skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been here before and it's a tough place to be!

I've found a useful first step is to try and regain a sense of control over your life. When your focus is trying to influence others (i.e. your parents, potential employers), it's easy to feel like you have no control over anything. That is a recipe for learned helplessness and depression:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

Is there one thing that you can control? It could be blogging every day, it could be going on a run every day (which does wonders for fighting depression!), it could be anything. Whatever it is, it has to be something that you can control and can successfully accomplish without having to get the buy-in of others.

Good luck!!
Funny when he corrected himself after saying "Apple controls the marketing and distribution... I mean the marketing" - perhaps Apple stores were on his mind back then?
Um, no. If you shot Mr. Smith over there, who was wearing one of my bullet-proof vests, but didn't do up the zipper/velcro, it's not my fault.
Sure, but 'hugh3 didn't write that comment to be mean. He's making an example out of something that really is an example of one of the archetypical thread-disrupting issue-forking politics-inducing conspiracy-theoretic superficial toxic comments. That's what I see there. You can obviously disagree.
Lots of people aren't writing that. They don't have the skills to write that on Android either. But they're still counted in that survey as "Android Developers", yielding that HN title.
"reports that they are used to buy illegal drugs anonymously."

holy crap I can do the same thing with dollar bills! Shut down the monetary system also..
My own thoughts on this issue along these same lines:

http://www.kerryob.com/2011/06/08/concerns-on-khan-academys-...
I do agree that the tea comment is silly. Saying you like to drink Lipton tea is like saying your favorite place to eat is Panda Express. To each his own, I suppose, but it sounds awfully silly to praise the imitation when you live in China.

You did catch my curiosity with this, though:

Great Chinese teas are difficult to steep. My favorite kind of Oolong (category) tea for example, will taste disgusting if the steeping temperature of the water is off by even 10 degrees, or the steeping time is extended for even 3 seconds.

Really!

I've had that experience with Japanese greens. My favorite (Kagoshima Sencha Yutaka Midori from o-cha.com) goes from sweet to bitter with about those tolerences -- three seconds and ten degrees.

The Chinese teas in general, and even oolongs in particular, though, I've found to be awfully forgiving. They seem pretty happy with approximately boiling water and 30 - 60 seconds on a first steep. I've actually found that to be sort of the charm of them; you can fly by the seat of your pants on the brewing, and wind up with a fair bit of variety in the product.

My favorites (with these characteristics) are Bai Hao ("Oriental Beauty") and teaspring.com's Wu Yi Yan Cha Bing. What are you drinking that's so touchy?
That is particularly important in connection to management techniques. Programmers are not dumb automata.
Except that those have definable effects, or at the least can be based in definable problems.

"By using $SEO_technique, we were able to move up to $position in searches for 'blah blah blah'"

"Our projects currently run over budget by $ugly_number and blow past their deadlines by $uglier_number. We need better project management to fix this."

What's a similar "here's how UX/lack thereof is making your life easier/harder" story? It doesn't have to be abstract, it's just commonly being presented this way. Breaking it down into something like "an A/B test showed that people hit the download/purchase button $magic_unicorn_percentage more times after this kind of design change" can easily put the importance in terms that anyone at any level of management can understand.
> Rather than instructing students with Khan’s videos, teachers should be inspiring them to figure things out on their own and learn how to create their own knowledge by working together.

What's curious about this critique is that it sounds almost exactly like what Khan advocates in his recent TED talk (here:http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...)

In it, he advocates flipping the traditional school model of passive lecturing in the classroom, followed by problem solving during homework, and instead use videos like his to allow the students to view the lectures at home as homework and then spend their class time interactive with the teach and other students in active learning and problem solving.
The problem is that the language becomes virtually unknowable. Perl has a ridiculous amount of syntax. I am sure that I could find half a dozen lines of Perl code that the average Perl developer would not understand because everyone only knows part of the language.
That announcement also makes it clear that everyone who ever used the services of the website, should expect measures taken against him/her.
I disagree. They tried exactly that with .Mac and MobileMe and failed. The problem is that the proprietary approach that worked so well in case of hardware and software isn't compatible with the web.

I don't know much about iCloud, but I really hope they had learned the lesson and made it more open by providing APIs, allowing data migration, and supporting tools for other platforms. However, this might be just my wishful thinking.
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Phyllis Smith (The Office) is similar to the main straight (e) issue, and there may be just enough dirty jokes we go beyond the fact that probably all learn a lesson or two late.
It seems like teaching how to research and read about history would be better than short narratives about various periods.
And version 1 of Chrome already had most of the things people consider as modern anyway.
What part of it is painful? I've found gobject to be quite effective. It's not the most enjoyable to extend (there's marshalling and other boilerplate that's not difficult but not interesting either), but in the majority of cases when using GTK you're doing just that--using it, rather than extending it. Using C avoids the complex semantics of C++ templates/inheritance at the cost of losing type safety when things become void*, but if you a have a little discipline that tradeoff grants flexibility that's quite nice in my opinion.
There is far more to non-religious views of subjectivity than the simplistic, materialistic negationism. You're beating a straw man here.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Mind for the details.
Concerns on Khan Academy's Goals
Thoughts on the benefits and limitations of Khan academy's teaching methodology.
Tapping the screen?

Also, is right/wrong reporting really that important? I don't have a way to do it with paper flashcards...
afaik palm didn't hire him away. He quit and after few months of break in mexico, he decided to join palm.
I'm merely observing that meaning exists in minds. If you believe that all minds will cease to exist, you must believe that all meaning will cease to exist.

I can't speak for the parent post, but personally I'm fine with that. All meaning, and indeed morality, exists in minds. Which is why it's so incredibly important to me that we not squander it while it does exist in the name of something that doesn't.
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In 1999 released her single album titled What A Girl Wants and managed to occupy the top of the charts a few weeks, and in early 2000 she a duet with Enrique Iglesias at the Super Bowl Half Time Show did for the president, which also featured Phil Collins and Toni Braxton.
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This is called taking an analogy too literally.
He shows someone video not produced by us. Then does a small interview of a handful of people who watched those non-Khan Academy videos. Then he uses their lack of understanding to impugn Khan Academy. The person who made this video clearly cares more about their agenda than real science.

The irony is also thick with him using a video to try to explain that videos can't explain things.
Yes, copying is innovation.

I'm yet to see an example when a community proceeded with copying for an extensive period of time and didn't come up with innovations.
Also I'm yet to see an example when a community didn't copy things already existing in the field. It's just not how it works.

E.g. Phonecian alphabet -> hebrew -> greek -> latin, cyrillic. Even hangul were drawing insights from both hieroglyphs and alphabets.

And, more often than not, "clone of X" means "tl; dr; but it looks like X". People seldom bother.
?

You're suggesting that if I place a lock on your door, and you and I both agree that it is adequate, that it is my fault that you lose your keys and have your TV stolen because I should have known that a lock is not good enough and you should have had an alarm system as well....

Seriously, have some bit of personal responsibility.
> The goal is not to determine what is objective fact. There is no such thing, not even in natural sciences such as physics. Dont forget that.

I'm not sure where you're going with that; follow that line of thought too far and you end up with solipsism.

Practically speaking, sure there are objective facts. The properties of mechanics and electromagnetism are facts, or close enough for everyday purposes. What happens when you throw a ball or turn on a light is not a cultural construct.

re: history, sure, no person has the Pure Truth, and any history reflects the viewpoint of its author(s). It's still useful to distinguish between things that happened and things that didn't happen.

For instance, World War II did not begin when Queen Mab, having been cast out of the Garden of Eden by Shiva, built a clone army in her underground fort in Antarctica then invaded Loompaland. That simply didn't happen.

It seems to me that there are objective facts; we just can't know them perfectly. Still, it's very useful to try to get an approximation.
And it doesn't define "massive" :/

I still don't see a compelling reason to use node. I think the jvm is a better choice all around.
Calufa, next time you're in Vegas, send me a message and we'll get a beer. Thank you. You just made something I'm doing vastly more awesome.
I second this. The way out of a depression is by regaining your confidence. You can do this with "small wins" that lead to bigger wins and eventually the self confidence to take on the world.

Working out/Getting in shape has the added benefit of reducing stress and produces endorphins helping you feel happier.

But it could be anything. Reading a book, taking a class, solving a puzzle, etc.
Erlang Framework for Real-Time Computational Advertising (Guest post)
Inliner - inline the crap out of your site
I think you just did it. But normally the quotes are from the linked page.

Or it means you want to save snippets from the page for the future. I'm not sure.
Asus unveils Padfone: the worst tech demo ever
Agreed, that language seems a bit overblown. And the extraneous comma makes it stand out even further.
Go to church and pray!
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according to the title and article i should be using G-WAN for my static files, which i've never heard of before. i know nothing about it other than it apparently serves more files per second than nginx, lighttpd, and apache. but, i should be using it.

do you really recommend operating like that?
I wonder what the radius of that building will be.
All that is meaningless chatter between people and information about bathroom habits. Perhaps if we pooled that distributed effort into something constructive, the world would be a better place.
Fascinating to see how much more technical vocabulary he uses when speaking in '97. I don't remember any recent keynotes where he used so much tech jargon onstage.

I guess this is because now, every word he says is analysed and reported by mainstream media. He has to communicate to the entire world because of Apple's popularity, and not just a room full of WWDC developers.
This was introduced a few years back, not sure how this is new, as they were doing the same, exact demo.
Unfortunately, this metaphor breaks at the onset. Programs aren't primarily written to be read by people. They're primarily meant to enable functionality. Readability of code is important, but not the ultimate ends -- it is part of the means.

But the important part of my post was that programming is about automation. It's not about weaving a story, even for the next programmer. It's about building abstractions for automation. And yes, its important for other programmers to build on top or service it, but given a choice between the right user experience and dev experience, user experience should usually win (although there will be some exceptions).
Here are some videos of a teacher trying to implement research based teaching. Is it entertaining? No. Are student being encouraged to think? yes.

Using number of site visits to denote good teaching is very problematic. You might consider catching up on the work of the late Neil Postman for more on this.

http://www.youtube.com/user/kruseteacher#grid/user/05DAAF89A...
I'm the author of Brewery/Cubes. Both projects are very young - started last year, in December 2010.

As for Cubes: goal is to create light-weight framework with pluggable backends. Currently simple SQL backend and MongoDB backend are implemented.

Some public projects that are using Cubes for OLAP are:

Donations for sport and culture:

http://granty.transparency.sk/en/

Public procurements of Slovakia (still under development):

http://vestnik-test.democracyfarm.org/en/report/all?cut=date...

If you are asking about performance, my answer is: I do not know yet, haven't stressed it too much. I would very like to hear any feedback and/or recommendations. Current focus was on simplicity and easy of use, performance will come later.

For brewery, here are some blog notes:

http://blog.databrewery.org/

Presentation where data brewery was used in a project:

http://slidesha.re/i9O4kC

I hope to prepare more information soon, with examples. I want data brewery to be more distributed with cusomisable nodes (like you would be able to use a distant server as a processing node or part of processing stream).

Goal of data brewery is to provide "way of working with data streams", focusing more on data analysis than on data transformation. However, it does not mean that you would not be able to use it for the further.

Anyway, I would appreciate any feedback, and gladly answer any questions. I am also looking for cooperation, if you are interested, drop me a line.

Stefan - @Stiivi on twitter, author of Data Brewery/Cubes
There is nothing that the bank was doing that was so far from the normal practice of securing a website that constitutes negligence. They were even following a published standard.

It's unreasonable to expect the bank to be so overly concerned with their customer's security and excuse the business for not being so with their own.
It's possible. A distribution might have counts of 12,11,8,6,5,5,4,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1. Odds of someone picking it are under 50%.
Entrepreneurs don't take risks — they manage them.
Worth noting that the liquid is rechargeable/reusable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_batteries

According to the Wikipedia page, the main issue with these batteries is low energy density. If this group has figured it out, they may be on to something huge.
It looks cute, but for a flash card app other interaction methods are just as quick and easy, maybe more so. Now, if something like this could be used so that a person could see, for example, their next appointment by peeking, but fully opening the cover activated the iPad normally, that would be cool.
"People here want their safe, comfortable, 9-5 jobs, and their must-see-TV at night. There is no ecosystem to help drive and create new things."

Considering your situation, a stable 9-5 sounds like a better option for you than a new and risky venture.
Samsung could be a good buyer for Nokia. It could switch over the supply of Nokia's internal components to Samsung thereby creating synergy. Samsung could swap out Symbian with Bada on lower end phones and (depending on the Microsoft contract) Android on the high end.

In exchange Samsung gets Nokia's patents, Nokia's mapping assets, and access to an enormous global supply chain.
I've been considering a migration to something else for over a year, but have yet to find any product meeting our needs other than the latest version of Magento... that being said, I have yet to be able to upgrade to that version... something is severely wrong with our DB and we're pretty much stuck in an old version!
1. Massive debt: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/

2. The Internet.

3. Parents: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/29/financial-independ...

4. You are not responsible for your family's well-being. You can try to help, but not if it costs you your health/...

5. You can help them better if you're doing well.

It sounds like your family is trying to drag you down to their level.
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The postmodern approach of teaching history as a perspective is flawed in that this perspective should be developed by the student and not fed to them by the teacher. How can a student develop perspective without knowledge of facts? How is this different from dogma?
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I really don't have much personal experience to draw on here, but just to add my two cents, you might try to think about why you initially became an entrepreneur, techie, developer. Something that always makes me feel better no matter what my work-load or responsibilities is spending some time on a project just for the sake of my own interest. These are NOT money-makers, just rough ideas for anything that truly interests me from a tech standpoint. Like maxdemarzi said, do something to regain confidence, interest in your work, etc. You can't fix all these problems at once.
You need to hear this: Get off the bitch train and do something about it.
My Google Job Helped Me Raise Money More Than My Startup Experience
I learned a lot from the Getting Git screencast when I learned how to use it, +1 from me
That would probably be awarded 50/50.
A few observations:

- Your post is a little judgmental of the people living this area. 9-5 jobs are nothing to be ashamed of and wanting to watch TV after a hard day isn't necessarily a fault. If I were a business leader in this area I'm not sure I'd be interested in working to fix this if such a thing is even possible or desirable.

- What is your skillset? Are you a programmer? If so then you should be able to find work anywhere, you could work remotely, or start a business.

Doing something out of guilt is nothing I'd ever recommend. If you were doing this out of love then maybe this might make sense.
It didn't work out well for the last guys who tried it :(

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Why do you consider that "throwing away money"? What if I happen to enjoy cocaine and prostitutes?
Will Congress ratify Internet as a Religion?
As someone who dropped out of school in 8th grade, got a GED at age 20, and started a career in IT at 28, I have to say that I still wish I would've stayed in school and had gone to college.

Getting in to the IT field without a degree was a struggle for me. I ended up wasting 8 years of my life working for Wal-Mart for $10 an hour because I couldn't break in to the IT industry no matter what certifications I was able to achieve. It took a lucky break being hired at a small startup IT company to get my foot in the door. I wasn't even hired for my IT skills, rather my ability to learn PHP quickly to become a freelance developer when I had finally had enough and quit my job at Wal-Mart.

I'm 3 years in to my IT career and have been successful enough to be earning close to $100k per-year. I can't help but think what sort of salary I'd be making right now if I had spent 4 years going to school and this was my 7th or 8th year of my IT career. Information Technology is my passion and I love every day of my job. I think that passion made me too arrogant to think that school was necessary and I ended up wasting 8 years hating my job & my life because of it.
Woman has 152 Facebook friends tattooed onto arm. Unfriending will be painful.
Whoah. Hold on. Just because the bank runs a Java app on an Apache server running Linux does not make the bank just a Java app.

Hold the bank only as accountable as delicious or Digg for its website. But the security of the bank accounts needs to be held to a higher standard. Having worked with multiple banks on online security, I actually believe they are held to a higher standard (that of "due care"), but that there's a combination of "commercial account" and "insufficiently informed judge" acting against that standard in this case.
I actually think we are in agreement.
You need to get a fresh start. I think regardless of the situation (although yours may be more extended), we all have a sense of guilt for "abandoning" people, but you have to realize that you can't help anyone unless you help yourself first. I do have my own story, but it's not something I want to publicly share, though I'd be happy to tell you over skype if you really want to know.

Bottom line is... you can stay around and try to fix things, but your chances for success are low. I have a philosophy in life: Never stay in a place where you're too happy or unhappy. Happiness brews complacency, and unhappiness breeds distrust and hopelessness. I don't know your skill set, but I'd suggest moving somewhere, working to save up, and then restarting your life. The hard part is getting past the loss of time.
Yeah your situation right now sounds awful. Its tough to be under-appreciated by people whom you're trying to help. Here are a few things to try.

0. Put your email in your profile so people can email you suggestions/work/jobs privately.

1. Get ANY locally available job just to get out of the house regularly and interact with people and start earning some $. Then start looking for something you like or enjoy etc. Do you have any skills people buy on ODesk or other places?

2. Start exercising daily. Don't need a gym membership to be effective. Google "body weight exercises."

3. Spend some time (an hour-ish doesn't have to be continuous) outside every day. It can be anything but you could walk dogs for a nearby humane shelter or whatever.

4. What area? I assume USA. How close to an "active" area? Or at least a not-dead-area? The local guys probably aren't against it but more likely have no idea how to start/be successful and don't want to look foolish or fail.

5. If you don't have on spend $5 and get an account on ask.metafilter.com and ask specific questions about your parents anonymously to a wider audience than HN.

6. Maybe this can give you some concrete ideas the local guys can understand: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566026
The praying part might be good advice but I'm not sure he needs to go to church first.
Yeah, I guess if its in the fine print then what is the judge supposed to do? I agree, I need to find a more secure mattress.
They're probably also counting the bastardized content pack thingy many people used instead of In-App purchase where you buy/download other items on the store for levels or whatnot.