skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a lot of other symptoms and was diagnosed with anxiety by a real doctor (not by internet commenters). Plus I had very high scores on inventories that are used to measure anxiety and depression. Also, SPECT and fMRI studies show that people with depression and anxiety have very different brains than people who are mentally healthy, indicating that some people have a baseline level of resilience that's higher than others. And tough love doesn't work. It's just another way to beat up on people who already feel beaten down. I still agree with most of your points, though.
Managing blood sugar and keeping a steady, non-spiking blood sugar level will result in pretty much automatic weight loss

Keeping a steady, non-spiking blood sugar level will result in no hunger pangs.

The best way I've found to lose weight is to remove sugar, refined flour, processed foods, and grains from my diet. I've replaced them with fruits and veggies. When you reduce your carb intake to under 100 grams per day, your body goes into fat-burning mode (called "ketosis").

There's a lot of science that grounds this - for more check out www.primalblueprint.com or panu.com.
I usually go to sleep between 11:30 pm-12:30 am and wake up around 8 am. I'm at my lab (grad student) by 9:30 am.
"But as soon as I have time, like in weekends, I start wasting it in useless activities."

Are you familiar with the concept of a duty cycle?
OMG Google has a calendar???????!!??! /sarcasm
Thanks, I have this and it's great, but it'd be a bit nicer to have something a little more fleshed-out.

Looking forward to Learning Perl 6 when it starts to come along.
Aside from this being flamewar bait, I wouldnt pick a framework based on this set of info. I want to know what the application has to do. For example, is it basically a simple crud application that has a limited amount of steps/options to complete any task and is mostly limited to a few basic database update type operations... for example... twitter, delicious etc. Is it more of a 'traditional desktop application' on the web? Like google docs, 280 slides etc.
And more still, what does the data look like? Is it simple data that is easy to store in an RDBMS? Is it a good fit for a document store? Do I need an object graph to maintain complicated relations?

Until I understand what is to be built, I wouldnt select a particular framework.
Sleep more!

This happens to me when I don't get enough sleep for a while.
What that article is revealing about what the octopus is revealing about the nature of intelligence: nothing.
It is meant as the exact opposite of flamewar bait, which is why I ask for people with extensive experience in two or more frameworks to illustrate their choices.
Strange how things have flipped. A mere 10 years ago or so, the sides in a statement like this would've been reversed, especially if it were on any other aspect of human psychology or behavior:

She has stated that she believes sexual behavior is the result of accountable
personal choice rather than an inevitability deriving from deterministic forces.

The modern (post-WW2) academic left has generally been very opposed to deterministic explanations of human behavior that sap the subject of agency. For a long time, accusing someone of "genetic determinism" or "environmental determinism" or similar was an insult. But here someone is being accused of not believing in essentially a variety of genetic/environmental determinism.

It's strange that it even came up, though. No school I've been at does any sort of ideological vetting of its undergrads and masters students; masters students are barely noticed at all as they zip in and out in a year or two. (PhD students are more complicated, because to some extent it's joint research with an advisor, so if you have bitter disagreements with all the faculty, problems will ensue.)
Dint you notice the google calendar has only 5 days a week.
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You will continue to have cravings for about a month after you give up shitty food. Your body associates a level of sweetness and/or saltiness with the amount of calories that it is getting. Modern foods mess up that calibration (disrupting grehlin and so on, watch "The Bitter Truth About Sugar" on youtube for the biochem explanation.) Anyway, you will eventually relent.

The hack for your motivation and behavior is an attitude adjustment. When you get the craving, you are feeling the craving and you are really getting a signal from your body. It takes some effort, but you can try to actively look at the signal as saying "this is the pain of detoxxing, no pain, no gain." If you take the craving as a signal that you are doing something right, then it can help motivate you to continue on the right path.

You can also look into recording the foods that YOU find are healthy and induce satiety disproportionate to their caloric load. Or, for some research about people in general, you can look here: http://www.mendosa.com/satiety.htm

My go-to satisfying things are frozen grapes and yogurt.

Edit: interesting research by Nutrition Data in estimating the "fullness factor" of foods: http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/fullness-factor
>> extra attention

"One German community removes lights and signs in a daring experiment and sees accident rates decline." http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2008/0912/p07s03-woeu....

Der Spiegel found seven affirming examples:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,448747,00...
Apple's Flash policy is a breach of Postel's Law
"Beyond that - changing environment can bring you out of a funk, bringing a laptop to a cafe with no internet can be a great option if you can do some work offline."

Even the best entrepreneurs have a really hard time focusing because they have so many different kinds of tasks that they can never really get into a flow state. Trying to do work as an entrepreneur while having access to the Internet is like trying to study for finals in a crack house.
Only six million ? Sudden outbreaks of common sense like this should be more common. Now for the judge to sanction the lawyer that brought this silly suit, that would be justice.
I wrote a small PHP command-line tool for turning on/off these host file entries. It's fairly simple, but I've found it to be extremely useful in killing off stray checks of favorite websites, which inevitably end in larger blocks of misspent time. http://github.com/killsaw/Timeguard
> [...] or learn how to code yourself. It's not that hard, and if you think of startups as a career, it's a great skill to have even if you just manage tech people.

I disagree strongly. Coding is a great skill and just about everyone should be familiar with it, but telling starry-eyed entrepreneurs they can learn to code well enough to launch a successful tech startup on their own in a short timeframe is extremely misleading. Coding and design are the core competencies of any tech/web startup, and you can't hope to succeed if you're essentially an amateur at your core competency. Because the fact is, coding may not be hard, but coding well and being responsible for the software infrastructure of a successful project is hard and isn't something you can pick up overnight.

By all means, learn to code. It will help you in innumerable ways, and maybe after a few years of practice you can start to think about launching a cool project on your own. But don't be deluded into thinking you can pick up "Ruby for Dummies" and have a hot new web startup 6 months later without some real technical expertise.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
It seems that every article about conversational advice or book says to make the other person talk about themselves because they love talking about themselves, etc. But I'm finding that everyone is doing this, and it's like a frustrating competition to see who can get the other to talk about themselves. Can we stop this silliness?
I'll say it: You should do drugs.

You're describing a brain problem. It might be caused by poor diet, sleep, life perspective, etc. But whatever the cause, it's a problem in your brain; and it's probably fixable with drugs.

If you feel you have an ADHD problem (which is what it sounds like), there's a variety of pills that can correct your symptoms. This quiz is fairly accurate in terms of diagnosis (really, self-answered questions are one of the few indicators available to psychs for ADHD): http://psychcentral.com/addquiz.htm

If you think you're too stressed, there's pills for that too.

I've also read that marijuana is helpful (counter-intuitive as it may seem) for reducing both ADHD and anxiety symptoms; so depending on your local laws, you might want to consider that.

My point is that lifestyle improvements are good, and I'd certainly advocate them, but don't rule out the possibility of using chemicals to your advantage. It's 2010 and we have that technology now.
Sounds to me like dododo was initially willing to give them a chance to rectify their mistakes, but not after discovering "they" was a lying weasel.
Intentions aside, the entire question is flame bait. I think you would be better off asking something like... for the frameworks you have extensive experience with, what sort of projects would you recommend it/them for, what sort would you suggest people avoid. And perhaps work in your checklist there. Anytime you ask for advocacy in a multi-religious format ( and frameworks and languages tend to get religious ) flamewars are liable to erupt.

And really, when your title is 'What is really the BEST language/framework combination?'- how can you not see that as flamebait? 'BEST'?
He could also be using "her" as the gender-neutral pronoun to try to be politically correct.
The jump between JLPT 2 to JLPT 1 was huge. I'm not sure if it's still that way, I heard it's been expanded to 5 levels now. I worked for 18 months in Japan, but if I'm going to work 12 hour days, I would rather be doing it at a startup with a little variety in the work (and stock options).
Use a URL shortenr that pays you money every time someone clicks your links
Great site plp, It's free URL shortening service with a twist. Don't just shorten your URLs, share them for money.

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That's the second time in a few weeks this comes up on HN, if you 'need a break' you are not burned out (yet).

Burn-out is not something you're going to solve with a break or a change of scene for a few weeks, but is a pretty serious state of mind that will probably affect your life for many years and will leave lasting scars for the remainder of it.
This usually happens to me when the task at hand is not challenging enough. Try and develop some genuine interest in what you are doing and everything will just flow.
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Eat healthy, sustainable, low GL foods, where possible. But that's not exactly feasible 24/7. So...

I find that it all starts when you eat when you're not hungry. This may be the product of a need to reassert control via some of the feedback loops described below, but suffice it to say, it often starts there. However, very often it begins via the fixed 'scheduling' of eating times in our society, despite the fact that we may need a variable # of meals per day and it may vary based on workout, stress, your mind, etc.

So here's the progression:

(a) eat when you're not hungry
(b) leads to not eating *enough* during a meal time
(c) leads to feeling hungry in between meals.
(d) leads to cravings and short-term satisfactions
(e) further increases not eating *enough* during a meal time
(f) goto (a) and (c)

Goto considered harmful. So the key to breaking the cycle is eating a large meal and then not eating until you're hungry. Everything in moderation, of course. But yeah -- older, wiser cultures, imho, eat one large meal a day. In the U.S., we tend to eat two (either big breakfast and big dinner, or big lunch and big dinner) or three. In Europe, sometimes they have just one (sometimes lunch, sometimes dinner). But the key is to remember that nature and evolution are in your favor. Listen to it -- i.e., listen to when you're hungry and when you're not hungry. Although, again, while the body is pretty good at adapting to whatever the circumstance, where possible don't let social conventions confuse you... Social conventions are young on the evolutionary scale. Large meals, despite what people say, are as old as hunting/gathering (and note, this doesn't apply to strength training where you may be trying to gain weight, etc. -- or if you're a farmer, in which case a big breakfast is critical as you're going to burn more calories than many professional athletes -- but, imho, there is a confusion in the Midwest and a large part of our society about too many large meals -- i.e., people are no longer farmers but the social conventions haven't caught up).

Also, final caveat. I'm just a programmer trying to figure things out. Probably I'm a hypodiscontinuist (i.e., I fear the discrete breaks in otherwise continuous systems).
Don't you chew your food? Isn't blending just like a uniform pre-chew?
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Marijuana + Exercise.

Seriously.

I was having exactly the same issues recently, mostly the result of burning out in a giant flame from my last gig. MJ and getting off my mildly chubby ass were huge boons to productivity.

YMMV, but it's worth a shot. I'd go for something a long the lines of Sour Diesel or BC Blueberry are strains I've found to really increase concentration and focus without making one lazy or sleepy.
Dang it, meant to down-vote you, but the voting arrows are broken here forever.

There is no excuse for lying.
Good list as answer to typical burnout syndrome. That cafe tip is a favorite.

Some specific experiences from me and others:

- Are there season differences? Consider SAD.
- Check for infection.
- Test for deficiencies (like iron, etc.)
- Try meditation (there are non-religious variants).
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I've also suffered from the same problem. I'm very interested in my project and motivated to do it but some days I just can't. I've found one thing that can change my day from zero productivity to 100% is a todo list. I just write down on a piece of paper some tasks I want to get done that day and usually I've crossed them all out by lunch time. Of course then you'll procrastinate from writing todo lists but that's another issue.

If you try todo lists, exercise, motivational books, etc. and still can't seem to focus on something you should be able to focus on, go talk to your doctor.
Stop thinking about every meal like a treat. Sometimes you just gotta stuff some fresh spinach in your face.
So far it's 50/50 split.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1544581
13/1 split between programmers and non-programmers.
There's a ruby equivalent that's pretty nice called Erector:
http://erector.rubyforge.org/
http://pivotallabs.com/users/alex/blog/articles/1029-why-wou...
Am I reading this right -- adding a third slit eliminates the interference of the two-slit case, making the distribution particle-like again?

I'd not heard that before. What happens with four slits?
This article is disingenuous in that it doesn't mention the "Secure Empty Trash" menu item which is located directly below "Empty Trash". There is no need for this product, as the functionality is already built into Mac OS X.
Personally, I think this sort of ideological vetting in this case is justified.

This girl is planning to be a school counselor somewhere, and chances are she would have to counsel LGBT kids. She made it clear that she would not accept their sexual identities, would consider them sinners destined for hell, and, chances are, would treat them accordingly. If her beliefs were truly personal and there would be reasonable doubt that they would not interfere with her work and duty toward the kids, this would be a non-issue. However, as it stands, she is likely to incur a lot of emotional damage to kids from the most vulnerable segment of school population.
http://adf.ly/o ... eww you have to complete a survey or something before it takes you to the shortened link. I'd bet most people will just leave.
I think it's easier to understand how much cheaper the coffee maker is today, both in terms of absolute price and what people can afford, if you translate it into today's dollars. "It would cost $221" is a lot more visceral than 0.6% of a putative generic annual salary.

One thing I added was "doing the math"; yummyfajitas didn't go that far (which is no reflection on his posting) ... plus I think it's useful to point out just how significant inflation has been over the years.
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I like how you present a reasonable solution, in the face of a blogger presenting a total nutjob idea addressing the same problem.

It IS much more scary to get semi-automated collections threats, than to talk to some fake guy on email.
Toy example of Bayesian vs. Frequentist methods
Hello, could you please elaborate a bit on the meditation technique? What exactly do you do? Thank you so much for answering. I've been trying to learn TM but all the courses cost a fortune..
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Oh, but with respect to other aspects of human behavior the things are still the other way around. From the article, another of her questionable beliefs was:

She also has affirmed binary male-female gender, with one or the other
being fixed in each person at their creation, and not a social construct or
individual choice subject to alteration by the person so created.

Clearly, the approved view would have been that whether you are male or female is a "social construct" and/or your individual choice, however whether you are gay or straight is hardwired.
It's true that there are private repos, but with ~600k project repos and 252k public... I find it hard to believe that the rest are private.

If they had ~350k private repos, they'd get between 385k$ and 490k$ per month - I assume that would be big news mentioned somewhere already...
I'm willing to bet that 'jamieoliver' with his newly created account is connected to adfly.info.
Poll: Are you not not a non programmer?
I could buy that as a job requirement. I'm mostly uncomfortable how it's couched in language about determinism, as if believing in genetic/environmental determinism is now a prerequisite to get degrees. I'd actually be much more okay with an openly ideological test, like: a prerequisite to get this degree is a belief that LGBT kids are not immoral/etc. and ought to be treated respectfully [etc. etc.].
While perhaps just a coincidence, this is very interesting considering the recent news re: Reddit Gold.
FTA:
"Keeton's views 'depart from what 'the psychological research about GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning) populations asserts' that that 'sexual orientation is not a lifestyle or choice, but a state of being,'' faculty members said."

-and-

"Keeton told faculty members, 'I can’t alter my biblical beliefs, and I will not affirm the morality of those behaviors in a counseling situation.'"

So basically, she's another christian asshole frothing at the mouth to go out and hate her some gay people. To her shock, the school is refusing to give her the veneer of respectability by granting her a masters degree in counseling. Why is it news that your silly beliefs don't override professional obligations in fields like counseling, psychiatry, medicine, etc?
The reason this person was rightly sent to remediation is not that she disagreed with her teachers on a scientific matter. The reason is that her only justification for disagreeing was religion. In any science (and psychology definitely follows the scientific method, even if it has produced fewer ironclad facts than physics) this is completely unacceptable. "My pastor told me Newton's laws break down at a high enough speed" would never, ever, fly. Even if Newton's laws do break down at a high enough speed, you need science to back it up. In modern psychology, you conduct experiments. You don't rely on what your pastor told you. You don't even rely on what Freud told you. You rely on science, and anyone who does otherwise has no business being a psychologist.
There's been a lot of hating on us poor liberal arts graduates that didn't have the foresight to know that our education was going to invariably lead to crushing, static unemployment, so I figure I'd throw in my $.02

I've been building and tinkering with computers since I was 11 and it has always been sort of a foregone conclusion that I would go into CS or compe. But when I started college, for a number of reasons, I decided I wanted to study physics. But a few years in, I realized I wasn't really getting the full-bodied education that I was hoping for. I noticed this in myself as well as my peers in comparable science/engineering programs. It turns out, many of the programs that leave you with marketable skills necessarily sacrifice breadth of understanding.

This isn't to say all cs grads know nothing of the world, but it was a noticeable problem. There is, of course, virtue in training people to think only about a single field and think about it deeply and constantly. But I didn't want to be one of those people, so I switched to Political Science.

Political Science, at my school, was an interdisciplinary program - it allowed students to design their own concentrations within the framework of the program. Because of this, I was able to take advanced level courses in philosophy, music theory, english, astrophysics, economics, and computer science. No I'm not an expert on any of these, but I have the groundwork to understand any of them that I wish to personally pursue further. And many of them, I have.

Of course, after five years of college, I finally realized that I'm most passionate about writing, advertising, and technology, but I'm stuck competing against people with more specifically tailored credentials. This is obviously a problem, and I'm not going to claim I haven't spent nights wishing I had just stuck with something that would land me a job and a life of comfort. But comfort is as dangerous as it is pleasant and a lack of it often spurs the greatest innovation. That last part, however, I'm still working on.

But what about my CS friends? Some of them are legitimately well-rounded and interesting people... and some sold their souls at 100 hr/wk at nyc firms making 100k but they'll never see the world with the appreciative eyes of the destitute - they'll always want more because that's all they've ever been taught to value. Many will live lives hopelessly seeking satisfaction through abundance.

Save your pity for those guys, thank you.

PS: I don't really think all these guys are doomed because they took high-stress, high-paying jobs, I just wanted to represent the other side of the coin. Don't assume all LAS grads are forever useless... also, if you have the means, hire one. (specifically, me)
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I don't think I've run into a school that actually had a remediation process for this, though. At least where I went to college, if you did well in your physics classes, you got a physics degree, even if everyone knew that you personally didn't believe in Newton's laws. If you refused to apply Newton's laws while doing your projects, well then you failed, but if you just stated that you think they're wrong, and still did all your projects/exams/homeworks/etc. correctly, I don't think there was even a mechanism to deny a degree to a student who'd fulfilled the degree requirements.
Reading this you'd think there is only one guilty party here, but in fact, there are two, and it is strange that Intel seems to get away without so much as a pointed finger.
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Did the SEC go after the Intel big shots too ? How come AMD doesn't get a slice of that fine, after all, it seems they're the wronged party here, not the SEC.