skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"99.9% of depressed people aren't going to lynch themselves otherwise there wouldn't be a human race."

Exactly. But you know the way society is. 99% of the men or woman who cheat don't kill their spouse but that info being uncovered certainly increases greatly the suspicion that they committed the crime.
Different strokes and all that. I prefer to do mockups mostly in the browser, and using the public folder as a local server is an easy way to check pages on multiple devices. (I'm sure a more technically inclined person would just set up their own server.)

If I were doing anything requiring confidentiality or stealth I would work another way.
"OTHER characteristic features of “depressive” Internet behavior included increased amounts of video watching, gaming and chatting."

Well, then I guess G+ users are on the better side of things given that games are being scrapped off of the platform - sorry for all you depressed FB users :-)
A lot of us recommend Lenovo hardware, specifically the T- and X- series notebooks. I ran Lubuntu for a time last year on my X220i, and everything Just Worked. The touchpad in particular was amazing, so good that it was virtually telepathic in its responsiveness.

Cory Doctorow's experience with Ubuntu on his X220: http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/17/computing-ope...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
Boo hoo. It's just bootstrap anyway.
"Markham's Law"

I will second that! But isn't the "You are the product" law prior art for that?
FCC to Review Cell Phone Radiation Standards for 1st Time Since '96
You're right that did come of a bit dickish, my apologies. But I was genuinely wondering what you were going to do to innovate. Your original blog post is pretty vague on where it is going. We're also looking to disrupt the recruitment industry here in Australia because it is similarly broken.
You're ignoring the possibility of surveillance. It's possible to 'wiretap' a VPN connection that you use all the time. Any VPN company would have to comply with a court order in that jurisdiction.
That analogy is nonsense.
"soy" is Spanish for "I am"
> This community almost universally finds copyright infringement to be fine, but plagiarism to be not-fine.

What about software? I can't think of any example, for instance, where this community reacted to a story of a GPL violation by almost universally saying it is fine.
Misconceptions About Identity [video]
It isn't theft in the US. Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985)

Besides, wasn't someone complaining about how no one ever actually practices code reuse a few articles back? ;-)
On what basis do you make that judgment? Does the amount of medication people take simply offend your aesthetic sensibilities, or do you actually have documented side-effects you'd like to discuss.
The issue isn't publishing, or even selective publishing, it's smart aggregation.

You'd still need a solution like a feed reader or a site like FriendFeed. And even then, you don't have the interactivity of FB with the ability to "like" content, comment, and tag. It's the content that brings people to FB, the opportunity to see who's up to what, look at funny photos and chat and gossip with friends.
The one thing I would dis-agree with is postponing looking up things like vim commands. I cannot count how many times a 30 second Google search saved me half an hour of work.
The author seems to conflate WordPress the software and WordPress.com the service.

> You control the source code. You can easily export your site from WordPress.com and take your site with you.

Only if you download WordPress from wordpress.org and install it on your own server (or shared hosting account). The dot-com version contains a lot of proprietary code.

> WordPress.com has already become a login option on many different websites.

Only if you opt to host your blog with them. WordPress.com is a great service, but hosting your blog there is mutually incompatible with having complete control over the source code. Besides, half the WordPress sites out there are self-hosted, and WordPress.com logins don't work there.

Some of the features the article mentions, like JetPack, may be available for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs. But that's just comments. There is no meaningful aggregation between WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs when it comes to posts and pictures. Until there's an easy way to follow a lot of WordPress blogs no matter where they're hosted (hello, RSS), it will be difficult to make the argument that WordPress the software makes a promising social networking platform.

What we really need if we want a distributed and open-source social networking platform is improved interaction between independent sites. Not with newfangled stacks like Diaspora, but something that can be slapped onto any existing blog, microblog, or photo sharing service as a plugin (again, think RSS but much more powerful). Why limit your network to WordPress.com users, or even all WordPress users? Give me a common API that lets me follow folks on WordPress.com, DeviantArt, and Pinterest at the same time, a gem that I can add to my Rails-based blog to support this API, and a nice open-source client that ordinary people can use to access all that data. If a few companies like Mozilla and WordPress.com started collaborating on this, it would be a thousand times more viable than Diaspora can ever be.
Not nearly as much, I imagine.

The 5100 was sold for 7 years and cost $8,975. I imagine there were thousands made, and nearly all were sold to corporations. One sold on ebay for $3400. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXQHacn3M34

There were only 200 Apple I computers ever made. It is much more rare and significant to the history of personal (home and hobbyist) computing.
New Video Contest Site in India - Halla.in
The "calories in - calories out" is so inaccurate it isn't even funny. You have documented counter examples at both ends (people who do not consume a lot and remain fat, and people who consume a whole lot and yet remain lean).

It describes 60% of the population reasonably well, and fails miserably for 10% or so. It is a useful tool, but it is an unscientific approximation.
oh wait, apparently it was more about the local government the school answers to than the school itself. Maybe that (mostly) answers my question.
"When you legalize drugs, they aren't going to suddenly stop selling it. They will now have a legal business which will continue to fund their criminal empires. We most likely will see an increase in other crimes, like extortion and kidnapping."

No. Once a drug is legalized, supply can go up and price plummets. What was once a "criminal empire" now has the cash flow of a 7-11. And because price plummets, addicts no longer need to crawl in your bedroom window to steal money/goods to buy drugs. Crime drops. Drug-related extortion and kidnapping would virtually disappear.
Sorry but this just seems to miss the point of how Facevook bested competitors that, in theory, covered the same ground as FB did (Friendster, MySpace, xanga, etc). Execution is as important as e idea...and FB, by focusing on a narrow band of features and customization, created a service that was easy to use and addictive. Nothing about Wordpress or the plugins required to get it to FB functionality will match this.

This is like saying that WP is the open-source alternative to Titter, except that you can write more than 140 characters and even add photos/tables/anything...Twitter is more than just a text and newsfeed platform
I think you forgot money.
The pace of innovation in software is both staggering and obvious to anyone who takes a serious look at what you can do with a computer 10, 20, or 30 years in the past. We've done quite a bit with the advances Moore's law has given us, if you ask me. And software is hard and complicated because the problems it's tackling are hard and complicated. A basic UI, or a basic web page, is easier to make now than it's ever been. But the thing that keeps me comfortably in business is that no matter how much I produce, everybody still wants more stuff, faster and cheaper.
Facebook just got better with Github code commits in the open graph
I'd love to see evidence that people are smarter now than 500 years ago.

More education is available, certainly. But smarter ... I don't see it.
Can we learn from Post Secret's integrity? (largest non-ad blog in the world)
There's three monitors facing me, and the HDTV is the fourth (off to the right, you can't see it). Attached to it is a Cisco Umi (for 1080p telepresence with the home office) and an Xbox. Neither are on all the time. When I'm totally stressed or can't fix a problem I will either A) call someone and pair or 2) watch something on NetFlix or do a level of Just Cause 2. At that point my subconscious has usually dislodged the issue.
A very innovative idea, I have never come across such video contest site in India, how do you plan to build the user base??
It's a good point. Here is why we limit logins. We stumbled upon this actually and the instituting of login limits has resulted in incremental revenues.

One of the features of our service is a daily, real-time feed of company financings and M&A transactions. Before we had login limits, people would login every day and look at the feed but click on nothing so it would not trigger any 'usage' as we defined it. And they'd take the info presented in the feed and then go to Google and find out about the company or deal.

We were adding value to their lives else they wouldn't check daily but deriving no value ourselves. So at this point, we instituted the login limit so we could be compensated for the value we are delivering. Fortunately, many of those users have converted and are now paying us.

Of course, not everyone needs us daily so for those folks looking up a handful of company or VC or acquirer profiles, our free offering is plenty for them.

As to whether we are freemium or free trial, not sure. Think we take from both schools of thought but ultimately, irrespective of what we call it, the goal remains the same - build a product people derive enough value from that they're willing to pay for that value.
Ya, it's also good for LiveMeetings that I'm not really listening to.
I fear the day Clippy asks me if I want help writing that snarky comment.
Judicious use of a heat gun, I'm guessing, to soften the glue.

Ha, wouldn't it be great if the batteries were held in place with something like those 3M Command strips, which hold fast until you pull on one edge?
I think it's only scummy if it sets out to confuse users as to which site they are on. Changing both the font and the color scheme would seem to make that less likely.

Otherwise, emulating decent look-and-feel is often a good thing: it is how we come to better designs and users with predictable expectations.
Govt asked to respond on plea against Nirmal Baba's TV programmes
My main machine is the super desktop linked to. My travelling machine is the loaded W520p. My Mac (for node, rails, iPhone, etc) is the MacBook Pro.
Thks. We are holding on campus events in Bangalore City to promote the portal. Soon would be followed in other major cities of India.
The integrity of the founder to stay true to his mission, and not just chase the highest dollar has led to a consistently high quality product, that has real value.

I don't think the key is not to have advertising, but to be committed to an authentic vision.
Not sure about that—a lot of famous guitarists were originally pickers, and while the electric guitar may be a sexier instrument, most of the drummers I’ve known have actually been very attractive.
Sebastian Thrun: What's Next for Silicon Valley?
True, but it's still an unfair advantage afforded only to the incumbent.
Sony Xperia Arc Price in India & Pakistan-Features & Review | RaviMobiles.com
> without having to log thousands of peoples internet usage.

> why the high ups seem so intent on making sure we're HAPPY.

You just rediscovered the age-old correlation between a desire for totalitarian control and a preoccupation with superficial happiness. The theory is that the best way to ensure that existing structures of power and domination remain in place in perpetuity is to ensure that everyone is happy. Because happy people don't complain loudly. In Brave New World, the unhappy Bernard was the only insider who challenged the norms of a society where everyone was supposedly happy. In that book, the authorities try their damnedest to keep everyone happy, occupied, and productive so that there will be no occasion for some depressed dude to start mulling over the deficiencies of the system. Because people tend to see those deficiencies more clearly when they're unhappy and dissatisfied with the status quo.

Seriously, we need depressed folks, autistic folks, OCD folks, and all these other kinds of people in our world in order for progress to happen. Happy people won't fix what they don't think is broken!
" ... wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein." [0]

"... when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." [1]

Nietzsche was a quotable fellow. [2]

-

[0] "Wikiquote - Nietzsche - Beyond_Good_and_Evil - Aphorism 146" http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil#Aphorism_1...

[1] "When you stare into .. " http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/39793.html

[2] "Nietzsche quotes" http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Friedrich_Nietzsche
Want to bump an ugly? Kickstart to the rescue
To be fair, fences are an even older technology.
The key to fighting mass obesity is to stop adulterating our food and build cities/towns we can actually walk/run around in. It's not that difficult.
It's nonsense.
I recoil every time I see a job description like that. Anyone who believes in those mythical rock star programmers has a serious problem and I certainly don't want to be part of it.
Ironically, I know my internal state and the state identified by the study are antithetical. I realize the states are identified by statistics, but what happens when you really are an outlier?
"but clearly the economy is demanding more engineers at this level than the market will supply"

Exactly, that was my original point.
Same thing that happens when places get so crowded that nobody visits them anymore.
in many cases, depression is a mental disorder, not just the opposite of happiness. It's often caused by easily correctable physiological problems. In these cases, it makes sense to correct the underlying factors. In addition, a huge percentage of college students report being depressed. I still disagree with monitoring peoples internet activity, but for privacy reasons, not the reasons you mentioned.
And skirt-chasing, and very likely to refer to everyone as "bro" or "braw".
Sure didn't with the general public, especially the latter.
Your email isn't public; Can you paste it into the
"about" field? (or you can send an email to me instead if you don't want yours public) I don't use twitter so I can't add your twitter name.
They also appear to have failed to change the Google Analytic account number:
" var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-160215-2']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
"

Normally I'm pretty pro-code-reuse, but that is just lazy-sauce.
Ask HN: startup enthusiasts and entrepreneurs in DFW area
Hey HN! What some good co-location places where you can meet startup enthusiasts and entrepreneurs in DFW area. The only one I know is CoHabitat.
Innovation
What does innovation is or means to you?
Tenda terpal
Freemium is a new word. A similar concept is 'crippleware' - you can do everything but not print. Or you can print, but it'll have a watermark. Or you can only save at certain resolutions. Etc.

I guess they would have been called freemium if the word existed then.
Nokia announces an event on Monday. Might aim at Maps and Music
The good thing about DNS is that the user controls it. You can set it to whatever you want. Enough people set it one way and it becomes a standard that no board can decide against.
Could Neanderthals Have Been The First Cave Artists?
I use a combination of ActiveInbox (http://www.activeinboxhq.com/) and the Multiple Inbox labs in GMail. I have 5 "multiple inbox" inboxes. I mark emails with a GTD style label that ActiveInbox creates (S/Action, S/Waiting On mostly) and have an inbox that only shows those. Those are my main tasks.

I also have an inbox for starred emails, which are longer term project or information rich emails I want handy. My "top" inbox is unread inbox emails and round it out with drafts and the standard email inbox at the bottom of the page.
Early videos from the YAPC::NA 2012
This is all bullshit. Speculation. And to think it came from the NY Times.

"P2P packets" are signs of depression in a college campus because people are sharing files? Am I reading this right?! They're sharing movies and music - that's where it all started.

Certain users with high email usage?? How can you identify spam vs. actual? How can you state that some people simply aren't busy and receive a ton of email (including professors)?? And then this leads to speculation of "anxiety" symptoms. Haha. Great correlation there.

Who writes this crap.

Not only is the data they collected so broad and irrelevant, it cannot be accurately used against empirical (medical, depression-related) data to come up with some crap story that users that P2P are depressed.

The notion of them logging and analyzing detailed user data in the future is the cherry on top to a fascinatingly stupid read!

Goodnight, back to my IDE
Be part of the slow network movement? I was so excited when a friend agreed to connect to me and bring in email and usenet via UUCP. Good memories, but I like the real-time fast food world a lot better. Though for interplanetary communication it makes a lot of sense.
Biggest bullshit I've read all week. Hilarious. Check out the post I just created on this so as to avoid spewing more in your thread!
Ember.js Starter Kit downloads are approaching escape velocity
We can go even further back in time: "Killer app" was a common phrase years before NeXT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_application
How to estimate lifetime value for an ecommerce business
LOL.

Thanks for the quick turnaround. I got distracted with something else right after I posted this and didn't expect such a quick update.

In any case, -36 built just fine and I have verified that I now have SPDY on the server.

FWIW, the format of using

listen 443 spdy;
ssl on;

works just fine too.
It seems like Einstein wasn't very fond of ajax or using javascript to swap text
Biologists grow human-eye precursor from stem cells
In the tv show The Wire, third season, a Police Captain tried to 'legalise' drugs sale. He put all the dealers, the little soldiers, and said "If you deal in the streets, we will arrest you. If you deal in the free zone, you are free to go". At first, the dealers were very distrustful, but after some days, all the dealers were in the same place. And the addicteds learned that they could only buy drugs in that zone. They even have the cops in the place, to prevent any thing from happen.

The streets became a better place, no more criminals in the corners. No more shots and dead bodies in the communities. The kids were playing again in the streets. And the cops wouldn't have to arrest minors selling drugs, they were able to focus in the big fishes, the head of the operation. The problem is, after some time, the town hall and the police chief started to not believe in the crime rates the captain was giving to them. They were TOO DAMN LOW. They tough he was manipulating, faking or someway, not giving the actual rates. But they were true, he just couldn't say that he legalized the drugs. After some time, he had to tall, and of course he was fired.

I think the series made a great simulation of what it will happen that we had in our city an area were drugs selling were legal. Everyone in HN should watch the show.

PS. I'm sorry for typos and bad grammmar. Not native speaker. I'll get better.
Why do you assume amazon doesn't have " a backup diesel generator, redundant connectivity, and a good network/sysadmin"? And if they do have that why is your situation different?
What does Github's top ten languages list tell us about its userbase?
The problem with Clojure's type hints and Arc's if statement
TinyWM - A Barebones Window Manager in ~50 Lines of C
I agree with you, but I think the author is trying to get at what WordPress _can_ do, not what is currently in place.
Developers that write apps to fill the App Store give people a reason to buy their products in the first place. This is paranoid nonsense.
POLLO ALLA VODKA|RICETTA SECONDI DI CARNE
It didn't work when I clicked initially; it worked later on.
I don't follow. Obviously metabolisms differ widely. But "calories in - calories out" is a simple statement of conservation of energy. I assure you, that holds as true in a person's body as it does in a particle collider.
try adding tsched=0 to one of the lines in /etc/pulse/default.pa so it becomes

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

this fixed my chrome ubuntu audio problems. (source: links at bottom of http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110375 )
Thanks for asking: We are not.

Even in the United States, undiagnosed and untreated illness, especially mental illness, is a far more prevalent and far costlier problem than the inverse.

Data shows this conclusively. Anecdotal experience, whether your own or that which you may have read in an email forward somewhere, has no bearing on that.
Taking advantage of the Retina MacBook Pro display
> Here's reality: life can be utterly fucking shitty. People get depressed. Then you get over it and life goes on and eventually someone will die, or your S.O. will dump your ass and you'll get depressed again. Then you get over it.

There's a difference between being reasonably unsatisfied with life because of poor life situations (grief, for example, is normal) and reactive depression (grief won't go, and now you're depressed not grieving) and other forms of depression. (No rational reason for depression but you are anyway.)

> A very slim number of people get depressed and try to commit suicide.

Compared to what? Suicide rates have been dropping in the most of the UK, but it's still a significant public health issue.
I actually wanted to reply to the "Wordpress is a Facebook rival" thread with, "Uh... Livejournal?"
Show HN:WebEngage Notifications-display your tweets as message to site visitors
My biggest RSI issue has been mouse usage. I'm right handed, but switching to mousing left handed has been a huge help. Plus, since I'm more awkward mousing left handed, it's helped me become more keyboard-centric, and thus more productive.
You fail to provide any references to these documented examples.

You certainly need to do so if 10% of the population can eat more calories than they burn and not gain weight, or can eat less calories than they burn and gain weight.

(Also, what happened to the other 30%??)

> but it is an unscientific approximation.

Wait, what? That makes no sense at all.
Are those her ribs through which the sun
Did peer, as through a grate?
And is that Woman all her crew?
Is that a Death? and are there two?
Is Death that Woman's mate?

Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.

The naked hulk alongside came,
And the twain were casting dice
"The game is done! I've won! I've won!"
Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
He blames sales reps at carrier stores for not pushing customers to buy WP7 devices as they do with iPhone and Android. Wrong, Mr. Elop. The reps aren't getting paid by Apple or Google to sell their devices. Their devices are actually so cool and desirable that the reps evangelise it themselves. A WP7 device is neither cool nor compelling--not even the sexy Lumia. I'd rather have an N9.