skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are clinically depressed; lack of concentration and motivation, and morbidity are key indicators, as is the sense of failure. The correct drugs will help the morbidity and motivation; counselling, particularly CBT, will help the sense of failure. Combined, they will treat the disease.

See a doctor straight away. You have had these symptoms for more than a few months so start treating it seriously.
100% agreement. Simple rule, if your martial art training's only form of sparring consists of defending against pre-defined attacks or attacks done at less than full speed, then it simple won't be effective in a fight. Also if you only learn how to hit people for points rather than for damage then chances are that's how you'll hit when you end up in a real fight.
I agree that it's better, but I don't think it's so much better that I'd be willing to pay them even $1 a year for the improvement.

It would take them being insanely better, and offering something that I really need (the 'which bookmarks go where' feature is almost it) to entice me into paying for something I'm getting in-built onto my browser that is free.

It sucks for them, really, because even a year ago I'd have happily paid them the money. Cross-browser (Firefox -> Chrome sync) would have been worth it then, as would the segregation of 'personal' bookmarks from my work PC, but at this point, Chrome sync is in place, it's the only browser I use, and what's left just doesn't convince me to give them money.

I wish them well, but they should have been charging years ago really.
I used DynDNS as a reg for years, but when I wanted to customize the MX record, they wanted another chunk of money - buh-bye!... Probably going to Hover next.
If you were ambushed and seriously beaten, then I would expect the school to expel the ringleader, suspend the others and get the police involved. One-on-one in school is one thing, but once they start planning ambushes they have gone over the "child" line.
this happens to be a piece of fine art as performed by david bryne on mspaint.
I can't. I have the reverse problem. I am building on Mono and deploying to IIS.
Is ‘A Word From Our Sponsor’ The Most Effective Type of Advertising After All?
(Fuck my karma, but I just need to say this) I just hated how he presented the point. But that does not change the fact that leading the question with her gender and institute is actually pathetic. Have you ever seen a post like "Male Stanford philosophy major wants to learn neural networks"?

This is what I don't get about women, they rally for women empowerment, equal rights and this and that, then you go about flaunting your female charm (not specifically talking about the thread).
The claim that we are in a perfect simulation of reality isn't a scientific claim, hence falsifiability is not strictly relevant.
I hate the "I'm trying to think but nothing happens" feeling.

Not least because there's an audio clip out there of Curly of the Three Stooges saying it.
it kind of chaps my hide that this asshat with his phone might buy one of my tech-related softbacks for $1 and sell it on Amazon for $5 or more

This is easy to solve. Just start selling your book for $1 on Amazon.
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umm... interesting. Maybe someone can extend that and actually solve the problem of spam.
as far as I know, yahoo had captured the "portal" business, so "they" must have also said "There are no yahoo sized opportunities left"
Ah, I see. Thank you for the link!
It's a really nice service, great interface and all but why are you ruining it by forcing people to enter their email address? Kinda put me off at first ;)

What would be super cool is if you put a timer on the Discover Movies page - if I'm busy marking movies as seen, not seen or want to see, I think it would be cool if they stayed where they were, and only after I've stopped interacting for a few moments does it rearrange the items. Honestly, I'm not sure if this would be confusing as hell for users or not, but I think it'd be worth doing a proof-of-concept for :)
Categories of topics for hack news for easier discussion and discovery.

If interested in updating your community features and overall style so more appealing and user friendly, please let me know. I would like to bid on the project and share my ideas.

Lark
Facebook allows Force Joining of Groups
Facebook's funding timeline: "Round one: $500,000 from Peter Thiel, Summer 2004; Round two: $12.7 million from Accel Partners, April 2005; Round three: $27.5 million from Greylock Partners leading the round, Meritech Capital Partners participating, and Accel Partners and Peter Thiel increasing their investment in the company." Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet
I am using GoDaddy for m throw-away domains and regfish.com for more specialized TLDs. Regfish has a great, personal service, is based in Germany (how about that for a change ;-) and has decent prices. Great UI, lot less slack than GoDaddy.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you like it.

I do the design and have still a lot to learn. I'm originally a programmer.

> Take me back to the page I was on after signin

Gotcha. We'll do that.

> The site doesn't help you watch movies (ie. you cant view them online), which was my first impression - so the tagline is 'helps you find films to watch'.

Thanks a lot for this. English is our second language, and we often struggle to express what we think in a sentence.

> You have a revenue model in referral fees to amazon, netflix and the apple store.

We're currently working on it.

> If you do this right, it could become a very good imdb alternative (you should link to them btw, and possibly boxofficemojo and metacritic) - since imdb are stuck in the dark ages and haven't done a lot with the social web (their forums, where I am/was semi-active, are terrible).

We do not plan on becoming a replacement for IMDB. We don't want to overwhelm people with information they might not need. That said, we may add the rotten tomatoes / IMDB / Metacritic score on movie pages. We're not sure we want a like/dislike mechanism. We want to encourage people to comment as often as possible. "like" has become meaningless in this day and age. Sure I "like" The Godfather, but I also I "like" Bambi… a comment here would be much more helpful.
"Broken Meetings (and how you'll fix them)” by Merlin Mann [video]
I haven't done any benchmarking and I don't use RoR or PHP much, but as a data point, the Mono stuff running under Apache seems slower than similar Java code running under Tomcat.
It does create something new, it creates value. I'm amazed at the 'arbitrage is bad' comments, I can't remember seeing it anywhere before. Someone who finds a buyer for a thing that couldn't be sold before (i.e., was worthless) creates value by enabling the transaction.
This is a very sad news...... I know I can find other services, but I added this to my mom and dad's computers, and they do have now all their bookmarks + passwords saved.

No, they don't even know that (Xmarks) is running, and I don't even know how to tell then "hey, you should pledge 10 € here..."

That made me think: how many moms and dads are using this service??
People used to do this at clothing sample sales, which is why sample sales now have bouncers.
The email address is for the reminders and notifications. A lot of users sign up and forget about the site. We'd like to contact them later if they forgot about their list of movies, for example.

Most people (that is, our friends and family) like that movies disappear on /movies once they're added or marked as seen. They don't have to scroll! Ticking an adding movies can become very addictive, and they like that.
Generally it means you have an entrepreneurial track record, but it could also mean you have amazing investor connections, an executive track record of tremendous success in a relevant business, an EIR arrangement where the VC wants to fund you, etc.

Going from nonfundable to fundable or from a premoney valuation of x to 2x (which is what someone should do to merit this sort of disproportional value) gets rewarded by a corresponding increase in ownership.
This is really awful journalism. Read a rebuttal from “HTML5 evangelist” here: http://remy.tumblr.com/post/1261575750/hold-off-on-deploying...
It would be awesome if you could post that eco-related list someplace. I am a programmer who's always struggled with that stuff.

If you do post such list, please let me know.
Yep, another happy Gandi user here :)
Yes 'like' may not be the correct terminology but something that indicates a recommendation since you can also write comments that are a vote not to see the movie

(edit: you also need to add the favorit button on the page that shows the list of movies you have seen : http://watchth.is/my-movies/seen)
From the OP: I agree with you guys (or gals) on both calling super and redefining respond_to?(). Those are two of the "caveats" I mentioned at the end of the original post. I considered mentioning them explicitly, but the post is long enough already.
>Defend yourself and the innocent fully, but don't think that means you can't also love your enemy

Let me add the rationale: if you don't try to love your enemy, or try see something good in him, then you will hate him.

His hold over you will last as long as you hate him. Bullies feed off hate and fear.
I recommend http://netfirms.com/. Excellent service.
Well sounds like the people organizing the book sale are doing a bad job keeping their patrons in check, then. No matter where you go, there are always going to be assholes. I have friend & family who own bars & restaurants - I can tell you that a guy trying to monopolize the dessert buffet and causing annoyance to the other guests is going to find himself outside on the pavement real quick.
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To be honest, how is this any different than Rotten Tomatoes or Netflix's recommendation system?
The thing is, I doubt a decentralized social networking approach would really be allowed by the Chinese government. This kind of solution can only really gain ground in very open countries if at all...
It would definitely be too far in the UK or the US. Apparently it's not in Libya.

A screenshot I saw of the main vb.ly page had a picture with enough flesh that it itself was probably illegal under Libya law.
If I sign in with my Twitter/Facebook account, what do you do with it? Will things I say on WatchThis site show up on Twitter/Facebook? (I say this as someone looking to sign in and even clicking the Sign In button -- there's no indication of what will happen if I do it).

Right now it doesn't look possible to sign up without a Twitter/Facebook account.
Ask HN: Subdomains versus Directories?
I want to start a blog (and a number of projects). Which is better, domain.com/blog or blog.domain.com and why?
Crowd funding for game to teach *nix and Bash
Weppy: WebP on OSX browser plugin
Thanks Travis, some great advice there
I was bullied during the 8th and 9th grade.. I hated the bullies but I never really did anything about it... Then, when entering high school on the 10th grade, something clicked, I punched the first person to give me a stupid nickname, and after that no one annoyed me again...

So yes, I think violence in this case is useful... It doesn't really solve the problem though, it just shows to bullies that you are not weak and they should just choose a weaker target than you... They understand that, respect you for that and leave you alone...

Now for the small anecdote, I became good friend with the guy I punched and he actually had been bullied before in middle school. He had tried to be a bully in high school so as not to be at the bottom of the class hierarchy...
Is he claiming that he actually has, in his own words, an ANNUAL TOTAL of $1980+$168.75 ($179/mo), with no wellfare in the picture, or is it implied that these are the monthly pension payouts?
Anybody that thinks writing a book is easy is -crazy-.

Okay, writing a -bad- book is easy. Writing a book that's worthwhile isn't.
From the OP: I used dynamic proxies in both Java and C#. For example, I wrote the annotations introspector for Hibernate Annotations, and a memcached wrapper for a C# project. Both are proxy-based.

However, using dynamic proxies in Java feels like going against the grain of the language: strong typing and dynamic calls don't really like each other. As a result, you usually resort to Java/C# dynamic proxies only when you have no other option. I've yet to see anyone using a dynamic proxy just to remove duplication in a Java class.

C# dynamics might make dynamic proxies less clumsy in that language. Will try. Do you have experience with them already?
Sure, getting physical may sometimes be necessary. It's worth adding that it's important not to enjoy it. (Maybe this is how new bullies are formed?)
Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying

was a book disowned by Orwell in later years (mostly because of editorial changes he was forced to make).

Still, it is a good book to read on trappings of wealth and poverty.
I love pinboard.in - I signed up when they were charging about $1 per signup and it works perfectly for me, the guy that runs it even setup a feature on my request and within about 24 hours of me requesting it! (tag specific user RSS feeds).
Maybe there's money to be made here in an automated way (call it the HFT of the used-book markets). I was looking for the Graphics Gems series on Amazon & Abebooks the other day, and the cheapest ones went for 1-4 dollars, while the expensive ones went for 40-60 dollars (not sure if they're getting sold at that price, but it's the asking price). If one would scan these sits and identify wide spreads, one could buy up the inventory at the bottom of the market and re-list at market price. Maybe one could deal with the transaction costs (S&H) by agreeing on bulk shipping or so, or letting sellers ship directly to the end-customer if one can be found within a week or two (agree with the seller that they keep the book in inventory for two weeks, if you find a seller within that time have it shipped directly, otherwise to your own storage).
Great isn't it! They are having a live press conference at 10.30 am PST on http://berkeleybionics.com/
I think he's using "big buttons" as a shortcut for the difference between highly rich, detailed interfaces which present many options all at once, and more "simplified", more intuitive interfaces which present fewer options, but where more work has been done to ensure they're the options you really, really need.

At least, I hope he is. This is Ballmer, after all.
Okay thanks for all the suggestions re Crowdsourcing etc. I've just put up a page on http://www.indiegogo.com/Banzai-Bash to do exactly that.

Re free - if I raise the money to cover my living costs, I'll make the game open source. You'll easily be able to spin it up on a VM/cloud server (or your home comp if you're brave/foolish) for free! What's better, is that you'd be able to modify to teach your own language/project.
The conversations taking place there just screams BROKEN. "What's your Twitter username?" - "What's your LinkedIN username?"

It seems that there is a clear problem here (HNers want to network with eachother) -- but the solution of a FB group ain't it.
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for U.S, Japan researchers
pro on subdomain because:

* a lot of blogging apps/readers etc. look for feeds at standard endpoint urls such as /feed.xml /xmlrpc etc. all the plugin urls etc. will also be at the standard urls

* you can set auth cookies for the subdomain so you can isolate logged in commenters etc. (you can have path=/blog on cookies but most blogging apps don't support it).

* sep analytics (also possible on sub-dirs but you can visitor track and x-ref between domains).

pro on folder because:

* SEO counts to your main domain (see : http://www.christonium.com/SearchEngineMarketing/subdomain-d...)
Why does Facebook have such a history of bad decisions like this?

I -just- rejoined Facebook yesterday due to the fact that I seemed to be missing out on too many opportunities by boycotting it, and my 6-month-long boycott has made absolutely no dent in their popularity.
It's a pretty straight forward concept (certainly nothing new): charge for teaching/sharing info in a format you can distribute and charge for. This article does make a good description of what these products can be.

The problem this article makes no attempt to address is, once you have an "infoproduct" ready to ship how do you find customers? As a post last week (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759052) referenced , you may need 1000 true fans to make a living selling direct (http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...)

I'm sure we all have info products in us, but the barrier to entry (or at least making a living) will be finding the balance of desiredIncome / numberOfCustomers = salePrice

Factoring in the effort to find the number of customers required is at least as much work as creating a product in the first place.
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A lot of people just hate things associated with exercise, like going to the gym with a bunch of people, or running around their neighborhood. You can always start by doing bodyweight exercises like pushups, pullups, crunches, and yoga. If you still hate it, you could do what many Americans working menial jobs do and get high beforehand.
We're working on the possibility to allow the users to publish on Facebook/Twitter their comments and favorites if they want to. But we currently don't publish anything on Facebook/Twitter.

You're right, we should make it more clear.

We disabled the login/password login option because it's easier for our users (automatic nickname suggestion, no password to remember, future Facebook/Twitter publishing) and more interesting for us (user photo for instance).
You just described how most startups end up. Even yc funded startups that flop have to close up shop and the founders go back to work at Facebook or whatever. There aren't any easy answers to your questions.
From the OP: I considered changing the names because I had the same concern, but in the end I figured that the current name was good enough for a toy example. In hindsight, you're probably right I should have used other names (although your sneering tone is not really necessary).
Our recommendation system might be less powerful, but we think it's simpler, more easy to use because we only implement features we feel are useful.
But hurry! This special price is only for the first 500 copies. At number 501, the price will be $49!

Hmm. So how does that add to $45,823?
A good first test to see whether something is possibly a bad idea is to give it to a 13 year old boy and see if he makes dick jokes with it.
This feature seems ripe for the picking.
Probably just due to age curving, my IQ scores have dropped by about 30-40 points over the past 10 years on the 'normal' tests.

Oddly enough, I regain a lot of those points back if I take a 'harder' IQ test.

I don't think my IQ has done me any real good except enable some lazy habits and some pretty rapid adaptation faculties. (Hauling ass and learning on the job)

I'd rather have better habits and be better at using my time wisely, although that's steadily improving (as my IQ keeps dropping ;) )
You still have perl6. :)
The Sinclair ZX81 vs. Babbage's Analytical Engine
That is the annual total. The article is from 1979.
> They didn't just try and create their own implementation, they did it. And then released it under a very liberal open source license.
> And you call that "giving back little in return"?

Yes, they've given back nothing in return to the people that have created Java. What did Sun get out of Android? Nothing. Maybe some royalties would have been enough to keep it afloat.

>I think if they want to go do stuff like that, it's their own business - it's not a trivial amount of work, and if that's what it takes to get >around someone's licensing that they find distasteful, well, so be it.

How is it distasteful to protect one's hard work? The protection was in place EXACTLY so that other corporations couldn't get away with what Google has done. Everything else was free and open both for companies and individuals.
Google's acts of charity are misleading. They are always releasing non-critical software as open-source in return for good-will! Good-will is a VERY HARD thing to get for a company, but by being generous with tools that are unimportant in the grand scheme of things (which is ads and search), they've built quite a following in hackerdom. A small price to pay for a huge benefit: as you can see everyone's taking Google's side in this affair...

>Reimplementing something is not 'morally wrong' in the slightest, in my opinion, as long as you're not out and out stealing code. We would have no >Linux or BSD if those people hadn't redone "Unix".

Fine, reimplementing something is not morally wrong. How about hiring Sun's engineers and going out of their way to avoid paying Sun anything knowing that Sun would not go after them in court? Getting close to morally wrong?
Sun provided a patent license to OpenJDK/Harmony. That's important. Whether or not any code was used affects copyright violations, not patent issues.

Copy someone's code and you violate copyright.

Two people can independently come up with the exact same algorithm, one of them patents it and the other is in violation. That's just how crazy the patent system is.

Sun's license to OpenJDK was contingent on that JDK not being modified. Oracle's argument is that Google has violated that license so is outside the royalty-free patent license for the OpenJDK, which I hate to admit, is actually a reasonable argument.

That'll be enough to get a trial if Oracle wants one. When I first heard about the lawsuit I considered it an incompetent shakedown to justify the purchase price for Sun. I say "incompetent" because they picked the wrong target thinking Google of all companies would simply roll over and cut Oracle into the Android action.

I hate to admit that because I think Oracle's actions are shortsighted and, well, moronic as Google has done more to further the Java platform than anyone (including Sun) and I'm opposed to software patents anyway.
I haven't seen them used much in any of the open source Java projects I'm familiar with, I agree. We used them fairly extensively at my previous job, though, for implementing a mix-in pattern for boilerplate-free service endpoints, and they worked nicely. Outside of that, I use them al the time during development to add quick-and-dirty method call tracing when I'm trying to debug something.

I personally think that they're very much underused, and having based an interview question on them for a while, not well-known at all.
From the article: "suspected culprits ranged from pesticides to genetically modified food".

Q. What do pesticides, GM food and mobile phones have in common?

A. Technophobic nature-romanticists hate them.

Those things are just the "usual suspects". They get blamed for anything.
A Web-Server in Forth
Why I Don't Give a Rat's Ass About Open Source
TIL the WWF changed its name to acknowledge reality! (I thought WWE was a typo and looked it up.)