skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of things:

1. I was in a similar state, and found out I had hyperthyroidism. Thyroid now removed, I'm much better, but there are many other such conditions that can be causing things that you might not have all the tools yourself to work out, so check with a doctor or your school's nurse at the very least.

2. Caffeine screws most people I know up. It's very fun and useful, and I don't recognize myself without it because I drank soda from a very early age, but this all could be contributing.

3. A lot of what you describe isn't too terribly bad, honestly, I mean, you need downtime, you are in college which is a hell of a lot of work.

4. The net makes you think you're terribly non-productive. Every single awesome throw-away link is some 10,000 man hours at the very least. I think we're all, in the tech world at least, trying to cope with this to varying degrees.

5. I highly recommend a counselor. Having a mostly unbiased third party is an amazing asset.

6. My big problem is not so much that I don't want to go out, just that I don't want to change what I'm doing, or I don't want to transition to the next thing. I highly recommend forcing yourself to get over that hump, and to go out and meet new people. Ask them questions. You'll hate it because they don't read the same feeds as you do, but you'll absolutely love it because if you hadn't done it, you would've never had had such a great time discovering what those people are all about. At the very least it is a great distraction, but often, people are a lot cooler than you may think.

Best of luck! You can do it!!!
I did, no response. Hoping this will get some attention from Posterous.
It doesn't.

You're right, this isn't the right way to ask these questions, and since you obviously recognized that, I can't imagine why you didn't bother to try to come up with a less inflammatory way of asking the question.
I think that sharing that sort of thing will be in a more targeted way, via e.g. yourpane.com. I never share links that don't appeal to everyone on Twitter or Facebook, but I send things to specific friends all the time.
Bonjours, ce n'est pas un journal chinois pourtant car ils sont les maitres en plagias et autre contrefaçons.
Comme quoi les mauvaises habitudes se prennent très vite.
En france, on n'entant pas encore de pareilles plagias mais je pense que cela ne devrai pas tarder hélas !!!

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http://webboutiquevelane19.blogspot.com/
A very good answer from Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-PHP-s-main-flaws-(and-good-par...

Or, if you'd prefer an HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1805729
Sure, I agree with the real time consumption of tweets/dents perspective you present. However, advertizers (cringe) would like to know that I'm happy and riding my bike today.
Ask HN: Does Twitter throttle on a per-user basis?
I'm having trouble using Twitter -- I keep getting "Something is technically wrong". When I log in with a different user everything works fine.

I suppose there could be something specific to my account (different group of servers or whatever) that's causing the problem.

Does anyone know how this works?
Show HN: RepoPlay - Instant replay for repo commits (+looking for internship)
There's something about the specular highlighting on that second image that makes the Earth -- our planet and home -- seem like just another ball.

Staggering...
Ah Germany - where I just gave up applying for jobs.

"Oh, yeah, I see - you've got 10 years of experience. But what's that? You don't have a diploma? Nor a 'Ausbildung'? Sorry, in this case I just won't look at your prior work - no matter how cool it might be. Have a gut day, sir! No job for you."
I own a HP laptop which recently had its mother board replaced. The machine came with an OEM installation of MS Windows Vista - I didn't reinstall / remove but I did lock out and changed the password for the 'Administrator' account. To my surprise when the laptop came back from repair (official HP on warranty repair) the Administrator account was unlocked and the recent activity on that account indicated that video files were being run recently from it.

I assume that they must have a way to unlock the account I just hope it's not a full time remote control like mentioned in this article. You can be sure of one thing - I will never buy from HP again.
http://status.twitter.com/post/4213087153/elevated-error-rat...
Keyword Attractiveness Index
It's absolutely true. I haven't used AIM much but a while ago I was trying to find an easy way to talk to my parents. When you want a hassle free experience, Skype WAS the only option.

It's now no longer hassle free. Like the OP I find the new Skype wretched, now use it less and would jump at helping my contacts and I switch.

Question: How many Mac users are in the internal Skype testing program? I'm guessing not many
I think he meant if he liked it he'd endorse it, but he was willing to take a look. Not saying the endorsement/voting idea isn't flawed, but that's how I interpreted what he was offering.
Centralization Vs Decentralization in SEO and Social Media Strategy
It doesn't. It is like anything else, strengths and weaknesses. Disclaimer: I am biased since my successes have all used it.
If none of the 4chan users are my friends, I won't see anything from them. I think this is actually not a problem.
It sounds like one of the motivations for this change is to allow the root partition to be kept read-only. For that to work, /var would need to be a separate partition and writable. There are still a few files and directories, like /etc/lvm/cache, which currently need to be writable and could be moved to /run.
I disagreed with the very first car. I love the El Camino. This story is garbage.
My apologies. Perhaps I should delete this post?
This is what I am trying to do with my project with GAE: http://ting-1.appspot.com/rt?rt=python

At this point, I only have my own links; but if other people submit their own python links; and I figure how to sort by relevance, ting may be a good resource for search results without spam.
Consider a hypothetical stock currently trading at 34.05 bid, 34.06 ask. Trader A puts in a bid for 100 @ 34.06, matching Trader B's ask of 34.06. Normally, B would then sell to A, but thanks to HFT, institute C has the unique and intrinsically unfair position of being able to fulfill A's order.

Explain? Who is institution C? How are they able to violate time priority?

Assuming a moderate holding of stock, you are then able to manipulate the market up and down second-to-second by selectively fulfilling buy or sell orders and so causing supply or demand to pile up temporarily.

This is also very vague...
Yeah, the point of the security/anarchy argument is that you can't just argue blindly from a position of "less government" as if it were an end rather than a means, because if that's your only concern, you're free to move to Somalia and experience the free market first hand.

It turns out that many subjects require more knowledge and sophistication than a 2-word bumper sticker if you want to set smart policy.
> Whether you measure by hour or by mile air travel is still comparatively safe

The problem with that measure is that air accidents don't correlate with either hours or miles, but with takeoffs and landings.

The comparable incident for cars is probably intersections.

Yes, each plane trip involves only one takeoff and landing while each car trip usually involves multiple intersections, but that just means that simple comparisons don't tell us very much.
I think the voting system probably provides some interesting metrics about users personality types; e.g. whether they have brutal/gentle personality traits etc.

I wonder if this kind of metric is used in ycombinator interviews?
it's 500.
This article would have been much more valuable if the "look how many hits we got" served as a backdrop for an analysis of the marketing strategy they mentioned.

It's much easier to post graphs and numbers than it is to do a proper analysis of strategy, which is why we see so many of the former and so few of the latter.
I work on a community wireless net in St. Louis, MO (http://gowasabi.net) that was founded with an intention, among others, of attracting Google Fiber here, and I submitted a proposal to Google about it. Likewise, the city gov't sent in its own proposal to get fiber downtown, along with countless other local groups.
http://stlcin.missouri.org/googlefiber/
I'm guessing many many other cities did the same.

While Google is indeed the 800lb gorilla here, it's not the only provider out there. If you're successful in getting Google to lend you really fast Net, that's awesome. If you're successful in getting similar service on your own, i.e. by micro-trenching your own fiber or negotiating a deal with a local bandwidth broker, that's actually much better.
I quit the Patent Office to pursue web development/programming.
I don't see anything that would keep them from moving this to the gtoolbar, Chrome or a javascriptlet.

I agree with the branding of it. I doubt I will use it much, but it is catchy.
I know HN ist not place to prais php...
PHP ist easy to learn and it easy to code in php, but if your a professional software developer you can also write professional software for php.

You can develop faster, because of large amount of built-in functions and classes. The "shared nothing" philosophy makes it almost unbeatable in terms of performance. Thats why a majority of large sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo and Flickr is powered by PHP.

Well php is not as structured as ruby or python. Sometimes it is not structured at all. :-(

Other HN users would certainly talk about disadvantages of PHPafter my comment. ;-)
There is no more research or fact-checking implied by a blog than by a series of tweets. There is only longer writing.
I don't want to flame you but your attitude just makes me crazy angry.

The drug wars have nothing to do with protecting people from hurting themselves -- it's just another tool for controlling the masses.

I will return the favor and suggest that your attitude about this is rather naive. Drugs are out there. People will want to use them even if you don't. You cannot make them go away.

The sensible "adult" approach to this is to legalize them all, tax and regulate the hell out of them and be prepared to help those that need help. Simple, cost-effective, and respectful of peoples personal choices.
I think there's two things here.

1. they're trying to match the 'like' button. So you '+1' something, it goes in your profile and your friends can see it. It also would surprise me if there weren't a widget made available to publishers, so viewers of a source article could see if their friends '+1'd it.

2. They'll be able to use '+1' score as a factor in search result weighting along the lines you're suggesting. While they may still weight toward +1s from your social circle, this being Google, I doubt they'll settle for the simplest statistical use of the data.

As for the browsing flow problem -- i.e. how often are you looking at google search results after you determine the result is good -- I'd be surprised if the seemingly inevitable package for site owners didn't allowing people to '+1' directly at the source.
Physicist Designs DIY Green Utopia Construction Set
Something about how paying customers have a stake in the outcome of the feedback, so they try to make their feedback effective. The transcript should be out soon.
the analogy doesn't really work... because 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months.
One of my colleagues recently bought one of these and has been puffing away at his desk and in meetings. He paid $200 for his but I've seen them for about $10 on Dealextreme. The article talks about a $45 referral fee so I guess the markup is quite high.
Interesting side note is that his "cigarette" is USB rechargeable.
well i think they have to get some amt of data first... obviously they'll add this to the algorithm and let the machine learning decide how much to weight it. I think it will likely increase click throughs by a decent multiple (for the most +1'ed results). I actually did a proof of concept on organizing search results by facebook like counts last year http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1372311 (and oddly enough i did see a spike in mountain view traffic this past december :).
Puts an interesting spin on SEO. It seems the best technique is still to simply produce quality content that people want to link to and share with their friends.
A privacy review sounds great - once every two years sounds terrible. This isn't the 1950s, Products are changed and released in months, if not weeks.
PHP doesn't suck. It runs the internet. It's possible to write crappy code in any language.
It doesn't matter very much how awesome your device is. You need at least a second person who would also get the alert as a backup (assuming this is a critical system that you really care about, otherwise you wouldn't want to be on-call for it in the first place).

As the primary responder, your responsibility is to acknowledge any alert within a minute or so. Otherwise, the backup person would have to jump in.

To ensure "accountability," you may have a manager who would be a third backup and can escalate up from there.
I use this database to check on publisher permissions. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php
Authors of IEEE articles can archive pre-print and post-print but they cannot archive publisher's version/PDF. And there are lots of conditions.
It's probably a bad idea to put new players into an already-existing game when someone disconnects. If I win a queen, my opponent will disconnect, and then everyone else who gets my opponent's position will disconnect after they realize they're so far down. Just let someone win the game when their opponent disconnects.
I see hundreds of thousands of billable hours of mechanical turk and dungeon grade Indian and Chinese IT Services time spent +1ing SEO spam farm links.
They do seem to be adding a little too much to the search engine itself. I just noticed that they've finally hidden "realtime results" behind a link you have to click, instead of shoving random idiotic Twitter crap in your face when you search for current topics.

There's an idea that had some potential, but seems to have made no progress since its debut. It's still no better than a simple Twitter search.

Google seems a little too eager to adopt random crazy ideas (SearchWiki) and a little too willing to kill off good ideas that don't take off quickly enough (Wave). I can't think of a recent new feature or product that was a big success, which is disappointing.
That used to be the case two years ago.

Why would I release my software on github for free, when I can release it on Google market for money?
We thought it would be useful since a lot of new startups do wind up showing their work on HN before anyone else picks them up. We were trying to show folks what to expect, and the ramifications of getting that kind of traffic coupled with a strong viral loop.
Free faxing isn't revolutionary, you can send one with www.freefax.com or with www.faxzero.com and they have been around for years.
But cheaper than sending each user a $1 SecurID token.
Will there be as much money in the e-signature business as there is in the e-fax business? The latter seems to be saving the user from a bigger hassle, hence the obvious monetizability. What happens if google docs adds the ability to add physical-esque signatures?
I can't ever remember doing a search for something where one of the results was so cool that I thought "hey, I'd like to share this search result with everyone I know!" or even "hey, I'd like everyone I know to know that I think this search result is cool!" If I was going to share something it would a. be the actual page, not just the search result, and b. likely not shared with my friends and the general public, but with a specific friend or co-worker or a small group of people.

A search result is so disconnected from your social circle that it's hard for me to understand how this ever made it past prototyping. Search results aren't like party pictures or baby pictures or what you had for breakfast or anything people share on Facebook or Twitter. They're generally not even answers to questions, they're just potential answers. The answer itself is what you'd like to share.

Clicking +1 on an ad seems ridiculous to me for all the same reasons as above, plus the additional reason that I would be embarrassed to share any ad that wasn't superbowl-funny or a direct savings ($5.00 off a movie or something) and I've never seen an Adsense ad come close to either of those. Sharing any other ad is just spamming your friends.
Does not giving someone a full-time offer after the short-term contract hurt the team like firing someone? I could imagine it going either way. Perhaps it's better because those not in their contract period don't start thinking "it could happen to me at any time."
It's because he's a great writer. But this time he _has_ been surprisingly accurate...
Though I get what you've done, and think it is a very cool solution. I'd really like to see a video of somebody actually using it.
HP rolling out webOS 3.0 beta to Early Access developers today
Just installed Windows 7 on my desktop using the key from my laptop I wasn't using and this ISO.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-w...
A thought: Liking (or +1-ing) at the URL level seems useful but too coarse-grained as a general model. Maybe I've made too many Git checkins today, but I'd like to be able to select some text and +1 it. That's what I use Twitter or my blog for at least half the time: to point out an interesting sentence or two. You, know, the money quotes.
Product design at GitHub
Your point about the counter-productive nature of "no new nukes" is spot-on.

However: Nuclear resources on this planet are limited, and unique in their performance profile. There may come a time when we need them...

You're falling prey to the Malthusian fallacy (read up about him and Paul Ehrlich). This logic is constantly being invoked, but history shows that it simply doesn't work this way. The best way to guarantee our future is to ensure that there are plenty of minds around to work on it, and to be sure that the "invisible hand" will guide them so that their greed will be rewarded when they put their effort into solving our problems.
Watching the US Patent Office: USPTO Data Visualization Center
Shockingly, there's a useful government web site that can help a lot http://www.healthcare.gov/
From what I understand, no I have not watched the video yet, this is for Kansas City, KS and Wyandotte County. Olathe is in Johnson County and about a 20-25 minute drive from downtown KCK.

Did I mention I spent that year commuting from KCK to Olathe? Glad that is over. Don't let me get started about the commute from Lawrence to Lee's Summit. I have no idea what I was thinking.

Unlike another commenter pointed out, I am really hoping that Google did pick KCK because of its relative low status in the KC Metro area. I am hoping the benefit of greater connectivity will be more clearly seen in a city like KCK.
Didn't you post this same commentary already? Anyway I agree with you, get my +1; Sry, I mean".".
Are programmers likely to be musicians?
There was a whole HN thread that very clearly debunked his previous post on the Japan situation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316158). If you're finding his writing insightful now it might be a sign that you aren't thinking rationally about the situation. That said I'll list he problems with this paticular article...

1. Japan did ask for our help. The U.S.S. Ronald Reagan was dispatched the day after the Tsunami at Japan's request. Further they've been working with U.S. experts through the entire situation (not the ones you see on TV but those guys aren't real experts)

2. The idea that the TEPCO plant manager is causing trouble because he's "more concerned about his job than his reactor" is absurd. I GUARANTEE the Japanese government took control of this situation the second it became critical. The local plant management is AT BEST serving a support role.

3. Plutonium Contamination water is only a big deal if it seeps into the water supply which it hasn't yet. Otherwise its just more stuff to be buried in cement for thousands of years.

So in the end he's still being an alarmist with this just like he is with everything else (this is a guy who predicted internet video was going to cause the internet to collapse in 2010)
Can confirm, I just got disconnected a minute ago.
Not only that, but it puts those that contribute to other repos at a disadvantage. Additionally, it puts Windows devs at a disadvantage as Git is simply not as usable as Mercurial/SVN or heaven forbid, even TFS, on Windows.
Why can't private companies build duplicate lines and compete? It seems to me that what's keeping broadband prices high is government-enforced monopolies, usually awarded to a private company. Allowing government itself to have a monopoly won't fix the problem.
Or edit it perhaps and make it a little less condescending.
This is a very interesting article. I am myself working on a project and considering good friends to be co-founders in that. But based on what Paul Allen is mentioning here and based on few other stories of startups which made it big like Facebook, few thoughts came to my mind:

1) Is it that to make it really big, to the likes of Microsoft, Facebook a founder has to play games and trick his own friends in a way that the founder owns majority of stake in the company. I am not necessarily saying it is bad, it is just a observation and want your opinion. It is totally possible that one of the co-founders is so passionate about the idea that he works hard by twice or thrice as much as other cofounder and in the process somehow manages to get hold of major equity. What do you think? Is it necessary to be evil to make it big? Does your passion blind you somewhere in the process where one cannot distinguish right from "not so much right"?

2) I dont see and havent heard about Steve Jobs being great friends with Steve Wozniak. So is Bill gates with Paul Allen. Facebook Mark Z and other cofounders have some fights between them too. Given this and stories from similar or smaller companies, it makes me think, is it possible to have a good and healthy friend ship like relationship with your co-founder after a period of time? Or with the turn of events in the company it is bound to happen that the relationship will go sour?
What do you guys think?
I was having the same problem, but I saw my friends who cross-post to Facebook getting tweets in. As nbpoole posted, they were having some issues, but also, because of the distributed nature you'll find a Twitter outage to often being a rolling blackout sort of thing.

Also, they do throttle requests, something like several hundred within an hour, and I hit some message like that the other day, that I was over the API call limit, but I think that too was an outage of some kind.
See a mental health professional. I think lots of people see this as some sign of weakness or personality flaw; that you're "crazy" if you see a psychologist or psychiatrist. That's a bunch of bull#*$(. They are there to help you put things in perspective, in ways that might be difficult to discuss with your family or friends.

With that being said, not all mental health professionals are created equally. Put together a list of those in your area. Have a session with a few of them before deciding on one. This sounds like at the very least depression, and maybe there are other things in play as well. None of these things are a big deal if dealt with properly. If not, they can last for years and put you in a bad place. Don't let it get to that stage. Make the decision to fix it now and get some help. Feel free to contact me personally if you would like to discuss in more detail.
Whoosh - Mac client to send bulk email for Amazon Simple Email Service
Google Maps (Japan) + "Real-time" Radioactivity Readings