skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will always be leaks if someone feels that the government is doing something immoral and they have access to the information, even if caught.

I find it insane that it is criminal to share some of this information. Secret information that the government has should be very very little, especially in war efforts. Sure the CURRENT strategy being applied in the battlefield should be secret since that will save our soldiers' lives, but after the battle that should all be revealed.

Hiding information makes the american public hated for certain actions, and the american public does not know what the actions were to begin with, so in the end the american public loses.
No, just like the existing trackpads on the MacBook Pro, it's not Inkwell compatible.

And No, since you can't pair a bluetooth mouse with the iPhone, you also won't be able to pair a trackpad.
A martial-artist friend of mine told me about an exercise his teacher had him do. For a week straight, he would have to just sit calmly on a chair or a cushion for at least an hour and envision everything he wanted to be doing and accomplishing at that very moment, but keep sitting and not doing anything at all. When you get to the point where you are so excited to do it that you can't sit anymore, go. I tried this for coding personal projects and I recommend it highly.
If its like the laptops you press down with 2 fingers at once.
Many other people will give you advice here, and I doubt I can top it, so I won't add to it - but I wanted to tell you that you're not alone. Everyone that posts here has flaws. Mine are legion. We're humans, and we're all fallible.

That doesn't mean you can't better yourself, but please don't be too hard on yourself for being imperfect. What separates the person you most admire and you isn't as much as you think - in many cases, it's just a bit of luck.
Unless they do something really funky, that 32-bit address space / 4Gig limit would be a real pain now that the MBP can have 8 gigabytes and 64-bit software is making an appearance.
This article threatens our intelligence.
> It may not quite work that way anymore in todays society

Whether or not this is true today is irrelevant; what matters is whether it was true in the environment of evolutionary adaptation.
As a corollary to this, I am also curious about vitamin D levels in people using UV tanning beds.

Assuming equal carcinogenic potential from sun exposure and from such beds (which is most likely an incorrect assumption), the results should be insightful.
1) You're not burned out. You don't quite know exactly what you want to do with your life yet, whether you know it or not. You know where you want to be, and you know what you like doing. That is not the same as knowing how you want to get where you want to be, which is what "what you want to do with your life" is all about. I'm thirty-something and I still don't know what I want to do with my life. Embracing that fact makes things easier. Enjoy the ride, I say.

2) 60,000 per year isn't a big paycheck. That's about what I'm making, after getting laid off and taking a big pay cut to get back into the workforce. It's a decent living, but you won't be paying off all of your debts in 3 years with that kind of money.

3) I don't know any 25 year-olds who are debt free unless they're trust-fund babies, and they have their own huge set of problems.

4) The picture you paint in the middle of your diatribe is not a picture of someone who is in control of one's life. Your life has been good to you. You're intelligent and gainfully employed, but I think you're worse off in self-control, discipline and health than you think.

Comments suggesting building good, small habits are some of the best advice you'll get. Don't get discouraged by the "I built this supermassive startup in 2 hours that got bought for 80 bajillion dollars" type stories. They might show up here with frequency, but those kinds of results are atypical at best, and at least one metric, if not all of them, are usually exaggerated. (2 hours of coding, perhaps, but months or years of daydreaming and planning)

As for goals... Give yourself a single daily health or productivity goal if you're one of those impossibly pedantic goal-oriented fiends. Make sure it's attainable. Maybe that'll help you focus.

I will knock out that project by quitting time.
I'll ride my bike to work today instead of driving.
I'll go to bed before 10:00pm.
I'll skip the usual Wednesday trip to Starbucks.
On my MBP you can set it up to to right-click with a two fingered tap, I imagine this is the same. Otherwise I think you have to hold down command and click or something like that
If, when my wife tries to wake me up in the morning, I grunt in reply I can usually fall back asleep. But if I respond using actual words, I'm generally awake for the day. My hunch is that this phenomenon is somehow related to the study.
It sounds like you need to go back to basics. Throw out your current goals and assumptions. Think through and write down the things you value the most. Based on your values, think through what you want out of your life. Then, compare/contrast with where you are today. Once you have a good picture of this, you need to take a 10-year view of how you are going to get from where you are now to where you want to be. Don't do anything less than 10 years since you'll just want to hurry things up and inherently fail.

Chances are, you already know what you don't like about your current circumstances, but you just don't have the courage (yet) to face it. The exercise above will help you -- it helped me. I'm quitting my day job this Friday to focus on what I love doing.
The aspirational foursquare
" Treat me like a human. Have a zillion power ports. Have free wifi. Have desks to sit at. Spare computers ala libraries. Have restaurants with food that isn't so horrible. How about couches or rocking chairs? How about a library? ..."

Most of those things exist in airline lounges.

"My dream airline would be one where I could be dropped off on the tarmack, hop on the next plane that is taking off (think bus stop) and be on my way. No getting there three hours in advance."

That exists. They're called charter flights.

"Still doesn't help that at the end of the day airports are typically not at your destination."

Charter flights for that, too. You can use smaller airports that are likely close to your destination.

So all those things already exist. It's just that they're really expensive. So really the dream is to have first class lounges and charter flights available cheaply and for the masses. That's probably never going to happen, because such things really do cost a lot of money to run and because then there would be even less differentiation for the expensive tickets.
Ask HN: Can we please stop posting political links?
<selfish request>

I respectfully submit that a) there are other places to post and discuss these (Wikileaks, etc.) type of stories, and b) I like to be in a hacking / startup / technology zone when I read this site.

I've flagged these stories but the moderation system doesn't seem to be getting rid of them.

</selfish request>
I think this might be an argument for grants for women :)

Also, not everyone is a go-getter extrovert.
Indeed. The D3 form is one you want. I actually had a endocrinologist prescribe the D2 form. Luckily my nutritionist has been following the literature for years.
Two-finger tap.
I am literally in the waiting room for my appointment to get a prescription. I was diagnosed just last week. I'm very excited that I may be on the verge of a new chapter.
Indeed. I never memorized anything, then I got to uni. It's just a waste of time rederiving 5000 years worth of mathematics for the fun of it, and pretty much impossible to do in exam conditions. You need to know the theorems backwards in order to be able to intiutively apply them.

It's exactly the same as how basic calculus is taught...integration at low levels is a HELL of a lot easier when you know that say, 1/n integrates to ln n, and you can then just use basic algebra to get your integral into that form. Without having that core intuitive knowledge obtained by practicing and learning, you can't make those jumps.
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Hmmm....

Just checking prices it's about $10 more to fly round trip from Omaha to Denver vs. going from Omaha to Denver by Amtrak. The plane ride (including travel to/from the airports) would probably cost me about 4 hours of my life each way while the train would be over 10 each way (this is a trip I have made before).

But that is a simple example where there is a direct route by both modes of transportation. Lets say I'm going to take the family to Orlando for vacation. By air is about $60 per person more expensive than by train BUT the trip by air will take about 8.5 hours while Amtrak will take 53+ hours EACH WAY!

Rail doesn't get anywhere in the U.S because generally it doesn't go where you want by anything like a direct route so it takes a significant portion of your life in travel time.
If you flagged them and they didn't get removed, that would suggest that you are in the minority when it comes to not wanting them posted and discussed.
Those diseases may well be linked, but in reverse order. Vitamin D deficiency is caused by:

1. Reduced gut uptake of (fat-soluble) Vitamin D due to malabsorption.

2. Reduced renal hydroxylation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 into 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3.

I can't speak to your daughter's specific problems, but since she has gut and, possibly, renal disease (given her diabetes), Vitamin D deficiency is quite possibly a consequence of those problems, and almost certainly not cause.
I don't understand who will buy a desktop PC in the future. Except for hardcore gamers, what is the point?
I actually think combining the Magic Mouse with Better Touch Tool (http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=1722) is a better solution. I use the trackpad on my Macbook because it's more convenient than using a mouse when I'm on the go. In the office I prefer a mouse for precision, but I also want multi-touch gestures, and with Better Touch Tool I can pretty much customize my Magic Mouse any way I want to, which actually lends more credence to the hyperbole "Magic."

I have mine set up to move from tab to tab on two-finger swipes to the left and right, refresh the page with a three-fingered swipe up, close the tab with a three-finger swipe down, and two fingers up and down will activate expose and spaces respectively. There are a lot more gestures available to customize as well, I'm irritated Apple doesn't allow you that level of customization out of the box.

So with all that said, I think the track pad doesn't add much value, at least for me. My advice is to get the Magic Mouse, unless you actually hate it as a mouse (which some people do).
How is this different from any other pointing device? The only one I know where you didn't have to move your hand was the Touchstream LP (http://www.fingerworks.com/ST_product.html), but then typing was difficult at best.
I don't have a catch all solution, but I do have one piece of advice that helped me. Get a workout buddy. Make a pact that you will both workout together 2 times a week. Set a time and place in advance and agree to be there.

I've found it works, because even when I'm lazy, I don't want to let my friend down, and it's a sustainable level of working out. After a few months it starts to have a noticeable impact on everything you do. I'm more confident and more motivated than I was before I started about 8 months ago.
Funny enough, my uncle suffered from bi-polar for decades before he died of heart disease. He became a nudist because he said sunshine helped him feel better.
But then the Morlocks will eat us!
The age of 25 is like that. "Most geniuses did their best work in their twenties"-pressure. "My God, 30 is just 5 years away"-pressure.

I suggest tackling this from a psychosomatic perspective. The body is an indirect but very powerful agent of change to the mind, Give yourself the permission to be calm and collected and deserve an average, wonderful, American middle-class day without guilt or anxiety. Enjoy that yummy sandwich and coffee and count your blessings. Avoid breathing like a bull in a fight. Avoid walking fast as if you're in a Jason Bourne movie. Avoid thinking rapidly, as if you're a hacker in a bad Hollywood movie. Real-life badasses are often deliberately slow. Real-life geniuses are very slow at the beginning when you ask them a puzzle. Secret : Expand the gap between perception and deliberate-thought as much as possible. That's where the magic happens.

Thus, using your body, allow your mind to reach a place of inner calm. Turns out that Clarity is the perfect path to doing anything good or great. Because it naturally leads to slow-thought, which leads to natural Know Thyself questions, which lead to self-confidence and a moment-by-moment ability to discriminate between what I want to do right now to be genuinely happy vs. what you should do right now as an employee, as a boyfriend, or other role-player (external conditioning). This leads to exercise, cutting down work hours to focus on a startup business plan, being a good serial killer, or whatever it is that you realize as part of the everyday slow Know Thyself process.

All the best! I'm sure you'll do quite well based on what you wrote!

tl;dr version : Deliberately Slow => Mental Clarity. Rest = automatic, by natural design.
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You got drowsy in grad school each afternoon, but now you're no longer drowsy and you take Vitamin D. Are you also no longer in grad school?
I feel that you are just letting too many things bother you at once.. Like others have stated, pick easily doable clear goals and try to work on them, instead of having grand, vague goals.
The older Mighty Mouse could be configured to do this by defining the scroll wheel Button 3 under Mouse in System Preferences.
I think becoming interested in more stuff would be a necessity for anyone with immortality. Otherwise you'd be miserable.
There was no leak about the blatant lies that Bush ant Blair were telling about Iraq.
Fair point. It would be nice if they would at least commit to bringing Windows support in the future.

I can't imagine this would affect actual sales though, just another of example of when Apple's secrecy can be irritating for some of us.
Please Apple, gain the cut, copy, and paste (and other gestures) on the trackpad that you bought from FingerWorks. Freaking genius.
I think that you want to accomplish something but have no idea what it is you want to accomplish.

You need to get obsessed with something. Don't kill it by being overly critical in advance -- e.g., it's too trivial, it's not going to sell, no one else will be interested, .... Those things don't matter. You have to find something that allows you to exercise your talents. You probably have something in the back of your mind already. Maybe some business idea. Start designing a website for it. Or maybe something in technology you want to learn -- a language, a framework, whatever. Find a trivial application to provide programming exercises that you can accomplish in that language.

I wanted to learn Python, read the book, couldn't get interested. Then I had an idea for a programming tool that I wanted for myself. I realized that Python was a really good language for it and became obsessed. Today, (5 years later), I have a really useful tool (still used pretty much just by me), and I've become very proficient in Python. My interests have moved on, but that was a good obsession for a couple of years.

Don't worry about not being productive. Back off and evenutally you'll get interested in something. Then you can be productive.
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Mighty mouse had middle click support; you just click with your finger on the scrolling ball. Not great but you could program what to do with this button.

Unfortunately the Macbook trackpad doesn't have middle click natively. However, with BetterTouchTool you can assign commands for 2, 3, 4, and even 5 finger clicks. For five finger click you have to include the thumb. This means that clicking the trackpad with your thumb while a single finger is on it is a 2 finger click, which I prefer to be a regular left click. These are all settings you can control.

Anyway, BetterTouchTool lets you configure a whole bunch of different actions (clicking or swiping in different parts of the pad with a different number of fingers) to activate a whole bunch of commands.
Given how well-known the term "space-time continuum" is, you'd think that most people would already know that to be the case.
Except that much of manufacturing isn't automated--building and maintaining the robots would be too expensive. Instead companies pay third-world workers next to nothing to assemble products by hand. Go and read Bunnie Huang's blog posts about manufacturing the Chumby in China. (bunniestudios.com) The Chumby is assembled almost completely by hand. Even big things like industrial equipment are often welded and assembled by hand.

The problem is this:

Say a company is going to sell 1,000 of a particular heavy assembly per year and profit $1,000 from each. There's no way they can afford to build and maintain an automated assembly line to support that product. Each individual robot might cost $50,000+. Robots are really only feasible for high-volume, high-profit products, or where one line can make several closely related products (e.g. a tractor plant that makes front loaders and dozers.)

I know this doesn't fit with the techno-futurist ethos around here. Maybe in another 50 years robots will be cheap and flexible enough to truly automate manufacturing.
But what if they don't actually want anything? What if demand is actually being satiated, and all those dollars are just worthless fiat paper that doesn't actually mean anything?

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5309

That article talks about some more complex ideas related to demand limits to growth, but there's also a really obvious demand limit to growth: humans have fewer children when they get wealthy... often to the point of dropping below replacement level. Nothing limits demand like demographic collapse.

Economics, being a "science" that does not believe in thermodynamics, believes both potential supply and potential demand to be infinite. In reality in a finite world both must be finite.
The Trackpoint (little nub) mouse on some laptops doesn't require you to move far if at all from the home row.
And later today we'll be back to complaining that the general populace doesn't understand science.

We'll blame that on their retrogressive attitudes, of course.
The blog post is a little vague - did they purchase just the Ember application (as opposed to the company)?
On the newer MBPs you can assign the bottom right corner to right clicks (or just use the two finger tap method mentioned by others, which feels quite natural). I assume that’s possible with this device, too.
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Getting enough sleep? Definitely worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAw1z8GdE8

Personally, I found that taking a full-time programming job destroyed my out-of-office motivation and productivity. It might be worth trying a job in a new industry for a while, or working out some sort of part-time agreement with your employer -- you might find your brain itching to code and produce something after work hours.
Vodafone in Germany is supposed to sell N1, only they are out of stock and have problems getting enough of them to satisfy orders. The Vodafone N1 might not be as open as the Google N1, though :-(

The other day I had a crazy idea: what if some hardware maker would just create a good phone and leave it to customers and vendors to decide what operating system they want?

Most probably wouldn't bother, but it might make for a better feeling? For example, I don't think many Mac users actually use Bootcamp to run Windows on their Macs, but I suspect a lot of people felt more confident to switch to Macs given they had the option to revert to Windows at any time.
Do you have any friends?

Modern careers leave people estranged from their families and without any real friends. Although programmers like to believe their Asperger's syndrome or Randian individualism means they don't need a social or family life, humans are social animals. Not having anyone around who cares about you leaves people anxious and depressed. When you are anxious and depressed it leads to ADHD, hypochondria, and a sense of helplessness. The fact that you are asking this question anonymously on an internet forum leads me to believe your social life probably isn't as good as it could be.

In contrast, when people are surrounded by loved ones all the time generally they have little anxiety or depression even if they have serious physical health problems.
Seems like you haven't climbed the hierarchy of needs, which frankly, is the norm at your age (from my anecdotal experience). Your twenties are a struggle professionally to become good at what you do. My advice; stay focussed at becoming very good at what you do. Everything else falls from there.
Consequence of Nursing Assignment for Future Nurses
Nursing is a noble profession. In order to care patients, nursing students have to know about medicine, hygiene, health and psychology of the patients. This article is about finding a topic covering any of these areas for the assignment and writing the research paper.
IBM Trackpoint http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing/trkpnt.html

Best pointing device ever.

You can keep your hand in home position for typing and manipulate the cursor. It doesn't actually move, but is force sensitive and is delicately calibrated to move in an intuitive manner.
thanks for all the input
we were able to sheudle some meeting with index, accel partners, ariadne, balderton, stefan glänzer and many other

btw we also published today the next release - if anybody is interested you can also see the first fashion designs at www.garmz.com
Oftentimes, but not always. If John picked it up and it just broke (due to being fragile, I suppose) he could just as reasonably say "se me rompió" (note where the accent goes, by the way) and we might translate that is "it broke on me".

(Also: it's "se vende".)
So why choose computer science as an area to push for more women to participate in?

It seems like the opposite of equality.

"Here are a bunch of dangerous, yet lucrative career tracks, but I think more women should be programmers because it's safer than climbing a ladder."
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Refusal to acknowledge adhd as real is what you are doing wrong. That is borderline hubristic. Seriously, that might be the thing to dwell on for a while
>Google et al. do essentially run their servers on EC2.

If by EC2 you mean "bunches of servers", sure.

On GoGrid you can buy cloud servers, or you can rent dedicated servers (and you can intermix the two). The latter are quite a bit less expensive for a given quanta of resources, while the former obviously offer greater dynamic flexibility (with a significant premium).

Actually considering the terrible I/O rate of services like EC2, dedicated often offers a dramatic advantage.

>They have a whole pile of virtualised servers they can turn on an off by the minutes.

But they don't. So they use none of the upside, and have all of the downside. Yay!
I would assume that it gets turned into the same thing by the process they describe in the article. It ends up as 25-hydroxyvitamin D, which is what they measure in the end I believe. But I'm anything but an expert.
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These guys are really on to something. Very cool!
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