have data and proof to back up my claims.

The first thing they will do is choose a CMS that's either based on Java, such as Adobe CQ5, or something else developed by Oracle. Considering Java's continue problems on the client side with security, I'm not sure this would be the smartest move.

More importantly, as a front end dev, I have started playing with technologies like Node.js, Git, Sass, and bundles like Yeoman. I know there are also some Server-Side Javascript packages such as Node.js, Backbone/Underscore, Ember, Angular and others. I'm not quite sure if most of these could work in the Enterprise environment considering the compliance and security regulations.

I am pushing for an investigation to use more open source like the above, and I hope to get this company to create a Github repo where we can give back to the community as well. I think it would be amazing to create an API for the customers to use to create apps to make the services better, although I realize this might not be a smart idea considering it's people's financial data or the likes.

This is probably a little too ambitious for me to take on alone, but I'd love to hear your opinions and experience about what I could legitimately push to aid this transition. The department manager is very open to new ideas and really hopes I can step up and lead the way so I'd like to get your feedback. Thanks!
Some American shows also have subtitles when the speakers have strong regional accents, particularly accents from the Deep South.
I find it difficult to feel anything other than contempt for Fee's parents.

It seems to be accepted without question that ADHD is overdiagnosed, but I don't think that's true. I think it's more accurate to say that ADHD is misdiagnosed. That is, ADHD frequently isn't diagnosed when it should be, and is also frequently diagnosed when it shouldn't be.

I think it's the primarily-hyperactive variant that's overdiagnosed, and that's so for very adult-serving reasons. Children who are primarily hyperactive are the ones that will tend to "act out". They're constantly causing trouble, disrupting the classroom, and generally creating havoc. Of course, teachers/parents/adults tend to be very quick to want a diagnosis of ADHD for hyperactive kids: they make their jobs tough.

Primarily-inattentive ADHD (which Fee was diagnosed with) is different. They tend to lack the motivation to get into any serious trouble. Thus, they tend to be experienced as good, smart children who just need a bit more motivation and focus. The incentives here are a bit more perverse. These children tend to make the adults in their lives not want an ADHD diagnosis, because these children tend to make adults' lives easier. They don't have to discipline their kids for acting out. Of course, that leaves out the question of whether a diagnosis is best for the child. Sure they don't cause trouble, but they're also not really living and having a healthy childhood.

This is why I have contempt for Fee's parents. More than likely, Fee needed to be diagnosed with ADHD sooner. Had he been diagnosed sooner, he could have been put on medication by a doctor who could control his dosage. He probably would have started causing some amount of trouble, and that would have been more work for his parents. But he would also have been more capable of succeeding in life.

Instead, Fee (like lots of undiagnosed people with ADHD) self-medicated, and got himself addicted.
Don't forget "buncha" and "grammer"
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALPkDoX9Wz0
Watch a series… would you read a series?
The Dreamliner was behind schedule for a long time, due to new technology and possibly (don't know) poor management.

At some time, after numerous delays and rescheduling, it must have reached the point where new problems were acknowledged internally but not allowed to affect the release schedule. The FAA has a voice, but it has to rely on what the manufacturer and airlines tell it.
Canonical Working on New, Custom Display Server?
What is the problem with that reasoning? Not liking and failing out of school is not a medical problem.
Do You Need Passion to Succeed as an Entrepreneur?
> Very little magic or innovation happens in this old business

What about Amazon Web Services? Amazon was and still is a leader on the cloud computing front.

> Bezos' desire to constantly reinvest in the future

This is a huge advantage at least from an investor perspective.
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Museum APIs
The first thing I'd do is rename it. I'm not kidding. Inside jokes are fine when they're inside jokes, but when they're the actual face of the project, all they do is alienate outsiders.
I'd like to know how much water this makes in how long. A hair dryer is no 60w bulb, that's for sure.
eBooks? Cloud computing? Amazon validated both of these in the past few years alone. Say what you will about their core business, but there's a lot of innovation at Amazon, more so in some ways than Apple.
Cities make it incredibly hard to get a business license
Ask HN: How do you "fix" the curse of the gifted?
I saw one post today in HN about failure, on the comments someone linked that e-mail that Eric Raymond sent to Linus saying that he suffered from curse of gifted programmer...

I thought it was interesting,, reading the e-mail felt like it was a grandpa lambasting me for being a childish.

Yes, calling myself might sound arrogant, and I am arrogant anyway, but I am gifted, and I know that because it is obvious:

In my entire school life, I never felt challenged unless I sabotaged myself, before the sixth grade, I would pass every single class with A or A+ without doing any effort, I never made my homework, and my parents got called constantly to visit the principal because I was utterly lazy. After the sixth grade, I started to gradually have lower scores, and my behavior worsened, in high school in the two last years I actually went to school, plopped my head on the desk, and slept.

And yet, I never failed.

My first non-internship job, I submitted my resume for junior iOS programmer.

Got hired as solutions architect and R&D head.

Then I noticed that every time I looked to other programmers working, I thought they were amazing, but my bosses always think I am amazing, because they can throw random shit at me, I say I cannot do it, and I do it anyway.

Yet, I only learned to use version control in 2012 (I started to code in 1993), I am always amazed by other people design, it took me 6 years using a C++ compiler before I touched std, I make code mostly by trial and error, I make lots of sloppy mistakes, I am sure that if I was coding 30 years ago when you had only three compiling attempts on a mainframe my code would never run, yet, everywhere I looked, I never find someone that can be my mentor.

I rarely feel challenged.

What is the point of being extraordinarily gifted, if in most cases I don`t feel challenged,. and in the end, I don`t accomplished much more than a average joe?
ASP hasn't been updated in about 10 years, so yes it's old.

ColdFusion, however, isn't "very old". It's an actively supported platform with new versions released within the past year (commercially and 2 open source alternatives). It contains current features such as ESAPI support (for security) and web sockets (for the whiz bang buzzwordians). The fact that it was released in 1995 is irrelevant - similarly aged languages include Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and PHP.

You're correct that the age of the websites has much to do with the vulnerabilities. I think "no-one knew what they were doing" borders on insulting for anyone who's been building web apps for more than a few years, however. Rather, things like SQL injection weren't common then, and older, unsupported apps are thus easily exposed.
It does, it shows that not all cases are similar and that there is potentially a large variance in outcomes and thus calls for collecting more data. It's a proof by existence.
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Not to mention the other potential side effects like Psychosis, Aggression, Seizures... I don't understand why anyone would ever take a drug like this, the list of side effects sounds worse than the problem it's trying to cure... http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2007/011....

Most people don't encounter the bad side-effects. The common ones are sweating and restlessness.

The malady that it treats is truly, truly debilitating.
These have facinated me for a while. I wish there was a nice open source implementation of the McEliece cryptosystem to try out.
* The state they're pushing off to the client is analogous to the state a server would maintain for e.g. a TLS session and its associated TCP TCB; it's sensitive in the context of transport security but probably not otherwise.

* They're encrypting and MAC'ing the client-held state, the same way IIS/ASP.NET does with ViewState.

It's not "more" secure than just holding the state serverside, but if it's implemented correctly, it's asymptotically close. (FWIW: the code is pretty messy [the relevant stuff is grafted on to the Linux ipv4 stack], I'm finding it challenging to reason about, and it's using memcmp to check the MAC, and the HMAC key is a charstar --- but this code isn't really the point).
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I didn't say he probably had psychological issues because he ended up in the psychiatric hospital, I'm saying he had these issues because it did not trigger a wake up call.
Thread: House of Cards
I think that was a common misunderstanding/misreporting, Dean Kamen proposed using the Stirling Engine to power the Slingshot (the Slingshot being the waterpurifier which is mentioned in the linked article).

At least according to How Stuff Works, they were two separate machines:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/re...

"But the two devices may fit together even more harmoniously. The generator happens to make a lot of extra heat as it burns fuel -- up to 85 percent of it doesn't get used. But when the generator and purifier are connected by a tube, hot air can blow into the purifier. There, it can do work, heating the incoming water and surrounding the purifier like a jacket, trapping heat inside. With help from the generator, the purifier can be even more efficient."
Understanding and Using Widgets in WordPress
In this article we are going to see how the admin can drag drop the widgets and how can we develop a WordPress widget with options.
I needed to change meds as the ones I was taking were making me angry all the time

It's worth pointing out that this is most likely a sign that you don't have ADHD, and possibly have some other disorder that looks a lot like it.

Believe it or not, it's not all that uncommon for Bipolar people to be diagnosed with ADHD. During the depressive stage, Bipolar people tend to be unfocused and lacking in motivation. During the Manic phase, they tend to be impulsive and hyperactive.

Same with anxiety disorders (like OCD). Those kinds of people tend to be so worried that they have difficulty paying attention.

Hell, even thyroid disorders can look like ADHD.

Either way, you're probably not taking medication right now because you don't need it.
As a Swede that's seen the change of the country growing up I couldn't stand this propagandic piece of nonsense. This article is clearly a right-wing view on what makes a country prosper.

Crime is up mainly because economic differences are bigger now than ever before in my lifetime. My children are going to grow up in a country fixated on doing budget cuts in the government spending. Sick people are no-longer supported by the government and cancer patients are being forced to look for work. Sweden haven't had this many homeless people for decades. This is not a society with moral standards anymore.

Clearly skewed article.
When we get into this type of discusion in our interviews, what we are looking for is not literally are you coding between the hours of 6:00 -11:00 pm. We're trying to find out if are you passionate about software development. If you already have a job where you have the freedom to occasionally explore, or even better utilize, diverse and emerging technologies, then you don't really need to do so 'after hours'. On the other hand, if you've been doing Visual Basic for the last 12 years as your day job, we're going to want to see some tangible indication that you've at least been kicking the tires on some other technologies. If the hiring company literally requires hard evidence of contributions to public repositories, then it probably isn't the place for you (or me) and they are inevitably missing out on some great developers by casting to narrow a net.
None of these look ready for prime time, but the fact that it's possible is a great sign. It means the age of asymmetric crypto and all it entails won't end with practical QC. (Which is still a ways off...)

Of course if QC does appear and these algos are still not ready, an intermedia stopgap would be to use RSA, DSA, or ECC with very, very big keys, since as far as I understand it Shor's algorithm must be run over a single block. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
My father was a psychologist for 7 years and he has seen many patients with attention deficit problems. One of his methods to see if a person would have problems with focus is the one written above. It is by no means a clinical diagnostic method or a replacement for professional help, it merely exists as a point for discussion and food for thought. (See added disclaimer above.)
One of the most useful parts of school for me was "failing" a science fair project. I reolized I did not want to be juded subjectively so perusing science was a terrible idea.
Isn't there a difference between street amphetamine sulphate and adderall?

I'm about to horribly mangle some chemistry. Sorry. Doesn't the amphetamine molecule have a methyl group; and that can be on the left or right side, and that makes a huge difference how your body copes with the substance? (Is this chirality?)

And so it seems reasonable to make a distinction between something that is classically abusable and adderall.

I agree it's a lazy description though - they could have explained the difference.
Ask HN: Object Oriented Programming
I am a senior in Electrical Engineering(Undergrad). I have been doing Java, C++ and some web languages too for about a year. I just get the job done but my concepts are poor. If I want to understand OOP properly and I have 2hrs a day for a month for this, what should I do(books, tutorials etc..) Well the reason I have a deadline is because I want to start my career off as a software engineer instead of an electrical engineer so I got to be prepared for interviews but I dont want to resort to shortcuts.
Thanks a lot for the help guys!
I can't speak for PG but being in the middle of designing a karma system for our application, karma is an incredibly powerful tool to encourage engagement.

Karma's value to the casual visitor is in communicating quality content that's been flagged by the community worker bees - the karma "waggle dance" :) From that perspective you want to be critical and only add weight to the "best things".

However karma also plays a very significant role in guiding people as to how to modify their behaviour such that the community appreciates them. We all want to be liked by communities we identify with and karma is a powerful tool to see how we can "fit in".

Karma is an incredibly powerful tool to communicate in a very discrete way to new community members how they can establish themselves.

As the karma-moderator I find myself looking to give the community ways award karma wherever I can. I'm not worried about how insignificant the effort that it was rewarding; all I want to do is give people encouragement when they do something (anything) the community appreciates.
I think there are some ways Apple influences the price of apps. Just to name a few:

- by their search algorithm

- which kind of apps they promote

- how they price their own apps (look at the price of Mac OS X)

- by disallowing payed upgrades

- by their price floor
So it was western propaganda?
Christ, the Ecomonist is hammering HN this weekend. Are they in cahoots with The Atlantic?
They should invest at least some of it in making Xcode less terrible.
I believe ColinWright recently posted a notice that he had written scripts for that. If I needed it, I would check his recent submissions. If he has been too prolific for that to hit paydirt, I would search HN with something like "I have scripts for that" "saved stories" and ColinWright. (Still nothing? Refine the search. But you knew that.)

(I am on an Android and HN gives my browser serious indigestion. I don't happen to love you deeply enough to go through the torture it would involve in finding the link for you. You will have to do your own searching. Sorry.)
Your part "b" reminded me of a robotics program I did in High School, FIRST robotics - http://www.usfirst.org/ . It's not an exaggeration to say that my success and passion as a developer comes almost entirely from this program. They give these teams of high school kids a real, unsolved, damn hard robotics problem, and you have six weeks to come up with something. It's far more educational than sitting slack-jawed in a classroom, and fun as hell.

And no, there's no cushion for failure. One year I was in this program we had a robot with a drive system that was completely non-functional (we used a worm gear on the drive motors, so the robot basically couldn't coast at all), and as the programmer, it frustrated me almost to the point of tears to not be able to do anything about it. I tried to write code that would simulate coasting by spooling down the wheels slowly, but I wasn't that good at writing code yet, and it didn't work at all. In the end we lost horribly, and our consolation was to do better the next year, the end.

This is the kind of learning I would like to see more of: Work on real problems with no clear solutions, and learn old problems with clear solutions incidentally as the need arises.
This is a dreadful article. The graph (which is used to underline the premise of the piece) is mislabled. The lines are the wrong way round. How do I know. I shall tell you.

WDM capacity world wide is rising as per the white line.

Cost per mbs-1 is falling as per the orange line.

These are facts. Labelled properly the graph is correct.

It is simply stupid to think that WDM capacity is falling, and the author needs to be - well, I will not be silly and intemperate!
That or the ones that were up here evolved.
Important note: By "DC-area", the Washington Post means the Maryland suburbs.
I would draw a distinction between productivity and innovation. The source of Walmart's productivity gains was not innovation within Walmart, but advances in technology, from which Walmart was able to take advantage of more quickly than competitors. Just because retail gained in productivity and Walmart is the biggest retailer does not imply that Walmart is the source of innovation. I do give Walmart credit for their aggressive play, but the business of retail is still that of a middleman with a storefront, inventory management, customer service and thin margins.

I applaud Amazon's efforts to prevent disruption with the Kindle and to move into the cloud. AWS is fairly innovative.
> or maybe you misunderstood when I said "say, within 5 years of your PhD"?

It sounds more like I misunderstood when you wrote "you haven't had time for citations to accumulate, and journal name really is the important thing." Your example above combines journal citations with place-of-publication, which makes more sense than one important item.

And lets face it, there have been some real whoppers in Nature. Jan Hendrik Schön comes to mind. So to your example: I can think of only a single situation in which a last-year-item of any quality affected a decision. The likely answer to your question is that neither of the candidates would be hired, at least at the best institutions.
SkiFree would actually be pretty fun on an Android.
Start-ups are great, but we can learn a lot from “end-ups,” too
I realise you probably meant this for the more general case, but if you are building an API it should not accept YAML. If you are not building an API and are using YAML to de-serialze stuff you serialised yourself (i.e. use YAML as intended) then there is no issue anyway.

So having "dangerous_load" is not going to help much with YAML: if it's exposed to untrusted input then grep for "YAML" not for "dangerous_load".
Notably, PG County has [..] a relatively low-income population

Really? According to wiki, the median household income is over $71,000 and 38% of households earned over $100,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Georges_County,_Maryland...

edit: okay, I suppose PG county is lower income than Montgomery, Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun counties, but the population is certainly not "low income" even for a high-cost-of-living region.
from the article: "this 300 pound, dorm fridge-sized box can take any kind of sewage or even salt water and create 200 to 250 gallons a day of clean water."