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I agree, I got schizoaffective disorder. I had too much stress in June 2001 and got sick, had a stroke, ended up in a hospital and got diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. It is a rare mental illness that has part schizophrenia and part bipolar in that it has schizophrenic, depressed, manic, and normal cycles lasting about two weeks each.

Every time I tried to post about mental illnesses and startups here, I always got downvoted and flagged. I think that the high stress causes some people to develop these serious mental illnesses. Because there is no compassion or empathy for the mentally ill, they have to hide it and go untreated and this is why there are so many suicides in the startup community as well as the banking industry and financial industry with the youth.

http://blastar.in/crawfraud/?p=624

http://slashdot.org/submission/3225061/i-am-a-mentally-ill-o...

I post about this on Slashdot and all other tech news sites. It seems nobody actually wants to care enough to help out a mentally ill person such as myself work on side projects and startup my own company or even join their startup or even help write a blog.

So I had made my own website and tried to do things with it. Nobody still cares enough to help.

I was told I would not live to see 40, I am 45 now. I hope to live a long time, but been out of work since 2002 because nobody cares.
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No, you're still not grasping the difference between those situations. Double-blind trials are required in situations where the results are subtle enough to be colored by personal expectations and biases. Large-scale trials are required when reasonably different conditions (e.g., different human test subjects) could produce radically different results, when it's impossible to tell whether a single test subject is an average or an outlier.

Neither of these conditions apply to the question "Can this airplane fly or not?" There is no subtlety there, no biochemical variations. The plane either flies or it doesn't, and either result is perfectly clear to even the most ignorant layman.

As for peer review, the Wright Brothers had plenty of it: their peers showed up, looked at the plane in flight, and said "Yep, uh-huh, that's flying all right."
yes, if someone is distressed then of course the proper action is to try to figure out how to alleviate that.

the point about falsifiability comes in when that distressed person makes widely communicated public accusations about the conduct of not just individuals but an entire company and in this case due to the environment of paranoia about sexism an entire industry. if you are going to make claims about systemic gender discrimination then you are opening yourself up to criticism and the need to provide evidence.
The pre-money valuation is the company value before the investment, and thus cannot factor in the future investor contribution. It is simply an opinion on what the investor thinks the company is worth, and is thus independent of the future value the investor may (or may not) bring.
I can't tell if "leading lights" is meant earnestly here, but I personally choose to believe she's anything but:

"Lol men are all like WHY DO WOMEN NEED SPECIAL PLACES TO HACK. well, maybe it's because men are RAPISTS."

https://twitter.com/shanley/status/451779905475186690
You left out a key qualifier: "running cable to every household means acquiring access rights..." The post I responded to specifically mentioned the FCC regulations requiring equal access to all households as the driver of the high cost of being a provider. Without the equal access regulations, it would be a lot easier for smaller providers to compete. (And it would be even easier if state and local governments didn't give sweetheart deals to large providers.)
I'm surprised someone hasn't written a Markov Chain-based Yik Yak post generator.

It would learn all the worst insults at a particular school, then apply them to the entire student body at random intervals. After a while, nobody could tell the actual malicious posts from the random posts, so all would be ignored.

Or so I would hope.
after reading the reddit thread linked to below, i wouldn't go near freelancer.com; the reddit thread caused me to wonder whether it's even a legitimate business. Three things really caused me to blacklist freelancer.com: (i) the CEO's remarks--never disputed a single fact alleged by Dustin (OP) if anything appeared to corroborate them, and concluded by saying that's how we do things here at freelancer.com; (ii) more than a few people posted to the thread who had also been treated the same way by freelancer.com--ie, cases in which the developer had completed the work, the client was happy with it and wanted to pay, indeed had in fact paid freelancer.com but freelancer refused to pass the money along to the developer; and (iii) the timing of freelancer's byzantine documentation requirement--in Dustin's case like at least a couple of others mentioned in the reddit thread, freelancer.com's requests that the developer supply redundant documentation to verify their account only occurred after the dev had done some work on a project and the client had had paid freelancer.com for that completed work.
It was a neat prototype, you know. A few loose ends here and there, but a solid proof of concept. Executives loved it. Could see the $_$ in their eyes. So they had us plug the holes and get it to production as fast as possible. Time to market, that sort of things. I recall John didn't like it. Caused quite a stir. But who was he to decide anyway?

[…]

Yeah, that became quite the thing. Lots of new features. Funny thing is, they used to come fast. Not so much lately. Did ask why —were simple features—, but all I got was some bullshit about about "technical debt". Don't give a crap is what they do. No matter, we're entering cash cow mode now. Champaign?

[…]

I'd like to, but John left (something about a "big ball of mud"), and Bob got promoted… That leaves Jane and Sally. Still many glitches to fix, but they will do —not like I have a choice. Besides, they know the billing subsystem inside out, and women are good at cleaning things up, right? Wait, I didn't —are you recording this?

[…]

Phew, that was a close call. Jane warned IT about that OS update, but they kept talking about this "security update". Four days without revenue! Jane and Sally were no good, even Bob couldn't see what was wrong. Had to call John back, you know. Fixed the problem in a pinch. I hear HR made an offer, but I guess there was no changing his mind. Oh well, at least things are back to normal.

[…]

Dunno why, but this systems scares me a little bit.
This hits me particularly hard because I lost my sister to mental illness not but three months ago.

Perhaps our society will one day treat those with mental illness the same way we treat those with cancer or ALS, with compassion and love, instead of with insults and shame. I hope that I am alive to see such an enlightened society.
> There's no active moderator here, other than the community. So whatever makes it to the front page is decided by the users.

I'm afraid you're mistaken. HN has always been actively moderated, and what makes it to the front page has always been a combination of upvotes and curation. Also, the call for intellectually diverse subjects has been there as long as HN has been.
You're right. It was a hyperbolic statement which was going exactly against what I was arguing about. I should have edited it.
Excerpt:

Epigenetics—the way genes switch on and off—is another area of intense interest for schizophrenia researchers. Every nonreproductive cell in our body contains our entire genome, and in every cell, some genes are properly switched on and others off. We inherit our genes, but environment strongly affects the switching mechanisms. This was dramatically demonstrated in a study of persons born during the “Dutch Hunger Winter” of 1944–1945—a famine the Nazis created in the Netherlands by cutting off food supplies in retaliation for Dutch participation in the resistance. Infants born during the famine to half-starved mothers, a cohort now turning 70, have higher rates of all kinds of pathology, including schizophrenia.

I am super tired today, fall out from my own struggles with getting well in the face of a genetic disorder and doctor pronounced sentence of death. I feel pretty apathetic. I don't know how much is chemical, how much is situational. I get so tired of being treated like a loon by the world.

The disease, malnutrition, epigenetics, inflammation -- all that stuff is stuff I have worked on to deal with my own issues. I flail about, unable to find a way to speak of it. I have mostly moved on to trying to figure out how to make money instead of how to help other people.

I don't quite know what to say. Inflammation is rooted in acidity and promotes infection. Infection promotes malnourishment. Malnourishment does all kinds of wonky things to the brain.

I am not having a great week, physically, and it has a track record of impacting my mental functioning and mood. My only known auditory hallucinations are related to an overdose of decongestants. I have no reason to believe schizophrenia runs in my family but the article hits a nerve in some important ways.
Seems like that stuff should be more OJT rather than taught in school.
Obviously it's funny.
Yes, I just wrote a small app around sql.js, and I was surprised at how poorly it performed. I was expecting to be within a factor of three of native, but I'm seeing performance down by an order of magnitude or so. The sql.js page alludes to bugs open in Firefox and Chrome for these issues; I imagine they'll shake out over time, but it's certainly not a buttery smooth experience just yet. Even still, it certainly works better than the alternatives!
UPS employees are unionized, and driving routes (vs. working in the warehouses) is a sought-after position that is one of the benefits of seniority (as I understand it). I expect that they might have issues rolling out a computerized delivery fleet.
2 Theories:

1) It's the brain's way of telling the body: "Another male is nearby, do not show weakness or submission because that male may try to dominate you and you may end up getting into a fight or dying." I'd assume this evolutionary response would only work for same species scents. Apparently it works between species. Men have a tendency not to get into fights with confident men.

2) During a fight with another male, the mind needs to ignore pain in order to continue on and win the fight. In all species, males who didn't have this trait lost battles, died, and did not pass on their genes. Males who had this mutation didn't let the pain get to them, went on to win the fight, lived, reproduced, and passed on these characteristics.
What you are describing is the "Stress-Diathesis Model." The rough explanation is that many people have vulnerabilities for mental illness (including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and others), and that the vulnerability is triggered by environmental stressors. It is in some ways similar to the "two-hit hypothesis" for cancer.

A search for "Stress-Diathesis Model" will yield a lot of hits in the academic literature. It's well accepted as at least part of the explanation for why some people with a genetic vulnerability develop symptoms and others do not.
Mine shipped a few days ago as well. Sadly they seemed to have completely ignored my address change request and the board is shipping to my old address in another country. Grrr.
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Gosh, it's almost like Cogent being Netflix's former transit provider to Comcast and Verizon is the common link or something.

I can't wait to see people freak out about and completely misunderstand this one, too, though.

It's interesting that Netflix is continuing to ink these deals while waging a PR war against the people they're contracting with, rather than just backing Cogent's play. If they're really concerned about this kind of thing, then it kinda seems like inking the deal and then complaining about it puts them in a really morally indefensible position, unless they're just counting on public hatred of the telecoms to carry them to an advantageous position.
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That, unfortunately, is true of many of the most commonly posted sites to HN. Our policy is to keep the rip-offs off the front page, and whenever possible replace them with links to original sources. That's harder than it sounds. Banning all of these sites, though, wouldn't be good for HN, assuming they also produce substantive work.
I don't have a paid plan, because of the academic discount, but I've been seriously looking at alternatives, and what the impact of migrating would be.
I need an idea for a 48hour hackathon
Hey, I'm attending a 48 hackathon. I'm looking for some cheap idea's. I can't think of anything clever. Working with 1 or 2 other people, we will be Full Stack developers,(hopefully)Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Jquery etc. Obviously we can learn while on the project, but nothing venturing too far, like learning Java, or C++. But things like learning node, or angular, or ember are fine.

Hope that is a clear explanation of the requirements.
Thank you for your insight, and for referring me to the proper literature on the subject. It's very much appreciated.
Love the sass error.
Not trying to falsify claims of sexism for the fun of it. We agree the PWs fucked up their relationship with Julie and the resulting investigation proves exactly that. She was right, agreed. But that's not the full claim—it's two-pronged. Are you asking that we do not verify the authenticity of the sexism claim and bulk it's truthiness together with the former?
I agree and this kind of work day contraint is by far not suitable for everyone.
If you'd tell average Joe, working in retail in some DIY market filling the shelves (just an example for a rather simple job, no implications, judgement or anything) that he from now on would have to work just 6h instead of 8h a day for the same paycheck...would this make him do the work more deliberately? I highly doubt it.
Your reply does not address what I wrote. In the scenario that I mentioned the commits would no longer exist, and therefore they could review 'all possible commits' without reviewing the commits in question.
If you haven't heard of Parallella before (like me) and want to learn more: http://www.parallella.org/

Edit:
Ok, here's my quick summary. Please correct me if I'm wrong:

This looks like a small PCB (raspberrypi-alike) that sits the main attraction: a 16- or 64-core Epiphany coprocessor, as well as an ARM cpu to run the OS. Not sure how these relate in performance to other coprocessors (GPUs with OpenCL?). Power draw seems low (5W). Would love to read more about the architecture, why Epiphany processors are special, etc.
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Where does it say that? It says he and his wife encouraged other employees to work on her startup, but it says nothing about the other findings relating to a "range of other employees".
Lot's people don't care if language x is "poorly" designed or language y has "perfect" design. They evaluate language using two things:

1 Is it joyful to write without too much cognitive load?
2 Is it getting things done?

Go fits both for them.
This is a great question since depending on the measure the same thing can give opposite results. Also depending on how the product is linked with hours worked. If it's direct link and paid by the hour, it's one thing, if it's indirect link and paid on achieving output goal is another thing, if the result is binary - done or not, regardless of how many hours is spent, it's also different.

Given the description, it looks like the position is elderly care. Which is hard to measure directly, but the indirect measures (e.g. customer satisfaction, mistake counts, etc.) may actually improve from shorter shifts, but the costs would probably rise or services will be reduced since you'd need to either hire people to cover the hours or not serve people in those two hours. Since there are probably also fixed non-hourly costs to hiring this would be an additional expense.
Ask HN: Does working on adult sites affect future employment?
Do you think an adult-oriented side project would cause employers to refuse to hire and/or fire an average developer?

I have a side project that makes a small amount of money [as in, it is profitable for a side project but not a replacement for a high 5 figure income] that I've been neglecting/let stagnate because I enjoy working on it and such but it makes me nervous.

Right now, I can make it disappear and disavow all knowledge of it with every little issue. However, if I start working on it again and try to turn it into a lifestyle business. However, I don't want to do this and risk tainting my ability to be employed in the future if it doesn't work out.

For the record, it isn't a porn site but since its adults-only and I'm not editing the content I'm sure [like imgur] it would have nudes on it.
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That's why as a startup part of your due diligence should be calling up founders that the the VC has worked with for an extended period of time and getting references for how helpful the VC has been (for both the firm and the individual partner you'll be working with).

It's worth noting that there are other reasons not to focus on valuation. If you take a high valuation now that has a direct impact on future rounds, a higher valuation implies higher expectations and if you don't meet them you may struggle to raise money in the future (or have to take a down-round with all the negative repercussions that has).
My guess is that the car would fare much better in reaction time than any human, not just with reacting to the biker, but also with surrounding conditions (e.g., not flying into an opposing lane and hitting a car or something similar).

People have a very hard time grasping the speed of computers. Imagine you saw the world in 1/1000 speed, and how quickly you'd be able to react to occurrences.
There are many sites that will use sms tokens as a recovery option as well. Making them a singular point of compromise even in a two-factor system.
I would guess it came from copying and pasting from the PDF in something like Acrobat Reader.
I think this article is blatantly missing the point. Adding two-factor auth is the best way to stop shared compromised credentials (we all know people who don't use a random password everywhere) being reused on every common login form on the internet. Companies like Facebook are not going to issue everyone with authenticated tokens or smart cards. SMS though being a simple hurdle for a determined hacker it is effective at stopping en masse attacks on compromised credentials.

Using SMS as two factor auth for a bank does seem stupid to me as I expect hackers to be more determined to crack my bank account than my Facebook account. Banks have the resources and the long account setup times to allow them to use proper auth tokens.

Is there a better solution that SMS for low risk sites like Facebook or Twitter or my blog etc? Something with the same easy of use portability etc. Is the Google Auth token app any better?

EDIT: login not logic in first paragraph
The hero is negligent in their duties and intentionally leave an app is a poor state to promote their importance. Are you sure you are the hero?
Excellent! Congratulations! Can't wait to get my hands on the 64 core version! :-)
You should try reading Robert E Howard. His writings can be uncomfortable, at times.
Another Thomas Street dev here. I'm already using famous-angular on some client projects that are just that — animation-heavy desktop sites.

It's awesome. The API for working with 3D and animations/transitions is so much nicer than straight HTML+CSS. And I love having a render loop that's about 100x better tuned than I could come up with in the time available.
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And a unrelated question here: Is there a way to edit my comment? I typed it on my phone, and reading it back, it appears the auto-correct did not favour me.

I couldn't find any information on this in the faq or the "Unofficial Hacker News FAQ".
Join FounderDating so you can be around other people who have ideas, and you can network and talk to them. Might open you up a bit.
I'm glad to hear that. My first sentence was hyperbolic and should have been toned down.
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Oh look, you are another one of those ignorant people who treats feminism as a whole because it suits them. I know a fair few people who fight for "equality" and condemned of Adria Richards being a colossal jerk.
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While that is true, it also makes it sound as if acting against evil is easy. How much are you willing to sacrifice for your principles? Would you, honestly now, choose to sacrifice your own life and the lives of everyone you love to get a single fantasy novel published?

There's merit to picking your battles. For a man to risk torture and death by joining the resistance, or sheltering refugees, or crossing the border and defecting to the other side--that at least makes some sense. But to publish a novel? Not even an incendiary novel of revolution to fire the people's hearts, but a cheery, inoffensive fairy tale? What a pointless sacrifice that would be.
Heart disease and cancer are somewhat more treatable, for one thing. None of the three particularly respects class lines.
I think that happened when they centralised it.
This only works for short periods of "burst" activities, if it is routine then the waste is distributed more or less equally so you get the same percentage of waste unless you work for very short periods. I.e. if somebody goes to smoke for 10 mins every 2 hours (just an example), then he would be out for 1/12 of time regardless of how many hours he works, as long as its substantially more than 2. If he really-really needs to finish something in 3 hours, he may forgo the smoke break once or twice, but if we take a period of a year, it will revert to regular schedule soon.
I don't take offense (nothing to be personal about, why should it) but I find the show pretty boring and awkwardly stupid if I was honest. I think it's extremely exaggerated but not in any way I personally find is good. It's not funny, acting seems awful, and it's nothing like Silicon Valley as I know it and I've lived here for almost a decade. To each his own I guess. I just stopped watching, it was too bland for my taste.
> as in, within a few seconds of her pushing her own commit

Is it really only possible for a revert to happen 'within a few seconds' to not cause issues? That's a strong statement to make based on little information. It might be true, but the repository in question could also have little traffic, or this could have happened over a weekend.

> Also, the article says they reviewed git push logs, which I imagine would catch this.

I see. I guess overlooked that (probably just read it as 'commit logs').

In general, I don't understand why they didn't just ask her about the commits in question. If it did happen, she would likely be able to point them in the right direction and at least narrow their search (e.g. 'the revert happened in repository X around these dates'). If she couldn't, then they are no better off, but no worse off either.