skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That "on its own" implies that depression will solve itself even if you don't take any action, simply one day it will disappear, you just need to wait. Not likely in my opinion.

These statistics are about the population trend with yearly samples and don't say anything about duration distribution. It would be also interesting to know how many drop treatment, stop seeking medical help or get out of the statistics in different ways, to understand how effectively this problem is being addressed.
I find it hard to believe that the employer really gains much by offering less than 3 weeks. No one is fully productive 52 weeks a year (or even 50).
The idea is pretty interesting and I'm going to keep an eye on how this develops.

Moving an entire IDE online is a pretty huge task but there are some features that simply make more sense online. I personally would love to see some kind of active collaboration so that you can share code with someone who isn't in office with you. I'm thinking Google Docs style where it shows you where they are in the file and the changes they make as they make them.

The git support alone makes this a pretty useful tool for on the go development.
There is a good article from another software developer around here who told his boss he was taking a 3 month vacation. He made the point the business needed him more than he needed it; he was a competent developer and could easily get work, didn't have any living/large financial dependencies. At first I thought it was absurd, but the more I thought about it, he was absolutely correct.

Take a long vacation some time. Even if you do have a family, save up enough money and go travel for a while. Take some decent time off work (4+ weeks). Let them fire you if they want. That's (one of my) my goal(s) over the next 2 years: take an extended vacation (I haven't taken more than a week off since I graduated college).
I'm wondering how much of it is because people neglect to negotiate their vacation time when changing jobs.

Most American workplaces start you out with 2 weeks and then usually add a week or so after so many years of seniority. When you change jobs, how many of you ask for that same amount of vacation time at the new company? Or do you just accept that you're new and don't want to push things by asking for more at the onset? Or is it just forgotten until it's too late to ask?
I love my employer. I recently just returned from a five week road trip with my family. I worked remotely for roughly a week (to save PTO for another trip), and they had no problem with it.

It's interesting however--some folks take advantage of the flexibility, while others do not. Just about everyone in the R&D group travels frequently, and the CEO will often go dark for a month at a time, but others in the company don't take more than a week or two of their PTO each year.
I agree (and I have no idea why you're being downvoted). I don't always need Flash on my phone, but in the situations where I do I'm really grateful to have it. And click-to-flash is the ideal way of handling this.
Very helpful feedback; I'll try to take this into account in the next version of the document!
You say it like if you smoke, you cannot get Alzheimer.
John Boyd would be proud. Everything else being equal, the team with the fastest OODA loop usually wins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Microsoft actually went to great length to build an update mechanism that doesn't require reloading. It seems this is not so useful after all, and it's not being used: http://jpassing.com/2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/
Totally agree, the market is the fuel. No market, no mileage.
No vacation really sucks. I took 2 months between jobs once, but I've always been able to take a week or two weeks at a time. Now, we have the same policy as netflix. Basically you take time off when you want it, and you take as much as you want. It's all paid. Our only designer is gone for 3 weeks to get married. We'll struggle a little bit for those 3 weeks, but I'm grateful that when it's my time to take a week or two off, I don't feel guilty or have to beg for it.
I've always found that font to be pretty terrible and makes Latex docs look less professional, but I guess if you are used to it from reading papers, it's the opposite.
Kill that funky enum, dev boy
The flip side of this is that we have Summer vacation for schools (unlike the rest of the world) and have institutionalized Spring Break for college students. Sadly we see the idea of vacation as being for the very young or the very old who retire.
How can "chest" and "chin" be anagrams of the same thing? An anagram is a rearrangement of the original letters, not just a list of the possible words that can be made.

Based on your "output" it appears that your "input" contained, at least, the letters:

c e h i n o p p r s t y

FWIW, to the best of my knowledge there are no single words containing exactly those letters, although the internet anagram server found 42 2-word anagrams of those letters.
I've read about this phenomenon before. Ignoring the difference between severe clinical depression and "melancholy", it's not hard to see why dissatisfaction and intelligence-manifested might be correlated:

Happy people don't need to rock the boat. Happy people don't turn their lives upside down striving to build great companies and unearth essential truths. Happy people are... happy already.
Here it is, and it's awesome:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/02/two-weeks-vaca...
Was it really necessary to mention the fact that his girlfriend sleeps topless?
Nobody has mentioned the obvious: weak unions.
"serious depression and the type of depression that 46% of Americans report experiencing are two completely different beasts, and it's devastatingly dangerous to leave the former untreated."

I'm not saying people shouldn't seek treatment.
Yes, I'm well aware of that.

But my point is "how, do you think, people use it in the real world".

It's just like any other programming languages: people tend to abuse it.

At the end of the day, it all depends on your developers.
I never understood where his "claim to fame" really came from? Apart from publishing and then maintaining a pre-existing dictionary on his website, publishing one of MANY books on Open Source and cursing admins with fetchmail, he hardly contributed to or founded any REALLY big projects or coded a lot like Linus or RMS did or did anything of real substance - but esr was always one of THOSE names during his heyday and he would go to great lengths telling everyone how "the community" selected him to be some sort of open source Keanu Reeves/Neo...
I still don't understand the draw of Hulu Plus over something like Netflix or Amazon Prime (with its new video on demand servce). $8 a month to still have TV shows with ads in them? (and I swear they keep adding more advertisements to the shows each time I watch them). They do let you watch earlier seasons of shows, but that seems like Netflix would be a better option for that. So what's the real draw Gabriel has for subscribing?
WebP in Chrome, Picasa, Gmail
if you're seriously considering it, shoot me an e-mail at jdsadow@gmail.com.

we're looking for someone to start prototyping and are about 2-3 months into things and have vetted the concept about as thoroughly as possible.

would love to share and chat.
Opa is a new programming language. If you have feedback or questions, we are definitely interested. You can reach us at feedback@opalang.org .

Our teaser website, http://opalang.org, also offers some documentation, or you can find a few dispersed examples on Github.
I also wouldn't construct the hierarchy in this way.

I would put the statistics under modelling or summatory analysis, not under exploratory analysis. I wouldn't divide methods by sufficient descriptive statistics - I'd divide them by domain and loss function. I would name an artificial neural network.

Or perhaps I would arrange them by computational complexity.

That said, this is a good summary in that it's an overview, and overviews are always helpful.
As a student I took time off from class and enjoyed 2 weeks skiing is switzerland, then another 2 weeks in the sun in Uruguay. All while it was -20C at home in Norway. I usually end up working during my normal vacations though, so last summer I had 2 weeks off.

One of the perks I would probably want in my contract when I start working is the ability to take up to 4 weeks of unpaid leave and being able to take all my vacation out in one go.

Also I've been told that in the US you have a limited number of sick days and that they sometimes come as part of your vacation. That's not the case in Norway. In fact, if you get sick for a week while on holiday, then you have the right to another week of holiday.
I notice Kyle Bragger listed Lobster as a web design element. I'm not familiar with the term in this context, and Google has not so far availed me. I'm curious. Would someone more knowledgeable fill me in? Thanks in advance.
My employeer recently went unlimited vacation! Which in practice really means no vacation unless you bully your way into it which is very stressful.
I asked for, and received 3 weeks vacation after a recent job switch. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. The relative value of an extra week of vacation time is far greater than if my salary were bumped by the additional ~2% that I'd get by being there.
Ask HN: Ownin LLC in USA for non residents
Hi All,

I've been searching for various bits and pieces about starting LLC in USA (mostly to be able to sell Android applications).

What are my options as non US residents who don't plan to go to USA anytime soon?

What are the pitfalls of this approach?
Which state should I choose?

Does anyone have first hand experience or nice pointer to help me find a way through the forest of different information?
I think you're going to find it fairly difficult to scale up to $7k per month in 3 months with no existing readership or client base.

I do, however, like the idea of cash flow transparency, since people tend to really consume that type of content.

/also, paragraphs.
Oh wow, that's the first I've ever heard of that. That would not be acceptable for me.

I think I'll be asking for more vacation time in future contracts, too. I managed to secure extra in the first year of my current contract because I had a need (planned trip) but in the future, I'm just going to require more.

Of course, benefits and pay are interchangeable, so I might just request the ability to take unpaid vacation as needed, up to a certain amount.
i was more interested to see if anyone tried to install a different operating system. to me, if you can install ubuntu on there and be able to maintain the 3G service, what else would you want.
Fred Wilson: The Next Internet Opportunity is in Social Upheaval
I've been asking around among the people I know lately, and I have yet to find someone who will pay for online services. Of course they're all 'regular' people, i.e. not working in the tech field, and with 'modal' incomes, so not always buying the latest gadgets (phones etc).

Of course there are plenty of businesses doing fine selling online services. It's just that it seems to be to an audience that I cannot find off line. Is it a European thing? It it possible to target the (mainstream) B2C market in Europe with online services yet? Anyone with experiences in this field?
It wasn't always like this in Europe. Extended vacation time was one of the many hard-fought rights won by the socialist/trade-unionist movements of the past century throughout the continent. Not even Thatcher dared attacking that right (she dropped a few national holidays here and there, instead).

Things didn't turn out quite the same on the other side of the pond, sadly, and this is the result.
Rands in Repose: Lost in Translation
This is crazy from our (Western European) perspective.

It was one of my reasons for not taking a job in the USA that was offered me a few years ago. Yes, it paid somewhat more than here in Europe but I'd rather have the benefits such as more free time and better health care than more income.
There are a lot of bold claims here, but "automated XSS protection" smells the fishiest to me.

And since when did ostensibly open-source projects have closed betas? Release it now and get more eyes on your code.
when you turned it into dual boot, did you manage to maintain the 3G?
a sweepstake? tell me more.
I work for a company that doesn't have expiring vacation days. They are payed out at 100% at your current salary the day you quit, get fired, or retire. We have a large amount of employees that use this as an additional retirement account. I can't imagine banking all my vacation time!
Conduit Buys Wibiya for $45M
Using enum isn't just about limiting the value to predefined options, it also requires less storage space, however for most applications I would agree (and use the same concept myself) of having the value:text pairs in the app code on the model (or a helper class if it's a common type of column, ie several tables might have a "state" column.)
> in which the main claim to fame is that Flash doesn't suck.

Sorry, didn't flash suppose to stop sucking in 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0? Sorry, I'm just curious, not flaming.
So is this language closed source? If so what is your strategy to make it succesful (given that you are not Sun or Microsoft).

If not, what license will the source be released under?
I think this old story is vey relevant here.

I have employees that take a lower salary than others, but have up to 7 weeks holiday a year. I'm happy with that. One employee that has 7 weeks holiday has only had 1 day sick in the 6 years I've employed him.

-- Sharpen the Saw --

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter ask for a job in a timber merchant, and he got it. The paid was really good and so were the work conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was supposed to work.

The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees "Congratulations," the boss said. "Go on that way!" Very motivated for the boss’ words, the woodcutter try harder the next day, but he only could bring 15 trees. The third day he try even harder, but he only could bring 10 trees.

Day after day he was bringing less and less trees. "I must be losing my strength", the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on. "When was the last time you sharpened your axe?" the boss asked. "Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees..."
Black Holes Spin Faster and Faster
You're absolutely right. And to clarify, my article is not in any way meant to claim that the way that the RubyGems maintainers are acting is justified. Instead, I'm just trying to make the point that their experience with end users is not exactly full of ponies and rainbows, and if you act like a jerk to a maintainer, you should not expect civility in response.

Users of RubyGems who proactively act rudely to the maintainers in the expectation that they will be treated rudely are only making things worse. I think in the very worst case, that the idea that RubyGems is under some sort of tyrannical rule would seem less incredulous if contributors and users would at least try being civil first. Those that don't are simply poking at a sore wound.
You have those holiday vacations for schools and students in Europe as well... Christmas, Easter, Summer and some places also have a short break in fall.
I don't have holidays count but we have a 'holiday shutdown' for 5 days between Christmas and New Years, mandatory you can't work, but you burn your own vacation time. And I only get 2 weeks! Other options include taking the week unpaid, or working during the the other weeks in the year when you hvae a holiday and 'floating' it to the holiday shutdown. So next week I have memorial day off, but I'll make sure to work >40 hours in the remaining 4 days.
Is 1 extra week of vacation really going to change the productivity of the place?
Chrome crashes more than any other browser I've used, but the best thing about it is that they have even made crashes seamless.
[spoiler alert!]

I specifically chose to watch it in 2D but noticed one moment which might look impressive in 3D: the skeleton hand of Blackbeard reaching out of the whirling water. That's it.
Yes, I didn't say all entrepreneurs have a clear idea of what they want to do, how they will do it, and how it's likely to come out -- many clearly don't. However, that's not always the case. I believe Club Penguin, a site that clearly targeted a demographic of youth, and Mint which targeted personal finance, are examples of companies set up from day one with a clear idea of what they were trying to accomplish.
The language is not quite released yet. But it will be released as open-source as soon as we're ready.

The license will be AGPL. Fully contagious.
I'm a Swedish developer. This year I have 7 weeks of vacation, and I plan to use it all. I normally get the 5 weeks required by law. Last year, I only used 4 of those 5 weeks, so one spilled over to this year. I also got a bonus week of vacation for working a lot of overtime last summer. So that makes 7 weeks.
I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but in my country (in south america) schools and colleges have around 3 months off every year. As for employees, the usual is 2 weeks vacations + holidays (around 10 days) and sick time. You also have some time off when you become a parent and of course if you're a woman you have several months before giving birth.
Firefox 5 Enters Beta Channel With CSS, Speed Improvements
I thought that was strange as well, especially as an opener.
Maybe Apple could make FaceTime an open standard, like Steve stated they would when it was first introduced.
I think you're wrong about Summer vacation in the rest of the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_vacation#By_country
Don't plug leaks when you got no boat
Please see my earlier response to mitjak, i think it addresses both of your points.
It works on an iPad while regular Hulu doesn't. (right?)
There is interplay. "There are on the order of fifty birds at the bird feeder" is more informative than "there are on the order of zero birds at the bird feeder".
All the Editors Notes were sort of irritating. "We've got a guest blogger today! We think he's the cats pajamas but that's not gonna stop us from butting in to get our two cents!" Seriously. Write a follow article next time. This editorial style makes it difficult to read. Alternatively, if you must add to this one, do it as footnotes.
> There are a lot of bold claims here, but "automated XSS protection" smells the fishiest to me.

I'll detail the mechanism in some other blog post, but it's actually very simple. In the meantime, let me suggest something: go and connect to the chat and attempt to XSS us :)

You have my word that the online chat is exactly the same one as the source code that we have made available. And you can check that there is not one single line of code for XSS.
good one, I'll add a function :)
Do US employers (especially startups) typically agree to agree to offer unpaid vacations? Or are those 0 to 10 or 15 days really a hard limit?
I like that he talked about this, but I'm not satisfied with the answers.
It's about specific content, i.e. current TV shows not available via Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Ask HN: Ready to take the start-up plunge, really?
Plenty of people talk about it, but how many engineers out there are actually READY to take the start-up plunge?

Sure, there's a lot of risks and concerns -- leaving your job & failing being near-or-at the top of the list.

But, as a non-engineer, it seems like a lot of people spend time on side & weekend projects, without any real drive to build a real business or develop a concept fully. I've met a ton of non-eng folks with great plans, but they're typically cast aside by engineers who think that non-techies are useless.

Maybe I'm off base here...but while every engineer seem to be spending time experimenting, but very few are actually taking the plunge to build a commercial product. Why not join a team and take the plunge?

(Full disclosure: I've posted on HN recently looking to find a technical co-founder. We've got a (nearly) fully vetted concept that is ready to be turned into a functioning prototype. The engineers I've met with so far have given feedback that it's far more "thought through" and "well designed" than most ideas they see from non-techies. We may be a prototype away from major funding, so I'm hoping an "experimenter" is ready to transition from working on side or weekend projects and make a commercial (potential) game changer.)
How Much Does a Super Injunction Cost?
I've used flash on 2 Android devices. My experiences so far:

* On my Nexus One: Yes, flash is to slow to be worthwhile, and input tends to be awkward on the small screen anyway. Uninstalled.

* On a Xoom (running 3.1): I just downloaded flash last week to watch a couple episodes of Legend of Neil while I was at lunch. Playback was great, about what I would expect if I were using a small screen netbook or something like that. I was quite glad I had the option to use flash. My browser is set to only load plugins on "click", so I get the best of both worlds really (not sure if that was the default or not). Flash only loads when I want it to, but it's there if I do want it.
I can only agree.

I plan to move to SF in the following months, but this is one of the issues why I think that I won't stay there permanently, but will move back to Europe after a few years.
The funny thing is, the Netflix policy is tied to a corporate culture that's reputed to be very high stress, performance-focused, and quick to terminate. In such an insecure environment, I would be very surprised if Netflix employees took more vacation than the average industry employee.

I would never want to work for a Netflix-model company. When I take vacation, I want to feel entitled to it (because I am!), and when I forgo vacation, I want to be paid out for that sacrifice when I leave the company.

I think the Netflix model exists more to improve the company ledger by reducing liabilities than to help the employee or promote a healthy work environment. Maybe it's different where you work, but that's my perspective, from my comfortable 12 company holidays, 15 days PTO perspective.
Fred Wilson wants to invest in the Internet-driven cultural revolution
Kleiner Perkins Invests $15M in Rent the Runway
People appreciate if you make the effort, though.
Invasion of the Chinese Reverse Mergers: “We Are Under Attack,” Josh Brown Says
That is definitely the perk that isn't. Imagine a startup offering employees unlimited pay -- "Whoa whoa whoa, you drew $3,000 this month? $3,000!? You're a single guy, what do you need $3,000 for? Don't we give you enough soda?"
3.1 isn't out for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer yet (which I have). The article might be inflammatory but only states fact.

The flash experience on the Eee is dire. Watching iPlayer is an exercise in frustration with choppyness and even sound/video syncing issues occasionally. That "not optimized for mobile" message that we see now and again might as well say "this will be very sluggish and likely make you want to pull your hair out". Running HD videos natively is no sweat for the it, on the other hand.
My employer is hiring and offers 5 weeks of vacation after the first year. Must be a US citizen. No remote work.
http://woti.com/benefits.cfm
http://woti.com/jobs.cfm
I find it funny someone downvoted my comment above. They must imagine we really don't know anything about anything. Perhaps we should just throw out all scientific experimentation, proofs, textbooks, etc. ever done and pretend the universe is actually working according to Dr. Seuss type principles. It's just as likely, right? </sarcasm>
That's really crazy, but it gives employers the chance to hire and retain the best talents not only with salary wars.

I still think that the major problem is that the US is one of the three only nations in the world that does not have paid maternity leave. Absurd.