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Gosh golly, what's it coming to when right straight white people can't discriminate against unpopular minority groups without facing consequences! It's as you say: minority groups should just quit if their boss might be discriminatory. That will surely end the problem of discrimination.
Wow, this is awesome. You should add a link to the Puma guide [1] as I've been wanting to make use of Puma workers for a while but have always been worried about running out of memory.

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-rails-applic...
Did you ever get a formal diagnosis for cyclothymia? Dysthymia is very strong on one side of my family, but cyclothymia is closer to my experience these days. In the past, I've been diagnosed with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. I've read and observed these spectrum disorders (in myself and others), but never actually known anyone who was formally diagnosed (whatever that's worth).

Usually my symptoms track the seasons pretty closely. I tend to be hyper-productive in summer and a hermit in winter; it's likely just SAD + whatever I have.

> Mental health issues often give you a front-row seat for how shitty people can be when they think you're weak.

This cannot be emphasized enough. This is much harder to take than the symptoms themselves, which can be managed. In a sense, you will grow up very quickly.

> Anti-psychopaths tend to need an R&D environment where they're measured by performance over time, rather than minute-by-minute superficial reliability (at which they can't possibly compete) and those, sadly, tend to be turning rare in the current anti-intellectual (and pro-psychopathic) environment.

Bonus points for a lifestyle company. You do not want to be working under people who will exploit you so they can buy the next status symbol they've been told to grasp at. But, yeah, I'm only really happy in R&D for several reasons: hard problems, autonomy, and longer timeframes.

All software development should be like that. But we've sold out for a crappy lottery ticket that's rigged against us.
Defensive but addressing a rare issue with a proper solution, free of charge (possession and installation) retroactively. What's not to love.
Reminds me of the saying: "people like to say that speed kills, but really it's a very sudden lack of speed that kills."

I think that might be a Clarksonism...
Yeah definitely seems I have touched a nerve. Just had all my replies being drive-by downvoted by some guy even :-)

In any case, you make a good point. Basically he values a fraction of his time more than any negative, however big, inflicted on his company and his team members.
Thanks - I started in QBasic when I was maybe 15 and made a solid volume in Mode 13H. It ran at about about 1 frame per minute.

I am mostly self taught, which is good and bad. Bad, because it takes way longer, good because you learn how to derive solutions yourself and learn why things work the way they do. My recommendation is to either start with a set of OpenGL/DirectX tutorials or just get some pixels on the screen any way possible, and build a software renderer from there -- that is if you want to learn. If you want to make a game, your best bet is to use an existing engine, although I'm hardly a shining example of that.
Some of us don't want a puzzle game that will last the rest of our lives. I want something to get obsessed about for a few weeks, then move on to other things. I'd rather 2048 with its winnability (and beyond - I'm after its 8192 milestone now) than something nigh unto unwinnable.

BTW: I know there's ads on the 2048 iOS app, but don't see them. I'm barely aware of anything when playing.
We rarely get work done as it is. I think the world will be a bit more productive without it.
Could it be made to dynamically load more stories as I scroll? You know, to completely kill my productivity. It's just suffering now with this extension, and I'd like to finish it off.
Huh, I wasn't aware that there was anyone that didn't order a gain antenna at the same time they ordered the radio. :-)

I regularly hit a repeater 12 miles away. A bit fuzzy, but it works. But I'm using a gain antenna that's a bit longer than stock, you know, for street cred (street cred being very important amongst ham radio operators). Hook it up to the mag mount antenna in the car, and it expands to 20 or 30 miles (dunno exactly, haven't hit the limit yet).

In an attempt to keep this on the topic at hand, anecdotal evidence would suggest (and solid empirical evidence confirms) that the antenna is important as well as power output. Combine wimpy power output with an antenna that has to fit in a 4" phone, and without cell towers or WiFi APs you might as well just shout to the person you're trying to contact.
This is only partially true. Google has started distributing some APIs automatic updates as well via Google Play Services.

http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/index.html

These features are made available on older releases of Android.
Thank you for the thoughtful response!

So Sisu is born out of necessity, more so than a quality that should be emulated in everyday life?
>but if you do not care at all for the business

Your business? Of course not. Unless I have equity, why would I fall for the "you need to care about the company even though it doesn't care about you" scam?

>or your team

You are the one screwing my team, not me.

>your not exactly a paragon of the model employee are you

I would certainly hope not. I try to me a model human. I have no interest in being a model employee. If you want a slave, buy someone else.

>If there is a major crisis which happens in average maybe once every three months, and you consistently can't be arsed to put in some extra hours of effort while your team mates and managers are, then yes, you are flaking out

If that is part of my job, sure. But you are aiming for a world record in strawmanning with that one. Remember the discussion is about employers feeling entitled to owning employees time?
I was using Arch as my laptop OS for a couple years until just recently switching to Ubuntu Server 14.04. Since I use i3 it still seems like the same environment. The reason I switched is because I'm developing solely on Ubuntu Server 12.04, and it's less work to get things working once instead of twice.

Is there any advantage to using Debian over Ubuntu for servers and/or development?
"Psychopathy is traditionally defined...by enduring antisocial behavior, diminished empathy and remorse, and disinhibited or bold behavior." [0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
It depends on the why. Using michaelochurch's classifications.

Psycopathic: I break the agreement because I want to do what I want to do.

Anti-psycopathic (particularly for the manic/hypomanic phase): I break the agreement because my brain is creating thousands of ideas a minute, I'm churning out code, I've solved 20 problems that we'd been having just this morning, but none of them are my assigned task(s). It's almost a compulsion, and not one driven from personal want. I don't want to delay the actual work, or procrastinate, but my brain keeps focusing on all the wrong (for work) things.

EDIT: Another fun bit is the after effect. After that spirited creative period, you realize what you've neglected and it feeds the part of the mind pushing you into depression as guilt.
Interesting comment from the original article. I would appreciate if anyone could more simply explain what these 8 diseases have in common:

"9. Kelvin Stott on March 28, 2014 11:57 AM writes...

I did my PhD on the molecular mechanism of HD with Nobel laureate Max Perutz back in 1993-6. We were trying to testing his "polar zipper" hypothesis, whereby expanded glutamine repeats aggregate into extended b-sheets that are inherently toxic, much like other amyoid-related diseases. And in fact, the mutant protein has been shown to form non-specific pores in cell membranes, just like other amyloid proteins.

That was many years ago, but anyway, I'd still like to share my perspective on this...

The problem I see with the mechanism proposed in this Nature paper is seems too specific for HD and huntingtin, however at least SEVEN other neurodegenerative diseases (SCA1, SCA2, SCA3/MJD, DRPLA, Kennedy's Disease, SBMA, etc.) have been linked to the expansion of glutamine repeats in completely unrelated proteins.

To me this is just too much of a coincidence for each disease to be explained by a different mechanism, and I think any mechanism for HD must be shown to occur in all these other diseases before I would be prepared to believe it.

Just my 2c."
As far as I know, Lubuntu/Xubuntu/Ubuntu GNOME are just plain old Ubuntu with a different set of default packages for the desktop environment, they can use the same PPAs.

(FWIW I use Ubuntu GNOME as my default desktop distribution)
It already has.

http://mashable.com/2010/10/09/google-cars/
EdgeConf Debates on Web Tooling and Page Load Performance
I just added my name to the list. it looks interesting, I look forward to what you guys come up with.
As a Brazillian that did not went to YC because of that, yes!

(explaining for those wondering: I believe Bay Area costs are too ridiculous of high, and the YC money is too low to cover them when I have to also account the costs of moving from another country entirely and then moving back...)
Warp is written in D, by the guy who created the language. It doesn't seem weird that Andrei would want to talk about that (especially considering the fact that I assume he's very much interested in seeing D in use in more places).

I had the same question about how it compares to clang though. I suppose now that it's open source, someone can do some testing.
I'm not sure what to think about this. I accept that the author is suffering and in anguish, and I truly wish him well. Despite his obvious accomplishments and all the trappings of success, I would not trade places with him. His subjective experience seems to be painful and is no less real to him than mine is to me.

At the same time, I don't think he is ill. While I don't doubt that he is suffering, I don't think it it is helpful to class his suffering as an illness. I don't think anyone argues that his symptoms are caused by an infection or a defect in an organ, so his disorder lacks the physical basis for a typical illness. At the same time, he has symptoms. And therapy, and possibly drugs, make him feel subjectively better. He chooses to engage in a regime of therapy which (presumably) has self reported benefits.

But I don't think it is helpful to think of his plight like we think of malaria or polio or heart disease. When we talk about 'emotional disorders', we implicitly take on an enormous amount of cultural context as well as normative judgements about how someone 'should' feel. And the danger is that one will come to believe that an unpleasant mental state in an otherwise healthy brain is something to be cured through the application of science.

That being said, I agree with the main point -- that there is no shame in his mental state. I suppose my point is that it is not necessary (and should not be necessary) to reclassify what a disease is in order for a class of people to maintain their dignity. And above all, I wish this man well and by no means mean to diminish his pain, or the courage it took to write this.
The only way for Dart to ever be more than a nice re-iteration of Smalltalk is if Google makes it a must-have language for their ecosystem.

Managed VMs are no different than Amazon or Azure VMs.
If you're looking for guarantees, you may not understand how research works :)

When it comes to areas in which Servo is ahead of current browsers, I can name many: off-main-thread layout, parallel layout, off-main-thread iframes (not out of process to avoid scaling issues), a fully garbage-collected DOM without cycle collection/reference counting or stop-all-threads GC, and, most of all, being written in a memory-safe language. These are all areas in which other browser engines would need to catch up to Servo--though it's unclear how to do that without a complete rewrite, especially for that last one.
Yes, you are actually right, I'm correcting it now.
New research: Better wallet security for Bitcoin
Maybe you should read the article. The answer is definitely not no.
Not very clean. It's not immediately obvious how some statements are derived from initial axioms.
I've only encounted unpaid overtime in chaotic sweatshops, which are similar to the companies I mentioned, of constant fires / crisis'. These are so uncommon though, and the practice by all means illegal, that I'd think it obvious that over-time is compensated one way or the other. Are you in the US? My experience is from a variety of European countries mainly, which might differ vastly from american standards.
Sounds cool, but I simply cannot agree to the privacy implication:
Access your data on all websites

Chrome's stupid privacy model for extensions ruins this otherwise cool project for me.
Hacker's Guide to Shanghai
I had problems getting shouted down or censored by trolls in forums. I wanted a place to write and collect my ideas without worrying about getting drowned out by others.

Sometimes, you learn just by writing about something.
One of the things that made me upset about the initial announcement about Facebook acquiring Oculus was that I wasn't exactly sure if it was one of those "almost hostile takeover" where the main share holders want to cash out and don't care if the company is going to hell.

Knowing that the people inside the company who are going to build the technology not only agree with the changes but welcome them with open arms is reassuring.
Still misleading. The 2048 creators may not have known of Threes, but were influenced by it nonetheless. An incomplete fact set imputing malice warrants downvoting.
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always remember, long odds = long payoff. and if you're not starving, the odds are still good.

good luck!
Why is not having a FB account "disdain"? I realize that you have some sort of anti-FB ax to grind and does most of HN. I haven't logged into FB for 6 months, but it is because of apathy, not disdain. Why would John be any different?
How the best of times is making way for the worst
Interesting. What is Setosa?
Anti-psychopath doesn't mean "good person". Many anti-psychopaths are good people but it's not a law of nature. Anti-psychopathy seems to be about sensitivity.

A common anti-psychopathic/hypomanic pattern is the creative "flare-up" in which a person is highly focused but intolerant of inefficiency. Such people, when faced with the slow pace and meaninglessness of most corporate work, often just elect to do something more useful, or try to solve the deeper and more important problem. It's hard to blame them.
Microsoft says it won’t scan email accounts over stolen property anymore
Walter here (author of Warp). AMA about Warp.
The Model S is a long car compared to the hatchbacks and mini sedans that we're getting used to. Maybe that has something to do with it.
great readme! the documentation helps answer a lot of my questions. just wanted to chime in with a note of appreciation for that.
Prefect example of the innovator's dilemma.
I would be shocked if there are improvements over clang (and if there were, clang would fix them) in the general case.

clang has a pretty optimized preprocessor (It even has things like using SSE2 to do some neat things with character processing).

GCC has a fairly modern one, but it's still beatable (and clang beats it handily).
Tesla was handled with kid gloves compared to Toyota.

Remember the unintended acceleration crock?
Surely not.

I know of a project that takes around 3 hours to build with Clang when you do a "make all".
This attitude--that mental illness is not a real disease--is what helps the stigma to continue.

You mince it up with nice words around the edges, but it boils down to this: you're part of the problem.
Thanks for the tip!

A couple of months ago I looked for something similar as I really didn't like my most visited pages popping up on a new tab - non work things mixed in :-) I arrived at something showing those pointless 'apps for chrome' in big icons but completely blank is way better!
It's the best strategy also because it makes sense to them to produce a car that has a controlled demand, since they're essentially limited by battery production. It also showcases the quality of the brand, associating it with reliability and luxury -- and it's a sedan, which has a smaller power requirement than other luxurious classes.
Maybe i am missing something, but can some tell me why this is big news? What is so special about Apples implementation?

I think maybe the news here is not actually the Apple tech, but rather the first app in this class to really catch on.

Alljoyn from Qualcomm has been around for quite a while as well.

https://www.alljoyn.org/

played around a bit with Aljoyn.

It effectively works like a service bus. You send a message and the bus will route it to the correct receiver. Pretty awesome.

You could have two people drawing on the same canvas at the same time and info appears almost instantaneously. Also opens up other types of gaming experiences.

Anyone with experience with the Apple side, care to provide more info?

*Edit more details on alljoyn
You might have an easier time with it if you increase the text size a little.

Or used black text on lighter background like most of the rest of the world.
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Hm. This could be interesting but the demo only shows a simple TSP.. is it capable to solve large-scale vehicle routing problems? Say fleets of 100+ vehicles?

nice animation anyway :)
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Well, as I mentioned on a parallel thread, I know of a project taking around 3 hours to compile, that doesn't look very optimized to me.
>> I don't know about anyone else, but I can't even imagine that level of spending!

You probably don't have teenage children.
I think this would be a better benchmark than that one as it runs a more apples-apples comparison:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...
It is ridiculous - and yet you still see arguments like this, or like that article in the NYT which spun exposing a pyramid scheme as racist because most of their low-level distributors (read: scam victims) were poor ethnic minority individuals. Basically, using the facade of fighting for equality to screw over the very people who're supposedly being helped.
It may be very hard to make an idea's time come, but once it arrives it's almost trivial & unstoppable. The "four minute mile" (running) was considered impossible ... until someone did it (under adverse conditions to boot), then it almost immediately became the norm for serious runners. The tablet as we know it was pursued for decades with resounding failure ... until Jobs nailed it with the iPod Touch, then variants proliferated. Threes took months of nuanced polishing and nobody had anything like it ... until it was released, then 2048 et al was created & became unstoppable almost overnight.
Feel free to try it and see for yourself! Post results here.
True enough - we don't know the details, and your advice is sound.
Yeah, routines sure help. I also TRY to put everything back in its own spot, but i always kid myself I can remember every location of everything, and do not need that.

Exercise routines are also helpful (again, if I do not get bored/distracted 5 mins into it... meaning I have to go somewhere where I can only do activity x. Like the climbing gym, or a martial arts class.

Drugs are not easier at all. Like I said, it's still walking a tight-rope. Also like is being pointed out, brains are differently.
I do not get the paranoia from 14+ years of Cannabis use, most people develop it after so much time, or have 0 tolerance and get it from occasional use.

And like I stated, it just puts me in a mode of "focus on one thing". It still doesn't want me to actually start doing something I have to, but I don't get distracted too much from what I'm doing.

So YMMV.. as always. I'd promote regular exercise and routines like you mentioned to start with.
You should really look into L-Theanine however. Exp if you drink coffee.
It takes off the edginess off caffeine (or any stimulant), while you still get the mental stimulus (focus). When I drink a whole pot of green tea, which contains a good amount of caffeine, my heart rate is even more relaxed than normal.
And it's an unbelievable pain in the ass when they change packaging styles, and the new src packages aren't compatible with the older build tools. IIRC, that happened between 10.04 and 12.04.
For reasons like this, I'm not sure I'll go back to a salary model (in favor of hourly model). I value my family time and personal time, but for those times where "the barns burning down", at least I'm compensated for putting out the fire.

(...And if the barn is always burning down, look for a new job.)
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What? Another service I start to use and shutdowns just a few days later...sad!

That's a problem with free services, and sometimes even with some paid services.
Wow, great work, this reminds me of a lot of demoscene stuff where, when faced with space limitations, programmers aggressively used procedural generation combined with prerendering and caching.

The most iconic example I can think of is .kkrieger, the 96kb first person shooter that has (relatively) amazing graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBG-sKFaB0

There might be valuable lessons to be had in that domain that might save you some time.
This is much harder to take than the symptoms themselves, which can be managed. In a sense, you will grow up very quickly.

Yeah. It's made worse by the fact that technology's upper management are psychopaths here to exploit the cheap talent (and health issues, from their perspective, make you "bargain bin") and most of the low- and mid-level people are spineless weaklings who don't fight for themselves (because they think they'll be tech CEOs in 5 years, despite lacking social skills and savvy).

But, yeah, I'm only really happy in R&D for several reasons: hard problems, autonomy, and longer timeframes.

All software development should be like that. But we've sold out for a crappy lottery ticket that's rigged against us.

Well, perhaps not "all software development". If you're running a trading desk and have algos running during Hong Kong hours, you're going to need people who can handle drop-everything, short-term crises. I would say that all software development should be like that-- except for the few kinds that can't be, and those should be paid at $2+ million per year.