skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This problem could be mitigated by testing the panel, rather than testing the internet sources.

It's a non-trivial problem to get a representative sample of bloggers to submit to a valid screening for depression. On the other hand, collecting a data set of writings by depressed vs. non-depressed people is easier, such data being (I suspect) readily available.

If the panel of experts can correlate between depressed writing and depressed people, then there is validity to their correlations of the writing of unknown people, without having to screen the unknowns separately for depression.

I suspect even a panel of non-experts could screen writing into depressed and non-depressed. Humans are pretty good at detecting malaise in others.
That's what I've done with Dead By Zombie. So I don't truly astroturf. But I do chime in. I believe the guy behind Balsamiq used this technique when he was just starting out. Making comments and doing mini-pitches in various web forums that had the demographic who might be interested in his new tool.
Hick's Law: Decision time is proportional to number of choices
Seems like a winning strategy. Facebook is the Peter Pan of Silicon Valley right now. The "grownups" don't stand a chance -- you can never go back to being pre-IPO again.
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>He shows up and begins working and when it comes time to get paid. It turns out he’s going to be paid substantially less than the offer he accepted.

And he doesn't take the other offer?
Reminds me of Google 5 years ago. There's a point in a companies life when they're hot and smart people are easily lured in by promises of world-changing work and working with other really smart people. What happens though is they eventually realize that it's just another job and a room full of really smart people isn't always the best recipe to create something that changes the world (and your bank account). Sometimes you need a few great leaders and a team of dedicated "team players" to really pull off something cool.

I believe Facebook is entering that phase now where they'll have tons of money to throw at these guys with promises of working on "the next big thing". Expect these guys to leave after 3-4 years for smaller more progressive ventures.
They've gotten all the abilities of a bank without any of the responsibilities

Last I checked, they can't do fractional-reserve banking (ie they can't loan out more money than they have on-hand or as some people like to say, "print money"). To me, this is the biggest power that a bank has, and what separates a bank from every other institution. What exactly did you mean by your statement? What "abilities" are you referring to?
An Atlanta Boy In Silicon Valley
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Google Ads seems to 'know' when I'm depressed, suggested marriage counseling when I was going through a divorce, and has otherwise done a pretty good job of scanning my email and suggesting links to me.

This kind of analysis will never be perfect, but then, real humans aren't perfect at it either. I think we can predict that software will get better at this kind of 'guessing' over time. It's not half bad right now.
Implement it. Prove me wrong. Sell it and get rich.

Good luck.
Most people are much shyer about contracts than one might expect. I have never had an employment contract that specified my wage explicitly when I was working as an employee. Fortunately, I was never stiffed that way.

Even if you do have a contract, people will still get away without paying because most people don't have the legal resources to contend in court, especially against big companies.
Capital One once put a hold on my CC for a $0.63 charge from Amazon (my S3) bill. I thought it was very strange especially since they never acted on my $0.19 changes for S3 the 6 six months prior.
If you're "clueless about software development", your ONLY choice is to absolutely trust at least one software developer. No half-way about it, and if the OP can't (eventually) do this with his co-founder techie he should get out, and very possibly get out of this line of work. Otherwise at best he and his techies will be miserable.
Granted, but interference with mechanical torque is unlikely.

Greek letters are pretty polysemantic in the context of maths and physics.
It's concerning it took this long just to get a policy position established. We're probably still years away from seeing it actually happen. Seems like we should have dealt with this 10-20 years ago.
Admittedly my comment was a little negative 'probably why it was downgraded. "Fed dogma" was a little strong; it was a cute, positive idea, even if they were promoting a point of view. I don't mind that; I think it just triggered a thought I've been having about feigned objectivity in science.
Thank you sir, appreciated!
Calling it a $99 NAS is stretching the truth a bit.
Thanks, and I hate to be a bother, but would you mind sending me an email as such? kyle@snapclean.com Thanks!
Some developers don't have life experience apparently. Here, some hard won lessons from the people who suffered so you don't have to:

1) If the paycheck you receive does not exactly match the amount you were promised, stop working now and get it resolved. One successful resolution is "Doh, I did not calculate my deductions correctly", and you thank your local HR drone and carry on. Another successful resolution is "Doh, you don't want to pay me what we agreed upon", and you quit on the spot.

2) Two kinds of companies miss payroll: companies about to fail and companies about to screw you. No company anywhere on earth deserves two extensions to payroll, and I would be darn selective to those companies I gave a single extension to.
Thank you that sounds like good advice
Microsoft's chief architect of identity criticizes Apple,Google on privacy
In theory localStorage should work on iPhone and Android 2.0+ too
racket allows this! I would love a keyboard w/ a lambda key.
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We just launched a site. The name is MyInsaneStories.com.This is simply a site where people can post their insane stories, comment on them and rate them.They can post anonymously and they don't need to login or register.
> You seem to be saying the he's very talented, so it's likely not a lack of ability, but a lack of will.

False dichotomy ... If a developer does quality work as claimed above, its unlikely he's missing deadlines from lack of will, wasting time, or laziness.

Thankfully the post continues by offering more likely reasons:

> there are blocks in his way preventing him from executing ... feature creep, unexpected maintenance, infrastructure problems, people problems... figure out how to help fix those problems, rather than just hand-waving as "missing deadlines".
It's not just .ca domains, I got one from them for a .com recently. The contact information is a Canadian address though.
Footnote

*The Mozilla Foundation is essentially funded by Google. Yes it could be any other tech company but for now it's Google.
Because after the author has spent a year putting words to the page, getting it printed, putting it on the shelves, getting positive reviews, and getting word of mouth out there, the software I'm using has gone from 2.x to 3.x, the config file format has changed, and it's compatible with the thing I couldn't figure out already.

I could understand buying RHEL books, since RHEL (by virtue of 'tested and supported' software), is typically a few years behind the times anyway, or 'starter' books for people who aren't familiar with the topic, but there are so many good howtos, config examples, setup scripts, utilities, IRC channels, etc. that spending $80 on a book that will likely only come in handy two or three times before it's completely out of date just makes no sense at all.

Software these days moves too fast for dead trees to keep up. Give me a Safari Bookshelf app on my iPad and maybe we can talk.
The point of "downsizing", related to "downshifting", is to remove the excess largess western cultures have grown accustomed to. To some anyway. It is also a voluntary choice so no need to worry about concentration apartment buildings where flats only have room for one TV set.

I live, with one other person and three cats, comfortably in 54m2 (581 sq.ft.). We used to live slightly less comfortably in 42m2. I know four or five couples who live in 30-37m2 currently (which I, you will note, said was "livable"). And others that have 90m2+.

90m2 may well be standard for two people where you are at least but it is wasteful in terms of resources if nothing else.
Kremlin Invades Twitter
FlyByChat, iteration 2 -- feedback please
Are you on a special plan to get $60/mo? I thought the basic everything plan from sprint was 59.99/mo + the 10/mo for the 4g device.

I am a sprint customer and ready for a new phone and I know Sprint has great retention deals if you ask, wondering if you went that route.
Shocco: Literate Programming for the POSIX Shell
Actually, Safari 5 doesn't even run on 10.4, which was the newest operating system until Leopard came out 2.5 years ago. By that measure, Apple's doing worse than Microsoft. (Although, Apple still supports XP in Safari 5.)
I can't imagine the legacy hardware/software hell that would require a downgrade from Windows 7 (soon to be SP1) to XP.
All the big feedback from my prior submission[1] has been implemented. I'm trying to make sure the site is good enough before making the first big marketing push, because chat obviously has the chicken-and-egg problem in a big way. Right now I think it's ready, but would love to get some more eyes on it before proceeding.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447160 . I haven't been able to repro the Chrome sizing issue -- please let me know if you're able to.
Links to the sister programs, for the curious:

http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ (CoffeeScript)

http://rtomayko.github.com/rocco/ (Ruby)
This World Is A Mess Because All We Care About Is The Short Term
Thanks for the advice. I'm not really expecting to earn money working with it as a job but more to tinker with on personal projects. Do you have a recommendation for a good JavaScript book?
Unfortunately, this labeling and clinging onto the early hypothesis happens all too often in daily life. For medical diagnosis, we wish the standards would be higher, but at the very end, there is a human making a judgement.

When analyzing, I often realize that I give more weight to who said something, rather than what was said.

Sad but true?
There doesn't seem to be a "Mobile view" option in the browser preferences, at least on 2.1 which is what is running on my nexus.
Very cool stuff. I was expecting a lot and still I was blown away.
There seems to be a big step left out of the write-up. If the images are showing up better on the same hardware, just more recognizable, then it sounds like he's addressing a data-compression/interpolation problem. And if not, what the heck is he talking about? Hopefully someone here will find it interesting and provide some insight.
Even when contracts do exist, there is a significant cost overhead to get them enforced. Further the process to enforce said contracts takes an amount of time that requires either 1) acceptance of the new pay or 2) no pay, until enforcement kicks in. In the case of 1 the pay is effectively and in actuality the situation described in the post.
Neil degrasse Tyson: Alien vs. Human Intelligence.
Yup, and what she said was true. The riff, not so much.

Governors do deal with neighboring countries and states. What part of that do you find scorn-worthy?

Senators may be asked by the president to deal with other countries but have no formal role in foreign policy beyond voting on legislation and overseeing the state department.
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That seems right. However I think with an organization like Pixar there is an enormous energy that can potentially spew technical debt like nobody's business. If it goes off the rails, it could go off in a big way.

For that reason a manager in his position has to be hyper vigilant and really have his approach down pat, which appears to be the case.
It's so frustrating trying to talk with someone making important decisions about things they really don't fully comprehend.

You quickly feel out the bounds of their knowledge and figure out that they're just repeating the key marketing points.

How can people walk around not giving a fuck about how things actually work? I really just can't comprehend that lack of thirst for knowledge.
Is that right? I don't see any mention of age on the site and the first video I clicked started without problem for me.
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back hotline on Tropo
Ask HN: Does anyone want an HN for music?
I'd quite like a site that lets me discover interesting new music HN-style, with new songs of the day voted up by the community.

The songs would be straight mp3 files or youtube videos, in embedded players, with links to the originals.

None of the cruft and nonsense that last.fm / pandora have in abundance.

Is anyone else interested?
It may have been dead by then. That's what happened to me the last time I went to work for a company that substantially and ruinously changed what they promised me (although not the pay).
Ask HN: Your startup needs money: WHY?
I never quite understood why there's so much money being "given" to so many startups that do pretty much nothing... why do they need so much money? I don't get it..
Matt is (was?) an engineering director -- that's mid level management. He's not writing code, he's running a team.
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No, its not spam. I don't know enough about the installation to be able to speak intelligently on the specifics of that project, but we have many clients that use SharePoint for intranets and collaboration while its not perfect for every situation that does not mean its not a good intranet/collaboration product.

My point about extending SharePoint was that you said "I feel sorry for the companies who use Sharepoint for its document sharing/management" and I was addressing that by mentioning a product we use to fill that gap in SharePoint.

There are many reasons for using SharePoint, there's no need for me to get into that here. If you need to add document management to SharePoint, Laserfiche is a nice easy way to do that.
U.S. Arrests 10 on Charges of Being Agents for Russia
Yes, but I know there are several other private sector industries that held their own or even flourished during the Depression.
Java 4-Ever trailer
As the article mentions, these are all built around the SheevaPlug (http://plugcomputer.org/). I guess there is enough of a market that these are becoming more and more popular to build and sell. My idea with these is basically a local+cloud storage hybrid: you attach a local drive via USB, but then connect it to AWS and use that as the main storage area. Then the local drive is simply a very large cache. The appeal is that you get "infinite" storage with the speed of a fast NAS drive.
>Currently, the Gmail program is comprised of 443,000 lines of JavaScript, with 978,000 lines if comments are included.

Interesting - more comments than actual code (535,000 lines vs 443,000 lines).
He is a manager and not a developer.
Are you planning on making a simple API or is email to be considered as the API?
Seconded.

I worked at a job where I typically came in around 10 AM, and all the developers rolled in around 11 onward (or worked from home, or worked odd hours, etc.). That was the way the company had been since I started there, and the only reason I came in so early (despite working late) was because, as the sysadmin, I had to be there for office problems and desktop support.

Shortly after my supervisor left to move on to other projects, the guy promoted to take his place decided (or it was decided for him) that everyone should come in 'business hours' - i.e. show up at 9 AM. Suddenly, instead of being earlier than everyone else, getting work done, staying late, and then doing some work from home, I was getting lectured for being late every day.

My reaction was simple. I started showing up between 9-10 as requested, and started leaving between 5-6, as was fair. Stuff stopped getting done, my mornings were completely unproductive and in my rush I often forgot to take my medications, resulting in nearly no work getting done at all. I was stressed in the morning from rushing to work (or from getting phone calls at 10:15 demanding to know where I was). Eventually, I was so drained that nothing that wasn't urgent got done at all. Projects dragged on, things stopped getting done.

Since I hadn't taken a vacation in the year and a half I'd been there, I asked for my vacation pay to get paid out, so I could make some purchases - a new mattress to help me sleep better, a sun lamp to help me wake up, etc. Instead, I ended up in a passive-agressive back-and-forth with the CEO, who had retroactively decided that I'd taken too many (management-approved) sick days. At that point, I had no interest whatsoever in being productive.

Eventually they let me go, citing 'insufficient work'. I took a month off, revitalized myself, and started a new job elsewhere. The company, meanwhile, continued to go downhill. The development team (including my supervisor) left to start a new company, contracting their services out. Their stock price was already in the toilet, so that hasn't changed, and they're selling off any assets they can to keep afloat.

The moral of the story: if you try to force your techs to be 'professional' for no other reason than you believe that's how everyone should act, you'll ruin any goodwill you had with them, alienate them from yourself and the project, and doom your business to an early death.
When my chat partner disconnects, I shouldn't have to exit the window to get the big GO button again - it should either show automatically, or just start looking for another partner immediately.
Maybe because instead of "being his friend" you are telling him he isn't good enough, trying to 'fix' his life for him, getting annoyed at how he isn't trying hard enough for you.

"If I really wanted something, and someone offered me the opportunity to do it, yes, it may fail and I may lose that friendship, but if that stops me, it means I don't believe in myself enough"

And what if you don't really want something, and someone offered you the opportunity to do it, and you didn't do it, would that mean you don't believe in yourself?

But it's the same trap, you see? He does not want to do it, because he is afraid of failing

That's why you think he doesn't want to do it, maybe. That's what you think your answer would be if you were in his shoes, maybe.
Do you actually know why he doesn't want to do it? Have you asked? And listened to his reply?
I'm currently running an NSLU2 as a NAS and it works very well (can stream 1080p over a 802.11g network as long as nothing else is going on). This thing is way more powerful and has much more RAM. The only downside: no second USB plug for two powered drives set up as RAID1.
Leaked screenshots of Microsoft Windows "Chicago" [old]
If they are it would probably be a android-fork?
The idea is that you might want to copy/paste or otherwise review your chat log.
BILL: Hi, Milton. What's going on?

MILTON: I, I, I, I, I didn't receive my paycheck this week.

BILL: Uh, you're gonna have to talk to Payroll about that.
I'm born on July 22th (22/7). Still like tau better than pi.
Igor, I love that idea of a large AWS cache!
Repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1160380
An overview of Android's app store security
A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret
Just thought I'd mention that personally I wouldn't mind an ad being placed in the return mail. Though I'm sure the privacy advocates would be against it, using OCR to determine keywords and targeting the ads would be beneficial for you as well as the consumer.
Just a thought: what if there were linux servers in every power plug in every house? What new applications would be possible, if any?

Where can I buy USB sensors?
http://www.pixelcop.org/~chetan/pics/snapclean/wb1.jpg (resized orig)

http://www.pixelcop.org/~chetan/pics/snapclean/wb2.jpg (snapclean)
> You're assuming the US government can just simply print money.

Actually, I'm not. I'm assuming that the US govt can enact policies that cause inflation, which is pretty much agreed on. (And, while the Fed is formally separate from the formal US govt, it's part of govt monetary policy. That goes beyond the US govt's power to replace the Fed leadership....)

> While I might agree that default and inflation both have costs,

Do you really think that there's some possibility that either one is free, especially at the levels required to deal with current debt levels?

> with inflation perhaps costing more, you're ignoring the time value of money and elasticity of supply/demand.

How do you know that I'm ignoring the time value of money or elasticity?

I never said that default would be pain free. My claim is that the pain is likely to be less than inflation.

Note that neither of us are providing any numbers.

> The purpose of this whole economic and central banking system is to smooth out the economic peaks and valleys, not to be perfectly efficient and/or "morally" correct.

That's nice, but irrelevant because no one is arguing for efficiency or correctness.

Note that inflation can cause serious panic and damage.

Feel free to provide examples of default causing as much pain as inflation wreaked on post-WWI Germany or Zimbabwe.
So, we are 1% dna-different from chimpanzees (as said in the first half) or 1% smarter (second half)? Or both? Because I think he unintentionally messed terms there.
I agree that in case 1/b) quitting in the spot is the right thing to do. Unfortunately, if you need the money (have children and no savings ...) the next big thing would be to start searching for a new job immediately as your top priority.
One option is to have your code manage the database schema it needs rather than managing the schema externally. You would have some kind of initialization routine that checks the schema and creates anything that it needs. This probably makes a little more sense if you are using some kind of OR mapping scheme so you don't have to duplicate data (some OR mapping tools can do this for you).
Honestly, I don't mean to be rude, but maybe you should get out of the startup world - or work really hard on getting away from the 9-5 mentality. Startups are about ultra-productivity period!
You could use a powered USB hub. Not sure what the throughput would be, though.
When you maximize Chrome on Windows, the tabs extend to the top of the screen. The plan is to do the same for Firefox 4.
How about a ChromeOS fork? A browser-centric tablet OS would be a very nice thing for Facebook to control.
> "(have children and no savings ...)"

There's your problem right there. We rail on people constantly for overextending their financial circumstances (mortgages bigger than they can afford, etc), but rarely do we rail on people for overextending their life circumstances.

If you're in a vulnerable position to get fucked over, don't be very surprised when you do. The trick is to avoid those positions - in this case, leaving yourself no room to maneuver financially.

Note: This is not to justify the deplorable behavior of the other party, but rather to say that this sort of thing will keep happening regardless, in any industry. Caveat emptor is really the most productive and relevant thing here.
I hadn't considered an API - what do you have in mind? An HTTP post & response? What would you use it for? I just hadn't thought of this since the graphics libraries and routines are readily available. An API seems to cut out any possible ad opportunities - is an api something you'd be willing to pay to use? Thanks for the idea.
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Ever heard the phrase "poor but happy"?
Yet another site that doesn't fully function on (the rapidly growing number of) touchscreen devices. I'm still getting my head around what changes no mouse and no hover is going to demand to typical web practices,

Nice idea, though.