skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a theory of two kinds of empathy:
cognitive empathy and affective/emotional empathy.

Aspies/autistics are deficient in cognitive empathy.

But when we find out others' feelings through explicit communication or other clues, we can feel for them.

We are not selfish, uncaring or unable to feel for others.
I once worked on a device that needed UL certification. It was $50,000 per test cycle, so the motivation was there to get your product right before submitting it.
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I should have been clearer myself on some of this. I think the "do what you love" proponents are pretty much a poster child of survivor bias. Doesn't matter what you are attaining to, if you are able to get it, you are likely decently happy with yourself. If you failed at one thing and switch gears to another out of necessity, it is not that surprising that you would be less happy about it.

Consider the rock stars of academia in CS. Most are fairly happy and well off people with (or without, to their desire) families. Same for many studio artists. Not just the rock stars.

I think I get what you are saying, though. That to a large extent it is supply/demand. It is easier to attain a job if those two values are at least closer to equal than otherwise. Sports/musician/artist/professor/etc, in particular, are atrociously bad choices, just by the numbers.

I just fear that knowing which fields have a high demand is not enough to decide what field to go for. Many of them have higher demand than supply due to very valid reasons of physicality or mental difficulty. Though, I fully agree that this is a better decision attribute than "what do you love to do?"
I've watched a few 3D movies. The gimmicky parts are very gimmicky, but the normal scenes, where we see the background actually behind the foreground, and don't see a drop of water fly right into are eyes, the 3D looks a lot better then the 2D version.

2D seems the same as looking around with one eye closed. I don't notice the difference when I am doing it, but when I open my second eye, everything looks subtly better.
They made it illegal to own (certain) guns, then offered a buy back scheme, then they confiscated guns from those that didn't bring in... This works much like how 'drugs' are illegal, and the police confiscate them, so the U.S is just as authoritarian (but with drugs) in this regard.

Gun crime reduced dramatically, though when categorised as violent crime, the reduction was smaller and overall the crime rate has decreased year on year... so I don't know what you are referring to.

Mandatory voting is 'authoritarian'... are you kidding me? It stops 'vested interest' or disenfranchisement of portions of your population, and moves closer to real 'universal suffrage', I can see there is valid criticism in arguing it impinges personal freedom, but authoritarian again just seems you are pushing some odd right wing agenda here.

Compared the the U.S, Australia sits well and truly to the left, but the similarities I was referring too, was about the make up of the populations, Australia is a good test case (for the U.S) for assessing policy outcomes, especially when Australia has implemented said policy and has strong correlative outcomes.

You seem to have derailed the thread some-what with your propaganda and pro-gun agenda, which I have sadly fallen for.

My original point stands.
Actually, the air quality is much better now than it was in the 1990s.

Based on this 2009 report, combining historic and forecast data,air quality in general is substantially improved since 1996. Carbon Monoxide, in particular

page 4-6
http://www.arb.ca.gov/aqd/almanac/almanac09/pdf/chap409.pdf
I can't seem to be able to get a direct link to Woz's post so I can forward it around, am I missing something or is Google+ even more braindead than I thought?
I'm always skeptical of claims that "X will never work" that are not backed by solid research or a mathematical proof.

The current 3D may be nauseating to a number of people, but I do note that travelling by car is nauseating to some too, and I've seen older people get similar effects when reading a computer screen that is scrolling too fast.
Freedom of speech is certainly a valid thing. But as a legal principle, it refers to restrictions on government, and Yale is a private institution. If Mr. Haufler wants his effort to succeed, then I think he is better off using the proper terminology.
Maybe because movies are more impressionist/symbolic devices rather than simulations. I personally don't care about 4K HD, or 100Hz and 3D. Everytime I read about these, I remember the first minute of Alien. No 3D, no green screen, analog ... yet I feel immersed into a ship.
>"less is more"

Less what? Do be more precise. I've heard that with regards to complexity – not so much with regards to power.
Wow, I figured there were more than 200,000 RC Cars sold each year. rimshot
The pretentious nature of the Go community really puts me off from the language

I have had the exact opposite experience with the Go community. In particular, I've found community hubs like #go-nuts and the mailing list to be professional at worst and friendly at best, and always helpful.

some of the pretentious designs of Go itself.

How can a design be pretentious? Either you favor the design or you don't, but calling it pretentious is simply projecting your own emotions onto the language.
5 Phrases That Will Kill Your Kickstarter Campaign (And 12 That Won't)
I read the article and most of the comments and I still can't figure out why on earth you would care how hot your teawater is, beyond "boiling"/"not yet boiling." All my life I have made tea with a ~$10 stovetop whistling kettle; no one has ever criticized it and it will never break.
Related:

• Marvin improvising at the “Music, Mind, Invention” conference at MIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nynu3pACcyg

• Marvin improvising at a brunch party a few years ago. Sorry for the poor quality; this was a few generations of iPhones ago and not a great audio environment. https://vimeo.com/19960970
I was amazed at how many people think that 'SWAT evacuated the building to get the access to the PHPBB dump'. Seriously, people, it's not Hollywood.
"[Y]ou're four times more likely to find a psychopath at the top of the corporate ladder than you are walking around in the janitor's office"

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/21/136462824/a-psychopath-walks-i...

My experience backs this up. The most wealthy and powerful people I know are at least moderately callous, demanding, and manipulative. Instead of empathy I think being emotionally perceptive is crucial. You must know how others are feeling but not feel it yourself so you can choose to act on that knowledge or not.
I'm hoping .p2p or .bit or whatever will win out, as long as it means we'll all use a decentralized DNS system by then.
The difference between Ruby and Smalltalk is clear, but your analogy is lost on me. I consider Clojure a lisp by any common definition. Why do you not?
Actually, the convergence problem is theoretically solvable with a light-field projection system. That is, instead of having 2 images that are simply "fed" into each eye but projected onto a flat screen that is not converged with the 3d disparity "information" contained in the images, you have a system where the screen emits a light field that your eyes can focus on at any depth. We already have consumer level light field cameras and attachments. the displays are tricker, but possible, traditionally through the use of hexagonal lenticular lenslets carefully registered onto a 2d "flattened" projection of the light field capture. This is the "True hologram" dream mentioned. The primary limitations being the level of precision and resolution with which you can register the lenslets with an image.

that's fine for a display but is obviously impractical for a large scale theater projection system. Just an arbitrary possibility I thought of just now: suppose the projection screen had a retroreflective surface- That is, light projected at the screen gets returned at exactly the angle it arrived at. Combine this with a domed mirror and a backwards pointing projector or set of projectors, with all the requisite optics math and geometry work, it may just be possible to project a lightfield at a screen that bounces back at the audience and appears as a tangible hologram to them.
I also visited a Blue Bottle in NYC and had some of the best coffee of my trip.
AnyPerk is group discounts for corporations. It's not perks. It's a misnomer.
Mandatory voting is more democratic. The US should do the same.
How does rating bar works in Android
Check out how fast this market it going. (US battery electric vehicle sales per year: http://www.electricdrive.org/index.php?ht=d/sp/i/20952/pid/2...)

2010: 19 (lol, is that right?)
2011: 10,064
2012: 52,835
2013: 96,702
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Was_(Not_Was)
Understanding Java Bytecode
You should be able to retain a lawyer who would be able to send a letter/etc to get your stuff back assuming you still have the search warrant information used to seize it. Admittedly that requires the stuff seized to be worth it.
It's selling like hotcakes in Georgia.
Hey, a bit late to the thread but I wanted to ask a question about your service (I couldn't find a "send private message" button in HN):

My company is evaluating several Helpdesk systems (both SaaS and Open Source). FreshDesk is one of those we have in mind. However I would like to know how possible is it to "tweak" Freshdesk to meet our needs.

For example, being able to add HTML elements (forms) or "dashboards" made by us would be a plus. Also, how "mature" are your APIs? (i.e. what % of the functionality can be accessed via API?).

Basically, we need to use a HelpDesk/Ticketing/CRM system, but must tailor it to our business need which is more on the financial side of things (we are looking to make the HelpDesk system our one-stop-panel for managing).

is there anyone @ your company I can contact to discuss this more in private?

Thanks a lot!
Thanks, but I'm not motivated either way by popularity. What all these kids at Yale are doing is misguided and a waste of their youth and skills. They could have stepped up to try to make a name for themselves by understanding more than just the technical bits. They could have spent just a little time to understand their non-technical landscape prior to showing off technically and crying to reddit Kony 2012-style.

They could have created a business around it. They could have attained departmental, IT, and/or administrative backing... along with all the improvements to access, support, and coverage that can bring.

What looks better? We got shut down right out of the gate for having no idea how to go about securing our venture or...
We brought our technical acumen to the right eyes and ears and sold ourselves to the king-makers in our little world.

This is a dress-rehearsal for investors. What these kids proved was they want to be more Pirate Bay than Facebook. More pejorative hacker than Hacker News hacker.
Macros have its major purpose - they are means of creating advanced DSLs. Simple DSLs could be created just out of high-order procedures and list structure, but they will be bounded by the general evaluation rule, that all the arguments would be evaluated before actual procedure application, which is not always what we want.

Macros is the way to add new special forms to a Lisp or a DSL embedded in it. This is why macros are there.

To avoud macros is to restrict oneself from designing a program as layers upon layers of DSLs which is the most powerful paradigm. Just look at that Rtml DSL of ViaWeb system.
Remember, too, that another recent iOS 7 device can also run as a BTLE "client" and pair: that's how testing iBeacons works.

You can pick up an iPod Touch and write an app for it that uses the Touch's sensors to do what your custom hardware could do, to get further than you might if you had to start from hardware alone. Additionally, integrating new sensors into the Touch could be done more simply via the headphone jack using an Arduino: http://www.creativedistraction.com/demos/sensor-data-to-ipho... or using Project HiJack: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/

Once you've got a version using an iPod Touch and a custom sensor working, you'd have a complete test case and prototype to develop original hardware against.
>>Just the fact that Chrome updates automatically is bad enough.

Don't agree with that. As someone who has had the misfortune of having to support out-of-date browsers, anything that can be done to force browser upgrades is a plus in my book. I'd rather have a few people angry at me than deal with another IE update-style browser that just gets lost out there with nearly zero hope of updating.

For example, I applauded Mozilla for this[1] move.

1. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/firefox-mozilla-Chistian-Legnitt...

>>"We don't think self-selection will ultimately get us to the place we need to be," he said. "We will force 3.6 on 3.5 stragglers not choosing to update to Firefox 4 or 3.6 (give them the stick). We feel comfortable making the major update choice for users because a) the versions are very similar and b) we'd rather lose a small amount of miffed users than leave a large amount of users vulnerable."

Keeping an old browser version is something I wish a user could not do unless they went out of their way to install a nightly by themselves and that nightly should nag them to death after 15 days to stop using it. The internet would be a much cooler & smoother place if all webapp-devs could assume that everyone is using the most up-to-date, cutting-edge browser. I wish Google would enforce this by choosing 2 saturdays every month to simply break Youtube for anyone on an out-of-date browser.
This is why I still get my news commentary from HN. Thank you.
http://www.davidmunroeart.com/artists-blog.html
If you can post your email somewhere I'd be glad to talk in depth.
I hate that I'm falling for this[0]

For the poor, (i.e those that earn < 28k in Australia)... they pay no tax. Thus Healthcare for them, is in every sense of the word: free.

For those that earn > 28k, they pay tax, which a portion of goes to healthcare. So from 28k to probably (random guess) about 70-100k, healthcare is heavily subsidised. For 100k - 200k healthcare costs probably about as much as it would if they just paid for it themselves (given the wealthier tend to be healthier). The 200k+ they are probably paying more for it than they use.

But those who need it most (i.e the poor/poorer) get it free/subsidised.

This is called a progressive tax system. If your care about the majority of your society (keeping in mind, in australia the mean wage is around the 50k mark), then it is without a doubt a better (utilitarian) solution.

[0] http://xkcd.com/386/
Just wanted to chime in and affirm your experience. I also love functional programming and have used Haskell for several projects (and will continue to do so). But I also use and love Go.

Like you, I've bumped up against areas where some form of generics beyond structural subtyping would have helped me solve a problem more elegantly. But it's never been a huge issue.

I think the primary reason why I'm drawn to Go is that I perceive it to be incredibly simple (like, Lua simple). Not just the language design, but the entire ecosystem---from idioms to tooling.
The same happen on a boat and as far as I know, there's millions of people on boats everyday.
In Steve Wozniak's interview with Emily Chang, he says "I loved Pirates of Silicon Valley... but it wasn't more truthful."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ciNXc_4OQ
(at approximately 12:10)
The real problem with 3D is much like the problem with hearing 'whispers' behind you with surround sound... I go from being immersed in the movie to being rudely reminded that I am in a cinema watching a movie. Until the experience is something that doesn't announce the technology it's only ever going to be a gimmick and, in terms of my connection to the story/character/situation, I'd much rather lesser quality simulation with greater emotional connection and persistent immersion than something 'technically' better.
Depending on how "into" tea you are, various teas require steeping for a specific duration of time under a specific temperature. See a website he mentions, steepster.com, where people talk almost exclusively about this topic.
I live in WA and I don't understand why local city casinos are choked, but we allow some specific groups to run casinos 30 minutes away by different rules. How is it making any sense? Lets run casinos on the same enabling rules and get taxes back to communities. The situation now is that members of all communities play, 3 communities pocket the profits.
$100K/year with a "large" (lets say 4 kids?) family in Manhattan will not be very comfortable or nice.
There's already a significant level of confusion between the two products. The decision to change will not get any easier and the impact of a name change will only increase as you drag on. You should change it now because there's nothing gained by waiting.
It seems like PG always had such ambitions, while the brilliant technical insights came from Rtm.
Fwiw, these are the current limits: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/feb398a2d4821d84...
I run quite a few linux boxes, and make them do lots of real work. Compared to other pieces of software, I find it quite reliable. This is especially true if you take into consideration the breadth of tasks and the performance requirements needed out of a monolithic kernel.

I'm in no way saying its perfect though.

> Taking software seriously involves ensuring every failure is handled

> it's so painful that most developers can't be relied on to actually do it

I agree with both of those points (as any decent developer would), but I don't believe exceptions remedy either of those issues.

The architects behind Go, truely some of the best minds in computer science, did not include exceptions because of this.
See also http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Asciio/lib/App/Asciio.pm
They may not appear that way if you mesh well with the core ideas of Go. I once mentioned that Go does not fit into my usual project setup - I keep git repos in ~/sources. Go requires me to instead dedicate an entire directory structure to my entire Go workspace, which I have to keep seperate from the other sources. This could easily be avoided by letting me set enviornment variables that would relocate some of these folders (especially bin and pkg) to different places.

This is an example of how Go as a language is pretentious. It's way is the best way, even when no one else does it that way. The community becomes pretentious whenever you draw criticism against these core choices (note this mostly comes from #go-nuts, I haven't spent a lot of time on the mailing list). I like to believe that I can engage in well-reasoned discourse about these things, and I don't think I have seen the same degree of defensiveness and close-mindedness you might see from most other communities.
One of the worst design decisions I've seen on ovens is that some ovens provide a storage space under the oven and on other cheaper models, that space doubles as the broiler. My roommate said she once put a plastic cutting board in that space because she had been conditioned to think about it as storage from the ovens she was used to. The board melted and almost caught on fire.
> legal cause for termination/dismissal in private institutions

In the US, under at-will employment, an employee "can be dismissed by an employer...without having to establish 'just cause' for termination..." [1]

If you'd prefer a different standard because this rule sounds harsh against employees, think for a moment from a company's standpoint: If you know the law won't make it easy for you fire someone, you'll be really picky about who you hire, how you hire them, and how many people you hire.

I think at-will employment helps everyone by making the job market more liquid and reducing the size of the class of "unemployable" people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Here is what I would not call a solution but something that should be better than the current state of the art.

Note: Behind paywall

http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?ar...
Take a look at arc.arc and news.arc - that is why.
people in India kill themselves if they don't make it into the top colleges for a chance to come to America
I agree that automatically-updating extensions has the potential to be somewhat insecure. However, I don't see how the alternative could be a better alternative. If they didn't auto-update, then the majority of users would likely never update their extensions, and the ones that do would be unlikely to audit the extensions that they update for malware. Do you audit the apps on your phone before you update them?

To mitigate the problem, Chrome does have the permissions model to limit what extensions can do, and if an extension requires more permissions after an update, Chrome will give you a warning, along with an option to remove the extension. Your best defence is to not grant overly broad permissions when you first install the extension.

Regarding your comment about Chrome's automatic updates being "bad", I disagree wholeheartedly - the web platform would not be able to move forward at the same rate that it can today. One of the biggest problems with IE was simply that it was updated so infrequently that it was really hard to support the large percentage of outdated versions. We'd be in the same situation with Chrome if it didn't auto-update. Furthermore, I trust Chrome to make good decisions for my security. I'd rather have my browser updated quickly so that vulnerabilities in the browser can be fixed quickly before they affect me.
"You don't need to look at obscure tribal examples within America, you can just look at Australia"

Since the tribe is paying a dividend from a successful business to the owners of the business and Australia is transferring money from tax payers to "poor, unemployed, students, single parents, etc.", I do not see how they are equivalent in the first place.

The tribal members are being paid for something they own.
Is this one of the first malware to run on a Chromebook?
Tesla better hurry and bring their lower range car to market
The Rise of the High School Hacker
@40K up until this fall (and 35K now), I would hardly say that is "being given away" prices.
maybe not eat street but what about order ahead? found 3 in 10 minutes with a seperate .net domain, 2 ranked #1 over the resturants .com domain with google places pointing to it. poor form order ahead. do the restaurants know your 'takeout' site ranks ahead of them on google and the google places points to your site? is this something they agreed to?

Tarascos Mexican Restaurant

Lemon Poppy Kitchen

La Luna Negra
So, for tea at least, and green tea in particular, water temperature is actually very important. This is often overlooked by people (at least in my experience in America). I've had many friends who claimed to hate Green Tea because it is bitter. But they changed their minds when I brewed them a cup and explained that it is important not to burn the leaves with hot water and then over-steep the tea---rather than boiling water you often want water considerably cooler, say 150-180 F, depending on the tea. You also don't want to steep for too long (often just a minute or two, again depends on the tea).
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You realize the mythical man month is specifically about building a massive project - a computer operating system, with all of those 'independent' parts and 'small pieces'?
urban dictionary is not a reputable source?
>>>it was maybe not 100% of the story but at least things where mostly true and the essence of the characters right.<<<

Which is more important in my opinion. I care about the people more than I care about the sequence of events.