skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading your thoughts about how you feel I can honestly say I currently still feel the same way about my life. It wasn't until Senior year in High School that I started to have the same feelings as you and experienced thoughts of suicide or depression along with anxiety and was given Zoloft by a doctor when I was 18. I was really outgoing in high school though but did have some rough times my senior year with the typical girl bs causing fights and what not. I also had a therapist session every other month or so (didnt start until college) to talk to about whatever really and also problems with my family.

Pretty much everything I endured with Zoloft and therapy didn't make me more confident or helped me accept the fact that I don't like to make mistakes and that in turn makes me like the The Too Many Aptitude Problem - TMA. One thing it did help me with was my suicide thoughts and even stopped me from writing good bye letters.

http://knacks.esmartdesign.com/#Aptitudes_and_Mental_Illness. - TMA

What I am trying to say is that after every thing I endured over the span of a 1 and half I was on Zoloft I really thought I was recovering from my daze I had. I felt better but not cured. But it seemed it caused a worse daze making me just pass through things in my life without real thought. My mind started to seem off and I changed from my true self. I wasn't as social, I was more cautious, and I think I lost the person I was in Senior year. This all came to a realization after I was finally taken off the drug just as my freshmen year of college came to an end.

One thing that can really help is therapy though. So totally give it chance. I know I used the tissues in the room a lot when I talked about what I was going through because his answers/questions always made me really think.

To me any drug with any type of extreme side effects is not a solution but it could be for you. Just a thought.

Take it easy.
Studies have been done on the effect of (other people's) prayers in curing a patient. They've all shown no effect, but let's say the experiment had shown convincingly that prayers of the followers of a specific religion result in major improvements to the patients' health.

Would you still say the question was meaningless? If not, how can a question be meaningless if it depends on the result of an experiment?
Not only that, he explicitly filled the drive with zeroes using Disk Utility. He probably should have run HDDerase (or a similar utility from Samsung, if available) from a bootable USB stick to clear it instead.
Exactly, it seems weird that a country which has the fastest internet in the world has tied itself to the slowest browser around.
I think that once the Django team announces their intention to port most of the auxiliary applications will take notice and follow suit. I base this on how the (better) auxiliaries have been pretty good at keeping in sync with Django's releases.
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Agnostic is, "I don't know whether god exists."

Apatheistic starts with, "I don't care whether god exists." But it often continues from there, and apatheists can also include as their beliefs "Questions of theology should not motivate morality." Some apatheists are strongly atheistic and not agnostic, saying "God doesn't exist, but this fact is irrelevant to human affairs." I find apatheist theists not inconceivable, "God exists but who cares?"

Kind of like when you ask, "How many feet are there in a mile?" and I say, "The answer to your question is irrelevant because you should switch to metric. It is wrong to use imperial units for any purpose. And there are 5,280 feet in a mile." I can honestly say that I don't care how many feet there are in a mile, and yet I know the correct number.
Modern Paganism (or 'neopaganism', but that's a mouthful and unnecessary when it's obvious from context you don't mean ancient paganism) is really an umbrella term that covers a pretty wide range of religious beliefs and practices.

There's Wicca, who believe in most of the things you see in the 'Idiots Guide' books to Witchcraft, there's various different breeds of reconstructionists who take archeological information about the ancient Pagan religions, fill in the many blanks to make it more appropriate for modern life, and have a go at that. They might believe in anything from the Norse pantheon to the Greek one.

There's Druids, who are proper nature-worshippers and really do perform ceremonies at Stonehenge, when they get a chance in between all the hippies.

There's technopagans, who believe in the spirit in the machine.

LeVay Satanists tend to get included under 'Paganism', although they might object. Same with Discordians.

It's an eclectic group.
You may be afraid to ship, and the excuses are running out.
Copyright law applies to her. Contract law binds only to the person the contract was actually made with; he could be sued for violating the contract by giving the music to someone else - the recipients cannot.

Rational libertarians do not believe in copyright law - all of the defenses of variations on copyright that I have seen from "libertarians" are from people who make a living from writing, and are too lazy or stupid to find some other way to make money. That is one reason I quit buying or reading Reason, the magazine for market-worshiping libertinist sub-competents.
I think there is a bit of a hype, and people specifically try to deemphasize any relation to AI promises. IMHO, many things that were once associated with statistics are now rather referred to as machine learning, and the range of applications tends to become very broad.

One could refer to the unsupervised adaptation of new HMM-based speech synthesis (HTS) voices as a promising machine learning application. It's not a success story, but imagine being able to create new synthesis voices given only a few minutes of speech by any person.

Want to try out how well that works? Go to [1] and select
the voice "GWB (HTS 2007)", and enter any english text you want. Sounds familiar? And that's just an academic demo page...

[1] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/demos/page35/page35.h...
63 per cent felt their bonus scheme was ineffective in improving workplace performance

The Founders' Awards aren't really a "bonus scheme", but more like a Nobel Prize (which may or may not be a good way to motivate "knowledge workers"). Regarding intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, I can't help but feel it's oversimplifying things: where does social recognition fall? I'd need to think a bit about it before having a coherent answer.
Despite being written a few years after I created the game Dead By Zombie, this paper was in fact quite influential on the making of it. Yes, it involved time travel. No, there were no screaming monkeys involved. Yes, there is someone in the house with you right now, which explains the creaking and the sound of footsteps upstairs, and yes that is who just cut the lights and you'd better start running now.

But seriously, I guess papers like that are one downside to having a free/open collection for scientific papers.
Even southern Californians? We're the only ones I've met who seem to speak 'by the book' as far as I can tell. No noticable, random infections. Every word pronounced like the dictionary says it should be. Not talking about "valley speak," which no one uses anyway now.
This is very odd. The Buddha expressly forbade charging money for a Vipassana course (yes, Vipassana is that ancient). A real 10 day course is 100% free, including room and meals.

Some have suggested simply reading the sutra or running your own course at home, and I won't say it is impossible to achieve the benefit of meditation this way, but the distractions of the world will make it very difficult to really get started.

This is why when you go to a Vipassana course, you are instructed to bring no books, no electronic devices, not even a pen to write, as any and all activities will simply help your mind to become distracted from the monumental task at hand.
During the Enlightenment, which was the heyday of deism, philosophical proofs of God's existence were still taken seriously by most deists. So they weren't agnostic at all--they claimed to know, based upon reason, that God existed. A perfectly consistent Enlightenment-era viewpoint.

However, since they only go as far as "God exists" and never get to the more exotic beliefs, namely the beliefs which always were and always will be taken on faith (God had a human son, who was also God, died, and was resurrected; God chose a Middle Eastern ethnic group for a special purpose; God revealed prophecies to certain people; God is from outer space) they weren't religious.
Nothing new here. It's coming, just a matter of when and how broad.

All the reviews I've read regarding the Sandforce 1200 indicate that slowdowns are not a big problem for that controller. They don't mention it in this article, neither do they mention it in their test from February.

Just do your homework before buying a disk. It only takes an hour to check out a few reviews.
So it's high quality fudge that's the key to poaching a Googler...
Southern California definitely has an accent. I live here and I can hear the natives.

I think the fact that Socal has become the defacto American accent via TV may be distracting you.
Absolutely hilarious that he blithely violates Eleanor's copyright as part of his programme to "educate" her about copyright law.

(He has reproduced her copyrighted e-mails, against her clear wishes. She should educate him back by slapping a DMCA notice on him.)
Your reasoning is fallacious. You've equated coping copyrighted works with witholding changes to a GPL program based on the observation that they're both illegal.

This is not the basis under which they should be compared. The correct comparison proceeds by thinking about which of the two actions is ethically justifiable.

You might as well have said "You want to break the speed limit to get your pregnant wife to hospital. So be it, but don't get pissed at me when I break the speed limit to get to the sports game."
Discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1470665
Interestingly enough, this goes somewhat against the PG essays "How to do what you love" and "Good and Bad Procrastination" which I just recently read.

I guess he has a point in that there are problems that have to be dealt with and you should go peak into unknown areas from time to time, but generally, I think I have to disagree based on the stuff I learned from PG. Finding someone that loves doing what oneself is avoiding (procrastinating) should be a better solution than self-punishment (I second virtualmice's comment.)

Also, I don't like his tone. It's not quite written as a rant but sure sounds like one.
Bushisms were malapropisms, often formed by mashing up half-misremembered cliches, like "Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...can't get fooled again!".

Rumsfeld's quote has a much different flavor, rather like a confusing professor--everything he says is very carefully and meticulously correct, meaningful, applicable, and insightful, but he's talking so far above the audience's collective head, and assuming a familiarity with the subject that the audience doesn't have, that no real communication is accomplished. If Rumsfeld were more talented at this, and viewed more favorably, it would have been brilliant to use a half-applicable generality like that to evade the question. But for that to work, people have to get what you're saying. An impromptu lecture on black swan events might have been the way out, but Rummy talked too abstractly for the audience to get it.
It's still jumping to an unrealistic conclusion. Interesting, for sure - but it'd just mean better scientific explanation is required, otherwise it's the very definition of superstition.
The reason it limited the pool of artists was the much higher cost of doing art back then. Not just the cost of materials either; most people spent their entire lives doing backbreaking labor effectively all the time they were awake. They couldn't have created art even if they had been gifted with the materials. Artists had to be supported by "gifts" of food and shelter and all the other basics we almost take for granted today.
Could be, but I stand by my point that we mangle language the least when we speak. No pronouncing college like "callage" etc. I wonder if the schools really teach that.
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That is correct. They just wrote data over the whole damn disk. ATA SECURE ERASE as I believe directs the controller/firmware to bring the cells to a factory state, which takes a little time because the cells only need to be marked clean, not rewritten or anything like that.

The method I use on my SSD when reinstalling:

hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass 12345 /dev/sda
hdparm --user-master u --security-erase 12345 /dev/sda
You need to be an accredited investor in the first place for this to be an option--which means you have the money.
a.k.a. Pascal’s Wager: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager . It’s rather broken as a theological argument, if only for the fact that who’s to say you’re choosing the right religion if you do decide to go down the spirituality route?
But you don't overwrite OSX's python, the new version is installed side-by-side. The installation also creates links to the new version into /usr/local/bin, so that it doesn't mess up the system's python. Never had any trouble with this.
Video of the speech (starts at 5:45 roughly): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc
> Apple chose not to given the apparent community stance.

Apple still could have used it. It is open source, that is the point of open source. Redhat might not like that CentOS is recompiling their source and release their distribution. But there is nothing they can do.

> Neither dpkg nor apt-get have any libraries to link against, so that really wasn't the issue.

Not true. There is libapt, synaptic depends on it, for example. Unless they intended their users to open terminals (oh the horror), they would have had to link against libapt to create a responsive installer GUI. Otherwise they would have had to parse stdout of external processes.

> This isn't an Apple PR story. This is something I just told you, recollected from nearly a decade ago when the mere possibility of using dpkg was on the table.

I understand it is not an Apple PR story in this case. It just seemed that the story wasn't true and it seems to me often enough the untrue stories always favor those who have most fanboys or largest PR pockets.
Exactly the same reasoning. I don't use my optical drive at all (maybe twice in 2 years??) but I just don't like the idea of castrating my MBP (funny, because I had no such qualms about any of my old devices).

I got the C300 RealSSD: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Technology-RealSSD-Solid-CTFDD...

I had been waiting for the F240 from Corsair to come out, and as I was waiting, this one popped up on the market and it blew all the competition away.
As I understood his argument, it had nothing to do with ease of duplication. Instead, it was about ownership. His contention that the creators (who are by implication the owners) of intangible things have rights too is not invalidated by technology.
Enlighten me, what's the the British accent popular in movies like Football Factory, Human Traffic etc. which I find cool

They will be London accents; of which there is quite a broad range anyway. It can be a pretty strong accent.

* while every Brit I've met in my life had this 'royal' accent I personally don't find understandable*

Queens English should be pretty understandable; so it might not be what you've heard (the whole point of it is precise pronunciation and erudition). "Normal" baseline English can vary quite a lot; down in the south they tend to clip words (my mother does this) and, if speaking quickly, it can be hard to follow.

We also have a tendancy to mumble :)
What I do to overcome that is to severely reduce the scope of version 1 and to push out releases (even private ones).

This works for client work and for my own projects, too.

Having a usable something pushed out completely change the remaining part, based on feedback.

To cut your scope and try to keep a very small part of it, you can use the following techniques:

- http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/tools/theme-screening

- http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/tools/theme-scoring

- http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/284 [pdf] -> most recommended

Another tip: try to find how handling the "polish/release/promote" bits could be fun for you. For me it was: learning a bit more of css/sass, monitoring the effect of promotion etc. There's almost always a way to do it in a fun fashion.
Blogspam already? Why is this being upvoted?

Edit: to be clear, my definition of blogspam is "adds no value to the original content".
good luck with the novel. I was gutted bubble city was never finished. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bubblecity1
>If nothing else, the simple fact that human intelligence follows a bell-curve

I challenge the idea that this is a "simple fact", rather that it's even true at all. How do you know? Right now it may appear so because so many schools grade on a bell curve (i.e. no other outcome is possible). In my experience, aside from people with genuine disorders, everyone has a similar (high) potential. The majority are just not properly stimulated. Maybe they have bad teachers, bad parents or are just lazy but if they were properly motivated they could achieve much more than they do.

Personally I find ideas like "the simple fact that human intelligence follows a bell-curve" dangerous. You're framing the potential of a whole species and people tend to assume this is true and act accordingly (e.g. grading on a bell curve).
>"It should be obvious that shipping with a broken copy-past is miles better than shipping with none at all."

The problem with shipping broken features is that there is no pressure to fix them. It's much easier to add new features than to fix existing features. Every time there's an update to Android, there's a huge list of neat new things in that release. On the other hand, I've never seen a list of things that didn't work quite well in earlier versions or were a bit janky or a bit confusing or inconsistent or user-unfriendly or complicated, but are now fixed.

Google tries to improve Android by constantly adding new stuff. That's exciting to people like us, but it will never turn Android into something that is as consistent and polished as iOS. The things that bothered me in Android 1.6 are still mostly there in 2.2.
Ah, yes, I'm actually a big fan of Pink's book. The Founders' Awards aren't really "financial incentives", though, but rather about recognizing work that really affected the history or technology of the company.

Speaking generally again, I think Pink's ideas oversimplify "work" when they label it as "creative" or "manual". This goes doubly wrong when if we try to incentivize one or the other. At least from my experience, successful projects require both great creativity and a hell of a lot of grunt work.
he was classy and accurate. I couldn't believe the attitude of that girl. unbelievable sense of entitlement to the fruits of someone else's labor.
I use http://codecanyon.net?ref=motlive (affiliate link for my own account) I havent sold anything through there but I buy a fair bit.
And I suspect that in a world with no more musicians and a frozen archive of music, you would see a strong market demand for new music, so people would become musicians to meet that demand. Eventually it will reach a new equilibrium, with fewer musicians than we have today making less money than they make today. Their income would come from their new music, their back catalogues would be worth much less than they are today.

A different music scene, but not necessarily a worse one.
there's nothing foggy about the distinction between getting paid for your work versus not getting paid. worrying about your ability to pay bills each month has a wonderful de-fogging effect.
Yeah, I see regexes as more of a question of expression, in the pragmatic human programmer sense, rather than formal expressibility. Some things are natural and easy to write using regexes, and some are much better done some other way, but I'm not sure the Chomsky hierarchy shows where that boundary is.
It would make US immigration happier with you. :-)
languages, frameworks, etc are the religions around here. Do you believe in node.js? jquery? git?
"For a software developer, software development is the easiest job in the world."

-should be replaced with-

"For a software developer, software development can be the most satisfying job in the world."

Maybe his observations are accurate, but his conclusions are way off. He neglects to mention the psychological shift from the highly abstract mathematical world to the real social world that can really be a difficulty for many people.
This hit me pretty hard.
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Actually each cell (each bit) is reset to an initial state.

It is still blazingly fast, as the erase is:

1) Done in large chunks

2) Done in parallel (most SSDs have multiple dies)

3) Does not require data transfers out of the drive.

The ERASE also resets the internal data structures (dirty/etc lists).
In one of the comments someone asks the author if he himself never infringes on copyright. I thought his response to that was disappointing: while the majority of the imagery on my site is co-owned by me I can't vouch for all of it nor can I promise that it's all legally sound; none of that should prevent me from asking people not to trade my music illegally
Ask HN: How different would the world be without the U.N.
It seems the price of admission for even the mildly powerful state in today's world is a perfunctory explanation before the body for unsavory, unilateral transgressions.

Would the geo-political landscape be much different without the United Nations?

How
Jewishness is a combination of religious, ethnic, and cultural factors. There's a lot of typically "Jewish" thought, for example, that is not religious.
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i couldn't believe you sided with the girl and not Jason!

Did you miss out on the point that making music is how that guy makes a living? And part of that making a living is from the sale of his music, in all it's forms? If he chose to give something away for free, that would be a different matter. But that wasn't the case here. She was really arrogant and showed an unbelievable sense of entitlement and the "perpetrator is victim" mentality. Dude, you think his argument is "almost reasonable"?!?!?! Who made that music?

I also love how she sounds like this modern suburban American teenager with Internet access and she's studying theatre of all things, and yet cannot afford $4 to buy sheet music?! Probably needs it to buy a cool case for her iPhone, or buy the latest clothing fashion, etc. Here's the sound of the world's smallest violin playing a sad song just for her...
I think they both had bad (and wrong) examples.
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