skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some experience with this. I never went into a slump that I would consider clinical depression. I'm not sure if that's what you're going through, or not. I'm certainly not that kind of professional.

My experience is this: regret is a black hole of the worst kind. It sucks you in, and there is no end to it, and it is unmerciful in the worst way.

However, how you choose to respond to your circumstances is completely within your control. This was something Victor Frankl (a man who survived the concentration camps during the Holocaust!!) talked about in "Man's Search for Meaning"

I will hit 40 in November, and there are parts of my life that I wish had ended up differently, but I don't poke that bear.

I have learned to be thankful for where I am, and what blessings I have in my life now.

(for me, I'm happily married, and have a health baby girl, a home of my own, a job I enjoy)

I would posit to you that it would help, if you took an inventory of what you have to be thankful for... and started from that position, that life may look a bit brighter.

You can change your circumstances in life. It may not come as quickly as you like... but it will come, with work.

I am sorry you are hurting... but I couldn't disagree with you more, that efforts to turn things around now would be futile. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you like, I can share with you where I've come from. My history isn't something I'd like to put here publicly, but I'd be happy to share with you, through a different venue. You can email me at the address listed in my profile.
> Even if there were an appropriate forum for such loathsome sentiments, hn is certainly not it.

This behavior is the inevitable result of lynch mobs throughout history though. Rile up the people enough and stuff like this is a byproduct. Even in the American Revolution the people started off by torturing unpopular British officials by tar-and-feathering them. One can't have their cake and eat it too.
Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods Dating
humans suck. especially when they pretend to themselves that they are rational
The instagram TOS debacle some weeks ago was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I recently stopped using Instagram, and requested account deletion from Facebook.

Graph search and its creepy implications were then nothing I needed to find personally objectionable anymore.

I no longer have to complain about the other sleazy, move-the-goalposts, amoral aspects of Facebook Instagram.

This latest one, I have to say, should not be surprising to anybody.

DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT if you don't like it. You will still have friends, I promise :-)

Before you file for account deletion, you might want to do two things:

1) use http://www.picknzip.com/ to download the pictures of you from other people (I have a couple that I liked that I can use for other profile pics, etc.). (The other photos in my facebook albums that I uploaded myself, I already have elsewhere.)

2) associate your facebook account with a yahoo email address. You can download all the contact information of your facebook friends that way (I don't know if this still works, but it did last year)

This is, AFAIK, the only way to export your facebook friends' data

3) go to your full friends list, scroll down until the infinite scrolling loads the whole list. copy and paste this in an email to yourself.

These three steps should ensure that you don't "lose" any data about your friends on facebook, and will allow you to email them later.
Anonymous hacks US Sentencing Commission, distributes files
Henry A Wallace did for America what Norman Borlaug did for the world; he's a lot more familiar, and his story is as tremendous.

Not very exciting but a summary:
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=w00...

As a child he walked the countryside around Iowa State University with Emeritus Professor George Washington Carver, learning to love biology.

As a scientist he determined canny American farmers wouldn't accept a handout, but would buy better seed stock, so formed Pioneer Hybrid seed company (in his back yard) and marketed better seed as a new American ideal.

As VP and Secty of Ag, he formed the US Agriculture Extension program to promote agriculture education across American and around the world via Research Stations.

For better or for worse, he's personally responsible for the use of corn as the standard crop. He changed the direction of the world, and can be credited with feeding billions.
Lovely. I installed Vine and created one (http://vine.co/v/b5LHKjOEbX2) simply to see it on there. It didn't disappoint.
LOL! This is surreal.
You think so? If students can never show up to a classroom, why would they show up for a test? I've taken DE courses from a few different places - all of them used the LMS for the final. No proctor needed.

Protoring costs money. The idea here is to charge for degrees while keeping resources the same, or reducing them. I can give you a few online tests, charge you $12,000 for an accredited degree, and we both win. You get a degree without having to show up, and nobody has to extend resources other than a little bit of time to grade your stuff.
This notion has been floating around for a while now and it seems less and less unlikely. I for one am not willing to accept a company taking charge of my ID. Actually, the day facebook asks me for my ID will be the day I quit it. It's total abuse.
"Win the lottery and you could receive up to $200 million!!! Buy your ticket today!!!"

And yet we say the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math...
We could work something out. I'll just need you to sign this NDA.
Essentially it's a form of terrorism. They are saying do things our way or we burn your house down. They don't believe in democracy and so what's left? A world where the best people at malicious hacking rule? The same skills they used to do this can shut down power plants, bring down air planes, and wreck general mayhem. They are saying the people in power are corrupt. Some how we have to trust they will never become corrupt.

Before I posted my original comment. I had a moment of fear. What if I pass them off and they decide to ruin my life. Maybe as an exercise size for one of their noobs.
My two cents : You cannot love anyone or anything else fully without loving yourself first .
"wait... this guy thinks the future is going to be simpler? when has that ever happened?"

It happens constantly. It's such a strong urge that making things simpler itself has become simpler.

I'm touching simpler right now. This linux distro (lubuntu, doesn't matter) took me much less than an hour to download and install, fully functional with no configuration by me. In fact it was fully functional before I installed it, because it was a live distro that connected to the internet with no configuration on my part.

15 years ago that would have required me to download a bunch of separate files, copy them to a stack of floppy disks, and keep a book by Matt Walsh open on my knees while I tried to figure out again how to make my computer talk to my modem and to the wider internet.

I'll completely reinstall my OS on a whim, with confidence. I used to approach it with dread and a good night's sleep.

I also don't adjust the choke on my car when I start it, and I have no idea how to safely crank the engine from the front of the car; actually, I can't find the place to put the crank handle in, and I can't find the crank.

EDIT: s/router/modem/
Read my other reply.
Apparently the part of the brain that decides what we want activates before the logical part; thus we use our powerful brains mostly to rationalize what we already feel is the right answer.
The enjoyment or lack of it by the printer owners is probably not a valid legal argument.
Did... did you read the post? Or look at who wrote it?
> You and your first world problems have NO IDEA how to fight for freedom.

Why do you think "Freedom" is what they care about? They have decided what rules the rest of us are to live by, better just to get out of the way before the doxx you or take other vengeful retribution on you...
[Citation needed]

(also, how very considerate of you)
Making Primes More Random
Stop regretting and do something about it. You can sob and feel sorry for yourself, or you can get your act together and sort out your life. It's never too late to change, if you are passionate about something, you shouldn't have any major issues excelling in that field. You don't need a great education. Pick up some books. Things can always get better, but that usually takes action on your own behalf. Good luck, and hope my comment doesn't come over harshly. Think forward, take a break, and put everything into perspective.
And folks creating murals for advertising instead of for a museum are also denigrated. Elitists have always found some bad word for those that make a living at what elitists play at.
The app is Android only at the moment, so there's that, but also it actually doesn't use bluetooth file exchange, just connects via bluetooth and sends a data stream which can include encoded photos. Actually on iPhone it would be a little easier because P2P wifi connections have been standard for a few OS versions (they're new in Android), so the connection would be a little easier to establish and way faster.
This is how i landed a job at an awesome startup.
Who’s In to Opt Out?
Indeed. The definitions of words are easy; the connotations are harder to learn, and slippery. That's where the danger lies.
Sounds good. But the part about tangible results is off the mark. Do it for yourself, and every minute is 'tangible results'. The journey vs the destination etc.
Why is everyone thinking about torrenting in browsers? I want a service where I can select a sensitive file, give my associate a link, and have that file transferred between our two computers without ever reaching an intermediate server.

Does anyone know of a service like that, easy enough for my father to use?
I'm learning rails/ruby right now. I don't know what your background is, but I'd say try to just build something. For instance, last weekend I built a todo app in rails and learned a lot about resources, routing, models, etc in rails along the way.

hope this helps, good luck!
When Steve Chen Was Smarter Than Steve Jobs
If you're attributing, please make sure you spell people's names correctly:

> by @prianna

yet the link goes (correctly) to @piranna. It irks me to see people's names misspelled in attributions.
Manning and WikiLeaks may have been credited by some as catalysts for the Arab Spring, but they were not.

Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation was the catalyst for the Arab Spring. It's not as if Tunisians needed anyone to tell them how corrupt their government was. Once Tunisia looked like it might fall, revolutionaries in other countries started planning their own protests.
Did telling them so ever help?
A database that spans 1/7th of the worlds population. Facial recognition, relationships and locations. It really is the dream as far as fully validating an identity goes.
I hate to play the paranoia card, but this reads like a push from the government for Facebook to start cataloging people. If it wasn't happening already, this is probably the missing piece in court evidence to show that a person is who they really are. This is really, really dangerous (especially when the majority of their users probably aren't bright enough to understand the implications).
Great idea. Needs a better app and UX but really good idea. Good job!
That's an insane thing to say! Vine will be forgotten in 2 months.
I have a friend who builds high-end custom aquariums for rich people and businesses. There's a lot of monitoring to be done on those things, I bet there's an opportunity
Bill Gates treating the world like a computer optimization problem. First profile the world (program) and construct suitable benchmarks. Figure out some reasonable goals and test if your various health care and education programs affect the benchmark results.
There appears to be no way to enable the Flash applet when viewing the site with FlashBlock turned on. Is it under some sort of transparent overlay that doesn't pass the right clicks to the applet container?
I also worked for a while in the entertainment industry (AI behaviors, some graphics, some control of motion platforms, sound, etc.), our clients were mostly Nintendo and Disney.

On my first day on the job I was assigned a maxed out SG Reality Engine and I installed Scheme on it - figuring that I would want a scripting language for fast changes, etc. I quickly realized that was bullshit, and and used C++ for everything for performance.

Today, I do about 2/3 of my work in Clojure but if I were ever to work on games and virtual reality projects again I would go back to using C++.
> It really is the dream as far as fully validating an identity goes.

It really is a dream as far as intelligence agencies (FBI, CIA and their less public counterparts) go. It used to be ridiculously hard to find the info about how to reach a person, or which buttons to push. Now, almost everyone offers it freely about themselves, and the few who don't get ratted on by their friends.

Validating identity might be a by product. But it's not anything that's hard to do anyway.
I disagree, and this sort of snark is neither discussion promoting, nor helpful.
This is great.

Quick suggestions: Put the video completely above the fold. Load in the next one (video and description) behind, then fade between them. The transition is a little jerky right now.
It's good to see yet another outlet for cat videos. Just what the world needs.
Fixing Computer Guy Posture Circuit Video
Does anyone remember Tent? suspend account? It's not simply possible. http://tent.io/ I personally would still pefer fully distributed sosial networking solution like RetroShare.
this idea is awesome. The "forking" idea is great for recipes, but you need almost something like a difftool to be able to tell what's different and why? I think with a better UI and way's for users to interact with each other this could be extremely cool. Stick with it and good luck :)
How to rid the world of all known diseases (the Python method)

"Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again."

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/toridof.htm
I've learned a similar lesson the hard way ten years ago. However, in my case there was no lawsuit involved.
"Nobody in the US is going to persecute you because you think academic articles should be free (they'll largely just ignore you)."

What good is the belief without the ability ("freedom") to act on it? Aaron acted on it, which was arguably a more effective form of protest, and he paid a high price too, even if one doesn't attribute the suicide to his persecution (ehem, sorry, "prosecution")...

"Whoever defaced the site might get prosecuted for their endeavor, but the only purpose for anonymity here is for the instigators to avoid official reprisal and prosecution (.e.g to get away with it)."

If I am reading your correctly, it sounds like you're saying the person defacing the site should volunteer his or herself for jail (albeit as an act of protest). That hardly makes sense in the best of scenarios let alone in the context of the CFAA. No sit-in protester wants to be pepper-sprayed and hauled downtown, nor would I hold it against them. Suggestion boxes are anonymous for a reason too. (Mind you, one doesn't see many of those these days; almost as if noone wants to know when something's wrong.)
tinok - way to make presumptions about our preparation for birth, what my wife's medical history was, the research we did, our conversations with a close friend who is a midwife, my wife's predisposition to extreme pain, and what we've been telling others since having the baby. For you and others in this thread, home births may be the choice you make. A denial of any sort of frugs may be your decision as well. That's great. We decided a hospital environment was more appropriate for us.

To me the decision of how you want to deliver your baby that you and you alone conceived is as personal as religion, abortion, and numerous other topics which I believe people should be left to make their own decisions about. The quick fire judgments of absolute strangers proselytizing from up high should be checked at the door.
What's your point? hn is still not the place for such behavior to be framed as "helpful".
People easily forget that Facebook was funded by the CIA and remains their biggest success in intelligence gathering.
Show HN: Make Ubuntu Remember Brightness Levels
>I initially anticipated that I'd be able to spend a number of full-time months on the work. I ended up being able to allocate time on a less consistent basis

So you pocketed money from Kickstarter contributors to do something, and then you put the project in the back burner and gave priority to something else.

And not for serious health or personal reasons (which would be totally understandable). Just to start another business.

Nice.

Will keep it in mind the next time somebody asks me to fund a Kickstarter project.
This reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell talk on why future generation will remember Bill Gates and not Steve Jobs and also why he will be remembered as a humanitarian and not as a computer genius.
Facebook updates developer policy after Vine scuffle
Since they tell you to cover up your license number, it's hard to see how it would be particularly helpful for cataloging.
Instead of using flashblock, turn Firefox's native click-to-play in about:config by setting plugins.click_to_play to true.

EDIT: then you don't have to click the item. You can click the icon in the address bar and enable flash for that site.
http://startupsupper.com
HN, I will be disappointed if by this time tomorrow I don't see "Show HN: government id image generator (no numbers, so it can't be used as an fraudulent ID)"

For FB's, they have to excuse from making an open source client side pre-upload number-removing tool.
Ask HN: Need Start-up Critiqued :)
Hi All, I don't have faith in my servers in case the the traffics peaks out - I've heard horror stories from Start-ups posting their website on HN because of the unexpected rush.

That being said, Fellow HN's if your email is in your profile - can you let me know so I can send you the link individually. Be INCREDIBLY critical and ask any questions if necessary.

It's for non-profits, Thanks.
First: Everybody has regrets, often very deep and hurtful regrets. Remember that when you think about the successes of another. They're living with their own unique set of places where life didn't work out for them.

Second: There's going to be somebody who's better than you in anything you do. But nobody is going to be better than you in everything you do. You are a unique collection of skills and should only really think about self improvement for your own sake, not about competition against others on cherry picked sets of capabilities.

Third: Try and live a life that, if you picked out only the highlights and wrote a book about it, would be a damn interesting read. Meditate on those good parts, those personal adventures, those things you never thought you would ever see, hear or experience. Take great satisfaction in those things -- for they are yours and yours alone. If you think you haven't done that yet, start today. That transition into a life of experience will in and of itself be a place in your life's book where the adventure began.
I don't think this is new. I abandoned FB about 2 years ago, and maybe a year ago I re-established my account just to setup a developer key using OAuth2 for an app I was building. I also got locked out of my FB account at that time, and it prompted me to scan my driver's license and upload it -- at which point I promptly said F U and scratched Facebook OAuth support off my list of features.
The biggest problem is resource depletion and overpopulation. Overpopulation will be "fixed" through starvation and death. Resource depletion will leave the current young and future generations with far less extravagant lives. Adding to the overpopulation through vaccination programmes und su weiter is a misstep.
If it was really the only thing I used, then yes, I would not count myself as an active user of a social network. It is OK to say google+ has N number of active users, what irks people is when they say it is the largest or second largest social network using that count
Ow, that Venn diagram.
What happens if we take this idea and instead encrypt the messages using PGP. If bluetooth wasn't so crazy on power consumption you could delivery peer to peer SMS's. It would probably take a while though for delivery to happen if you weren't walking around syncing with other nodes.
Interesting application of software development paradigms to cooking. I think it would be useful to have categories, e.g. breakfast/dinner/dessert, hot/cold, and suchlike. And maybe a regular 'featured menu' on the front page to illustrate a meal combination, with a nice photograph shown and some encouraging body text.
Neat. When I saw the headline I thought that this would be too technical to get traction with non-geeks but it looks nice and I could see it becoming popular especially with particular diet communities like paleo etc.
Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest
>This guy has worked on all sorts of awesome shit that he gives completely free to the community.

Wasn't those things sponsored by his employeer, Engine Yard?

He worked on them on their time and dime.
As Gates points out in the article, these techniques existed before computers. So I agree given Gates's background, he is probably applying what he learned from computers to wider problems. But in the grand scheme of things, computer science adopted these techniques from other disciplines.
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, it's not digital noise. It's an artifact of the Autochrome process. The images are made with colored grains of potato starch. It's a fascinating process that (to my knowledge) has never been successfully reproduced in modern times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome
Why not build this right on top of GitHub?
Just when you think FB can't be any creepier.
There are a number of startups working on products in this space, such as use of social media accounts as verification to screen for and prevent fraud.
No, it's called science, we've been using it for a little while now and it seems to be working out pretty well.
I have friends who work at Facebook. I still don't know how they rationalize their employment.
Sorry, but I'm not a native english speaker, so the joke went over my head.

(And while I now recognise "wither" I didn't knew at all about the "wilt" word)
A gmail-using friend sent me an email. He attached an image. I would have expected to just, you know, see the image in the email I received.

Instead, all there was was a link which google helpfully put in place of the image itself in my friend's email. That link was to an image that my friend was "sharing". When I clicked on the link, I had to log in to my G+ account (which I virtually never use), and then get "permission" to view the document (image).

Am I counted as an active user? Given Google's incentives, I'm guessing yes.

Was the simple act of attaching an image hijacked for those same incentives? I'm guessing yes.
Do you have any visibility on what it was that triggered your change? I don't mean to pry, achieving a genuine change of outlook is rare, fascinating and to be celebrated. A lot of time the internal struggle is worsened because there doesn't seem to be any way to break out of the thinking patterns.
Mountain climbing
You Can’t Use Customer Discovery for B2C Products
Not everyone is as confident in Bill Gates's magical abilities as he is.

http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/10/how-bill-gates-wasted-50-...
http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywestneat/2014437975_danny0...
Coursers has to start thinking about cheating if they plan to succeed there.