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Ask HN: Anyone here had to deal with studying and working and depression?
I'm a college student who has to work to pay for my studies. Since the end of last year I decided to take a full time programming job and started doing distance education because I just couldn't pay for my studies doing a part-time job anymore. The problem with this is that I get back home very tired and I have little time to study or do anything else, my academic performance has dropped from being far above average (potential cum laude student) to being just below average since I don't study for exams and I submit my assignment late. I stay up late just to study and learn new things since my company doesn't offer much time for personal growth. I've also started dropping subjects just because I don't have time.

I've also noticed that my academic strength has dropped since starting to work full time. I can still write boring "enterprise" code that does the essential but I've started finding it more and more difficult to deal with some algorithms and mathematical concepts which I used to be quite comfortable with just about a year ago.

I've been applying for scholarships unsuccessfully for the last couple of years since high school. So work is the only way I've been able to pay for my studies. Now I've become a bit depressed, living away from home and family and not making any academic progress and being driven to exhaustion every day for sleeping late (so I just sleep on Saturdays and do little) .

Has anyone had to deal with this before?

Any advice on how to deal with this?
Same here, happened today.
Over the past few weeks I had pretty much decided my printed resume was a waste, but I kept bringing them 'just in case'.

Today, first case out of maybe 10-15 where I needed a printed copy. However, I was talking to the founder... so it definitely was worth it. Again, it would have taken a minute to print a copy in the office, but it shows a nice touch of forethought... IMO.

At the very least, I like to have a copy to help meyself follow along.
I still don't see the appeal. The Iphone 3GS is now $50 at AT&T. Prepaid data plans suck, so even if going with out a monthly plan, costs don't work out that much better. A $200 subsidized iphone4 is better than an unsubsidized $200 cheap phone that will probably need to be upgraded in a year anyways. If you upgrade your phone that much, then I don't see why buying a cheap low grade iphone is a good idea.
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And he used to be here: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb
I was rather disappointed that a lot of the top rated questions were knee-jerk or obvious.
I would prefer a shirt with the seven primitive operators of Lisp myself.
> However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err.. expression on the shirt that doesn't quite appeal to me. Maybe I'll have to design one too!

The font is FF Meta, the same font used in the Y Combinator (VC) logo.

It's unfortunate that the Y-Combinator is so long. I tried to kern so it would fit in a single line but be big enough to see on a shirt. Not sure that I succeeded exactly; maybe not based on your comment. :)
You're overestimating the "logic" used by the MBAs who drove the '90s dot-com bubble. The costs were higher, but cash flowed easily from VCs back then, as well.
The real shift that started with the iPhone was that the software became as important as the hardware - how they work together [1].

Motorola, Samsung, Nokia et al don't have the extensive software culture.

Palm/HP is the only one that does.

[1] Also a weakness with Android phone manufacturers - my phone has a small screen, making the icons just too small to hit accurately - Apple would never let a device like that leave the building, Samsung are quite happy to and Google are OK with having their name slapped on the back of it.

EDIT: forgot about formatting
I don't understand what you're trying to say here.

The incompleteness theorems are a barrier to creating a "perfect" mathematician, but certainly not a barrier to creating an adequate one.

Or are you trying to say that a computer would have no idea which theorems were interesting and which were dull?
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It is clear to me that you do not understand the Incompleteness theorem, the original post, or both. I am guessing both.

The fact that there are results the computer can't prove is not a bar to it being useful. After all there are results we can't prove either.

What was discussed was not a perfect theorem proving system. But rather a system that was good enough to be competitive with humans.
Why the downvotes? I usually don't like oneliners and reference to Feynman/Einstein, but I think that this comment has an important point. I will try to expand it.

Some topics in physics are easy to model and get a closed formula but some are not. In particular, fluids flow and heat flow are very difficult (if the system is not very symmetric).

To make an industrial heat exchanger, the chemical engineers use "books" that have a lot of examples for different chemical products and different geometrical configurations and try to find the more similar to get some experimental constants. These constant can be placed in formulas to get the required size of the new heat exchanger, but are only reliable if the new one is similar to the original example.

A few yeas ago, I worked at a school and we need an experiment for a physic olympiad. We measure the cooling of a plastic cup of water in different conditions. One of the ideas was to measure the effect of a metal spoon, but in the pretesting we found out that the effect is negligible. We got the bigger difference using a thin plastic lid, the cooling time was much longer.

So, to find out the best method to cool a cup of coffee you can't use a pencil and a peace of paper. You should measure it experimentally wit a thermometer. (Perhaps a computer model simulator might work.)

And in one of the Feynman books, he was trying to see if jelly gets hard if you stir it while cooling. He waited for a freezing day, got a pan with hot jelly, something to stir and a jacket. In another book someone told him that a piece of rubber from the Challenger shuttle would become hard when cold. He got some water, ice cubes and somthing to hold the
rubber to test it. So probably Feynman Feynman would get a cup of coffee, a spoon and a thermometer.
I thought she did a good job with Lisp, Logo, and Haskell too. The Ada one left me completely perplexed -- as someone who wrote a fair bit on Ada in the 90s. What does this mean, "However, your tendency to wear the bondage and discipline gear all the time, as opposed to when your lover asks you to bring it out, frightens people off. You need to learn to stop calling people "worm" and "slave" in front of their mothers."?
A browser doesn't need process isolation to clamp down on misbehaving sites. It might be easier than doing it in the scheduler in your javascript & rendering engines, but process isolation is not necessary.
> Sounds to me like you're completely sure of your own correctness and of their wrongness.

Yeah, it's kind of heard to make claims like that without sounding like a hypocrite. I love logic and philosophy and a good debate or political discussion. This issue I have is a number of people I run across consistently refuse make more than emotional statements or parroting phrases from their selected media source.

If you can't have a logical debate it's pointless to bother talking.
I think if you're running a big company you have to be cautious about what you say in public. If you're just an investor you can take more risks.

Spending a decade publishing essays that got port-scanned by forum trolls has also helped. It has trained me to make sure what I'm saying is true before I hit submit. (Or at least within a few minutes of hitting submit; I added the delay feature to HN explicitly for this purpose.)
I definitely see where you're coming from -- excellent point, mentioning that monopolies are about power, not numbers.

However, your comment, "How many times do we need to see ignorant people lured into these roach motels before we as an industry or a society do something about it?" stuck out. From my perspective, the fallacy there is that we as a society exist as something more than a collection of individuals. I read a very interesting article today about how Darwin might actually be a better economic father, as opposed to Adam Smith. The reasoning was that Darwin's theory explains self-interest outside of the context of society; that individuals act in their best interests which may or may not benefit society.

Perhaps our differences are down to our backgrounds. Europe, as a whole, tends to look at the societal unit, whereas Americans tend to look at the individual level, where societal consequences are emergent behavior.
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Bubble does not mean too much money invested in a few (potentially) shitty companies. That's a ridiculous mis-use of the word. Ergo: no bubble.
Typically, your former employers' HR departments are happy to confirm hiring/departure dates and "eligibility for re-hire."

As a result, those are two things you can't expect to successfully lie about.
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Everything is on the internet. What is the internet? I think we are talking of specific views we take of the internet. Like if we mostly visit sites through HN, we have the HN view of the internet.

So if anything, we can say the views are failing us.
"But the wisdom part begins to look like mob rule and crowds can be easily gamed, as this article shows."

How does this article show that? I'm not arguing that they cannot be, I'm merely pointing out that the article doesn't 'show' that. Its not the subject.
Vinod Valloppillil was not exactly a senior manager at Microsoft (and has been gone for over a decade as best I can tell) so it's hard to tie him to the alleged funding of SCO's lawsuit...which was debunked in 2006.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/11/sco_microsoft_black_...
As undoubtedly other people have mentioned: they did not ban all open source. They banned GPLv3 and related licenses. (although it's not mentioned in TFA, I think AGPL also is not allowed. Would make sense, since I can just relicense any code under the AGPL.)
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I don't see any symbols on my keyboard that weren't already used in C except @ and ` (backtick.)

P.S. I forgot about $.
It is because Twitter posts are public, and free for Google to use, unlike Facebook posts.
I am a human and I also can not decide if that sentence is false or not. How does that make me better than a computer?
I think the world will see it's first Trillion dollar company within 10 years. I also don't think that company has been created yet.
Seven?!! ...so inelegant compared to the two rules needed for evaluating lambda calculus ;)
I am under the impression that the actual IBM has not responded to any of the questions yet. Any knee-jerk or obvious answers would be from your typical Reddit user.
Agreed. And there's no reason why FF shouldn't ace the IE test, and vice-versa.
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You definitely get more attention from girls if you're seen with another attractive girl.
There already have been cases of theorems being proven by computers. I don't know how much truly original work, but I remember (faintly) at least one case where the computer discovered an unknown way to prove an existing theorem.

Many years ago I was on a logic conference and one speaker proposed to make "a computer can solve it automatically" the definition of trivial (as in "this is trivial to solve").
A goal of social policy is to modify the incentives that make "cruel" and "unavoidable" the logical choices. When child labor was legal, working them long hours was a cruel, unavoidable, and rational decision by employers too.
Tech Bubble? Yes, sir.
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For those interested, that's a $5.60 markup. Pretty honest IMHO.

EDIT: I was mistaken. It's a different type of shirt, so the markup is even less!
I think Samsung's approach is incredibly smart: they are being first an arms dealer, only secondly fighting a war. There's no way they can lose.
Ask HN: Review my startup, suggestashow.com
Hey HN,
Suggestashow was created by myself and a co-founder. You put in the name of a tv show you like and it spits out recommendations, based on a whole slew of attributes we came up with. Sort of a 'TV show genome project', if you will.

Been working on it for a couple months now, mostly in our spare time, and feel like it's ready to go, at least the core product.

Frankly, though, we have virtually no traffic. The few 'users' we do have are mostly friends and family, which is nice, but not particularly great feedback.

So we would greatly appreciate thoughts on what works, what doesn't, and if anyone has any ideas they'd be willing to share re:getting the word out, that would be phenomenal.

Thanks, hope you like it!
As I understand it (and I may be wrong) that particular scenario (Dropbox) is not well defined in the Apple rules - so it's wait-and-see how they enforce things.

Personally I doubt they would piss off popular development shops like Dropbox and 37Signals (who have Highrise and Campfire clients in the App Store) - but then again they do have history there.
What it allows Microsoft to do is to solve any administrative issues relating to GPL by simply deleting the application from the store rather than trying to assure compliance. It's faster easier and cheaper.
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my understanding is that rubinius is production ready (and "first class") software today. If they could offer a real performance improvement over MRI 1.9 they would be more compelling.
Rubinius is also a much more compelling environment to develop the Ruby language in, but they just don't support Windows and all the 1.9 changes yet.
I have been using Crowdbooster since last November (no serious reason, just felt like betatesting another YC startup) and until like two days ago when they improved their graphs a bit I honestly thought they are dead. In the last four months the website pretty much did not change at all.

Here is a suggestion. Maybe you can work on improving communication with your users so they know what is being changed and added to the site. I just checked out the blog for the first time like a minute ago and only once is a new feature mentioned (the #FF feature from 19 days ago). All the other entries seem to be focused on 'we are mentioned here! and we are mentioned there!'. Since I do not even read the blog, I even missed the #ff feature.
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And they got funded via kickstarter - Main funding came from someone in San Francisco - they are now discussion the legal issues (via i3Detroit pod/radio-cast)
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Any code-related thing that Martin and Michael put their hands to is guaranteed to be rock solid! Congrats on the launch guys!
If I thought there was a bubble and was cynically trying to exploit it, I would have just said nothing.
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Honestly, it works fine for me, and although I find the actions described in this story to be a hilarious and unethical waste of resources, they certainly aren't making my Internet any worse in a general sense.

What do I give a crap about some sockpuppet content ghostwritten by a Fed -- since when am I reading the comments on Daily Kos, or some random dude's Twitter? Who cares what articles people vote on? I spend most of my online time reading an incrementally updated newsmagazine of my personal favorite writers on the planet via RSS.

Are you concerned about undue influence on public opinion? The only people being swayed or convinced by some sockpuppet campaign are those whose opinion is already made of shit. Do you really think that J. Random Congressman or Alfred E. Media Representative would be likely to have a sane, rational opinion on the issues of the day anyway? A couple dozen or hundred automated propaganda-bots are not likely to make his decisions even worse.

There's no reason to care about how the winners are picked. The cool thing about the Internet is that there's room for everyone, and that doesn't seem to be changing at all. That is the right system, and we're already there.
Any chance I could get one in orange instead of black?
I completely agree, sounds like we both want the same thing, but wouldn't a better method be to just script the setup? If it's already detailed and personalized why not just have it as a script that goes through and sets it all up?

If all the information is already captured why only display it on a screen and make the user copy?

edit: I'm not familiar with the scripting environment on mobile devices, but this is very doable on normal machines. I don't remember the last time I had to setup outlook.
This is just an alternative explanation for an observed phenomenon. Actual human beings are entirely capable of reduction to repeatable talking points and strangely fanatical persistence given the right framing and environment.
don't forget the demo on Monday part!
Revenue is so Web 1.0. It's all about engagement now.

Fans and tweets are obviously the currency of the new millennium.
We're missing the one thing that makes a bubble a real serious bubble which is "Well, let's invest in this because there is literally no way to lose!"

This was the mark of the housing bubble (otherwise my parents wouldnt have told me to buy a house almost immediately after I graduated college) and is why people invested in Ramps.com and petfood.com at the time of the dot com boom.

That's the type of behavior that is the mark of a bubble, we're not seeing this happen yet.
That was awesome! Donald Duck created a chemical before it was actually discovered! Brilliant!
Isn't something akin to Fizzbuzz the obvious solution to this problem? An unemployed person whether skilled or unskilled is still unemployed and doesn't really have grounds for saying a test is beneath them.

If we can filter out a large percentage of the unskilled with a litmus test like Fizzbuzz that should be a big win. Bigger, in fact, because we've stipulated that the unskilled are far more common than the skilled in today's labor market. I would think that this would be a much better solution than throwing out all resumes from the unemployed.
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While I don't doubt that in the future there may be some machine that can crunch logic at a ridiculous pace, Watson still seems far off from the AI the author here is alluding to. Machine learning of Watson's nature (classification problems, feature selection, etc.) is able to take data generated from the world and find interesting patterns to make a prediction. This is nowhere near the creation of new ideas, like Galois' insights into field theory or the work Perelman contributed toward the concept of a Ricci flow. I haven't yet heard how to create a machine whose thoughts "can wander" in a way that isn't hopelessly inefficient. That would be a big leap toward this type of AI.
Ask the guy who made a million dollars off Pixelmator in the first week because his was the featured app on the Mac App Store
Tough situation. "Real" Full time work + more than 1 hard class and 1 easy class is bound to leave you exhausted.

When I went to school I took advantage of "internships" and "special topics" classes. These let you remain enrolled in school while really working full time for an employer for a semester (+ summer). Went back to the same employer every year. This let me concentrate on one or the other and never had to mix the two.

I hate to recommend this, but can't you just get some student loans and worry about it later? In a high pay city, taking care of a 40-50k student loan is just a few years of living cheap.
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Didn't read it. I'm hoping its just a one page site that says, "Be passionate about one idea."
I find this ironic since one of the top articles today is "The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All (Sockpuppet Management Software)" Can you easily measure crowd interest if it's becoming easy to fake online users.
For the record I am an entrepreneur have had 3 successful exits and now run a consultancy with quite a few employees and I blame wall st. I would never operate my business the way that they have and am appalled at their actions. Further if my company was responsible for great pain in America I would not pay bonuses to my employees. I have seen a lot of entrepreneur support this kind of action and I wonder if their is a deep seeded desire on their part to join the ranks of the abusive. For me I think it is reprehensible to act in this manner sometime honor is more important that a buck. Whether my view point is Populism or not, there is no honor in what Wall st. did and therefore I blame them as a citizen and as a entrepreneur. The evidence is overwhelming to ignore it is to have an agenda (not saying you do, but I am suspect of entrepreneur who make excuses for them).
Does this need to be said? Is there anyone suggesting that there is a tech bubble like there was in 2000?

I mean that literally. Is there a single person on the face of the earth voicing that opinion? Because I haven't heard it.

The tech bubble in 2000 was more than overvalued companies, over hyped stories, and big promises. What I see now is the same thing that happens every day in other financial sectors.
>Is this a possible goal? Note the one key insight that I feel the need to repeat: Thomas J. must not be perfect. It must not only put out correct formal proofs. It must be allowed to put out papers like we do.

So, he not only wants correct formal proofs of difficult theorems, but also insights and thoughtful conjectures? I think math is a red herring here, what he really wants is strong AI -- you can put 'writers' or 'economists' in his arguments and not much changes.
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Not so fast. This is a site selling real stuff, making real income.
Oh come on, you've got to give "Assembler just lies there" some credit.
That's unfair. I know a few people who have worked HR, and they were largely of above average intelligence and aptitude. However, they are responsible for a wide variety of tasks, of which hiring and sourcing, from janitor to director to .NET programmer.

They often lack the scope of the target domain, but that does not equate to a lack of common sense.
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Actually it's not. It's 17.40 base price for the American Apparel shirt (which I made so I could buy, since that's my preference), so it's a $2.60 markup.
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Well more to the point, single large monolithic projects are best avoided in general. The only reason Java is brought into it is that codebases in Java tend to get pretty big before they do anything useful.
With the economy in the tank, disqualifying the unemployed simply makes it easier to reduce the stack of resumes which must be passed to the hiring manager. It is hardly news - read Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich which covered this issue while the boom was still happening in 2006.

http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/baitandswitch.htm

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This blows my mind in d dimensions.
I find this answer unsatisfying. Watch this demo, for example. It runs on high-end modern gaming PCs over 60 FPS.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&v...

Tesselation, volumetric shadows, depth of field, etc. Can you really say with a straight face that it's not doing anything complicated? And here we are struggling with drop-shadows. I know the problem domains are different, but I can't help but feel completely underwhelmed at the current state of the web when it comes to graphics. Somehow I think there's more to it than "fonts are hard."