skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite all my plans and precautions I was found still alive and hospitalised.

At a time (a few years ago) when I really didn't want to go on, this was one of the things that prevented me from attempting suicide again: The possibility of surviving it again, knowing how negatively that would impact my life. My life was hard enough at the time without inflicting additional suffering on myself and also getting labeled "crazy" or something (plus potentially being saddled with additional medical bills, etc). A lot of people living with the kind of chronic pain and suffering (due to a health issue) that I was living with do think about killing themselves. "Bars do not a prison make". A body that tortures you ever single minute of every day is a pretty bleak prison to live with.

But I also was actively working on resolving the underlying problem that made me wish I were dead. I think that is a critical detail missing from a lot of the encouragement offered when this topic comes up. In fact, spending a year at death's door was very empowering for me in that regard because it freed me up from fear of doing something socially unacceptable. I never know how to properly express this, but I lived and began getting well because I stopped trying to dutifully keep myself alive and, instead, my one and only goal became to hurt less. I was rather annoyed when I realized that my efforts to hurt less were actually killing the infections the doctors didn't know how to kill because I realized it meant I faced a long, very hard recovery. I would have welcomed death 10 or 11 years ago because I was in constant excruciating pain and couldn't sleep and every minute of the day was torment. So in some sense I came to a point where my attitude was "fuck societal expectation -- what do I want?" Given what a people-pleasing doormat I tend towards, this had a very positive impact on my life.

What I am trying to convey is: If you are suicidal, if your problems are so bad that death is something you would consider, that fact can be used to say "well, why not also consider this long list of other stuff (ie possible solutions/options) I wouldn't normally consider because it's socially unacceptable/my mom wouldn't approve/whatever?" When I stopped being at death's door, I had to work at keeping alive that mental space for saying "fuck societal opinion -- what do I want?" because my innate wiring makes societal opinion way the hell too important to me. I made a conscious choice to find some way to keep that standard alive for myself, to say "hell, what's the worst that could happen? Oh, someone might disapprove? And that fucking matters why?"

Anyway, I hope that makes some small smidgeon of sense to someone. I find it a very difficult concept to express.
I'll probably get dinged for making a sophomoric observation.

Their example code makes use of the variable $hit, performs a var_dump($hit) and then returns $hit. Am I the only one that noticed this?
Uencounter.me - New Social Geo-Mapping Site, Map Your Life Experiences
"Magic Carp-pet" Rug. Winner of Red Dot Design Award : Best of the Best 2011.
We all know that Git will, one day, take over the world.
Assuming the coffee script files are accessible over a url, wouldn't that be possible with a Firebug extension?
Which basically maps the break point to JS.
Vi is incredibly easy to learn, but it takes some learning before you can accomplish anything. You can sit down with Bill Joy's original paper, read it, try stuff out, and you will be using Vi at 50% of the competence of a master with years of practice.

Emacs on the other hand seems to be simpler to get started in, but it never gets simple like Vi does. After you get over the first hump, you just see the Himalayas rising behind it.

I use Emacs right now, but I'm interested in moving to something that plays nicer with Mac OS and the god-awful lack of respect for Unix standards in the Rails community (like failure to exclude ~ files from the asset pipeline).
How do you stay motivated when you see your idea executed by someone else?
I often think of an imagined solution to an imagined problem and promptly get madly excited about it. The first thing I usually do at this point is check domain name availability. The second thing I do is look for websites/apps that already implement this solution.

I explore the websites and find places where I can improve the UX, add features, etc., but my excitement vanishes the moment I see a moderately well-executed solution. My thinking goes like this: even if I do start working on this and get somewhere, they'd always have an edge over me since they've already learned so much about this space and (gasp) have real users, so I don't stand a chance.

Am I simply lacking in coming up with ideas/solutions, or is this a barrier I should somehow break through? What do you do in similar situations?
There's this thing, it's called "balance"
ok, or gmail me if you prefer.
Motivation for grade hunting is a tricky thing. I don't understand where people are supposed to take that.

Boredom counter clicks like hell when near any education system featuring grades.
When a StartUp fights with settled companies.
I'll work something out, stay tuned :)
I haven't heard the term "A2K" before but it's ingenious. Is there a process for granting exceptions to the timeline restrictions? Even real Amish have exceptions like, "it's okay to use a gas-powered engine to harvest crops as long as it's not providing locomotive force".

I'm fine with no Facebook (glad even), but smartphones are another matter. What's the policy on them?
I've never really understood the whole Facebook and Social 'thing'. From a business perspective, yes I see a point. I put myself and my clients up on all the major sites to give them a) backlinks and b) a presence there (and done right, some new leads!).

But other than that, I believe one person already mentioned this: "I don't get all these 'I left facebook' articles/posts". I really don't get it.

I'm a geek and a nerd through and through, though everyone I know knows that if I'm online (to chat via AIM or whatnot) then I'm free to 'chat' to. If they have something more serious to talk about, they call or SMS. And most of the time we talk about things IN PERSON. Share pictures, IN PERSON.

Sure I post to FB/TW here and there, but 10/15/20 hours of social media sites and you're not getting anything from it and you think it's 'horrible' and 'evil' and you should do it less? WTF?

I don't get people. Spend 20 hours on social media if that's your thing, god speed. Don't go whining to the rest of us when you find out your wasting your life there.

I just don't get it ... at all. I understand the 'omg I just quit FB, this is how I'm "dealing" without FB' ....

Completely biased rude opinion: I think it's pathetic.
i did a thesis on air-launched systems.

Can't save that much on the orbital velocities. The main takeaway is the capability to launch on-demand, from different locations. In which case it suddenly becomes a logistical challenge : i.e how do i prep the system to launch X rockets with short turnaround.

Bear in mind that the payload is limited by what the carrier aircraft can hold. Either use an existing plane and retrofit like what Orbital does , or build an entirely new plane.

There's a bunch of heavily funded startups trying to launch small payloads into orbit, which is always interesting to watch.
Strange, recently posted elsewhere on a similar topic. This quitting thing must be catching on and may soon become the in-thing.

This month I completed a year of deactivating my FB account. I have signed into Twitter only thrice in the past three months and don't miss it much. Deleted my Google+ account too a little while back.

What did I learn from all of that? It is that these platforms amplify you. If you are prone to making bad use of your time (which is my chronic problem), these platforms will take it to a different level. If you are making good use of your time, these platforms can help you make use of it better.

I have made the transition from blaming the platform to seeing for myself that I am the problem and I am still working on fixing that.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am fully convinced the same is true for companies. Shedding these opens opportunities for new projects to prove themselves.

Though, if a bit of cliched grumbling can be forgiven, I'd argue that they shut down the "useful search engine" project, too.
"Internet has mostly taken care of access to education." Having access to a library of information does not equate to access to education. Education is much more involved and complicated than throwing information at any individual. Especially for people who haven't had access to certain learning processes from an early age.
Bravo. You write that by hand? Because I totally interpreted with pencil and paper. Didn't use this http://pinecodes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/brainfuck.ht..., no sir.
Louis Vuitton Epi Leather Handbags
'0' has the decimal value 48, not zero. '!' has the decimal value 33. Here's a demo program that you can run from your browser: http://play.golang.org/p/qAKG9j5E4V

All characters have values greater than or equal to zero.
Oscar de la Renta Pre-Fall 2012, New York
Writing in mixed case is a vector for errors in languages where case is significant, and even where it isn't, simply reading the code requires your brain to work harder, thus making it more likely that you will miss something important. The more unnecessary effort you have to expend, in reading or writing code, the more opportunity you have for making mistakes, and the less opportunity you have for being creative. Don't bother bringing up IDEs as a way to cut back on mistakes, or to help creativity. Real programmers don't need them. I still program in PL/I under OS/360 on Hercules, and that compiler hasn't been updated since about 1972. Ah, simpler times: when your keyboard weighed more than one of today's laptops, when real engineers built both the hardware and the software, and when CamelCase was merely a waking dream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-pl-i-548.html
Apple's newest intern has great ideas for iOS Notification Center
Microsoft AdCenter (Bing & Yahoo!) works about as well as Google for me, there's just less volume available. Facebook works as well, but they won't even show my ads unless I bid around $0.60/click or higher... I didn't expect that. Affiliates are the best ROI by far.

I've had some success buying display ads on specific sites through BuySellAds, just beware that all their biggest publishers are web design blogs that, for whatever reason, never convert sales for any product I've tried, even directly related to that profession. I guess the people that read "25 fresh green web designs" articles every morning have no disposable income.
Liberated some parts from HP

What is the meaning of it? Copying? or?
"If anybody stole it, it wasn't many of you."

Searching for "louis ck beacon" on The Pirate Bay gives 7 hits, with a total of 886 seeders, 152 leechers.

http://thepiratebay.org/search/louis%20ck%20beacon/0/99/0
There is also some movement to make community hardware:

http://Open-PC.com/

From the community, for the community

The Open-PC is a PC for everyday use built by the Linux community for the Linux community. We use only free software. Your help will be welcomed, to make our project even better.
Bruce Eckel on exceptions and Go:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=331407
Teach Your Kids How To Code, Not How To Speak Chinese
Theres already more than few OpenStack Swift deployments in production (at Rackspace, HP, etc).
I suspect those numbers may be skewed by the same "we only hire the top 1%" phenomenon. There could very well be a recurring group of people with not so great ideas that repeatedly apply to incubators, and repeatedly get turned down, whether with the same idea or a new one.

I'd be interested to see the skew as well. Maybe a large part of those declined were unserious college students or similar.
16-Year-Old Programmer Raises Seed Round From Billionaire To 'Summarize The Web'
Just thought I would add my two cents. My situation is a little bit like yours (shifting of start-/end-times, flipping (I do it on a Sunday night usually)). I am a still a student so I guess I don't have the problem of having to match other peoples' schedules, nevertheless I have been trying to fix this for a few months now and two things help a lot:

1). F.lux: it seems like now the computer doesn't keep me awake until 4am anymore. I feel naturally tired at around 11pm.

2). Mental preparation just before falling asleep. Irrespective of what time it is I try to always get up at the same time (that has kinda forced me into a pretty natural rhythm). The only way I manage to do that is by spending at least 5 mins imagining the next morning (kinda like watching yourself in a movie and seeing things step-by-step: I hear the alarm, I blink my eyes, I stretch, I get-up, I go to bathroom, I put the kettle on, I take a shower, ...). That helps a lot (I used to never even hear the alarm-clocks and now I sometimes wake up seconds before it goes off :-)
I wonder what's the best alternative for server-side template generation on the JVM.

I used FreeMarker on a previous project, it's pretty cool ( http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/ ). There is also mustache.java ( https://github.com/spullara/mustache.java ). I heard about Velocity and StringTemplate, but never tried them out... I guess Groovy Server Pages could also be considered if one's company is open to Grails...

Anything else I should be aware of?
Please, try to clear your browsers cache - if it won't help, I'll try to investigate it further.
Text does not a logo make
But the mobile social coupon CRUD owners only want to hire the top 2% and then cry they can't find anyone. The job market is like taking a racing horse and having it plow a field. The incubators have a similar problem, the candidates are so good they don't even really need the incubator, I imagine the incubators doing worse as time goes on because people are not so hungry for success and will just combine with others when the going gets tough.
Littelfuse inc Fast acting 0216001.MXP 1 amp, 5 x 20 mm ceramic cartridge fuse
Fast acting 1 amp, 5 x 20 mm ceramic cartridge fuse from little fuse company littelfuse inc. The littlefuse 1 amp, 5 x 20 mm ceramic cartridge little fuse, 0216001.MXP, is one of several types of fast acting little fuses from Littelfuse.
What was the median response time?
OWS Occupy Oakland Benefit Screening Theater Sign
I would've made more money had the Grizzlies kicked my ass.
Wait wait wait, Harvard grads for $15? If that is seriously available in quantity, all my SEO buddies just had simultaneous kittens. That's cheap enough that if they can operate a Wordpress interface it is worth using them for pretty much any writing task you could think of.

I'll see if I can find someone interested in elementary education to start fleshing out BCC's site, since I haven't added new cards this year.
You demonstrate the opposite; that pissing off fans is unprofitable. The music industry is no stranger to speculative charts and graphs; they use them all the time to justify their stance on piracy! "Potential revenue lost".
Even if they go to great lengths to make their apps send crash reports to them?
In the logs made public in one of the earlier HN stories, the messages and such are a small part of the log. There was a ton of crap about the phone with someone's text message buried in the middle.

Similarly, the keypress logs were in hex or something as I recall. All there and usable by anyone who knew what it was, but maybe not that obvious if you didn't know what the hell that part of the log meant.

In other words, if people were just scanning the logs for other stuff, rather than reading each log carefully, they'd probably have ignored that stuff.
Spiral Staircases
1976 Apple contract fetches $1.59 million at Sotheby's
I hope they do turn it into that! We need all the propangda we can get to turn everyone into an anti-DRM advocate!
1. Extremely crowded space.

2. It will never scale with manual match making. Compare the costs of an algorithm versus a room full of real people who need salaries.

3. One small feature difference is not enough to differentiate you from competitors. Why would people switch to your service?

Not to come of harsh, but I think that's the reality.
> True depression is knowing that not being is an option equally viable to being.

There's a quote by David Foster Wallace that states it better:

"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 flame 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."
C++11 has support for inferring types; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11#Type_inference.
As a language nerd (who has also spent a large portion of time learning computer ones) it's a bit hard for me to say, but I agree with the article. Although learning another language is completely mind-altering, much like learning to code is, and I would never give-up everything that has opened up for me through learning Chinese, software-backed technology is THE thing pushing the world forward. And so the benefits of understanding, creating, and being able to manipulate it through code is much more wider reaching than any foreign language on its own could ever be (excluding English that is).

Essentially, I see basic programming as something that's a part of standard computer literacy, whereas foreign languages are strongly recommended options. I hope primary and secondary school curricula reflect this in the near future, so I won't have to be thinking about it when kids of my own come along..
$15k extra might make him bitch less about piracy, especially when it's bittorrenting that saves those costs! ;)

It looks like lots of companies are using it for software patch distribution (Blizzard, Facebook, Twitter).
I have lots of ideas. They're mostly things I want. Seeing one implemented successfully elsewhere means that I'm having good ideas and that I can solve the problem by simply throwing money at it and move on to something else.

Or, I can straight up compete with them and let them do the hard work of explaining to people what the heck we're both doing. The most successful company is rarely the first one out the gate.
I didn't mean to imply that it can just be fixed by the person working on their own, rather that you need to face the depression itself rather than go down the road of trying other, outside, things in an attempt to indirectly fix the feelings themselves.

Of course medication/therapy/even acceptance of a chemical imbalance are not off the table at all.

A big problem with depression is that it makes you feel very guilty, unnecessarily, so I really want to make clear that I didn't want to imply somebody should feel that it's somehow their fault at all.

In many ways a large part of it is getting outside help. I really do recommend that, and have found that extremely helpful myself.
When I started my current company a few years ago, there were a few competitors in the space. Currently, the space is mostly dominated by us and another new entrant and we have expanded the market beyond what it encompassed before.

There are many reasons behind this outcome. The other new entrant and us definitely have better products. However, in addition, some incumbents just didn't innovate as fast while others just lost focus. There are also companies that ran out of money.

Both Dropbox and Hipmunk demonstrated how it is possible to enter a competitive space and win.
Web Development India is a premier outsourcing destination in the World 
Web Development India is a premier outsourcing destination in the World. Companies from all over the world outsource their web development requirements to India. The IT sector in Indiahas witnessed tremendous growth over the years as a result of India's emergence as the No. 1 IT outsourcing destination. The advantages offered by India, have spurred forward this outsourcing.
>it's that the circumstances of this business model work for Louis CK, but not necessarily others following in his footsteps.

I fully agree with this. If you have your own cable TV show, you can make a lot of money by selling your wares independently online. The platform is a lot different for those of us that can't start an AMA on Reddit and have it shoot up to 10,000 comments in a few hours.

This mentality is reminiscent of the first tech bubble. People, if you aren't already a famous figure or brand, it is difficult to get traffic and it is really difficult to get $500k in sales in four days. I'm not saying it never happens, but you shouldn't go into anything with that kind of expectation.
I must say, I'm surprised by the degree to which discussions of poverty in America are so racialised.
I was under the impression that there are plenty of whites who are poor there.
Is that not the case?
I think it all depends what position you want to cover in the team. A junior position should not be impossible to reach. You can get good in languages like Python in a matter of weeks. It may take more for web development although.

Databases: as all web sites are dinamic, it is important to understand a bit about databases.

Memory: people with more experience than me can have a say here. But I really think you should think about this later and only in case you want to play with lots data.
Savills UK (nafees1136)
Savills Estate Agents have over 80 offices throughout the United Kingdom, and over 200 offices and associates throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the .... http://j.gs/916651/savillsuk
Three CTF games for l33t & n00b hax0rz
Hey Steve,
If you ever want someone to talk to, you can email me at aanty@gmail.com. I can't promise "help" of the sort you mention, but I don't mind discussing philosophy, meaning, etc. You aren't alone in the world. I would be happy to meet talk with you anonymously.
ScrapBuyerSeller -online marketplace for Scrap Buyers and Sellers
When you're trying to ferry boatloads of bits down the information superhighway, the Mack truck starts to look pretty good. Sure, the automatic transmission Mustang is cheap, quick to acquire, and easy to find drivers for, but you have to get 10 of them for every Mack truck's worth.

Given that FB's solution to their PHP problem was to discover the static typing, I'd say that PHP is not the proper tool for the current job.
I don't think I like it either, but I'm pretty sure it's just because colons are already very commonly used in hashes as symbol delimiters.

{foo: :bar} just feels weird.

It's not a world-ending issue - certainly not enough to make an effective difference in practical usage - but it's enough of a visual collision that it rubs me the wrong way.
His site makes my eyes bleed.
I modified the hello world example on Wikipedia. I have to say, brainfuck is nowhere near as difficult to understand once you get used to the syntax. Kind of reminds me of ARM Assembly, in a way.