skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I maintain that they are not the same. The principal behaviour of Aspergers is a social inability. The principal behaviour of Grit is passion for a long-term goal.

In your original post, I take issue with this in particular: "These two theories describe the exact same behavior -- intense focus and specialization". I disagree. I believe only ONE of them describes intense focus - grit. The other, Asperger's, describes social inability.

If they are the same thing, how is it possible that some people who are passionate about a long-term goal are socially adept and gregarious, and some people with Aspergers have no passion for any long-term goals?

Grit behaviour - passion for long term goal. Says nothing about social ability. It's very possible to have fantastic passion for a long term goal and be socially adept.

Asperger's behaviour - social inability. Says nothing about passion for long term goals. It's very possible to be Aspergic and have no passion for long term goals.

These are two different behaviours. You say they are the same behaviour - I completely disagree.
>Without reflections, space is pretty dark (excluding starlight)

Lots of infrared too, though.
Yeah. The naming choice is a reference to Chris Okasaki's book Purely functional data structures.
I'm pretty sure that is not what this is about (showing that one can 'paint' coded animations) but to showcase how powerful algorithms are.

Am I wrong?
If think if the label was "button or message?" your point (which I agree with) would be a lot clearer.
It depends on the kind of mathematician. Can you use a computer to demonstrate Russel's paradox? Clipped from Wikipedia:

> Let us call a set "abnormal" if it is a member of itself, and "normal" otherwise.

> Now we consider the set of all normal sets, R. Determining whether R is normal or abnormal is impossible: If R were a normal set, it would be contained in the set of normal sets (itself), and therefore be abnormal; and if R were abnormal, it would not be contained in the set of all normal sets (itself), and therefore be normal. This leads to the conclusion that R is neither normal nor abnormal: Russell's paradox.

Russel's paradox "broke" set theory. In the century since he discovered it, category theory was introduced as a mathematical way to capture groupings in a way that set theory failed to do.

I don't see how computers can assist in this kind of mathematical research. I do believe there's lots of research of this kind too, pushing the limits of our current mathematical structures.
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> the filling of the pixels with carefully chosen colors

See, to me this means "reading the colors from the printout". It's ridiculous that anyone could get the least significant bits of the color right by just eyeballing it, and I don't think the author ever claimed he was doing that.
>Too bad the whole camera business wasted a huge amount of resouces over ten years on a stupid tinier and tinier pixels race.

Not that stupid. While more pixels = more noise holds true for the SAME sensor, it doesn't hold true for later sensors that have better less noise and better gain at the CCD/CMOS level.

Current 16 megapixel cameras have LESS noise and better color rendition than 3mp cameras with the same sensor size 10 years ago.
The icons are available here: http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3Aflat-ui-free

The glyph are coming in a few :-)
A great reminder that code is data, and data code.

Now I want to see how all my programs look as bitmapped images... brb.
Very Pretty. Reminds me of the Otl Aicher Munich Olympics icon and typography work.
>1. Noise increases as pixel size increases. So you can't just make the pixels bigger.

No, it does not. It also depends on the sensor technology. Newer APS-C 16 and 20 mp cameras have less noise than 3mp APS-C cameras of 10 years ago, even without applying in-camera noise reduction.
http://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
Distant from stars like our sun, the temperature of space is just 2.73 Kelvins. It's pretty easy to work out the temperature for any given location in space -- just add up the effect of any nearby stars, whose radiation decreases as the square of distance, and add the background temperature of space itself, caused by the Big Bang afterglow.

What this means is that, unless you're close to a star, it is very, very cold. Even at Pluto's relatively nearby location, the average temperature is only 33 Kelvins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_rad...
Speed is a nonissue. Take flightfox: it crowdsources the search and it takes days. Educate people and they won't care.
That's useful. Hadn't really looked at Pandas before.

Slightly OT:

I'm using in-memory sqlite3 with rtree to find objects within bounds in a 2D space. Is there a different library people would recommend for this in Python?
When it comes to remote working, it pays to be flexible
Just because something is a consensus doesn't make it true. And its not a consensus, its just the majority view that a minority of us find incredibly backwards. Just because you can get away with something doesn't mean its a good idea either. You can get away with a lot in programming, back yourself into a corner, and hack your way out, does that mean since you can get away with it that its a good idea to program like that?
"Kill two births with one stone" is the most unfortunate malapropism I've ever seen
Gonna be sweet! who else is coming?
Nobody older than thirty looks back and sees themselves as anything but a 'kid' at 23. Brain development or not.

To be honest I think most people consider the change that happens in the latter 20's/early 30's to be 'reaching adulthood'
Deepest part of the ocean. 10924 meters http://geology.com/records/deepest-part-of-the-ocean.shtml

Radius from earth to the edge of the visible universe: 46.5 billion light years, http://geology.com/records/deepest-part-of-the-ocean.shtml

Satoshi Nakamoto: a human being or beings

I know what you are trying to say, "why ask unanswerable questions", but all questions have answers.
Did Evernote remove all references to 2fa from forums after they got hacked?
If a superior language cannot deliver the project as quickly and to the same level of quality as in an inferior language then you need to examine how the words inferior and superior relate to the relationship between the languages.
Ask HN: Best environment for non-rails front end developer?
What environment would you give a front end designer/developer with no knowledge of Ruby on Rails?

This is assuming that their work will need to be integrated into an existing RoR app.

Would you?

a) set them up with a rails environment and let them write static html in the view files

b) no rails environment but access to git repo, let them right static pages in public folder calling relevant assets

c) completely separate folder with just their html/css/js/img files

d) something else entirely
I remember being impressed by a friend at University who would do:-

copy CON: reboot.com

and then enter 8 or 9 bytes (some via ALT+keypad) all from memory.

(There are ways to do it in just 2 bytes I believe, this isn't about reboot.com golf anyway...)
This looks really good. I'm also a photographer. I hate to be the guy, but rawson looks awesome.
Launchpad supports Bazaar only. That's one of the "top ten reasons" to switch to Bazaar according to the docs [1].

That said, I don't really think Canonical is "forcing" anyone besides playing the "defaults" card in the distribution they control, and even then you can simply not use the stuff is installed by default (although I think that making the desktop dependent of some applications that I may not want to use is a little bit against the bazaar philosophy of Linux distributions).

[1] http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/why-switch-to-b...

EDIT: formatting
It's a great step towards domain anonymity, but at the end of the day Namecheap is a company in the USA that needs to comply with USA law and its enforcers. And we know it's not the most privacy-friendly country in the world.

To be fair, registering a .com domain is a bad idea if you want to stay anonymous. Go for a .is, a .ch or even a .eu.
I think most people will still love the idea, because of a little thing called payment protection.

No chargeback possibility? No sale from me.
If you're talking about the old Middle Earth one (tome2), then it's a very different game in many respects. A lot more changed besides the graphics, but it's turned into a pretty polished game that encapsulates many of the best parts of *band roguelikes.
The closest thing I can think of is OpenRefine. It doesn't directly find trends, but it does do machine learning to help you clean up datasets. You can also create a scatterplot matrix and do faceted search, which lets you quickly explore data and relationships between dimensions. It's an open source program (previously Google Refine).

http://openrefine.org/

For health care, finance, enterprises and government, data quality is a huge issue. Many machine learning and statistical methods just don't work or produce misleading results with messy data.
Or to give him his full title: Doctor Brian May, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
> It's ridiculous that anyone could get the least significant bits of the color right by just eyeballing it

If you look at the video carefully, you'll see that the color picker displays numeric RGB values and that it has been sped up. Do you think the code would work if he didn't get the values 100% right?
Linux.conf.au 2013 videos out
Of course. But for the moment, being self hosted is just reinventing the wheel when there's so much existing infrastructure. That being said, it is difficult, probably impossible, for Go to be a C replacement, but you're using the wrong argument (the current canonical implementation).
Might be a bug on your end, I've been using recent stories for a very long time now (always seeing the same stuff on top posts got annoying) and never had to change it back to it.
> Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Amir Taaki
(BTW, this is a near duplicate from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5264219 .)

At 6 minutes into the talk, the slide suggests that their solution might be feasible (generating commercial power) by 2025.

The timeline at 12m10s says "could have a prototype reactor" in 5 years, and a powerplant in 10 years.

I didn't hear anything about actual success; mostly just optimism. Like, how does one get to Mars in 1 month, even with fusion power? What's the engine and how is it cooled?

For reference ITER is expected to get first plasma in 2020, a hypothetical DEMO electrical generator by (keeping fingers crossed) 2033, and a conjectured PROTO prototype power station by some time after 2050.
Bubble 2.0?
Commonjs-everywhere
> CommonJS (node module) browser bundler with source maps from the minified JS bundle to the original source, aliasing for browser overrides, and extensibility for arbitrary compile-to-JS language support
Not being able to use getters, setters and yield[1] is a big turnoff for me. I want to move towards ES6 as quickly as possible.

[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/FAQ
Too complicated to just download it. I'll stay postgres instead.
> I maintain that they are not the same.

I didn't say they were the same, I said they were different. Only the behavior is the same. For a given behavior -- intense focus on a few activities or one activity -- the Grit contingent will celebrate it, and the Asperger contingent will issue a mental illness diagnosis.

> Asperger's behaviour - social inability. Says nothing about passion for long term goals.

First, Aspies achieve more than average people because their focus produces long-term results as an effect of their focus. You're confusing causes and effects.

Being a world-class concert pianist or violinist is not a symptom of ASperger's, it's an effect, an outcome, that springs from intense focus, and intense focus is a symptom of Asperger's.

Second, are you really not getting this? Psychology is driven by opinion, not evidence. For a given behavior, you will get two (or more) assessments from different psychological camps. Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, Bill Gates are (a) famous, creative people, and (b) Aspies, based on the same set of behaviors. All that's different is which mental health expert is speaking.

"Famous People with Aspergers Syndrome":

http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_2086.sh...

"Famous People with Aspergers Syndrome":

http://www.aspergerssyndromeparent.com/famous-people-with-as...

The Grit theory is an obvious acknowledgment that restricted interests sometimes produces amazing results, but the Asperger's people already knew that, while telling Aspies how mentally ill they are. It is all about how one chooses to interpret the same behavior.

> I believe only ONE of them describes intense focus - grit. The other, Asperger's, describes social inability.

You're mistaken:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

Quote: "characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests."

Note "restricted ... interests" in the above definition of Asperger's.

The Grit contingent emphasizes the achievement of long-term goals, the Asperger contingent emphasizes social ineptitude. Both are describing the same behavior in different ways.

It's not as though this is an original idea -- it's why Asperger's is being abandoned as a diagnosis (too many successful people are being stigmatized with a pointless mental illness diagnosis).

"A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis":

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?pag...
Code Hulk - check your hacker skills with this space game
I am at 90% right now and it is painful! Need to finish and release http://get.infyouse.com
Seen any music software or soft synth plugins recently? (eg. Rebirth http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/05/rebirth-reborn-as-synt...)
I'm not sure why, but yes, I'm seeing these speedups. You can see them too in: http://blosc.pytables.org/trac/wiki/SyntheticBenchmarks
and paying attention to compression ratios of 1 (compression disabled). If you find any good reason on why this is happening, I'm all ears.
Nice Visualization of the Market
"You could also use ranges, picking a random number between 0.0 and 1.0 and returning :win when the number is below 0.8, :lose otherwise. But, these algorithms are still O(n)"

Maybe my math is a bit rusty, but is this really O(n)? Why is that?
As a current student and a hopeful contestant I think that what you guys have done with this competition is pretty cool. It has me interested in seeing what I can do with HTML5 besides just, "Novel thing done completely in HTML5"
This is a scale error.

The industrial revolution was a shift in the curve. You could successfully argue that automation to get ahead is nothing new, but it would miss the importance of the scale of the new changes.

Adderal and its ilk are a similar shift in the curve. People with access used to be people rich enough to afford speed.

Now almost all school kids are entering the work force and know someone or have themselves used performance enhancers.
final vid needs Doctor Who music! hmm... I wonder how simple a MIDI file you could make to play something like that tune... and what that would look like as a RAW bitmap...
Possibly, but I've followed some of the Qt Wayland development and it looks like they've hit problems on a fairly regular basis. When you're building GUI toolkits you're also including a certain amount of understanding of the weird corner cases from the windowing system, so you're ending up porting a large chunk of code and then working out what's broken.

Although, Qt might have it a bit easier as they've switched to drawing their GUI components with OpenGL.
Of course that values have to be right. The colours are picked to build the algorithm.

Off to the right side of the screen (not visible) is probably another image with the colours in that he's picking from.

Maybe it's fake but it's theoretically possible. I don't have a windows pc to try on. He's provided the image though so you could try for yourself.
Of course I did. Still less frequently than PA
It's not hard to "do things right". We filter our customers advertisements to us (requiring them to register their routes in a routing registry and then manually verifying them before allowing the prefixes to be accepted) as well as filtering what we advertise upstream (and our upstream performs filtering on our advertisements as well).

If you advertise /31s and /32s, well, you shouldn't be redistributing into BGP and, of course, your upstream should be filtering those prefixes and throwing them away. Problem solved.

Perhaps the majority of people here on HN don't understand BGP. Then again, most of them probably don't need to.
Show HN: Fitness app for the rest of us
> when I search for flights, I find that I am looking for something very specific. I know cites and dates, direct flights only

I'm pretty much the same if I'm going on holiday - I usually chose an exact city well before looking for flights rather than a country or an area.

If I'm flying back to my parents though, it's a bit different. There are a number of airports around them:

- one has flights daily but requires a 3 hour train journey

- another has flights twice a week and is a 1 hour drive

- another has flights daily, is a 1 hour drive, but is usually more than twice the price of the others

- another has flights daily, is a 2 hour drive, and the price varies

For this I usually just open SkyScanner (Adioso doesn't seem to have many low cost airlines in Europe) in 10 tabs or so and compare the results myself...
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Well by your own admission and logic its essentially a fluke that things worked out for you.

If you were born 2-3 years later you would have been writing a thoroughly different comment.

As a matter of fact, there is very likely someone who made a similar choice like you, only his time line was shifted forward a few years.

His outcomes would be remarkably worse than yours. Not only would he have never gone to college, he would also have an non-competitive start in a tough environment.
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It took me several rereads to understand that what the author was referring to in the first few lines is a demo[1] say the 4K intro, where a few bytes in assembly language can create some interesting graphics often accompanied by music; often conveying a concept.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
> A large part of the blame lays on her.

I'd say all the blame lays on her.

When you know your gaming a system by either buying a drug from a dealer, using a crooked doctor to write your prescriptions, taking more than your prescribed dosage, and not reading the warning label on the bottle every time you take a dose out of it, its hard to believe that you didn't understand the consequences of what you were doing.

I'm prescribed adderall and your comment dissuades me from taking it 100x more than this article does, even more than the warning label does.

Even if you were exaggerating anything, I found more keywords to research from just the first paragraph than I would get out of 10 of these types of NY Times articles.
> Noise increases as pixel size increases.

No, it's the reverse -- relative to photon collection efficiency, noise decreases as pixel size increases. For a given pixel size, you have various noise sources, and you have the photon collection efficiency of the sensor. As the sensor becomes larger, the photon collection efficiency increases much faster than the noise does.

http://firmitas.org/Sensor.html

Quote: "The size of a pixel directly impacts how much noise an image will have in low light, and in some cases even in daylight. The bigger the pixel is, the lower the noise because more photons can reach a bigger pixel sensor."
Romanian thieves use Wikipedia to identify and plunder church
Hey. Another contestant here.

Looks like you guys have a problem with the background animation on that page (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2Fy-Q78JeVpLXlWRW4xejlOQ3c/...)
I'm sure this is very possible. There are only few opcodes for a x86 real mode com to use and if you look at the demoscene and see what those guys can do...this is not even that impressive :) Steve Wozniak wrote BASIC for the Apple computer in binary.
This is cool. Could somebody please explain how this works? From what I can currently guess, the .midi image encoding with the 2D array of color values, when changed to an .com executable becomes assembly code that generates graphics? Thanks.
My 2011 MBP also hisses clicks and pops, but tbh it's no different to the audio on any other laptop, or the integrated audio on most desktops.
Back when I was coding on the Sharp MZ-80K (http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/in-which-i-switch-on-30-year-old...) we used to write code by typing it directly onto the screen. The screen was just directly memory mapped with each character on screen being a single byte. And the machine had the complete character set available from its (odd) keyboard.

The program would be written in assembly, converted by hand to hex and then each hex byte found in the character map and typed in. It was then possible to CALL the start of screen memory to run the program.
Same here, tried reproducing the issue without any success. Also, I can express the same feelings towards my 13" 2012 MBA - best machine I've ever had.
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Did you by chance open it up while the browser window was small, then resize the window?
To the best of my knowledge, there's no reason not to do that - although I don't do stop-motion, I do performance capture.

(The reason I was drooling over the camera wasn't for any particularly practical use - I wouldn't use it day-to-day. I have on occasion done live-action filmmaking, and I know how INCREDIBLY useful uber-low-light performance like that would be. Seeing the potential for mood and Dogme-style shooting makes me want to pick up a Real Camera again ;) )
The benchmark in set top box software at the moment is probably the xbox360. Plug it into any TV and it basically turns it into a smart TV.

Plus it has the advantage of being decoupled from the big expensive screen part so you can switch out to the new xbox when that is released without replacing your entire TV set.
Java can produce any result that Haskell can produce. End of story, full stop. All non-broken computer languages are Turing machines.

This is not to suggest that someone would want to use Java for anything sufficiently sophisticated, unless one is a masochist, but then, that wasn't your claim.

> As far as I'm aware in Java, there's no way to write a function with a signature that says "Take two numeric arguments of any type". Certainly pre-generics, this is impossible.

A separate claim with no meaningful relation to the original one. This claim is that it would be inconvenient, not impossible.
It's unclear. Some of the search results don't work, but this one does: http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/20932-two-factor-authen...
I tried two searches. In the first, it couldn't find St Lucia. In the second, I searched for flights to Amsterdam and it returned flights to Albany.

Great idea, great presentation, but needs some more tweaking.
Hypermedia APIs - less hype, more media, please
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