skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good talk. Your method of writing down what the worst case scenario falls in line with what is known as cognitive-behavioral therapy, which is the recommended method of working through mild-to-moderate depressive episodes.

In fact, as a physician observing the HN community, I have acquired a folder of bookmarks, "Depression in Entrepreneurs", mainly centered around Andrews and Thomson's analytic-rheumination hypothesis, which highlights exactly that component of CBT as the cornerstone of successful coping: identify the problems, the worst possible outcomes, prioritize, and start working through them.

My brief summary of the AR hypothesis

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Your hippocampus, home of working memory, gets overwhelmed with all the problems. Something like this:

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It's still crashing!? Wait, I have that widget sitting in /usr/bin still. I'm so hungry. Maybe I should take ritalin, I wouldn't be hungry. My girlfriend is totally pissed because I haven't taken her out in forever. I have to make payroll, but I can't quite do that unless I skip some meals, I can't tell Mr Investor that I can't go to lunch, because I need money. I can't talk to my girlfriend about Investor's lunch because it will just remind her .... shit, was that in /usr/bin or /sbin. Payroll. Lunch. LUNCH! I'M LATE FOR LUNCH WITH MR INVESTOR! AND THE SITE IS DOWN!!!! GREP! WHY DID I CHOOSE BSD!

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So, CBT is a hack, which shunts some of that linguistic processing over to the only other area that does linguistic processing: Broca's area. But you need to verbalize to activate Broca's area. So you need to talk to someone. But not someone who's got a dog in the fight, not your girlfriend, not Mr Investor, not employee #1, not your business partner. Because then you'd just be doubling the load on your hippocampus again. So, talk to a counselor, priest, somebody who doesn't have a dog in the fight. Explicitly enumerate your problems, worst case scenarios, and some branches and sequels.

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Here's the current contents of that folder, if anyone wants them...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734449/pdf/nihm...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/opinion/sunday/how-depress...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=depressions...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.ht...

http://muddylemon.com/2011/05/depression-burn-out-and-writin...

http://blog.asmartbear.com/burn-out.html

and newly added: https://elasticsales.com/blog/2012/08/03/entrepreneurial-dep...
Are you putting it in offline mode before you head over or after you get there?
Mumble is just as common, and it's free.
I never justified the settlements, I just think anti-Israeli sentiment wouldn't be improved any by removing the settlements. It almost doesn't matter if Israel does everything right or wrong anyway, because that's not the reason the world hates them.
asus has also announced an ultrabook with a 1080 pixel vertical resolution. i'm glad the days of "any resolution you like as long as it's 768" are coming to an end.
are you confusing neutrality with it being a web app? What part of the above things you could not do with say skydrive?

Basically I don't see a difference between dropbox and skydrive (or gdrive or....) as a developer, if I had to choose, I'd probably choose a platform from a company that has a long history of building platforms (Microsoft or Google or any other big co) as opposed to dropbox which is a tiny startup somewhere with no viable long term life expectancy.
Same here, the dark grey used for the article title would look much better IMO.
You're making two big assumptions.

First, that Microsoft or Apple are able to perfect these services, which so far they have not been able to do, and there is good reason that it may be impossible.

But assuming that it's good enough, you still need to commit entirely to one ecosystem. Certainly some people can do that, but some people can't, particularly as BYOD becomes more common in business.

This is the magic of Dropbox. They make a dead simple product, they make it available everywhere, but they don't overreach. So in the end you have something that's harder to use and can't get the novice adoption that Apple brings, but on the other hand, most people understand what a folder is these days, and what Dropbox does is conceptually several orders of magnitude easier than trying to figure out exactly how iCloud works and what edge cases are going bring about catastrophe.

The old "that's a feature not a product" line is clever, but it's been overused to death. I don't know the source of the quote, but I'm pretty sure it was originally to address the fact that a startup needs to have an asymmetric attack to succeed against large incumbents. If something can be trivially replicated then it can be copied by the large company and smothered simply by the marketing heft of the goliath. If on the other hand, the very nature of the product is something that has a parity mismatch with large companies, then they can not directly attack it. Dropbox has a bit of that because making a cross-platform service like that just isn't worth the money for an Apple or a Microsoft. It doesn't tie into their cash cows and it's not a big enough market by itself. Dropbox is not a direct competitor to them anyway, it's more of a symbiotic relationship, so who's going to kill them?
Now I got it.
This is a twitter clone.

Give me 3 reasons to use app.net instead of Twitter?

How do you different from Status.net & Yammer?
OP here: No guys, I didn't take the wrong message away from Mrs. Zamula. I am aware of that "never" is not a word that should ever be taken at face value. The same way that I was aware when Mrs. Zamula forbade us from using "I like" while holding critique. You _can_ use "I like" well while giving a critique, but more often than not it means what will follow is garbage. Just like you _can_ use black, and there are absolutely good places to use it, but more often than not you'd do better with a bit of color in there.

Thiebaud's work and my photograph aren't evidence of anything other than the fact that shadows in most every image you see (whether it be real life, a painting or a photo) are not black. And that you'd be surprised at how saturated the dark colors around you are. Notice how I never said,
"Thiebaud's shadows aren't black, so you shouldn't use black." There were a lot of other words in between.

I should have clarified: The black squares actually weren't about dominance at all. I put a large swath of black next to those screenshots because color is relative, and to see how far from black the dark grays in those screenshots actually are, you need a comparison point.

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My other high school art teacher, Mrs. Totten (they taught as a pair), taught me a good lesson about photography. She would always defer to Mrs. Zamula on matters of photography because she readily admitted she had no photographic skill whatsoever. And she claimed that more people needed to acknowledge that fact, despite having their own digital camera. Well... my name is Ian, and I'm no a photographer.

But lucky for me.. that has absolutely no impact on my argument whatsoever!
We actually talked to some Safari engineers about this and the response was that image-sets were the way forward. I am not sure I agree. The key argument was that the accepts header puts the burden entirely on the server and does not account for multi-resolution environments, such as multiple monitor setups. Content moving from one device/monitor to another could make use of image-sets to load in the appropriate image for its display.
Amazon has had, what, five years to expand its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service? The fact that they have chosen not to implies that they haven't managed to make it cost effective. I think this speaks volumes about the feasibility of grocery delivery.
> in its latest attempt to deliver more personal responses more quickly

I liked it better when the web was impersonal, when you actually had to make an effort to filter out the information you didn't want. As more and more of the top of your search results get cluttered with things that Big Bro knows that you want, the less and less you are exposed to the world of things that you never knew you might take an interest in.

Search used to be a way to find marvelous new gems in the ocean of Internet. Now it's just a reaffirmation of your favorite repertoires, leaving you with the ultimate confirmation bias in everything you read, buy, and think about. These days, I can rarely find anything with Google that I didn't already know about, read about, write about, etc. Half the time, I use Google as a bookmark manager ... heck, I might as well just search my browser history. Throwing email history into the mix will only accelerate this trend, shoving each of us even deeper into our own little holes in the ground. Search has become boring, an incubator for egocentric brats, and a place where political diversity goes to die ... all in the name of personalization, i.e. ad revenue.

Nowadays, the only sites that dare to give me non-personalized information seem to be DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia. Oh, and occasionally Google, when I'm logged out and freshly rid of cookies.
Hyperspider: A declarative HATEOAS API crawler for node.js
ThetaBoard: Simpler than Trello
After I get there. I have a desktop PC, not a laptop. I can't really leave it on and then head over. Unless what you're implying is that I need "activate" offline mode on my computer by using it when I'm online here? If so, I really wish Valve would make that much clearer than the infuriating error that pops up now when I try to use offline mode while offline.
While Kickstarter is amazing for physical products, I feel that it just isn't ideal for digital products (more specifically mobile apps).

A couple of reasons:

1) Most mobile apps are $0-$3, so why pay $1-5 to support an app still in development when you could spend the same amount or less on a ready-to-use app right now?

2) The way the App Stores are currently set up, there isn't an easy way to give your Kickstarter supporters the paid app for free (which you would certainly want to do).

Unless you can also come up with more tangible rewards in your game (tshirts with game logo, etc.) I think an app will likely end in an unsuccessful Kickstarter project.

All that said... if all you want is a couple thousand bucks for a new macbook, one idea that MAY work is allow only large donations and include the supporters as sprites in your game. Just an idea.
Wait, what? The search function in gmail is terrible? What do you think they went out and built a new algorithm just for gmail instead of using their tried and tested one?

Speaking anecdotally of course, I've found the gmail search function to be very good. Add in operators as you would in regular searches and it's as useful as regular search--but in the context of email.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding?
From whom? Dell doesn't, to my knowledge, offer any CD drives. It's DVD or nothing; we usually choose the latter due to iDRAC's virtual CD/DVD capabilities anyway.
Setting up our infrastructure to do that is technically straightforward: we need to add more servers to handle a lot of additional traffic on the front end, before people get to content. There are both implementation and ongoing operational costs to doing so, and that's where the decision point is. Is this the best use of NASA's resources?

Wow, that is total BS. Good on yah zzzeek for calling them out on it.
I've had steam work fine on a pretty slow connection. The only real issue I had was if the connection degraded, steam would take a long time to load because of the embedded web pages.

Otherwise in my experience .2Mbps is fine. But I'm boggled at a connection that would cut every 5-10 seconds. How could you stand trying to load images on that? What would cause that?
Why do you consider the search terrible? I think it's one of the best email search experiences out there.
well, what do you expect, red trees and volcanoes :-)? Mars is kind of a dead planet, and the most interesting things you can see are the dust devils and maybe/hopefully, ice formations.
Another model that might be worth trying is pay to send, free to receive. So if people just want to follow Scoble, let Scoble pay for 'em.
...if i ever meet you in person i owe you a drink! (thank you)
I'm only an occasional emacs user. I've only committed a few cursor motion commands to muscle memory. I have to say, the embedded web server is a nice touch to any programming environment. far far more true in emacs itself.

Great job.
Normal people will download a debian CD

No, they won't. Most normal people are not even capable of burning an ISO, let alone selecting ("so, do I use i386 or MIPS?") and downloading Debian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_program

I'm pretty sure the images of the surface there are not altered.
Yes, the prescribed way is putting it into offline mode before you lose the connection. It sometimes lets you go into offline without a connection but I don't understand the method it uses to make that decision.
The Matrix remade in Source Filmmaker
You might find some info here: http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/
Any idea how fast will Amazon Lockers be rolling out across the US? Which metro's are they hitting first?
It's a pretty minor plot point, actually. It's kind of like "Lex Luther uses kryptonite to disable Superman"
The colors in the blog read fine to me. I have trouble with color bleeding when straight black is used on straight white. I would have gone with something a bit darker, say 60 or 70%, but definitely not 100% black.
I much prefer Wicd to NetworkManager, though.
If app.net turned evil people would stop paying and then app.net would go broke. That's the theory, anyway.
I do understand this, and would like it to be true. But until at least one application actually exists that twitter won't or can't do, this is all promises, and those apps (which I hope aren't limited to user clients) are, in fact, vaporware. To a user, this $50 isn't today buying them anything they can't get from twitter, which is why app.net might not get funded.
If anything (imo), startups are the least interesting company size / maturity when looking at technology stacks, since they have neither grown enough or been around long enough for their choices to actually matter,

(on the other hand, really large/mature companies are likewise uninteresting, because their choices are almost certainly entrenched in historical BS and legacy nonsense.)
Well this reference [1] says that Schappert started at Zynga April 21st of 2011, and this reference [2] puts that secondary offering where he sold $3.9 million in stock at March 23rd, 2012. That is about a month shorter than a full year.

Am I missing something?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/21/another-ea-exec-jumps-ship-...

[2] http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/first-zynga-stock-sell-off...
pretty sure that what's best for his staff is to not poison the well
Isn't Amazon Fresh the Amazon Prime for Groceries?
While I agree with you that accidental discovery is sometimes valuable, it seems like introducing you to things you weren't necessarily looking for was an unintended side effect of how the web originally worked. The goal was to help you find what you were looking for, but because it didn't always work completely, you sometimes ended up finding what you were not looking for.

What's interesting is that while Google is narrowing down on what you are specifically looking for in search, it is simultaneously introducing a product that is designed to suggest things you have not explicitly asked for: Google Now. It will be interesting to see if they can provide the discovery functionality that you want with a product that is specifically designed to perform that function, rather than one that does so unintentionally.
Random question: Is it silent on Mars? I'm looking at this picture and can't help but wonder what it sounds like. Just curious if Martian weather tends to be windy or calm.
I don't think that the slides are proof that Samsung is GOING to copy Apple, it's proof that they did.
Excellent work. Live video streaming has wide applications, glad to see you made it so easy to share spontaneous moments.
"Amazon Lockers are currently located in Seattle, New York, the Washington, DC area, and London."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
your eyes burn? from all the.... brightness..?
There is a free tier. Anyone can read the global feed.
"NASA uses a variety of methods to measure, control and reduce spacecraft microbial contamination for planetary protection purposes. Assembly of spacecraft hardware is carefully controlled and often takes place in clean-room facilities using, aseptic techniques in order to meet planetary protection requirements. Dry heat microbial reduction techniques first used on the Viking spacecraft are still used today..."

http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/methods/
'Earth headed for catastrophic collapse'
Point of information - the precursor example of a social networking product supported by users might be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL , which had a good 20 year run.
Try using any Apple product on Windows, or any Microsoft product on Linux. It might work, but it's often quite painful.
Why not to use Quora?
Top users and no ads!
;)
... and an umbrella which is resistant to sulfuric acid, given that a cooler temperature will no longer evaporate the acid before it reaches the ground.
>it is now broadly accepted that the GPLv2 is an anti-collaborative license[1],

Broadly accepted where? You certainly draw grand conclusions from head-bobbing at a talk you made.

It's the licence used for I dare say the largest collaborative open source project in the world, Linux. GPL is the most widely used open source licence, used in tons of collaborative projects, from the top of my head: gcc, git, mercurial, qemu, ffmpeg, x264, blender, gimp, inkscape, mplayer, emacs, etc are all examples of other collaboratively developed GPL licenced projects.

And how exactly would it be 'anti-collaborative'? If anything it's a great licence for 'collaborative development' as all participants are legally bound by the licence to release their changes in source form when they distribute.
thurn - It does speak volumes. And, if you were to study our model, you would realize that Amazon Fresh and Instacart have very little in common. To start off - we are almost entirely a software company. Amazon Fresh, on the other hand, has warehouses, trucks and they own the inventory - completely different from us. We believe those differences are significant - and hopefully they speak volumes too :)
> Then why didn't they spread and colonize the next day, as you have claimed they would?

They do. Armpits are smelly because the sweat glands there excrete bacterial nutrients designed to feed smelly bacteria. Aluminum compounds plug the outlet of the sweat glands, choking off the supply of nutrients. The plugs last for days.

> Once you've eliminated an area, it's going to be a while, regardless of the small amounts of bacteria on other areas.

The other areas have 1 million bacteria per square centimeter that are easily spread, and a population doubling time of around 20 minutes in a favorable area like a damp armpit. Run the numbers on geometric growth at that rate. Even if you reduce bacterial density by 99.99%, they will be back in a few hours.
Ask HN: Blog post on pricing structure and revenue? please help
I hate to ask using an ASK HN, but I've searched wide and far and can't find the article. There was a blog post on here a few weeks back on pricing strategy that made the front page. I believe it was for a web app, and the company discovered through segmentation and other techniques that they were leaving a lot of money on the table. They changed their pricing structure and this led to a significant increase in revenues. I believe the company worked with a consultant.
Yes and no. One thing to keep in mind is that Amazon is a highly diversified company. So even if expanding Amazon Fresh to other cities would turn a profit it may not be worth it to them to put resources behind if it won't be able to turn as much profit as, say, expanding amazon proper to other countries (which they're doing) or building out the cloud business, etc.
> Nowadays, the only sites that dare to give me
> non-personalized information seem to be DuckDuckGo and
> Wikipedia. Oh, and occasionally Google, when I'm logged
> out and freshly rid of cookies.

I don't notice any significant difference in personalized vs non-personalized results, though personalized results are occasionally more useful.

If you really don't want Google to return personalized results, then click the "Hide personal results" icon in the top right. This is less annoying than having to clear all your cookies.
Out of curiosity, does that screenshot represent the regular editing interface? For something that's supposed to focus on the content, the huge black and color buttons at the bottom seem pretty distracting.
While I agree that Amazon not having much success in this market is not a great sign, it seems like there are probably a number of other reasons they haven't been expanding the service. Amazon is trying to be the one spot you buy all physical goods, but it's been proven time and time again that getting to generalized, or trying to be all things, means you can't do all of them (or sometimes any of them) well. I think a new company with this focus definitely has the best chance of success. At which point, Amazon will probably buy them.

For now though, please expand up to Marin!
What a perfect solution for peer-to-peer delivery and selling/buying stuff from craigslist! Amazon may have their lockers, but there's plenty of room for this take on use cases that Amazon wont (yet) - run fast!!! :)
The Venera program is definitely one of the "unsung heroes" of planetary exploration.

Perhaps the best resource for surface images of Venus (along with fascinating image reconstruction) is Don P. Mitchell's page: http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

Another fascinating tidbit: the Soviets also performed the first (and to date, only) deployment of a balloon probe on another planet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobot#The_Venus_Vega_balloons
Well, to be fair, i end up using the apps version of gmail for work far more than my regular account.

The most recent example dealt with a specific admin type email i needed for forms. it is an email with two fairly distinctive words. As far as i know, it's the only email i've ever received with those two words.

The top 20 emails returned by search don't contain both words.

perhaps this is a weird or unfair use case. There's a fair amount of institutional knowledge tucked away in that account. Often, i need complicated constraints to coerce the search to bring forth my data.
It should be excellent laptop. Good to see they kept mat screen. Interesting, does it have spill-resistant keyboard as all other ThinkPads do?
EDIT: It is spill-resistant.
The page is mostly black and hurts my eyes trying to read it, was there anything interesting on it?
Connectify Dispatch: Imagine Wi-Fi/3G/Ethernet Combined On Your Laptop
I hope that while they exist they use heavy duty containers for the deliveries.

I'm still getting a lot of use out of my old Webvan tubs!
Need 3,000 more Sigs Now for Force TSA to Follow Law
GRID: A Simply Remarkable Spreadsheet
That could seem like the company is unattractive to Bob (and hence could start wondering more), versus Bob is unattractive to the company.
If you can do that, you may as well do the thing you were going to have the other person do. I think notregistering is referring to times you may have your hands full and/or can't get to your computer.
it's, okay, i guess. i find it odd it returns emails that don't contain all of my criteria first. I understand the desire for including more recent results. Probably, it's a lot more economical to not really search all my mail, and just provide a set from a recent pool of stuff.
more ads than content. where is the value?