skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article. The facebook example is very pertinent - they started with PHP and MySQL and only when the traffic came did they scale to using C++ (via a PHP to C++ translator). I'd be interested to hear what the writer would think of using Go on a new project ... a new language that has been called boring and yet does have some features that aren't really in use anywhere else (channels, slices, goroutines).
I remember I had problems with insert statements when previously with mysql inserts without default values worked but MariaDB was strict in this case and these inserts failed...
But, on the other hand anyone (you, the FBI, a hacker) can delete your dropbox account tomorrow and you'll lose all your photos. This just moves the problem.
I dont know your storie and I am not going to give you some advice. I think being an entrepreneur is one of the most psycholic stress work that you can choose.

1. Your identity is often bind with your startup. If your startup failed you feel like you failed, even if you might control 3 out of 10 important parameters. Or you are the best at 9 out of 10 but that 1 out of 10 failed.

2. Like other professions like doctor or lawyer we dont have a big group to relate to. No other entrepreneur is the other s alike.

3. Any d*ckhead can start a company and the difference between genius and beeing crazy is thin.

4. Your reward comes very very late. If you are a consultant, you work one hour get paid one hour. Building the next facebook takes time and the sign of your success can take for ever.

5. Failor is more common than you think. We hear about the success stories but guys that tried and failed just silently start working at a company as employee.

6. Success and feedback for an entrepreneur is rare. Being #1 on HN is not something you can be every day. But if you take out the trash or work as truckdriver you can come home, leave your work and feel pretty good about your self and what you have done. Having great plans increases your of personal failor risk a lot.

So what is the solution? I think more about my self as a builder and the projects I do I am aware they might fail, but I focus on me and my methods. Try to fail faster, MVP and all that other stuff Eric talks about in Lean startup.

It is not about me or my startup it is about going out and fish, fish for a successful company and every day learn someting and increase my luck exposure bit by bit.
I'm working on a project with ideas expressed at YSenate.org

We are trying to tackle exactly this type of problem in an open source way.

The big problem with open politics is the entropy of 'too many people talking at the same time.' To reduce the entropy the approach is to break the group into pieces and then put them back together. The fundamental postulate of YSenate.org is derived from Huffman Coding with the additional criterion that each individual is given equal weight. This results in a binary tree political organization.

We are also looking to integrate Git for legislative drafting and primary color votes to address the "Curse of Dimensionality."
That was silly of me. I've used console.log countless times before. I just never thought of it as a thing that could be 'burned'.
Sobering read, reminds me of this rather depressing NY Times article: "Can you call a 9-year old a psychopath".

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/can-you-call-a-9-...
Troubled life of Adam Lanza, a fiercely intelligent killer
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Throwing a $10k SSD at a problem is a boring solution. There's very little that can come between a developer and a chance to optimize some badly performing code. ;-)
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He was turned back because he lied (unknowingly) when the asked him if he'd been arrested.
"It seems universal care sacrifices everybody's quality".

I don't think thats quite the case. I live in the UK and can't comment on the US system from personal experience, however what I hear most about over the pond is the many people who get screwed from not having health care or not actually having significant cover when the need arises. Its said that having a life threatening illness will pretty much bankrupt the majority of people.

Obviously if thats true, then all those people who aren't getting great service for whatever the reason would be better off with the UK system, but even with universal health care, I've had additional private health care for most of my working life, so theres nothing stopping you from getting the best care available despite the fact they'll send you to the same doctors and get you the same treatment in the vast majority of cases.

Personally I think our national health service is fantastic. The system isn't perfect and there are some advantages to private, like for non life threatening issues you can often get seen a lot sooner, and we should always be trying to strife to improve our situation. I'd never trade it for the American system though.

We also don't have a lot of massacres, but I'd wager thats a much more complicated discussion.
HyperSphere - continuous surveillance
I think about this often too. I think the answer ultimately lies somewhere in the realm of "history is cyclical." A society's collective memory seems to fade after a few hundred years.

America today is an excellent example of that. The founders came from a time of tyranny and oppression, and worked hard to try to prevent that in their new country. And yet a lot of how our government today works is, I imagine, very much contrary to what the founding fathers envisioned.

You can be detained for seemingly no reason by police almost anywhere (see the ACLU's "constitution-free zone"), prisons and courts have become a means of revenge, not justice or rehabilitation, the president is increasingly seen as a king-like figure ("Something's wrong with the country? Must be the president's fault. What's he going to do to fix it?"), and--without much exaggeration--we're a small jump away from a total surveillance state, as this article emphasizes. In many ways we're already there, and that's just the stuff we know about.

In Europe, as you mentioned, the Stasi were around until just recently. There are still grandparents alive who remember what the continent went through during WW2. (My own is one of them.) European society's memory is still fresh, and they won't repeat mistakes they remember. I think that's why there are so many privacy-protecting laws enshrined in the EU.

We should pay attention to how countries recently emerging from oppression or war, like Romania, Serbia, or Bosnia, handle the internet. I'll bet they'll be the bastions of internet freedom in the coming decades.

But what of the US? Maybe we're trapped in cyclical history. Maybe in 50 years things will be bad enough for people to get up in arms, and we'll start over just like we did a few hundred years ago. Who knows.
Hey, try mindfulness meditation techniques to get in peace with your mind. There's a great guided meditation service for that called Headspace. http://GetSomeHeadspace.com

For sustainable development of mindfulness I'd also recommend regularly journaling about your feelings though you should discuss it with your therapist first. If you decide to try, there's a good iPhone app called iMoodJournal. You can think you talk to me when you use it because I really put a piece of my soul into it. ;-)
> In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.

I think it becomes all the more important to talk about weapons when you have a mentally inflicted person in your family.

> methodically collected all the sharp objects in the house into a single Tupperware container that now travels with me

This is exactly what i'm talking about.

> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9...

This is an article i just read after reading this post. According to it: Lanza's mother was a big fan of guns. And taught her son how to shoot. And they had lot of weaponry at home.

I do not know of mental history of Lanza. Assuming if there was a bad side to it, it is obviously very inconsiderate to have such a child being introduced or even be in periphery of any kind of weaponry.

> God help me. God help Michael. God help us all.

Amen. Also, in retrospect, it is really important to regulate access to weapons, especially in a case where there is a bad mental history.
Is there anyone in your peer group into startups, at a similar position, that you can collaborate with somehow? Or at least share ideas and experiences? I have found it important to talk to people who share comparable recent experiences and also share immediate future goals. Of course, such a person might be very unusual whereever you are. But perhaps you will find them via this post. Good luck
Re: girlfriend - I'm not sure this is wise advise. By all means, find a loving relationship, but don't do it just because you are depressed. That will most likely end in disaster - for both of you!
They are great - I've used Lifeline in the past.
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Actually it's encouraged, but it still means you have to take time in selecting the combo. Georgia and Helvetica play nice together

Here's some combos

http://bonfx.com/19-top-fonts-in-19-top-combinations/
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Precisely: the attack in china wounded twenty. As of this writing none were killed. The "severity of the damage" is a highly relevant measure, not something to dismiss.

"...poor attempt at treating the symptom rather than the disease". Sorry, the symptoms (i.e. lots of people dead) are the problem here.

My data pull was primarily for the countries mentioned earlier, I added some others I find relevant because I have experience living there (never been to Finland). I did not imply the US was #1, the extract was obviously a very short one.

The Wikipedia page you cite tells essentially the same story as the Washington Post article: of the OECD countries, the US is by far the most violent, more than 4x more than Germany, for example. Take a look at the countries surrounding the US in the statistic! If you're not embarrassed, you're not paying attention.

The "would not have been possible without a gun" argument is specious, as is "anyone sufficiently determined" argument for suicides: you are assuming that anyone with a suicide attempt is sufficiently determined, as is someone wanting to kill someone. This is a fallacy, both logically and from what the data show.

Not being able to stop everyone is no excuse for not even trying to stop those that can be stopped (or reducing the damage...heck if no-one gut hurt, would the "rampage" even be a problem??)
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Best wishes for getting better. One thing that is rare and so important is that you reach out to talk about it.

I wish you to find good listeners, this is rare.
All caps is reserved for the high priests of my religion. Why are you debasing my belief system like this? :(
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Oh it's fine for those whose schemas fit into the type that the ORM can generate, I have no issue with the functionality existing at all. For many databases this actually is all that will ever be needed.

But for legacy databases, for the edge cases where the schema is designed for a very specific purpose that doesn't neatly fit what the ORM would generate, and especially when external applications may also call the database... I like to know that the database is exactly what I expect it to be.
Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets
I came here to write the same, and I'm replying to this comment to draw peoples' eyes to it when scanning the replies (in case it doesn't received enough upvotes to take it near the top) as I think it has a lot of value.

I'm personally fortunate to be in a good position mental health wise, but I know http://reddit.com/r/depression, http://reddit.com/r/bipolar and http://reddit.com/r/bipolarreddit have helped my close (non tech friends) a lot and they cannot recommend them highly enough.
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Elite:Dangerous - "Elite" for the modern age. Real Freedom, Trade, Fight, Progress, Explore. Offline like a single player game or semi-online with a group of friends, or fully online with a whole universe of players.

A fully evolving galaxy, multiple player roles, 15 ship types at start.

Lots more information on the kickstarter page now (it was a bit bare previously). Lets get this game made.

Info here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
So that settles it for recommending Hushmail for true private communications - don't use it.
Just wanted to thank you for the link to the public speaking video. A fascinating watch and impressive evolution the before/after effect.
I don't know if I should be happy or terrified that I know and use these tips on a daily basis. I'm just starting out as a UI front-end guy after years of solid backend work.
We don't have any records
People have warned that this will happen eventually, but I don't think that many believed it. We're witnessing the first real steps towards making pre-crime recognition a reality in the country. Good bye "innocent until proven guilty".

Cory Doctorow has said in his "war against general computation" talk [1] that it's becoming cheaper and easier for authorities to just monitor everyone and store information about everyone, and then use algorithms to catch them, than focusing on who they they need to catch and following just that one. Now it's up to the people to stop this from becoming legal or from being done even illegally, not just in US, but in all countries, as I'm sure many others will try doing it, too. The ironic part is that the developed "democratic" countries may be the first to do it, because they are more advanced technologically.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
The name of the hosted version is changing in a couple weeks. There will always be multiple players in the photo space but Facebook proved me wrong with that in regards to sharing.

Here's a graphic that depicts just how dominant Facebook is.
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/42150/facebook-digital-photo...
can i suggest Co-Co in one of its many variants. Co-counseling is a peer support therapy process that seems to significant affect for most people. There are wide variety of groups but the two principle groups are re-evaluation co-counseling and international co-counseling. The major difference is that RC co-co is more intense BUT more cult like running out of Seattle whilst ICC is more distributed with no central control. Think Apple vs Linux.

it wont give you a solution today, but if you do the course, you will gain access to significant support tools that you can access on an ongoing basis

personally I would say RC saved my life, albeit i don't do RC anymore and i now do ICC if you want to look at some texts have a look here
http://www.co-cornucopia.org.uk/coco/literature.htm
but there are plenty of other resources available

best wishes
kate
In the financial sector, there are regulations requiring a minimum consecutive absence.

> It is the FDIC's goal that all banks have a vacation policy which provides that active officers and employees be absent from their duties for an uninterrupted period of not less than two consecutive weeks. http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/1995/fil9552.html
Good story, but not fitting for HN, except for that paragraph on page 5:

I finally spoke to a woman and asked if they had a homicide record for a girl who may have been found in the Martinsburg truck stop during the summer of 1985.

"We don't have any records," she told me.

I thought she meant digitized.

"I can come down," I said.

"We don't have any records."

In the 1990s, the Berkeley County sheriff's department's computer crashed and burned. The paper records had been destroyed for file space, and so nothing from the 1980s remained.

That is the best example I have ever seen of the digital dark ages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age) we are facing
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there is a second order analysis on Facebook: how many of its employees who quit to create a startup did use php-mysql?
Fixing your moods by replacing them with something else is pretty smart.

And if you manage to have a somewhat healthy something else, you're relatively lucky :)
It's a best practice for design. You want your readers to notice the differences between content and headers at a glance. And having different font families for each is the best way to do that.
Most of those sales would be on the PS3 or Xbox 360 where Valve won't take a cut.
He exaggerated his points because he did see the big picture which became reality; untrained people writing buggy, horrible software. He knew that would happen and tried to use his position to do something about it. And we are doing better? Computers were doing important things back then, but now they are almost driving our cars, they are flying our planes and giving us radiation therapy. All that, usually, without formal proof and with some kind of 'but we use unit tests so ...' attitude. Outsourced if possible because then it's cheap. Of course, humans make more mistakes than buggy software generally, however his point was that we have ways to almost prevent this by properly training software developers and writing proper software. You cannot prevent everything as he suggested (but, again, he exaggerated to make a point); you can make it better by not calling people who did some online course programmers and by creating open and robust systems. If you are young enough, I would be willing to bet that you will, at some time in your life be seriously hurt or even die from the consequence of not taking this seriously enough. You are probably losing money because of software bugs already; besides rounding errors, you (probably) have no idea how many bugs there are in the software which processes your insurance, taxes etc, all written in that evil Cobol by untrained monkeys. I know this for a fact in the Netherlands as I have seen this up close; probably true everywhere.
It's not hard to understand the confusion. One agency takes a nude photo of you and punishes you for asserting your rights, the other demands that you let them explore your laptop and cites decades of precedent in ignoring civil rights, and both take pride in examining personal luggage and publicly embarrassing people.
which came first - the controlling mother or the breakaway child?
In fact, it's not even the point. Invasion of privacy is by definition, done wrong. Are we willing to give up all of our privacy to prevent a very, very small number of incidents.
Remote Echo - a remote trace debug tool for PHP
That's not true. I'm not a designer or a developer, but I recognized sites that in retrospect clearly used bootstrap well before I heard about it. The hero bar, buttons for links, and (usually) three explanatory columns are pretty distinctive design elements even to people who don't use the tool.
How long until there is something similar for Java? Let's play name the products that need to be saved from Oracle.
From what I understand, it may be tough to open up to your teammates when you feel down.

After all, in the workplace, you are expected to show leadership, strong will and the power to go through anything.
Especially in the ultra competitive world of startups.

So I can understand the OP MO here.

PS : OPMO is a funny word.

PS : and for different reasons, family is sometimes a big no no as well.
Just send you an email and a Skype address. A founder that can listen. Brave of you to ask, all my best.
> Then perhaps you shouldn't be giving design advice.

Giving advice outside your field of expertise is fine. She just happened to give some bad advice.
Completely agree. We are enabling users to import from multiple sources. This seems to be the feature that resonates most with people - to get all their photos into one location.
Mostly, I just find it frustrating that you and the author are presuming that taking Bootstrap and, as self-proclaimed non-designers, "making it not look like Bootstrap" is a good thing. Good design isn't just a thing that happens when you put a cool font on a photo. I'd be less irked if the article was about finding and installing great Bootstrap themes.

Also: 24 Ways' design has, and has had, an excellent design for years and years. The colors are a bit interesting, but the typography and layout is wonderful.

Also also: you're building quite the straw man there. No one said the article was killing anything, illing anything, or making anyone cry.

I definitely wouldn't take the author's design advice, though.
In theory, yes. But there are a plentiful of Flickr users who grudgingly renew their Flickr account because they don't see any alternatives that includes porting their photos.

The solutions exist. But no one knows about them. I believe this is a big problem and we're baking data portability right into the service.

If Flickr had a big button that said, export all of your photos then I imagine people would.

And by export I don't mean download zip file. I mean move where your photos are stored without losing the benefits of having them "up in the cloud".
That's why I said perhaps. :)
Didn't mean to come across as anti-bootstrap. I use it! It's the "tweak it" part of these articles I don't like.
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Out of interest, have you written much interactive PostScript?
An issue is that they are only an _approximate_ heuristic. What is the likelihood that an unusual behavior is suspicious? The level of false negatives is, as this article points out, very high. That's because it's essentially impossible to define "normal" behavior.

"Normal" behavior doesn't include jumping off a bridge. But I and friends have, as a lark. Is that then suspicious? Or from the article, normal people don't buy explosive chemicals and a timer in the same week ... except if the person's teen wants the chemicals for a science experiment and the timer replaces the broken one for the lawn irrigation system.

There are a huge number of these low-probability events, and it overwhelms the signal of any truly suspicions behavior. Should the authorities investigate all of these? Some of these? What sets the limit? The lack of funding or the law?

"Authoritarianism" comes into play because the authorities do come in and investigate. That's their mandate. And innocent citizens are compelled to submit to the investigation, or at the least get the clear signal that the government thinks they are suspicious. Some will stop doing legal things (like traveling by air) in order to not be subject to increased scrutiny by the authorities. This might be low-level authoritarianism, but it still is a higher level of submission to authority than I would like.

There's always going to be some false positives, where innocent citizens are investigated, accused, and even put into prison, so it's not like I'm saying that we can have a non-authoritarian government. But do say that this has nothing to do with authoritarianism is only focusing on the collection of the data, and not the likelihood that someone in authority will do something with it.
Should I make this open-source?
When I read articles like this, I always wonder if early-on there was someone in the room saying "Um..guys..maybe we should just pick something stable first?" and got shouted down as being a Luddite?

I've seen that countless times where exuberant "experts" hastily choose a new technology over the warnings of those who are a little more thoughtful in their technology choices. Usually the ignoring comes with a heavy dose of disdain and mocking of the person for not being "up to speed with the latest stuff".

Then when disaster strikes, they seem to have forgotten about how they were warned and write a blog post about how much smarter and more experienced they have now become.

Not suggesting that this the case here, but I have to wonder if Cloud9 didn't have at least one person saying "Whoa there sparky! Have anyone of you considered how we are ever going to query this stuff?", etc.