skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not exactly what you're looking for but there are some "long term pay off" rankings that are updated every now and then. The most recent I could find was from smartmoney.com with story at http://www.smartmoney.com/borrow/student-loans/colleges-that... and a(n annoying multipage) slide show with the top 5 in each category, Public, Private, Lib Arts, is here http://www.smartmoney.com/borrow/student-loans/colleges-that...

Of course more variables would be needed and how to weigh them would be different for each student, but from a Moneyball approach payback would probably be one of the strongest factors.
Maybe this can be a beginning: http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/
Oh sorry, classic case of not realizing not everyone hears your thoughts :-)

For "a", there's a list where "a" is the first letter, and a list where "a" is the second. What I wrote out above is an attempt to show the structure. The letters on the left are possible prefixes for "a", the letters on the right are possible suffixes. Then I stuck "-a-" itself in the middle because that seems like a good visualization.
You're describing a solution I'm spending my life trying to make happen! I'd love your feedback on it: http://gumroad.com — I think this is a huge need.
"We're getting bad PR? Ok, time to be reasonable..."
It might be a myth, but but snopes' 2 obscure references to some "studies" that cover a tiny region of the world are hardly compelling evidence.

I want more proof either for or against this notion.

Snopes stories have the same problem that urban legends have: people are quick to believe them without checking it more, and for the same reason, feeling superior to those who don't know (the myth|the debunking).
For me, I go by the 1% or 10% rule, for ambient vs really want.

Ambient conversion - below 1% you're doing something wrong, above 1% you're doing something right.

Something people really want - below 10% you're doing something wrong, above you're doing something right.

This is a gross over-simplification, but these conversion rates can be applied to just about anything on the web (ad click thrus, free account signups, purchases, even % of people who will go from one page on your site to the next).
> The only way out is to break the chain of elevating mental isolation and negativity.

How exactly to do that is the tricky part, though (and not just tricky for individuals, but the subject of much debate in psychiatry). Possibilities include pharmacological intervention, therapy, or some sort of change in circumstances. The latter is a really large set of options, but also poorly understood: there are semi-regular reports of people completely changing outlook after significant changes in circumstances (e.g. changing careers), but it's very hard to come up with rigorous evaluation of the success of that "treatment option", because it's not very easy to run a controlled study, and not always an available option.
You may be correct that DRM makes it "no harder to pirate that same content"...but it DOES make it harder for people to transfer files to each other through email/CDs/USB keys.

To you, it may seem trivial to load up a torrent program and spend some of the day browsing the trackers, but this is not at all trivial to the average person.

Think about it...DRM can be circumvented on iTunes music by burning it to a CD, giving someone the CD, and then ripping that CD. Or just burning to CD and ripping to your own computer and THEN distributing the files. Yet iTunes has been a huge success because people either do not realize this or because the few extra steps is not worth the effort.

Small extra steps make a huge difference between what is theoretically doable and what people actually tolerate doing.
what you describe sounds a little more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep-wake_syndrome but i am not a doctor!! i can tell you though the "flipping" thing was something that I would go through like once a month or so, i would basically stay up all like friday night, but then go to bed like 2am sunday morning.

so, my thing was like my boss was like "you're just getting insane with your schedule" so I started googling around and came across DPSS, which sounded like me, so I had a visit with my GP, who sent me to a sleep clinic.. their first advice was to do sort of like you and just give into whatever happens naturally, and i wound up doing like a 2~4 am to 10am~12noon thing most of the time, and I felt, well, better rested, and it seemed safer to drive.

i work an on-call job for a fortune 500, so they had to go back and forth with the doctors to figure out something that would work in regards to making sure i could sleep uninterrupted. this was an ADA thing.

once that was figured out, i started the treatment which was to take melatonin in a small dose at like 11pm and then go to sleep when it felt like i could (and generally practice a whole litany of sleep hygiene practices like avoiding naps unless absolutely necessary, watching caffeine and nicotine in the evening, keeping a journal of it all) ... and then set the alarm for like 8am, and ASAP be in front of a 10k lux light box at the rated distance for a half hour. there are a lot of caveats to all of this, so i would recommend to you or anyone else reading to consult a doctor about all of this. I may be missing sometime important here, so just FYI.

I started this on a Friday night into a Saturday as that's when I got the box delivered, and the correct low dosage of the pill. I would say I felt like a million bucks every since then, which was like well, a month ago. Over thanksgiving I was travelling and had two days without the box, and I could definitely feel the afternoon and evening dragging on, and a little more awake at midnight than I had been.

That's about all I could say for now. I've pushed this back an hour to see if I can get in a little earlier to work, but that was just yesterday, so we'll see how that goes. I go back for a follow up in February.
Steve Jobs Brainstorming The NeXT Computer
Facebook really doesn't care what languages new hires know. Only a small number of people I started with had any experience with PHP. Anyone who works here is capable of becoming proficient in the language during bootcamp (http://www.quora.com/How-does-Facebook-Engineerings-Bootcamp...).
I can only speak for me personally - but I'd find it strange if someone I didn't know from Adam gave me a introduction to their girlfriend. I'd think 'what in hell's wrong with the girlfriend - why didn't she just contact me directly?' Even if she's in Atlanta, I think she should be the one reaching out, not you.

(The situation's completely different if I do know you - candidate referrals from personal networks are always fine.)

You can help her by giving her the confidence that it's possible for a non-technical person to hustle their way into a startup and then learn a ton. You might also be able to help her by doing research on the startups, to identify candidates she wants to approach.

That said, the main things that are going to make the difference all have to do with her and her attitude. When I've hired people in your girlfriend's position, enthusiasm, confidence, hustle, and the ability to genuinely convey knowledge about and interest in my company and industry have gone a long way.

When entry-level jobs are publicly posted you get a deluge of people, and it's hard to stand out. Instead of applying to what's out there, I'd be approaching companies that haven't bothered to post. A personalized email that included feedback on / ideas for / questions about my company, a description of what she could do for my company now and what role she'd like to grow into, affordable salary expectations, and a request to talk further by phone would certainly get my attention. Done right, I'd think about whether I had a role for this woman, even if I didn't have an open position.

I've got an (anecdotal) impression that things are a little tight in NYC right now for entry-level folks - a former intern of mine with experience at multiple startups has put together some part-time work, but she's been looking for that full-time position for months now. I wouldn't let that discourage your girlfriend, though - work hard, long, and smart enough and good things will eventually happen.
Very impressive stuff that even a non-geek can appreciate
Nah, Textmate 1.5 as it is is perfectly fine. I mean, who really needs chunked undo anyway? And opening files larger than a few hundred k? Really, just split them. They"re a bad idea anyways. Or something like incremental regex search. Real men can read the code faster than any search indexer, so who needs that? </sarcasm>

Seriously though, I agree that some incremental fixes to Textmate 1.5 might have been a saner option than a full rewrite. I for one did not wait and moved on in the meantime.
Life=Risk-Motivation - Great formula for Entrepreneurs to face failures
I don't think it's that easy to tell, especially not on the internet. A better question might be, how do you reach out to people suffering in silence and convince them it is okay to talk? (An anonymous online suicide hotline which doesn't report cases to the authorities might help, but I suspect it would be trolled.)

What Facebook effort are you referring to?
Seasonal Affective Disorder, is not, however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder
Yes, that's my general viewpoint.

TM is just something "good enough" for people not wanting to go full on to either Vim/Emacs or an IDE. People one would call "newbies" back in the day.
Why does it have to be binary? Why does one school of thought have to lose in order for another to win?
Fully agree, given the code base that exists the best ROI likely comes from improving execution speed of PHP rather than rewriting the codebase.
Google Chrome 16 Released
Option idiom from functional programming in C++
One of the things I love most about sketching is the pure level of focus that can be attained when there are no Growl pop-ups or notifications of any kind.
Could they download and install these viewer apps in a fraction of a second or two, because thats what a browser does. The web works on the basis of progressive enhancement so all the browser needs to fetch is one Html file which it can display to the user while it downloads all other resources. I don't see a native code matching that.
I've never been entirely sure. A while ago I made http://suicidescale.com/ but the wording still feels awkward to me. You have to strike a balance between explaining and understanding without sounding condescending.

Explaining the temporary condition can help so people know they aren't alone (knowing you are one of millions who have had the same exact thought processes is a wake up call).

Mentioning the processes can be caused by certain foods and medications in some people seems like a good idea too. ("Feeling suicidal? Did you just eat twelve pancakes with half a gallon of syrup? All the sugars have screwed you up for a while. Sleep it off. Did you just start a new antibiotic and now you want to jump off a bridge? Sleep it off. Call your doctor to get different meds. Your brain will reset.")
Ironic that, for me, the first hit after the telephone number (same one raganwald lists) is a Wikipedia article on suicide methods.
A Warrior's Guide to Raising Money in the Battleﬁelds of the Silicon Valley
Google Street View offers haunting new vision of post-tsunami Japan
Congratulations on shipping. That's the hardest thing sometimes, especially in the face of so much opinion and scrutiny. Seriously, pat on the back to Mr. Odgaard for persevering.
Graphic solution for video conference with distributed teams
We need to find a convenient graphics tool to share and brainstorm ideas about user interface implementation with distributed teams during video conference calls. The best what I found right now is Wacom Bamboo tablet. However, I did not find anyone with experience using it for video conferences.

I am just wondering if based on the experience anyone can recommend anything.

Thanks.
I understand you probably do not want to reveal anything to the US incubator, but I suggest just re-posting or posting with your real account. I think HN readers will be far more willing to help you.
Tozoy.com Relaunched
The most noteworthy part, perhaps: "The recommendation includes hands-free and hand-held phones and would go beyond what many states have done to curb texting while driving."
Comparing his approach vs yours I can't help but think a: birthdays mangle wax is easier to remember than that list.
The archives are "private" (not sure how private, but I didn't feel like signing up), but I found copy here: http://strangersinthebedroom.blogspot.com/2011/11/you-are-no...

Full text:

From: Mitch Altman
Date: Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Geeks & Depression meetup
To: NoiseBridge Discuss

Geeks & Depression meetup
Tuesday, 6-December, 7:30pm
No Starch Press, 38 Ringold Street, San Francisco, CA
94103
(near Civic Center BART Station)

Let's have a meetup where geeks can talk about depression
and suicide. You are not alone. Share your story, if you
like. Share a friend's story. Or just hang out and
listen. Let's make it OK to talk about these things so
that we don't feel so alone with our feelings of being
alone and depressed or suicidal.

This is not a support group -- none of us are trained
professionals, but we can get together in a safe,
confidential space to talk about depression and suicide
-- an important part of life for so many of us geeks.

Mitch.

So it's already happened I guess. Anyone know how it went?
That's what I am using (saasy.com). It's pretty good, although it's a bit dumbed down from what paypal is (that's both good and bad). I'm basically holding out for stripe in Canada too. I continue to bug them!
So what? There are people who'd like to help you. So what? When I have suicidal thoughts, I don't care in the least about other people who could help me.
Posts like this are helpful, of course, to raise the awareness of the problem, for other people. But when I, as a person thinks about suicide at the moment, look at this page, I just think: so what? and close the browser tab.
Don't they know about autonomous cars?
Tozoy.com lets you share opinion about your friends and other topics.
Yes. You are advocating various alternatives, citing that they're safe and useful based on the anecdotal experience of a handful of bloggers.

The article would be much more credible if you backed it up with some solid science (has there been rigorous scientific studies on polyphasic sleep?). Without that, the credibility based on bloggers is no more than the credibility of snake oil salesmen.
Hard mode: one that costs more than zero dollars.
Ask HN: Are we lacking simplicity cause everyone wants to do it all?
We all want to build something. However, it seems there is a trend to make everything "feature rich" these days. For example: I find sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. extremely confusing. There seems to be a lack of what the core service of a company is. In my opinion it's best to offer one feature and do it really well, revise and make it even better rather than offer million features. For example: if there is a popular ice cream parlor I will keep going there to buy ice cream but if they start offering hot dogs, that may not be my thing. Why add cost when there isn't a need to? Why not offer more ice cream variety.

With all that said - I have been contemplating in creating a platform for businesses where small business/freelancers and clients can come together without all the bells and whistles. Not a social network as I think we already have too many and once that are out there are squeezing every ounce of it. A simple platform that lets the customers do the talking for the businesses they have worked with. If a customer is satisfied with what you have they are the best marketing team you will ever have. The platform revolves around that concept.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on "feature rich" platforms? Is more always better?
For anyone curious why this is here, Humble Inc is funded by YC -- beyond it being a collection of cool games people might care for.

edit: I was wrong, not just YC. They have $4.7m from Sequoia[1] too.

[1] http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/22/sequoia-capital-ba...
Hmmm. I'm retooling the copy on the frontpage anyway, I'll work that in somehow.

Thanks for the feedback!
Whatever happened to generation numbers?
The market has in big parts shown that the kind of development we have know wins out. Sure there are some people left who can make money developing languages but most that did this died.
I don't think that's quite fair. Some shows are more obscure than others. I'd use Parks & Recreation as an example of a "marketed as non-mainstream" show. It's not as popular as The Office, sure, but pretty much everyone has heard of it.

Louie is a bit different. Most people haven't heard of FX, and of those that have, most people haven't watched Louie. So while not obscure like "one copy of this book was ever published", it's not "mainstream" like Seinfeld.
Another thing I recently realized: if the trend is to store everything in the cloud. How long until we also store apps in the cloud? Oops, they are now web sites...
Just guessing what type of stuff you do, and also guessing how the organization at Amazon is set up, many times the guys at some level really do want to know where things went haywire. The problem is that they farm out this support work with scripted callers and such limited options for a real conversation that you've effectively shot yourself in the foot (if not shot your entire leg off)

At some high level of abstraction, 50-thousand-feet or so, the message is "support work is overhead which does not directly effect the structure of operations. Their job is to run the business machine that we've created. So we'll cost this as any other overhead, find the cheapest, best way of providing it, and do the correct thing."

But the problem is that anytime anybody talks to the customers, there is all sorts of information exchanging that's not in some policy book. This nuanced and in some cases subtly-patterned information is extremely difficult to manage in a traditional fashion. In this case, the message from Amazon is clear: we do not trust you, we will not tell you why, and we will never do business with you again. While that's a great message for Sammy Spambot and his legion of Makov-chain-generated ebooks, it really sucks for all those false-positives real human beings sitting in their living rooms trying to make buck during a tough recession.

So yes, I can understand very well that people in every business want systems that self-correct, and put in places ways for that to happen. The problem is that for all their good intentions, the end result for most of them is a structure that's rigid and communicates important customer opinion data poorly. But it's created that way usually for what seems like very good reasons. We have met the enemy and he is us.
I have always wondered how scaling across countries affects a company but I have never thought about a distributed founding or early-stage team. I think the intensity and sensitivity between founders would be lost in the ether. Great products require tough decisions that should lead to disagreements. Web-chat might obfuscate such tension or take the passion out of the process.
Breaking Change: JavaScript SDK to oauth:true on December 13th
Some compiled languages are faster, some aren't. Speed of execution is largely related to the optimizations the interpreter / compiler can do, and in many practical cases the qualities of the default library. The other problem is that many interpreted languages are implemented in C leading to the usual performance implications of inner-platform effect. Another problem is the underlying CPU architecture, the vast majority of CPUs are designed to execute C-like languages.
Most people I know outside of programming circles would find the latter to be WAY too much bother.
Almost everyone on the internet doesn't know what a torrent is, and would stop at trying to email it to a friend. The larger share of the market IS being prevented from sharing by DRM.
> Modern websites are starting to resemble full-fledged applications.

So more of the code is going to the VM on the client... this pendulum swings back and forth.

What about efforts like Amazon Silk and Opera mini that encapsulate all the client logic in the cloud? Sure they may suck now, but in the future they may be more mature and standardized... thus the pendulum could swing back.
He also tried to buy a 22 million dollar house in Louie, and succeeded despite his accountant's insistence that he could not afford the $70,000 a month payment. So there you go. Both at the same time.
Should I paypal $500,000 to: M8R-tpguyk@mailinator.com ?
> The fastest drivers are those who drive at the limit of available grip

If you go to a rally, you can really tell by sound which drivers are doing the best job by the tire squealing.
I preordered two, planning to give one away or jailbreak it, and use e other. Once I got them, I opened one, used it for about an hour, realized it sucked, and let a few other people try it to get their feedback (also entirely negative).
I was quite surprised coming to USA to find out that only "text" part from cell phone usage by driver is banned. Unfortunately, human brain is still not evolved enough to be able to concentrate on the road conditions and on the conversation over the phone (for most people I've seen. I bet there are person who handles both simultaneously very well).

Nor autonomous cars are spread enough yet.

So I would say banning phone is good measure for now.
I would say yes. From C to C++ you can use the same tools and everything. Java to Scala is still a new language.
Avner, divorce is terrible but please believe me, you will get through it. Probably you can't imagine how, but life is full of surprises, and despite all the pain and loss you're experiencing now, the mystery of life is that you will end up wiser, stronger and happier. We don't get to see the future, yet it happens.

If you like literature, it might help to try to view your situation as the hero's journey.

Find some things that give you comfort, and just hang in there. For me, it was music that got me through the dark days.

Immerse yourself, escape for small amounts of time, and find things to sustain you -- mentally, emotionally, physically. Reach out to your family and/or friends. Just endure any way you can, and you will come out on the other side of this.
I made the following comment on a previous thread about suicide and think it also applies to this discussion:

Both depression/suicide and dietary habits run in families and reoccur over multiple generations.

Low serum cholesterol has been shown to be a suicide risk factor. [1]

Get you cholesterol tested and try adding more good fats to your diet like oily cold-water fish (think salmon and sardines), butter, eggs (including the yolk!), and coconut milk/oil. You should aim for a low LDL and a high HDL number.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/...
Maybe. I think there is much to be said for being able to just walk down the hall with your laptop and debug everything in person with someone who knows what they are doing. I didn't know much before that internship about software development and I learnt a ton about the whole field just watching other people. It's why I use emacs nowadays at a more than beginner level.

Again, if the intern is competent, then they aren't really an intern anymore. Just kind of a part time worker more likely to be hired in the future.
1) family and friends are very important. spend A LOT of time with them.

2) exercise/sports.

3) take a break and go to hawaii or some place you like and have some fun with family and friends.

4) start dating. have fun.

5) if it becomes worse pls. seek professional help.
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