skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So we're going to look at grades as an indicator of
> success here?

Yes, because children who suffer from poor grades are now frequently tested for ADHD, and since we can't very accurately diagnose ADHD, some children who don't need the medication will get it. It's called a "false positive." Those children's grades won't improve. The studies are really telling us that we're not very good at diagnosing this.
Isn't the difference between O(mn + nlog(n)) vs O(nlog(n)) running time going to get less significant as the value of n gets larger?

I thought the whole point of Big O / asymptotic analysis is that you can ignore lower-order terms and constant factors because they are insignificant for any appreciably large input size. And also because the lower order terms and constant factors vary too much depending on the programming language, the compiler or VM, the hardware, etc.
I like the idea of showing selected items on the left, will need to think how it would work with narrow 1024px browsers. Perhaps selected news could float on top of the graph.

and I agree article preview or abstract would be definitely more useful, will look into it. Thanks for the feedback.
Women who are older than PTA age. The percent of old people in the population is increasing, and older women tend to have more money, more time, and fewer kids in the house. Most PTA moms in the U.S. do not feel they have the time or money for premium groceries one might linger over. They do care about healthy, but they're not feeding their kids premium balsamic.
Can't understand why the infinite scroll is not... well.. infinite. The forced split per day makes it a lot less useful, as most recipes are not date-specific.
I've dropped Fedora and switched to Debian stable in anticipation of avoiding Wayland/Mir for as many years as possible. I'm not worried about fragmentation, I'm just tired of being an early adopter.
That's a very valid statement, and I greatly appreciate/respect that truth. If that were the tack this article were taking, I'd have no qualms. This is the perfect kind of study to combat overprescription based on poor academic performance.

However there's an unwritten assumption in this article that grades are synonymous with success. See the caption to Dr. Farah's photo. That's a very poor inference. That's what I'm taking offense to.
You're welcome. I may have more suggestions about overall design. Let me know if you want to reconnect offline.
Time out on chatsecure is a draw back of iOS. It forces app to close after 10 minutes of inactivity. Very annoying.

I'm with moxie. There are already plenty of good encryption apps out there. That 100,000 could have gone to existing apps that do what they say they do rather than an app that might not turn out as promised.
Rules of thumb are there to prevent error.

If you know the reasons behind the rules of thumb, you can ignore the rules and work from the reasons for the rules. This is expertise.

When someone questions your 'breaking of the rule,' you can then cite the reasons for the rule, and show how you did not break the rule in terms of it's deeper meaning.

However, it is polite (and prudent) to CYA with discussion of your justifications with your colleagues. Either way, this makes you look good. If discussion renders you correct, you appear ever so smart and expert. If discussion renders you incorrect, you appear thoughtful, prudent and working in good faith in everyone's best interest. This is the essence of healthy collaboration.

All too many people are unable to grasp that working on teams is never about being 'right,' it is about having the discipline to actively seek out collaboration.

Being 'right' helps in that people will actively seek your opinion. Being 'wrong' doesn't actually hurt you, because you went ahead and behaved properly with regard to collaboration. Either someone else was right, and you used their idea, or everyone else was just as wrong, and in that case... ya know, fuck it. :)

I'd add to this that if people are unable or unwilling to collaborate maturely (including admitting their own failings), it is time to quit.

Waiting around to get fired is stupid, petty and passive-aggressive. If you are that sure of your correctness, you should be able to make a jusitfication.
For "What's next?" I would hope for something smaller. Impressive as this is, it's way to big to be practical. I suppose lighter materials could help reduce the size though.
The problem with trains is that the capital investment and up-front work that is needed becomes a political issue[1]. How do you decide on the route of a new train line? Who pays for the line to be built?

Building railway infrastructure was simpler when there was a lot of open country to build long straight lines through, but building a new line today is much harder with compulsory purchase of land and groups lobbying against it. The process takes a long time too, so elected officials won't see the benefits of backing it at the next election.

I think it is unlikely that US freight will move from road to rail without a significant amount of political and financial pressure.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2
I guessed the name of the company right away when you said "well known for treating developers right, but I still needed to make sure it was what I thought it was.

Could you provide a little bit more of details on how the founders disagreed with you? I'm very much interested in knowing more about it.
I know money does not buy happiness, but sometimes I wish I had "unlimited money" to be able to do thing like that.
Correlation does imply causation. It just doesn't necessarily establish it as a fact.
There are cases for the RPI.
There needs to be a way of controlling activist judges. Why the court is even able to decide what amount the bail is, is beyond me.

Of course, I'm not even mentioning the part about being thrown in jail for what is tantamount to thought crime. That's a whole 'nother issue.

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EDIT: I'm not sure why my comment has been downvoted? Incase you were confused, I was referring to this here:

"In April, a grand jury in Comal County, Texas, indicted Carter on a charge of making a terroristic threat, and a judge set bail at $500,000."

See, even though the Jury found him guilty, the Judge set the bail enormously high. This kid did NOTHING. He exercised his first ammendment rights, and got a 500k bail for it. The real problem here was the Judge, who gets to set the bail after the fact. I wonder what the jury would have concluded if they had been allowed to decide the bail?
Maybe not, but I can code 10x better on Adderall. If I had this in high school, I'd have gone to MIT.
Some more
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87544844%40N00/sets/72157634597...
Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass
Acquiring unlimited money is definitely more likely than an informed citizenry ever developing in the US, so I wish you the best in that pursuit!
Amphetamine isn't exactly a placebo and its effects aren't exactly unknown or disputed.

Asserting the possibility of placebo is like wondering if coffee is really just dark inert water but we're all just idiots with no self-awareness that buy into the oral tradition of what coffee is supposed to be.

> I fear for myself that when facing similar hardship
> that acquiescing to meds could just be "dealing with
> the situation" and not properly processing what the
> actual hardship is, why it exists, and how else it
> could be dealt with.

But the hardship is simple. It's the forlorn inability to focus and do.

At the end of the day, we have finite lifespans and we have needs, desires, and ambitions right now. We know that flooding the brain with the amphetamine train works right now.

By the time I was in my 20s, I was pretty tired of listening to people suggest that I was lazy or that I just didn't want it enough. Then I started taking 50mg of Vyvanse and it makes me want it all.

I'll come brainstorm different coping strategies when I find out I'm immortal.
Darpa Unveils New Atlas DRC (Humanoid) Robot
Wow, I LOVE that. It is the only antidote I see to the kinds of dysfunction that often exists in the business world.

Part of the time, it works -- you do the right thing, experience fulfillment, AND despite some heat you come out smelling like a rose and get rewarded.

The other part of the time, you still experience fulfillment, and you leave happily.

You basically become invulnerable to politics and dysfunction.

But ... to be able to do it without flinching, you have to have your finances in order and your living expenses manageable.
So we're going to look at grades as an indicator of success here? Grades, which have been shown time and time again to have very weak, if any correlation with success?

[Citation needed]

IIRC conditional upon acceptance to a job at Google grades don't predict performance at all well for anyone except fresh grads. That is the closest thing to grades having only a weak correlation with success I can remember. And that conditional upon is doing a lot of work.

Given that an IQ test is the best way of predicting work performance apart from a work sample test in hiring and IQ correlates around 0.7 with grades I find your claim implausible.
Indeed. Surely they must have more than one project in parallel.
You'll laugh at the story. 2nd year of college I created a spider for the first time and loved the idea of a computer being autonomous. Took some classes, took it up as a hobby and it became a profession.

Other than that, I asked a lot of questions, read papers in different areas to find what was interesting. (Not necessarily understanding ALL of the math behind it immediately, but enough to get an overview of what the intended functionality was supposed to accomplish.)

It took a long time to get to a level to where I could do it professionally, so I started out with a web dev background, went through an incubator to learn how a business works and started taking more specialized work. Lots of it was in distributed messaging/finance and I went from there.

My best advice is to experiment with different areas. I'm not talking about your typical socket.io/long polling app written in node either.

Don't be afraid to step outside your comfort zone. Computer vision or even graphics programming with Web GL aren't so hard you can never do them if you just step enough in to an area such that you get a feeling for whether you enjoy it or not.

I might add that what you enjoy might not be super complex, but I would say take time to understand different areas (it might be making CRUD apps for a certain industry) enough to understand what work would be like in the field and work from there.
Of coures not. Those drugs don't address the root cause.
Nokia’s massive 41-megapixel sensor and optical image stabilization
Cool. The converse of this is that perhaps I spend a lot of time on a site because it's difficult to use (and there isn't a better alternative for me). How about I instead give you access to my camera so you can measure my mood (through facial expression). If I look happy or intrigued, must be a good site!
this needs to work with the leap. Cool idea.
This is seriously in need of a tl;dr
This is very similar to something I've been looking for/thinking of building for some time. I took a look around but browsing was very slow for me so I'll just ask here; do you have any plans for training filters? That is, feeding it data about what sort of thing you read (and on what basis; software announcements I might click on daily, but if I haven't checked in for a month I'll only check more serious articles / deep discussions) to get personalized results.
> If its drugs demonstrably improve attention, focus and self-control, why wouldn't grades improve as well?

Because academic performance depends far more on luck than on skill. That's why the whole standardized testing is silly. It precisely measures pretty much random variable.
Way cooler than some app redone with better UI.
Hopefully, this sort of stuff is the future.
Correlation correlates with causation, but "correlation correlates with causation" doesn't imply "correlation implies causation".
Point is I am doing this for last 30 years , I choose this when computers were not 'cool' and 'hip' , internet was arpanet and BBS was well BBS. It wasn't demand or promise for richness what drove my choice of profession. Good question is why you choose/do this if it is not fun to you?
mythical man-month.
The lead developer of libhybris (the project that makes it possible to run Android drivers on GNU/Linux and also what Canonical uses with Mir) is working on support for Android drivers on Wayland.

http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-and...

http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-and...
Women are more likely to shop for food than men.

Upper middle class women spend more on premium food products than lower middle class women.

(I'm a friend of Patrick's and have had dinner with him enough to guess that he's not food-savvy enough to know that upper-upper class women wouldn't buy "balsamic sauce" because it isn't packaged in a thimble and doesn't cost $150; he just happened to get that one by accident.)

Moms often cook for their families.

Moms of the PTA are especially engaged with their family life, and are especially likely to take seriously the process of shopping for premium food products.

This is called customer targeting. It's about as sexist as it is ageist to target advertising for American Girl Dolls to 8 year girls.

I'm not sure what's so hard to understand about this. Sometimes, by being knee-jerk and superficial in your reaction to gender issues, even in the "right" direction, one can actually come close to betraying a lack of understanding about what the real issues are.

(I say this as someone who has spent an embarrassing amount of money on vial-sized jars of balsamic.)
It looks like it's progressing well.

One quick thing I noticed is that the thumbnails show up, even if there is no article for them: http://i.imgur.com/QrLZuxF.png
I think we can separate the design and the performance when evaluating Unity. The design is something innovative and gets a lot of things right. It doesn't mean its the desktop environment of everyone's choice, but it can still be an effective one. Then, there is the performance, which has been getting better, and it may catch on. Second, sometimes I've been annoyed with Unity, but I do like using it most of the time, some comments have shown a similar reaction. A lot of times the reasons I don't like using Ubuntu can be for potentially temporary reasons, like bugs, or lack of polish and maturity. But the reasons I do like it aren't as temporary, they are a set of good decisions already made. And the other reasons I do like it is the software availability, the stability and speed under the environment, using it as a web server, my own history of knowing how to use it -- all more established pros for Ubuntu. So, I can use that, or Gnome, or the Fallback, or any other environment really but in the switching back and forth it was ultimately Unity that seemed most nice to be on. I will, however, try out Cinnamon again. And I like using other environments as well, but there are negatives to them all. The ol' Windows 95 panel with a user's open app buttons (small icons and window titles) are arranged by when the apps were launched by the user. But they should be pinned icons that don't vary their location -- and launchers shouldn't be separate icons from these buttons, its superfluous -- that's my intuition now, especially after using Windows 7 and Macs, and Unity. I have my issues with Docky and Cairo and AWN is dead. So Ubuntu I think gets a lot of things right, adapting to some usable alternatives to the old Windows 95 desktop I discovered 15 years ago. It has a good dock, good global search, more screen space. But I like other environments too, I'll give it a fuller exploration when I have the time. The good thing about Unity is, it not being too customizable right now, I don't waste time trying to customize my desktop like I would on KDE.
AFAIK, in the less-civilized states it's not expected that most people will pay the entire bail amount directly. The standard course is that they put up 10% or so (and the judge sets the total amount expecting this) and call a privatized "bail bondsman" to put up the rest (and charge a hefty fee). You see, it's more fair this way, because you have a choice of which entity will screw you sans trial.
Ten reasons to choose Slackware Linux
Heh heh, yeah, there's definitely a ditch on both sides of the road.
Gnome 3 has its own NIH syndrome. XFCE was NIH because otherw desktops existed. LXDE was NIH because other desktops existed. Almost every new thing back to the beginning of time was NIH because there was something approximately similar before. There is truly nothing new under the sun. So what?
This might be a bad thing for Ubuntu. Verizon will preload crapware onto the phone to death thereby negating whatever value proposition the OS has.
I think it looks nice. Why didn't you like it?
It's right here on the Ubuntu Phone homepage: http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/operators-and-oems
Well, hopefully. But there are some messed up situations out there, so you still might be fired.

I think the original post's main point is to face that possibility unflinchingly.
Informed citizenry... that's

oh, now I'm sad...
That is not the case. Bitinstant has been using MG for a long time, they still use them today. The fact that Bitinstant itself has gone off the rails doesn't change the MG policy apparently allowing these transactions.
Okay, pick some other metric – the lack of grade improvement starts to cut away at the possible claims for cognitive improvement, on the whole, assuming the science is good.

On the other hand, if they were sloppy, it could potentially argue for a multimodal distribution that when forced into being viewed as an average (or with other tools that assume a unimodal distribution) then the effect gets washed out. One possible case for this is the idea that ADD/ADHD is wildly over diagnosed and, thus the incorrectly diagnosed children might show no improvement while masking the improvement of those who actually have it.
Only for values of "outperform" which are selective in which frame rates they measure, and take absolutely no account of power consumption on laptops.

I wish it weren't so, and it's nobody's fault but the vendors', but the open source drivers are not clearly better in every way
As far as telling someone to stop their prescribed medication, then yes, the prescribing physician is the only one to listen to.

But perhaps you are expert enough and have enough knowledge about his medical history that he should listen to you instead?
Microsoft: Your privacy is our Priority°.

This slogan now deserves to live on in infamy alongside other prominent examples of doublespeak, like Plays for Sure•, and Don't be evil°.

What concerns me in these responses from Microsoft is the distortion of the term lawful to include any request from the NSA. If you change the meaning of words like lawful, domestic and intercept, you can of course make anything legal in some sense, but distorting meanings like that is very dangerous, and using secret interpretations of it really damages our confidence and trust in the rule of law. That said I can't see any difference on this issue between MS and any other US tech giants, apart from Twitter, who are to be commended for staying out of this program. With the breaking of encryption on things like outlook chats and delivery in real time, it appears we simply can't trust any guarantees of privacy from these companies at all. Even if they did implement client-side encryption, they'd still feel obliged to break it for the NSA (and its many partners worldwide), so no offering from them is going to protect our privacy.

This was interesting too from one of the documents:

"enables our partners to see which selectors the National Security Agency has tasked to Prism...The FBI and CIA then can request a copy of Prism collection of any selector"

This indicates that any NSA PRISM search can be accessed by any one of these agencies, so once it is in the system, this information will spread widely. Given the guidelines on access of the NSA, that could include all foreign data being automatically available to any FBI or CIA agent. I wonder if they have any limits on access to 'foreign' data at all?

° As long as you're American, and not covered by a bulk court order by the NSA, and not encrypting anything, and not communicating outside the US, and don't have a 51% chance of communicating outside the US (what does that even mean?).

• No longer
My grandparents set their house on fire by microwaving a potato for 50 minutes instead of 5 minutes. It's going to be really hard for any UI to compensate for that kind of disadvantage, where a subtle difference like pressing a digit an extra time can set your house on fire. The +30sec button is a reasonable button-oriented approach, but dials are a lot easier to use.

I'm also not a big fan of your "walk away while the microwave is off and it turns on after three seconds" model.
is getting so many hits, it is overloading the google spreadsheet. Try again tomorrow when less people are looking.
To see Ubuntu's phone lock feature, please see this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/07/pinlock-feature-demoed-on...
I read it as "success in treatment", not "success in life."
Personalised priorities are definitely in the plans, probably not in the nearest future as I want to refine core features first.
Depends what you mean by 'imply'.
I haven't bothered to link many hnrankings I've done personally because (tangent) both HN search & hnrankings.info are blocked by the handsome and intelligent admins at my office (/tangent).

But here's a simple experiment that can be done in a few minutes: search for daringfireball.net links on HN, click on the ones with a decent number of points, put those into hnrankings.info and you'll see a clear pattern of flagging for pretty much every single one.

Now maybe Gruber articles are just terrible (ymmv) but I can say that every other article I've seen flagged down (fairly easy to tell from rank/points/time) falls into the same categories. And I don't see how it's a big conspiracy theory to apply occam's razor to the observation that "hey all these anti-google or pro-apple or pro-ms links have a graph that makes it look like they were flagged off the first page". The same mentality that would abuse this is not hard to find in the comment sections of many tech sites so I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised or think HN is immune.

And again if HN mods want to produce a list of flagged articles I'm confident it would back the assertions that I and others have made.
In Ubuntu 13.10, Mir will be inserted between X and the graphics drivers (roughly speaking). Although that is one step toward eventually eliminating the need for X, X will still be needed (e.g., to run Chromium or Firefox) in Ubuntu 13.10.

I.e., the title of this story, "Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X," (emphasis mine) is false.
I'm a PhD student in experimental physics, working in a group that does precision tests of gravity and possible new forces. I like it, but I'm also hoping to graduate soon. I've decided that I like designing and prototyping hardware, so I'm looking for an industry job in R&D.

I found out about HN from an office mate, who probably heard about it from a former research prof at our lab who co-founded a YC startup.
http://www.depressioncomix.com/posts/g1/

Get professional help immediately. Any/all of your reservations against doing so are misplaced.

We can't tell you what meds to take, which exercises to do, which foods to eat or avoid, or what lifestyle changes to make. Different people experience depression for different reasons, and for _no reason at all_.

See a pro.
How is this going to hold up for using windows over the network? I liked that feature of X.