skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I'm old I'm afraid I'd regret not working harder and accomplishing things. With that said, this does sound like a viable strategy for startup founders. It basically gives you an infinite runway at age 30, which means you can keep swinging the bat for the rest of your life.
...people flip on TLC and watch "Honey Boo Boo", they don't flip on TLC and watch an ant farm (!) ...that would be even more boring
1) The language introduction is found under the Getting Started link: http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/1.html

2) Dialyzer works fine on Elixir beam files. You can specify type & spec attributes just like in Erlang.

If macros worry you unduly, then Elixir is not for you. I personally prefer to use macros than type lots of boilerplate code, but yes there are some downsides.

edit: Actually I should have said reading and typing - reading boilerplate is much worse than writing it. Judicious use of macros can clarify intent for someone reading the code.
>(And there's one exception to this I've heard of - some people believe here that Lipton tea brought from US tastes much, much worse than one bought locally ;)).

Could this be because the US version is sweetened with HFCS instead of the beet sugar used here in Europe? I've heard similar things of American colas.
You described how my daily life goes to the t. As someone else has stated, I feel like I could have written this myself. The app you are talking about would be of tremendous help in analyzing my issues/habits, but I also lack the willpower to complete such a task lol. If you ever do make the program, I'll be the first to download. Thank you as well for the good read, I don't as alone anymore now ha.
My friend created this:
http://permalightnyc.com/experiments/radial-menu
I completely agree with you first point. It is very easy to forget that there's a vast range of people with very different viewpoints and beliefs than you. If you primarily meet people in tech, you are not meeting all sorts of people who may feel quite strongly that they don't want to be recorded.
Is there some objective reason to make bitcoins seem legitimate?

I guess there is the value provided by a decentralized transaction system, but at this point, competition seems like a better idea than picking a winner.
Sony Xperia Z: Tips to Improve Battery Life
I don't think there is much to these statistics; surely, it was different 20 years back and it will be 20 years from now.
how is bitcoin viable if it doesn't cope with competition?
Not true. I've traveled for months through S. America and Europe. Of the dozens of people we met, never were any of the hitchhiking as the primary method of transportation.
>It's just that lawsuits are easier in the USA so that might cause food manufacturers to behave better.

On the other hand, the 2008 melamine scandal in China resulted in executions.
Stick - A "better" Markdown
for 4) - ruby style DSLs. It's something that Erlang doesn't lack in principle due to parse transformations, but in practice, the difficulty of writing parse transformations and the sense in which prolog syntax doesn't lend itself to simple "english" like DSLs means people don't use them much.
I agree. Worst people skills ever. I'm picturing the author of the petition as that nerd on the youtube video who freaked about about node.js not being fast.

EDIT: This guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1zzna-dNw
Lipton tea doesn't necessarily mean pre-sweetened. They also sell bags. It does not seem at all unlikely to me that Lipton pushes lower quality tea in the US market than in markets where people are used to higher quality.
This is the $64,000 question. Either we're all acutely aware of ourselves and we're just feeling the normal human condition multiplied through that awareness, or we really aren't functioning correctly. I've yet to work that out myself.

All I do know is when I do things that literature has said will reduce symptoms of well known and well documented behavioural issues, my own go away a little bit.
Be that as it may, I believe the comparison TeMPOral is talking about is Lipton in both cases.
What is Inclusion Body Myositis?
Medium.com seems to have hit the nerd/emo intersection spot on, those articles get upvoted faster than TechCrunch during an apple product launch.
Getting Early Users: Hacker News vs. Reddit vs. BetaList Launch-off
I'm really not sure what this means:

> My brain works a little differently than most people’s. My body doesn't balance chemicals like serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine well and as a result I get “sick”, my label for my particular mix of anxiety, depression and general mental health issues.

Chemicals like serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine? So neurotransmitters? And what does balance have to do with it? Do you lack dopaminergic neurons? Do you have an over expression of serotonin? I'm not asking for you to go into detail about your problems but that sounds a little too wishy washy.

A lot of these issues sound exactly like what many other people also suffer from every day. So it's hard to not think that on some level this is psychosomatic.
Unfair banking practices are probably a better deal than say, outright feudalism. And unfair banking practices being in the news can sort of be interpreted as someone doing something about it (not hearing about it could be better, or it could be worse...).

And then 0.5% on a loan isn't going to smash all that many dreams.
I don't have any inside knowledge, but presumably the keys and car exchange messages and do some crypto signing.
For example, the car makes up and sends a random string, the key signs it and sends it back.
The inaccurate details have been fixed. Why do you think the post does not have much content?

Instabot sounds good. I'll be happy to try it out with the Gaglers chat rooms. There are not much details on the site about how to customise the bot.
"Also, Google is forbidding advertising in apps. This is a HUGE shift for Google's business model. I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce based company."

Does anybody think this is their permanent stance? I certainly don't.
I was trying to simplify it, admittedly a lot, I was just trying to illustrate that really in the end behaviour and affect is just chemistry, effected by various different stimulus. (i also should've added as a footnote, i studied psychology for several years)

And sure these are all things that people suffer day-to-day, what makes it more is that an episode can go days, weeks and (thankfully not recently for me) months.
Neither of these are surprising. Hershey's makes very low quality products, so I would expect them to use whatever ingredients are cheapest locally.
Yes, unfortunately documentation has taken a back seat to getting the XMPP frontend right. It should be ready in a day or two, and then it's documentation time. Feel free to contact me (email in my profile) if you need anything at all, but the bot should just work with the Gaglers rooms right now.

Can I email you to ask what sort of customization you're looking for? Thanks!
#makesajokeaboutrobertsmith
1) A language introduction is not documentation, and is certainly not specification. It's difficult to discuss a new language when you have to guess how it works based on a handful of examples.

2) Dialyzer is a complete, not sound program analyzer. i.e. it will never produce a false positive, but it may allow incorrect programs through. By making definitions first-class, Elixir's module language becomes Turing-complete, moving a whole new class of bugs into Dialyzer's "false negative" category.

This problem doesn't exist with second-class definition systems such as OCaml's, because the definition language is not Turing-complete: all definitions and modules may be checked at compile time.

3) I'm not sure where macros come into play? Are you using "macros" to mean "higher-order programming tools"? If so, you're misunderstanding me -- I use metaprogramming tools all the time; I simply prefer ones which aren't Turing-complete and are therefore amenable to analysis.
I don't even understand how crap like this gets top votes.

As far as I see this is a post about some nerd who sees himself as special and different. What a loser.
Quit & Analyze (podcast episode)
Your Enterprise Technology Website Is Hurting My Face
One always think he is original and different, but doesn't realize all others are suffering from the same evils
Ex-Hacker Is Stalked by His Past
OP, this exact thing happened to me in high school then into uni. Well, I actually dropped out because I just could not make it work. I wasn't like the top students either. Hell, I was hardly even average.

If there is any advice I can give, it would be to be _proud_ of every accomplishment you achieve. People use pride to motivate them. The pride of finishing a course, an assignment, a homework problem, getting a paycheck, promotion, a diploma -- I could go on. I can't even count the number of times I thought I was prepared for a test only to end up with a barely passing grade (if I was lucky). Practice and preparation are empty, unfulfilling activities without pride, and I think that's why I could never get anything out of them.

Pride is something that I struggle with even ten years after I packed all my shit into my car and made the long and painful drive home from university. My failures still hang heavy on my every movement, regardless of the good things that I do today. It could have been different, I think to myself. I should have done better. It seems like you are struggling with the same emotions.

In the end many functional, successful people struggle with regret of _some_ kind. You seem to be remarkably introspective about yours, and that is a good thing. Let it guide you, motivate you. It took me ten years (and debt that I am still paying off) to trust those instincts.
I too share this grand delusion. I know it's a delusion, yet I can't formulate a solution. I'm a first year right now, I share the same story from high school, to rejection from the university I wanted to go to, and finally to the low grades in university. Thanks for sharing the story, it gives me insight on where my behaviour will lead. Thank you.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel that in-language DSLs are one of the best ways to write unmaintanable, bug-ridden code.

Why? Once it's no longer syntactically clear what's written in the host language and what's written in the DSL, it requires a very thorough understanding of both languages and their interactions to comprehend any given piece of code. And in a language where definitions can be modified at run time or have dynamic scope (it's not clear which of these two methods Elixir uses), it's often hard to tell what is or is not DSL code in the first place.

(Note: I write DSLs for a living. Except, they live apart from any host language, and thus don't allow arbitrary syntactic and semantic mixing and are thus highly amenable to automatic analysis, which is one of, if not the, primary benefit of a DSL.)
Isn't the fact that water absorbs waves and heats the main hypothetical danger for the brain?
For democracy to be restored for real in the United States, we'd have to see a few things happen. One, there would need to be strong legislation in place to fight insider deals in government. The anticorruption amendment Lessig has talked about is a good start. Two, there needs to be a complete redistricting of the United States under very specific guidelines to put an end to this gerrymandering bullcrap. We should seriously consider raising the number of Congressmen and increase representation all across the US. Gerrymandering is becoming a far larger problem for the long term than any campaign finance anything. Three, there has to be an end to all these corrupt subsidies like the the farm bill and let companies fail and succeed by the market and not by the corrupt government's fiat. That includes banks.
Jelly bean with google now added offline voice recognition. My downloaded English dictionary is 22mb.

http://m.androidcentral.com/google-search-update-allows-thir...
Shitty MVPs
Managing Non-code Projects with GitHub
Internet Sales Tax Coming Too Late for Some Stores
> It's difficult to discuss a new language when you have to guess how it works based on a handful of examples.

It sounds like you are more interested in "CS friendly" languages, rather than "get stuff done" languages. Erlang and Elixir tend toward the latter category.

I'm generalizing a lot, and that's not to say a language can't be both, but Erlang was born of a practical need, and I think that Elixir is similar: it's not meant to be the most beautiful language out there, it's meant to be a bit more user-friendly way of utilizing the power of Erlang and OTP.

In terms of a specification, have a look at Elixir's test suite. Given that it's still being hacked on, it's probably not set in stone.
I have no doubt Microsoft are working on their own glasses, so maybe I'll hold out for that.

I jumped from Google's ecosystem to Microsoft and I'm totally happy with the Outlook.com/Skydrive/Office trifecta. The Windows Phone 8 is awesome and integrates nicely with Windows 8 OS. Even Bing has strengths that Google search can't touch.

Internet Explorer 10 is almost tolerable.

So yeah, lets see what Microsoft brings to the party.
DRM at the W3C? Not such a Bad Idea.
Homeless hostel ranked in city top ten on TripAdvisor
Will someone surf me to North Dakota?
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley Software Students Win Hackathon
Haha! (Thanks for the real-life laugh :) I admit - I have only seen the late 80s/early 90s versions of MLP (when I was a little girl). Which were about as intellectual as Care Bears. Care Bears hasn't gotten more intellectual in a reissue, has it?
I like the author of the article had my own vices, I used to be bullied in highschool I was one of those smart kids, They would always cheat off of me and ask for my help in turn I would be condescending. This trait soon bled into my life and turned me into someone that people could not get along with. I eventuality sat down one day and stepped out into a third person perspective and saw why. Now I hold mental barriers that prevent this trait from exposing its self.
I don't think it can be fairly described as a better Markdown. One of the design requirements for Markdown was that it wouldn't look out of place as a plain text e-mail or usenet posting. This would stick out like a sore thumb.

That's not to say Stick is necessarily worse than Markdown for all purposes. But it is worse than Markdown by this criterion.
About Euclid's Elements and modern video games
Do You Have These Core Human Skills?
Hmm, this doesn't seem very accurate... Tron has 360 mentions:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&s...

Some of them are split between "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy" so parsing this correctly isn't totally easy.

And don't you think "Star Wars" would have been talked about here at least once?
The way Mr. Schmidt comes across in response to critics, immediately labeling ALL critics as people afraid of change... comes across as desperate to me.

Society will adapt to those technologies IT deems fit for society... not every single technology that comes out.
So you think Google’s ultimate goal here is shoving ads in front of people’s eyes? I somehow doubt that.

Why wouldn’t they just want another leg to stand on, besides ads? Doesn’t that make sense? You can make tons of money selling hardware. Apple demonstrated that.
Ah right, because the creation and competition of 100+ other fiat currencies, makes the dollar seem like less of a currency. Executive summary: Bad logic.
GitHub's Code For Workplace Happiness
Being open to donations in Litecoin isn't a very big risk to take. They could also accept donations in HN karma or WoW gold if the infrastructure enabled them to do so. It's not like it costs them anything.

When people start accepting payments in Litecoin, it will be noteworthy.
Don't forget AVS (Advanced Visualization Studio). Good old software rendering, and programmable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tka07_LC534
I live in London so that's basically happening already.
One word: Ewoks.

Not defending Bond movies. I agree, they're pretty damn stupid. (Although at least the earlier ones were done with a sense of fun. I like stupid fun.) But... ewoks.
The person renting has to make their money from somewhere - it can't be rental properties all the way down the heap.

Oh there's something to be said for living within your means, certainly. People seem to waste a lot of money on things that don't really make them happy. But it seems to me that people with relatively high areas of local utility probably shouldn't start talking about how everyone can act - their solution may not scale well.
Debunking the HTML5 DRM myths
Rosenberg Family’s Quest to Regain Art Stolen by Nazis
OK. I understand what you were trying to put across. But ultimately what you described was a set of symptoms of a disorder that you didn't fully explain, so I found it confusing reading the essay with vague hints of the underlying issue.

I'm just saying this as cognitive scientists spend a lot of effort working out which mechanisms and pathways are malfunctioning for a specific disorder, and a generalised statement listing 3 neurotransmitters didn't sit well with me.

From a neuroscience perspective, there is a major issue with self diagnosis, its very hard to be objective when you're examining yourself and once you begin to notice something, you tend to 'fix' the evidence in your mind. Psychosomatic symptoms are surprisingly common. However I don't want to sound like I'm questioning your diagnosis, so if you are aware of a deficit on a functional level please ignore me.
Building A Culture That Works: The CEO As The Cultural Epicenter by Peter Levine
Does anyone have any good or bad experience with these folks?
I am looking into getting a new Toshiba laptop. Does anyone have any good or bad experience with these folks. My biggest concern being technical support. I'm also looking into a portable scanner to ride in the truck with me.

My goal is to be able to provide paperless invoices, hey way to get the store stamp and signature onto the invoice, and perhaps to even enter it into Intuit QuickBooks.

Thanks.
It has been named in this thread before, but you might not have seen it. I used to run foobar under wine, but honestly, deadbeef[1] works better from an integration point of view (global shortcuts, GTK etc.).

[1] http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
The best Windows notebook PC is a Mac: study
Worlds oldest lab experiment: 86yrs and still going
I think similar symptoms can come about from hypomania. I dare say hn readers are more susceptible than the population at large.
http://pandodaily.com/2013/02/20/why-many-entrepreneurs-are-...
As the screenshots in this article show, the reviewers weren't trying hard to make their submissions look 100% genuine. However, in the multitude of intentionally deceptive reviews, I wonder what patterns emerge? And have TripAdvisor and Yelp (and whoever else relies on user-generated reviews) ever worked together to try and crack this nut?
'Most of the time, its an offer not made for your strengths, but in sympathy, giving you a way out. '

I don't think a company ever acquires another company because they feel bad. If they want to buy you it means that your company could play an integral part of their strategy. If it seems like they think they're doing you a favor then that means they are trying to low-ball you and you should ask for a higher price.
Whether we like it or not, that's where we're heading.

A few governments will try to add guard-rails, but that will merely cause delays (cf. the EU "Public Display"-law that delayed streetview).

At the end of the day the always-on features will be too useful and entertaining for a majority to "restrain" themselves.
Agree. This is just an index of links to IMDB from stories and comments. I couldn't come up with anything better/more accurate.
I looked at corona and phonegap. both seem like quick ways to get to an app quickly.
Oh no no, I completely understand how it could "not sit well" with someone, I over-simplified it for the audience and it was only supposed to be illustrative in the purpose of what I was writing.

(Obviously I'm more a believer/subscriber/fan of cognitive approaches to psychology, and why I wanted to be a psychologist and not a psychiatrist.)
Drones - an open letter to Eric Schmidt
It sounds like you are more interested in "CS friendly" languages, rather than "get stuff done" languages.

It sounds like you think there's no overlap (despite your next paragraph).

Additionally: "CS friendliness" is more pragmatic than you think. Automatic refactoring and automatic code analysis are two huge pragmatic wins (think: saving developer time) that are made possible only by paying heed to analyzability of code.

Erlang and Elixir tend toward the latter category.

Erlang is my current favorite language. You may not realize it, but it is one of the most "CS friendly" mainstream languages that exist. The fact that it is almost entirely defined by "functional programming" + "actor model" is a big part of this. The existence of Dialyzer is a testament to its amenability to automatic analysis.

In terms of a specification, have a look at Elixir's test suite.

A test suite isn't a specification (though it's a lot closer than a tutorial): all computer languages contain infinities (e.g. expressions can be arbitrarily large); test suites cannot express infinities.

And a test suite certainly isn't a reference document. A good language reference document says "here are all the forms of the language, here is what they all mean". The Erlang Reference Manual is a very good example of such a document.

(I'm not trying to be a bear; "There is no language documentation" is a perfectly acceptable answer for me; it just means there is no way for me to discuss the specific benefits Elixir may have.)
Grades as a metric for intelligence or understanding seems to be broken. I remember in high school and university there were students whom would do vastly better then my self in many cs courses. It bothered myself until learned that they had access to a Drop box that contained many solutions collected through out the years as well as past midterms. If stopped bothering me when they were not getting Co-op placements and had to apply their knowledge. My point is don't count on a metric to define who you are and how intelligent you are.
I'm not going to try to minimize what you're experiencing. They could be serious issues that need to be dealt with. Lack of desire to eat and not wanting to spend time with friends seem concerning at the very least.

But I will say the following behavior you have described is one of my biggest problems and I would give almost anything for a tool that solved that:

>When I'm sick I struggle to maintain focus on what I need to, I get distracted (small dopamine hits from social media are the worst)
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> Second, glancing at an HMD is fundamentally different from pulling out a cell phone because you're not looking away from the other person.

I see this like conversing with someone that's looking past you: i.e. incredibly grating because you obviously do not have their full attention.
> time to clean dishes,

Dishwasher, not worth measuring. You do it when you walk back to the kitchen after the meal.

And you'd have to clean the glass from your drink anyway. Or walk back to the kitchen to throw the bottle away and then you've got the time for throwing the extra trash away.

> time to eat and chew solid food,

Not mutually exclusive with that many other things that I'd be doing at home. Hard to really count it as a loss.
Lessons learned defying Joel Spolsky with Django