skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been taking some form of prescription amphetamines my entire life. As a 30yo adult I've settled on generic dextramphetamine, 15mg, extended release. It keeps me on track, moving forward, focused thinking, and confidence. I've taken maybe a half dozen varieties, both stimulant and non-stimulant. Through trial and error I found that I really don't "need" to take the pills. I take them because I like them, they give me the extra bit of creative energy that doesn't depress or make me sluggish. I want to feel energized and on the go.

By way of background, I believe I do have ADHD. Without the medication I talk fast, a lot, and I'm hyper. I bounce from topic to topic, random bits of information flowing. I have anxiety that is sometimes crippling. With the medication I am still hyper, but I am able to channel that hyperactivity. It's like a firehose that no one is controlling, versus controlled. I have much less anxiety on the meds.
By any chance, are you left-handed? (My brother-in-law is left-handed, and does his smileys flipped.)
Pixel art may have come from the limitations and formats of the past, but it'll continue to evolve and change like other art styles. It's simple to get into and complex to master.

There are some good points in the article, but pixel art in games (or art heavily influenced by pixel art) is a style that many people enjoy, especially when it is done well. It's very puzzle-like and you have to think economically when creating larger pieces. Pixel art and low poly art are fundamental art styles of gaming, I think partially because they are so overtly digital.

I think my favourite pixel artists show how the medium is always changing and getter better, e.g., Paul Robertson, Pixels Huh, Yuriy Gusev (Fool), Barney Cumming, and Mrmo Tarius.

PS. I'm a game developer and also run a pixel art on community on Twitter called @Pixel_Dailies. Come check us out sometime. :)
The Pencil stylus is actually active and our palm rejection works quite well.
The first solar bike path is producing more energy than expected
Jesus, if you keep posting this, not a single person is going to click on it once it actually releases. This has to be the fourth time this has been posted in 2015 alone.
Another World's style is making a comeback in a way, with the low-poly movement (not identical, but along the same lines). See below if you don't know what style I am referring too:

https://www.google.com/search?q=low+poly&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHF...
I don't see how anyone can rationally trust Microsoft here given their track record.
And when developers are allowed to build for the whole market, they will build first for the top... and then for everyone else once the high end is exhausted. The demand there is not infinite. It's not even close to infinite.

It only seems that way sometimes in SF because there is literal decades of pent-up demand that needs to be satisfied, resulting in people willing to pay quite high prices.
Seems to be dead
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I have no doubt that he is a tremendously important researcher but from the way he talks he sounds like one of those Mensa types. "IQs in the top percentile" and all that.
Ignore 80% of the feedback (about the lack of polish) and pay attention to the 20% of 'useful' feedback. :)

I'm 100% guilty of criticizing the lack of polish on some things that get posted. Often times because I am not familiar enough to criticize more important details that may not be apparent to the average observer.

For example - I might have to comb through an entire project in a programming language I'm not familiar with to perhaps give feedback on a better algorithm they could have used for X to improve performance... Or I could criticize that their search feature is entirely broken and always results in an empty results page.

The latter is easier to find and a casual user might run into it, although it might be a pain for the programmer to fix on the front end. The former will likely have less notice for the casual user, but is more beneficial for the programmer.

This is my take on why you see a lot of criticism about the lack of polish compared to other aspects or details.
> Diversity and inclusion should mean including people who don't agree with diversity and inclusion.

This is basically a variant of the argument that is used by religious business owners who don't want to serve gay people... "you are infringing on our right to practice our religion!" they say.

The point being, you have rights, but you don't have the right to infringe on other people's rights.
Actually, Google requires free article access from referrals to be included in Google News at all. (There are other ways, but I think that one was recommended.)
Don't they also call this empathy. I think it's critically important to resist the temptation to fire back at someone the moment you think you disagree. Take a few seconds, repeat in your head what the other person has said, then repeat that back to the person, then formulate a response. Remember, the hardest thing to do is to control your emotions, especially during times where most people can't help but get defensive.
> Of course it costs nothing to address people in a way that they feel comfortable with, so you should do it.

It doesn't cost nothing, it's costs a lot of time and attention to find out what they're comfortable with and much attention to filter yourself to to fit that, so no you shouldn't just do it without a good reason.
I'm 100% logical/analytical with machines and 100% emotional/manipulative with people.
Obama’s Catastrophic Climate-Change Denial
Tell me, then. Is it better to speak out, to be utterly ineffectual, to be of no aid whatsoever to those whom you wish to help in your principled stand... or to take a chance on being able to actually have an impact?

It seems to be that the world is already overfull with the principled, loud, and ineffectual. I see many people who adhere to Mr. Chapman's advice, and all their efforts amount to naught.
Kanye has an album titled "808s and Heartbreak".

I'm still waiting for someone in techno to make an album called "909s and Ecstasy".
I've actually seen people successfully get a tweet to link to itself through trial and error. You can try and guess the IDs and you will eventually get it right.
Which, like apoptosis, is eventually a good thing.
UX skills with full knowledge of all the latest software tools and concepts. I think programers can come and go, are found in every country, in every language, and can be had for little or a lot of money. All day long. However a good UX designer, who is familiar with all of the textbook concepts, real world experience, and intuitive thinking, is invaluable.

Knowing that a button should be a certain type of button, text should be a certain way, and understanding deeply the best way for a user to interact with the software is truly invaluable.
Not even apples and oranges. I know that they can still fly safely with only two motors if they are opposing. They may be so safe that it won't be for years to come but eventually after enough mad mothers are up in arms about somebody losing an eye or it getting sucked into an airliner jet that they're going to start heaping on the restrictions. One of the concerns with using them for deliveries at least in a city like Los Angeles is that people will try and shoot them down.

Already been introduced(bad term)? So 1 in 3 households have a drone in the U.S.? OK 1 in 4? You can always count on this statistic- 1 in 10? Nah? Surely 5% of Americans own or use the services of a drone then right? Yeah then they haven't been introduced yet
The AdBlock Plus guy gets paid by companies to put their site on the "unobtrusive ads" list -- those ads don't get blocked for the majority of AdBlock Plus users.
I think their website used to say mid may and they updated it.
I disagree that third party doctrine is outdated, as the article states. The fact is this: the Constitution says nothing about "privacy" or "information." The literal text of the 4th amendment prohibits essentially what are trespasses (to one's house, person, papers, or effects) in the name of gathering evidence. The whole "expectation of privacy" concept is itself a judicial bolt-on, and to go further and pretend that people have an expectation of privacy in records that were never their own property to begin with strains reason.

It's not like third party records did not exist in 1791. The framers, being lawyers and businessmen, would have been intimately familiar with the concept of entrusting their person information to the documents of third parties. Had the framers intended "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" to actually mean "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects [and their doctors' or accountants' or lawyers' concerning them]" they could have written the text that way. They didn't.
> The users don't care.

That's true, but I think it's a cop out.

When Google, Microsoft and Netflix specced, implemented and shipped EME, there was no significant pushback. Of course, as you say, average users don't care - they don't even understand the issue. But tech people didn't care enough either.

Instead, tech people flocked to products made by at least 2 of those 3 responsible for EME. And they kept installing those products for their non-techie relatives and so forth.

The real reason EME was not stopped is that people in the tech industry didn't care. A few of us did, of course, but the majority of us simply didn't. Most tech people agree that DRM is bad, but as a group we did not decrease our usage of Google, Microsoft and Netflix products containing EME.

We could have stopped this. We didn't.
Got excited for a second...
Speak slower. I once read that the slower someone talks the more people believe them, the more mature and thoughtful they sound, and belief in their accuracy was improved.
I don't have a PhD, which is why I have a tremendous amount of respect for PhDs. I hope my question is not too obvious, but when OP says that one will get a "PhD level of education," isn't he missing the fact that the point of a PhD is to do original research, and therefore not just "ingest" knowledge, but actually create new knowledge for humanity?
35,000 line spreadsheet? Gosh, I couldn't imagine how that could be a bad thing...
Unrented residential property probably shouldn't have property tax. This is an ancient feudal carry over. Piles of retirees across the U.S., including NYC, bought property two epochs ago and in many cases can't afford the property taxes. Property taxes are regressive and unfair. Instead, counties should get their money from a combination of income tax and sales tax; OR at w.orst index the property tax to income.

Commercial property (that includes residential rental property in my book) maybe property tax still makes sense because landlords are pretty much always indexing rent to property value anyway.
Or how much you're paying?
Market saturation, with lawyers saddled in unbelievable debt.
Has Google or MS said if they will import the root LE cert into their respective browsers?
> It's reasonable that it didn't check with the remote repo, but its misleading use of the word "origin" does not help new users.

But 'origin' is just the name of the remote repository, not something hardwired into git, right? (Maybe this response is undercut by the fact that it is the default name.)
Website Domain Names: The Questions You’re Afraid to Ask
The amount of people buying off-region DVDs is awfully low. There are a thousand betters reasons to reject DRM such as not owning your product anymore ("That iTunes music ? Yeah, they can revoke your access at any time.").
We had some before, and will likely stay and do some more RI's. AWS has been awesome to us, but I didn't want to ignore other options if they could save us money and provide the same reliability and capabilities.

Thanks for the input.
I had a completely different interpretation of the incident at Facebook.

He had developed some key features that were now important. Instead of mentoring him to work better with others, his boss demoted him.

The boss was giving someone else a favor, making them the lead of this now-important project, some up-and-coming hotshot. He made up an excuse about "bad attitude", while just using it as cover for backstabbing him.

The OP probably had big $$$ in unvested options, so he had to play along and play nice, instead of quitting on the spot.
I feel the same as you, but I'm come to realize most people have a deep seated need to be win friends even at the cost of being right. Your response, like my own, is very Aspie.
YES - thank you for pointing out the negative use of soccer mom. Unpaid caring and emotional work matters!
Lego Millenium Falcon
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I'm having trouble seeing how this is different from Lisp's S-expressions. Is it basically paredit for blocks and logical constructs in a non-lisp context?
Not if the computer is configured to only run signed code, which is an option on Windows.
This is why I use :3

It makes me look stupid, so it can only be a sincere smile. Or maybe I'm just stupid... Well to be fair, we're discussing the psychology of smileys.

I have a theory about ":)", that people use it when there's a discrepancy between what they say and what they think, through the same mechanism of humor (which is also about discrepancies). And so in general, I don't trust people who use it strangely. But now, they're all going to use :3... We're doomed.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. One is awarded a PhD for producing original research, but it doesn't magically materialise from the ether. Rather, it is a refinement and/or synthesis of what preceded.
Sheer charisma? Also, different people respond better to different kinds of leadership and motivation. This gets talked about a lot in the context of coaches of professional sports teams.

When you're running a business, you can probably afford to be a jerk as long as the small group of people closest to you can tolerate it.
It's not in your interests to be manipulative. People know when they are being manipulated, or they figure it out later and relationship rapidly goes out the window. You don't need to be manipulative with people to get what you want.
So, if we look to the digital art like Pixar, there are a lot of guidelines from traditional animation to make a scene come alive.

* Squish and Stretch
* Fallow through
* Secondary Action

These principles really help make dynamic scenes. If you look at the Chun Li animations, you can see that the older one does a better job of using these.

I feel like if the HD version took advantage of these, it would look the best out of all of them, but it failed to reach its full potential in it's medium.

Watch this early Pixar short:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4NPQ8mfKU0

See how alive and full of emotion the little lamp is?
> The question is actually "Is it appropriate for someone who takes active steps to treat some people as undeserving of basic rights[1] to take the ultimate leadership role in a diversity focused company?"

First, it's not a "diversity focused company" it's a company focused on building a Free and Open internet. Being socially inclusive in their internal culture is secondary. Moreover Eich's definition of inclusivity was perfectly in line with Mozilla's which is that not only are sexual orientations protected but so are religious views as long as the person interacts constructively with the community. He had his personal religious views and by all accounts he didn't let them prevent him from interacting constructively with the Mozilla community.

> "...and Mozilla would suffer due to the volume of people who stated they would not work for or with someone who did what he did."

It was less than 10 employees who asked him to step down, none of them were his direct reports, how many threatened to leave?

There's absolutely no reason that he should be forced to apologize for his donation. I don't agree with the donation but I'm an American and I think it's extremely dangerous to go down the road of persecuting others for taking part in political campaigns, etc.

I agree with you that Eich's actions are to a large extent known, so I again challenge you to provide me with a single shred of evidence that in his 16 years at Mozilla Eich treated even one member of the LGBT community unfairly from his position of power.
Is there some news here? I'm a huge fan of this idea but until it actually launches I don't see any point getting too excited about it.

In a more general sense, why have none of the larger players, who, I would have thought could easily do it, not ventured into this space?

Why are Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. not offering me free SSL certs based on their own existing ability to verify my identity in so many ways, far better than letsencrypt or anybody else, really? I'm really curious about what is the barrier here that makes this so hard that basically nobody is doing it? And if those barriers are so high, why is StartSSL able to do it?
Build a travel app in 2 hours using Sabre, LumX, Node/Express and AngularJS
"I hope my question is not too obvious, but when OP says that one will get a "PhD level of education," isn't he missing the fact that the point of a PhD is to do original research, and therefore not just "ingest" knowledge, but actually create new knowledge for humanity"

And furthermore, much of the work and reading material (especially in the social science, not sure about other fields) is really about jumping through hoops, learning the game, knowing the rituals of your particular tribe, and knowing how to cite other academics so that you can properly join the social network. If you are just trying to learn for the sake of knowing, 95% of the readings and the problem sets are irrelevant.
Can someone explain why EVERYTHING on the internet needs to be encrypted? For information that is obviously public (e.g. anything from today's articles on the New York Times to the installation image for Windows), doesn't it make more sense to encrypt the hash of the file, while making the file itself plaintext? That would seem to make it much easier to cache the data midway, reducing network traffic.
Are there any plans to build a completely new browser from Servo? Is there even any worth in that? (A firefox-esque "normal" one, not like that experimental html browser thing.)
Acceptance into Mozillaʼs CA Certificate Program is usually discussed in public. Let's encrypt is not on the list of pending CA applications[0]. Does anyone know if they are introducing a new root certificate or teaming up with an existing CA?

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:PendingCAs
While this does look like a great resource, I find it hard to take him seriously when he writes things like this: https://profhugodegaris.wordpress.com/masculism/
This will truly revolutionize the selfie. I am joking!! Seriously this is truly going to sell like hot cakes. The film industry would probably love to use these more ... Good job guys!
Sensor networks. Interconnected intelligent self-adjusting self-responding devices. A marketplace of data generators and data consumers. Summarizing mountain of data, text, articles, detecting trends and responding.
Unfortunately some claim [1] that if Jon Stewart really disagrees with you, he has no qualms against using editing tricks and false pretenses to make you look foolish and stupid.

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-23/don-t-ever-...
And also, jobs are given, not taken. So if they're going to unqualified people (whether local or foreign), the person taking the job is never to blame. They're just trying to improve their life situation, like anyone else.
Ask HN: Does Facebook Run on localhost?
how do big websites get tested? or get tested locally?
A realist here, I'm manipulative only with my foes. My friends and love interests I value them tremendously and I don't resort to such measures when dealing with them.
Shake was recently (April 2015) purchased by LegalShield. http://www.shakelaw.com/blog/shake-joins-forces-legalshield/
I'm currently re-reading the classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie, and one of the principles he outlines to win people over to your way of thinking is to "show respect for the other person's opinion. Never say 'you're wrong'." He tells a story from Ben Franklin's autobiography outlining how insolent and opinionated he used to be, to the point that nobody could stand being around him. One day, someone wiser and older pointed this out to him and from that moment, Franklin made it a point to never directly contradict people or positively assert his own opinions. Instead, he'd say things like "I may be wrong. Let's examine the facts." This warmed people up instead of immediately putting them on the defensive and completely changed the success he had in dealing with people. A little tact and diplomacy goes a long way towards persuading others towards your way of thinking. And you never have to say "you're wrong."
I think you are correct, this appears to require a sever side element, I assume you don't have any real proof of deletion with something like this.
This seems to want to move the trust relationship to just encompass the server, whereas the traditional CA aims to establish 'trust' in the organisation behind the server (via verification in business registry, or via national identity card/passport for individuals). Given this redefinition of trust, will the LE root cert have a chance of ending up in IE, Safari or Chrome?
Why does the server present any data to be signed at all? The client generates a string, I am Sam logging into Google and Time is Now, Signed Sam.

The server has the public key and verifies.
>Trouble is, tone doesn't come through text very well

PG's a great example of this. In almost every interview I've seen with him, he comes across as warm and sincere. In almost every online comment I've read of his, he comes across as cold and terse to the point of dismissiveness. Clearly these aren't different people, but the medium shapes the message in more ways than many of us grok. Something that sounds matter-of-fact in my head when I write it will often sound dickish to those who read it.
> Someone please explain: Who are the victims in this supposed "crime?"

Children, spouses, parents, family, and friends of people whose free will is compromised by their addiction to prescription drugs? It's a "victimless crime" only from a very narrow perspective of what constitutes social harm.
Ha, that's a clever little tool!

For anyone curious, this uses the same idea as the "guess-and-check" approach spullara mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=953569

It changes the content of the commit (by iterating the hash in the commit message itself) until the hash of the child commit matches. A big part of the trick is that it only looks at a prefix of the hash, so the search space is much smaller than the full SHA1 hash.
That story scares me more than the robocalypse. Is this just a concentration of certain personalities or are people created with such personalities now?
WYSIWTG editors make it easy like Powerpoint. Like the old Frontpage used to do or Blue Griffon: http://bluegriffon.org/
Yes, and the remark at the post's bottom, "Structured editing wasn't actually a bad idea, it was just poorly executed." seems oblivious to Boxer -- I found it usable enough (and inspiring).

diSessa's book http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Minds-Computers-Learning-Lite... has more on the philosophy and the experience with kids using it. The writing style's a bit of a slog.
I believe they are cross signed by IdenTrust which is trusted.
Property tax isn't just about the income to the state. Property tax is about making sure that people are putting the property to work. If you're second mansion is costing you an extra chunk of change every year and you never visit it you'll be more likely to sell.

Additionally, property taxes are (usually) progressive. In places like NYC where they aren't that should be fixed.