skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's nuts. I am no doctor but I have a theory, which is basically as simple as positive versus negative thinking and energy. I absolutely believe eating foods you like, especially if they are naturally healthy, can help with depression. I think a reason many people become overweight is they seek something which provides something positive, like tasty foods, to alleviate depression. Unfortunately, they often choose junk food, which I don't recommend as it can spike your energy level, then bring you back down. Eating healthy can provide a much nicer energy curve, which I think is very helpful. Like others have said, I also believe exercise can help. This is because you take on a positive task (betterment of your health) and feel good for completing that task, in addition to feeling better physically. Here again is something positive which I believe offsets negative energy/thoughts. Chemicals within the body may also play a role, but again, I'm no doctor. I do, however, strongly feel that positive thinking and acts are very helpful. On the other hand, negative thoughts can spiral downward and become even more of a problem, so dwelling on negative thoughts should be avoided.
Absolutely. Five years ago I calculated the cost of daily Starbucks (or local coffee bar of choice), considered why I preferred their coffee over regular coffee pot brews, found there really is a texture and taste difference with fresh ground espresso made coffees (see Wikipedia "espresso" paragraph on "crema"), and bought this:

http://www.amazon.com/DeLonghi-ESAM3500-N-Magnifica-Super-Au...

Some three thousand cups of perfect coffee later, it seems like it's not just a good idea for an office.

PS. Use distilled water in these machines, and you don't have to descale them, and you avoid coloring the taste of the coffee.
Somebody please explain ad cpm and stuff like that (complete noob)

For what I understand 400M pageviews = $400K a month just in ads (at just 1ct per pageview)
dale - is plancast what you're looking for?
Awesome news.

(For those too lazy to click the link — he is suggesting using Gmail stars for [notification] messages sent by GitHub.)
Try St. John's Wort.

This http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem... indicates that it's provably effective against mild depression.

I had a suicidal ideation when I was young but I realized that no matter how worthless I feel dying is the most dumbest, useless, worthless thing I can do. The ultimate loss. Ultimate fail. And no one would care so theres no epic in this. Also it would hurt only my mom who is the person I am most reluctant to hurt.

Plus even if I don't see any future for myself I am extremely curious what will future bring to the world.

Of course maybe I didn't actually learned anything and it's just my mind chemistry changing due to growing up.
There's an interesting series on Slate at the moment - blogging the periodic table - where Sam Kean discusses how humans are changing some elements (particularly phosphorous) away from their usable state. They won't disappear, but they won't necessarily be re-mined as readily as some metals.

http://www.slate.com/id/2258112/entry/2258053/
A better programmer uses -Wall and lets the compiler check for him.
I can't believe you didn't end that post with a suspiciously innocent-looking link.
Why does the hell that somebody think that they have the right to force Google to have its algorithm published?

It's not like the government is propping up Google or that if anybody is locked in as a user in the search market. There are already a huge number of search engine and information filters.
Congratulations!

That's all.
> That's only useful for dumb languages

The compilers/interpreters I know that don't do this are PHP and Perl (C/C++ will do it if you use -Wall, which you should be using anyway).

So yeah, you're pretty much right. /snark
yeh I went to check it straight out from the other comment, it looks perfect so far, thanks
The problem isn't that the signal drops. The problem is that Apple fudged the bars, to make "5 bars" show in more locations.

This fudging means that in a few cases, squeezing the phone will lose all the bars, not just 1 or 2.

Now, they don't deserve to be beat up over their antenna design - they get better signals than the old iPhones, even if you hold them wrong. They do deserve to be beat up for fudging the bar calculations.

I guess that's karma - dishonest behavior highlighted a minor design flaw, and now everyone is hung-up over the minor design flaw.
I was going to point out the nutrition side of depression, mainly how it has been widely observed and lots of studies done that indicate fish oils, vitamin b complex and good exercise beats depression away.

But don't be afraid to get help. Seriously, if it has come down to this low, you probably need it.
Minneapolis HN Group
We had our first meetup Wednesday night and thought we needed a google group, so here it is in case I missed sending you an invite.
doc here. Seems like this is the most common issue on Hacker News. I suspect there is a common thread, something along the lines of negative thinkers are the people who identify problems and strive to solve them, but such a personality is at perpetual risk of decompensating toward depression. I think Andy Thompson's theory makes a ton of sense for most depressives in this community

http://andersonthomson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Andrew...
Ask HN: Advice for a US consultant wishing to live abroad for 1-2 years?
I am in a situation where most of my work is done remotely. I lived in NYC for a while and built up a pretty good network of consulting work. I can live pretty much wherever I like.

However, most countries require an obscene amount of paperwork to stay there for an extended amount of time (as in 1-2 years).

Are there any countries where such a “working vacation” is possible? My family (spouse, one child) would be coming with me, so that complicates things somewhat (New Zealand, for example, will let you stay for a while but only if you’re under 30 and have no family with you).

I prefer somewhere in Europe. My second preference is somewhere in South America.

Have any of you done this? If so, can you share your experience? Thanks!
Scala & The Kolacny Brothers are awesome. Some of their other songs are amazingly well done, my favourites being their versions of Schrei nach Liebe[1], The bitter end[2], Engel[3], and I touch myself[4].

Though I especially like Regi Penxten feat. Scala - I fail[5] an awesome mix between Scala's choir singing and Regi Penxtens dance/trance.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ZJcP5EDIQ

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpsroKKLapw

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGy-A5SOPU

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ5VNXIiv1c

[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRwX7PGi9E (EDIT: the live version is more awesome)
We had our first meetup Wednesday night and thought we needed a google group, so here it is in case I missed sending you an invite.
Bananas contain magnesium. Magnesium is supposed to reinforce your mental strength. Most antistress pills you can get without prescription have it.
France Will Not Repay Haiti Reparations (in response to website hoax)
There are several problems with this article; some errors (or simply incorrect terminology) and some things that are no longer true.

There is a difference between "algo" trading, also known as "program trading" and HFT. The algorithms in HFT kind of boil down to "get it there fast".

The thing that is no longer true is the flash orders (pointed out elsewhere in these comments) are no longer allowed. This is the reference to flash orders.

The trick to being a HFT is to be big enough and fast enough that the exchanges pay you to trade. Thus, you don't necessarily have to make a profit on these trades. Then you are really a liquidity provider. Being an HFT is about size, speed and execution mostly, and ideas not so much. My advice is to not go after that market. It is likely that you are three or five orders of magnitude too small.

Other strategies are more interesting for the small guy. Maybe become a MFT (medium frequency trader), whatever that is.
Totally agree. Having seen a fair share of CV's that would put a flair to it, but also make the HR lady who's screening the CV's at BigCo go huh?.

Im all for redoing the whole CV as commenter suggests here and targeting the right people with it whilst making the "real" CV shorter and easier to read.

Point here is that both CV's should stand out from the stack, but in different ways based on the recipient
It is likely that you can't share that tick data--there are redistribution restrictions.
But antidepressants do work for some people, even if we don't understand the precise mechanism. I agree that the 'chemical imbalance' theory is probably wrong and certainly oversimplified but for some individuals life is significantly better with antidepressants than without.

Drugs can help.
Thanks, that explains it, though it does seem somewhat odd to my UK based musical training, where we regard a crotchet as a whole note...
Not to be argumental, but I feel that 1994 era Macintosh and OS X are quite different beasts UI wise. I can't stand Classic; I love OS X.

That said, I do like the things Gnome lifted from Classic, I'm just not sure that your predicition bares out beyond a superficial examination.
Bit Twiddling Hacks
Prediction markets. They're like an elaborate, worldwide bet. Shame they're not government-sanctioned; a world with ubiquitous prediction markets would be interesting indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
I recommend http://www.jobspice.com - a YCombinator company.
Indeed. I called my asset manager 'assman'. :)
US soccer fans didn't stop watching after the US was eliminated, but there are a ton of people who only care about soccer every four years that stopped paying attention as soon as we lost. I can't count the number of times I read/heard "now can we stop pretending to care about soccer?" after we got knocked out.
> Sleeping with alcohol in one's system significantly reduces sleep quality

Obviously the answer then is to start drinking in the morning.

;-) ;-) ;-)
All right. Where was I wrong? Does sealage matter? Does CO2 release matter?
How can Australia build a great technology sector?
Not to be a Danny Downer- because I love my coffee (Philz Ambrosia!) - but drinking lots of coffee greatly increases your chances of colon cancer - especially as you approach your mid 30s. Enjoy that cup a day but learn to like tea too.
From Mark Hendrickson, the founder:

“We shy away from using the term “events” because we don’t feel it’s very appropriate for the scope of activity we’re trying to capture. While our users may be interested in posting more formal, organized parties and whatnot to Plancast (and we certainly encourage them to), we want them to also feel completely comfortable sharing more informal plans (getting drinks, seeing a movie, going to the zoo, traveling to new york for a week, attending a conference, etc)."

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/plancast/

I wouldn't be surprised if you had read that TechCrunch article. I once woke up with what I thought was a great original idea only to realize after some searching that it was exactly like startup I had read about on TechCrunch a couple months earlier.
A Micropreneur Blueprint: How to Stay Solo and Build Products that Matter
How to Create Your Own Customized Ubuntu Live CD
I'd say halving your expectations itself is rather successful. Doesn't seem to me like the easiest thing to do. I think most of us are influenced by how other people view us to a varying degree, which raises our expectations of ourselves (keeping up with the jones').

I can't say if one is better than the other, but I'd envy you more for eliminating desire. Seems far more daunting to me.
A well reasoned and informative piece. Any other good responses to the NYT OpEd piece out there?
Those plus "Kingdom of Nouns".
FRANCE

France now has something called the Competence and Talents visa. I believe you are allowed to be self-employed with this visa.

NETHERLANDS

1. If you're an american citizen, there's some "Dutch American Friendship Treaty" that this link claims requires capital of as low as EUR4500 for a self-employment visa.

http://www.expatlaw.nl/dutch_american_friendship_treaty.htm

2. If you are not American (or American who doesn't want to go via route #1), you can try working for a Dutch company via a "Kennismigrant" visa; make sure to ask about the 30% rule. Visa processing time for this approach is quite fast (as fast as 2 weeks).

3. Even if you are going to start your own business via the treaty in #1, ask your Dutch lawyer if you can set it up so you qualify for 30% rule.
"Google needs to figure out a way to shore up the public's confidence in its integrity "

[citation needed] I haven't heard "the public" complaining about not knowing how Google ranks results. That seems to be limited to spammers and the journalists they dupe into their sob stories.
No idea. Throw 'em in tupperware and they keep just fine.
Most Popular App on Android? The Browser
What is most interesting is to see the stats difference when you remove their tracking code from your "quantified" site.

I decided with my business to consolidate on google analytics, so I removed their code. It resulted in a HUGE drop in their traffic reports - about 20%. We went from 440K of unique visitors to 305K just after the changes, and google analytics shows (and our revenue shows) the exact opposite.
PG on downvoting and disagreeing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691
I call bullshit re: Alexa complaint! We have the same number of uniques (although 2x less pageviews), and Alexa shows much lower rank for our site - about 3,000. Their Alexa numbers are overly favorable (Alexa rank 147).
well, for starters, "1ct per pageview" means a lot of things. Most importantly would be -- quality.
I enjoyed Benjamin Button, but even if you didn't, most would agree that Se7en and Fight Club more than make up for it: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000399/
gnome-shell is just a window manager which replaces metacity. You can continue using GNOME with another window manager. I personally use xmonad with GNOME and won't trade it for anything else.
I assume that that's the CPU temperature, not the ambient temperature. If so, the number would be illustrating that the machine appear to be damaged by excessive CPU temperature.
I feel like this is becoming standard in lots of places, or at least vogue. I worked in a chem lab at the University of Washington that had indoor windows expressly for notes and presentations, and the science library at my school has rooms with glass walls and markers for group studying.
Apple has 25%, Microsoft has 15%, RIM has 43% of the smartphone platform market share.

That comment will only ever "bite microsoft in the ass" on techcrunch where consumers gossip about the cool new gizmos, and nobody cares about market share.

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/3/c...
I think you've hit on why so many users keep everything on the desktop. They can have files and folders there (which most people CAN understand, by the way) but they don't have to deal with or see the rest of the file system (which they will inevitably stumble into pretty quickly using Explorer (or whatever file navigator app).
1999. If I recall correctly, it was one of their first acquisitions. It didn't make sense to me then, either.
"My machine starts to monitor what I do and actually use this (The Ghost Protocol)"

Yeah, the last time they tried this it was called Clippy.
It's a neat idea to use collective nouns at a bird-themed company, there's only one problem: crows aren't known for their tweeting. Crows, well, crow.

Flight, flock, bevy would be pretty generic, pick a songbird and you'd get something more interesting.
Well geez, let's put a 1971 VW Bug next to a 2010 Toyota Prius by this example.

I don't get how the NES was designed for "maintainability" or "longevity" while the XBox was not. They're both disposable consumer products.
I think anything beyond the simplest of automatic organization schemes will end up being confusing. I like to organize my files the way I want them organized. I can probably deal with all my pictures showing up under "My Pictures" but if it starts to try to do something like classify my documents by content it's going to depart from what I think "makes sense" pretty quickly.
Why I Like Ruby
I think the overall point is that the indirect method of monitoring is NOT accurate.

Are you a quantified site? If not, then you basically proved reddit's point.
JVM may be crap (or not), but it is widely deployed. In other words, widely available.

And performance is not that bad, really. Except for the startup time, it is better than most other languages, not just scripting languages. There has been a lot of effort invested in making JVM better.
The real wtf in this article is the incredibly sexist comparison.
Hey, you can spell "definitely" --> hired! :P
Surely most people would think they should actually make shutoff valves that actually work. Though clearly a lot more needs to be invested in disaster prevention.
Of course they can help. But for most people they make the condition worse. And since there is no way for any individual to know in advance whether the drugs will be safe or effective for them in the long term, I don't think it makes much sense to recommend them except for short term use in an emergency or as an option of last resort.

If you've been tested for every nutritional imbalance, and you're getting daily exercise, and socializing sufficiently, and if your work/family situation is good, and if you're taking the appropriate nutritional supplements, and if you've already tried various therapists, then trying one of the various drugs on the market might make sense. But the fact is that these drugs aren't very effective for most people, are extremely addictive, and have a high rate of causing serious side effects, including ones that lead to permanent disability or death.

What's more, the drug makers often lie about the safety and efficacy of their drugs in the clinical trials to get them approved, so the reality is almost certainly worse than what's already being acknowledged. (C.f. all of the scandals surrounding the approval of prozac, lexapro, benzo usage, washing out placebo responders, etc.)
Mac users; no love for BBEdit?

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

There's stripped-down, gratis version called TextWrangler too.

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
I wired two websites together, iirc.

One was http://refurb-tracker.com/ which puts out an RSS feed of changes to the Apple Store refurbished area. I set up a feed to just watch Mac stuff (no iPods or etc).

The second part was some site that fed RSS to Twitter. Hell if I can remember where it is now.

This twitter account keeps gaining members and I can't change it anymore. It'll probably outlive my other account on twitter.
The most important detail noted is training over more data gets higher results than using a better algorithm.
One of the recent pushes in the field of machine learning and natural language processing has been trying to bootstrap larger training corpora from smaller initial sets.

As an example, one of my friends did her thesis on trying to use simpler sentences (that you're either confident you have parsed correctly or have gold standard (i.e. correct) training data for) to parse more complex but related sentences (see [1])
This is useful as even if you don't have a huge amount of gold standard training data statistically the parser is far more likely to get the derivation correct for shorter sentences than for longer. Using those shorter sentences you can help in parsing longer sentences.

That's why Google is so powerful. I spent a summer internship there and they have two really powerful things - data and the tools and techniques to handle it. In one afternoon a single employee could run through more data than entire companies would use for months.

[1] "Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756" vs "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on the 27th of January 1756 at 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg" (the latter is a slightly modified example from Wikipedia)
In 2008 I attempted suicide.

I have dealt with suicidal ideation off & on since I was around 7 years old. My brother committed suicide, and mental illness (including depression) runs in my family. I'm not crazy though, I swear :-)

I've read a number of people say things like, "It's completely normal. You just have to deal with it like everyone else." That's wrong, and really, really dangerous advice. Suicidal ideation is very different from feeling 'blue' every now and then. Suicidal ideation is an indication of something more serious, and if left unchecked can get much worse (did you read my opening line?). Not everyone can get out of depression on their own or with 'natural remedies'. Depression is an illness just like diabetes or hypertension. Sometimes medication is necessary to get better.

I'm glad to hear that you have an appointment with a doctor. That's an important step to take, even if you don't start medication or therapy. After my suicide attempt I saw a psychiatrist 2-3 times and never took medication or did any therapy, but it was honestly very helpful.

I wanted to say that point number 3 above is a huge key to getting better. Remember this: Thoughts lead to emotions, emotions lead to actions. If you don't want to commit suicide (the action), prevent what comes before it (emotions, thoughts). Don't think about suicide and you'll avoid feeling like suicide is the answer. It's hard, but it gets easier over time.

What also helped me--which my psychiatrist recommended--was to create and follow a daily routine. I freelanced from home at the time and found myself with a very erratic sleep pattern, I didn't exercise, and I rarely left my apartment. I got a part-time job that got me out of the house, stopped staying up until 2, 3, 4 in the morning, started exercising, and forced myself to do more socially with my friends. Now, I'm happy and productive.

As a side note, if you're interested in trying any natural remedies for depression, there are basically three options: 1) SAM-e, 2) 5-HTP, 3) St. John's Wort. I have listed them in the order of their generally accepted effectiveness for treating depression and, how would you say, time before affect? St. John's Wort typically takes 2-3 weeks (IIRC) before you start to feel it's effects. SAM-e is supposed to work with in a few days.

Hang in there man. Things are never as bad as you may think, and they will get better in time.
Issues is GitHub's built in ticket system. Se here, for example: http://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/issues

They can be turned on per-project.
or commit murder (on github obviously)
You presume that universal health care will lead to a healthier public
I had started tackling something like this for Ubuntu ISOs a while ago, I had major problems keeping livecd isos < 700mb when adding anything. DVDs, fine, but there wasn't much room on the cd image to play with, unless you removed a bunch of stuff.

I haven't really looked at how Reconstructor is doing things, but from what I can tell, they're not really making sure that the iso is burnable. I can't say I blame them :)

I'm still thinking of creating a "roll your own linux distro" web service, but nowadays I'm thinking of basing it off of Arch, and providing some sane defaults. Basing off of a more minimal distro allows for more customization, and to be frank I feel that Ubuntu is a bit bloated these days anyhow.

I have a proof-of-concept ubuntu iso generator that takes a list of packages to add/remove and makes a bootable live/install cd out of them somewhere... Hmm, I may just make this my "official" weekends project for now.
Who would have though all those great movies came from the same guy responsibly for Alien 3?
I hope you are joking. SomethingAwful is a troll-generating machine. They didn't make it premium to keep the troll out they made it premium to make it profitable.

Unless you are just trolling.