skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
England has some suicide and deliberate self harm research done by "University of Oxford". (Uh, that's not "Oxford University" or any of the colleges.) You could noodle through their website?

(http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/)

You might remember the reports a few years ago about cortisol levels in children at nurseries, compared to children at home? People said that cortisol was a stress hormone, and thus it's bad to be in the brains of children, and thus putting children in nursery is bad because it causes cortisol to be released. But other interpretations are that children need to learn to regulate their emotions, and that lack of cortisol means over-protection and lack of a chance to learn how to regulate emotion.

Sorry about the lousy links, it's the best I can do at the moment.

(http://www.parentingscience.com/daycare-centers.html)

(http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18633-mom-and-dad-stop...)
Yep, we're basically a startup within a company. Barracuda has a lot of hardware, something that will definitely help with growth and scalability.
As a C or D-tier school student, I'm jealous :p
I don't disagree. However from the point of view of the manufacturer, spending more and getting less isn't a good deal. Contrast with the South Korean model where manufacturers spend more and also get more. Where would you prefer to put a factory?
"Another thing that bugs me is the hypocritical stance of suing Chinese tire manufacturers and then turning around and manufacturing in China."

I could see why you'd viscerally feel that way, but if the tariffs that are being applied in the US aren't also being applied in other countries (Europe, for example) then he is unable to compete with Chinese tires without creating a factory there to get the same subsidies.
I've been struggling with overcommitment for years, too. It's caused a lot of pain and it's a very serious thing. Like you, it makes me tend toward isolation and it... well, it hurts.

"Before long I'm committed to a shit ton
of things and I am so stressed out that
I cant focus long enough to fake my way
through life. Inevitably I implode and
disappoint everyone I had commitments to."

First, there's a ton of positivity in your writing, because you're recognizing that overcommitment is really bringing you and (even better) you're taking responsibility for correcting this.

This part concerned me a bit:

"I'm taking all the skills I have learned
from learning and applying them to my psyche.
I'm going to re-build and re-form my emotional
centers from the ground up. I'm going to take
my unhealthy mental state and refactor it into
a functional vibrant self. I'm re-life-ing"

This is very ambitious!

Not all ambitious goals are a path to overcommitment, but are you being very careful that this ambitious goal won't wind up being yet another overcommitment (leading to yet more pain) on your part?

Perhaps you could set up meaningful milestones along the way? For example, you could count the number of times you stick to a 4-day or 5-day work week each month. Even if the "reward" is just a big green checkmark on the wall calendar, that can be really gratifying.

Best wishes!
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Of all the people replying to this thread, your responses are filled with the most love. Your anger shows that you care - and I don't think you're too off-base with your assessment, either.

I think I can help you with your message in some small way by noting that social integration is not good because it's 'normal'. It's good because it's vitally necessary for survival. Human society is entirely synthetic, artificial. We are born depending on others. The doctor. The hospital. Our mothers. We are raised depending on others: the teacher, our classmates, our siblings. We live in structures built by others eating food grown by others.

The interesting contradiction here is between Ken's desire to make money and his desire to withdraw from the world. These are totally incompatible desires. One of them has to give. And given that 'not making money' means, essentially, starvation and death, it suggests that perhaps he should rethink the normalcy of withdrawing so completely from the world.

I would only add this argument to yours, not replace it. Thanks for your comments.
There are also machines that assemble metal parts from powder by distributing powder and then using a laser to melt it, layer by layer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering

(If you used laser cutting, it seems it would be hard to make non-convex parts, since you can't stop the laser at a certain depth.)
I'm not sure what you're suggesting when you suggest not relying on browser implementation. This sounds impossible as the browser is the client and the client will have access to user credentials.
Thanks for posting the link to the rant. My plans to go to bed early have been shattered.
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Actually, everything the app does is through a RESTful API. This API is private and undocumented (for now). I can't make any promises as to what we will do with it in the future...
I don't know. I'm running a business on a Rails site and it's sort of sucking right now in terms of what I can get done and how fast I can get it done. Why? Because learning rails isn't the easiest thing in the world any more especially when half of the application is custom work around to jury-rig different frameworks together.

One of the developers came to me just last week and showed me a POC in Java that was cleanly assembled, easy to understand, and lacked all the enterprisey stuff that scared me away from Java years ago. That's why I wrote the article.

I'm not burning the chapel to build a new one. I'm setting sail for the fatherland in search of Silk and Spices. (I didn't mean to make sense with that ending, but you read it, didn't you?)
Kindly refrain from swearing, all caps, and 4chan-isms. I prefer to not read that kind of noise, and no doubt others here feel the same.
Can someone explain to me the appeal of Glass? Technologically, it's a predictive evolution: cameras, visual overlays, GPS units are smaller and more efficient. They've been fit into mobile devices for sometime, why don't we wear them instead?

I'm sure this has broader application than endless POV pictures, which is probably why they're kicking off the "If I Had Glass" campaign.
Working with the local Code for America group, we've been trying to put a basic budget app online and it's an amazing clusterfuck. The city published incredibly incomplete budget docs in a Google Fusion table, and more detailed documents in images-embedded-in-PDFs.

Trying to get access to the underlying information and talking with the city's "chief information officer", turns out the actual budget numbers don't really quite add up due to department moves and program changes and such, so they literally have "a guy" who is entering numbers manually into a Word document based on black magic, to make it all add up.

This is the sort of thing where if the tech crowd pushes to get the output data open and accessible, it will be a strong incentive to stop the black magic happening earlier in the process.
I use KeePass, and keep it in sync it with different machines with Dropbox.
Tales, an open source block tolerant webscraper that runs on aws and rackspace.
Empirical studies? I run across the occasional one that seems tangentially relevant, but haven't kept a list. I feel somewhat skeptical about the possibility of studying that level of experience in a formal experimental way. What I'm saying comes from personal experience, discussion with others, and assorted reading.
A friend of mine in grad school used to do it for some jurisdictions. The optimization software was his own, he sold the solutions. I really don't know much more about it than that, however.
Wouldn't it be great if governments everywhere created solar-based chargers like those of Tesla, with some back-up to electricity for night charging or for when all the power is used at a charger for the day, and then the whole population could buy electric cars much faster?
AD. exploding siege tank, it was actually a fix in one of the patches. Some players discovered that you could land a building on a tank if you time the landing right with switching to siedge mode, making the tank unreachable for meelee units (which were the kind of units usually used against the tank). It created an unfair advantage, so Blizzard removed it by making the tank explode when landed on.

Funny fact: if you landed a building on your opponent's tank, you could actually get a label "Kills: 1" on the building :D.
The pricing page mentions some of the business features: http://www.copy.local/price/

Basically, you can setup companies, share items amongst employees, configure their access to the files, etc.
The vision. Don't you see it? If we can pull this off, technology thereafter will be embedded into our consciousness. The reality, as we see it, will be transformed. We as human beings will literally become "supermen", in the sense that we will be able to "see" so much more than we could ever imagine. To an extent, this is a human evolution.
No, please don't let this article affect your experience with Rails. Rails is awesome. It is. It's a great framework to learn and the problems that the author of this piece was discussing are really just a critique of his own faults. He made some awful decisions about architecture and framework and now he's paying the price.

Ignore this idiot and continue on.

Also, I wrote the original piece.
that's really not the same, no incremental matching or feedback, no fuzzy matching.
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whoot whoot, more trust fund babies...
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Ask HN: I'm a high school student. Is my job searching strategy flawed?
I've been on the lookout for summer internship opportunities at bay area/SV startups for ~3 months now. I haven't heard back from... all but one of the ~20 companies I've emailed, and I'm curious as to if this is the behavior I should be expecting.

My cover letter is short, sweet, and proofread (mentions hackathon I won, personal projects, etc), and I've been attaching my resume (http://www.scribd.com/doc/126461525/) to it. The emails I send out are generally to generic jobs@company.tld email addresses, which I feel are eating up my submissions and never make it to real human beings.

So I ask you: is my experience representative of all job seeking, or am I doing something wrong? Should I be seeking out employees to reach out to? Is your company even remotely interested in filling pre-undergrad positions, and if so, does my pitch reach the barrier of entry for consideration?

(email == randall@randallma.com, if you'd like to talk privately to me)
Bullies Called Him Pork Chop. He Took That Pain & Cooked It Into This.
Show HN: Controlling your lights with NFC tags.
Play and Grails are two on the Java side.
From the website:
https://www.trustegg.com/Trustegg_child_trust_fund_faqs

What happens if TrustEgg goes out of business, is my child’s account safe?

Definitely. If TrustEgg has to close its doors, or destroyed by an act of god, the underlying accounts would be transferred to another Trust Co, or the child’s parent/guardian would be named custodian. This would be done at the discretion of the State Division of Financial Institutions.
Maven and POM files are the standard way of managing dependencies in Java projects. Maven's more complex than bundler, but reasonably easy to use as it is very convention oriented.
I'm building a service to be on top of rsync.net -so far-, and the only problem is the lack of a admin API to automate everything. In the plus side, the guys answer emails (faster and better than azure and s3, IMHO).
No Java is like a Lepton and Rails is like a Neutrino. Neither interact with the Strong force. Got it?
Actually, the sarcasm would only be perceived by an Anglophone. That is a fairly standard salutation in French, further, it is one that indicating that the recipient is of higher status than the sender. French salutations are notoriously flowery and with complex rules (which I have probably gotten wrong here, being primarily an Anglophone myself).
Scribd (SF, top 100 site) is hiring PM #1 to build the world's online library
Scribd's vision is to build the library of the twenty-first century. We are a small-ish but dedicated team of 35 people in San Francisco working towards this vision.

So far, we're most proud of having:

- Built one of the world's largest websites with over 100M monthly uniques

- Built a profitable company with a sustainable business model

- Created a rich, fun culture and attracted an amazing team

Scribd has strong engineering and design chops, and now we are looking to bring on an experienced product manager/owner. Since our product is the most important part of the company, we envision this as a role with huge responsibility.

Rather than building out a whole product team, we're looking to bring on one person with a lot of firepower. We'd like to hire someone who combines strong core product design / product management and technical skills with the ability to be really strategic and take on large areas of the scribd product at a time.

While we're looking primarily at people who have formal PM experience, we'd be open to taking a bet on someone who has had a de-facto PM role like a cofounder of a startup. But whatever your title, you should have proven your ability to create awesome products by having a leadership role in one before. And you should be the kind of person who can take a look at Scribd and immediately start pointing out all the things that you would fix.

We certainly prefer people who come from an engineering background, but the most important requirement is the ability to work with engineers collaboratively to get things done. You'll need to be comfortable working at a place where a lot of people have strong opinions about the product and be an excellent persuasive communicator to build consensus.

In addition to growing our core business, we're working on some really disruptive new projects now. We'd love to tell you about them.

More info and cool pics of our office zip-line are at http://www.scribd.com/jobs. If you're interested, send us an email at jobs@scribd.com.
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Yeah, a CS degree isn't judged the same way an MBA is.
Is this why travel is so important? It forces you to have a barebones "wardrobe" and it helps you down the identity-building path?
A lot of people have a reaction like yours: This practice sucks and shouldn't happen!

That means we don't actually need to make it illegal; since, as the blog post linked in the grandparent notes, "it pisses the heck off of people," the free market will take care of it for us if we're patient.

That blog post mentions specific multiple instances of companies that attempt egregious segmentation getting their lunch eaten by companies that don't.

As I said, the whole article is worth reading.
Not in Estonia. We don't have any sun, except for few days in the summer. Wish we could produce electricity from cold, rain and darkness.
Sorry, but this article is bullshit.

First of all, it's a classic appeal to emotion; it uses hyperbole that is propped up with emotions ("You’ll find yourself staring at incomprehensible mega-frameworks maintained by developers who are unapologetic about how little they care for writing documentation", etc) and not by concrete facts. It cleverly it uses two fictitious quotes to imply it represents real people's complaints, when it's in fact the author himself making up the supposed complaints.

It also works up a strawman argument: That you can criticize Rails on the basis of a collection of frameworks that the OP apparently thinks are required to good apps. The fallacy here is that those frameworks are not needed, and their problems are not Rails' fault. Perhaps there is subculture of engine-loving Rails people out there that promote such frameworks, but I would not listen to them any more than I would listen to PHP devs.

Rails is like any other tool: What you get out of it depends on how you use it. Judicious use of gems, libs, frameworks, databases etc. is just as important as managing your own application complexity. Sorry, but complexity is bad whatever language or framework or whatever you use. If Rails is an easy target it's probably because the apparent ease of implementation makes it tempting to grow your app.

Here's a suggestion, a constructive suggestion: Try not to stuff you app with everything you can possibly think of. Login and user accounts? Belongs in a separate app. Document storage? Separate app. Image upload and scaling? Separate app. Email and SMS notifications? Separate app. Integration with external systems such that you feed data to, or from? Separate app. Computing scores or ranks or other statistics based on data? Separate app. And so on.

Use a service-oriented architecture for everything, and you will reduce the complexity of each component to a bare mimimum. For example, we use Checkpoint [1] to integrate logins (FB, Twitter, Google) through a single system, so that our apps don't need to deal with API keys or OAuth or anything; performing login in an app using Checkpoint is literally a single line of code (a redirect). Instead of using a database, most data fits into Grove [2], a structured, hierarchical, indexed data store on top of a relational database. Instead of reinventing rating and voting systems for every app, we use Kudu [3], and instead of reinventing flagging of spam or illegal content for every app, we use Snitch [4] -- just to mention a few trivial examples. Our stable of mini-apps has much more, a small ecosystem of reusable, composable tools.

By using HTTP as interface glue, we put an artificial limit on the ways that components can entangle themselves; for example, since the API deals entirely with basic JSON objects like arrays, strings and hashes, there are no surprises when you try to access the result of a call, since it will never re-enter its source (unlike, say, ActiveRecord associatons).

[1] https://github.com/bengler/checkpoint

[2] https://github.com/bengler/grove

[3] https://github.com/bengler/kudu

[4] https://github.com/bengler/snitch
I'm not sure what conversation you're having with yourself. I'm just pointing out that the time-honored capitalist response to demand outstripping supply is raising prices rather than having contests.
There's a huge gap between "perfectly competent" at coding some crud screens and the sort of driven visionary that will build something on the scale of Stripe or Dropbox or Airbnb or id Tech or whatever. There's a mild surplus of the former and a drastic shortage of the latter. You don't worry about cultural fit for a true spectacular outlier talent, the culture will develop around him instead. You do for a perfectly competent average engineer because he can always be replaced with another.
It's interesting that they are all programming in Windows, and all using IDEs.
>It would seem that sensors would be most useful with lower traffic volumes, and synchronization better for rush hour. Perhaps using each system at different times of the day would be theoretically optimal.

Most cities do this. I live in chicago, that's how it works. Note that you can also combine sensors simultaneously with timing in certain cases- for example whether to allow an advance green for a left-turn lane or not (if there are cars in it, advance green, otherwise, normal green for both directions of traffic on that road. No change in when the next red comes)
So what you're saying is you like to re-invent the wheel? Suffer from "not invented here" syndrome much?
TrustEgg Founder/CEO - You can set-up your own UTMA, but you would need to be the custodian. If you have a third party custodian (what we offer) then the price increases. We also have no minimums, which keeps many people from starting an account. TrustEgg also brings in friends and family to make contributions.
TrustEgg makes everything easy. As for price, if you have an adivser based 529 plan, you will pay an extra 1% on top of the mangement fees, or a load of around 6%.
There's going to be some cool integrations between Copy and some of the Barracuda backup hardware. I don't know many details though, you probably already know more than I do.
Could a new phonetic alphabet promote world peace?
Hey, don't forget Gradle - http://www.gradle.org - Gradle syntax for declaring dependencies is similar to Maven.

But there's a very close comparison between Bundler and managing dependencies with Maven or Gradle. And there's a huge difference. Maven Central has never been compromised because they have a secure method for deploying artifacts, RubyGems? You've had a fun month with RubyGems, right?
Do you replace a drive as soon as failure occurs? Or do you wait until X number of drives in a chassis go bad to make it worth the time for the tech to pull the chassis out of the rack?
Don't feel too bad about not being eligible for Grouper. An [introverted, self-proclaimed lonely] friend of mine did one a few weeks ago and said he had nothing in common with any of the women except for one that also worked in tech. She ended up being the one everyone was pining after and because lonely/introverted people aren't the ones that are going to strike up conversations (especially if it means competing against others to do so), he ended up going home and feeling pretty bummed about the whole situation.

Are they really targeting "lonely" people? I thought their model was more about getting people who wanted to do that sort of thing out and doing it without the planning. If they're trying to target people who prefer staying in and playing board games, their homepage does a terrible job selling that.
Someone else posted a link to Copy, with much more discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5252669
First of all, coal plants are vastly^H^H^H^H^H^Hsomewhat more efficient than gas-fueled car engines.

Secondly, the electrical grid acts like a technology buffer. In the future, those coal plants can be replaced by water, wind, solar or something else, without changing the grid or the vehicle charging network.
If you are using Play or Grails then dependency management is handled almost identically to bundler.

If not then Ivy is what is used mostly albeit far less elegantly.
Ask HN: Which browser is the best to develop in?
I have been doing web development for a while, but mostly server side. Only recently I have started to do client side dev and the question pops up:

What browser can give more "guarantees" that what I develop will work consistently in other browsers?

i.e. If I develop and test my work in firefox, will it work with other browsers in 99.9% of the cases?

This also comes a bit from the recent Opera switch to webkit, where people worry that developers focus on webkit only, leaving firefox and friends in the dust.
Do you browse non-work-relevant websites on your company provided computer outside your lunch hour or other explicitly defined break times and against defined company policy? You've "exceeded authorized access".

Do you have specific knowledge of someone possessing controlled substances in a jurisdiction or situation where they're forbidden (e.g., someone in a medical marijuana state who possesses even misdemeanor amounts of pot but doesn't have official medical sanction for its use, or anyone possessing any amount in a "dry" state)? Obstruction of justice.

Have you ever taken a "mental health day" and called in sick when you aren't actually sick? You've defrauded your employer.

These are all acts specifically described as illegal by the relevant statute.

EDIT: clarifying language on "exceeding authorized access" case.
It was a joke/metaphor about Ruby's duck typing, not a literal reference.
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