skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With a goal of "increasing freedom," there is no line to be drawn, and the confrontations you predict are a signal of decreased freedom.

Agreed. But you should never lift more than your back can handle.

> One can call it a perverse incentive, but to the point he had reached, the confrontation was way out of proportion to the acts.

We're fully in agreement here. But there are many examples of such extreme overreaches, recall the music sharing verdict and a bunch of other examples in the hacking / media sphere. This is not an isolated case at all. The differentiating factors are: (1) the defendant was for a change an exceptionally nice person, (2) the defendant knew a lot of people and was known by a lot of people and (3) he was clearly acting in what he thought was the best interest of all of us.

> You can call this unsustainable, but what other choice is there?

Unsustainable for Aaron in particular.

> "Welp, the interests of less-freedom don't want this, so I guess I shouldn't do it."

No, that's definitely not where I'm heading. I do want this and it is worth something, maybe even worth a lot.

> However, that the hammer was brought down so heavily tells me that on the part of the status quo there is a real weakness and a real fear that people might go in the directions he did.

Yes, I agree, and this overreach has exposed another weakness all by itself. A just justice system doesn't need scare tactics.

> Like the Boston Massacre, we will soon find ourselves in a propaganda battle. Ortiz' husband's mockery of Aaron Swartz's supporters, and her hardening of her stance (while parrying responsibility) is just the first step in circling the wagons.

Consider the battle joined. I will not forget about this and it will shape my actions for a long time to come.

> Sen. John Cornyn is now asking questions of the Attorney General about all this, so now we know the people at the top have heard the call. Prepare for additions to this story.

I guarantee it.
C'mon, his handle is "conspiracynutt". I think it's probably his job to swear that there's a drug company conspiracy that aims to prevent finding the cure for any disease that they can profit from instead.
But its not, there are no two dimensional arrays. There are arrays of arrays.
"Dietary changes and nutritional supplements have a better track record than allopathic drugs. I don't have any links at my fingertips."

There's a reason for that. "My kid has celiac" is the new fad, but the fad doesn't "cure" ADD.
are there any public servers that we could connect to?
I can't remember exactly if the money was to be used for travel costs to see his son, or if he was spending it more "inefficiently", but yes, of course there are usually more options. Those options can be constrained by what the father and/or son consider fun though, and when your life is crappy and you're living month to month, you might not have the energy to think outside the box or try something new. There might be a problem though of people thinking having fun = spending.
You didn't out grow it, I think the general high school education system is broken. Our society would like to think it's a children's medical problem, why students can't pay attention in class, when in reality it's the broken public education system.

We need to rethink public education before we start drugging everyone to fit a broken system. The way that college is taught is much more humane.

Good Noam Chomsky interview on the topic of education: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdNAUJWJN08
Oh did you mean Mission Street (as in Soma), not the mission district?

I agree driving to the Moscone sucks (driving on 3rd past Harrison is a nightmare).

Things are much better if you are talking about the Mission District:
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Daly+City,+CA&daddr=M...

(I mentioned "avoiding commute traffic" as I figured "place you want to be" meant for fun, not work.)
So how much rent do you pay and what are your living conditions? Btw I never owned a car in my life and only have one cell phone which is prepaid and I almost never use it, so my expenses with it are minimal(around 10 $ every 3 months or so).
NASA contracting with Bigelow Aerospace for balloon-like space module
Anyone with A.D.D who's taken drugs here? Do you remember what it feels like? I haven't taken any, how do they make life different?
I will say this however, I've found that a moderate dose of alcohol (1 pint of beer) usually makes me focus better/more discipline and I'm able to resume working on my master thesis. Usually, I cannot work on it because it's almost over(in my head it's over) and I want to do something else.

I am currently pursuing an academic career but I really feel that I would have been better at doing something simpler, like sports. Short tasks, competition, and recognition are very important for me.
Yes, but does it matter? We can call that a 2D array.
What to do when a customer says “Fuck you”
I find this a very interesting product category - and I'm part of a very (I feel) undeserved category of consultant/freelancers. The essence of what you seem to be doing "uber simple" (the the home page states), is what had me interested.

But, after seeing your video, and the number of times a user has to click on different elements - it's clear this is not a simple logging tool. I also think the video could be (a) called out above the fold and (b) include some sort of voice over.

I feel there is a market ready and waiting for those that work on more abstract sorts of things. Situations where work might form more organically from a blog post on http://blogging.cwl.cc (it's happened) or a small idea (more frequent), and eventually turns into billing or a larger scale project. With tools like these that are project-based - It feels like logging friction is much to high.

The problem is not being solved (in my opinion) because generally no one wants to log what they do, but for those that have decided to do so, there should be little to no clicking and a process to capture everything written in very low overhead manner (mobile support is essential).

So far, no tool seems to be as good as a simple OTA sync'ed calendar. So far.
Here is an almost bizarre theory. When your salary crosses the average number your enjoyment of things that you can buy with money goes down drastically. You have much more appreciation of the used car that you bought out of college as the monthly payments pinched you a little. A good way for you to maintain that effect is to keep stepping up your lifestyle as your salary increases. Constantly buying a little more than you can afford. You can easily afford a Honda now? Buy BMW. Goes against conventional wisdom, but food for thought.
> and should generate fewer bugs – called side effects

I know this was unintentional, but I agree, for the most part side effects are bugs.
Just like with depression, everyone sometimes feels sad. It's the intensity and how much your life is affected by it that's the differentiating factor. There also often isn't a logical reason. When you have ADD proper, you just can't help it.

For a person with ADD, if there was a gun held to their head to stay on a task, they will soon forget that there's a gun and become distracted. They can't help it. Their mind is racing. The only way to stay on task is to be constantly tapped on the head with the gun. At this point, it's the periodic reminder that's doing the trick. This is why people with ADD often require external structure to keep them focused.

There's a lot of positives for people with ADD, such as increased creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. Problem is that a lot of societal institutions, such as school, are not adapted to it.
Fractal Life: Foursquare and the Night Sky
Hmm, according to www.paycheckcity.com 90k = $5,014.58 / month after taxes which is significantly more tax than I was expecting. However, if you think 33$ on food per day is necessary your clearly doing something wrong. Learn to cook or buy more normal food or something?
> I know that would change if I bought a house or had kids, but still.

Understatement of the year, replies a man with wife, house and 3 kids.
Another important aspect to consider is that penny pinching will make you feel miserable and will often add so much additional hassle as to not be worth it.

For instance, saving 50 euro on airline travel ... not worth it if you can afford the extra 50 euro.
While it may not be too much sugar, it could be too few veggies. I find when I eat cabbage regularly I'm able to focus for longer periods of time. America should reintroduce veggies like cabbage back into their regular diet. Less meat, more veggies.
Thanks for posting the semmelweis piece from Aaron. With all of the links being passed around this week I missed it. It is amazingly relevant to this discussion and (if it hasn't been done already) it should be sent to the DoJ and Ortiz personally.

Not that I think it will make any difference though.
"You should not be downloading anything that you don't want anybody else to know" Eric Schmidt would say
Wiper Typography (HTML5 Demo)
That link is broken (has an extra period).
1. Tell him to get a LinkedIn and start networking like crazy. Go to networking events, Meetups (Meetup.com, there are hardware groups), startup events ,etc. Most are free. Also, use LinkedIn to find employees / founders of electronics / hardware startups and ask them out for coffee.

2. Buy this book - http://www.amazon.com/The-Education-Millionaires-Think-Portf...

3. Make a blog and start doing DIY hardware / electronics stuff / projects. Post those to Hacker News and other communities online, build an online brand. Also great to have those things on your resume in the 'Projects' sections. Play around with Arduino, Raspberry Pi's, etc and make some cool stuff.

4. Learn more software and emphasize your software skills on your resume. Tons of jobs for people with software experience / knowledge over those that are pure electronics.
The email newsletter is a medium. It's often abused, but that's not the fault of the medium. Saying all newsletters are useless is a lot like saying all books are useless. Are there terrible books? Yes. Are there terrible newsletters? Yes. But there are great ones too.

I operate a design newsletter related to my ebook. It's a great way to earn sales, but it's also a great way to facilitate discussions about design.

The newsletters I enjoy most are written for a very specific, narrow audiences. They're nothing like the massive retail email ads the author mentions.
wow indeed.
funny that tandoori roti and chapatis are from north India and evidence suggests migration from the south ... maybe the author needs a lesson in matching Indian food to region
Anthony Bourdain's episode on Colombia says it all:

"It's almost ludicrous that this place exists and that everybody doesn't want to live here"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T...!
Aaron Swartz Pitching 1-800-INTERNET
I love it, but for my app we charge subscriptions with a free trial up front. Do you have any suggestions on how to phrase the wording so it's clear that the charge isn't going to happen right away?
I completed my first 10 day Vipassana course recently, and genuinely believe that a slightly modified version of the course should be an essential component of any person’s psychological maturation/development. The course I did was the ‘Goenka course’ (dhamma.org), and I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about meditation. It is free of charge to attend, and you can actually only donate to the organization if you complete the full 10 days.

The course is almost entirely rational and in the spirit of honest scientific inquiry. The rules seem arbitrary and silly but they are very helpful in quieting your mind, and enabling you to focus entirely on the practice at hand. It took me until Day 3 to let myself relax and enjoy the absence of tweets, posts and text notifications rather than feel anxiety about being disconnected. Assuming one is there for 240 hours, I only have an issue with ~5 of those hours being a bit ‘woo-woo’ as The Amazing Randi would say. I think of Goenka (the videos used in the evening lectures are available on youtube) as a kindly grandparent who just wants the best for you but occasionally tangents into bullshit. Despite his continual admonishments to only believe what is rational, he seems to genuinely believe the magical stories surrounding the Buddha, and it was distracting to have to segue from ‘this is a genuine insight into how the mind generates its own suffering’ to ‘oh wait he is talking BS’. If one replaces some of his more magical terms that are almost Freudian (ie Sakarnas) with 'Maladaptive neuronal connections' they actually make sense.

The sheer number of hours one is able to practice in this setting really accelerates the development of concentration/mindfulness. I think of the ~110 hours spent meditating during the course as equivalent to 220 days worth of 30minutes/day practice, and feel like I have ‘time traveled’ past 60% of a year of training. Happy to answer specific questions if anyone is considering attending a course.
Your best marketing idea is probably not an e-mail newsletter.

So this is where the logical chain leaps from "I am on a bunch of newsletters which I don't value" to "Email newsletters are ineffective." That's a category error, right? (4:30 AM, somebody find the word for me.)

A "newsletter" is probably not the best positioning you could have for a scheduled opportunity to get in touch with a customer/prospect about something of mutual interest, but be that as it may, they're big freaking business. Billions upon billions of dollars a year. Every single time folks do one of those poll-Fortune-500-CMOs-and-ask-about-channel-ROI email obliterates every advertising channel, organic search, social media, etc etc.

Additionally: there is a different-strokes-for-different-folks effect going on. You might very well find How To Make Thanksgiving Bingo Cards boring. (God only knows I do!) I forgot to press send on that in 2010 and people found me to complain about it. In this wide world there is probably somebody who gets the Hoover email and has that be a nice little mini-highlight of her morning. She might print it out and clip parts of it. Maybe even show it to her friends.

Many of you run startups / software businesses. I'm sort of talking my book here, but if you trust me on anything, trust me on this: software businesses -- including software businesses with very techy customer bases, including techy customers who profess to hate email -- routinely figure out how to send emails that people like to receive, that successfully motivate behavior, and that repeatably generate absolute truckloads of money.

The unit economics of it are almost staggering: in quantity, emails cost substantially less than a penny to send. When you get in touch with the 10,000 people who affirmatively asked to hear from you, many of them are, predictably, right around that time in their life where they are in need of your product or service. They were busy because they have friends, children, jobs, hobbies, and a million things more important than remembering every company they have ever done business with, but if you catch them at the right moment, bam, sales process begins again. Given that getting a new customer in the door routinely costs companies hundreds or thousands of dollars, it's very, very easy to justify budgeting a whole quarter a year to keep old customers in a mutually beneficial warm relationship.
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
That's one of the things I do. Not generally with large purchases, but the $300 difference between a nice Dell panel and a Thunderbolt display is small and easily pays off in the "oh sweet, a beautiful new toy!" feeling that I get from it.
I once read a book called adrift [1], a true story about a man adrift at sea, alone, for 76 days. The main takeaway that I recall was the profound loneliness and the desire for human contact that he experienced. I sometimes think of this I'm with friends and family, to try to really appreciate the moments that I'm with them. Luckily, I
don't feel the need to impose 10 days of solitude on myself to obtain this realization (nor the other realizations the gained by the author of the post).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrift:_76_Days_Lost_At_Sea and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Callahan
I had a hard time concentrating in school as well. Always in the principal's office, and got C's in conduct all the way through 6th grade. I thank god my parents never had me 'diagnosed' because I was guaranteed to be labeled 'ADD' and been prescribed medication for this truly bullshit condition concocted by the modern age.
And I suspect that if you had a virus scanner installed on windows every file it scanned would be logged somewhere depending on settings.

This post also fails to mention that this is specific to Safari at last check. I don't think Google Chrome integrates with this functionality.
just mine: ws://107.21.150.140:1338
Why would you fire someone for doing what they were hired to do? These are the people you probably want on your side. The real solution is to change their job descriptions to something reasonable. Otherwise their replacements will just do the same thing.
From you,

>A lot of people not afflicted with A.D.D. like to give their armchair opinion on the effects, classification and understanding without having spent one day with A.D.D.

From the piece

>As a psychologist who has been studying the development of troubled children for more than 40 years...

From you

>I was diagnosed late in life, so I can't speak to the longer term, or even child-related effects of Concerta or Ritalin

From the piece

>TO date, no study has found any long-term benefit of attention-deficit medication on academic performance, peer relationships or behavior problems, the very things we would most want to improve.

The author cites numerous studies in order to discuss the effect of medications on children. You cite a personal anecdote about an adult to explain why you take offense to what I found to be an incredibly reasonable and evidence oriented article about children.

-- edited to add --

The reason I'm stressing the child/adult dichotomy, and the reason I reacted tersely (and, to be honest, angrily. sorry) is that if you read the DSM IV's list of symptoms for adhd [1], they really do read like very typical behavior for children. I don't think I've ever met a 7 year old who couldn't qualify under a generous interpretation of the criteria. The vast majority of adults I've met simply wouldn't qualify.

I've met adults with ADHD, and I don't doubt that it's a real disorder. But just because it's a real thing doesn't preclude the possibility that it is over-diagnosed and/or over-medicated in children. I've seen a lot of evidence that it's both.

[1] https://www.msu.edu/course/cep/888/ADHD%20files/DSM-IV.htm They're under the heading "Diagnostic Criteria for the three subtypes..."
The problem with personal health news is that is is never news. A single study that contradicts conventional wisdom or purports a new finding is not meant to be digested by the general public.

Ideally such a study would be published in a medical journal, and other researchers would then perform studies to corroborate or disprove the original; After a sufficient amount of evidence is gather a systematic review would be published, and the results of that would be distributed to doctors and health advice reporters, who would present the information to the general public in a clear, unified and easy-to-understand manner.

In a perfect world.

The reporting of every study only leads the general public to believe that nothing is certain (because dissenting views are published) and not take any of the advice seriously. It is almost as bad as politics.
You work remotely? How did you find your current job? I'm aspiring towards a similar lifestyle yet not sure yet how to manage a stable income.
A society that correlates material wealth with happiness is shallow and deprived. Or have you never read Dickens?
When was Color's peak exactly? When they raised money? Because after that, it was mostly failures after failures.
Let's be honest, no matter where you live $75K isn't much. Even if you live in cheaper areas, it may not be poverty but it's certainly not happiness inducing wealth. Let's be serious.
It is enough as long as you can manage the following math:

Cashflow in (net) > Cashflow out (net)

It is that simple. Yes of course at $75K in NYC, your "cashflow out" variable needs to be lower than what it would be at $120K. So it is your choice. Make $75K in NYC but want to live in manhattan ? Sure, you can do that but your non-housing costs have to be significantly lower.

Master that formula for life and u r golden. I have been doing it for years. My income has seen significant changes over past few years (luckily positive) but when in confusion, I use this formula time and time. Also, I love to discuss this with my wife whenever she says "we make so much money. Why can't we buy X now"
Oddly enough, past usage is one of the best arguments against prescriptivist proclamations of right and wrong. We find that the "aks" pronunciation of ask has an unbroken lineage and usage from African American Vernacular English to Southern American English to Old English. Nouns can be verbed all kinds of ways and often have been if you check the OED. Being aware and in control of your verbal 'appearance' is useful, particularly in formal situations. However, smugly deriding the grammar or spelling of someone who has communicated with practical clarity is a despicable and misguided sport.
This is used to show where a program came from the first time you run it. For example, if I download iTerm 2 and then run it, I get the following warning:

http://i.imgur.com/IbUWj.png
there is a cdecl package in all linux distributions, which can be used inside terminal to expand such C declrations. It was really helpful when I started C programming.
At first this study suggested that medication, or medication plus therapy, produced the best results. However, after three years, these effects had faded, and by eight years there was no evidence that medication produced any academic or behavioral benefits.

This is the crux of the article.

What do you find offensive exactly?

It doesn't say stimulants don't have any effect, it says (citing research) that the effect wears off, and that other strategies have to be devised.
Nothing happened openly in that era. It couldn't; there was no "open" in any sense we'd recognize here today on HN. You, as a normal citizen, might here about the highlights of political actions a couple of days later, you certainly couldn't hear about the details, and you lacked any effective method of connecting with hundreds or thousands of other people in any reasonable period of time to do anything about it if you did. And media was hardly unbiased, with documented instances of wars all but created from whole cloth by media personalities.

All that has happened is that it turns out that merely shining a bit of light on these practices didn't make them go away. The constraint now is people's bandwidth rather than raw ability to get them information, but that didn't turn out to be so much larger than the info conduit was in the first place.

Even if you are inclined to call what Bush did a "coup" (which I am not, but I'll take it for a moment), consider the implications of the fact that not only did the word "coup" already exist, it is in fact centuries old, and still far newer than the phenomena is describes.
Yes -- you can change the text of the button in the overlay. See the "panel-label" config option: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout.
Everyone is blaming the evil government over this issue. Shouldn't we be blaming Aaron himself; maybe just a little?

Shouldn't someone if they are going to commit an act of civil disobedience be aware just a little bit of the possible consequences?