skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A book that really helped me is Flow by Csikszentmihalyi. You probably can recall a moment (for example, when programming) where you were in a state of flow, you were solving difficult problems (but not too difficult) and everything just went naturally.

His book is about this state, and about how to reach happiness in general. The key point is not only to depend on happiness as told by external people (e.g. parents, girlfriend, government, boss) but also create your own triggers. It might be making music, looking at a sunset, etc. In other words: be in control of your own happiness.

That being said, I think it's wise to see a professional. Ultimately, you'll have to do it by yourself, but they can help you get back on track and provide guidance and pointers. After all, it's their job.

Good luck!
Difficult to add anything to the superb advice already given but I want to endorse:

- overseas travel (go to a completely different culture than your own)
- exercise (even just going for a walk round the local park while listening to some music)
- de-clutter (this is really, really beneficial - I've just moved house and the feeling of throwing out years of accumulated crap was fantastic)
- socialise with some new people

Finally, be wary of books and seminars, etc - sometimes I find if someone is so completely off the scale in terms of achievement rather than motivating me it has the opposite effect. Don't be afraid to stop reading/leave an event if you find you're not getting energised by it.

A good book that's easy to read is The Magic Of Thinking Big. Nice, simple advice and a good pick-me-up. It's full of common sense and useful steps you can take to get re-energised.

Finally, I just want to echo what others have said: there's no rush; don't pressure yourself. There's a great quote on PG's website... "Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don’t always know what for."

Good luck.
If we can measure time spent productively in man-months then I say we can measure time wasted by the same metric.
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Cleverest women are the heaviest drinkers
The "base" Apple case is marvelous. It improves the usability by almost 50% by increasing friction and letting you place or hold it more easily. Outdoors, you can use the cover as a shade, and it is also two stands in one.

Before you complain about iPad ergonomics, get one!
It's not overanalysis. The fact that drinking and losing sleep is physically unhealthy, along with the fact that there's widespread social pressure to partake, means that the question is worth exploring. You don't have to agree with the answer, but your dismissive and defensive attitude is exactly why a study like this is worthwhile.

If you aren't someone who prefers not to drink, you probably don't really understand where the pressure comes from.

Every single time you go out with new people, people make comments on your lack of drinking. Either the fact that you ordered a 7-up or that it's been 3 hours and you still haven't finished your first beer. Plus the bar itself is designed to sell alcohol, so there's inherent pressure just by being there.

My primary career (IT) doesn't involve a lot of people going out drinking on a regular basis. But I sing for fun, and in that field people are constantly out late, and yes there is pressure to drink. EVERYONE who goes out drinks more than me, and even people I've known for a year or more still make comments. And lately I've had to skip the drinking night because I have to be up at 6:30 AM the next morning for a meeting. I feel much better physically and mentally but I'm socially out of touch.

Plus, there's the matter of being at the bar when your regular bedtime passes and your melatonin starts kicking in. All the drinkers don't even notice and sit around yammering for another hour or four while you sit there yawning.
There's much less pressure to drink at lunch than at happy hour.
Where is the "blackberry" of tablets? ie- business focused. It may very well be the iPad itself, but just throwing that out there.
I assume you found the "autoplay" button? I just clicked through the whole thing, and the short animation-induced delays were actually welcome. It would have been unbearable if I couldn't control the speed, though.
Can you explain why you have to be on the ball all the time?
Always Remember Family Backups
I'm a practising Mormon and so don't drink but often hang-out after work with others. My career has been progressing very well in my opinion and not drinking hasn't had an effect as far as I can tell.

I think that being it is being sociable with others that helps you move up rather than specifically drinking.
A bonding session doesn't have to involve drinking. It's merely a cultural custom. Drinking has a lot of potentially unhealthy side-effects and while I don't think anyone should drastically change their behavior as a result of one simple study, it's worth taking a step back to look at the role alcohol plays in your life and whether its benefits are really worth the drawbacks.
Cool, I'm 29 and unmarried as well, live in Uruguay, I'm not happy, but I don't have the savings for my simple lifestyle for a few years :) (maybe a few months).

I would like to do what you did, though :) sounds like a good idea.
I know I could probably just google it, but if you don't mind, could you expand on the "plug-ins" you use?
I think there will be more projects like this. Apps running in a sandbox, thinking they have the OS to themselves. The next logical step is to have all new apps written in managed code, and use virtualization for the "legacy" native code.

Come to think of it, isn't it supposed to be the purpose of an operating system: letting programs think they own the hardware? Now they can pretend to own the OS too :)

I think we'll get to microkernels, but through evolutionary steps like this rather than ground-up redesign.
Upvoted for XPS M1530 - what an amazing laptop.

For work I use an XPS M1530 with Windows 7, VMWare and a collection of images with different OSes for various purposes. Notepad++ for editing, Eclipse + PyDev for development, Ollydbg and Immunity Debugger for vulnerability research, too many tools to list for penetration testing, OpenOffice for documents and spreadsheets, Google Talk, Thunderbird for mail and TSK and Responder for Disk and Memory forensics.

We have some servers at work, mostly Mac Mini and Linux (to host VMWare, various images from Beos to Sco Unixware), Solaris Sparc box and an old Vaxstation running VMS.

At home I use a 9 year old Vaio SRX-51P/B with a P3 850, 256mb of RAM and Arch Linux. I mostly use Mutt, Chromium, Irssi, centerim, Vim, MC and snownews.

At home I use an Ubuntu 8.04 server mostly for media, printing, DNS (was using djbdns but switched to dnsmasq after a rebuild) and backups and a separate Arch Linux desktop as a MythTV Front/Backend.
Because it is dangerous. People act according to their beliefs regardless of them being grounded in real evidence or not. I would say we are poorer for it as we have seen people fly planes into buildings or have tried to eradicate an entire race as a result of their beliefs.
Rascal Home - Alok Kumar Singh(R@$caL)..
The placebo effect is getting stronger over time
Visual studio has jQuery intellisense at least....its "ok" in my estimation. I suspect it will get better over time but for now its a work in progress.
U.S. birthrate drops 2 percent in 2008
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I'd like to nomminate the article for the "stupid metaphor of the year" award, though. I mean, why would I want to by a stove that only allows me to cook meels tested and approved by as well as procured through the stove manufactuer? Or what is the character sequence "iPad of the kitchen" meant to signify?
Everything? You forgot serial port, CDROM, spade, bookshelf, engine, pharmacy and a trillion other things.

Your list isn't an objective "everything it's missing", it's a subjective "what you wish the ipad to have".

Question is, do you wish that unreservedly, or only if it could be done without 'ruining it'?
Full Einstein quotation:

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail."

It's embedded in more context here:

http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html
It heats faster for one thing - I used to be able flick on the gas at my Uni flat and dump something into it then get distracted for a few minutes chopping/cutting etc.
Just the other day I installed ADT and decided to give it another try (I had played with it back the whole thing was brand new).

The story for developers is quite poor. Emulation is very slow (you can't get close to real life snapdragon speed) and then you have Eclipse (which seems to be a hate it or love it).

I've done both iPhone and Compact Framework development, and despite objective-c, iphone development is far superior to the other two.

Anyways, these types of issues, the lack of core features like USB Host and [apparently] animated GIFs, keep making me think i should actually learn Silverlight for WM7.
Honda Twister 110cc: Price, Features & Variants
Getting Started with Clojure Guides
The future of MySQL in a post-Sun world
Thickness, weight, price, boot time, battery life.

Aside from the UI alone, this would have to answer each of these in order for it to compete with the iPad.
Variables that reliably (in the lab) increase certain forms of creativity
Surely the correct fact is not the fact suggested by the headline.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=4304

"Let’s break this down a bit. First, they found that when you look at any objective or clinically important outcome--the kinds of things that would indicate a real biological effect--there is no discernible placebo effect. There is no mind-over-matter self healing that can be attributed to the placebo effect.

"What the authors found is also most compatible with the hypothesis that placebo effects, as measured in clinical trials, are mostly due to bias. Specifically, significant placebo effects were found only for subjectively reported symptoms. Further, the size of this effect varied widely among trials."
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Ask HN: How should I monetize this app?
Hi HN'ers,

I made this app based on the Pomodoro Technique: http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato - it's a timer that helps you concentrate for 25 minutes at a time.
It sets your skype and messenger status to busy and afterwards, it shows you what app's and websites you have spent your time on in order to let you rate your own productivity.

People seem to really like it but I am not sure which direction to take it in. If I am going to keep working on it, I need to monetize it somehow. I have the following ideas:

1) charge for the actual app. Doesn't seem like the best idea because it is so small and easily replaceable

2) sell plugins. I have made a firewall plugin that blocks Hacker News etc. when in pomodoro. I can think of a number of different plugins that I could possibly charge for..

3) create a site that stores a history of your productivity. You could compete with your friends etc. I could make some sort of fremium model for this

..others?

I think #3 is the most promising option, but also the most demanding and this is just a hobby project that is not supposed to take up too much of my time :-)
China recently had a mass crack down of HP customer service and product quality. Especially their Presario V3000
I really admire dhh and what he's done. His talk at SUS '08 was phenomenal. We had a chance to chat and he seems like a cool guy. He's one of my many sources of inspiration.

That being said, who cares what anyone's setup is? It's not like, "Set up like this guy and you will perform like this guy." There is about zero correlation between setup and performance. A better post would be, "What dhh does and why he does it."

As for me, I have a single monitor with 2 sessions, one with lime green code on a black background in textpad and the other a test session in a browser. Both are full screen. Alt-tab is my friend. I prefer an underpowered box. If I can make it work there, I can make it work anywhere.

Is this the secret to my success? Of course not. Put 10 programmers in a room and get 11 different setups.

Use whatever setup works best for you. If you want to find out what makes someone else successful, dig a little below the surface for the wisdom waiting to be extracted by those not so obsessed with the superficial.
vim, firefox, chrome, ssh,
And occasionally when a client has a ton of word documents where the formatting needs preserved, I paste it into dreamweaver to sanitize it. :)
Who will pay for China’s bad loans?
As I recall the problem was not "there aren't any" but "there aren't any more"
Superusers that want to write a document and put it on another computer?
California's $500-billion pension time bomb
MacBook + 24" Dell Monitor at work. 24" iMac at home. I have an iPhone (for being mobile) and Kindle (for reading), too. And a moleskine squared notepad which I take everywhere.

Software: RubyMine, Sequel Pro, Dropbox, Adobe Photoshop & Google Chrome. And GMail.
The findings come from a comprehensive study carried out at the London School of Economics in which researchers tracked the lives of thousands of 39-year-old women and men, all born in the UK during the same week in 1970.

That is a very specific demographic. Can any of the findings be extrapolated to other age groups or overseas populations?
Why searching for jobs is not like searching for books or movies
Since starting at The Ladders heading up search technology in January, I can say that I have gained a new perspective on the search technology consumer. I love working with language technology in general but working on search technology that connects jobs with job seekers is especially rewarding.<p>Most people think of "search technology" as "Google". When I tell people what I do, they generally squint a little and then say "oohhhhh.....just like Google!". I generally just smile and nod....especially when it's my grandmother. But, really, that is not it at all. Consumers of search technology on job sites like ours have a completely different information need and a completely different tolerance for accuracy than users of general internet search engines like Google, MSN or Yahoo!.
As a technical description maybe there isn't, but at user level there is; one or the other or somewhere in between. This is what people are arguing about that you unhelpfully dismissed.
IPad apps saved the iPad itself
Learning about SEO
Oh look. The author Amir Levy is CTO of CommTouch and on March 17, 2010 CommTouch launched a "New Outbound Spam Protection Solution for Service Providers" (http://www.commtouch.com/press-releases/commtouch-launches-n...).

So that explains why this blog post reads like a press release.
Rep. Johnson worries loading too many people onto Guam could capsize the island
... really?
Cool. Now we have a choice: for those who spent most time interacting with UI when browsing, reading and playing some games there is iPad, and for those who spent most of the time plugging stuff into USB ports, expanding memory, running around taking pictures with slate in hand there is HP slate.
My guess is that people will never stop judging quality of cameras by Mpx count and devices by features list. Sadly, both metrics are mostly useless.
I couldn't quite understand the message due to all the extraneous commas, but it seems to be the same one Ferris talks about in 4 Hour Work Week.

Also, it mentions unexpected crap popping up but not how to deal with that. It's like, OK, let's add some more time to our project schedule. But wait! We gotta take some off due to Parkinson's! You end up with the same damn schedule.

I really think this piece would be a lot better if it had been thought about/revised more, 'cause as it stands it can only serve to reinforce whatever point the reader -thinks- it's about.
Presumably that would mean that operating systems (at least for guests) could become a lot simpler as in most cases the guest is there for one specialized purpose and doesn't need most of the features usually found in an OS.
How many exactly?
Valuing private firms no longer just guesswork
I think the point of the site is not really to imitate someone's setup. It rather serves as a kind of anecdote at best, and in some cases (like RMS) gives interesting insight.

"As for me, I have a single monitor with 2 sessions, one with lime green code on a black background in textpad and the other a test session in a browser. Both are full screen. Alt-tab is my friend. I prefer an underpowered box. If I can make it work there, I can make it work anywhere."

That too, is be kind of interesting to read, especially the ending. I will not go on and imitate your setup now, since i got my own, but the underpowered-box stuff is good enough to remember.
I guess the question is - would Allen have made the same decisions had he been in charge of Microsoft? It is very possible he would have made different decisions that would have made his 64% share not worth as much as his eventual 36% share. This is a really interesting bit of history.
Umm, no hallucinogen should be taken lightly. They may work well in tribal settings, but the therapeutic uses aren't well understood, especially in modern settings. And in ye olde worldé, hallucinogen use was mainly to bond members of a group, which is completely different than some guy sitting in his room in front of a computer. And ayahuasca would be just a bad choice.

You seem like the type to think of these chemicals as a sort of cure-all, even though they aren't relevant, or practical, to asym's concerns.
I think your 3 option would be the best way to go, thats a great way to add a added payable version for - especially if you could add somekind of analytics to the time spent - in general and perhaps in relationship to other users (lets you see how you rate to others (all/friends), or might come with suggestions how to optimize your productivity). So your local version would save data and show you them there, but the storage of data and analytics would be on the website. Fantastic visualizations of the data will probably be a great way to build fans of the app - allowing a user to very easily understand their productivity level...

This would also allow a company to test it across all its staff, to see how time is used - of course this is a little big brother'ish, but might be a added value option to sell.

-PiP
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David HH's lamborghini

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/11/coyotes-pulitzer-an...
Yeah, while analytics would be great, I think that competing with your friends would work pretty well ("Wow, I am behind with 30 productivity points today - I need to focus!").
Qubes GUI virtualization presents applications like if they were running locally

Site needs some editing.
Do not confuse "induction cooking" with "cooking by induction." The latter often goes something like, "well, you cooked dinner last night..."
I think #3 is best, especially if you let users rate individual sessions or integrate with something like Rescue Time: http://www.rescuetime.com/developers

There are good options for monetizing a free-version:

1) Show sponsor sites instead of wanted site when visiting Hacker News etc. while in pomodoro

2) Open an interstitial or show adds in some other way when pomodori ends.
Side note: White Lamborghinis with pearl paint are actually absolutely beautiful in a minimalistic way. You have to have it coming from behind at a fast speed to really see what I'm talking about.
Configurability, not having to kiss the godfather's ring to get a piece of software running on it, not assuming I'm an idiot that can't possibly grasp the concept of a file or (God forbid) want to connect with another device..... Yes, sign me up.
Of course, that is also the advantage. If you want to get a nice sear on a meat dish or quickly boil water, you don't have to wait as long for the pan/pot to heat up.
Although you're making an analogy - I think these would sell really well if RIM rebadged them and put an emphasis on email and notetaking/organization + calendar software.
I, personally, am a news junkie and I watch almost ALL of the news networks....CNN, MSNBC (when I can stomach THEIR own brand of vitriol), ABC, FOX, CBS and CSPAN.
Other than CSPAN, FOX is the only network news channel that even attempts to balance its news shows with opposite points of view.
I was watching Chris Matthews last night as he interviewed two people about some stupid subject.....including Matthews all three of those guys completely agreed with each other about what they were discussing and it was, of course, the leftist viewpoint.
If you turn on FOX news shows they always have someone, whether it is Juan Williams or Mara Liasson of NPR fame or other liberal commentators on their Sunday Business News show to "balance out" their own conservatives.
Yes, Beck is outrageous but what about that maniac Keith Olberman over at MSNBC? The problem with all this censoring of FOX or anyone else is that it is just that.....censorship.
Reverse Polish Notation
I found it to be cool. I never used an RPN calculator. Hell, I was introduced to it while learning about Factor. Did you use one? Any memories you would like to share?
Compaq 702 10.2-inch Mini Note
You're really showing them.
Why Start Up Founders Should Be Nervous about Arbitration Clauses in Contracts
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You need BabySmash... but it's mostly for younger kids. They hit keys and the letters spin on the screen accompanied by fun sounds.
It adds a somewhat funny touch that the guy actually responded, and also what he had to say. Sounded like a 15-year old.

Still very annoying and nice to read that Nigel managed to get the site down.

Also nice to see that the software is still being developed, more than 5 years later :)
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Wait - what?!
You might enjoy the topic of the Professor's symposium in the "Futurological Congress", by Stanislaw Lem.
"Propose, then ask your fiance..."
Judging by the OP's question, and that he seems to be a bit "out of it" generally speaking, I don't think getting married at this point in time is the best idea, especially when he's so young. Marriage is the most important decision you'll make in your life, and speaking from the man's side of it, you should likely anticipate serious modifications to the formerly implicit agreements decided upon before marriage....just fair warning.
> As for your photos issue, if they were still physically on your phone, I suspect this would be caused by your phone not properly supporting some standard interface, but that's just a guess.

Works flawlessly on Ubuntu... In fact, that's simple enough I would never suspect Windows would fail me on that.
In the context of the sea of complaints about Apple's iP* not
supporting Flash this looks… interesting.
Why the best and brightest students in India choose to be engineers
5-10 Years
> To be fair, they come up with some good ones from time to time too.

Bing is a good example. I cant stress enough how much I enjoy using that site, whether its the infinite scrolling image search, mouse over video preview, or even just the new picture everyday.
Again, it's all about the ecosystem. Apple created a content ecosystem for the iPod. (iTunes + Store) This was part of game change involved in the legitimizing of music download. Then this ecosystem added the iPhone as a content delivery system, which was a smart move but nothing revolutionary there. The kicker is that they then grew a software market ecosystem out of it!

Now that the App store is established, they could separate the iTunes app. However there are proximity advantages to be exploited here. iTunes is free iPhone advertising to everyone not yet on the iPhone who has an iPod.