skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I was then greeted with the most horrifyingly ugly thing that I had yet seen - even worse than Linux. After closing the worthless "tip of the day" window, I was apparently sent to my home screen."

Is the OP suggesting this guy developed mental illness because others didn't appreciate his work?

I find it's very important to recognize what you're trying to achieve when you show your work to others. If you want honest feedback, be prepared for honesty. If you want to "show off" be prepared to be disappointed. Noone has any idea how hard you worked.. the exception would be others who have accomplished similar things to you have - which is why ASK HN posts are useful, people here for the most part appreciate what you've done, even if it's no use to them.
1) Broadcast TV and Gmail muddle the issue, if you have resources to trade your attention has value. At the most basic level Voting has value so in a democratic society people do have inherent value.
And a difference of opinion:

I want to see the exchange as work for time, because I work much more effectively than many other people. An hourly-rate job is simply not attractive to me, because the hourly-rate will not effectively capture my value.

As explained by grellas above, overtime in the US is typically applied to replaceable workers who's hourly value is a more or less quantifiable resource. If I'm flipping burgers, painting a house, or banging out simple webapps based on someone else's design then it's fairly easy to quantify the value of my time.

However, if I'm working in an industry where force multipliers abound, for example software engineering, or any sufficiently advanced executive/management position, I would much rather capture the value of what I produce -- there simply cannot be a good fit with shoehorning me into an hourly value rate. It simply isn't an accurate way to represent my value.

This is best exemplified by jobs which supply equity stakes. If you give me a chunk of your company I'm no longer working for free, when I work overtime.
Exactly. In Transactional Analysis, they would say that those types view themselves as ill-behaved Children and identify society as the Parent. The mature dissident (the Adult) looks very different from this, and is a lot more effective too.

More on TA: http://changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/ta.htm
That's a meaningless blanket statement. Yes, unions have government protection. So do CEOs, since a corporate entity exists to protect CEOs and others in the company from personal liability.

Unions in the US also have government restrictions on what they can do. As one example, the Taft–Hartley Act prohibits a number of union actions, restricts First Amendment rights (eg, union offers must sign non-communist affidavits), and expressly allows a company to fire supervisors which support union rights.

The title of this essay uses "Wage Slave." The point is that "maximizing value" is not necessarily aligned with human rights. Is it your view that those two principles never be out of alignment, and if not, what happens in that case?
EDIT: Missed the bit about the psychiatrist not asking questions, sounds like an encounter with a bad psychiatrist.

You were prescribed anti-depressants by a medical doctor (most likely without even the most rudimentary training in mental health), and you blame psychiatrists? How does that make any sense?

You may as well blame mechanics for the bad advice you got on fixing your car from the guy at the bicycle shop.
Thanks for this. Been thinking about this. Could you recommend a book on patterns like these?
It's not a bad start, but a clone of Photoshop it ain't.
Note that OCaml is just fine for heavy math and data stuff: the garbage collector has a global lock, but threads work just fine for CPU intensive activities. Just don't generate much garbage (which is important for any data-heavy processing), and all is good.
Also, it's _really_ easy to optimize those inner loops if you need to in Objective-C. If message passing is too slow, just turn it into some C function calls and you're done.
Damn. I'm just really glad to know I'm not the only one.

One of my company's biggest sellers is a tool that does web scraping. And since we charge a monthly fee for it (I don't think most people realize that our server fees alone run nearly $2,000 a month for this, and that's with amazing deals on web hosting), we get a lot of "Pfft--how hard could that really be to build?"

The answer is: It's easy--if you're only scraping one site, in small quantities. The minute you try to implement in Unicode (we have) or bundle it all in a report, or keep an ongoing cache of what your scraper found, or heck, scale it to millions of scrapes per month, all cached and indexed--now you are looking at something difficult.

We have a talented team, we're 16 months into this, and we've since seen competitors pop up all over the place. They all get a few customers and then run into scaling issues. It's one of those markets that seems seductively easy, but really isn't. And since there are many competitors lowballing, we've had to focus even more development time on awesome features to stay ahead of the curve.

I wish articles like this woke people up. Unfortunately, once you're committed and have a few customers, it's easy to rationalize going deeper. But web scraping can be a tricky industry to turn a profit in, especially if you are relying on a small and fickle customer base.
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"Is there a 40 hour a week job out there that pays and furthers their career comparably?"

The defense industry in the US is like this. It is illegal for a company to have employees work more that 40 hours a week without overtime pay. The rationale is:

If Company A has a company culture of all employees working 60 hours a week and Company B has a corporate culture of working 40 hours a week, Company A could charge the government less for the same amount of work and thus would win more contracts. The government recognized this would create an customer incentive for companies to "encourage" their employees to work longer hours. So the government made a law that Defense contractor employees must be paid overtime for any hours more than 40 per week. And in my experience, no manager will pay overtime so most non-manager level people really don't work any more than that.
Lengthy, an extension that adds a table of contents to README files on GitHub
Flower Collection
Dell Is Hoping It's More Than a Server Company
Dell Is Hoping It's More Than a Server Company
When else would you analyze a process than when it's causing you a problem? Do you routinely attempt to fix things that aren't broken?
Best Buy to Offer 30-day Returns on iPhone, iPad
All PDFs posted to HN are automatically given a scribd link. Scribd is a Y Combinator company.
> No employer has ever, ever given me free money, and I have never expected it

some firms offer a bonus. i guess that counts as free money way in the way that overtime counts as free time.

> the deal is an exchange of money for time

if that really was the deal, then you'd be paid hourly. i think most programmers exchanging results for money.
I'm not flagging it. Let's bet on how many upvotes it gets before it's nuked. I say 30.
The CPU alone is probably $25 in high volume, and these guys are not high volume. (Guesstrapolated from an iSupply teardown of a kindle fire.)

If you want $50 then you are looking at a Raspberry Pi grade CPU. Those are ok for getting data in and out of a H.264 decoder, but you would not mistake them for modern workstation performance. (But good news, they might announce shipping in 15 hours.)
Nokia 808 PureView un smartphone cu rezolutia de 41 de megapixeli
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Mouse glove is designed for new comfort zones
Don't love your idea. Hate it.
Say that doing metaprogramming in D is really fun and not a guru thing like in C++ .
And Catch-22. The only way for Yossarian to be sane and avoid death was to do things that most people considered crazy.
Kevin will be talking about using ClojureScript and d3 to create graphics on the web at Clojure/West (Mar 16-17, San Jose, CA) - http://clojurewest.org/sessions#lynagh
> You were prescribed anti-depressants by a medical doctor (most likely without even the most rudimentary training in mental health), and you blame psychiatrists?

Psychiatrists are medical doctors. Many of them work in hospitals. Why are you assuming he was prescribed antidepressants by a medical doctor who isn't a psychiatrist?

EDIT: He even says it was a psychiatrist: "Psychiatrist didn't even ask questions and prescribed me anti-depressants."
The problem with that is measuring the amount of value you generate. For some jobs that's easy, like sales - and those jobs typically do pay based on the value generated (ie. commission), at least in part. But for software development and other knowledge worker jobs it's just about impossible.
Microsoft Reportedly Files EU Complaint Over Google+
The true test of whether someone's really anti-authoritarian is how they behave when they're in authority. 99% of people who use "question authority" as an excuse for what is really anti-social behavior fail this test.
Ask HN: How do you find local tech businesses?
I'm starting a job search and thought it would be useful to gather a list of local tech businesses in the area. Any ideas on where to start?

Thanks.
I like where this article is going a lot, but let's be clear on terms.

"Anti-authoritarians" are people who question and/or reject authority aggressively.

"Assholes" are people who have emotional and/or maturity issues that cause them to irritate others.

Neither of these are diseases, and you can be both, but don't confuse one with the other. I'm a fairly asocial person, but I've learned to be more diplomatic at times. On the other hand, the world is full of angry immature people who just want to "tear it all down!" without actually at heart being for or against anything. They're just a bundle of emotions looking for a place to vent.

But the underlying thesis here, that the professionals diagnosing people as mentally ill carry lot of bias with them that even themselves are unaware of? Spot on. Psychiatry has always been about introducing conformity (both in a good way and in a bad way) to society. Of course, that doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of really mentally ill people who need help, just that when you have a hammer, the world is your nail. :)

ADD: I would just be very careful about working this problem backwards, from effect to cause. That is, simply because somebody or another supports a cause you believe in doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't emotionally ill. My personal opinion is that there are a lot of emotionally-struggling people who choose politics as a socially acceptable way to vent on the world.
The article mentions that many of these companies are effectively WaaS companies, though they're called "third-party logistics contractors, a.k.a. 3PLs".
From the article: "These companies often fulfill orders for more than one retailer out of a single warehouse. America's largest 3PL, Exel, has 86 million square feet of warehouse in North America..."
DHL and UPS, among others, offers this service.
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UBM TechWeb's Cloud Connect Brings Together Entire Cloud Ecosystem
UBM TechWeb's Cloud Connect Brings Together Entire Cloud Ecosystem
Also known as war. Which one could argue is not good for the species statically speaking.

Nicholas Wade also addressed part of this issue in The Faith Instinct. He postulated that religion as a whole was the translation of our hereditary pack instinct following consciousnesses evolution and that conformity was rewarded over time with a bigger stronger more aligned pack and more babies or more DNA in the pool.

It could be argued that the non-conformist is rewarded in the opposite, through persecution by the pack and a smaller group of mates.

But, of course great change requires great sacrifice and cost.
The 'Cliffs Notes Web' Has Won
Well, "anonymous government officials" and people like Anthony Shadid and and Marie Colvin. How many Stratfor people died getting the story out of Syria?
I learnt about this book from useful presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/olvemaudal/deep-c
Wow. Who would have known this would all happen at a file sharing site like YouSendIt. It makes you wonder about all the stories out there that you'll hear or know about.

A really nice read. Worth every word. I wish everything were written like this. Straight and to the point. Constantly progressing, no BS, no filler. The writing was transparent and didn't get in the way.
I have bought this book, and loaned it out (and never gotten it back)... So I'm definitely keeping this PDF!
> He says his termination agreement prohibited him from contacting them [other employees]

That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the management and board. The clowns probably included a one-way non-disparagement clause as well, which is quite humorous in light of this article.

BTW: Standard etiquette in the valley is for the employees to contact anyone who has just left the company, usually in email from the company, so there is a written record of who initiated contact.
Thanks for the read and ditto on the 5 pages needing to be viewable in just 1 page.
Your new iPad addiction
The One X will have a LTE/S4 configuration[1]. I'm under the impression this will be the only model in the US (AT&T exclusive), and it's getting a release in Asia and Australia as the One XL. AFAIK; the One S won't have LTE at all (but does pack the same S4).

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/26/2823824/htc-one-x-att/in/2...
http://www.crunchbase.com <-- your first and last destination. :0)
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I'm not a big fan of unionized work but it is worth mentioning that when developers agree to work in poor conditions like this it changes the social norm and negatively impacts the economics surrounding software development.

If 2 developers are working 60 hours a week they are essentially putting a third developer out of work. (I understand that studies show you can't be as productive over a certain number of hours but the principle remains the same) Unless there is a large pool of unemployed developers in the market this need for developer number 3 will in turn drive the cost for a developer up as the market will be more competitive. This is simply supply and demand at work.
Another one?
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

Okay okay, nearly the size of a thumb drive, but a hell lot cheaper.
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AT&T should be investigated for 'fraudulent' data policies, group says
TED conferences and the "babble bubble"
First reaction upon reading that title: "That's AWESOME!" Seriously, I feel like I am living in the future. Combine that with the self driving cars in Nevada:

"Siri. Take me to the nearest donut shop."

"Yes Zack, right away, Sir."

And the car just drives off by itself, taking me to the nearest pastry haven.
Evolution of the Cameraphone: From Sharp J-SH04 to Nokia 808 Pureview
Why does everyone think I’m an asshole for not having a TV?
Are rich people more unethical?
There's nothing "copywright-able" about a community. I'm sure PG could give this guy a headache if he really wanted to (as could the authors who's content he's repurposing) but the general consensus of the HN community intrinsically encourages this type of initiative and rewards it when it's well done (just take a look at the revenues).

Generally, there's all sorts of ramifications any time you do something worth doing - if you use that as an excuse not to start, you'll never do anything.
Canadians wanted competition in the telco industry and they got it
Interestingly, the pencil tool doesn't have this limitation.
Even when turning the size up.
Can anyone suggest to me what to do if we think one of our good friends is displaying evidence of undiagnosed mental illness? (specifically schizophrenia)

They're self-medicating with marijuana and alcohol and displaying increasingly erratic behaviour. At the same time I know their potential for genius but see their potential hampered by their problems.

Our wider social network has noticed it and are electing me to talk with my friend but I really don't know what I can say that'll help VS push them away.
not mentioned by others is the real reason why Haskell is winning: concurrency & parallelism. The GHC compiler for Haskell has an incredible runtime with async IO by default, it is capable of running millions of threads, works on multi-core, and has a good STM implementation.
If you complain about psychological things to a medical doctor, on of the first questions they should ask is "have you been on any medication, or used any other kind of drug?". Psychiatrists should be asking the same thing.
Let me know if you think I've missed out any 'groundbreaking' camera phones. Yes, I know there isn't an iPhone there, because from a Camera-Phone perspective, the camera has not been anything special.... the Apps have, but the camera itself hasn't
I don't see how your example contradicts my point of view. When you move things from a fairly popular system to a widely popular system, you expect it to work as well as before. Now instead if you had chosen an obscure system nobody cared about, of course you would have loved your tools would be supported as well - but hey, you knew that choice was risky.

Of course portability is pretty damn important : it gives you the liberty to choose the system you want (depending on your needs) while keeping the same user experience everywhere. But x86_64 Linux systems (for instance) should not be supported because they run Linux : they should be supported because a whole bunch of people use them and need that support.
This is maybe true some of the time.

But some of the time you are banned for the actual words in your post. This account was hell banned for a while because I used the name of a brand of shoes in a post (on an article about an IP suit around said shoes.) A simple anti-spam filter.

I also suspect this gentleman has been banned not for the lack of contribution - but for off topic screeds and offensive language.
I've never understood peoples dislike for IDE's
When I started programming my IDE was a "C:\>", thats it, just 4 letters and a crap load of .BAT files that was different on every developers machine.

Today I use VS2010 and can honestly say I am hundreds times more productive.

"This in turns clutters the interface and goes against the simplicity they advertise."

Sure it's a big IDE with lots of options but when you finaly tune it to your tastes, it fits like a glove and stays out of the way.

Every toolbar and menu can be configured with what you want and made to hide and fly out when commanded.
Granted IndexedDB is not simple, and that pains me, but the migration was very simple with the library (that was the point).
Here you go: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201203/burt-helm/a-silicon-valle...
Dissertation writing
Dissertation writing help today is globally pattern in-full by many young classmates now! They ofttimes produce only fundamentally human entered renewed writings weekly!
Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library
Is there a developer API for Siri? I was not aware that one had been released.
I have noticed that the example you set when you start somewhere new is what is expected of you for the rest of your time at that company. To clarify, if you start a new job and work for free an extra 40 hours a week then you will forever be expected to do that.

I made the mistake of doing that to 'prove' myself and I ended up working very long hours at a place which I wasn't particularly fond of. The person sitting close to me worked exactly 8-5 from day one. Everybody knew he wouldn't be at work after 5 and they never expected it.
If you get the chance to try it again, don't just stop suddenly when you have finished the exercise, but do a small warm-down phase of very little effort. That may keep the pass-out response at bay.

I'm not sure if this is a vasovagal response or not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_response) but I have this response also. In fact, mentioning it to my doc won me a full cardio work-up from a cardiologist. I get the response from intense weight-lifting and anaerobic cardio exercise (like what you describe) if I suddenly stop.
If, however, I keep doing very light exercise, I don't "nearly" pass out (I've never fully passed out from it, only gotten to the dim-vision gray-out/dizziness described here, so I think I was close to passing out but not exactly sure).
I can see what they're trying to do, but they're both unusably horrible on this machine (dual quad Xeon Dell T5500 running Fedora, Chrome 17). The pen / path tool just didn't work for me in Picozu, and the smudge tool in pixlr stutters and locks up the whole interface (presumably while it pushes pixels around).

I can't say I'm convinced by web paint programs. Maybe OK for a trivial "fix-my-redeye" case on something you've already uploaded. I also wish these things would stop claiming to be Photoshop clones, when they're really just MS Paint++. I used to use PS professionally (ie. I've earned money with it to easily justify the initial outlay and upgrades from 6 thru CS5) and there really is nothing to compare it with.
"Somewhat comically, and arguably very Jobsian, Buffet later heard that Jobs had told people that he (Buffett) had agreed with Jobs' argument that Apple should, in fact, do nothing with its cash.

The reality distortion field in full effect, folks."

For the rest of us, it's called lieing. Is it not?
A reliable and objective metric for insanity is whether you believe not only that the supreme deity of the universe is telling you how to program, but also that passages in the Bible are coded references to the same written directly to you.
One of the things quantum computing might be applicable to is protein folding. If we can compute exactly how a protein would/should fold in linear time... well that could potentially lead to a cure for EVERYTHING.
> When a technology company starts suing on patents

Except when it's apple. Or microsoft. or anytime there is big profit to be done, or negociations breaks on contending points. it's just business as usual.

If true, one interesting point in the article is that yahoo has 2,661 pending patents in the pipe. Regardless of if these are "good" patents or not, it sounds like a non neglictable number for a company that doesn't get the spotlight so much these days.
IllumiShare, a device that allows remote people to share objects on any surface
It shows how subreddits relate to each other. The data is taken from subreddit description. And a link between two subreddits means one has a reference to another.

The graph drawing library source code: https://github.com/anvaka/VivaGraphJS

Would love to hear what you think...
"According to IBM, 250 qubits would be able to store “more bits of information than there are atoms in the universe.” This in itself is truly awesome — but then when you factor in that a quantum computer could perform logic on all of that data, in parallel, instantaneously"

If this is correct, does this really imply that there are more dimensions than the 4 we are aware of?

Shouldn't the calculations then be seen in other those extra-dimensions as well? (Thinking that this could be used to detect extra dimensional life and perhaps communication with them)

Or does it simply mean that matter has more states than there are particles in the universe? :-/