skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Panic attacks are truly awful. I'm sorry to hear that you've had them, and more sorry to hear about your daughter.

How long did your panic disorder last? How'd you get it into resolved? What therapies did you pursue, how long did they take, and how well did they work?

I developed PD after making the idiotic decision to work (at a Wall Street job) through a flu-- not a cold, but actual influenza-- taking only 2 days off. Stupid macho trader bullshit I tried to pull at 24. So I didn't recover properly and ended up developing a respiratory infection that intermittently made breathing difficult: hence, panic attacks. At the same time, two very close friends (a little bit too deep into psychedelics) were having nervous breakdowns at the same time and even though I wasn't using, I started worrying that it might happen to me, because I was dealing with their bullshit every day. Which meant that the panic attacks became self-reinforcing; because I saw mental illness in my daily life, I thought I might develop it. Of course, that didn't happen because, even though it feels otherwise, panic disorder is not "going crazy". I think panic disorder is actually more like a much less severe cousin of epilepsy (an acute, intermittent, and highly treatable physical problem) than chronic mental illness, but that's anther rant.

I don't have full-on panic attacks at this point, but I still have low-level anxiety attacks (the kind that normal people get once a decade or so, which are rough but NOT panic attacks) on a 1-2 per day frequency.

It was a fascinating experience, but a deeply negative one. It doesn't help that most people think of panic attacks as the punchline to a joke. Sometimes I feel the need to say, "No, you didn't actually have a 'panic attack' when you saw Lady Gaga wear the meat-dress." This must be what people with real insomnia feel when idiots write Facebook statuses like "farmville at 2:30 am. i'm such an insomniac lol".

What has actually stayed with me is the incompetence of the U.S. medical system. The experience of being neglected in a time of (perceived) exigent emergency is jarring. More scarring than the attacks themselves (during a panic attack, you don't write many memories, and this is a good thing) was how much medical incompetence and don't-give-a-shit attitude I experienced when I was sick with this "mystery" health problem (the respiratory infection and panic disorder onset happened at the same time) that turned out, thankfully, not to be that serious. I'm terrified of what it will be like in a few decades (fingers crossed) when I have to deal with real, serious health problems-- I hope the system is less broken, by then.
This nerd will be drinking my cup-of-coffee, not donating to keep a crook out of jail.

The only similarity between this and satellite crackers is that they both involve smart cards. (And the satellite people can pay for their own crimes/torts as well - keep MY coffee out of it).
That's great to hear. I'm excited for more competition in the space.

That being said, I've raised the issue of the location of the DNS manager many times and have been told that it is by design and won't change. Go to the Linode or Slicehost CP and a link to the DNS manager is on the dashboard, where it should be. I just don't understand the reasoning for hiding it behind a specific server instance despite it being a globally applicable system. This is probably more annoying to me because of the slow speed of the control panel, meaning it takes a long time to get to the DNS manager.

Best of luck with the improvements!
Do you think the average student became more familiar with the constitution during the course?

Do you think a higher percentage of students would understand more about the Internet & technology after taking a required class on it?
"Once I sober up, though, I suddenly realize that they're a load of crap."

That's your experience. A lot of other people have really good ideas when they are high, and those ideas are still really good while sober.

Part of this is that normally when you have an insight while sober, there is a unique feeling of pleasure you get in your brain. This is because part of the way we identify when we've had an insight is when we get this feeling. However, when we're high we get this feeling much more easily, even if what we're thinking about isn't actually at all insightful. Thus you need to sort of reteach yourself how to think and evaluate the quality of your ideas in a way that isn't reliant on whether or not something 'feels' insightful.

It's a big step once you can divorce the depth of insight from the intensity of the eureka feeling. They are not necessarily linked.
This seems to assume that everyone is committing into the same branch. How about the workflow where you create a new branch for each work package and merge it into the main branch when finished? It lets you check in to your own branch as often as you want (even broken code) without worrying about breaking anything for the other devs. The merges will be bigger though, days or weeks of work. A good point is that the branch merge is a natural time to look through all the diffs.
Except that it does. I'm not too familiar with the application itself, however I know the original research worked by finding pareto optimums based on the predictive power and the simplicity of the equation.

So for double pendulum it came back with like 8 equations, one of which was conservation of momentum (not actually accurate, but as close as you can get with that number of terms), and one of which was conservation of energy (actually accurate, but a bit more complicated).
Where is the Safari version adoption chart?
If you have received a legal notice from Righthaven make sure you add it to the Chilling Effects db: http://chillingeffects.org/input.cgi
Android apps on PlayBook eyes-on (video)
Lots of forks, as in Protestant churches (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Gereformeerd.svg really starts to look like a history of Unix)

Of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonite_Church_in_the_Netherl... probably would be popular; every church member writes his own confession when joining the church.
Agile development practices are at the point of their adoption cycles where the hype has died down, and the chaff has been thrown out. Organizations of all sizes have adopted agile practices, from small startups, to global megacorps, with varying levels of success.

Agile development isn't a sexy, novel new thing these days. That doesn't mean it's "jumped the shark", it means it's a fairly mature and understood practice.
China's Renren Seeks Twice Facebook Valuation in IPO
Ironically, in Houston, we have a bunch of first-time iPhone devs showing up to NSCoder night at a tea house:

http://www.tehouseoftea.com/
More Money (for Y Combinator) Means More Startups
But isn't the purpose of cross-validation to avoid over-fitting and cherry-picking? Asked another way: how does you argument specifically single out Eureqa, instead of all of machine learning?
The Big Lie: Torture Got Bin Laden
I spoke to John Resig the other day after he fixed /r/f7u12's stylesheet (he really earned his mod place!), and now I hate him with all my heart for being more successful and more of a nice guy than I am. I bet he's also more handsome.

EDIT: And he's a year younger! Damn you, jeresig!
Why focus on something like that?

Any possible answer you get is only going to hurt your chances:
A. You are "too late" in the year- you stress out and lose focus.
B. You are "too early" in the year- you wait for the perfect launch time and lose focus.
C. You are "just right"- you feel successful too early and lose focus.

Seems like the wrong question to be asking.
4 Reasons to Keep a Work Diary
Where did you find statistics on deaths attributable to waste stored in holding ponds over the next few centuries? How did you roll that figure into the per-kilowatt death rate?
Jason Fried: How to Hire an Assistant
While I can applaud the purity of his dedication to mathematical research, if I were him, I'd take the money. How often will math make you a million dollars?
Speaking of, this is a good time to re-up on my donation.
>It shows that Aurora are being bent over a barrel by their suppliers data rates.

Doubtful. Aurora likely negotiated an extremely low monthly rate, knowing that these devices would use very little data in very predictable ways.

Aurora should've locked the SIM to a specific device. That's definitely on them.
Although it's not what you said, I presume you mean that sooner is better.
Makes me wonder what this says about Mozilla. Perhaps not the exciting place it used to be 5+ years ago?
Nice. But definitely needs some designer love! Just the basics of C.A.R.P. would help a bunch: http://thinkvitamin.com/design/how-crap-is-your-site-design/
Managing Yourself:Extreme Productivity,
But that's wrong. Just because this thread is about human safety doesn't mean that a lot (lot, lot) hasn't been written about socioeconomic aspects of the different energy sources.
I've never seen one in person, so I can't vouch for any of its properties, but Pixel Qi netbook screen replacements are available:
http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKPQ...
Fantastic find, crescentfresh! Changing "i" to "j" in the inner loop fixes the problem on IE6.

Now we just have to wait for jQuery 1.6.1.
My dream job is one where I have full control over my position, can make every business decision, can take a vacation whenever I want, and get all of the profits from my hard work. It also involves not having a manager or boss.

No matter how good my job is, if I'm not the one in control of my destiny, I won't be happy. I hate knowing that my boss/manager could potentially start making ridiculous decisions that I am forced to follow.

"I understand not every place is as flexible, but if you prove you are worth it, companies will let you make your own rules."

I've been in the computer industry for awhile and I have never worked for a company that allowed me to make my own rules. I suppose it's the equivalent of a prisoner being allowed to make their own rules in their cell.

"This means showing your passion, doing this work past 5 PM and generally progressing in time. Quit complaining and using execuses. You have plenty of time to get what you want, you just need to put in the effort and work."

I'm very passionate about my work, but I refuse to do any work for any employer past 5pm.

You can always earn more money. Time is something you will never get back.
Amazon launches Private Fashion Sales site
If you want to do something simple it takes a 60 line pom.xml to express it. If you want to do something a little trickier it takes another 60 lines and three hours minimum of poking around at inadequately written docs. If you want to do something difficult, forget it. Ant, which is a nightmare of usability and continues to make me wake in the middle of the night screaming, is at least as complex to configure, better documented and is not a quarter as constrained as Maven.

That said the Maven dependency model isn't too bad; fortunately you don't have to adopt Maven to get it, you can just use Ivy.
"their security model has been working well so far" -- that is to say, the Mac security model, which has hardly been tested at all (relative to say, Windows), has been working well -- which isn't saying much.
10 years ago ... MySQL

MySQL could barely do joins ten years ago. Today, it's still behind where Oracle was ten years ago. You can throw extremely complicated queries at Oracle and it generally optimizes them well. Don't think of MySQL as "fast and highly optimized". It's only fast for relatively simple queries.

When I say complicated queries, I'm talking about 50+ line queries with many joins, subqueries, aggregations, etc. You can run these against tables with millions of rows and still get an answer in seconds, often regardless of indexes.
Clojure Atlas, a visualization of the Clojure language & standard library
I totally agree and appreciate people speaking up for SQL Server. It may be the best windows application ever.
Depends on whether your industry is seasonal, and how quickly you need to start turning a profit before you have to pack things up. Online retail (for me, anyway) was very slow in the summer and crazy around the holidays. If we had launched in late February, we'd have had a hard first six months or so.
I hope the flood of refugees doesn't make my Linode 1024 slower.
>Although it can seem that I'm making only baby steps of progress — and, yes, sometimes going sideways or even backwards before moving forward — my journal is an independent arbiter (and a silent cheerleader).

Yep. That's now the most part why I am blogging.

The line about going sideways is also quite resonant to me. I found that I work in circles, making progress in places I consider most important now.
Pfft. I could have predicted with 100% accuracy that OBL was on Earth. How specific that prediction is, is a different matter entirely.
Agreed. It appears that she was averaging a $4k+/day bill -- it shouldn't take 4 months to notice that something is wrong with that.
Bill Gates: "Cute" Tech Won't Solve Planet's Energy Problems
Yeah but that doesn't really tell you anything about the underlying hardware. Your performance will vary depending on which nodes your dyno is running on. Hardware abstraction is a great thing, I just think that a little more transparency is in order.
Thanks for all who commented and sorry for all who got annoyed by this. I am not a developer and certainly don't understand hacker culture, but I really enjoy working with smart developers and have a deep respect for the mix of craft and science.
I am absolutely NOT a believer in waterfall management, that is stifling creativity. But I am noticing a trend too far in the opposite direction. The only thing I have seen that works is a really, really small team (2-5) of really, really smart developers who are willing to follow the lead of one person who is also willing (indeed eager) to code and not just pontificate.
Using the Switch Statement in PowerShell
Darpa May Have Created the World's First Decent Video Search Tool
Why the heck do we care about Bill Gates' opinion on nuclear power?

It's about as relevant as any random person on the internet.

My solution is the people for nuclear power and those that build the plant, must live next to it.
The woman was not a party to the contract, so the damages should not be the contractual damages but the real damages incurred by telstra. Remember that what she actually stole was bandwidth from telstra's network, the method by which she did it hardly matters. $10.000 is a way more reasonable figure, even taking a profit margin for telstra into account. Asking for 200k in damages is using RIAA math.

Even at 200k, there has to be a sense of scale. Essentially this decision destroys her life. Leeching a bunch of movies over the course of 4 months is hardly worth having your life destroyed over. The crime does not match the punishment.
He didn't do either, of course, because those "statistics" would be pure speculation.

Let's stick to the current facts please. When someone dies from exposure to one of these "holding ponds" then we can update the model.
I would be very surprised if this result is statistically significant. In a sample size of 11, it's not terribly unlikely to have 3 of them founded in the same month by chance alone.
In any sense, this phrase "...3G providers misuse the deals with limits by charging insane amounts per megabyte made over the limit." would be a textbook definition of usury.
Oh, I moved off months ago. It was easy, in the end.
Wow, thats an eye opening picture of startup life. I really hope these guys succeed.
'Suddenly I Heard a Roar From the Ground'
Not trying to come off gruff or anything, I was just posting quickly between meetings and not necessarily proofreading for "voice" in the message. I don't see how your "clarification" actually clarified anything. The article says he moved to Portland, his profile says he moved to Portland. There doesn't seem to be any confusion about where he lives. The parent comment, not article, asked about his employer not his location.
People commonly make this same mistake when stating "the odds of being killed in a terrorist attack."
As far as I remember, Linode have a tool to migrate your DNS automatically. Migration, for me, was relatively painless, apart from the fact that I had to confirm each domain and change the IPs by hand. I'm sure you can write a script to do it, if you have many.

If you're worried about costs, Linode's price is half Slicehost's. That should make the migration time worth it.
"There's nothing ironic about a skeptic being wrong if he admits his mistake when presented with evidence to the contrary." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
> However, anyone would invest in something and promote it if they believe in it.

Yeah, you're right, but then again, the title should have been more like "Atomic Industry Investor Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy: Compared To Coal, It Is Still Safer", because right now I tend to read it more like "Renowned philanthropist Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy: Compared To Coal, It Is Still Safer"
"good agile" work queue sounds a bit like how good open source works and that might be scalable even for commercial and enterprise. The problem with some agile is it does not scale, so managers invent some process that is a bit waterfall-like and that turns into a kludgey mess.
What is "excessive" meditation? People die after playing video games for 16 hours, but no one is going to argue that playing them for a couple hours a day is physically dangerous.

I generally think the "meditation sickness" is more scare than substance, without much evidence for a causative link, but I think it's possible in certain circumstances. For example, I've heard of inexperienced people (i.e. people who've taken one hatha yoga class) going on week-long retreats and having negative experiences (including temporary psychosis and anxiety disorders) but that's not what I'm talking about. That's about as irresponsible as for an overweight person who can barely walk a mile to try out for a marathon.

I think that a lot of "meditation sickness" comes from people who are prodromal of some sort of psychological crisis and (because of their increasingly difficult mental state) become interested in altering their consciousness, and that the psychotic break was not caused by the meditation but would have happened anyway. I can't prove that, but it's been my suspicion for a long time. For those who might argue that meditation is therefore bunk because some people who meditate end up getting frank mental illness anyway, my counterpoint would be that it's foolish to expect that a novice meditator can meditate his way out of a potentially physical mental illness; he needs medical help.

What is very dangerous is when people try to use meditation or yoga in lieu of other well-tested, scientific medical treatment, which some New Age types believe in even though most actual meditators and yogis advise strongly against it. I talked to a very accomplished yoga teacher about using meditation to treat panic disorder (didn't want to use benzos) and he said, "Meditate, but see a doctor and take his advice. You can't meditate your way out of this, right now, any more than a person with heart disease can meditate out of that."
Use and abuse of pipes with audio data
I don't agree with Penn on a lot of things, but I admire his humility. His @ replies to people on Twitter are are basically saying, "Famous people screw up too. I can be an idiot sometimes."

That shouldn't be a breath of fresh air for me as far as public figures go, but it sadly is.
This is simply not true. Stored procedures and dynamic SQL are completely orthogonal to the problems of N+1 select and index seek vs table scan.

In fact, many ORMs will happily use CRUD sprocs to save and retrieve complex entities, which compounds the N+1 select problem by passing all columns, every time. Compared to that, raw-SQL mappers like LINQ to SQL are a positive step forward, and leave the door open for more intelligent mappers like Dapper (as mentioned in the article: http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/)
Organizing an event? Some thoughts on finding a venue.
Thank you for coming forward. It's so rare these days to run into someone who would accept a million dollars.
Define "very good". Didn't the stock have one of it's biggest single day drops in a long time?
We spend shitloads of money on trying to make coal safe. If you listen carefully to budget proposals there are always a lot of money allocated on "clean coal" research.

Unfortunately, it all goes nowhere because there is no way to make it safe. Burning stuff is an old and well understood process, there is just no way to burn stuff in a radically different way. You can use filters of course but the coal pollutants are so small and the smoke is so much filtering gets too expensive. Coal plants do have filters but they do not catch many of the thousands of pollutants that result from burning coal. And filtering cannot take away the CO2 gas.

So our only option is to trap the gas underground, which is pretty much impossible. Thus, safe coal becomes a mirage that is always a couple of years away but you can never get to.

It is clear that we spend less money on safe coal than we do on nuclear. Nuclear receives enormous amounts of subsidies. Most of the budget of the DoE is devoted to nuclear in one way or another. But it is pretty clear that even if we spent more money on coal it would not get us anywhere.
Apparently, TerraPower's TWR design doesn't actually burn from the top down like a candle anymore.
I guess it's easier to put all the cooling apparati around one criticality region and then move the fuel through.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor#Travelli...
FYI, my announcement post can be found @ http://cemerick.com/2011/05/03/clojure-atlas-now-available/ (previous discussion related to my "preview" of the concept a few weeks ago is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463249)

If you scroll down to the "About" section of the site's main page, you'll be able to read a brief rant of mine about the shortcomings of the walls-of-text that pass for technical documentation, and are often the only learning resource available for programmers in all sorts of contexts. Clojure Atlas is my attempt at producing a more useful, more tractable medium for understanding programming languages and the libraries that go along with them.

Insofar as some of the HN crowd aims to find and build better ways of plying the trade of programming, I'm hoping this will pique your interest.

I'll be around for the rest of the afternoon, and would be happy to field questions and such. After that, feel free to reach out via any of the methods provided on http://clojureatlas.com.
My family and relatives are in that radius and would be financially ruined by such an event.

Isn't this exactly the case that insurance is designed for? A catastrophic event that is exceedingly unlikely to happen?
This article is too short to display the intricacies of what happened. For people more interested in the exact reason why he didn't accept the millennium prize from the Clay Institute and the nature of his proof to some slightly more rigorous mention (although the full proof is readily available on arXiv), please read this phenomenal piece written by The New Yorker in 2006, found here: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2
Entrepreneurs and Startups Abound in Rio and Sao Paolo
Taking LSD doesn't allow you to take in any different input- it simply changes the way your brain interprets that same information. I can see why people would enjoy this, but not how they could take it seriously.

Asserting that "simply changing" the way inputs are interpreted provides nothing of value seems odd on a site where a lot of the participants are programmers who regularly take input and massage it through iterative development of software that interprets that input and produce actual value.

Cyphertext and an encryption key looks random until you apply a cryptographic transform to it. Same inputs, different output, different value.