skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm disgusted by your disgust. I wanted a PhD more than anything, but I didn't understand my disorder at the time, and I didn't have the care nor coping skills I needed to get through life on top of achieving what I wanted to in the PhD program. That was three years ago and I still cry almost every other night or so over it, but I am living a much healthier and more understood life, instead of every day being almost constant confusion and stress (on top of difficult school work, being a teaching assistant and a research assistant).

It helps when the work environment understands explicitly. I experience heightened stress and chaotic thought patterns in overtly social situations that ripple across months when the situations only last days or hours, and I need to learn to engage in them very slowly at my own pace and be comfortable.

If my former school understood this instead of having my professors call me 'aspie', maybe I would have a PhD by now. The one thing I learned from this is that I should not be forced into any situation that makes me experience distress, and I do not care if you think it's ridiculous. I have spent far too much of my life in difficult mental places, and I do not want to live like that anymore, and I won't. I don't force people around me to do graduate level math simply so they can talk to me in a language I understand.

We are not always clever and eccentric, 100% of the time. It would help if people stopped looking at us like computers and started remembering we are human too.
Thankfully it's on a long slow slide to oblivion.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=php&cmpt=q&tz=
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That's very subjective. Yes, one-letter variable names are usually a pain, but throwaway loop increments can be an exception. Three letter variable names are often perfectly acceptable, and optimal - what would you suggest I use instead of age, day, or max? Long variable names are often a massive pain, particularly those with multiple words separated by differing case or non-alpha characters.
The legal theory (or practice) that you have to prove you have been personally hurt in order to sue the government. Often the government claims that if you cannot prove you have been personally affected you can't sue, and then uses secrecy laws to ensure you can't prove you have been hurt.
Success (or failure) is just a state of mind. It's overrated.
Study suggests fake eyes on butterfly wings mimic eyes of predators
The link is taking time to load. Looks like everyone wants to know what others think about them. Expected.
How the Grid Will Automate Web Design Without Killing the Designer
I figured out a work-around. Before I go to my appointment (or vacation day, etc.), I go to the meeting board and put a big green check mark next to all of my completed tasks.

This has an amusing side effect: For some reason, even if I attend the stand-up after all, nobody debates my completed tasks with the big green check marks. So I now do this before every stand-up.
> For what it is worth, I've been programming longer than you've been alive and if I keep doing it another 30 years I doubt I will be acclaimed for my coding skills - and that doesn't bother me a bit.

Thank you for writing this, it is very inspiring. I have heard so many times that good devs are young people that makes me wonder about my future even if I'm very passionated about my career. At this point in my life I think I will love programming in the next 30 years, I hope I could live from that as well.
I found a random image of a human face and tried to upload it. Stuck at "Image queued for upload..." for minutes. Then came a page asking me to "annotate" the image by adjusting the auto-positioned point markers on my image according to this image[0]. Finally I saw this message: "An error has occured. Please try again." Is the server too busy right now?

[0]: http://face.cbs.dtu.dk/graph/annoEx.png

Mirror: https://archive.is/YAaex/5d06f6875b232350ff6954739af37c44a3d...
So, honest question: how is this not discrimination?

Not that I feel discriminated against personally, but it seems like they'd be opening themselves up to a HUGE legal liability. You can't hire someone based on their gender identity or the color of their skin, but you can hire based on a physical difference in the brain?
Down for me. A text only version is avalibal from Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7YJ7VTW... , but not sure that gives to much sens.
Apple Watch: What living with it is really like
Some trivial counterexamples (in ES6 for convenience):

someArray.sort((a, b) => a - b);

var odd = (x) => x % 2 == 0;
highlightRows = rows.filter(odd);

function isLegalAdult(age, locality){
...
}
One of the major reasons I dislike PHP is because of the include mechanism. When you include a file, you literally include the code of that file on that spot. You can't assign it to a variable to namespace it or something. Also the file that get's included can use the variables of the file it gets included into. This allows for some crazy behavior that can be very hard to analyze.

So to keep an overview of what you're including or what actually gets included, you'll have to make rules like "the filename should be the classname lowercased" or "all views for this module are in this specific file" and "included files may never use variables of files they are included into".

A lot of PHP frameworks have these kind of conventions. That's good, people are less prone to create unclear program behavior, but, it's still possible if they want. And anyway, it's sad that you need these conventions to help you use the language in a sensible way.

That's my biggest annoyance of PHP anyway. Don't know how much people feel the same way?
You're comparing yourself to others and it's making you feel like shit. Honestly, the problems you're experiencing is small compared to the shit that's worth fretting about (degrading health, lost of family/friends). When you're 40 and you look back at your 20's, you will feel fortunate to have the problems you're having now.

Find ways to start enjoying life now. Don't let pride get into the way. Your ego may demand you to live up to an unrealistic identity. Compare yourself to your old self and not others. That being said, it's easier said than done. But if you habitually and intentionally change the way you view yourself (like how a recovering anorexic looks at him/herself in the mirror), your change in thoughts will change the way how you feel. It'll take time but you'll eventually get there.
wait till you are a few weeks away from 40 and have the some thoughts :-(
Lots of other good advice in the thread already. I'm not sure how to phrase mine, but "live with it". Use your understanding of math to realize right now that statistically, you will always be worse than just about everyone at pretty much everything. You will always be behind multiple other people on just about every score you can come up with.

The fact that you read about person X or Y or Z, then feel inferior.... ugh. You don't have much imagination. Stop reading about other people - you should be able to feel inferior without reading the specifics of anyone else. But you can also feel... accomplished(?) both to your earlier self and to some others if you choose to.

Once you start to realize that, you'll hopefully have a different (and better) perspective on things.
Because, put quite simply, there are better choices.
Since the introduction of the Euro, many EU states got money a lot cheaper than they should have, due to their association to the stronger neighbouring economies. That started a completely irresponsible spending frenzy that was well-received by the voting public.

Germany is trying to save the Euro zone, not tank it. The US-based economists claim that it is possible to spend money (take on debt) to kick-start an economy and then recoup that money by increased tax earnings. It turns out that doesn't work any longer. Plus, many contries worldwide are already paying interest on their debt with new debt. And they have zero margin to increase taxes.

Some countries (including Germany, but not including the US) can still make it out of that downwards spiral.
The question is no longer, whether the EU will tank. The question is which of the EU, the US or China will default first on their debt.
The results will be devastating and capital will flee to the non-defaulted economic blocks.

This is a big political game played over decades. And media-based support of one or the other school of economics is part of it.
> Would you have the same attitude about kiddie porn?

Logical fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
Sorry for being harsh, but suggesting that German coal power plants are responsible for Paris smog is just bollocks, Paris being around 300km from the French-German border. There are ample reasons to criticise the "Energiewende", but Paris smog is definitely not one of them.
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Immutable Deployments and Packer
@girvo suggested installing gnu units, which does the trick.

> brew install gnu-units
> gunits
Ask HN: [Google Rankings] You've got $5k to spend, where do you put it?
I'm interested in improving the rankings of my site, and I'm wondering where the best place is to put budget... Content? Links? Press? Very interested to know what the community thinks. Thanks!
Understanding Tech Penetration in Latin America
Wait until it still doesn't make a single bit of difference.
Apple Watch Review Roundup: Future of the Wrist, but 'Not for Everyone'
What about those of us with asspergers? We need jobs too...
Connecting Jerry Seinfeld's Seinfeld and Lean-Startup
I always found Python docs very readable. Did you try the tutorial? Oh, and do yourself a favour and start with Python3.
In my case, so many search result are on pipermail. So I really want to see pipermail's interface to be improved. It looks like failed.

I would rather recommend http://discourse.org for anyone who finding mailing list + nice web and mobile interface.
Vibreoffice – vi(m) keybindings for Libreoffice and OpenOffice
Not everybody thinks that way. Lots of readers prefer to see the full screen picture. To me, it's more aesthetic and invites me to read on.
The Verge's Apple Watch Review [video]
Whatever your opinion on the watch might be, the review is just beautiful.
Autism is, in some aspects, a handicap, so this is not much different from programmes to help e.g. blind people. Or more neutral a programme to help types of underrepresented people like women or certain races.

You could maybe qualify it as positive discrimination, but nowhere it's said that autistic people will have a higher chance of a job so it's not even really that.
I feel for you. Not because I think you've wasted all your opportunities, but actually because you're focusing on this failing rather than succeeding. And the whole age thing, just forget about it. We all live in the 'now', some of us just reach milestones at different points in our life.

I'm 33 (and still feel extremely young in what I do). I just read The Launch Pad and was a little disappointed that to 'succeed', you need to be mortgage free, no kids, be prepared to relocate and have a co-founder you share your entire life with; generally traits of an unattached 20 year old with close friends. I would fail all those, but would that put me off trying a startup - hell no! Do I believe I could be part of the 0.1% of those that succeed? Of course. But will I feel like a failure if I'm not. Absolutely not!

I focus on the following. Do I have more experience, wisdom and understanding than I did 2 years ago? Am I enjoying the projects that I work on? Do I have vision for where I want to get to? I also know that there will always be people who are better and smarter than me. If that bothers me, learn from them, but don't envy them. They are no more 'special' than anyone else.

If I could go back 10 years, what would I do with that abundance of time I once had? Honestly, it wouldn't matter as I know I was not 'ready' to succeed at that age. At that age I hand't found the passion for what I do and hadn't seen enough of the world's problems first hand.

The problem I have is that I find it hard to focus on a single project and I'm overcommitted in my work (I work for a startup and two organically grown businesses). I have an endless stack of side projects that need my focus. But I only stop working on one because I find more passion for another. I'm okay with this - to a point. This is my challenge which I am working on by breaking down the goals into much smaller, more manageable deliverables. Celebrate the small wins as the big win is just a collection of smaller ones.

My advice to you. Forget about age. It doesn't matter if the other person is 18 or 68. I'd say to write down on post it notes the top 10 things you want to achieve in the next 30 days. Pick the top one to start with, then throw out the other 9 post it notes - they are just a distraction.
Link to the actual paper if anyone is interested:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25233221
Also, Uber now can automatically forward receipts to Concur for expense reporting if you set it up.

For the honest people who don't follow the time-honored process of using taxi receipts to bury personal expenses, it's way easier to do your expense report when Uber helps fill it out for you.
Site is not opening Seems like HN effect has freezed their server.
Looks just like Slack.
Submitted to hacker news 25 mins ago and published to techcrunch 24 mins ago. Wait what.
>> You will NEVER have the energy that the people whom you compare with have. Because they are being themselves, and are connected to the natural wellspring of motivation that comes from genuine interest, while you are the salmon swimming upstream, aping societal ideals and trying to be someone you are not.

>> Almost no one takes my advice because it's so threatening to be natural. What if you are not naturally ambitious? That's a horrific thought to have while being in the company of achievers, isn't it?

Awesome. Yes, this is pure Jiddu Krishnamurti. Basically, comparison causes conflict, conflict causes anxiety, anxiety causes fear, and fear makes mind dull. There's no intelligence where there's fear. Key here is to eliminate comparison. I keep reminding myself often :)
The UI feels like a 1 to 1 copy of the Slack client, or is Slacks UI so common now copying it is just using the Chat-UI standard?
Today is the day for Recharge Startups in India!
First Snapdeal acquired Freecharge for 2800 Crore INR
And then MobiKwik nabs $25M from Tree Line, @Cisco, @Amex and @Sequeoia.
clapping

Seriously, this is what every densely populated city should do.
Sure, Bozo, I am German _AND_ American and live in Asia. I know a few places.

German universities? Third class.

Transport system? Bad. Don't even think about how slow the ICE trains in Bavaria run.

Bridges? Many are overdue for reconstruction.

I would have to look up in how many years (hint: very few) Germany expects a doubling of cargo freight traffic. Impossible without massive investments in infrastructure. Look at many train stations. Offenbach, Heidelberg, Wuerzburg. OMG!

Internet? Slow because bad infrastructure. (China is different there. Regarding the internet they like shooting them-self in the balls)

Energy? Stupid investments in solar infrastructure instead of research. They subsidize Chinese manufacturing and take the money from the poor (high costs for electricity). Wind energy? Produced there, where it is not needed.

Last but not least, the 1 BILLION into a concert hall for rich people that was supposed to costs 35 or 70 MILLION is a sign of stupidity and corruption but not a sign of a "healthy infrastructure investment"
I had this thought when reading this before as well. I imagine that the "3 milliseconds" they determined from testing was a typical number, maybe the median/mean, and that the actual timeout varied considerably depending on CPU load at that particular moment. Add in a number of retries for the server to attempt sending each email, and the effective timeout might have been a few milliseconds more... or at least it must have been, because `(2 * 500 miles) / (2/3 speed of light)` works out to about 8 milliseconds (where the 2X is for the round trip, and 2/3 is a rough multiplier for the speed of light traveling in either copper or optical fiber).
I just don't get what the point of this is, really. What could we possibly have ended up with other than a collection of hello worlds and random includes? I see slight humor value but it seems so predictable as to greatly diminish even that.
Free Event Profiler for SQL Server
It is factor 10.
Not it's not. Currency is a unity of measure, it's not the foundation of an economy. The real problem with Germany's trade surplus is that is showing how inefficient and backwards are some of the other European countries. What would happen if Italy, let's say, had it's own currency? They would still buy goods from German, they would pay more, plus they would be even more unreliable as a country since the monetary policy would be in the hands of the Berlusconis and such (meaning: huge inflation to monetize public debt).
What Are the Colors of Alien Life?
I am definately no expert, but reading abouy allergic load is fascinating. I think the general idea is you have a pitcher of allergies, when it gets full you see a reaction. So while in many cases you may never see a response, with enough allergies in play, you might have a more severe reaction to an item than normal if you are overloaded, this doesnt only apply to food and or pollens, but also potentially airborne chemicals (i mean we probably are pumping a variety of new things in the atmosphere i would guess) i find allergies and why we have them fascinating(i Am also allergic to tons of stuff, but hardly notice a reaction except to peanuts and other nuts. Out of 80 items i wasnt allergic to lobster, chicken,and bananas, random i know). I also wonder if your allergic load is high, you might show a reaction for something that you normally dont have a reaction to in a skin test... i would love to experiment.... hahahaha
Great Work! This is exactly what I was looking for to deploy on my work, We are still stick on IBM chat, and this will blow people out of Water.
> I don't see many people on bikes wearing suits

Something tells me you haven't visited the Netherlands :)
You could take my comment as a request that people trying to discuss the issue try to do it in an at least a slightly nuanced way.

If they are including the farmers that grow the grain that ends up in the prison bread as part of the prison industry, I want them to say so.
There are many Austen's in this world.. If you ever felt like you want to quit, remove all your info from your profile.. HN doesn't even asks for an email address, so it's pretty easy to get disconnected IMO.
If you disabled or drastically resized the avatars and put the usernames not in a separate line, the window could hold a lot more content for single-line conversations like that.
Modern russian literature has an interesting phenomenon. There is a huge old-school website where authors post their books before being published chapter by chapter for free to get feedback and corrections. For example this is one of my favourites:

http://samlib.ru/t/tahion

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=h...

It's like Steam early access for books. Is there something like that in english-speaking internet?
Aspergers is an outdated diagnosis that nowadays falls under Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
CB Insights and conversations with my fellow entrepreneurs
Check this talk out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
But… new MacBook doesn't need it, why new smartphones would?
I'm near the end of Green Mars at the moment. It's a fascinating story. I'm never sure if the science is accurate (not my forte) but it's definitely convincing and a compelling read.
Just list down the things you didn't liked about your Managers and don't do that..
Our society loves people who set out to do really good work. But only after they succeed.

The whole "luck descended upon them" is a coping strategy. The narrative of luck makes people feel less bad about their lack of fortitude.
> Accepting federal funding takes a lot of work.
I think we're getting closer to the real reason there ...
Yes, they want the people with "good autism".

It's insensitive sounding, but it's probably not that different from their hiring stance for all people. Using your numbers, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that only ~3% of neurotypical people could get a job at Microsoft, either.

Also, probably only ~3% (or less) of any other disadvantaged, disabled, or marginalized group.

But it feel like they're hiring "the right kind of <marginalized_group>", which has a repugnant history even decoupled from the severity of "common" autism.

So yeah, Microsoft should probably not have spun this as a PR opp.

Aside: there's probably a tasteless joke in there somewhere about socially-insensitive recruiting practices which target high-functioning autistic people.
Emotional rollercoaster of a startup
simple things like updating the board are done at best inconsistently

And here you have your real problem.

You're applying an office-tool (the board) to a team that is not sharing an office.

What works much better for distributed teams is to treat them like OSS projects.

Do you know any OSS project that uses a "board", or stand up meetings?

They use the issue-tracker, pull-requests and chat instead.
"Netflix for Books" sounds like the perfect description of a library.
Same, though sub-company was about to get promoted and they closed the entire office/branch, day after new years day. Ironic is it not.
Reddit wants to fight the gender pay gap-it should disclose everyone’s salaries
Here is one that instantly comes to mind
http://pyvideo.org/video/1735/using-python-to-code-by-voice
Recruiting Isn't Hard – We Make It Hard
Ask HN: Giveaway / exchange domains?
There was this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9334927 of people's stashed domains mostly because of hoping to see it live one day, but left out due to many cases..

So, If any of you are willing to give-away or exchange domains with different TLDs we can do it here.,

myself, I have codebetter.co and I would be happy to giveaway if anyone's interested..
Hackers Breached White House and State Dept Networks
PrimeFaces 5.2.Final Released
"...understand the 'unwritten rules' of the workplace..."

I guess everyone would benefit from writing them down.
Tips and tricks using Oracle Apps
It's 29€ or 39€ for a yearly subscription to public bikes, I would guess he's referring to that : http://en.velib.paris.fr/Subscriptions-and-fees
USD 1B Invested in Marketing Technology Companies in January – March 2015
I have just one question. Do you (day)dream about code? If so, you're golden... This might sound flippant, but I have my best ideas and revelations while I'm being "idle" (showering, walking the dog, watching mindless TV). Desk-time is overrated in my book. Stuff needs to "percolate".
Being more colorful found to be disadvantage for female plover
Python (2.7.9) Plus – Claims to have improved threading by 30%.  Thoughts?
I'm curious how E2E encryption (OTR e.g.) could be implemented with a client like this (preferably without having the keys leaked all over the place), it's the only interesting feature I miss from a quick glance.
The weather is too poor here to make this a realistic solution. We try to velib as much as we can, but you can only reliably bike maybe 4 months out of the year if you're lucky. The remaining days are either too wet or too cold or both. No amount of bike lanes or police enforcement can change the generally miserable weather of Paris.
Forget the hype, will Facebook Payments go bust?
A cheap .id domain for your startup is coming