skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article. The strangest part for me was the sudden onset that people experienced. When I think of psychological disorders, I think of how symptoms usually start small and gradually get more severe.

Everybody gets small phantom itches from time to time. I think the idea of an "itch nerve malfunction" makes the most sense. One could imagine some sort of infinite loop of itch nerves triggering each other, exacerbated by constant scratching.

Any strange psychological behavior, such as extreme cleanliness, or being convinced that ordinary clothing fibers are the cause, would be an obvious natural response if you couldn't figure out why you were suddenly so itchy.

Also, anyone who has to deal with contact lenses knows that our hands and fingers always have tiny little fibers stuck to them.
> Sure, in the short-term, Amazon can do what they do and undercut on price, but in the modern age, Wal-Mart has pretty much figured out the optimal model of inventory storage/distribution and the model of keeping inventory on-hand and having customers come to them enables them to do this at an incredibly large scale and at razor-thin margins. Yet they are still margins.

That only works because people don't value their time it takes to get to Wal-Mart and shop there.
Right. Delusional parasitosis is very much a real disease. The only thing that's not real are the parasites, but that's trivial: There is a real disease, it does need to be treated, and the fact the treatment isn't a delousing or similar is not what we need to focus on.
yeah u r so right but that dude concluded all today's 20 and 30-something...
If you aren't counting the lack of what most would consider "engineering", I'm inclined to agree with you.
And yet if it's not, then sharing this article is probably one of the better things you can do with the information.
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Notch bought a house for 70mil USD
That's exactly what I was thinking
Here's a nice five minute example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz_UagXkFk
Edit: Do you pay for headspace or just use their 10 minute? I just signed up.

Thanks for the book suggestion, I just bought this book.
The interviewer uses what are known, with reference to the topic of discrimination, as "code words".

For example, a close friend who was one of the pioneers of the video game industry, one of Atari's very first game designers, once interviewed to be a Games Evangelist for Apple. At the time, Apple had not done anything to promote Macintosh games, at least not for quite a long time.

My friend was dead certain he'd get an offer, but the hiring manager told my friend that he "looked tired" and so would not be suitable for what in reality is a marketing position.

I myself look tired all the time; there's not a whole lot I can do about that. That doesn't mean that I really _am_ tired.

The other way that it's made plainly apparent, is that I talk just like a surfer dude, so I sound quite young over the phone. The way others respond to me over the phone is quite different from the way they speak to me when they see me in person.
I think it really depends on how you use it.

I have a Yahoo mail account but I rarely login to it on the website. Instead I use their IMAP server with a desktop app.
Yeah, like I mentioned on this page, I've been using Emacs for almost 30 years. In that time, I've heard the "right tool for the right job" expression so much that it almost makes me ill. It offers little value. The silly metaphors add no value either.

Now, back to my point, if you're writing a book about mastering Emacs, like we are discussing, one of its main weaknesses is out of the box code-completion. Many new users would be well served by covering this topic. I've shown Emacs to many people over the years that's one of the biggest complaints. Hippie expansion wasn't going to cut it.

Btw, it seems many other people share my attitude and there are "Batteries Includes" versions of Emacs.

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME...
The cost is always going to be covered by the consumer.
Porteus runs in under 300mb and runs nicely off a cheap USB stick or CDR while having all the basics including a Desktop GUI.

http://www.porteus.org/
I agree Git can be complex, but... CVS? Really? I do not miss non-atomic commits at all.
I must say I am growing weary of being unemployed.

I speculate that I know how to time certain specific parts of the market, however I don't want to do myself what I won't do for a bank.

My current theory is that I could contribute much of my ill-gotten gains to the Portland Rescue Mission as well as the Blanchet House of Hospitality.
I followed my subconscious and pursued CS without formal education on the subject, and I did well! I know it's not much but now I have a master's degree! Some of the courses I did better than the ones who had a BSc in CS. I wouldn't have invested so much time and money if I wasn't interested.

For example; now I'm kind of curious about chemistry. I want to learn more about it, but I can't study forever, I need a job.

I DO want to code. I want to code so well that one day maybe I want to contribute to the Linux kernel! But I want to ask you: HOW do you go on about doing that? The degree I have doesn't mean much. I think I might learn more from books than I did at the university, actually.
Your argument appears to be that the word "integrative" implies non-science based medicine/research. Is there any reason to believe the journal Cancer is in some way lacking in scientific standards? I have no idea. But assuming it is a well-respected publication the results appearing in it require more evidence to dismiss other than a paper author does "integrative" research.
Regarding point 2., which I absolutely agree with, I think we suffer a bit from "the WhatsApp problem"; that is, there's this ludicrous benchmark set by WhatsApp - ~$19,000,000,000 - that taints our view of the world.

It's like, here there's zero, and that's you sitting on the couch watching TV. Then over there there's nineteen billion dollars, and that's you being "successful". And in the middle there's nothing. And that's daunting and, of course, ludicrous.

Code little things. Or don't code, do something else. Go make something out of wood. But do it for the enjoyment, for the little thrill it gives you. Don't think about anybody else while you're doing it; don't think about what it might make you, or whether you'll end up on the front page of HN, or whether you'll get funding, or move to SF, or whatever.

Good luck. I'm 38 and your post resonated with me - this stuff doesn't necessarily get easier as you get older!
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Sorry, I might have been not clear enough.
I didn't mean "compare yourself because you enjoy comparing".

I meant "just do what you like without comparing yourself to anyone". Or, compare your current self to your past self. That is the only reliable way to measure progress.
Time guarantees on a modern out-of-order processor with some complicated cache structure of three or more levels, with virtual memory enabled? Forget it.

Also, if you include bigints in your list of things people want, I do not find it unreasonable to add timestamps (maybe not the best example because of leap seconds) or 'day of the week', 'month of the year' to that list. Most language libraries get those (often including those perfect 86400 second days) before they get bigints.
Discourse markers may be unnecessary, but they do carry some meaning and serve a purpose.
Deep learning for genetics
The expertise to do these things is the domain of well outfitted organizations, who have other simpler methods of making you talk. Indeed, electronic surveillance of is often used to protect agents from dangerous work.
Obesity 'could be a disability' – EU courts rule
I don't think this is a problem with supply, this is a problem with demand.

The solution is to (somehow) eliminate the demand for ivory with strict laws/punishments.
I wish they went down to the third level domains. A state I am familiar with has a hard time tracking domains down, as there are several entities authorized to request then.
I think I'm much more ok with background things upgrading in the background. For instance: I never open a new browser tab and think "hmmm, lets launch a Flash process", it's just there, ready to respond when needed. So it isn't shocking to find that it polls for updates and applies them.

By contrast, git is a tool that I manually invoke on the command line, and when the process terminates it's done. Having that phone home at runtime feels more invasive.
Probably a fairly common case: I use git on a Linux VM running in a Mac OS X host machine, using an NFS synced folder to share files between the host and guest. It appears that in this case the guest machine uses the case insensitivity of the host file system, making git vulnerable even though it's running on Linux.
So perhaps one day those 10 women at your company might like to eat lunch together and talk about their experiences, much like how there are probably many lunch tables with 10 men at them at your company. It's not everyday, it's a special event.
Absolutely, this was not intended to be about semantics. The alternative interpretations were given so as to make it easier to dispel the cumbersome connotations that usually comes with the word "meditation", not to make it seem like it's about a particular school of thought or anything like that. It's just to make it easier to sit down and try it out with fewer preconceived notions as to what it's supposed to be.

I think it's the privilege of the practitioner to formulate what meditation is to them, and the easier it is to establish a personal relationship to the practice unhindered by baggage (cultural, institutional, linguistic or otherwise), the better.
Systemd now has its own JSON tokenizer
CVS has had multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, though.
The SR-71 was an impressive engineering feat because it successfully brought together a bunch of really crazy tech and got it to work. All of this with a relatively small team and stone-age (by modern standards) computational ability.

The A-10 was an impressive engineering feat because it perfectly executed a very boring and conservative design. It did one thing, did it very well, and was so reliable it arguably put its producer out of business.

If I had to draw a comparison to software, I'd compare the SR71 with Erlang, and the A-10 with Postgres.
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The point is that for OpenBSD that security trumps anything else, including usability of developer tools.
2 is wrong. Mongos shits all over itself after only a few nodes and moderate traffic. It's balancing is incredibly broken and will kill a small cluster very quickly.

Source: tried to use it at scale
It looks like PostgreSQL is on track to slowly succeed MySQL as the de-facto open source database.

Microsoft tentatively seems to be settling on them as the preferred RDBMS for non-Windows platforms [1]:

> Within ASP.NET 5 our primary focus is on SQL Server, and then PostgreSQL to support the standard Mac/Linux environment.

I use EF+SQL Server and they're very much complementary and provide an excellent developer experience. NHibernate+SQL Server is woeful unless you want to use the loosely-typed Criteria stuff. NH's LINQ provider is terrible and it gets confused at the drop of a hat (call Distinct and then OrderBy? "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"). At this point I'm convinced only MS know how to write LINQ providers that won't fall over the moment you try to do something useful with them.

Microsoft writing a LINQ provider for PgSql is a great thing for running .NET code on non-Windows platforms.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2014/12/02/ef7-priori...
Yes, I completely agree. It would be better to talk about anxiety, chronic itching, etc. and offer the patient some potential treatments. CFS, fibromyalgia and IBS patients are in a similar situation.
I have little practical experience with IT security, but I like to look at these issues from the side of the customer. There's a quote I like to repeat:

"If you prioritize security over accessibility, you'll have a perfectly secure system that noboody ever uses, ending up with zero customers. But if you prioritize accessibility over security, you can still build something as large as PlayStation Network."
This Bud's For You:

Self-Employment: Even On A Good Day Things Are Hard

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays/business/self-employment....

tl;dr I got nothing but crap from some guy who had $200,000,000.00 in his own personal hedge fund, because all his other coders were completely cool with working at one-quarter my pay, despite that their code often crashed, thereby costing that jackass tens of millions of dollars per year.

Nobody else at that firm had ever even heard of such things as C++ initalization lists, alone alone used them in their code.
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
That's an absurd example. Why did you assume that I am arguing the extreme case? All I'm saying is that the page-is-a-page metaphor is legitimate, efficient and comprehensible. It should not be dismissed simply because some over-engineered client side framework looks cool.

Obviously "tiny" changes can be performed with client side code without breaking the page-is-a-page metaphor. Look at Facebook -- a good example of an extremely mature application where the page-is-a-page metaphor remains fully intact.

And of course not all websites fit the metaphor, in which case you obviously should not use it.
It's interesting, but is it much of an attack? Ok, so you can determine what OS your phone is running, but you can do that by coding a QR code that brings them to a webpage that registers it with javascript; you need to direct them to a site regardless to collect your findings from this attack.
Captivating response. It gives you a glimpse into understanding why his employees want him as their leader
Yes, because there are no other JSON libraries out there that could've solved this problem, and so let's write yet another one.

Why does my init system need JSON, again?
Except that the legislators and employers take tips into account when lobbying for and setting the minimum wage.

We see it as "that waiter was nice, leave a generous tip".

Employers see it as "if they don't do a good enough job they won't make any tips, and the problem will naturally work itself out." This is patently unfair because it treats tips as implied expected income, and wages are set so low that you can't make a livable income without them. This is patently unfair.
if I could upvote this more than once I would
Why not? DNN-HMM and GMM-HMM won;t have done any better even if trained for 2300 hours.
Just bought it because that premise sounds amazing. Amazon has it listed as "Zones of Thought series Book 2". Should I read book 1 before reading this?
The wines were the same: "He presented the same Bordeaux superior wine"
I do enjoy coding. A friend asked me to create a little website for him and instead of telling him to check out WordPress, I sat down and coded a CMS, complete with authentication and multi-user options etc. But that was years ago. Now it feels like I WANT to do it but I just can't. Which language? Which DB? Which tutorial? Which whatever? I get tired just thinking about the questions...
MiP – The fun balancing robotic platform
From the VC space:
Fred Wilson's AVC: http://avc.com
Ben Horowitz Ben's Blog: http://www.bhorowitz.com
Paul Graham's Essays: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
The most infuriating way is that it will roll back its oplog on an election, and sometimes throw away confirmed writes.

Mongos does weird magic as well when it gets confused, and will confirm writes to the wrong shards during "interesting" situations.
Spain Hits a New Low in Its Fight Against Entrepreneurship
The Slate Programming Language
Misfortune Cookie Flaw Puts 12M Routers at Risk
Hmm, do you have a source for that? (That Mjolnir isn't being developed).

I just checked https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir, and I don't see any mention of this, and the last commit was from November 15.
Misfortune Cookie
Does it have a character limit from whatever text source and then search the last phrase in the source text and repeat ad infinitum?
For a single utterance, it's fast enough that we can produce results in real time. Of course, building a production system for millions of users might require just a bit more engineering work...
You can download a netiso (net install / minimal iso). That kind of ISOs are between 80-250 MB (or even less) and contains a base system only but you can download the "rest" of the system from internet.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/

But If you are not confident enough with Linux perhaps you might consider other options.
What passes for software engineering is usually nothing of the sort. Shoot from the hip, google/cut/paste and instinctual decision making is still very common.

IMO, service based cloud services are forcing infrastructure people to adopt an engineering thought process. Not quite as pervasive for software development.
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I'd be interested to hear how you're betting on the bubble. Are you shorting stocks? Buying puts? Some kind of real estate ETF? Are you actively betting or just sideline speculating? Not trying be passive aggressive - I've just been trying to come up with a good strategy myself to bet on an imminent bubble.

Also, could you provide more detail on how QE money is ending up in VC pockets? I was under the impression that most of the large-scale-asset purchase money is simply sitting in bank reserves - check out the 2nd graph showing how much of QE has actually made it into circulation [0]. I'm not sure exactly how the "free money" of the Fed is ending up in Twitter's coffers.

[0] http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic...
Advice from Doug McIlroy
Here's another reference: http://www.vdare.com/articles/yes-virginia-there-is-a-cultur...

The term is really just a shorthand reference to the kind of social, political, and ideological ideas that a "progressive" university student absorbs (or is expected to absorb) during the course of his or her 4+ years in a contemporary American university.
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My quick an dirty (pun intended) experiment concluded that ntfs, while mounted on linux, is case-sensitive. Windows will happily list all files from fs in explorer, whatever case they are, but treat them as one. And this is deep in win32: http://i.imgur.com/sWnCMdq.png (that's cygwin, while on linux, I've put a `small` file in the `test` dir).
Just a quick glance at the way she has butchered the sports section of the website should be enough to condemn her. It went from being the best on the net to being too complicated, full of mistakes and unreadable. It forced me to go to ESPN (which I also don't like). You don't make changes just to make changes. Without a clear sense of purpose and clear vision of what you're doing and who you're aiming at, a CEO is a failure.
Konami code added to Virgin Mobile Australia homepage
Maybe, but I don't think you necessarily need to. I started with A Deepness in the Sky and then read the other two (and then all the other books Vinge has written).

Especially since it is actually a prequel, I don't think the order is that important.
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Unbundling VC
Wonder what the HN community thinks of this - http://imgur.com/Ri5N9Zp ?
I am in general able to get really good jobs.

Yes you are correct that I do rub some people the wrong way. It's rather more subtle than you would think. For example I ordered a really tasty meal in an all-night restaurant once:

"Hey that supper I ordered is really good!"

"Are you going to be able to pay for it?"

"Well of course."

"I want you to pay for it RIGHT NOW!"

"Well OK..." I pulled what was clearly $25.00 in cash out of my wallet.

"Do you have enough money?"

"Wut? This is twenty-five bucks!"

However the waitress who actually served the meal was happy to chat with me the whole time I was there. It was the owner of the restaurant who seemed to think I could not pay, despite my having three times as much cash as what the meal cost.

There are only certain people who act that way towards me. It's uncommon but when they act like that, they are quite irrational.

I am dead certain that most people I meet in real life do not know I am mentally ill. There have been quite a few people who I have known for years, who were quite surprised when I finally told them about it.

Also, I am not the only coder who faces age discrimination. I was first warned about it when I was thirty years old or so. The age discrimination is widespread, it's easy to find others who have similar experiences.

Consider - have you ever seen an old person who works at an Apple Store?

Someone in a wheelchair?
How do you get around sites blocking the IP of your engine?
Be careful in how you approach chronic issues like this. Saying the "feeling is not real" is just as dismissive as the doctors in the article. The feelings are real. There just may be no physical cause for them. They are real feelings, perhaps with a psychological or neurological basis.

These people need real help. And that help may be psychological in nature. Don't shame people because of it - support them so they can stand up and accept the help they need.
Where is anyone saying they can't say it?
You might be able to attack a specific code reader, or a left-handed person who waves their phone over the dots in a different order? Or sneak a malicious code past QA and into the wild.
Hum, my spidey sense is tingling with this... a couple of reasonable doubts and questions here. I don't like the term seals in this context.

Maybe a misidentification?.
Here's hoping he'll host some sweet coding parties...
Well, that's a knock on /github then. The entries should be as minimal as possible, in number and in individual length.
Quite the opposite of "lacking"--way too much.
In short you have to realize WoW is a drug. Now I say this as an ex-player, who had a very long complicated battle with depression and parental abuse. WoW makes it easy to escape and hide into a world where its very easy to get rewarded for what feels like fun, but is actually hours of your life.

The game rewards you like rewarding a dog to shit outside, or do funny tricks. The rewards become spaced further out over time conditioning you to work harder for the same reward. Its very easy to stay motivated when a green bar shows you how far you are from the next reward. Its just as easy to stay motivated as you slam your face into Heroic Ragnaros for the 246th time straight, because we're getting him to P4 and well its just RNG at that point if we keep it up because its just a matter of keeping focused. Depression is bad. I've been there and for well over 6 years I attempted to hide in another world to avoid it.

What you have to do is accept that slow action is still action. When ever I catch myself sliding back into older/bad habits I find its often good to mediate on the why you are doing that. A quote I've really fallen in love with is:

"One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue." - the Dalai Lama.

Medication and Therapy can be very useful.
Yes, but the point is that vulnerabilities in cvs are likely very few as of today, because the code is old and simple, and have been used a lot.