skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suffering from depression? Don't get into that relationship. When you've invested years of your life, and a part of yourself, into someone, and you lose that person, it's harsh. Also, don't have children, because that could be stressful too. BS!

Some aspects of startups are probably unhealthy for people prone to depression: 80 hour weeks, risking everything on a business model without revenue, the culture that says you have to "change the world". If you start a company, though, you set the parameters. Work 40 hours a week. Choose a less risky business model, one that has revenue built in from the get-go. Have cofounders to share the burden; have a support system, preferably one that includes people outside your startup's reality distortion field. Realize that you have limits, that the startup can push those limits, and have a plan for dealing with that (both for steering clear of the limit, and for coping when you've crossed it). Know thyself.

We shouldn't pretend depression doesn't exist. But, like other chronic conditions there are ways to manage it, and, I submit, ways to do that while starting a startup.
Death penalty as described in a law is irrelevant.

What is relevant is a threat of murder when police/court requires you to do something. Pay a fee, pay taxes, go to jail etc. And this threat of murder is very real and is used in enforcement of every single law. Government never threatens you with ostracism and defamation. It always threatens you with death if you do not obey.
This doesn't look good for Python:

"Whenever possible, we use Python"

"When necessary, we use C++"

"As of right now, it ends up that about 75% of our code is C++ and 17% is Python (link) since it turns out that a lot of BIND 10 is performance-critical."
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I was under the impression that the US started this war with their questionable military efforts abroad?

Pretty sure the US armed a lot of the terrorists in the first place. When you suck the resources out of the world and push people into starvation whilst living in the land of plenty, you're obviously going to become a target.

Maybe the US is ALSO the problem here?
Skimr launches to help you quickly see what your favorite websites are posting.
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I'm a developer working on the site, and a former MindMeister user, so I can give you my biased perspective. It would be nice if someone who is a user of both systems provides an unbiased one.

advantages: it's free, opensource, doesn't hold you ransom for your data, we aim to create a zero-friction interface

disadvantages: less features. mindmup is a month and a half old project, and we develop the stuff we need + the top voted user demands, so MindMeister has many many more features.
I don't have the data in terms of startups to back it up but there are a couple reasons why someone who is suffering from depression can actually thrive. Some people suffering from depression may be especially good at working on hard problems and seeing them through, spotting issues (not being blinded by them) and bringing creativity.

On the flipside, people who are perfectly happy in regular jobs might crumble in startup situations because it does invite a great deal more struggle.

I'm not saying that people suffering from depression should go into startups for that reason and I agree that startup success is typically low. I don't find the message that compelling though, as if a depressed person will be appreciatively better off with a 'steady job' (to the extent such jobs still exist). Soulless jobs are a big reason people get depressed in the first place.

If you do suffer from depression, regardless of your occupation it should be a priority to figure out how to manage it, to have a strong support system in place and put your health first.

Winston Churchill suffered from terrible bouts of depression but he that didn't stop him from doing what he felt he needed to do. I certainly wouldn't base a career choice on a sweeping generalization.
Hilarious. I almost mistook it to be a parody account.

All of his tweets seems to be sarcastic (not sure if it was supposed to be):
https://twitter.com/ankit_fadia/
So you can keep a key of your vault with your unpaid taxes and no one will try to take it from you by force? Bank manager will not go to jail if he does not make a wire transfer from your account to IRS?
I find it hard to follow the tour, as the popup designs mimic the design of the site (and micro-screenshots) so closely.

It's hard to tell where the barriers are, and what I should be looking at next
There is a big problem with this article:

The writer assumes too much:
* Depressive founders don't get treated
* Avoiding doing a start up minimizes failure and stress
* Minimizing stress and failure minimizes risk of suicide

All these assumptions can be argued with.

Also: Never confuse the reason a suicidal person gives for his contemplated/attempted suicide with the cause of a problem.

People talk bullshit about their emotions all the time. Depressive people do it in a very particular way that is easy to confuse with rationality. They don't take their lives because their business fails. It's way more complicated, even if they say there is exactly one reason...

The kind of reasoning in this article can be taken a notch further and urging depressive patients not to take any job beyond minimal wage....
Do you agree that "the idea behind government" exists entirely in heads of people? E.g. my idea of govt is different from yours. Does the fact that many people share the same idea make it right? If so, does god exist? Is Earth flat when most people think it is?
Google Glass on eBay crosses US$15,000/-
> And for what it's worth they don't make those shows, they just market them. Or, you know, fail to market them.

Now we've crossed into fantasyland, of stuff you've just made up because it flatters your viewpoint.

Film studios provide enormous amounts of resources for the making of movies. Furthermore, it's common for movies to be part-owned or whole-owned by people involved in their production. It's not like the music industry. Top producers, backed by lots of monetary and social capital, make these shows happen. Often writers and directors are also producers. Sometimes people get screwed (famously Peter Jackson) but this seems to happen to few makers with critical jobs, and you'll note he didn't get fooled again.

Of course it is not the case that assorted writers and actors and artists can get together and make a hit show with no expert knowledge. TV shows are very, very hard to make. We're not talking about an exploited proletariat of TV show makers here.
I see. I was wondering if you were filtering your bookmarks by specific tags, but excluding description-less bookmarks also sounds like a good idea.

BTW, your scroll.js has a commented-out section where you call 'pinboard.php', so I suppose you're using PHP to process your bookmarks. As the author of the PHP Pinboard API Client (github.com/kijin/pinboard-api), I'm curious whether you're using it, and if so, whether you have any suggestions for improving it.
One big problem with Trello at the moment is that it doesn't support multiple accounts (in the same way as Google do for example). I saw an interview somewhere claiming you use Trello for both personal and work stuff, and can't figure out how unless you use one account for both which is very bad practise.

You could use different browsers but that is a pain. And even that solution wouldn't work on mobile where you would have to keep logging out and back in again (really tedious, won't get notifications, impossible for users like me who don't even know our passwords as they are stored in a password manager).

This ultimately forces me to use Trello for work (and only one work at that) or personal but not both. In this day and age multiple accounts should really be standard (I'm looking at you Dropbox) but if you can't at least let work pay so I can have a practical personal account too.
And the guy having the problem with HRD doesn't count because ... ?
Stanford builds first complex computer chip out of carbon nanotubes
Hi, I’m the guy who wrote the code. Here’s a gist for you: https://gist.github.com/porada/5047435
Mortal Kombat in JavaScript
It's worth looking at Delphi again if you haven't for a while http://www.codegear.com. They've made your syntax addition or two - even has closures now, generics, components...new version (out soon) compiles to iOS/OSX/Windows. I've seen a beta and it works :-)
"Risking" everything seems to be part of the "lean startup" mentality. Incubators and early stage funding is intended to trade equity for exactly that risk.
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> Also, I'm sure Objective C is the language still in mainstream use that most resembles Smalltalk

That's just... no. It has superficial syntactic similarity with Smalltalk's message-send syntax, nothing else of its syntax and (more importantly) pretty much none of its semantics.
Thanks for the feedback. We will be looking into optimizing the tour design in the next few days.
Sony PS4 graphics may lag behind modern PC graphics
Designing a fighting game character is hard work. Actual manpower goes into it. Lots of actual manpower.

We're talking on the order of thousands (if not tens of thousands) of animation frames, typically partially or completely hand-drawn for a 2D game (or hand-animated in a 3D app for a 3D game), along with sound effects and game balance and programming to implement the character's ability set. Then there's testing...
Thanks for the book link, just got my company to purchase a copy.
Why doesn't it look good for python? As far as I'm aware, Python has never been advertised as a top-performance language, and part of the advantage has always been that you can rewrite performance-critical paths in c.

Adding to this, the fact that BIND is something pretty performance-intensive, I don't think this makes it look bad at all.
Is MVC Pattern a Dead End for Application Development?
Show HN: My problem, my side project, 3D printing + co-ownership + DIY groups
Hi friends from HN!

I'm launching http://thinkklip.com : 3D printing + co-ownership + DIY groups

I'm really excited with 3D printing and the DIY movement but 3D printers aren't cheap and I don't need a 3D printer 100% the time, I just need to access a good 3D printer one day a week!. I think Shapeways and other providers are expensive too for a regular use and I can't find where to rent 3D printers.

On the other hand it is difficult for me to find other "Makers" near me, concretely I would like to find people interested in toy prototyping . So I started Thinkklip, a side project I think it could became something interesting or even big.

What is Thinkklip?: let's solve two problems at once:

1. best 3D printers are expensive,

2. many Makers want to join DIY groups

...and let’s see what happens...

I'd appreciate any feedback, comments, thoughts:

Thanks!
Saving to Google drive doesn't seem to be that mature. Fails 3 out of 4 times for me, and when it finally did, it ate my umlauts (encoding issue?).
How about if you have depression then maybe get the depression looked at and managed ?

It's terrible advice to just go and 'get a stable job' as you're clearly just treating the symptom not the cause.

There's probably lots of things you shouldn't do if you have depression, that's why it's not a good thing to have depression and you should seek help, not run away.
Then type 'exec inve' instead of just 'inve.'
It's still bias. This is something medical professionals have to be reminded of over and over again: Your perception is not a double-blind study! You have no randomized control group and not enough cases.
Seems like a super specific product, is there enough of a market for it? I do like it compared with the average website tour, but seems like they should create something more comprehensive somehow.
> courteously respectful: In my humble opinion you are wrong.

Maybe it is because I'm English but does anyone say that when they are really being humble? I would assume sugar coating at best and dripping sarcasm at worst.

Admittedly it isn't as bad as "with all due respect" followed by something indicating how little respect is considered due.
It is always about money.

Currently, TV Company X makes a bunch of shows and airs them in the US. Some of them make huge amounts of money, some fail miserably, most are somewhere inbetween. You make money in the US either by selling your content to networks, or putting it on your own network. The networks make money out of selling subscriptions (B2C) and advertising (B2B).

Internationally, you sell your content to networks in other countries. These will be whole bundles of content - let's say 5 shows, each with 3 series. This is a purely B2B business model, with guaranteed future income. Once the local networks have licensed the content from the producer, they promote it and sell their own advertising and subscriptions.

It seems that you're suggesting they replace that international model with one where they sell content online direct to consumers. The producer now has to take over all the marketing of the show, and sell its own advertising. They will also come up against local competition who are now making their own shows. And they've got to build websites with payment systems, and offer customer service. Oh, and deal with local regulators.

It will take a very long time to set up that new business model, and while they're doing it, they've lost all the guaranteed income of just licensing it to local networks. Their share price tanks as a result, and they have to deal with Carl Icahn launching a takeover bid.

Then there's the evidence that the number of people who will pay to consume large amounts of content online, while still accepting advertising, is still relatively small internationally, because not everyone has the technical capability or inclination to do it.

That is why it loses a huge amount of money in the short term. TV producers can't say 'iTunes or whatever'. They have to hire departments of people to build cashflow forecasts and business models that they can justify to shareholders. And if the CEO of TV Company X turns out to be wrong, they've lost their job with the $10M per year salary.

In the long run, it probably will be the case that TV will be distributed like you say - aired through the internet, pay-to-play. But if it's not happening quickly enough for you, then just download the torrents. It's more profitable for TV Network X to ignore the money you're offering than to change their entire business model so they can accept them.
A good option for series to still profit from advertisements even if they are pirated is to insert them in video instead of the regular break cuts that can easily be edited out. Thus, even if the show is pirated the consumer would still be exposed to advertising. The problem here is that we would have to bear with those lame, sort of 'watermark', adds. There may be a way for shows to cope with piracy in a profitable way.
Oh, and to add to my own comment, I'd also say you could swap out "depression" to "ongoing medical condition".

Similar thing, it's fine if you manage it, if you don't things could get a whole lot worse (and other people will end up hating you for either carrying your load or being let down)
I never said "won't give money". I just said "won't use non-opensource". These are two different things, just FYI.

I have paid for opensource software - Red Hat Linux. And would pay again if the paid offer is better than the free one.

Also, I can't help if you feel hurt that I don't pay for emacs and GCC. It's called "collaborative effort for the good of humanity". I respect that and I also try to give something back. I can't always measure exactly "what have I gained" vs. "what have I given in return" and that's fine with me. And I am sure it's also fine with the people who developed my tools. Even if I use them to earn money. Especially if I do so.

If it's not fine with you, go pay for your tools and spend your life measuring guilt. I'm fine with that too.
One wheel in the front, like a Reliant Robin? I worry about the turning stability.
Perhaps that makes sense. Actually I usually type 'workon myproject' (using virtualenvwrapper, because it provides a nice standard location and activation command for virtualenvs), so maybe this could all be transparent.
No, I won't go into specific examples. This was tough enough to write as it is without opening up old wounds.
MongoHQ releases SSD powered databases, autoscaling beta
Multi-player Mortal Kombat 3 in HTML5 canvas
Compared to the way torrentfreak and techdirt treat the issue of intellectual property, John Gruber is an impartial observer.
It's worth looking at Mark Roos's talks about RTalk which is a port of Smalltalk to the JVM to support some existing commercial software. It compiles JVM byte code from existing Smalltalk bytecode, and keeps the images if I remember correctly.

In the language I work on we do use JVM classes, but our own methods tables are used to model the inheritance hierarchy, and methods are all static JVM methods under the hood so we can support all the meta programming that you'd expect in a Smalltalk inspired language.
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There is a fair chance of that. But since this is my blog I will write whatever the hell I please, it's not a double blind study over 20 years and it does not pretend to be.

It's a plea. Which may stop the next friend or person that I'm in contact with from taking a right turn for a dead end in some broom closet somewhere.

Enough bright lights have been extinguished in this fashion over the last couple of years.
I'm sorry you're experiencing problems. Would it be possible for you to try again? When it fails just open About MindMup - Talk to Us and send feedback (leave a note on umlauts so we know it's you). This will automatically include all relevant information we need to troubleshoot it.
This is basically medical advice, given by someone without any medical training.

Would these people he is talking about have committed suicide if not in a start-up?

There is a link between stress and depression, and between depression and suicide. But for a lot individuals, both links just don't exist. Life is complicated. Sweeping advice is as bad as no advice.
Server has been bombed it seems. All game servers dead.

No idea whether it was HN related or a separate issue.
It is a super specific product. We designed it to be simple and so one thing but to do it extremely well. In our opinion literally every webapp requires a guided tour. If not to explain the features on their landing page, then to guide users through the actual functionality of the app itself. So IMHO, there is a pretty large market for us. Over the next few weeks we will be writing about how our customers are using Easy Product Tours in their applications.
That's a cool intiative, But we have to consider that all companies that support the initiative arent there for free.

Theres a commercial interest in encouraging kids to code: cheaper manpower in the future.
The problem is that privacy is better in EVERY way:
1. Faster to download the content
2. Much wider availability of content
3. Cheaper (free)
4. Easier to search and find the content that you want (for people who know how to pirate effectively, for those that don't it's actually quite hard to search and find the content and that's one of the main reasons why piracy hasn't dominated more than it already has)
5. Better formatting of the content (easier to manipulate, download it and consume it how you want it)

Personally I would always pay for content if it's available and easy to download. Unfortunately it's not. There are significant restrictions in what you can purchase online and download.
Love it. It would be even better as an offline chrome app.
"The alternative is just not seeing them at all it is depriving myself of culture.."

Wow, I have pirated a few myself but I know what I did. HBO, Viacom or Dr Dre don't have to contribute to your cultur-isation. (is that a word?) Otherwise Bill Gates might owe me a nice car and $10k/monthly so I can drive around to get to know USA. Of course if he doesn't give it to me, I'll take it. I am not depriving myself of culture and pleasure simply because Bill Gates says "it's my money and I do with it, what I want"
Man TPS... been a while. While studying mechanical engineering in college we learned about TPS in an industrial system's engineering class.

The professor, I think a little bitter that it became known as Toyota's always like to say it was an American idea. At the time American auto was fat happy and lazy, not seeing the need to eliminate "muda". William Edwards Deming was trying to get his "lean" ideas across to American auto mfg, but they weren't interested.

He went to Japan/Toyota and and that team is where the Toyota Production System came to be. This is also a major factor in how Japanese autos really kicked the crap out of American for so long. Only once American autos realized how bad they were getting beat up did they finally put an effort into getting lean and started to study the TPS. You can see how long its taken them to (arguably) catch up.

Japan honored his teachings with the naming of their highest manufacturing award: The Deming Prize. A former Deming Prize winner, Yoji Akao taught similar ideas and now that is a high award for American quality, the Akao Prize

Anywho, just thought it was a cool story

Now you know why we like to say kanban and kaizen so much!
The fact that it does not use a subshell makes it useful. You can trivially use it in bash scripts and cronjobs.
The atom bomb had large positive effects on world conflicts. Suddenly, the threat of mutual annihilation made large wars unattractive. You may thank the atom bomb for the absence of world War III.

If WW3 comes to pass, then WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones (Einstein said it, in different words)
This guy has been in this page for ages: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/

there are comments going back over a decade http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/
that's in the plan and actually wouldn't be that difficult to do, it's just that some other things are higher on the list of priorities. you can make us do it sooner by voting: http://www.mindmup.com/#vote - we tend to work on the stuff with the most votes.
nooooo, don't post this kind of link here!! my working day is over ;)
Code layouting: there are no standards (just give us the software please)
This such a great example displaying the power of HTML5. I'm going to be playing this quite a lot!

Is this going to be open sourced any time? It'd be neat to see how this works on the server etc.
Good point. We plan to add something along the lines of "counterpoints" ("X does Z badly"), and we have other viewpoints ("Y does Z well"), but directly pointing users toward solutions that solve those counterpoints ("[take a look at Y, because] Y does Z better") isn't something we'd considered. I'll definitely keep that in mind as we hash out the counterpoints idea a little more. Thanks kindly.
http://www.frogheart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/WOW-Urbee...

The single wheel is in the back.
Not quite sure what advantages this approach has over composite based moulded panels?

Of course carbon fibre is the composite of choice at the moment and it's relatively expensive but surely that will change.
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