skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing your experience. combined with the 'exact' same experience as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545774, I have been in this phase for couple of years. I am trying to fight it (have to due to peer pressure to make money). It has come to my losing interest in anything. I used to love programming for the sole reason of enjoyment. I haven't made any changes to my lifestyle (I probably cannot). Last 3 weeks, I have been in the 'isolation phase' My work place, it's a farce of work with people pretending to get work done with unnecessary complex sub systems. My family raised concerns (they understand my phase, my wife often tells me to pursue academics, as I seen not raised for the corporate world). It's only when three members in my family asked the same question, I started to wonder. I have a thousand things in my mind and a struggling pain of not accomplishing anything. I encounter this every single minute of the day. I am so stressed by the whole lagging behind the world that I feel I cannot learn anything new. I have finished the first chapters of how to prove it, foundations of computer science and algorithms book. Although I am interested, I find myself lacking the motivation to continue...And this adds up, days to weeks and then months. Then the cumulative depression rides me to hell. The thought that someone started learning math about 6 years ago when I too picked interest and the comparison istantly drives me for a whole day of depression. During those days, I don't absorb a thing of what I read.
I shake my legs when I think and I think all day. I am supposed to working on getting xml schema related work done and I am here shaking my legs and thinking.
I have frequented HN enough to know to that I should visit a doctor. But I know that it will not work for me. I don't have the comfort in talking to a 'stranger'.I have heard few here: try a physically involved job. I want to try out (but feel I cannot due to the money factor). I have to earn the bread. I fight with myself saying 'there is do or do not, there is no try', the difference between doing it and thinking about it. I have all the motivation inside, but I just cannot bring myself to do anything. I can never finish any task that I start. This has been going for years. My sanity is still in positive numbers, thanks to my wife.

could you share how did you come out of this phase (perhaps there is much more than just moving to a different job). Do you have any personal stories? I ask this because, as I understand this is not the nature of the job but an intrinsic battle that you won.
http://www.leaf.ly

Why doesn't the domain become clickable once the story passes a threshold?
Show HN: Web^2, a tiling window manager for the Internet
Does the ADA apply to websites? Obama admin says it's an "open question"
Random: Iceland is part of Europe, not the Americas.
I said it was a venerable history ... and like you, I prefer the wimpy modern version. Less interesting as a spectator perhaps, but much to be preferred as a participant.

Any type of trial is based on the notion that the outcome will be Fair and Just. What people consider Fair and Just changes depending on the people and the time; in some communities simple consistency is apparently enough...

Having now revealed my relativist leanings, I will point out that there are certain politicians and telemarketers that I would like to subject to that other time honored judicial fiction, er, system: Trial By Ordeal.

The trick will be finding a pond big enough and a large number of heavy stones.
Agreed, nothing worse than a review site that has no activity. That is one of the reasons we made the barrier of entry so low, no account required to review, etc.
This is really cool. I'm curious if you can read the entries?
Do you have a citation for that BBC claim? I don't recall anything remotely like that.

There was a lot of government pressure over the 'dodgy dossier' scandal, but nothing like 'the entire top management' being 'fired'. (By who? The BBC Trust?)
First of all, fantastic design!

Is there any way to export posts - for example, if I wanted to share them with a significant other or another family member?

Also, and this is mainly curiosity, how do you handle sending posts from the past for the first few days where there really isn't much history?
I'm not really sure I would use this. However, I really love the website design.. It's so clean. The colors are nice. The forms are simple. Maybe a little video would be nice on the frontpage.
This of course measures industrial robots per 10k workers, so it is woefully inadequate as it does not take into account robot dogs.
Bah this assumes that order takers are competent, which is a mighty big assumption. Plenty of times I've been somewhere and ordered X, optons 2,5 and 7, side a, b, drink d. The order taker then proceeded to say "would you like options 1-8"? Howabout sides a, b, c, d? Drink?
Are you saying you think common law is more advantageous than civil law, or vice versa? You said "common law" on both sides of your sentence.

I would agree that common law is more advantageous, because stare decisis ensures that the continuity of existing law is maintained, and that even new statute law must be interpreted in a way consistent with the existing system of law. Civil law, which relies entirely on statutes, allows legislatures much more leeway to make sweeping, arbitrary changes.
How do you recognise the different strains? I see 51 different labels, are you sure that people are naming the strains in the same way?

Could you add value with an identifying image or other details of how the strain is ID-ed to help keep the data returned from users clean.
Remarkable quote by Stephen Jay Gould:

“It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity,” he wrote in his 1985 essay. “Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die—and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy—and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.”
(“The Median Isn’t the Message”)

A personal hero of mine, Philip Berrigan refused most treatment on his liver cancer and died within a year of diagnosis. My mother 'got martial' in Gould's terms and fought doctors and death until she got her lung cancer taken care of. She is on the 'long tail' of the curve.

Impossible to know how one would react. I can see the reasons in both cases and respect both decisions.

How does one know that one's "skein has run out"? (what a nice turn of phrase)
Signup is definitely nice but our main goal is to get as much data as is possible right now, so make it as easy as possible to submit ratings.

You can't post a site on HN if it doesn't have an api!
Gorgeous UI - are you a freelancer?
getting a little more room turns out to cost more than most people are willing to pay

I don't think it turns out this way at all, since I don't recall ever having the option of paying for more room (and nothing else). The physical seat type always seems to be bundled with something else, such as an upgraded meal.

I'd be curious as to how much of the cost of the flight is weight versus space. I don't doubt that it leans heavily toward space, if a European airline is considering a sort of standing "seat." However, the ratio would help reveal what an extra inch of seatch pitch (and/or width) would actually cost.
So the sample was 20,000 Facebook users out of 3M+ iPad owners. Take with a grain of salt.
What's wrong with the example? Trafficking endangered species might be worth constraining, but is it really worth imprisoning people over?

And the specific example was of a guy who was locked up for not having 100% complete documentation when he was importing flowers.
> see AirBNB... hotels don't pay off the judge, they pay off the governor

The law you're thinking of allows having guests as long as you actually live in your residence. My impression was that it doesn't actually affect AirBNB because of this.
What is the effect of increased exercise on the burned out? I've started getting 20-30 minutes of additional almost daily exercise by bicycling for transportation, 10-15 minutes and 2.5 miles each way. I wouldn't say that I am a lot happier or that I'm sleeping earlier, but my legs are tired all the time and I derive some intellectual satisfaction from the perceived increase in my health. The psychological reality has not quite lived up to the hype.
Cool. The ghosts aren't very intelligent. :)
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Illustrator over Photoshop? I agree that Photoshop isn't great for web layouts, but it destroys Illustrator. Making color gradients, masking, crisp borders - all way more difficult in Illustrator.
Except those ACM microbenchmarks are exactly the kind of fine-grained problems Rich Hickey specifically stated he's not trying to solve.

For example http://dosync.posterous.com/stm-couchdb-and-pushing-5500-doc.... I added only 7 lines of code. Raw Aleph runs at about 20k req/s on an 8 core box. This code performs at about 14-18k req/s. So clearly some contention is at play. I could write this with locks, but I have better ways to spend my time. That's the real cost-to-benefit ratio.
Unless they're encrypting it, they must be able to.
The names you get from dispensaries should always be correct. If buying from a dealer on the street you may or may not be getting what they tell you (most likely not). The seed banks that originally create the strains will sometimes go as far as trademarking the name.
Huh? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-google-ap...

One month late does not seem overly drastic in the world of government mandates.
I am not, but our designer is.
No privacy policy is a no go for me.
I know your homepage says that all your posts are private, however, adding a privacy policy page which outlines that in legal speak would probably be good idea.

Otherwise, this looks great, and I'm looking forward to using it!
The Fermi Paradox, Phase Changes and Intergalactic Colonisation
GoodReads has a pretty thorough-looking API (http://www.goodreads.com/api). Don't know if anyone has yet written a tool to just dump your entire account's contents to an XML file, but that seems like something that a motivated person could do. ;)
Web sockets are great, but almost all of the demos I see use a separate port (i.e. not port 80), making the app useless in practice.

Come on guys - it's _Web_ sockets, not intranet sockets.
Love the idea. Good work fellas
That is what we are hoping, November will be the first test for California.
It used to be that very few players actually enforced the "No Skipping" restrictions. Try finding an older player.
Ask HN: Who has the fastest mobile network in the US right now?
I'm in the market for a new phone and It's tough to get a straight answer over who has the fastest network. By fast I mean throughput in MB/s with acceptable latency. I'd love to hear the community's thoughts. Bonus points for including your favorite handset on the network. Thanks.
In most cities that's true, but in a handful of big cities (mainly NYC and, from what I've heard, London), a large proportion of the AirBnB listings are actually quasi-hotels, listed by management agencies that are subletting dozens of condos, or even unlicensed hotels "subletting" out a whole building or large part of one. It shouldn't affect individuals renting out spare rooms, though, which is the less-shady part of AirBnB.
Hmm. I did some math here-> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1338758 a while ago. I figured 175M revenue. If 100M is small, I must have been way off.
I doubt they would have given a public interview on the topic if they had a UK trademark attorney to warn them they may be in grey territory. Even if there's a low probability of facing a lawsuit, as we've seen in the case of facebook, where there's money there's lawyers.
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I notice that a huge part of my daily life is recorded in email conversations with other people -- it would be cool if I could forward a conversation to post@ohlife.com and it would automatically make it a part of my journal and make it aesthetically pleasing at the same time.

Great job on the execution of this app. I have talked to others who have had this same idea, but their execution was ugly/unexcting/etc. This is clean and simple.
Where are all the Growth Hackers?
Ask Hn: Any place to go to find anti-karma
I appreciate more negative karma than positive one, are there any other place where negative karma can be found?
Programmer-mentality is somewhat different from other mentalities, but it's still bound to simplicity laws.

The technologies you are describing were already there, but it's not just a problem of technology, feature set or execution power. It's also a matter of simplicity.

Node.js is working because it gives so much power with a very simple approach. And by approach I mean also how much is simple to understand it and start producing something useful.

That's exactly the reason why we use more abstract languages, and that's the reason why Node.js is getting a lot of attention recently. If you don't know any language, do you think it's simpler to start with Erlang or Haskell, or with JavaScript? I don't have any proof, but my bet is surely on JavaScript. :)

And even the most obvious things are important. Because maybe a uber-developer can ignore the small details, but most of the programmers aren't uber, they just want to develop easily and happily. Every little detail matters. Just see how many steps you need to install Erlang on your machine, and how many steps you need to do the same with node. It seems stupid, I know. But when you sum every detail... it matters. :)

At the same time, this gives power to the uber-programmers out there to bring on more cutting-edge solutions when they need them, and feed the "simple" level with their discoveries and experience, making the language and frameworks evolve.

If you're right, one day we are going to have simple coroutines - in the complex, environmental and social sense expressed above. Maybe even in Node.js, because in the end JavaScript 1.7 afaik supports yield and V8 could implement it in the future. ;)
Both (I think).

When getting my master's the most interesting instructors were the about-to-retire grey hair teaching Software Project Management who had decades of PM war stories mostly from massive Government projects.

At the other end was the young guy (looked like he was the youngest instructor in the program) teaching Introduction to Networks. He was absolutely amazing: there seemed to be nothing that he didn't know on any aspect of either circuit-switched or packet-switched networks! I think only once did he say "I'll have to research that and let you know next week." He was probably older than he looked since he'd worked quite a while at either Alcatel or Nortel.
I suppose if I'm to spend my karma it would be following up with comments such as this one:

"WHO DO YOU THINK??! points THE LIBYANS!!"

<3 BTTF
I agree this is currently the best way of using similar models on both the client and server side. It'll be interesting to see if anything changes, on either side or both, when webworkers (browser threads) get more widespread support. At least it's likely that more direct comparisons of the programming models will be possible in the future.
Interesting idea. However try to use a better text colour for easier reading and navigation.
How is the world average higher than any continent except Europe?
Ok, nice enough, but why would I mail my private thoughts to the cloud? Writing a small script that mails a random email by me to myself should be easy enough.
There is a typo in the url at the end of the How did your day go? email. Should be ohlife.com/today, not ohlife.come/today
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) uses async I/O to implement all I/O actions (e.g. printing to stdout, opening a socket) and it's completely invisible to the programmer. Bryan O'Sullivan and I have rewritten the implementation used in GHC and GHC 6.14 will offer much better scalability (using epoll/kqueue) than previous version.

Just fork of a thread per connection (using forkIO) and just call normal I/O actions. The implementation will multiplex those forkIO threads onto a single OS thread that calls epoll/kqueue.
You got the word order wrong on that last - it should be "they can't obviously lie".
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>The lesson here is that you should get a trademark in addition to the domain.

Trademarks (in the UK) are both a registered and an unregistered right.

You get a trademark by using a mark that is suitable to identify the source of goods or services. A website, for example, is a service and so their is an automatically established IP right for the original owners.

Marks are registered in a particular ["Nice"] classification and only protect against other following uses in that same classification.

Strictly (at least in Europe, AFAICT) someone else can use your mark in your field of commerce too provided there is no cause for confusion as to the origin - eg disparate geographical locations. But cost of lawyers and the assumption of confusion tend to rule against this.
Thanks for the kind words! We're currently working on encrypting the entries - this is an MVP and we initially wanted to see if people like the idea.
We have had some recent ponzi schemes here in Tennessee lately. It seems that one of my friends is being investigated now. I was talking about this with another friend and he said "I am starting to wonder if every investor who beats the market does it by cheating?"

The general theme of that list seems to be that you can't beat the market with much consistency.
I registered pr0n.ly and they ended up revoking it.
Pardon my French but; fucking beautiful.
I stand corrected.

I had misunderstood the concern being the distribution of modified, Apple owned software (similar to the Psystar case), but this appears to be a system which patches the software in place, without requiring redistribution of Apple IP.
You'll say that this is for better security.

I doubt many here on HN would say that.

It makes for better theater perhaps, but, really, it's just a way to bolster that theater industry. Personally, I don't think the feds are very good at entertaining.

It's certainly made flying between Southern California and the Bay Area take long enough that driving doesn't seem as preposterous an alternative, especially for a last-minute trip.

High-speed rail, with a 3-hour travel time would even be comparable, until, of course, somebody tries to bring exploding shoes on board or realizes that downtown LA isn't likely to host a convenient car rental facility any time soon.
Thats why the good LCC are very good (Southwestern, Virgin America, Westjet) - they do have good employees

When the majors play at being LCC by outsourcing everything to outfits with a single regional jet it's terrible.
This whole submission and all of the comments belong on Reddit. Just because the title says "I know this isn't Reddit but...", doesn't make it OK.

Flagged. (BTTF does rock though)
"A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth", I find this the definitive guide for a growth hacker. I think a better definition is needed something more than a looking for scalable.
At 6'2" I've always paid for more room when given the chance and a reasonable price. Last time it was offered at checkin I think it was $35 each way for 6-7" of extra room. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it makes a huge deal.
+1 for indicating paranoia. I had never experienced that from marijuana before and then a few months ago I tried some that made me flush the rest down the toilet.
Also, as soon as you start treating air travel as an experience to be enjoyed rather than tolerated, it quickly becomes apparent that it's really bad value compared to ground-based enjoyable experiences.

For instance, I can fly from LAX to Sydney for, say, one thousand dollars in economy, or (goes to check fares) sixteen thousand dollars in First Class. That's a thirteen-hour flight, so you're paying more than a thousand dollars an hour for whatever extra pleasure you get by sitting in a nicer seat, eating a nicer meal, and being brought drinks by a prettier stewardess.

Alternatively, I could eat at the best restaurant in town for $200 and then go and sleep in a fabulous hotel room for $500. That's a far better pleasure-quantum-per-dollar ratio than anything you can get in the air.
20,000 is a massive sample. Political polls are based on a few thousand respondents even though there are millions of voters. It's basic statistics. The MyType sample was weighted to reflect the age, location, gender and personality distribution of the US. (Note that very few samples are weighted by personality. This is an important consideration because certain personality types are more prone to respond to surveys.)

A better critique is that the survey was held exclusively on Facebook. But even then, every online survey has to be held somewhere. As the most popular site on the web, Facebook has minimal sample bias.

The post also notes how the MyType results are in line with Forrestor and Sybase survey results, so the data appear to be very valid.
One of the strongest tools you can ever posses in your negotiation toolbox is the ability/preparedness to walk away from a deal. If you are unable/unwilling to walk away when things go below your minimum price, you have no negotiation power.
I agree that there are people who aren't on that list who would be good to interview. However that list has a high enough density of interesting people that people on HN are likely to be curious about, that it is well worth mining it for suggestions of who to contact.
I read it more like "don't be a sucker, stock brokers want your money, why?, because they can't guarantee to make their own on the stock market and it's their job".
Seems to be wrong. You get an average of about 26 (assuming 4.2 billion people in Asia, 1 in Africa, 0.9 in the Americas and 0.7 in Europe).

– edit: no, it could be right. It’s the number of robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers, which is not the same as just population. If there are massive amounts of manufacturing workers in Europe and only a few in Africa the average could still be right.
I am off to my daily commute. I'm happy to say what worked for me, so I'll type something up once I get home. Just wanted to let you know I will be responding.
My App: WinKeyPlus
I was missing an old XP application called Winkey and the alternatives never seemed to work quite as well, so I made my own. It is a simple custom shortcut key mapping tool.
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Very nice. I'd love for someone to do this for cheese actually.
I loved the comment about the "premium network carriers American, United, Delta, etc."

I have never had a flight on one of these that was nicer than a good LCC (southwestern/Westjet) - even when you aren't outsourced to some rebadged regional jet minor outfit.
Hard to say really, as it's been a while since I dove into this subject. But yes, considering the missile approach warning systems, directed infrared countermeasures and countermeasure dispensers available for use on helicopters today, it's probably fair to say that a beam-riding SACLOS missile like the Starstreak is likely to be amongst the most effective against helicopters.
heh - http://github.com/daleharvey/pacman/blob/master/pacman.js#L2...

I didnt realise the ghosts has fairly complicated strategy, should be fun to implement now the mechanics are mostly done.
This is very cool. I'd like to see it hooked into a web app though.