skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a chemical imbalance that can be improved with drugs. Maybe we're just over-prescribing anti-depressants.
Which of these is more rational:

• Spend a lot of time and mental energy trying to convince someone to let you give him more money through your efforts

• Make a reasonable effort to tell him what would be in his best interest, and if he refuses, let him be

Unless you own a lot of company stock, there's not all that much incentive to do more than "collect a paycheck and complain about how management is doing everything wrong."
Wow, that came out a lot more snarky than I meant it to be.

I recently spent a several hours trying to find correct information about some hardware, all the while running into incorrect information copied and pasted from a wikipedia article.

I eventually found the information, but almost all the top search results from google and yahoo (and even duckduckgo) pointed to the inaccurate wikipedia information, most times pasted verbatim and passed off as truth.
In addition to that, VCs are herd animals. The knowledge that another VC is interested makes it easier for the other VCs to believe that you're hot. (Similar to the article yesterday about hot supermodels.)
Thanks, that made me laugh =)
That is no different from the comments on most local papers now.

I'm amazed that a company that wants to be taken as a professional source for journalism allows those kinds of comments on their site. It just looks terrible to their image and adds nothing to the story.
Will give it a shot. Thanks.
I'd say you are like a friend of mine who has killed numerous Macbooks, since v1.0. He always uses his machine to the maximum - number of applications, jammed hard drive, lots of media content, used in a mobile state 16+ hours a day, etc. He's had numerous issues with them because he uses them heavily and they are a lightweight machine. And every year or so, when the latest one is in its death throws, he buys a new Macbook, but never the Macbook Pro - the extra robustness of which, might just save him a lot of grief. If you do nothing else, make sure everything is backed up, then nuke and pave it. Good Luck!
I know a few people who consider themselves to be in "FU money" territory, in the sense that they don't have to ever work unless they want to, and have way less than $20m. It depends on how you want to live, to some extent. The Valley isn't all that expensive if you don't require a big house in Palo Alto or Los Gatos, and especially if you're looking to rent. If you set your budget at, say, $50,000/year for housing, i.e. you can afford to pay a bit over $4000/mo rent, there are a lot of options. There are quite nice apartments or even townhouses in S.F. for that money, or reasonably large houses in Santa Clara.
The Making of Hackers, Hustlers, and Makers
One week after the moratorium on offshore oil drilling has been rejected. Coincidence?

I've heard the theory that with the relief well approach, BP would have been able to continue getting the oil. With the threat of the moratorium, the relief well would have been the only way to continue getting the oil.

Maybe it is too much paranoia, but ever since I heard that theory, I can't completely shake the feeling that there might have been something to it.
Most people think they should have this "cap" on stand-by on every drilling rig out there.
The point here is that grouping matters moreso than a simple stream of notes. If you just grab the notes as a stream (this is what happened to me the first time I used lilypond) you lose some of the control over what is considered voices.

http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/nexus-of-etude.ht...

http://www.robertames.com/files/nexus-of-etude/etude.ly

My mistake that I realize now is that I should have used a concept of "voices" to strictly separate the melody from the bass-line.

See here as a contrast from somebody who is muuuuch better at lilypond than me and didn't start with a gui frontend.

http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/GiulianiM/O1/Etude4/Etude4...

Relevant section is:

\score {
{
<<
\new Staff = "giuliani-opus1" <<
\global
\new Voice = "voix1" { \soprano }
\new Voice = "voix2" { \basse }
>>
>>
}

Compared to my amateur:

\score {
<<
\VoiceI
>>

...so the stream of notes is ~lossy~ compared to musically knowing that you're layering a repeating melody on top of a bass-line, or occasionally punctuating a melody with chords.
Well, if you have life insurance that constitutes insurance fraud. If you have people that care about you (and its probably safe to say virtually everyone does), you have just done a lot of harm to them. If you have responsibilities, this probably means you are abandoning them.

If you succeeded in faking your death (very hard to do in modern society, I would suspect) you may gain some benefit from it, but you will cause problems for a lot of other people. Not to mention the problems you bring on yourself if you are caught could be very substantial.

(I thought it was a funny post though, even if attached to a serious topic. In all seriousness, if you are having suicidal thoughts, seek help.)

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Prediction: This Statement Is Going To Come Back To Bite Microsoft In The Ass
>Why would someone pay for salaries and servers and then go to a VC later?

We did this exactly. The investment gave us capital to out-pace our organic growth once we had shown that the business had potential at a small scale.

There were two great benefits:

1) It forced us top figure out how to generate revenue from our business very early on.

2) Our valuation ended up being much higher than it would have been earlier in the company's lifecycle.
Their anti-copyright stance was also prescient. "The Manual" is a great mythbuster and should be taught in schools.
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That's a really bad idea.

Sure, we (their market) are a tech-savvy bunch, and most of us do have iPhones or Android phones, but I'd guess that a fairly small percentage of their market have iPads (5%?), and most people aren't going to want to read a full magazine on their phone. Plus, there's a lot less screen real-estate for ads on a phone, and the UX gets considerably worse when wasting screen space on ads.

It's a nice gimmick that'll get them some attention, but in the end, a reasonable portion of their audience (1/3?) won't have a compatible device, and most of the ones who do will just have phones, not iPads. I see lots of advantages to it being online only, but they really should also distribute it as a PDF or website (HTML5 app? They could swing Webkit-only and get fancy HTML5 interaction on all platforms including desktop.) as well.
I haven't used GNOME 3 but it sounds like OSX's Spaces are a bit more usable at this point. This article talks about dragging icons around to move applications between spaces -- in OSX you can just drag the window itself independent of the application so you could have a Numbers spreadsheet in Space 1 and another in Space 2. It's based on the window not the application though you can statically bind certain applications to their own space if that works better. Multiple monitor support is nice too. I think I remember using that in GNOME 2 though so I'm sure 3 will support it too.
Scientists "may not have the whole periodic table to work with in future"
I find windows almost unusable without virtuawin. It very successfully adds virtual desktops to windows.
Note that in Brazil people actually stop working to watch Brazil's matches. I wonder how common is this in Spain and other European powerhouses.
The Real Issues Behind Online Fraud
I agree, but it's the term thats taken hold recently. When we started we had no idea what to call it. In reality, it's not even game mechanics - more like meta game mechanics. Game mechanics are generally more like "action points" or "tile laying". The other term I've seen used is "funware". In a year or so it might be called something else - it's still a very young category.
Sleeping with alcohol in one's system significantly reduces sleep quality, so your mental state the next day is not nearly as good as it could be, even if you aren't outright hungover. Plus, having sleep debt makes you more likely to drink, which makes you accumulate more sleep debt since you don't sleep as well, even though you're sleeping for longer.

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa41.htm

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alcohol_use_a...
Its different from political poll because it is not random. Its like looking at internet usage pattern of Indian internet users and predicting the traffic of Reddit, when most of the traffic of reddit comes from USA/EU/Canada.

And that's exactly whats happening, Alexa relies on people who install Alexa toolbar and from what I remember reading most of Alexa users are from South-east asia, or more precisely, from India.

This is so dubious, its not even funny.
Senate says yes to financial reform, but exempts VCs from new rules
Or maybe quancast shouldn't publish traffic report of sites that they don't have direct access to?

How many analytic codes are you willing to put on your site?
Have you seen Ribbon Hero from Microsoft Labs? It actually does add points and achievements to Office. It's actually pretty cool. Their focus is on making learning how to use Office more fun. They run you through "challenges" that ask you to format things a certain way, or other things that you do through the ribbon. I think it's a pretty neat way to teach people and encourage exploration in what can sometimes be a rather daunting tool.
The trailer (http://userping.com/trailer) is hilarious. There's something to be said for not taking yourself too seriously.
Don't freak out, and seek therapy - and don't get bummed out about the fact that you are seeking therapy. That's a good thing.

We could all guess a million causes for this (drugs/alcohol/etc) - but in the end it doesn't matter. You've noticed something going on in your head, and you feel that it's not right.... so go see a doctor. or two. or three.

This by no way means you're headed towards offing yourself or going nuts. But still, see a doctor - if for no other reason than you've observed a disturbing and sudden change in your mental state that you can't explain. That's enough of a reason right there.
The activities window sounds a lot like the Start menu in windows Vista/7.
That's not nuts - I mean, proper nutrition (bananas are good food) and good sleep are necessary for good mental health.

Sometimes just some proper food and sleep is all you need.
Yeah, I came pretty close (I think) to deciding to kill myself back in 1996. After that I went a long time with few - or no - suicidal thoughts, but every once in a while over the past couple of years I found a few of those thoughts creeping in again. I doubt I'll ever actually go through with it, but who can predict these things.

Probably the biggest thing(s) I've learned that help:

1. Fish-oil is considered to have an anti-depressant effect. And of all the "folk remedies" you sometimes hear about, this one has a fair amount of legitimate scientific research backing it up. I've been really depressed before, took a couple of fish-oil capsules and felt more cheerful within an hour or two.

2. Exercise does help for me. Just being "in the zone" working hard in and of itself helps, as does the "runner's high" effect. Plus it's a chance to plug my headphones in, put on some heavy metal and tune the rest of the world out and just jam. Trail running is fun and it's great exercise. I highly recommend it, along with mountain biking. But pick your own favorite.

3. Pay attention to the dialogue that's going on in your head. When you find yourself thinking "bad" thoughts, ask yourself "Wait, why am I thinking this? This is stupid, I don't want to think this crap, I'm going to think happy thoughts now." It sounds weird, but this kind of "meta" thinking does work (well, for me anyway). I was inspired by some stuff on CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), so you may find reading up on that to be useful.

There are a zillion books on dealing with this kind of stuff in the self-help section at Barnes & Noble or Borders. I have a couple, but I basically bought them, set them aside, and never read them. But you might find it useful to go in one day, browse that section, take a couple of books and go sit in the cafe and skim / read a little...you may find something useful.

4. Studying Zen Buddhism has also been helpful to me. I don't consider myself a Buddhist per-se, but I think their way of thinking to be useful. I'm still trying to adapt to it, but just reading Zen literature usually makes me feel better.

5. Eliminate negative influences as much as you can. If you have "toxic" people in your life (wife, girlfriend, friend, co-worker, boss, whatever) find some way to get away from them. The last thing you need is negative people dragging you down, or influencing you in a negative way.

And while I've never done it myself, a support group of some sort might be useful. Even if it's online and not in meatspace. If you believe - as BobbyH says below - that suicidal thoughts are a symptom of depression, you might find the /r/depression sub-reddit to be useful. I browse it every once in a while and some good stuff gets posted sometimes.

And if all else fails, my default advice is "get drunk and listen to Motley Crue." \m/

Edit: also, if you ever just want to talk, feel free to email me. My email is in my profile.

Links:

http://www.webmd.com/depression/features/fish-oil-to-treat-d...

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Health/story?id=129498&page=1

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fish-oil-supplements/AN0139...

http://www.reddit.com/r/depression
Comment in question

“It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I’m okay with that.“ -Microsoft COO Kevin Turner

for people who like me aren't fan of TC

Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179164/Microsoft_exe...
I haven't been consuming alcohol for a while now, I think the last was during some world cup match.I don't necessarily lose control, but I guess I am a sad drunk.My thoughts do get darker when I have alcohol in my system.

I am in shape, and do exercise regularly. I don't think it makes a difference in my case.

Thanks for the links, and comments. I don't usually have a cheerful face, but yesterday I tried to keep a forced smile for the most part, because I read some literature that suggested it can improve how an individual feels. It hasn't really been useful.

I plan on seeing a doctor, but I don't have an appointment till this Tuesday.
Poll: Which Oauth flow do you hate less?
If you had to authorize a service through Oauth, which method is least intrusive to you / where do you think the dropoff rate would be lower?
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Java is like a fine wine, it gets better with age.
another reason to support universal health care: a smarter public
Divorce is catching
the new, all-digital magazines that aren’t saddled with expensive print versions

I think they call that a "blog".
It's perfectly normal. You just have to deal with it like everyone else does.

Depression is mainly alleviated by doing something productive almost every day. That way, your night feels good because you got something done, and so does your next morning.
Ask HN: Rate this startup idea: group calendar for things you're "anticipating"
I've been busy working on a different startup, but this idea has been floating around in my head. What I would like to build and use is a calendar where I can add all of the events that I'm looking forward to - movie premieres, video game releases, album releases, product releases (like the iPhone 4), television shows, Web shows, etc.

If your event title (ex. Fable 3 Release) is similar to something another person entered, the system would ask you whether you'd like to "piggyback" onto the event.

From the event page, users can write comments (discussion), add pictures, links or other information.

Three separate calendars on the Web app:
-your personal calendar
-a composite of your "friends'" calendars
-a "public" calendar - where the most popular events go.

Why I'd like to build this: it would be fun to track what's happening this way, but it would be even more fun to see what other people are getting excited about. After that "bee" campaign for Halo 2, I couldn't believe that almost all of the people around me weren't waiting for its November release date. I'm sure that my friends had similar events in their life. Even though I don't have a lot to be excited for tomorrow, I'm sure one of my friends does - and maybe it's something that would interest me.

Monetization strategy: most likely, would get organizations to put a sponsored event on each day's calendar (promoting an event) similar to the way that Twitter's promoted trending topics are "real" topics, but are just given a boost by the promotion.

I'm sorry this pitch is so poorly put-together, but I wanted to get the full extent of the idea onto the page.

What are your thoughts on this idea?
Not needed because of this section I imagine - straight from GPLv2.

"However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable."
I like how the picture shows them only using a conservative 50% of the screen for advertising...
The obvious bias in this article is the assumption that you will want to raise money from a VC at some point. Not everyone should.

The biggest reason not to raise money is that most of their investments go sour, so they need the others to hit it out of the park. However swinging for the fences carries additional risk. Furthermore focusing on big enough opportunities to give the investors the return they are looking for may prevent you from going after perfectly good opportunities. Becoming a $20 million company may not have been your initial goal, but isn't a bad outcome either. And a viable company of that size may find opportunities to grow organically later.
Pasting into this field is not permitted... my ass
When looking at correlating factors, they should also include diet. I remember reading that some Central Asian countries, as recently as a decade ago, were losing more than 5 IQ points on average just to iodine deficiency.
"no balls no babies" haha, love that. Thanks for the great advice prawn. Yea, definitely a leap of faith.
yep ideally from another large firm with oil experience. such as Halliburton or Exxon. ;)
Russia is the land of hot tea, US is the land of iced tea. This must be the crucial difference between the two; the rest just follows...
no NAT/Firewall issues, no ISP traffic shaping, only trusted peers

Sounds like an easy-to-exploit datacenter to me.
Did you do your MBA at A&M? I probably need to contact you sometime in the (semi-) near future; my in-laws have a ranch, and are probably good candidates for your product.
Thanks. I had a lot of fun making it.

This whole exercise (launching a startup) has been a ton of fun for me. I've been building software for other people for so long that being able to write what I want has been very liberating.

Since I lack the resources of some of the bigger guys, I'm trying to make up for anything UserPing is lacking by being more fun.

Thanks for the compliment, and I hope I can keep making you laugh in the future.
Digg is also smart about actually selling and placing ads compared to reddit. I've been checking out digg for the first time in years the last few days, and I was somewhat surprised to find that I actually kind of like the way digg does interstitial ads.

Reddit has one header ad and a couple of sidebar ads that are self-advertising more often than not.

(I will note for the record that this ad[1] spotted earlier today got a good laugh out of me. Somebody has used reddit's self-serve advertising to its fullest potential).

[1] http://img.skitch.com/20100716-jc2rdcbrfcq62c4aa2u4q6d3dq.pn...
the main function of a phone is to make calls. iPhone 4 cannot do that and therefore is faulty.

The iPhone 4 makes calls just fine. There are very few people having significant problems — most people seem to be getting better performance and fewer dropped calls with the new antenna design. Those who find it to be faulty can return it; iPhone 4 sales continue to be great, returns are low, users can be found everywhere praising the phone.

And the suggestion that Steve Jobs has an inappropriate amount of power at Apple is utterly absurd. Ask shareholders from the last decade how much they want Jobs put in a cage.
Too funny. Memorialized your comment to my posterous.

http://bhc3.posterous.com/should-a-timesheet-app-have-game-m...
Sometimes I wish geeks wouldn't worry about giving something a cool sounding name and instead just picked something conventional or unremarkable.

I don't want to search Google for help with Murder. I don't want to discuss Murder at the office.
Well nobody forces you to read the comments, do they?
Except for HN I guess?
I'm not the most cultured coffee drinker, but it's amazing to me what passes as "good" in the US. All the self-proclaimed coffee addicts I know drink either McDonald's or Starbuck's, which taste like lukewarm piss water and burnt coffee bean scraps mixed with 77 different varieties of mint flavoring, respectively.

The one time I had coffee that I though was "good" was some sort of expensive French blend. I can't remember the name or taste, as it was a long time ago.

I stopped drinking coffee regularly a while ago, along with most soft drinks. I find that not being addled by caffeine/sugar rushes, while drinking lots of water, makes me fairly energetic for most of the day.
> So that's what concerned you. The points don't matter.

That's your response? How very caviler of you.

It does matter because it's communication, albeit binary and pretty bad, about how well your comment is being received. It matters emotionally, just like a scowl matters, or a joke at your expense matters.

It's also a form of censorship and throwing rotten food on the poster.

> Particularly as you don't know who is doling out the points

Well, that is part of the problem, isn't it? Humans are not completely logical, Dr. Spock. Including me and you... We gotta make assumptions sometimes in absence of information. Well cool, I found out something new, you got your jab in there. Win-win.

Point taken about how the voting algorithm works.
Not much criticism, but I like it so far. Does this look like something you'd try to monetize and keep proprietary, or open up the source to (or both perhaps?)
What writing implement works best? Dry-erase markers like you'd use on a whiteboard?
Not so much into stats but isn't a good statistical sampling has to have a uniform distribution over population space like strata/demographics?

I wonder what their sample size is for 1.56 billion internet users (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=total+internet+users).

As a side note: Alexa is an Amazon.com company!, when did that happen?
Ever been to Chicago? There's a check-cashing shop (they call them "currency exchanges") on almost every block. If you are willing to pay whatever percentage they charge to cash your payroll check, you can get by without a bank account. WHY people do this I do not know, but large numbers do.
good but old
A few years ago Bruce Sterling gave an interesting talk about the future of materials science, among other things. One of the highlights of the talk is his discussion of "mining the dumps". These metals won't go away that easily. In many cases, we are concentrating them into convenient future mining sites (dumps)
What would you lose? Refraining from restoring from backup does not mean that you can't still sync your data in iTunes afterward.
Interesting that, after years of being accused of ripping off the Mac, the new Activities interface looks a lot more like Windows 7 than anything OS X.

I've always said that the Gnome team is more interested in adopting good UI paradigms; this seems to pan that out.