skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took sertraline for about 7 years. 50mg daily.

The first analogy I used to describe it is that it put a floor under my mood. A baseline of satisfaction that I couldn't drop below. A safety net.

I think a better analogy is that it's like a rubber band. The further you move down, the harder it pulls you back.

I didn't feel the alienation that's described in this article. If anything it was easier to keep close to my friends because I wasn't crippled by the depression.

I got the side effect of suppressed libido, but I'm sufficiently terrible at romance that I just didn't notice that for a while. If it's a problem, a good psychiatrist can trial you on different drugs.

Now that I've come off sertraline, the main thing I miss is calmness in the face of aggravation. I notice this in particular when driving; I'm more aggressive and irritable than I used to be.
I'd say give it time for the basic features and so on. I think they wanted to spend more time on the product as a whole so that they could show the world what the vision was, then come back and polish it a bit.

So many products get launched with gadgets, buttons, options, but they miss the mark on a larger scale, the product itself.

Personally I haven't used it (no real need), so I don't know what exactly it's lacking. A change password option does seem like a crucial thing to have (although I think that I read somewhere that your password is part of the key, and if that changed you'd lose access to everything that was encrypted... I could have read that wrong).

Either way, I do enjoy reading their updates, it sounds like they really do care what the community is saying, and then publicly address concerns/problems. Bug Bounty sounds promising.
Mark Cuban nothing. You should see what Steve Ballmer did to a chair.

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Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker
Wow! Contrast that WalkScore to Phoenix. http://www.walkscore.com/AZ/Phoenix

I'm originally from Phoenix, and it was always hard to imagine walking for any reason other than exercise when I lived there.
Nate Silver Picks the Super Bowl
Can you provide an example of where Riak was "nearly impossible to manage operationally without dedicated staff at scale and the tools to introspect and analyze and deal with failures aren't robust enough yet"?
Path managed to screw up so bad last time they forced a change in the OS. A year later and they're caught again uploading some of the user's data that weren't explicitly granted access too. At least they can't scan the pictures without you choosing one in the photo picker.

At this point, I think Apple needs to pull the app and revoke their developers license.

I seriously doubt they'll do that. It's more likely some new law will be passed because of this than Apple will take such a big step.

And I don't think a new law is likely at all.
Not quite true; historically most (i.e. official) defaulted to safe=false.

Also safe=true only makes sure the server acknowledged your write; writeconcern allows you to wait for it to be written to the journal or more.

Also, journalling is not controllable via client drivers, only via startup flags / config options.
That's giving up an awful lot just for the sake of meeting a definition.
I'm not trying to prove you wrong about the auto-industry trying to smear Nader. I'm not arguing that Nader was wrong or deserved criticism. I was reacting to your dismissive flourish "Translation:" bit.
Lol. I sleep around the same time but I wake up at 11pm
Why database abstraction saved me in PHP
So you should take location access away from the Camera app. The exif data is going to be in the photo even if Path only posts it and doesn't use it in any way.
MHacks - "The Most Epic Hackathon Ever"
Impossible? I don't think so. Since Path (and every other iOS app) uses a system API for things like photos it's trivial for the OS to strip the exif location data from photos if the user has turned off location data for an application, then provide that geo-less photo to the application.

Clearly Apple, like Path, never saw this issue (until now).
700 inserts / sec is still quite a lot for a single laptop and I'm sure it will get better over time.

:-)
There definitely seems to be a version of Greenspun's Tenth Rule for Erlang. But I think Greenspunning has gotten too bad a name – sometimes implementing a subset of a classical system is exactly what you ought to do, for example when your problem allows you to exploit certain invariants that don't hold in the general case, or for some reason using the classical system itself (Erlang in this case) is not an option.
I stopped reading when I saw the 70 million number. The grants in question were 1.2 million. So, if that is a representative number, then that is ~5 double dipped grants per year. Hard to be concerned about.
Entrepreneurs are stealing traditional jobs
Should be interesting to see how this goes considering this is only the second hackathon ever held at Michigan.
If this was a normal app, I'd be much more likely to agree with you.

Coming from the people caused Apple to issue an OS update to prevent them from stealing contacts... it deserves outrage. But 90% of that should be pointed at Path.

I don't agree with the article's stance that Path found a way to be jerks again, so clearly Apple screwed up. Phonebook access should have been restricted, but for this one the user has to select the photo, Path can't just read every photo and steal that information, so it's not nearly as serious as last year.
oh what basis can they claim that they are the most epic?
This is sensationalist flotsam- how can you call a hackathon that hasn't even happened yet "the biggest" and "most epic"?
> as obidos and gurupa were crap.

Except for the part where Gurupa enables scores of developers to build web apps that make hundreds of service calls yet emit results faster than the website we're using right now.
Yeah, what Lukeas said. They more fit the OS style, whereas cutesy games feel more at home on iOS.

Bonus: An example of a game that feels written to fit in with Windows Phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigduckgam...
This presentation is right in line with something I've been thinking about lately. Is programming with Clojure agents (and atoms/STM) functionally equivalent to programming with Actors or Go routines with Go channels? In other words, can you solve all the same problems?

One difference, I imagine, is that the Actor model is distributable (a la Erlang and recent Akka editions), whereas the Clojure model is fundamentally about safely sharing memory in the same process space.

Beyond that though, is there an example of a problem that is hard to do with STM or the Clojure model but relatively straightforward with Actors or Go channels? And then the same question in the other direction.

I'd be very interested in studying such an example!
I think you'll see an update shortly that will fix this issue; which is clearly just an overlooked bug. I think you'll also see iOS patching the issue soon too.
Show scores next to comments again...

There is some evidence here that hiding it to avoid egotism isn't worth the loss of function: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430542

See, respondents to the comment had to manually create a child comment "+ 1 for this idea!" to get their message out. That's not efficient, organized, or quantifiable.

I also wonder how much having no comment scores even contributes to eliminating egotism and hive-mind behavior.
There is an important distinction here between latency and availability. It's possible Amazon could be very sensitive to small changes in latency, while availability isn't that big a deal. After all, a lot of retailers do fine with nightly outages lasting 12 hours or more.
I'm a student at Michigan, can't wait!
You can compare to to deeper (in safe) or shallower insertions, and not tell the patient which is official acupuncture. You can apply anesthetic s first. These give clues.
I didn't recognize any of the buttons either. Personally, it matters to me if a button is readable and doesn't look like absolute garbage.

Telling me I'm not an internet geek just because I didn't remember the buttons? THE NERVE!
It's Michigan For god sakes!
You could skip a month and see what happens.
I happen to like this feature. If I don't get a chance to post a photo at the time I take it Path will know where it was taken if I post it later.
Pronouns: Analyses how you think based on how you describe an object
You know, 986 samples ought to be enough. Here's a map of just the two bedroom apartments: http://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices/rooms-2013-01--2br
> There may not be malicious intent from Path

Malicious implies they're trying to do harm, which I don't think is the case. But geotagging posts when the user clearly didn't authorize you to access that information is dubious and underhanded at a minimum.

After last year's incident, they've lost all benefit of doubt.
Word is there's gonna be Red Bull girls there :D
Right, for the camera, not for Path.

The point is^ that users don't (and couldn't be expected to) understand that location service permissions aren't transitive. They have gone to the options menu and said "No path, you may not use my location". The result is that path has still used their location. The steps from A to B and the technical steps taken are-- from a user's perspective-- irrelevant.

^I'm not an iOS user, so maybe the UI makes this all blindingly obvious, in which case I apologise and you can ignore my entire response.
> I'm a PhD student

Not mediocre.

You have that impostor syndrome thing probably.
An experienced shared means energy saved.
Are you an engineer? Redundancy is basic stuff for websites.
Yea damn dude that's why my girlfriend won't let me come.
What sort of repairs are you talking about? The only times apartments I've lived in have needed repairs we asked the landlord to do them.
Whenever there is a topic concerning Bill Gates, there always seems to be someone in the discussion section that will find a way to shoehorn Steve Jobs into a comment, however irrelevant. An interesting phenomenon.
I feel the exactly the same way.. Comparing to the people around me, I am mediocre at almost everything.. But I have to say it really depends on who you compare yourself with.
Most valuable point in this otherwise very interesting discussion.

MFA neutralizes most hacker threats. Organizations like the NYT that are sensitive should implement them. I know we do for banking, per industry standards (FFIEC). Fraudsters aren't about to defeat RSA tokens or multiple channels of authentication in the near future, as far as I know. It's just too logistically difficult and an order of magnitude harder to then compromise the MFA servers (via MITM or otherwise), etc. If implemented correctly, they make access to individual personal data significantly more distributed and difficult to breach.

Is MFA for e-mail each time extremely annoying? Probably. But logging into a system with just a username and password for a new ip address should not be the standard for authentication. This has got to be the solution eventually, and one which will essentially de-emphasize nation states or any large organizations from surveilling lists of accounts.
Good luck, guys! This is a great idea!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_...

Read and learn OP.
CNET out at CES. CBS bared them from reporting.
This is probably not a brilliant question, but why this instead of git for version control and um editing directly on github? With Github zen mode, you can edit a document directly on the site and every save is in stored in git.
This almost makes me wonder whether a startup should identify easily-fixed weak points in its architecture and work on the fix so that it's ready to go, but don't deploy it. When the weak point eventually fails, rush to deploy the ready-made fix and then include a wonderful technical post-mortem of what happened, how you overcame an architectural weakness, and post it on High Scalability and submit it to HN. Small downtime; big PR boost.
Look at it 2 ways:

1. There are things to achieve and you can look forward to it. You have people to look up to.

2. There is still someone more mediocre than you (always). So it's not that bad.
Not even if I type it in? ;)
I reworded it to something like "Can a 32 bit machine use more than 4GB of ram"
I think I'll implement the drop shadow on the next iteration (next few hours). Thanks for the input!
The letter led me to wonder about measurment and results in the world of "doing good". I was wondering what this forum's thoughts on the matter are. Should we only fund the things that get results? How should we quantify our results? And probably most importantly: what do we choose to measure? (Decrease in rainforest destruction vs companies that choose to use non rainforest sources for wood or palm oil?)

I worry sometimes--and I co-founded an organization that brings data science to civic and social organizations--that this will be similar to No Child Left Behind (or World Bank like), where non profits do what is best for their metric instead of what is best for the population they are trying to serve.
Well apart from the definitions, you give up a lot of practical stuff that goes along with it.

For example, if your software doesn't meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines, then it won't be packaged in the main repos. And that has downstream impact on other distributions such as Ubuntu.
We must begin to prepare now for deploying mesh networks.

Mesh networks cannot be effectively policed and can provide free access to networks. No more 3 strikes laws since you can connect anywhere wirelessly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networks
I can't wait. This is going to be huge.
Driving over an IED. A mortar round headed your way at midnight. Gunfire. Running out of blood.
If they get a desktop client and decent encryption, then I am in.
damn this site is sexy
no way!?
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

John Harrington.
Inaugural MHacks!
Reminds me of skydiving statistics. Something like 1 in 1000 chutes fail, so you pack two. The chance of both chutes failing is 1/1,000,000. Consider the fact that most skydiving accidents are due to human error and you can expect an accident roughly once every 100,000 jumps or more, which it turns out is pretty accurate.
The Gates Foundation's answer to the thousands of public libraries Carnegie built is . . . the Khan Academy?
THE BIG HOUSE!
Show HN: A stupid simple note app
If they aren't interested in using some sort of existing wiki or collaboration software or saas, what would make them interested in something like this?
Yeah, it's weird. Like when Joe Frazier or George Foreman come up in Ali discussions. Or when you talk Larry Bird, inevitably Magic Johnson comes up. Or when you talk about NES, someone brings up Sega.

Oh wait it's because those things are narratively, intrinsically connected because of the compelling nature of rivalry as it turns out that is not weird at all.
Hmmm...maybe if they do end up using AMD chips like it is rumored here, it will breath some new life into AMD stock.

http://kotaku.com/5896996/the-next-playstation-is-called-orb...
> Asking why issues of the brain aren't an exact science is like asking why we haven't solved the halting problem yet.

I disagree. We know everything we need to know about the halting problem: the halting decision procedure cannot and will not ever exist. There's certainly a lot more we can and will discover about the workings of the brain.
Could someone make an app that resets this with a single button push (without navigating to it), or perhaps an app that runs in the background and changes the ID every hour or day?
Netflix slideshow 'most important doc to ever come out of SV'-Sheryl Sandberg
ERC, if you're an Emacs user.
Road to Launch - Social Online Dating Startup
You'll likely get similar performance as long as your comparison is between Jekyll + S3 + CDN and Rails + Caching + CDN. Otherwise, the worldwide caching in CDNs will outperform the Rails app in a single region.
I have a very hard time believing Path is doing anything underhanded or malicious here. Link bait?
as little as this adds to the discussion, i think the title of the article is a huge exaggeration - uploading a geotagged image to a photosharing site that then displays the geotag in a user friendly format is hardly "stealing your data"
Singularity Institute and Google: what are their plans?
Explore the Grand Canyon with Google Maps
TeamViewer authentication protocol (part 1 of 3)
haha, Frankston... explains a lot.
I know nothing about the legal profession, but my reaction would be because wiki software sucks. I'm a designer and a developer and I can barely figure out how to edit a Wikipedia page.

Another question (which I don't know the answer to) is how many developers had never used version control until they were introduced to Github?

I bet there are some seriously big interaction improvements you can make to the average enterprise "collaboration" software.
Don't let the afterhours haters -- sorry, hackers -- get you down. Riemann looks to be a fantastic piece of open-source software for scratching a particular itch.

Coincidentally, I was just working on a tracing system to dump data to Riemann while eating HTTP logs and/or handling live requests from browsers. It seems to be just what we need to aggregate, monitor and graph our trace data. Thanks!
TSDPM - TypeScript definition package manager
Random comment:

I went to the Bols brewing company tour in Amsterdam last week, which invented the first Geniever, which the English later turned into gin - oh my god is it something that takes some acclimatising to. Too much juniper berries!

Very much an acquired taste
(Not the OP) Because that takes too much effort. For big pieces of general criticism maybe, but for rearranging a sentence or fixing a typo adding comments in the margins has too much overhead.
The same reason most people would consider a 36" flat screen TV a better deal at the same price as a 28" model.
Yep great one, I missed that all together. Thanks!
If you feel that strongly about it, why not turn it off entirely?
I agree; don't be fooled by the vanity metrics. Properties of a hackathon necessary to evaluate it fairly against others include not only registration counts but:
food, quality of hacks, management/organization, venue, events (beside hacking), sponsors, etc.

Those can't be evaluated until it happens, but let's see how it fares.
That all makes sense, but I would argue that we're still losing something very important.

There is a natural tension between intermediaries and suppliers in highly transparent and competitive markets. The threat of disintermediation minimizes rent seeking behaviors. Over the last few decades that threat seems very weak in the financial markets, which I believe will have negative consequences for our economy and society.
It is _portable_. It's not intensively _ported_ yet:
Archs: Power, SPARCv9, x86, x86-64
Compilers: gcc, clang, icc, suncc

Adding a wildly different compiler shouldn't be the end of the world but it would need some build sys work and a new compiler wrapper.

Samy was focusing on a few archs that help debug the code. I got him access to the GCC build farm, but the ARM boxes there were fairly weak when I remember. Access to good hardware might help him move it along.
Thank you for the comment.

First off, as mentioned in the other comments, this is not a pyramid scheme.

Your currency will always be worth the same conversion rate of $1 = 10 Honey. The value won't ever change. As for the products, we try to buy high and sell as low as we possibly can. The aim right now is to get users on board so they can see how awesome the experience is.

The reason we can buy higher than market value is because our overhead is lower than sites that pay up front cash. At the moment, we will buy new products out of pocket for you in exchange for your used product + any difference, if any. Eventually, those used products will be available to the market too for a cost lower than market value.

I invite you to try the site out and see for yourself how it works. Again, the value of the Honey never changes and what we buy your product for always remains of the value you sold it for. Whatever you buy, we will fulfill.

I hope that gives you a little bit of insight of how what we do is possible.

Feel free to ask for any clarifications.

-Adam
Pulp-O-Mizer
Nope. Definitely the second MHacks.
https://www.facebook.com/events/430667410314875
Funnily enough realestate.com.au is one of the places running a Ruby on Rails dev shop, since I've seen them advertising for Ruby on Rails devs on lists that I'm on.
On OS X, Grab still inexplicably saves as TIFF, and there's no way to change it despite years of bitching from users. GJ, Apple.
Right! Rethink has an adhoc Erlang runtime for message processing, and an adhoc lisp for the query language. I'm both ashamed and proud of this at the same time :)
At this point, Apple should change their camera app to make it clear when it's geo-tagging.
Gosh Amy, I don't know what to say about this. I'm a fan, we've met before. In fact, I remember eating pizza together in Miami during Superconf I think...but I can't agree with you here.

I guess I'm one that you could say has delusions of grandeur, and I think it's the greatest gift I've ever been given. You'll never hear me say I want to change the world, but I do want to change my world, and I, like many, have lofty ambitions and am not ashamed of that fact.

I also don't think it's fair to conflate ambition with false confidence. In fact, I'd argue that increased confidence leads to increased ambition.

What's really wrong with a constant raising of stakes if that's what you're into?
I can understand not wanting to be involved. but unless you're building something designed for war or violence, you are not participating.
Or weight the stats by age or health death. Old people dying of cancer is better than young people dying in car crashes.
"that doesn't mean Samsung was the first one who released a large-screen smart phone. The Dell Streak was one of the first, and Windows Phone has the Titan I and II."

Since when did "Windows Phone" become the name of a manufacturer?
Unfortunately there's still no animated PNG. There were apparently attempts to create a standard, but they failed. That sucks.
Even more phenomenologically interesting is that everyone leaves out Larry Ellison.
Does Trello support IE8 now? Or why do they have special code for that?
WSJ: PlayStation 4 on Feb. 20
I've been in more or less the same situation, but for longer periods of time.

I'm curious given your experience. My biggest issue is that I don't know what a 'hard problem' is, I know what comes naturally to me, and what takes me some time to grok, but my experience is that those problems that come natural to me seem to be extremely obtuse to others.

So what types of problems do you solve that allow you to market yourself in such a manor?

I assume you have NDA type structures in place so I expect very general responses.
Because I didn't know you could do that, I've never owned an iPhone.

Thanks for the info, I'll keep it in mind if I decide to purchase one in the future.
Sorry, but I think the dismissive attitude behind "We just develop software. no big deal" is not at all helpful. Having seen how software interfaces can greatly enable - or hamper -- professionals in the educational, medical, and law fields, I don't see software as just being some rich trivial luxury that's e cherry on top of other professionals' hard honest work.
> Active Release Therapy - this broke up scar tissue that I had, may not be applicable to you

If this is comparable to the Graston technique, I think it works well, but it is far from comfortable. I had this after surgery for my Achilles rupture and it felt someone was carving my achilles out with a dull butter knife.
I've often speculated it may be based on how you are brought up. If you value charity, engineering, and redemption then Bill Gates (of today) is more suitable. If you value creativity, strong will, and charisma then it is Steve Jobs.