skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy I wrote about was Jon Amory, but Jon Clark sounds like a cool character as well. Here's the story, which includes some photos and videos. You might recognize the other Jon because I think he also spent a lot of time working on RISE. :)

http://codynedromano.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/vertices/
Isn't that only for EA games?
I do agree with you speed typing might not be the most valuable skill to a programmer. Being able to type without a lot of typos is a lot more usefull since they can create hard to find bugs.
It would be great if we could experiment upon you. Every three months we'd start you on a new regime of pills. You wouldn't know if they were meds or placebo. The people giving them to you wouldn't know either. The people writing the report wouldn't know, until after they'd written the report.

Obviously we can't do this. But I dearly love to know what the results would be.

For what it's worth: I suspect you would tell the difference between placebo and med. I'm not so sure about everyone taking those meds.
Not sure how much use the Objective-C one is. I spent most of my time in XCode pressing tab, not actually typing code.
Angular's Disqus comments were a perfect example of the hate and entitlement in open source that makes people quit contributing. While they're not the greatest docs, they're quite passable, especially with the rest of the info on the web (videos explaining concepts, egghead.io, etc). On top of that, it is really easy to contribute. I saw a few small doc issues, fixed them, and they were merged within 6 hours. If people could be more civil and constructive, comments would be fine, but I'm glad they're gone.
I don't think typing is what slows me down while programming.
I don't have a single source, but it is not hard to figure out. Some of it is in MichKa's posts on Google Groups, and notice for example the >1 year long gap between Jet 4.0 SP5 and SP6.
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I recently talked to my doctor about possibly having ADHD and when he asked me what brought me to seek help I mentioned that I had read some success stories on the internet. Stories about people who first described my symptoms and then described the incredible success they had achieved with Adderall or Concerta. I was referring in part to comments I had read here on Hacker News in the past.

He suggested that at least some of this could be attributed to advertising by drug companies and the agencies that represent them. That these days, with most people first turning to the internet before a doctor when it comes to health issues, a new guerrilla style of marketing had become increasingly popular. Something to keep in mind.
Shannon County is the 48th poorest county in the US by household income, and the second poorest, after Buffalo County, SD, by per capita income.

My brother used to work on an ambulance crew on the Pine Ridge reservation, which contains Shannon County. The poverty there is absolutely staggering, and absolutely heartbreaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties...
Hey, thanks for your interest. :) Here's a link:
http://codynedromano.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/vertices/
This map is of property taxes, I agree it would be interesting to see how things shake out when you add it all together, including the state/city income and sales tax burdens.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2013/county-p...
Schizophrenic patients do suffer, both from the symptoms themselves as well as from the consequences on their life and relationships.

And yes, that's a dilemma.
I love the diversity, and I think it's perhaps a true sign that we're moving away from the zukerberg-model startup.
Ah, I think I figured it out. Un-informed retail flow is valuable. When I was an options market maker we paid a sweet premium for a particular retail brokerage’s flow and still made a killing on it. Robinhood.io would appeal to individuals who value smaller commissions over better execution, i.e. those with limited capital or investing experience. So that gives them one side of their revenues.

But that’s not enough - the fixed and variable costs to providing even decent execution are staggering.

I think the second bit, margin lending and API access, might be them selling sheeps’ clothes to the wolves. As a sophisticated trader, it may be of value for me to mix my flow with that of unsophisticated retail traders. It’s an interesting model and a careful balancing act. As a market maker I would keep a close eye on the information content of their trades and cut them off the moment they started looking too sensible. Compounding the problem would be that the informed traders will tend to dominate the un-informed, in terms of volume.

My alternate hypothesis is they're going to offer commission-free trading in a limited pool of symbols - you should be able to get sufficiently reliable retail flow for, say, AAPL to be able to internally cross most orders.

P.S. Not sure using FINRA affiliation to vouch for your security credentials is compliant
And I am SURE that will not influence any judgement regarding any patent matters related to Google!
I've met people who take anti-psychotics for mild OCD. The cost/benefit ratio doesn't make any sense.
It's really easy to fake ADD at a psychiatrist's office. They're working off a checklist.
Our remote stack is based on: gitlab/github, skype, trello, google docs (we shifted from dropbox) and that's it. We don't need persistent chat because we're not big and we have a habit to use trello A LOT (we have like ~20 boards) :)
Sure, I suppose if you are really dedicated you could play through a game in those 24 hours and get a refund to play for free, but that's a marginal enough case that it's probably not worth worrying about.

I think your underestimating the number of gamers who would pull all-nighters to play through a game as fast as possible in order to play games for free. Heck, plenty of people already do that without the ability to get a refund once they are finished.

Hell, if I was still in college I would seriously consider doing it as a broke student.

Allowing for refunds within 24 hours is effectively a free 24 game rental for any game in the library.
That's one of most terrible comments I've seen here.

"Let's keep the status quo because...ummm...it's the status quo?"
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TempleOS needs 512 Meg. Why is this a problem? If your machine is 64-bit, it has 512 Meg or more.
I'm not sure I can be bothered fixing it as the SteamOS TOS forbids distribution of modified versions.

Wait, what? How does that work, vis-a-vis the GPL?
Expensive but also lowest bidder.
Those who write SQL code, I would imagine
Come over to App.net. It will be a while before the masses ruin that.

Free invite link >> https://join.app.net/from/fjjgdclsjq
As someone who takes an antipsychotic (300mg of Quetiapine XR once daily for bipolar) I can completely understand why these drugs don't suit everyone.

The sedating nature of them (at least the ones I have personal experience of) is huge.

The side effect I find most interesting is the often mooted suggestion of weight gain. It hit me very hard in the first six months but was more a matter of retraining my mind to ignore hunger pangs for endless sugar filled snacks at 11pm.
The current system of drug development is broken. The pharmaceutic industry did a great job in the past, and reduced a lot of suffering. But currently drug development takes too long and has become too expensive to make bigger strides again.

A lot of the criticism the industry receives is a direct consequence of "paying billions to perhaps earn billions". This kind of risk structure necessitates big companies that can stomach several billion-dollar failures while still turning a profit...
Italy is passing an internet sales tax
homakov is as famous as PG on HN.
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Good question. I did 44 WPM on objc and 51 WPM on java.
ADHD is overdiagnosed and is often used as a catch all solution for boys being boys. Our school system simply does not approve of kids having energy, being a bit aggressive and playful.

That said, as an author, I have focused on adult ADHD. In adults, it is often overlooked, and is estimated at around 4.4% prevalence ratio (the reasonable figures I've seen range from 4-5%.)

Treatment of ADHD can be lifechanging and allow someone to succeed where they were struggling and suffering before.
this is absolutely correct.

i had a psychotic break last year, really bad. i was put on intensive medications, which made it easier to fit into normal every day interaction, but also made me tired, depressed and, ultimately, more psychotic. all of the times i've experienced psychosis, it's been a defensive mechanism that my mind uses to explain why i'm feeling so shitty - so taking medicine that is exhausting, makes me gain weight and have trouble focusing just made the problem worse.

the meds stopped the immediately frighting and bizzare imagines my mind presented to me, but they didn't go away - they just changed into longer term, ultimately more frighting images that still scared me, but in a way that was more conducive to my behaving in a way that everybody else expected. i would believe i was trapped inside something like the matrix, where everything i did on the inside had intense consequences for people outside my reality; failing to wash my hands after using the restroom would cause millions to die far away. one of the 'rules' the psychosis imposed on me was that i could never talk about what i was struggling with because that would break the matrix and cause even worse problems.

it's pretty easy to see in retrospect that it was entirely metaphorical; the 'matrix' stands for the world of social convention, and small risks that add up over time (i.e. not washing hands or brushing teeth) were presented as catastrophic nightmares in order to make sure i focused on resolving them.

over the course of the past year i've slowly reduced the usage of these psychotropic medications - with approval from my psychiatrist - and with increased amounts of energy and happiness, i no longer have as much of the psychosis.

the issue i can see with all of this is that treatment for
mental health issues requires love, patience and careful attention from a lot of people over a long time; if you ask me, our society does not want to give that to people for fear of being taken advantage by some unscrupulous people who would feign mental illness to get out of work.

i don't know what a solution would be, but i agree with you - these meds do more to help everybody else than the patients themselves.
Interesting. Why do you say that?
What dwrensha said, although I'd describe it like this: Allowing then() to take a function which returns a bare value rather than a promise is just syntax sugar. You can always wrap a bare value in a promise by creating an immediate (already-fulfilled) promise. Giving then() such a function -- that wraps its result in a promise -- is equivalent in behavior to giving then() a function that just returns a bare value, except that the latter is somewhat more efficient in implementation.
This is the most stupidest thing I could've ever imagined.
Writing in caps does not make me extremely confident that you understood the medical issue discussed in the article. At least not beyond "stop using antipsychotics", which isn't actually the message at all...
Is it a good or bad idea to rotate developers on a single project?
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Except it isn't just auto complete he is describing. It is also code generation. The example he gave would come with an auto import. Other examples would include class and method generation, exception handling, parenthesis matching and test stubs.
Where is he "as famous"?

On HN? Or somewhere else (if so where?) where he is
"as famous as PG on HN".

If you mean he is as famous on HN as PG is on HN I don't think that is the case.
It's mostly due to the fact that the scaled version is only the middle ~50% of my 1920x1080 screen. I suppose what I might really want is scaled, full screen, and original.
My company uses a Cisco VPN and Cisco jabber video chat for remote workers. I run the VPN client in an Ubuntu VM on VMware Workstation.
Why would programmers need a separate tool for programming practice? Isn't the act of programming itself the best form of typing practice? I don't see a market fit for this for the stated purpose.

Also, the UI when you make a mistake is confusing, I didn't realise I had to backspace and correct it. While that seems obvious in hindsight, I actually opened it in a different browser to make sure I wasn't just hitting some bug before reading the comments here and realising.
> I wrote a full disclosure post 5 minutes after finding the bug because twitter doesn't reward "bounty hunters".

Companies without bug bounties don't deserve responsible disclosure? Twitter has a pretty clear way to reach them, and recognition is given on their page. If recognition isn't sufficient for responsible disclosure, how much money would be enough? I think bug bounty programs are great, but I don't think they should be mandatory.

https://about.twitter.com/company/security
This is an example of a product I would buy, but would never buy as subscription software. $60/year to infinity is about $600 at a 10% discount rate.

Sorry, but it's probably worth about $25 to me, not $600.
Anti-psychotic meds can be lifesavers for people with psychosis. We're talking hearing voices, thinking the government is taping your phone calls (bad example, I know!), and so on, to being able to live somewhat normally if things go well.

That said, they are nasty, nasty meds. And they are being used more frequently for pretty much anything. Abilify sells itself for treating depression. Seroquel for bipolar.

Downsides of them?

Can stunt you mentally, causing lack of concentration and motivation

Sedation

Potential for huge weight gain

Increased risk of diabetes

Reduced lifespan in general

Possible permanent movement disorder

Akathisa, or horrible anxiety is possible

and more.
So, not only is college "useless" now, so is having experience. As 31 year old DevOps making $low_six_figures, this is somewhat worrying re: future prospects.

Even adapting is no assurance of your future employability.
Oh, I don't think you have to worry about the masses ever ruining App.net
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/08/net-us-usa-securit...

"Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords - sources"
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When did this ever happen? al-Aulaki's case is not at all as you described
Typing speed is rarely (I was going to say "never") the bottleneck, IDE or no IDE.

The bottleneck in programming lies in designing something that works correctly, understanding someone else's design or legacy code, designing test cases, debugging problems, addressing performance issues. It is a brain-bound problem, unrelated to motor skills.

I have never thought "this project would have succeeded if only everyone on the team had been a faster typist!"
Well, if they do start it, I'm in :)
rioting is more fun than voting, it is violent and you can loot stores and such
this is great writing.
I tried so many different cures... just couldn't stick to any of them for any length of time.
PostgreSQL is the closest to what you're looking for.

It's really fast; if it doesn't meet your requirements you're probably already aware that you need a specialized solution.

Besides explicit indexing, it also analyzes your data and maintains stats that inform the query planner. As your tables grow and your schema evolves, it will change its query plans accordingly. It can be quite smart. (A few examples: it maintains histograms of common values, null percentages, correlation between physical ordering and logical ordering or rows, and much more).

Of course, you also have a lot of flexibility to denormalize and get the best of both worlds.
If everything is auditable, trackable and searchable, they just need to delete the tapes if someone comes looking.
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> just because you're having mental issues doesn't necessarily mean you can't step outside yourself and understand and assert self control.

is this sarcasm?
> Was it brain chemistry? ADD? Millenial entitlement? The Bipolar Lisp personality? Depression? SAD? A once-seen-impossible-to-unsee glimpse of the Gervais Principle?

Oh please, enough with the drama. I've led the same life. So has everyone else here.

I had the foresight to realize my ailment early on.

I'm lazy and bored easily, which is really the same thing.

> But I was fired six months in for low productivity and low engagement.

So people told you were lazy and rather than accept that at face value, you decided you have some sort of a medical condition?

Look, take my advice. Work for yourself and take on short-term projects. Nothing that lasts more than a month or two. That way, by the time you get bored with it, you're on to something entirely different.

> I realize I'm the proverbial crank working alone, but I'm trying very hard to avoid the common pitfalls---setting hard deadlines, getting customer feedback, getting appropriate exercise and social interaction, etc. And it's working. Things are happening. Milestones are being reached.

Eh? I spoke too soon. Looks like you're already on the right path.
Even most big enterprises now are supporting IE 9....
Your disagreement is kind of out of place here; no claim was made of where the productivity boost of autocomplete ranks against other development factors. Besides, whether or not you use autocomplete is orthogonal to your framework choice.
> (often against best current practice guidance)

This could be one incremental angle to push on, which could reduce the harm from over-prescription without requiring a radical overturning of approaches to mental health. There are a number of cases where drugs are prescribed despite any decent evidence that they actually improve outcomes in those cases, and those really should not be happening.

Part of it is that, at least in the US, there is an odd step function in drug approval. A drug has to be shown both safe and effective for treating some illness to be approved. In this approval process, things like placebo effects are controlled for, representative groups are sought, etc. If a drug isn't approved for any uses yet, it cannot be sold. But once it's approved as effective for any illness, it suddenly becomes legal to prescribe for anything at all, even "off-label" uses unrelated to the approved indications and regardless of any evidence of effectiveness for those alternative uses. Physicians tend to develop idiosyncratic ideas about how they think drugs work in these alternative cases, because they are not doing any of what's done in proper clinical trials, like controlling for placebo effects, or even really solid data collection.

I'm not sure if actually banning off-label prescriptions would be the right solution, but off-label prescription without convincing evidence-based support for the decision should be resorted to cautiously. There still seem to be too many psychiatrists who approach it as some kind of seat-of-the-pants endeavor, rather than following statistically validated best-practice guidelines.
could you explain a bit more about the mechanics of buying/selling retail flow? or is there any standard reference for learning more about the details?
As a person with ADHD, that article was too long to hold my attention (no, I'm not making a joke here).

Also, as a person with ADHD who takes Adderall I don't see what the big fuss about it as a drug/medicine is. It works. I don't (personally) note any side effects, and don't see any reason that I'd stop taking it. Before taking Adderall I was essentially self-medicating my ADHD with copious amounts of coffee on a daily basis. Yet, no one talks about the drug of caffeine in such a negative way.

I wasn't ever diagnosed or treated for ADHD as a kid and I had huge issues with organization and focus in my younger years. I think if I had the 'focus' that I have now due to Adderall that I could have done significantly better in school and in my early career.

With Adderall I am no longer late to everything. I use my calendar effectively. I don't lose things (as much). I get probably 4x the amount of coding done per day. I'm better in conversation. I get through to do lists far quicker (and remember to use the list).

Over diagnosed? Sure. But I don't see why this drug is so demonized, where nicotine, alcohol and caffeine are just kinda standard parts of society and accepted.
Ask HN: USD or GBP?
When considering monetising a global business, ie a service that can be used in any country. Has anyone got any experience on whether their local currency works better than charging US Dollars.

I hope I'm not generalising too much based on personal experience, but I don't mind paying using dollars - however, I can't speak for our friends across the pond paying using UK Pounds.

Has anyone got any experience regarding this they wouldn't mind sharing?
I wonder what things would look like if they were to let you type, free-form, and not consider it complete until your code matched that of the sample. That way, you could use copy and paste, or bang things out and then fix them later rather than in-line. (e.g., let me type keywords and then later realize I forgot a 'self' in a Python method.)

Probably less about typing, then, though.
Compare and contrast Assange and Snowden.

Assange was into monetizing leaks and being in control of what was leaked, to whom and when.

Snowden went out of his way to not be 'in charge' of what was leaked, to whom and to when. He put trust in Greenwald and co. to do that. Snowden has not been paid, there is no ban on Paypal et al. accepting funds for him because, unlike Assange, he is not soliciting funds. He found himself employment in Russia to pay his way in the world.

Clearly Snowden's work was wasted on you, just hope you have nothing to hide!
Slow typing can be very tedious while pair programming, though the tedium is also a function of anxiety and patience.
Not in a hurry now.

Your point is that democratic countries should behave better than the international treaties they sign, even if it will result in dead citizens of those countries.

And you compare with children, to give "weight" to your argument? Sigh...
Yes, but the most prevalent mythos whence these articles come is the bad prince John and his tax happy governance.

King Richard (the Lionheart) gets kidnapped while fighting in the Crusades. Prince John burdens his brother's people with an excruciating tax which John says is for the ransom to set their beloved king free.
Yeah, I agree with you. My career started at MSFT long ago and gained good experience quickly...so if you happen to land at a top tech company, you'll get the right experience. I think this goes for almost any high-end career, too.

But as it is now, I see a lot of companies seeking Junior-level positions, but with big expectations and knowledge requirements. Everything except wanting to pay a proper salary.
Some people might find it educational to watch an expert create, especially if they are new to game programming ... Don't have to be dismissive. :) now if watched for 24 hours that might a bit much.