skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, as I said it is definitely an attempt at dealing with the subconscious, but it's an attempt to do so only be engaging with the conscious. The idea is basically to bolster the strength of the conscious motives, which again, might be somewhat helpful.

Discovering the cause alone might not necessarily helped, but being armed with the information is invaluable. Knowing that what's happening when you're declining to work on a project is that you're trying to recreate the feeling worthlessness associated with being criticized as a child is pretty useful in understanding the situation and addressing it.

I guess the broader point is just that self-help and tips and tricks can be helpful to generally healthy people who occasionally procrastinate or whatever, but that people who are significantly inhibited by their inability to motivate themselves are likely depressed or suffering from anxiety and need to deal with it medically. You can't cure an anxiety disorder with "REPS".

I'm not a psychologist, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it's damaging to people who are considering getting treatment to be told that "procrastination" is some kind of normal thing that they can fix by thinking about things a little differently.
I think I would be a blacksmith or carpenter. I think building things is the underlying common factor in things that I like to do.
3 years of learning will only land you very junior level positions. In 3 years you will barely learn how to write crappy code and a few technologies.

I've written a few times here about how I interview people. Most of the candidates have BS degrees in comp sci, most of them have 3 to 15 years of work experience. Most of them cannot write a (correct) function to reverse a string.
If that's the case, then you don't have WebGL enabled, or your GPU is being blacklisted by your browser.
The neighbors would prefer that the market for houses clears, preferably at a favorable price but in any case at some price, so that the people residing in their neighborhood have a safe enough claim in the property to invest in it.

By locking up a property in pointless litigation, this person has taken one house in the neighborhood and made it illiquid. The squatter is extremely unlikely to prevail in the long run. The incentives are not set up for them to, say, plant trees or properly rebuild roofs. In fact, the incentives are the opposite: the rational squatter does the bare minimum required to claim continuous actual possession, while investing in some other property where maintenance and improvements promise an actual return on investment. The incentive structure for squatting almost begs for meth labs.

Adverse possession isn't the state's way of making sure houses are put to good use.
*plans to create
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Few people have ever, in fact, read the law. Doing so often reveals amazing opportunities.

In this case, he looked into what the legal status of a home is when the mortgage paying owner abandons it, and the mortgage company ceases to exist. Answer: nobody owns it, and whoever files paperwork and actually starts living there gets it. Go figure.

To those saying "pay the $300,000!": to whom? The homeowner? he gave up ownership by moving out and abandoning the mortgage payments. The mortgage company actually owns the house until it's paid off, but if the company goes defunct then nobody owns it. There is nobody to pay!
Very nice work, especially given status of the TrueCrypt license, which may not be acceptable for most open source operating systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Licensing

Hopefully, this will provide a good basis for others to bring TrueCrypt support to other BSDs and Linux.
what does "shift code" mean?
There are camera all over banks. (Not just to watch for bank robbers, but to watch for tellers and other bank officers committing embezzlement.) Engaging in a fraudulent transaction inside a bank is a crime that leaves behind a lot of evidence with which you could be convicted of a felony.

P.S. Doesn't everyone know how to spot (some of) the positions of security cameras inside places of business? The trick is that there may be additional cameras in locations unknown to you as you enter the bank, besides the camera that you should be able to see. As far as I know, in most countries all automatic teller machines have cameras to record every transaction.
A lot of experienced users out there tends to provide each service a different email address (username+servicename@example.org, servicename@bar.example.org, etc.)

BrowserID breaks this.
Would you rather work in an oil field in -20F or creating a website in an office while sipping your morning coffee?
This has got to be a variation of the Streisand effect. By not letting this slide by, people start perceiving Facebook of fearing Google+. And why would you fear a competitor if not because you believed the market would respond to their advantage and your detriment. And it that is true, i.e. Facebook doubts itself, why should the users and, more importantly, the customers, i.e. Facebook's advertisers.
How come your alpha_numerics don't have any numbers in them?
It's a bit naive to try to judge patents in terms of some dichotomy between good patents and bad patents. In principle, patents aren't really good or evil. They're just part of running a business. That said, the patent system itself can have good or evil effects on society.
Actually the well-off pay most of the taxes. And Zuck would not have what he has without the company he built, and I'd reckon that pretty much every employee at Facebook is at least earning what would be considered comfortable middle-class money.
I'd be interested to see this research. My understanding is that talk therapy is generally considered to be effective, although there is much controversy about which kinds are most effective and how that effectiveness compares to drugs.
This is probably the most relevant comment of this thread, I hope it gets on top.
It might have, but it is very likely it would have been published in an academic paper anyhow (like it actually has).

And in any case, no one actually reads software patents (lawyers tell you not to!), so even if it was patented but not published or otherwise documented, no one would have known about it.

While the PageRank patent is definitely not a trivial patent - unlike the vast majority of software patents - it still isn't an example of a patent used for good.
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They do at the end?
Inspired by F#'s |> (which was of course inspired by Unix pipes) ?
Your suggestion is one possible policy. Another possible policy is to allow ANY provider to refuse service to any subsidized customer, on the reasoning that the refusal of the provider to provide service is essentially a statement that that provider cannot help that customer. If some category of customers appear to be unattractive to most providers, but there is a positive externality from providing service to those customers, increase the subsidies for customers in that category until you reach an equilibrium price at which some providers are willing to meet those customers' needs.
The menu goes up to 5 messages in 24 hours. It stops after 24 hours.
Amazing! I thought you should know that your second cousin inspired my love of jazz as a child, and Paul Desmond convinced me to pick up the saxophone after hearing Take Five. Thus, jazzychad was born.

The world keeps getting smaller and smaller :)
I did the same; I had a simple "def()" and "undef()" function pair, which shrank the code base a tiny bit and made it terribly easy to understand what conditions I was testing for.

Unfortunately, I recently profiled my code and found that those functions were being called an absurd number of times during a moderately complicated page load, so they're gone now. :-(
Nice and clean design. I think the pitch here is the perfect pitch to put up on the website given that your primary audience are developers. Also some information on it's integrated into a website would be useful.
Very true. Then I do htmlentities or just view-source (which works surprisingly well in Chrome). Usually though it's just arrays and objects for me.
Terence Tao was 18 I believe when this takes place. He had completed about a year of graduate work at Princeton when took his General Exam. An oral test to proceed with his PhD at Princeton. It's apparently a tradition at Princeton to write up your experience with the general exam, and here is Terence Tao's.

I wish I had written up my writtens (in CS) after I had taken them, but unfortunately now I just recall a question or two -- not that anyone would want to read mine. :-)
No, software patents cannot protect you from patent trolls.

Patent trolls by definition do not produce any actual products. They only sue. Any patents you have are therefore no defense against them.

A worrying development is trolling by proxy - a real company selling its patents to a patent troll. This allows the real company to extort money through its patents, without the risk of a countersuit, since the patent troll is doing the actual suing.
Simple solution: give everyone address with "+suffix", and mark as junk any mail without it.

For stubborn services who don't accept "+" in email addresses use unique redirect aliases.

(Also, IIRC, Gmail ignores dots, i.e. "j.random.user@gmail.com" and "j.r.a.n.d.o.m.u.s.e.r@gmail.com" is the same address. Chose a canonical one with a dot somewhere, and filter the rest with exception for legimate senders.)
Why We Lie – An Honest Look at Deception, from Ian Leslie
True. I don't use events much but when I do I use the following pattern:

private SomeDelegate _myEvent = delegate {};

public event SomeDelegate MyEvent
{

add { _myEvent += value; }
remove { _myEvent -= value; }

}
What? No. That's not what happened. It's not "nobody owns it". When your mortgage company folds, the titles don't vanish into the ether. The titles have economic value, even in the (extraordinarily unlikely) case where that value is pennies on the original dollar. The assets of the mortgage company are sold.

Meanwhile, this is a terrible outcome for the neighborhood. Many people on HN are no doubt failing to find ways to shed tears for mortgage companies, but during the 10+ (note carefully that "plus" sign) years this guy's BS claim to the house takes to resolve itself, the house is out of the market; it can't be sold to anyone, at any price. It must instead be occupied by someone who has virtually no incentive to maintain or improve it.
> It wasn't half farmers, it was like 95% farmers.

Yeah... no. The first US Census, in 1790, already recorded an urban population of over 5%.

By the mid-19th century, urban population had climbed over 15%, and by 1910 (last census before the Fordson Tractor, the first really popular tractor in the US) it had already exceeded 45%
I hope it doesn't end up in the belly of some huge creature.

Seriously, this sounds amazing.
Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately I can't take credit for the design, it's straight out of theme forest :)

That's a good idea about explaining how it's integrated, all you need to do is include the bugMuncher.min.js script on a page, (and jQuery if you don't already have it). Of course the feedback won't submit if you don't have an account with BugMuncher.

Think I'll add an FAQ section, and put that in.

Thanks again.
Shouldn't border-radius (i.e., no vendor prefix) be last?
ToutApp now helps manage LinkedIn messages.
That's not why we have squatter's rights laws. As a rational economic matter, squatters are not incentivized to provide good upkeep; in most states, the only thing that requires them to perform any upkeep are village building codes.
It's hard to believe claims of a "genetic underclass."

There have been several large studies of identical twins separated at birth. For a given twin, the strongest correlate of IQ is the other twin's IQ. Likewise, the non-identical but biologically-related siblings do have moderately correlated IQs. However, there is barely any correlation between a twin and their adoptive parents or siblings. This suggests that genetics and prenatal environment determine most of IQ.

There is also strong evidence from gene sequencing that genetics directly affects IQ. Genes that affect sphingolipids, chemicals important in the brain, are known to affect IQ. A variation in the SNAP-25 gene has been found to increase intelligence by an average of 3 IQ points.
As mentioned in the Economist piece, John Malone is a competitor of Murdoch's who acquired a 17% stake in Murdoch's company back in 2004. I googled him and found this interesting article about John Malone:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-malon...

This piece goes a little more into the psychology of Malone and Murdoch.
Indeed, the MP3 patents and a small number of similar ones are the only good examples of nontrivial software patents. They are, sadly, a tiny fraction of all software patents.

Regarding whether the MP3 patents were a good thing or not, that is as you say debatable. It made developing the technology profitable, but it also created barriers to interoperability - for example, it is problematic for open source operating systems to support MP3s, and they are forced to do various workarounds of dubious legality. Compare this to the situation on the Web: Anyone can write a web browser, without having to pay anyone else.
I fear that creates an incentive to game the system. "This person is dislexic so we get the dislexic bonus", but they're really not, but parents work to get their child labeled as such so they can get into the top schools, and the top schools take this "not really dislexic" child, which they can interview or test to ensure they're perfectly capable students.

I think this would actually be a case where the stick works better. A school can't reject anybody. And if a student leaves your school with a complaint about service you are severely punished. Maybe funding cut by a percentage of the size of the student body per complaint.
You're making it sound as if this guy is trying to recruit users to Google+ when he in fact is trying to get more followers on Google+. As for the analogy, do Apple stores use an advertisement platform where businesses can purchase ads, making it the stores' main source of income? If not, it doesn't seem like a fair analogy.
It does seem perfectly tribal. Down with the oppressors, join this group with me to protect yourself against the oppressors. Then the groups fight incessantly until one of them eclipses the others and invents nationalism. On the other hand, Anonymous is supposedly structured so that individuals can opt in or out of campaigns without worrying that their efforts will end up supporting actions they disagree with. With most organizations, you have to try to predict whether they will put your time and money to good use before you actually commit your support, and then your efforts are controlled by the leadership until you retract your support.

That would make Anonymous an organization that is uniquely driven by the individual choices of its members, which is a very attractive idea. That's the potential, anyway.
> you should be encapsulating that somehow into some other function or object

Hmm, I believe that's what I'm doing here. This pattern is nice because it's small, simple and easily applied anywhere.

> when I see a class called something very generic like "node"

This is for http://taskranger.com Node is a node in the tree. Might make more sense knowing that.

> lack of semicolons is bad style. Lack of braces for if clauses is bad style.

I'm aware of the consensus, but I'm pretty sure it's wrong :) Semicolons and unnecessary braces create noise and take up space. This subtly harms readability. I've been doing this for about a year and have had no problems.

I do appreciate the suggestions, though.
They can just check for the link to google+, no need for a fancy image filter for that...
'Some people must have benefited from Panda'

Largely 2 groups of sites did
- big brands & big media sites / sites with plenty of "brand" signal
- smallish sites that were too small to get clipped when a lot of the larger (but not BIG BRAND large) sites in their vertical got hit.

'I wonder what the logical conclusion of search engines/SEO and all this jazz will be in 10 years. If history is any indicator, we'll all swing back to some AOL-esque, walled garden, ad-driven existence where "Search" means nothing more than "find applicable ads"... I suppose that is somewhat true now.'

That is a great point...and in Tim Wu's book I mentioned above, he highlighted how this was the big fundamental strategic difference between Google & Apple.

The answer to how it all turns out is still a bit unknown.
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Lots of startup people here, so I assume more than a few of you have been in this situation.<p>I am working for a startup that has been persistently skipping payroll, sometimes paying late, sometimes not at all, always with vague explanations about how the company is doing or why they missed payroll this time.<p>The company in question has a very interesting product and is primarily dealing with funding issues, so I am reluctant to cut ties completely, but it is reaching a point where nobody trusts management to deliver (lack of communication, vague when they do communicate, etc).<p>I am curious to hear from others who have been in this situation, how you dealt with it (besides simply quitting), and whether the company you worked for got its act together or eventually just tanked.
For myself, I pick the website. For some of my friends, my job would be a death sentence and they would pick the oil field.
Middle-class < well-off <<< Gates et al. I can concede the "who pays the taxes" point to a good argument. I think we're in general agreement that the unwashed or partially-washed masses purchase a whole lot more stuff from high-tech companies that the aforementioned luminaries.

Unless there's way more HN companies making carbon-fiber racing yachts that I'm aware of.
Why Unemployment Matters
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Argentina in 2001: Roadmap for Greece today?
There was a great article in the WSJ recently that compared Greece’s current fiscal state with Argentina’s back in 2001. The article analyzed the steps that the South American country took to cope with its massive debt load and overvalued currency and how Greece might be able to adopt a similar plan. Back in 2001, Argentina was basically in the same boat as Greece: the country was underwater with interest payments / massive amounts of debt and its exports/growth were hampered by such a strong currency. The burden forced Argentina to default on its debt and re-value its currency (peso). While the economy crashed in the near term, a decade of strong growth followed.

As the WSJ points out, there are several differences between Argentina (2001) and Greece which suggest that the Argentinian solution might not be as successful in Greece. First, Greece is deeply integrated into the European Union (EU) and the adoption of the Euro which would make it difficult to ditch the euro in the more isolated way Argentina did with the peso. Second, Argentina enjoyed a decade of growth driven by its explosive farming sector; Greece, on the other hand, lacks this type of growth capability in any of its sectors (including tourism). Lastly, while Argentina’s economic state was in bad shape, the severity of Greece’s economic woes is on another level. If Greece’s debt payments were eliminated, the country would still have a budget deficit roughly three times the size of Argentina’s in 2001. Bottom line is that Greece should look elsewhere for a plan to emerge from this economic state; although the reality is that any plan may be futile. Greece’s fate may already be a foregone conclusion.
This entire post (not just your comment) has veered off from what I was intending. The "gifted" descriptor was general, not clinical. For what it's worth, I know firsthand about dealing with the profoundly gifted (like your son). I have one, too! I'm not sure whether to congratulate you or commiserate with you :) They are quite a handful to deal with -- far more than most people would expect given the misinformation that's prevalent about giftedness (especially pg). We work through it sometimes one day at a time. I don't think that bears much relevance to my professional situation, so I won't comment further. But peace and best of luck to you, too.
"src". Takes the name of a variable (usually a function) and searches my source directory for definitions of that variable. The way it recognizes definitions is fairly ad-hoc (it recognizes "def", "mac", "defmemo", and a few others; it doesn't attempt to recognize forms like "(let x 2 (def ...))").

arc> src.src
From: /Users/waterhouse/Dropbox/arc3.1/a
(mac src (name (o strict t))
`(src-fn ',name
',strict))
Found 1 results in 1 different files.

"aps". Apropos; derived from the Common Lisp function. Returns all bound variable names of which the supplied argument is a substring.

arc> aps.mat-
(fermat-prime mat-add mat-add-mod mat-det mat-det2 mat-expt mat-id
mat-mod-expt mat-mul mat-mul-mod mat-order mat-trans)
you do realize half of this is already included in builtins, right?
look in your web analytics. the dates that a lot of people saw sharp traffic declines are:

Panda Update 1.0: Feb. 24, 2011
Panda Update 2.0: April 11, 2011 (about 7 weeks later)
Panda Update 2.1: May 10, 2011 (about 4 weeks later)
Panda Update 2.2: June 16, 2011 (about 5 weeks later)

source: http://searchengineland.com/why-google-panda-is-more-a-ranki...
The perl core has a way of detecting non-zero exit statuses:

$ perl -Mautodie=system -e 'system("/bin/false")'
"/bin/false" unexpectedly returned exit value 1 at (eval 5) line 13
at -e line 1

Pretty nice.
What analytic skills do humanities (aka liberal arts) grads have? The gold standard in mathematical analysis is proof. In science, it's statistically sound empirical evidence.

In liberal arts, the analytical skills do not seem to be more sophistry than analysis. Persuasive writing and cherry-picking facts can carry a lot of weight. I can see why that is useful to a marketer or reporter (who doesn't need to be correct, as long as they are persuasive), but it's not a sound basis for "looking at problems".

Just witness the number of arts students who study a lot of "social" stuff, and end up believing that left-wing === virtuous. I'm far from a Republican, but that I can't say that's a sign of good analytical skills.
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I did a Ph.D. in Classics, and I had the exact same feeling of "Oh, right, I remember that." This form of exam was the last part of our A exams (A exams => after coursework but before being allowed to start a thesis; B exam => dissertation defense). Hadi Jorati's[1] review sums it up for me: "as soon as they feel you know something they will move to something else!"

They sent me out of the room to discuss whether or not I passed. The door stayed closed long enough that I became pretty nervous, but it turned out that two of them were arguing about what they wanted to set as my dissertation topic. By the time they called me back in, I was a wreck. (I paid them back by choosing neither of those two topics.)

[1] http://www.math.princeton.edu/graduate/generals/jorati_hadi2...
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