skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for everyone, but in my experience, social skills can be learned to a certain extent, but it takes an enormous amount of energy. I'm not sure why, but when go to a large social event, like an office party or a birthday, I feel completely exhausted afterwards.

I don't really know about cognitive emphathy though. Logically, I can understand why someone is upset after they explain it to me, but I normally can't pick up on something until its too late.
It is a bluetooth EEG headband.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_consumer_brain–co...
I was partially wrong. It's need to enable media.windows-media-foundation.enabled setting in about:config, so it's still don't suitable for real use. MP3 in audio tag would work.
I agree, and if your standups are longer then ten minutes, you're doing it wrong. You need to (politely) stop the rambling and suggest that interested parties talk after the standup. The idea is to spark conversations, not waste everyone's time.
Get Your Mac Ready for Python Programming
It's prototypical OO. Don't swim against the current. Swim with the current.

It's not inheritance - it is delegation.

It's just like in several other object-oriented languages: Self, NewtonScript ( http://waltersmith.us/newton/OOPSLA95.pdf ), Object Lisp ( http://lispm.dyndns.org/docs/ObjectLisp-Manual.pdf ), MacFrames, ...

This is a classic example that it is difficult to unlearn a concept.

Q: how long does it take to learn prototype-based OO?

A: a day is sufficient. If you know class-based OO you'll need three days.
Bad code is the first step towards good code
I don't understand any of your criticisms. What else would you expect to use to compile Go besides "a special build system"? A not-special build system? It's a compiled language. You can, however, use gccgo to link Go code with C/C++ code.

Both gccgo and cgo already use partial compilation. You can invoke the 6l, 8l, etc. commands directly if you really want to. One of the design goals was build speed. Shared libraries are on the roadmap. See issue https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=256.

Go does not "have to be main". You can use gccgo to mix Go code into your existing C or C++ binary. See http://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo

What the hell does "can't use with SELinux" mean? Are you talking about issue 871 that was fixed in 2010?

You keep repeating over and over that Go is optimized for 32-bit systems. Repeating something doesn't make it true. In fact, exactly the opposite is true, however. Go uses a lot of address space, which is great on 64 bit, not so good on 32-bit. This has been discussed a lot years ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/428100/ is a good place to start.

I've seen you repeat over and over in multiple discussion threads that having lots of kernel threads is no big deal. What you don't seem to realize is that in C/C++, thread overhead is somewhere between 1 MB and 2 MB a thread if you want to use pthreads and glibc and avoid random data corruption resulting from thread heap collisions (hint: you do). Linux also doesn't have an O(1) scheduler any more in mainline; it uses the completely fair scheduler (CFS), which has complexity O(log N). There are disadvantages to green threads, but to even start discussing this requires a lot more background than you have.

Again, you can read about any of this on wikipedia, LWN.net, or even the replies that inevitably get made to all of your posts on HN. So learn already.
There is evidence that stand-up meetings are indeed a social construct: the meetings are functionally useless and the content is redundant (or at least should be redundant - nobody waits until the next morning to address a blocking issue). The only plausible justification must be social.
Binify – A command-line tool to better visualize crowded dot density maps.
Why don't you just talk to them face-to-face in the first place?
You can download some of your Google data using Google Takeout. It’s far from complete, but if you’re still using Google services, it doesn’t hurt to download a backup once in a while.

The Data Liberation Front lists which services can be backed up, and how to do it: http://www.dataliberation.org/
For Windows users:

- Cory Simmons has some useful notes here: https://github.com/CorySimmons/meteorwin

Related Meteor-talk thread here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/meteo...

- Stephen Darnell made an MSI installer for 0.6.1/0.6.2 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/meteo...
Wish I had the time for that.
Way to pull 'that part of my statement' out of context. It says (and I think that's a pretty clear bit):

> If there was some other factor why a venture failed and it wasn't timing then it does not even count.

Clearly, if your execution sucks then timing wasn't the factor.
"Can't any of those high-functioning brain cells be put to good use learning social skills and choosing to practice a higher level of empathy?"

If you understood ASD better then you would realise that would come across as offencive.

As for golden rules, well there are always exceptions to any rule. Getting a job in IT involves convincing a bunch of HR people who know nothing about IT that you are best for the job. That would be the issue stopping most ASD(Autistic Spectrum Disorders) from getting the roles, and startups are just too dynamic and change to quickly for most comfort zones, let alone somebody with ASD.

As for empathy, it is such a open area and yes I'm sure we all learn, still I know if I kick somebody in the bollocks then even I know how that person is feeling ;(
I'm not claiming R/R are saints. I'm just objecting to ridiculous strawman implied by:

"We show that, contrary to R&R, there is no definitive threshold for the public debt/GDP ratio, beyond which countries will invariably suffer a major decline in GDP growth."

RR's claim is entirely statistical, so of course they're not going to claim that exceeding the ratio always ("invariably") leads to a major decline in growth.

RR's being wrong doesn't mean it's okay to insinuate they hold ridiculous positions that they really don't. That's just compounding public misconceptions.
Tried this with a wiki page once, it worked pretty well.

Once thing I noticed that I have a lot of information at the end of the day, and not the beginning. First thing in the morning I barely know my name, about the worst time to ask me anything. So I've always found the morning fascination a bit odd.
I wasn't being combative. Just adding to your examples.

There's countless things that people tried for decades and nobody succeeded in that are now ubiquitous.

It's easy to justify being dismissive of people trying things that have yet to succeed by this argument. But it's also, clearly not valid.

For instance, with the rise of cloud storage and web-applications, we are doing, essentially, thin client computing now - something that people said would never come.

Self-driving cars were another constant future-device (e.g., http://ThisWillTake.Me/youtube/Johnny_cab_clips_from_total_r...). And now it looks like we'll get them by the end of the decade. That's pretty impressive.
So either Pusher or Faye are required, and Pusher is a commercial service, whilst Faye requires a dyno to run on Heroku? Have I got that right? TBH I'm not familiar with either Pusher or Faye, so just trying to grok the dependancies for Sync.
Not yet I'm afraid. My pet project is http://fixthedmca.org. I'm working on first implementing http://trydiscourse.org to help get the community engaged and communicating and building tools like click-to-call legislators to help drive action. I'll be abstracting out and offering the tools to other campaigns (anti-CISPA, patent reform, etc) as quickly as possible.

At the moment it's just me, so a little developer strapped as I try and both code and navigate getting an unlocking (+ DMCA hearings) bill through Congress. If anyone's interested in helping out, please please get in touch.
Can someone explain to me the "hard problem of consciousness"?
Umm, I think the cost of basic, unavoidable living expenses has something to do with how "rich" you are.

Which is why $31k might seem plenty "rich" in many parts of the world, but in places like NYC or London or Moscow, not so much.
"They may really flourish at engineering-type tasks"

I see a problem there. In my own experience, the hardest skills for newly minted software engineers to learn are the social skills. Not having those soft skills is career-limiting because engineering is a highly collaborative, cooperative process. And being "senior" or in management requires even more of those people skills.

Maybe a known glass ceiling is better than not being employable but it bothers me that there's no acknowledgement of the limitation.
So obviously, the answer is yes if said programmer can do better after expenses/overhead/time with an agent than without.

So I'll bite. Where does one find such an agent, how much do they typically charge, and are there any statistics on how earning power changes using an agent?
I got this one myself the other day.

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I think what's even more horrifying that isn't mentioned in the article is how many services use email as a form of user authentication.

If you lose access to your gmail account, you also lose access to changing your password on any service that makes you do so through an email link - I know of some services that don't even let you change your account email without clicking on an email authentication link.

So not only is there the always-lingering possibility of losing your google account to automated shutdowns, you can also lose access to services that you use that use authentication through email, quite an uneasy thought.
You can get all of your work done before a certain time. It just involves more rigorous organization. It is never good to put anything at a higher priority than your health.
>Apple, by controlling the framework, is able to make it work more or less seamlessly.

This is more or less the crux of everything there is to love or hate about Apple.
Very true, worst kind of empathy is when you realise hours or days or week or even years later make that connection to a event and realise your embarasment you never experienced at the time. So you rebuild your mental social handerling flowchart and carry on.
He doesn't say this all happens in a thirty minute time frame... it could be over the course of a week.
For non-Mongo DBs:

- Dror Matalon figured out how to use MySQL with Meteor. Blog http://www.fastcolabs.com/3007015/how-use-mysql-meteor Github https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql & Talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dToSn_FOISI&utm_source=bu...

- LShift wrote a blog post on how to achieve live updates to Meteor from Postgres http://www.lshift.net/blog/2013/02/25/live-updates-to-meteor...
Have others been seeing a huge increase in spam getting past akismet filter on wordpress lately, or is it just me?
I rated the Facebook Android app 1 star because it came preinstalled as crapware on my cell phone and there was no way to remove it. I had never downloaded it.
Using a term like execution to describe why someone is successful is tautological and IMO meaningless.

What's more important is to figure out what the actual execution consisted of.

For instance it's speculated that one of the reasons why Dropbox got a lot of cover was that they where Mac based rather than Windows based.

Since a lot of tech-journalists have Macs it was easier for them to try out and write about it:

"My earlier version of this post was about how Syncplicity and Dropbox competed for mindshare back in 2008 when both companies launched. My initial Quora post was about some of the reasons why, around our respective launches, Dropbox was able to get more attention. 3 years ago, the press and early tech adopters were starting to fall in love with Mac products. The average consumer didn't have a Mac, but they were hot amongst influencers. Having a Windows-only product dramatically limited the attention Syncplicity received from the press. Today, I can't imagine launching a desktop app without Mac support. When we started developing Syncplicity, it wasn't obvious that Mac support was critical for press attention. Today both companies have Mac clients."

http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...
Seriously. Basically all the biggest names in tech fall somewhere along the spectrum and I'd say easily a quarter of the people I've worked with.
The book has yet to be promoted, but I wanted to get some reaction from the startup community.

Psycho Success is a book I wrote with the startup community in mind and wanted everyone here to have a free version to review. If you like the book please leave a review on amazon and/or purchase the eBook.

Free: http://www1.datafilehost.com/d/7461a849

The book is written from a newbies perspective. Many of the terms and strategies will be layups for people on this board, but will help others not so advanced.

Psycho Success is about business techniques that have worked for the me and my mentors throughout our professional careers. Some of the strategies and advice covered in the book include:

-Bold is
-Being disruptive
-Psychology of success
-Extreme marketing strategies
-Networking on the fringe

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/PSYCHO-SUCCESS-ebook/dp/B00CB3NQDC

My hope is everyone will close the book knowing a little more about themselves and marketing their company.

M
That's not necessarily true. A market anomaly does not disappear instantaneously, but instead decays gradually as it is exploited and in turn becomes harder to exploit. Think of it as a radioactive half-life. Some research (I found the link on Mark Buchanan's blog http://physicsoffinance.blogspot.com/) suggests that half-life is quite long.
>The "hicks, vatos, and homeboyz" aren't going to stop breeding.

Or people thinking like you, for that matter.

What exactly makes you think you are worth more than a "hick, vato or homeboy"?

A high IQ? I'd take kindness, altruism and consideration for others any day.

Not to mention your comment borders on full blown racism, stopping just short of the "n" word.

http://xkcd.com/603/
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator - Steam Greenlight
Socratic questions in computing (Google doc)
Need Some Feedback on My Book
Psycho Success is a book I wrote with the startup community in mind and wanted everyone here to have a free version to review. If you like the book please leave a review on amazon and/or purchase the eBook. (I have not yet promoted the book thus the lack of reviews)

Free: http://www1.datafilehost.com/d/7461a849

The book is written from a newbies perspective. Many of the terms and strategies will be layups for people on this board, but will help others not so advanced.

Psycho Success is about business techniques that have worked for the me and my mentors throughout our professional careers. Some of the strategies and advice covered in the book include:

-Bold is
-Being disruptive
-Psychology of success
-Extreme marketing strategies
-Networking on the fringe

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/PSYCHO-SUCCESS-ebook/dp/B00CB3NQDC

My hope is everyone will close the book knowing a little more about themselves and marketing their company.

M
The newer version as fugged up by the vendor's extensions, you mean. I'm currently using the Nexus 4 - a proper successor to and much fairer comparison to the other vanilla Android devices you've had - and have experienced no problems with Android 4.2.
Sure. But the question on this thread is if you also have to have offspring, which is orthogonal to being born yourself.
5 Reasons Why iWatch Will Be A Disaster For Apple
There are some pretty good decaf black teas (not herbal) which are reasonably satisfying if you want to have a cuppa later in the day.

If you're in the US, the Stash decaf range is IMO the best of the common supermarket brands (the normal American teas like Lipton and Tetley are pretty terrible in their decaf versions). If there's a gourmet store around, they may have the English brands such as Typhoo or PG Tips in decaf, which are pretty great. If you're in the UK then any advice on tea from the likes of me should just be ignored out of hand... :)
seeed studio (3 E's in seeed) makes PCBs, starting around $20 for 10. I've ordered a few from them, always good quality but shipping from China is a little slow.
Mashups and APIs - Breaking Down Barriers
I recommend F.lux as well, but I've noticed a very unfortunate effect over the last few months... because of how soft it is on the eyes at night, I've learned that with it enabled I can continuously work 16-26 hour sessions without even realizing that I missed a sleep cycle. Obviously, this isn't a problem with F.lux itself, and I've tried very hard to tweak my settings so that this doesn't happen (it is auto-on/off, have experimented with different temp. levels too). In fact, I've gotten so used to it that when I know I need to go to bed soon I disable it entirely– once the blue light starts irritating me, I switch to a lamp and paper until I'm ready to get some shut-eye.

Notes: I don't drink coffee, green tea once in a while, and minimal late-night stimuli (lights mostly off, no music, ...).
Maybe if your art was good someone, anyone, would give a shit about it.
Coolest Offices in Tech – London vs. The Valley
The 14 Coolest Offices in Tech – London vs. The Valley.
You negatively rated the application because your carrier chose to abuse the system/ partition?

Seems like misdirected outrage...
When you first see sunlight in the mornings it helps regulate your circadian rhythm and it tells your body "The sun is out this is when I should wake up". Which is why if you're traveling you want to make sure you wake up at the right time locally and open the windows right away, it'll help reduce the # of days in which you're jetlagged.

However if you're sleeping at home you want your body to sleep for as long as it needs to, uninterrupted. That means no sunlight, no noise and no alarms. If you get into a consistent schedule you're body will wake up at around the same time everyday. However if you have sleep debt that you need to make up, you also want to give your body the chance to sleep a little extra.
Bringing to Life an Open Source Software Project via Github & Jekyll
Yes, because "impetus" is all it takes, and the laws of physics like the speed of light, energy needs, scale of such a project etc, have little play into this...
I'm dissatisfied with the file creation process in ST2 but a quick browse of one of your links yielded this. Thanks!

https://github.com/noklesta/SublimeQuickFileCreator
You and me both. ;)

I am hoping future hardware refreshes round out the baseline systems a bit more nicely, especially on the retina models.
I've seen this research reported before in past years. Interesting and jives with my personal experience.

It is my strongly held view, based upon the evidence, that the efforts of dedicated teachers and the money spent on school facilities will have a greater impact and education will be more rewarding when, collectively, teenagers, parents, teachers and school governors start to take sleep seriously. In the universal language of school reports: we must do better.

But good luck with that. It should be obvious by now that public schools are not meant to serve students and their educational needs. Schools are meant to allow politicians to buy votes, give unions power, and provide daycare for busy parents.
What are the best alternatives to Gmail?
Sorry for the initial fluffy title ;)
I just found the initial title a bit lame, but I mainly posted it on HN because it reminded me some Mordor scenes...

I found this pictures amazing and it's very impressive how close the guy stand from the lava.. I guess that the air is pretty cold but I m surprise how close the guy stand from the lava.

For the one who know and remind Haroun Tazieff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroun_Tazieff), he was always very well protected in his documentaries
This could be great answer for 'woman discrimination' in IT. Why there are is only one woman speaker at conference? Because we gave more space to people with mental dissabilities and autism :-)
You can sue anybody for anything. The outcome of such action is not guaranteed either way, however.
I give people ample time to respond to email. Sometimes several days. This escalation only happens to people who ignore emails.

If you're going to ignore emails at work, be prepared for the consequences.

If you don't want me to email you, tell me where else to go for the info. If you want to hoard knowledge, and you don't want to answer emails, you're gonna get the escalation.
Congrats. Must've been a tough ride.
If poorly-targeted, low quality ads predominate, it's an indication of insufficient demand from advertisers whose precise targeting, high-value product and/or big brand budget would enable them to pay more per impression or click than ad-funded dating sites and games.
From the authors that brought you:

5 Reasons Why the iPad will be a disaster for Apple.
5 Reasons Why the iPhone will be a disaster for Apple.
5 Reasons Why the iPod Mini will be a disaster for Apple.
5 Reasons Why the MacBook Air will be a disaster for Apple.
5 Reasons Why the Intel migration will be a disaster for Apple.
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What excellent advice. Let's just trust that we're getting balanced statements about Apple from the CEO of Apple.
For anyone thinking "WTF, what about LINQ?", note LINQ was part of .NET framework 3.5 and wasn't released for another year after he wrote this post.

LINQ makes coding in C# a whole lot more pleasant.
I send and receive dozens of emails each day. If I had to face-to-face, I would have no time for actual work. Also, probably half of the people I email aren't in the same building, but require driving 20 minutes at least. Some are on the other side of the US. Hard to do face-to-face then!
Some of the shortcuts taken by these quick studies are always really interesting to me.

First, I wouldn't assume the same career duration for both GEDs and College Grads - generally, a dropout will start working earlier.

A general "GED average" also pretty highly weights the comparison for other reasons - poverty, area (areas with higher education and wealth levels have higher average earnings, even among those with GEDs), career type. It's an okay generalization to make in this case, but it does bias the results somewhat. People with similar levels of education/wealth tend to group together, which means a lower salary in a poorer area may have similar buying power to what seems like a higher salary in a more expensive area.

Unfortunately what might be the most telling metric is much harder to define: how much would person X make in her lifetime if she went to college, and how much would she make without? Even simplifying to the same field (their strengths would be similar in both cases), it's extremely difficult to plot her career trajectory.

Of course, this may all be due to my personal bias - college dropout, doing fine, and making well above the average starting salary for a CompSci grad by age 25. Decent savings, no debt - it was a much harder road, but I'm not sure I'd make the tradeoff knowing what I do now.

Personally, though, I can't discount the value I've felt in not having the average $27,000 in student debt hanging over my head [1]. It's enabled me to take risks, try new things, change career twice, and follow my passions.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/18/pf/college/student-loan-debt...
If learning anything makes us worse at something we should just stop learning