skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in a lab that does monkey research. What you say is more true about smaller animals like mice, where there are lots of variants, knockouts, etc.

Macaques don't really offer those kinds of options, at least not that I've ever heard of. You just hope they're healthy, disease-free, relatively smart, and are easy to get along with.
CT skills are also acquired by realising you've been suckered by some bogus idea, then backtracing to find out what bug in your thought process facilitated the dupe.

With the plethora of news articles on the web, and the motivation of news organisations to push out articles as fast as possible, it's often the case that even apparently reliable sources can end up espousing bad, poorly researched or just inaccurate information. With little or no editorial fact checking it's more than ever down to the individual reader to exercise critical thinking.
And as promised, i'm going to give you a follow up on the 'reversemarriageproposal'. The next lady that my mum found as a suitor (which was last week), i went in with a view that she had to impress me!

Lo and behold. She has said 'yes' to moving things forward. Its not an official engagement or anything like that, but suffice to say, i've gotten further than i have ever before.

So there you have it! :D
Hey thats not that bad - 25 minutes is well worth the fun.
Same here; exercise does nothing for me mentally other than making me tired. I still do it because I want to improve my health and appearance, but apparently I'm not getting the endorphin release or whatever it is that makes everybody else feel better. Or it could be a placebo effect that works for most people and not me.
Why are you discussing the author of the report and not its contents?
I'd love to try something that would take away the desire, but I'm very concerned that something like this would go on my medical record and taint me for life. I don't know where the doctor/patient confidentiality thing starts and ends here in the States. I know if they diagnose you with high blood pressure, that can be a stain for life and impact your insurance premiums, etc. I would fear that talking to them about substance abuse could lead to the same thing.
Yes, he has been following this thing for a long time.

"Only two things have made flying safer [since 9/11]: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers."

http://www.schneier.com/news-072.html
The same thing happens in Vernor Vinge's near-future novels; the "Friends of Privacy" put out fake personal information everywhere to obfuscate things.
Reading through this makes me appreciate the automatic steps that jQuery uses when getting a site's JSONP. Things like automatic method name creation.
Haha, I think it's a great excuse. But I just don't see the value in telling my version control software about the MIME type of every single file in my project.
It seems that the best way to get around this would be to make life unbearable for the TSA agents. The politicians can't be reached.

While physically assaulting them would be very satisfying, simply freezing them out socially would properly be a better tactic, since it is impossible to arrest people for.
Note: this is the same case as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868611 ("Intel ordered to provide PCI for 6 years and to take compilers back"), but this article is much more clear/informative.
This has nothing to do with copyright law.

I sold the first serial rights for $100.

I would have sold all rights for $120 or so.

...but they never asked.
FTC appoints Princeton computer scientist Felten as chief technologist
Original article (not framed by Yahoo):

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/business/02road.html
I never thought of that, but wouldn't the TSA have authority over GA as well?
Unfortunately, mysql still doesn't have transactional DDL, I believe...
Hands down the best thing about giving up cable (and broadcast) television is that I never just turn the TV on to "see what's on". If I turn on the TV it's because I make the conscious decision to watch something specific. The first month, in particular was illuminating. I found myself thinking about turning on the TV, but then, when faced with the decision of what to watch, I found it was easier to keep it off.
The problem was legalising alcohol in the first place

I'm pretty sure alcohol (like everything else) was legal by default, and had to actually be prohibited at some point before it could be legalized.
Rights, like a muscle, must be exercised.

However, I feel entering a country which I'm not a citizen of (like the US), is a privilege, not a right. Thus, they can ask anything of me they want..and I can chose not to enter the country.
> Even more absorption can be had if you use pyramidal foam

Hell, it would also make the pat-down a lot more interesting!

Thanks for the detailed answer.

Of course my original question was somewhat facetious, but I do think it's farcical that, nine years after 9/11, in order to fly within the "land of the free and home of the brave" one has to be subjected to these humiliating so-called security measures. Military-industrial complex indeed! It would be interesting to trace the political donations given by the companies that make these machines...
So the other question, is how would you or they feel if you didn't take the money, took money from another inverstor and became successful? Would they feel bad that you refused their money when offered in good faith?
Looks like an upgrade to current treatment, not a wholly new one: they're using it as a sidekick for radiation therapy.
Sometimes things in life ARE black and white. You either drink and suffer the consequences, or you don't.

You can spend as much time as you'd like rationalizing your addiction (which, based on your comments, you seem to be) but ultimately it comes down to a choice: Stop, or don't stop.

I speak from experience here. I quit smoking after smoking a pack a day for a decade. It took a long time, and it took alot of honesty with myself: Recognizing that I was rationalizing "just one more" because "I had a bad day" and that I couldn't quit because my lifestyle didn't accomodate it, etc etc.

Cut the crap and stop. If you can't stop on your own, turn to professional help.

Edit: Pack a day, not week.
well I see the "need" question two ways, so I'll answer in both of them.

1. I do not "need" the money so you are right.
2. Investors often look at whether or not your friends and family have invested in your idea to see the viability of your idea and the confidence those closest to you have in you.

So in that regard I feel that it always makes sense to take money from any investors as a confidence bid if nothing else, In everything I have learned from business thus far I have always been taught that taking on investment is smart in terms of risk aversion as well. Smaller parts of every idea (including the ones that fail) are almost always better than a bigger part of one big idea (that may or may not fail)

Also, to be fair I did not mention on my YC application anything about my exit because I did not feel it was relevant to my current project so i do not think it had anything to do with them accepting/not accepting me.

Although Hipmunk and a few other would probably argue this point, YC has accepted some wildly successful people in the past and I am sure will get even more applying in the time to come.
go and research hard cover books of your subjects in a liberal arts univerisity's library of your choice. for a fee many will let you read books, take 2 home for 10 days, do it for 6 months, see what happens. the fee is less than a whole semester and many of the teachers, librarians are very helpful. have a good quest.
You present a false choice. You're trying to compare "If I caught someone high on the job," with someone skydiving on their own time.

Nobody is suggesting that you can't fire someone who shows up high. But you'd also fire someone who showed up drunk, or who skydived (skydove?) and crashed through the roof of your building every day.

I just appears really, really, really, disingenuous and intellectually dishonest that you are focused on the concept of workers coming in high. I smoke a lot. But I don't go to work high. Just like people drink a lot, but don't go to work drunk.

My inner armchair psychologist tells me that you're experiencing a lot of cognitive dissonance because you somehow think cannabis is more immoral than these other lifestyle choices. And you're having a difficult time reconciling your beliefs with the evidence put in front of you.

In the absence of a strong reason (your "banks not hiring felons" is an edge case, so let's not pretend it's the same thing as hiring a programmer who smokes cannabis outside of work in his personal time), I don't think business owners should be able to dictate a single freaking thing I do in my spare time. If I want to smoke pot, or have sex with my own gender, or skydive, or drive fast, it is not one single bit of your nosy business, mr businessman. Unless it affects my work performance.

I don't normally buy into the whole "corporate slavery" thing. However, with health care usually linked to employment, the issue is a little less clear. Without a job, I'm actually risking my life because I won't be able to afford health care. To me, that inches a little closer to slavery -- "you must work here or you will die" (hyperbole mine).
First they came for the climate skeptics, and I did not speak out because I was not a climate skeptic...

Godwin'd.
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Body scanners aren't just used at entry to the US, they're used to get on domestic flights also.
There are multiple sets of "data", in whatever sense you want to use it (prediction models and climate measurements), and I don't think you know which one you mean. They back each other up pretty well, anyway.
So quitting TV and quitting cable are two very different things. Even the article you link to is about cord cutting - not TV cutting.

The current industry trends are not actually people leaving cable all together (though that did happen last quarter but in relatively minor amounts). The scariest thing for the cable operators is people backing off of their premium offerings. People aren't going to pay $10 an month extra for Showtime if they can just buy a season Dexter on Amazon for ~$25.

People love their TV (average 2.5 hours per day watched in the US) they're just finding new ways to get it.
Non-medical treatments for alcohol have been around for a long time, and while often better than nothing, often radically change a persons life in sometimes invasive ways, not completely for the better. Their long term effectiveness is relatively low, partially for that reason.

Additionally, all of those take MUCH more time than the trip to the pharmacy once a month. As the person in question would like to have more time to do his entrepreneurial things...time seems to be important.

AA in particular, which is based around abstinence, changes your life a lot, especially friendships involving moderate social drinking.

The medical approaches clearly tell you the side effects up front. The non-medical ones do not. The medical approaches do not change your interaction with your co-workers, friends and other colleges significantly. Non-medical ones often do.
Medical approaches are shown to have much higher long term success rates than non-medical approaches.

Exercise and meditation have their own benefits, however neither are things that people often take up in a lifelong manner, it's more likely to take them up for awhile then quit.

However counseling is a hugely mixed bag, especially group therapy.

Additionally, if there is an underlying problem (such as depression), solving that can completely remove the desire to drink at all.
That's nice and all, but I fail to see what's wrong with my Airwalks/Sketchers, jeans, black tee shirt and black-colored hoodie.
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If it's made to bounce off of skin, what about leather clothes?
Can anyone take a screen shot and upload it to imgr/etc?

After reading this, I don't dare install it before seeing it...
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So true. Although, I prefer pg's version:

The only "competitor" you should worry about is the Back Button.*

*http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html, http://mixergy.com/paul-graham-design/
High functioning alcoholic here. 11 years sober now.

That's how I started, in my 20s. I quit for a few years, but didn't develop "good" habits, and went back to drinking. Got worse and worse. I managed to ship a bunch of product and do several start-ups, but it eventually caught up with me.

Frankly, if you're worried, try not drinking for a month (_Alcoholics Anonymous_ recommends a year). If you can't do it, you might have a problem. That's for you to decide.

If you are in trouble, then going to AA isn't a disaster, and it might save your butt. It might even be fun. (I've met executives and science fiction writers and a bunch of other interesting people). I suppose there's other stuff that works; I can't speak to that.

Whatever you decide, good luck.
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That is exactly what my other reservation is ... my Dad especially would be too proud to invest after success at anything below the current valuation of the company (which could obviously be very high at that point) because he would feel like someone was giving him something and he is a man who works hard for everything he has made and simply does not believe in handouts.

I would feel terrible if I took money from an outside VC and the company grew to even a $10-20M valuation knowing he could have gotten his money back tenfold but I would not let him.
I'm also coming from part of the world where people just drink a little more than here.

So, I had the similar problem, and here is what I did:

- Exercise during the week and don't drink alcohol at all during the week. Exercise in the morning is preferable.

- On weekends, drink. But only if you exercised at least 3 times a week.
Their latest edition has a Food Network post copied without a byline. Someone's about to have their ignorance corrected.
This article needs more context. For example, how popular were indie games before the change? If they were very unpopular, and users were complaining that other aspects of the dashboard were hard to find, and they kept running into indie games, this change may make sense.

Also, since MS doesn't review Indie games the way they do tier-1 games, lack of internet access makes sense. They're really trying to keep the XBox a safe console.

If you want some of the other features listed, consider coughing up the dough to be a tier-1 developer. Or do PC games.
This is an incredibly ignorant and insulting comment. Nobody goes into science to get rich. And job security at 40 is hardly the primary goal either.

The majority of scientists go into science to add to the common pool of knowledge. For many, seeing their work being used in a positive way is extremely gratifying.

The pay walls are not the choice of most scientists. There is a push towards open-access, but it's not easy. To publish a single open-access article a scientist must pay thousands of dollars. For example, a single article in BMC bioinformatics costs US$1805. This must come out of already hard fought for and limited grant money, money that must also pay the salaries of many younger scientists still in training.
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For a non-American this is one of the most typical patterns in HN worldview. I call it the "libertarian style conspiracy theory".
Today I saw a man motioning at his cellphone wildly...
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You could focus on supporting the cryonics industry instead, if your judgement is that you're on the wrong side of the line no matter what. The same point stands: if you are blinkered, you will not do this.

http://www.longevitymeme.org/topics/cryonics.cfm
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That's a real shame as it's likely to be the catalyst for your issues (that or your family). I managed to change a high stress job in to a walk in the park by reading Peopleware and finally understanding how work... works. You might want to [re]read that.

It's not going to help though if work isn't the catalyst. Maybe you expect too much of yourself and crumble under your own pressure, maybe you fear failure and alcohol is a convenient excuse, maybe you are heading toward a mental break down. Who knows?

This is gonna sound a bit silly but keeping a mood diary with data about alcohol consumption, mood swings etc might help you step away from the problem far enough to see it in all it's glory.

Finding a mechanism to step back and see the bigger picture often helps. If your family isn't the problem they could be your biggest help in this.

Good luck
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I guess it's mainly this mindset of something must have years of testing or it's not really ACID compliant. Drizzle works fantastic, however there needs to be more drivers written to take advantage of it (and it's asynchronous facilities, especially for the Node.JS people).

If you're not familiar with Drizzle, it's MySQL that has a bunch of crap you'll never use stripped out.
I doubt this HN post could have a more boring title. The actual article is very interesting. Basically Facebook's DB developers talk about what it takes to perform 13 million queries per second, and a lot of the useful tips they've learned along the way to make scaling simpler.

There's a full video of the talk available at http://www.livestream.com/facebookevents/video?clipId=flv_cc...
On a related note, I recently watched The Social Network and was surprised by how tolerable the technical dialog was.
There does need to be a good OSS equivalent of the mac's user interface to allow for people to jump ship. Not graphically styled the same, but the actual UX.

Everything out there is based on Windows' taskbar style of [window > application > menu], whereas mac is roughly [application > menu > window], and allows for applications to be running in the foreground with no open windows. If there was a nix window manager that operated like this, I'd be making preparations to jump ship now.

Unfortunately, everything seems to be taskbar-based with menus attached to each window. And the only attempt at improvement is that there's some pride in trying to cram more widgets on a taskbar.

Alt-tabbing is another area for improvement: on the mac command tab switches between applications, whereas on windows it switches between windows.

I know this is personal preference, but the Windows taskbar literally gives me a headache on a daily basis.
Great content, but a really badly put together site.
In general I think you've taken a bunch of (mostly true) statements about SF and sorted them into "pro" and "con" in non-sensical way. Many of the things that you found annoying about SF, I find attractive. Full commentary....

YOUR PROS

1. SF does feel very safe to me, although I don't know about the stats. New York feels pretty safe to me too, and so does Seattle...

2. Food in SF is awesome. Yum.

3. I actually think that SF itself is pretty ugly in most parts, though that's just my aesthetics. The surrounding area (Marin, the water, the drive down 280) is undeniably beautiful.

YOUR CONS

1. Agreed, but it comes with the PRO that people are trying to change the world, not just make a buck. The worship of money is precisely what I don't like about New York.

2. This is true. SF is crunchy.

3. Too laid back - or just laid back enough? It's not really a con. For some people, more laid back is good.

4. I'm not sure I agree that this is particularly true. People don't seem any more or less mature in SF than anywhere else I've lived. Which is to say, pretty immature. Could it be the social groups you've been part of in each city?

5. Again, I wouldn't call this a pro or a con exactly...personally, I love San Francisco's weather. I hate the scorching summers and freezing winters of the north east.

6. I know dating is supposed to be hard in SF due to gender imbalance, but in practice I don't know anyone who wants to be dating who can't find someone. That could just be my social circle, but I find my one anecdote more persuasive than one stereotype. People definitely don't dress well in SF (see #3).

7. Is this not an issue keenly felt in Brooklyn as well? I'm not sure San Francisco suffers from this particularly more than any city drawing large numbers of young people. And again, this isn't really a downside. Don't like hipsters? Don't hang out with them.
I tried to show how the onslaught of visitors from my Hacker News link last week had an effect on both the server (as shown in all of the 7 day munin graphs), and the project (how I'm responding to feedback and planning the course of NewsBlur for the next few months).

I'm just so close to NewsBlur being profitable. I am 35 premium user accounts away (for a total of 80 accounts). Once NewsBlur goes profitable, that's when the real hard work starts. I would then have support issues, broken features in edge case browser/OS configs, and the headaches of keeping a server running for high availabaility, while on a shoe string budget and working super-part-time. (I write most of NewsBlur on the A train, 35 minutes each way from Brooklyn to midtown).
Before a), you need to get some counseling. Just getting exercise or trying to out-discipline an addiction isn't going to work.

And that's what you have, is an addiction. Your post and your comments showcase just about every trait of alcoholism.
Good points, the only issue with this is that if you have any sense of "tension" in your typeface choices, you probably don't need an article like this. And if you don't, you'll have trouble applying any but the most concrete instructions (e.g. use only 2 typefaces). Learning to recognize typographic tension is probably not something that can be taught in one blog post.
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is the sliding back due to the need to do "something to wind down" or to get some buzz. If former, cooking and gardening have proven to be therapeutic to me, if later, then it is addiction.

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The thing which made this more appealing to me is the fact that (would-be) job seekers could learn a lot from how he approached the situation.

1. Use your creativity and imagination.

2. Make the people (and employers) get curious about you.

3. There are a lot of ways to achieve the goals you desired.

At the end of the day, we should simply be happy that he shared with us something we can learn a lot from and he was able to get a job with a company that realized his potentials.
You say you've built up a tolerance and it just makes you comfortable, so what is it about the drinking that's stopping you working?

Personally (I don't currently code except the odd snippet here and there) I find I can have a few whiskys without it impacting any work I decide to get done in the evening.
I'm happy to see a fashion site that isn't about bare chested young males in sexual positions. It's a nice change to see a fashion blog for stylish influential men in good clothes. Thank you for the post!