skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
to quote David Foster Wallace, “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

I agree that there is never a "valid" reason to kill yourself. But don't act like he was so greedy that being internet famous and intelligent wasn't enough for him. Depression hits all kinds of people, and it is simply not something that is affected in a reasonable way by success or failure.
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OK. I'm going to spout a lot of criticism here, but it's not personal. I like what you are trying and I think you could use some pointers.

1. Why does the modal shadowbox type window keep switching between two images automatically? It doesn't really give me enough time to read any of the text.

2. Why are they images? Is there any particular reason that the text isn't just plain old text? This is going to hurt SEO and viewing on different screen size, devices, etc.

3. Why have a slider if I can't interact with it?

4. Corners. Some boxes have square corners, some have rounded. It seems a bit arbitrary.

5. Shadows. Some boxes have drop shadows, and some don't. I can understand drop shadows when you are trying to go for skeuomorphism, but some of your shadows seem pretty arbitrary. On your homepage, some text have drop shadows and other text and images have inner shadows. Whats the point?

6. Your pictures aren't crisp. I see either compression artifacts or moire artifacts that anti-aliasing can fix.

7. Colors. You should improve the color palette both on this and your homepage. The colors are a bit dull looking and I can't sense a clear design logic behind your color choices.
You always have to benchmark for your own use-case.

This is even more true for mongo than for other databases because mongo doesn't degrade very well; when you overload it with writes it will effectively grind to a halt.

This is documented e.g. in the clustrix benchmark: http://sergei.clustrix.com/2011/01/mongodb-vs-clustrix-compa...
Nice, but when I hit the pause button the audio does not pause.
Did I say a 'written spec'?
If Google is willing to subsidize a free refrigerator for me so they can serve ads on it, I will consider it. :-)
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And even if they're not, I have to do mental work: icon -> wtf does this picture mean -> english translation. I find that far more tedious than standard word scanning.
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Not that.

I lost a bunch of weight (50+ lbs) by eating the same meals over and over and over and over again. If I had to text 1cup this, 3oz that, 1/2 cup flour, blah, blah every time I ate, I'd go buy a large pizza from a chain store and get the calorie count that way. It'd be a lot easier. Your sms system is an incentive to eat processed foods.

I'd look at the psychology of weight loss and also read about personal finance too. You're probably not the person to build this unless you've tried to loose weight. All the advice is worthless unless you can build a new lifestyle. In order to do that you need to introduce barriers to food consumption.
Yeah that's easy to say and it really should be practiced but we all want and crave validation. The web can be incredibly harsh and ignorant (just take a look at a few of the comments here that got downvoteed to hell, which they deserved by the way) but when you get that validation from total strangers there's nothing like it! It's a rush, it's addictive, and it feels so much better than the hate.

I would say, if anything, you should do your best to filter out the total assholes but not disregard all negative feedback. There's a difference between "I hate x software because I'm a FOSS fanatic and your company sucks and destroys the earth", which is pretty harsh and "fuck you, you're queer" which is just safe to ignore.
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Doesn't google allow this already to some degree?

Perhaps not exactly what you were looking for.. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/1-with-a-bullet-goog...
I think for me this manifests itself in wasting time on reddit and twitter. Whenever I have a blank chrome tab, my unconscious reaction is to punch in one of these time-wasters.
This short essay is not pg at his best in my view. Spending time having fun is Plain Good, and necessary, even for the most focused startup founder. But watching TV don't count obviously. Playing cards with friends at a terasse does.
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Here's the problem: Even that's too much friction. You probably will have a nice base of users that are hardcore dieters, but I don't think you will reach the niche you are targeting.

I think the problem lies in the fact that most eating is a social activity and most social places to eat (ie restaurants) aim to make their food tasty instead of healthy. I think movements to make calorie counts on every menu will help much more than to develop an app like the one you proposed.
It's not up to date with today's push, but:

https://github.com/android
Unfortunately the two systems are very different and largely incompatible.

Merging them would not be impossible, but it's not easy.
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So what would you want in a service that wants to help you lose weight?

I had this conversation with my doctor. He said my BMI was too high, and that I should lose weight. I countered that BMI was not an accurate gauge of obesity, because it failed to take into account body composition and muscle mass (it just uses height and weight). I am 6 feet tall and weigh 240 pounds...but then so are many professional football players.

I think we need a better measurement than BMI, that would take into account height, weight, waist/hip ratio, age, and body fat % to give a more accurate picture. Seeing how this measurement changes over time would be a better gauge of health, and not just losing weight. In some cases, gaining muscle would cause you to gain weight, but it would be healthier for you. Conversely, losing weight by shedding muscle would lower your BMI, but be less healthy.

So I guess tools that would be more helpful would be tools that give a better picture of how healthy I am, and not just my weight. So if my weight goes up, but my muscle mass went up and fat went down, that would be a good thing.

And tools that would help me track how small changes over time add up would be helpful. For example, I can't go to the gym for an hour 3 days a week, but I can walk a half mile to lunch and back each day for a total of 5 miles a week. Can you tell me how much weight I'd lose doing that for a year? Or how many calories I'd avoid if I switched from sugar to Splenda for 2 cups of coffee every day for 6 months? That might be the motivation I need to make small changes that don't seem significant, but can add up.

EDIT: So apparently walking 1 mile each business day at lunch at a brisk pace for a year is good for about 30,000 calories or 10 pounds, and switching from sugar to Splenda is good for another 25,000 calories, or another 7 pounds. I think that is a good start for an app...showing people how these small changes can add up.
I'm pretty familiar with Jack's situation.
Yes, this is indeed true, now. For a time he was splitting one day on / one day off at each company.

Frankly, Jack has very little time outside of his work, but I wouldn't say that he doesn't have a life. His work is his life and they are closely intertwined. This is great, since it means he's quite passionate about both product sets and the quality of his companies' net output really shines, IMO.

The danger of this obsessive behavior though is that it can begin to warp ones perspective on others' work/life balance. Jack works like a dog because he's excited about what he does, so it seems to baffle him when those around him aren't equally excited and committed to their work as well.

In the case of Square, they've been very quick to fire anyone who isn't putting 80+% percent of their life into Square -- often with little warning or reason.

Dogma is dangerous.
Suicidal genes wouldn't be selected against if they conferred some greater advantage. See the sickle cell anemia gene for an example of something that's tremendously deadly yet evolutionarily favored in some circumstances.
>People like you, who think that mental illness which is every bit as real as a broken arm is "imaginary"

sorry, man, you've just produced non sequtuir as i never said that mental illnesses are "imaginary".

I said that the statement - "if suicide then necessarily mental illness" - is false in my view. Such statement being false doesn't necessarily means that mental illnesses are imaginary nor that some suicides are result of real mental illnesses.
So don't call it 'Open Source' then.
Hacks are admired here, not condemned. Reverse engineering should always be allowed. This information doesn't make it possible to DDoS Siri or port it to Android as each request requires a unique iPhone ID; Apple can easily filter out unauthorized requests.
If your phone is rooted, or rootable, there's a bunch of devs over @ XDA-developers forum that create custom ROMs for most Android phones.

The most famous of these is CyanogenMod, which works across most Android phones out.

Once they port it to your phone you can flash the ROM and run ICS on your phone!
Perforce is well deployed on variety of systems. Git is fine, but cygwin's version can get broken due to fork() not always forking (no one to blame here, the cygwin folks are doing an enourmous job to translate over).

P4 also comes with approachable UI (p4win (MFC), and the not so pleasant, but then again better P4v (Qt)).

The command line is one of the easiest things ever p4 has did. For large binary files it's very well done, there is good customization of how many levels of file log to be kept.

But the best feature it's is changelists. The CL (heh, not common lisp) becomes part of your language at work, such as - get this CL, or shelve this CL, unshelve that one. It's very clear to a lot of people (coders, artists, production) what it is, and how it works.

I'm still puzzled by "git stash" or push/pull here and there (granted I'm n00b, and it would take me a lot of time to progress).

P4 is like good action game, GIT is like hard-core RPG where you need to level all the time, and learn magic, collect artifacts (that is scripts, and .gitignores).
Right, no coincidence a year's backlog of updates comes out on the same day Amazon ships their tablet. Good luck to Amazon with merge.
This is on my linux VPS (64bit)

$ java -cp .:servlet-api-2.5.jar:jetty-all-7.0.2.v20100331.jar -client -XX:MaxPermSize=1M -Xmx2M -Xms2M HelloWorld
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Too small initial heap for new size specified

I can't get it to run in under 30MB RES according to top. This is after hitting it with a little traffic, i'm not sure if you hit yours with any traffic.
I feel this is a bit extreme. What about many independent game developers who rely on things like Flash Player to etch out a living? I think there could be a nice compromise (other than just "Kill Flash!") with the valid security issues, while the a large medium of game development transitions away from flash-based platforms.
I don't know that it was so much "bad" code as they didn't want other groups to try and put Honeycomb on devices that it did not work on (i.e. phones). This would hurt the brand and fill the tech blogs with "Honeycomb is unstable and buggy!" when it really didn't belong on those devices in the first place.

There's a new release now that is stable for all kinds of devices, is it worth it to concern ourselves with what exactly is or isn't Honeycomb? I don't think they were trying to snow something over, I think this was their plan. Release Honeycomb after ICS since device manufacturers will use ICS anyway since it's new.
It is a more complex world, but I think that's orthogonal to whether you prefer return codes or exceptions.

In fact, I think you can argue that keeping error-handling local to the call site (return codes) encapsulates and abstracts the errors better than letting an exception propagate arbitrarily far up the stack.

Exceptions are decision-free, but not making a decision (propagating an exception without handling it) doesn't make you any more robust to the vagaries of the modern world, it just moves the problem somewhere else.

Now, if multiple children in a call graph can experience the same error, and should be dealt with in exactly the same way, then propagating an exception up to a common ancestor in the call graph makes your code simpler. The fact that the compiler writes that dumb plumbing code for you is a great argument for exceptions, but not all applications fit the use case of:

* Same error can manifest itself in many places
* Each instance of the error can be dealt with in a similar-enough way to make a common exception handler simpler than handling errors at each call site.

Edit: Oh, did you mean that if you don't intend to handle an error, exceptions crash your program (good) rather than let it continue silently and do something you don't expect (bad)? If so, good point, and my apologies for the misunderstanding :)
Well, if Nokia boasted about Symbian's openness, they were in the position to be criticized too. It's mostly a PR problem.
Things like HackerNews, Reddit, GitHub and Disqus are more useful to everyone using them when they are provided as a hosted service and not a deployable software.

We give site owners a hassle-free discussion platform that can be integrated into their websites with additional perks such as moderation tools, analytics, spam filters (trained on the whole network of websites and not just one) and others.

And people leaving comments on different websites are now able to manage and control their comments across the web, and use their Twitter/Facebook/Google accounts knowing that Disqus will never abuse their trust. Boxed software installed on different sites managed by different people would likely never be able to provide neither the integration nor the trust.

But don't get me wrong, we absolutely love open source. Check out our Code page[1] or our public account on GitHub[2]. We released many different projects, some of which are adored by the Python/Django community (e.g. Django Sentry). I think Disqus as a product is better when it is a service and not a boxed software.

Anton

[1] — http://code.disqus.com/code/
[2] — https://github.com/disqus/
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What I was saying is that the reason the payments are monthly for web services is because they are exactly that services, in addition to products. I, as a student on a low budget, feel more secure buying a desktop app at a one-time cost and being personally responsible for my data there than paying a regular fee forever and knowing that if I stop paying my data could be gone. That's mostly my irrational fear of commitment to just about anything though. But more rationally, the server could go down at any time (EC2 outage possibly) and I could be stuck without my data when I need it. If I know that I'm going to need my data that I have locally, I can store it on my phone and take it with me if taking my computer with me isn't feasible.

And so maybe web apps make you pay more for more. What if I'm perfectly fine with what I used to have and don't want more. I'm paying more for the same if I never plan on using the service anywhere but on machines that I can easily keep synched myself.
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"As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri!"

Are they just lying then?

There demo said they got siri to work with no iphone involved (in the end).

Also... DDoS would still be effective, no? (the server still has to 'filter')

> Hacks are admired here

You sure about that? A lot of China-bashing happens here based around it's 'Hacking' of U.S targets, I've never seen admiration of such things.
The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work.

His focus is not criticizing having fun, but wasting time without realizing it.
And here is a link to an Eeve from inside the interview room http://eeve.co/s/12a
If we put the ideological issues aside there are some other potential issues about using Disqus that I have thought of:

1.) Control of data, I am not sure what rights I am legally signing away to Disqus when using it as my comment service.

2.) Continuity, I am certain that if Disqus passes away the service won't be there and only fools would offer a free service and ensure that the data isn't lost for what ever reason. How are your data liberation policies, a simple click for a zip or a tar-ball? Or would I need to construct my own back-up using your API? If the latter, is that allowed?
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This is probably a privileged viewpoint which is only possible in certain cases, i'm guessing (i'm not saying that you or me are privileged, necessarily...just that it's still a 'luxury' to some extent)
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It seems your reaction is also a not so uncommon. I think it is just a coping strategy. Anger and dismissal is common in such situations.
Random events... still random.
You are confusing cracking and hacking.
Beginner programmer, what should I know to get a dev job?
I've just started programming (Learn Code the Hard Way), and the satisfaction I get from doing simple programs and getting them to run is something I haven't experienced with other interests/hobbies/jobs.

I really want to make a career out of this.

What should I learn in order to get a junior dev/entry level position? Where should I look?
Remember, he's a politician. He can change just how hard he works to pass the bill based on how many people will hate him if it passes, even if he never flips.

That said, feel free to replace him in the next election, if possible.
They're not lying. Anyone could write an Android app that uses Siri, but it would require the ID from an iPhone to work, so distributing it would be problematic.
Special tools in the sense of "shell prompt" and "text editor" you mean? I don't disagree that being able to browse a big source tree on the web is a good thing, and useful in many circumstances. But I continue to be depressed at the level of fear that command line tools elicit in modern developers.
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Some people criticized AOSP because they believe the delayed release is unfair (a reasonable criticism).
Other people (sheep) criticized them because they actually believed Google was never going to release more source or because needed an arguing point against the OS.
I don't think that's how it works.

(Also, no offence, but I'm disinclined to take suicide-prevention advice from anyone named "necro"...)
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So, I made a fair amount of money off my last job (the company's stock plummeted, they repriced all the options, the price recovered), and I ended up with a six-figure retirement account at age 26.

I'm certainly fortunate and it makes my life a bit less stressful, but it doesn't keep me warm at night. It doesn't care about whether or not I had a good day at work. I can't have an intellectually stimulating conversation with it. And that's just a little bit of money. Fame would be even worse.
Ah, 64bit JVM. It likes to think it is of itself as enterprise. One thing that may help is -XX:+UseCompressedOops, and even -Xmn1M.

Note that depending on the enverionment it may say it is too small, so you may have to ramp up a bit some of these stats. I also get it if I set lower than then ones I gave.

Note that jvm is very tunnable[1,2]. Also note that you can use a 32 bit jdk in a 64bit machine. It won't get you beyond 2GB vm, but if you are going for small memory, this is not something that matters (and it should allow you to get to a very small memory footprint).

Also note that there are other JVMs, like Oracle's JRockit (with extra memory options[3]), and KVM[4] (designed for small memory footprint[5]).

But hey, that is lower than 32 MB already!

Edit

You can also try some other lesser drastic measures[6,7]. Note that you are getting in less mainstream use of the JVM, and things can get a little crazy in this area.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions...

[2] http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/performance/jvm-tuning.xtp

[3] http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15289_01/doc.40/e15060/t...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_virtual_machine

[5] http://java.sun.com/products/cldc/wp/

[6] http://www.coderanch.com/t/202896/Performance/java/Ways-redu...

[7] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4893192/process-memory-vs...
Sometimes I think the feeling of getting "basically nothing" done by the end of the day is not the right timeframe - there are projects that have gone on for weeks that ultimately were a complete waste of time. But while working through those projects I felt something productive was happening, which made it difficult to think of them as "basically nothing". I'm not talking about failed ventures that could have turned into something great, these projects were pretty much always going to amount to nothing (they just appeared at the outset to be different to what they were)
What number would you say is feasible, or are you fundamentally against a democratic republic system of government, and if so, why?
They may be trying to communicate with a starman waiting in the sky, who'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.
You can export your data whenever you want and the process is as easy as clicking one button: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/447925/Screenshots/ao8k.png

Nothing changes when you comment on a website using Disqus—your comment is published on someone's website and becomes their data. That said, if a comment was not originally anonymous, you have an option to anonymize it so that it is not associated with your profile and name anymore. We are and will always be on commenters' side.

This is what I can authoritatively say as a Disqus engineer. If you want more information, email to hello@disqus.com and folks here will be happy to answer all your questions.

Anton
A set of useful lies.

Some of my co-workers were interested in learning to read Haskell, not so much in writing it. Let's see whether they like it.
I know that Amazon also agreed to these license fees. Due to both the Kindle Fire and use of Linux on internal infrastructure.