skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I get that, I really didn't make my thoughts very clear. I get that you want to be happy again, and not play game gear again (or even a modern equivilant). Part of my thoughts that I didn't express was that an equivalent or the same thing to what made you happy then likely won't anymore.

I get the loneliness, despite having friends I don't feel close to any of them. I never felt lonely when I didn't have friends. In my case, having something I have nothing but apathy towards, only seems to serve as a reminder of that apathy.

Sounds like you are way ahead of me in the socializing thing though, my followers, friends, and connections account for very few people, if you are able to care about even one of them please consider yourself lucky, because I as a person who has never had to deal with the stigma of being deemed "abnormal" have no one I care about other than my self.
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Like with everything around autism, it differs. For me the first signs started to appear between 3 and 5 (or so they tell me) but bigger problems arose around 13.

(Fourth throwaway I have to create for 6 posts despite 10 upvotes. The captcha is a real PITA to get through and by now I have to tether 3g to comment anything at all...)
> "his brain is inherently different"

I like to describe it as though the part of my brain that would normally be processing one type of signal seems like it's been repurposed to process something different [0]. Social signals are incredibly difficult, but I can navigate complex structures in 3D space (think: levels in Descent or similar video games) easily. My son doesn't make eye contact, but he's 4 years old and can do fraction calculations in his head that my 10 year old students struggled with.

[0] note that I'm not claiming a specific physical mechanism, just describing how it feels -- things other people find easy I find incredibly challenging and vice versa, as if they have a dedicated brain-area for task X and I have one for task Y.
We are working on Cammy (http://www.cammy.com). It's a cloud based security and monitoring platform. The idea being, you buy cheap IP cameras (20 - 40 dollars), put them in places you'd like to monitor, and they send images to the cloud, available for viewing via our app.

We are working on some useful features around alerting users when a camera detects movement, and you aren't in the immediate vicinity (I.e. an intruder etc), which will make it a good alternative to conventional alarms. Live view of camera feeds is also coming.

If you have a spare iPhone or Android device, you will also use those as cameras, rather than purchase IP cameras (not yet in production).

Best of all, the app is free. Any feedback?
I can't tell if you're being facetious, but a Bitcoin URI is not readable, shareable, or memorable, making it harder to use Bitcoin itself. A username, just like a URL, provides that. Not to mention, everyone can't run their own trusted server, just like most people don't run their own mail or web servers.
Out of personal experience, this is the only way to live with it. Otherwise, someone will be unhappy and most probably this one will be a child that has no way to express the immensity of its distress. When we got the diagnosis for our son, first night, we were sitting with my wife outside, while he was sleeping. She told me "I do not want to force him to be something he is not. I do not want him to be a robot." And we decided to try to instead understand how it is to be him and find the best and most normal communication channel in his world. In the process, I think we all developed and we are extremely lucky to now read this article and know that he is very close to be one of these few cases that are "cured".
I will just leave this here, in case someone is going through the same situation. You will find a million different treatments and theories. Always be present at the treatment and see how it makes you feel. If you feel alright, keep on. If something is feeling wrong leave. Do not overload the child with specialist time, especially as he/she progresses the time the child wants is with you. Work with the child like if you push one of those super market trolleys with one wheel stuck, you have to move and bend your own body. Finally, try to introduce the child to unexpectedness and randomness. Do it gently. Flip a coin (randomness), hide the coin in your palm and let him choose which palm it is in (unexpectedness of someone else's decisions), play rock-paper-scissors. Don't do it all at once. It took us one year form hidden coin to rock-paper-scissors. And finally read. You will discover more about yourself in the process.
Finally, be prepared to face discrimination. It's not the worst kind, but very painful and disappointing. This world will always resist difference in some form, and given the lax network of people with this difference, discrimination against it is more efficient and frustrating.

Edit: if the above sound simple, don't think I would ever imply so. When you feel too tired to do anything, have some rest (if you can) and know that probably everyone, but at least we, felt despair many times.
There is nothing "only" about a clustered shared filesystem.

There may be a hundred of them but none works off the shelf for all applications. There are a lot of details in there.

You could probably make the point that early Google was "only" a clustered filesystem plus some apps running on top on it.
This is easy to answer and quite frankly a stupid question.

Why should you have to pay for someone else's mistake? If a child runs out in front of a car, it is either their fault or their guardian's fault for allowing them to run into traffic. It's tragic, but to suggest the driver should give up their life for someone else's mistake is ridiculous.

Who in their right mind would get inside a car that is programmed to commit suicide in certain "ethical" circumstances?
What's your company/what are your products?
Obama signs cellphone unlocking bill
ScrollerJS - 60 FPS Scroller for the Web
Building an endless 60 FPS scroller for the web. Talk and look behind the curtain of scrollerjs(.com) implementation can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAOPi9C8674
It doesn't sound like they are excluding people from Antarctica (since it is REMOTE), just that they don't have an office on that continent (yet ;).
They didn't mind when they drugged up people in SF as part of MKUltra.
The CIA is !precluded! operationally and I think legally from operating with USAID for this very reason. It wasn't a _mistake_, it was 'not-fucking-caring.'
Downvoters, take note:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis

"Applied behavior analysis (ABA), previously known as behavior modification,[1] is the application of operant and classical conditioning to modify human behaviors as part of a learning or treatment process. "
If the point is to attract users who haven't joined Google+ (likely because they don't want another Facebook-shaped social network), why in the world would they keep "Google+" in the name?

I'd be surprised if this were anything other than an Instagram and/or Snapchat clone, with a Google+ login, but with a stream and friends-list distinct from Google+.
Building an endless 60 FPS scroller for the web. Talk and look behind the curtain of scrollerjs(.com) implementation can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAOPi9C8674
I am of the opinion that nothing is worse for a society than corrupt law enforcement of any kind. I am generally against death penalty, but think it should be applied for even minor breaches by law enforcement. If we cannot trust the people who are supposed to keep us save the entire system is broken.
Christian Heilmann – Forward JS Keynote Video
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=snowden+treason
Figwheel is not widely known, but I've used it for several months and find the workflow very convenient.
Obama signs bill “unlocking” cellphones
I just had the greatest idea about the name - it's a bit obscure and not many people have heard of it but they could call it "Picasa"!
> Who in their right mind would get inside a car that is programmed to commit suicide in certain "ethical" circumstances?

I suspect there are various classes of people that would choose this option. Believers of certain religions, old/hill people with high morals or strictly pragmatic, aspirant suicides, risk lovers, etc...

Not for me, though :-)
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It may be complex but it's built from simple parts. You can check out the mini-language transactions are expressed in on the Bitcoin wiki. It's really quite simple.

Of course, ordinary users needn't care, since this is exactly what the Bitcoin software does for you: It tracks your money and how much of it is spendable.
What do you think about the open intelligence movement?
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Want someone who ships product? That's me.

How good of a mobile developer am I?

I have regularly taught weeklong corporate training classes covering Android Bootcamp, Android Advanced, Android Internals, iOS Bootcamp, iOS Advanced and Windows Phone Advanced to a client list that includes Intel, Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, Facebook, Paypal/eBay, SONY, Activision and Microsoft. I have travelled all over the world to present corporate training classes. In the past six months I have taught more than 300 professionally employeed senior engineers about developing for mobile platforms.

I code for the client back-end, client front-end, UI, UX, server-stack back-end, do visual and graphic design, handle project management, fight fires and rescue projects. I even do big data, machine learning, hardware design, video procesisng, vision recognition, 3D graphics, augmented reality, robotics and device drivers.

Obviously, because I cover all three platforms, I can handle Java, .NET, C#, Objective-C and C/C++ along with most of the easier to understand scripting languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, Coffeescript, Lua, Python, PHP, SQL and so forth.

I am gregarious and outgoing, good at evangelizing, professionally attired, have excellent networking and mingling skills, a reasonably experienced marketing background and am both business-oriented and financially savvy. I mentor and advise a number of entrepreneurs and start-ups about building their products. I have nursed projects back to health after they have gotten off-course due to technical misteps and rescued multi-million dollar projects from going down in flames. I've worked as a solo-entrepreneur, a solo-engineer, small-team engineer and lead a 100+ person cross-disciplinary team for a product that had $300M of marketing behind it. I write code every day.

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Ask HN: Equity split up details and standards
http://tinyurl.com/ch8qolj

I was going through this article and understand that once the option pool was created it was not included in the calculation when the company received a valuation of 1$M valuation.

But once the angel investor invests , the next round the valuation is based on only 66.66% of the company which means it doesnt include the option pool and the angel investor equity stake.. why is this so ?

in the next round .. all the equity except the first employee stake is included to calculate the % to be issued to the public ?

Clarity on this and are there any standards or specific guidelines followed ?
The Powerdns geo backend as mentioned by the article is used by wikipedia among others.

I have some additions (e.g. Google Public DNS), see the files at https://gist.github.com/dgl/8344c3ebe405a1400e2d (which also has the rsync location for the original).

[edit: now I read the article again I notice the author is assuming 'eu' is going to get all of EU, it won't. There need to be entries for each country.]
Or put differently - The cars prime directive should be to serve its master (the passenger).
Actually, my comment was intended as a [half-] joke. In fact, I was once researching about relatively long-term job options in Antarctica - and I remember there were some options for IT staff.

As for the short-term travel, it is quite expensive:

http://www.antarcticconnection.com/shopcontent.asp?type=trav...
Monitor and ink manufacturers make a real effort to get as near to pure "does not exist in nature" black as possible. Nature does not.

And, of course, almost pure black does exist in nature (look in a deep hole some day). It's only rare.
That's an amazing story. Glad everything worked out for you in the end! Many of my friends are in medicine, and some of them lament that if they could do it all over again, they would pursue some form of engineering. It's hindsight bias of course, but the grind is just so bad in the states and the debt can be crippling. 4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 3 years residency, possible 2-3 year fellowship.

That's a really really long time for a person to have to grind through the competition, the residency politics, etc in order to be able to finally make it to a place where they can actually practice medicine. Apparently 95% of doctors wouldn't recommend someone to pursue medicine today. It's disheartening.
Maybe we'll get ethical settings in our robots so, like a human driver today, we get to decide if we'll kill the kid or kill ourselves. But the problem with letting user have too many options is that we might end up at a less than optimal global outcome due to prisoner's dilemma-type choices. There could be more people killed, worse traffic, worse energy efficiency, etc. because users choose the selfishly beneficial options.
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Your summary goes too far. Positive psychology doesn't "explain" disorders. Positive psychology focuses on improving the quality of mental/emotional life in a holistic, as a complement or alternative to trying to cure a specific phyisically-identifiable problem.

For example: If you become quadripelegic (or whatever), positive psychology can help you orient your life and attitude to accomplish your life goals and find happiness within the particular constraints of your condition, instead of feeling depressed and miserable and angry about your situation.
Why not just track the number of people who walk in and out?

How much added value does the sitting aspect add, considering that it would cost a lot of if you had to retrofit these onto your seats?
Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V
Tox is now usable and has reached alpha (in other words, it is mostly working, but lacking some features, bugs might be apparent).

uTox is a lightweight (minimal dependencies) Tox client for Windows, Linux and (experimentally) Android. It supports text chat, file transfers, audio and video calling, desktop sharing (both as video and as screenshots). It also supports text-only group chats (with audio/video being worked on).

For more info about Tox and uTox, see the project links below.

Windows updater/downloader:

https://jenkins.libtoxcore.so/job/utox_update_win32/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/utox-updater.zip

Linux nightlies:

64-bit:

https://jenkins.libtoxcore.so/job/uTox_linux_amd64/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/utox/utox_linux_amd64.tar.xz

32-bit:

https://jenkins.libtoxcore.so/job/uTox_linux_i686/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/utox/utox_linux_i686.tar.xz

If you use an operating system other than windows or linux (OSX or android) or want to try other Tox clients, see this page:

https://wiki.tox.im/Binaries

Project links:

Official Tox website:

https://tox.im

uTox Github:

https://github.com/notsecure/uTox

toxcore Github:

https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore

Other links:

qTox Github:

https://github.com/tux3/qTox

Antox Github:

https://github.com/Astonex/Antox

Note about adding friends in Tox: in the settings area of uTox you can find your Tox ID, and you give that out to your friends so that they can add you. To solve the inconvenience of sharing long IDs, Tox also supports "DNS names", for example "groupbot@toxme.se". You can register your own @toxme.se name on toxme.se

Tox is alpha software, bugs are expected.

Feel free to post any questions or feedback or visit us on IRC: #tox on freenode.
In the specific example of a child at a tunnel entrance, you've got a good point. However, I think there are plenty of scenarios which you can make up that function similarly without providing a culpable victim.

For example, the self-driving car you're in is driving by an elementary school at the end of the day, so there are a number of children on the sidewalk. Suddenly, a truck appears coming at your car going in the wrong direction. Should your car take an evasive maneuver onto the sidewalk, with a high likelihood of striking a child?
> 1-56/5 * * * * foo

The first minute of the hour, then every 5 minutes until the 56th minute, inclusive
It is a stupid question, but not even because people, even children, should be responsible of their acts, but because a driver should expect such occurences.

This is the reason why speed limits are very low in residential and school areas: because it is expected that there are people on the side walks that _could_ possibly change direction, move on the road, and even perhaps stop (fall) there.

Similarly, when driving in the mountains or in the Arizona desert, you might go fast when there are nobody around, but if you see somebody walking on the side, you must take into account his possible changes of dirrection, and therefore slow down. Around highways, there are often fences to prevent people to come close, so that cars may go fast. Also, you don't go as fast when there is fog than when the sky is clear: you have to expect more unknowns when there is fog than when it's clear.

Now, I'm not saying that human drivers apply speed limits (either legal or moral (ie. "bayesian")) often or at all, but they should.

I'm saying that a robotic car will have much less difficulties in controlling scientifically its speed, taking into account the presence of people, animals and other mobile objects surrounding it, their velocities and their possible direction changes. Therefore a "tunnel" situation as described in that articule won't occur (unless there's a bug in the software).
Unless instructed to by me, my robot driver should never leave the road unless it is to save me, not kill me. The decision should be to drive the car into the area that causes the occupants the least harm.
Those topics are a fair counterpoint. :P
Received a 500 error when searching for a book.

Is this targeted at people in India? Wondering because of the .in domain. It is a really good idea for a place like India where the public library system is not that great. I grew up there and the way I was able to read books mostly was by borrowing from friends whose parents or grandparents had built up a collection.
> Who in their right mind would get inside a car that is programmed to commit suicide in certain "ethical" circumstances?

Maybe you'll find this version more interesting: suppose the car has the opportunity to save a dozen people (who are not themselves at fault) by sacrificing you (or failing to do everything in its power to protect you). Should it?

If no, which seems to be the answer you think is obvious, consider that you are far more likely to find yourself as one of the dozen potential people saved than as the sacrifice, especially since we're deciding on the rule for all autonomous cars, not just yours. So following your logic makes it more likely for you to get killed.
Interesting question:

Looking at Issac Amimov's laws, I believe that the 0th law would cause the child to die because that outcome reasonably reduces the number of humans potentially harmed in the situation (as driving into the wall may cause unpredictable results including additional harm to humans).

Looking at the EPRSC / AHRC principles of robotics, I believe the child would die because robots are artifacts and should not invoke an emotional response.

See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_robotics
The example is illustrative. There is nothing stupid about the original question. Someone else's fault and self-preservation are just convenient escapes in this situation. Suppose instead of a child running in front of the car, it was a large rock. Going straight will kill you. Swerving left will kill a mom and two kids, going right will kill an old trucker. What does your car do?

By the 'fault' logic, it was nobody else's fault that the rock landed in front of you, why should they die so you can live?

Going right and slamming your semi into the mini-Cooper means you live without a scratch, but good luck to the couple in the car. Going left and hitting the other truck there will probably make your truck flip and give you broken bones, but nobody dies. What now?
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Also see crontab2english:
http://interglacial.com/pub/crontab2english.html
This debate has come up a few times now and I doubt it reflects the reality of what responses to such situations can be practically expressed in code using today's computers and languages anyway (in the absence of some AI that can make 'ethical' decisions).

I suspect the best collision avoidance algorithm in such scenarios will simply be decelerate as quickly as possible whilst maintaining course. Then a 'best effort' at avoiding a collision can be seen to have been made, and perhaps the pedestrian will survive their injuries. This is what a human driver would have most likely done?

What if the child/small adult (can the computer vision practically recognise the difference) is themselves quite 'evil' (again, another value judgement) and is running in front of robot cars in such situations on purpose?
It's also a bit of a red haring. While it could happen in very rare instances, the whole benefit of the automated car is that the number accidents will drop off a cliff. When nearly every car on the road is automated then there simply won't be many accidents any more.
I like your new default colors and this project in general. So nice job with putting this out there.

But at the same time, I don't use your CSS file. I think the commenter above who's hating on this thinks some of it might be redundant. I guess it depends on your use-case and what kind of styling you do... I am by no means a CSS/web designing expert. For my projects personally, I just your use the HEX code of your new default colors whenever I need it. And I keep it bookmarked it for reference.
As much as I like the idea, this is somehow against net neutrality.
I have trouble to make my mind about it.
Ryan - any way of contacting you via email vs. the contact us form your site... Usual MO around here.
For example, into a crowded market plaza? Into a playground?
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That's an inspiring story. Can you share what you are working on in Toronto? Toronto is my hometown, so I like to hear about projects coming out of that city.
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