skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I know. It's not literally data, it's knowledge about me and ability to target me they sell. Processed data.
After reading the story, one big glaring question. Where is the father? He's not around. Boys need fathers. If you want to screw up a child, take away the father.
Soooo...they reinvented a blimp, strapped on some gimballed cameras and are using a proprietary equivalent to ArduPilot?

One of my hobbies is FPV RC planes/quadrotors. People are doing this with planes and quads for a fraction of the cost. Not 100 hour deployments sure, but that's because blimps are boring to fly.
Also, if it is more serious, try http://reddit.com/r/suicidewatch

It is a great community, with some really nice people.
Do you want to get better? Why?
100% dedicated to research and spending 16 hours in the lab are mutually exclusive concepts.

Edit: Just realized you never said that. Maybe I was reading another post...
My point exactly. Google Apps TOS clearly grants them rights to mine the data.
While I'm glad this was noticed because of the OP wishing to not be publicly identified, I also note that this more generally will relate to a huge issue we have in society right now... we are not willing to have any sort of real, open, honest and frank discussion of depression or other mental health disorders and diseases.

This is tragic and any person should be able to feel without stigma to be suffering. No one should have to feel, or need to, suffer in silence or anonymity.
Or have anyone just used it and found stable/mature enough to build commercial projects?
Right, but how does Flickr know if you're covered by the license?
Great read, I use to use Tor but did not know it was used in this way. Pretty epic.
It's not only presentation. For example, it is good that, with Java, it isn't simple to shoot yourself in your foot.

Unfortunately, Java also makes it hard to shoot, period. That, IMO, is its main weakness.
Document DB's aren't an invention of the past 10 years. SAS was invented in the 60's, Lotus Notes in the 80's. XML Databases were all the rage during the dotcom bubble.

The difference today is that open source projects have made document stores and 'nosql' technologies more accessible.
“Software-defined networking” is inspiring hope, and hype
I would make a distinction between a CLI (to be used by ordinary users of the program) and a scripting interface (to be used to "extend" the program, to be used by power users and/or other programmers).

And I would further submit that the same language may not be the right choice for both tasks.

Tcl leans further towards being a pleasant CLI interface language, while AFAIK Lua leans further towards being a pleasant plugin development language.

IMHO.
Feels like the article misses the obvious while actually stating it. The reason for Japan's declining birth rate:

"Although Japanese couples consistently say in surveys that they would like to have more than two children, they don’t. Part of the problem is Japan’s prolonged economic malaise. Years of stagnant (or declining) incomes have made Japanese men less attractive as potential partners. And economic uncertainty has led couples to delay getting married and having children. The shortage of public day care centers, especially in cities, has made the cost and burden of parenthood so high that today’s couples either have fewer babies or none at all. (Japan’s birthrate is just 1.39 children per woman.)"

What happens when the population shrinks as a result of this? All of these problems magically right themselves.

Shortage of public day care centers? Solved with lower population.

Stagnant or declining incomes? Solved with a lower population, as each person can command a greater share of the economy (in aggregate) from simple supply/demand of labor.

This is just a pendulum swinging back into equilibrium that will eventually be felt across the globe - and while worse for Japan's Gross GDP, it will improve Japan's GDP per Capita, the only truly important 'country level' measure for actual citizens.
Yoko Ono & Sean Lennon: Imagine There's No Fracking
Ask HN: Who is using Google App Engine?
I see startups talking about Heroku and AWS all the time on HN, but I feel like I never see references to GAE. Is anyone actually building their companies on top of GAE?
Additionally I will respond here and say that I don't think it's wise advice to recommend a Girlfriend (or boyfriend?) for the original poster. I don't know if you've ever suffered from depression, but you rarely even want to emerge from the house while suffering it. To say that you would be able to function in a loving relationship properly is a long shot indeed.

Working out, helpful, changing diet... sometimes helpful.

As for having people visit, I would say this would be helpful but would be dependent upon the situations for your depression.
I'm mostly familiar with macro and finance applications; I'll take your word for it that it's not strictly coming from agent rationality in other subfields. Perhaps I should have said, "unforcastability" which would have covered natural experiments and IV as well.
Valve already has VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) that works reasonably well.
Agreed. I'm a little taken aback by the parent post's "I was like that, but fixed myself with Linkin Park" attitude. It came off to me as rather dismissive, although I don't believe that was the intention at all.

My mother-in-law has bipolar, and is in the hospital pretty much every spring. She has the benefit of being in Australia, where the health care system is leaps and bounds better than what we have in America, at least. I also have a friend who's worked in the mental ward of two hospitals.

Sure, when you're young, it's fun to go down the DSM and think about how some of the symptoms of schizoid personality disorder feel like they kind of apply to you, and there are so many self-diagnosed aspies on the internet, but this leads to anecdotal trivialization of serious mental illness.

Go volunteer in your local mental ward. Spend a few long months with diagnosed, treated (as well as they can be) mentally ill people. It'll change your perspective on so many things, from tragedies like this to views on trends in modern humor.
No worries, the comment let me know that I needed to clarify what I wrote earlier, so I appreciated it.
Review.emit("request") ;)
A computer program to identify beauty in problems and studies
Right. Curing "being an asshole" is not curing mental illness.
It's not about the number of people, but the age distribution. In 2100 half of the Japanese may be over 65 years old, and it definitely wasn't the case in 1920.
Interesting, do Arabs pretend to be Jews to pass the security?
We are starting with just one - with the option to push the database service off to a second machine more or less on demand.
That works, but only as long as the proportion of non-productive population does not increase too fast.
Start up life is hard. Probably not the best space for someone who already experiences emotional ups and downs.

I would recommend you speak to your therapist about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. A paper published in the American Journal of Psychology last summer (I think it was July?) reported that after 3 months of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy a patient showed improvements that were equal to, if not better than anti-depressants. At the very least this could potentially get you off some of those meds.

I hope you feel better soon.
I'm pretty sure its bunk, but took the test when I was 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, and got the same type each time (ENTP). I was definitely in different moods (the amount of irritation I felt at 27 taking the stupid thing was amazing).
I was thinking more along the lines of the most compressible path...ie., the shortest set of instructions that can produce the pattern. Sort of like knitting patterns, "knit one, pearl two." It seems like he must be figuring out some reasonably simple step sequences to make it all work.
Wow, this is like a case study on how not to present data. I'm sure this is an interesting dataset...but it's so confusing.
Yeah, I realize there's a lot of academics that hate athletics. But it's good for me if they let me know this up front, so we don't end up working together.

I should mention though, they miss out on a lot of good people. On the men's track team, there were about 4 people who had 4.0's (which is very rare at a top 5 engineering school). One of these guys ended up doing some really amazing research in grad school. In fact, the whole track team average GPA was higher than the school average. If you can manage these grades plus 3 hours of practice each day, I would think that would be a positive trait. But to each their own I guess.
First and foremost: find a new therapist. If it's not working, you need to try something else. Even if you've tried different therapists, it's like antidepressants: you keep trying until you find one that works. Speaking of which, you might want to find a psychiatrist or MD who is wiling to try different antidepressants; 10 pills a day and no effect? That sounds like the exact case of "this one's not working, let's try another".

If the only thing you take away from this is the above paragraph, good, because I have to preface the rest of this with IANA[P|MD].

First and foremost, founding your own startup is awesome! Do you realize what kind of accomplishment that is? You shouldn't be depressed, you should be proud. Not many people can claim the title of "statup founder".

Second, apart from getting a new therapist, you might want to look into books like "Feeling Good" by David Burns and "A New Guide to Rational Living" by Albert Ellis. Both are aimed at helping overcome depression.

Exercise is good, but the effects may taper off over time (or have no effect at all). Mainly, if you're not exercising, you should, but not necessarily to treat the depression (although it might help).

All that being said, good on you for reaching out! While I don't think I have the skills to help you or experiences to relate, I hope you are successful, and I'm sure you will be. Many people have been depressed (myself included), but recovered; you can do it too.
reddit.com/r/suicidewatch is a safe place to post at your most vulnerable, too. The volunteer posters are very supportive.

OP, I feel a board dominated by entrepreneurs and type-a hard-charging success hounds isn't the ideal place to get advice about feeling bad from clinical depression. Not that these aren't completely kind people, but there is depression and there is Depression. When you've been abused as a child, you are changed forever in ways that are not even on the same continuum of emotion that, say, not exercising, or going nearly-broke like [insert famous billionaire here].

I probably can't express this effectively through text and I'm not available to chat via Skype at the moment, but:

It's okay for you to feel Depressed. As far as emotions can be described as having reasons, you have them. Abuse changes a person forever. Doesn't break them, or make them bad, but it often leads to terrible emotions a lucky majority can't even fathom. You're feeling terrible, don't feel guilty about being injured on top of all that. Actually, injury might be a good metaphor, in that we have an animal instinct to hide away vulnerability and pain. I feel the same way about my "injuries," I don't want to share them because of a stigma of guilt that comes with Depression.

One thing I have seen posted (from a quick scan through) is the truth that you won't always feel this way. Things do get better. And then, all too commonly, they get worse again. But that too shall pass.
I'm not sure there is a one-fits-all answer here - specifically regarding disk space & bandwidth.

Are you saving HD video files? Then you will probably need a data store connected to your web server.

Are you just allowing people to post text, small images and such? In that case, 1 server could easily cut it.

With proper software configuration, and a decent hardware config, you can go quite a long way with 1 machine.

Can you provide any details? Maybe someone can help out with your specific question, since the general question you've asked is quite difficult to give a proper answer to.
The only useful thing I got from MBTI and the related training was that different people think and communicate differently; sometimes very differently. People work differently and you can't treat everyone the same; and different people need styles of communication. This was in the midst of leadership training in an organization that had one set of guidelines for performance reviews and promotions.

So like most management training / classes, this insight is fairly obvious but mostly ignored.
Quick note though, the Samaritans definitely do not give advice. Mostly they help you work through your own feelings and figure out what to do on your own.

That sounds like the perfect description of a therapist to me.
You're only focusing on one side of the argument.

Less young people means a small amount of young people paying for lots of older people, which is a large financial burden on the people able to work. (as well as many other factors)

Also, GDP per capita is only used to measure money. There are many other factors that people might find important like happiness rankings, which to me happiness can be much more important than money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness
I think it's possible there are some people who just need to "cut their shit" so to speak. But to try and say that's applicable to the majority of cases, on an anecdote, would be just plain irresponsible. I think it's pretty likely that I just matured the way most kids do, by growing up physically, which let me see that what I was doing wasn't alright.

I remember reading portions of a book on autism. (And before you ask, that was a real diagnosis from a real mental health professional.) Which had tons of statistics about people with autistic traits/on the spectrum. And I really wish I could source this, but the first chapter or such looked at what the chances of integration into society were without treatment. I think the number was either 1% or 10%. Either way the odds were stacked against you.

And so the thing that jumped out at me when I read that, was wondering what the difference is between someone who integrates, and someone who ends up in the institute. (I'm fairly sure the book was only covering HFA or Asperger's.) And the answer is: I've got no idea. "Wake up one day and 'cure yourself'." as the parent notes, probably isn't a repeatable strategy.
I found the survey really slow - perhaps the server is being hammered too much? 1 question submit is taking at least 10 seconds at the moment, which means 20 minutes to just submit all questions without reading them and reordering answers. Improve the site first, if you want to gather more data quickly.
GDP per capita doesn't go up when population goes down, because there are fewer people working to produce goods and services. There's no economy genie producing wealth that has to be divided among the population.
9/11 was an inside job, designed (along other things) to take away personal freedoms.
Ask HN: Where to find those kick-ass webdesigners?
We're starting our startup and we need a kick-ass webdesign for our startup's homepage. But I can't find anyone. I'm browsing dribbble already 3 days, couldn't find someone good (I mean very good) at webdesign. Any suggestions?
Prove it? I think the burden is on you my friend, for yours is the claim that is extraordinary. The human population is growing easily. Food and space is ample. Hell, we grow food to make energy for vehicles, not people. No, everybody can't live like Americans, but not everybody wants to live like Americans. There are a lot of Americans who don't want to live like Americans. (You may be amongst them!)

But for you to suggest that it is morally improper to have children because the world can't sustain it -- no, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and listen to this non-sense. You go ahead and prove that the world isn't supporting the population without utilizing corrupt governments. It is insanity that some would have us roll back to the population and energy consumption 1800's because they have cannot come up with a modern solution.

Last, but not least, China reduced it's population. Would you call it a stellar example of environmental responsibility? Your problem is that you're conflating two completely different problems. Overpopulation (for today) is a non-existent problem. Fix destitution (a real problem) in the developing world, and birth rates will drop naturally.

tl;dr I make some assumptions about environmentalists. Fight poverty, not birth rates.
Very good suggestions here as well! Thanks for posting. I have a least a family member whom is bipolar and it is an extremely tricky ailment.
Or maybe this is a coded message.
Thinking about your goal with a startup
I'd recommend Pelican over Hyde. It's Python, has great documentation and is actively developed.

http://getpelican.com/

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
I have to call bullshit on this one. Most of us here, supposedly "conscientious" people, can trace our being here (in the existential sense of "being") to some ancestor with "low consciousness".

Birthrates are falling rapidly around the world, yes, including in places you may think are populated with "low conscious" people. The reason is very prosaic: urbanization. As people get crammed into smaller areas, they naturally start to reproduce less.

It goes back to the fundamental human urge to take care of our offspring: an overcrowded city is also a highly competitive city (Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York etc illustrate this best) so people who live in that environment that don't want to bring more offspring into the world.

Even in a country like India, the population growth is almost all rural. The birth rate of city-natives in big cities has dropped well below replacement level, and cities are gaining population because of immigration and within one generation those rural-turned-city-dwellers have low birth rate.
> Volunteer at your local homeless shelter, they don't contact you, you contact them.

Please don't. Are you trying to kill the OP or to help him?

When at the 'homeless shelter' (or any other such a place, like an institution for drug addicts, elderly people or animal shelter) healthy person tends to eventually appreciate the fact that she's much better off and to see hope in the fact that those people (or animals) thrive despite all the tragedies they were through. It's a good advice for people frustrated because they didn't get their promotion just yet.

People in depression in same circumstances can only get worse. The fear of becoming homeless, or an addict, or maltreated animal - however stupid this sounds - will dominate their minds and will worsen their condition almost universally. Worsening depression could be lethal, hence my question at the beginning.

In short: whatever you do, as a depressed person, do not surround yourself with pain and suffering and hopelessness. You've got enough of this inside you.
I ummed and erred about posting this, as I wouldn't (and don't) want to detract anyone from reaching out to Lifeline. This is strictly an n=1 sample.

I disturbingly had a less than great experience with Lifeline the one time I needed some help. Specifically the operator told me she didn't understand my issues or why I was calling. The fact that I had expectations of being able to access an understanding counsellor and had saved them as a last point-of-call when other options were exhausted made this particularly unhelpful. Thought I'd post this as potentially my own expectations made this situation worse (and if I'd read this or other online accounts I might have had lower expectations).

Still, I got through that so maybe it was the right thing to tell me.
The disdain for developers is probably not restricted to third parties.
Vagrant for fast dev environment setups
It sometimes does it when you've been writing a long comment and thus had the page open for a while.

Sometimes chrome even nukes the form when I press back :/
I'd be really curious to know more about Twitter's database setup. There's clearly something that they've done for scale that makes this a difficult thing. Otherwise, implementing a button that SELECT * FROM tweets WHERE user_id = 1; wouldn't take long to implement.
As someone who lives in the Detroit area, I find your comments amusing. In fairness, comparing Detroit to Tokyo is like comparing night and day. This isn't to say there wouldn't be adjustment issues though.
I don't necessarily disagree, it doesn't bother me nearly as much as it does a lot of people on here. However, we had actionable intelligence about 9-11 well in advance of the attacks, and yet there were simply too many threats for us to identify this one as plausible. On the one hand this was failure of analysis. On the other hand, as the 9-11 commission concluded, there was a failure of imagination: for some reason no one took this type of threat that seriously, even though similar scenarios had been proposed by analysts before.

My question, then, is how are orders of magnitude more data going to help? I honestly think it will make our predictive power worse, not better, at least for decades to come until we have learned enough to start making sense of data on the scale we are talking about here.

It is really just a case of doing it because our technology will allow it, and a general hand-waving of "more is better" and "it will make everyone safer", than facing the reality of actually detecting a terrorist threat.

It is, in fact, just more security theater.
I'm talking about customs and immigration clearance, not visa applications. All flights into the USA are now pre-screened with airlines forwarding all passenger info prior to departure. They literally know all the answers and have no real need for the cards you fill out.

edit: I don't have the link with me atm, but there was a Wired (I believe) story about the center that is responsible for collecting all the data in pre-screening and the technical challenge. As inputs they have airline data and data exchange agreements with governments that are part of the visa waiver program, amongst others
But do they listen to 'Christian Rock'?
Google Maps For Apple Violates European Union Law?
Sorry, but what is "society" supposed to do exactly? Last time I checked, mental health professionals don't know how to cure or fix kids like this. What exactly does it mean to say we don't have enough mental healthcare? This article did nothing to help me understand that.
I'm not familiar with Hetzner, but another thing to consider is whether the "crazy prices" are sustainable (and they may well be -- again, I'm not familiar with the company).