skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
31/36. Just one point, using a mouse having the two different sets of buttons at either sides of the screen was distracting.
FCC To Boost Wi-Fi On Planes
Just curious: If the client asks you to also plumb hist toilet, you'd say "yes, but I'll bill you at $5k/hr for the toilet project"?

You really want to be the "do anything for enough money" guy? ...cause this is how you're labeling yourself by going this route more than one time. Imho, taking some pride and saying "no, fuck of, I don't do this, find someone else" makes you feel 1000x better as you realize you don't do what you do just because the client pays you, but also because you want to do it and you want to just do a good job at it. ...it might bring you less money but boy it's wort it (I may be weird, but I get a real kick when I get to just tell someone "NO", regardless of whether it's client that you're too busy to take his project or someone close asking for a favor: it really underlines your freedom and individuality and makes you feel good).

(And just to make it clear: in my book "plumbing the client's toilet" and "letting the client see a video recording of me working" are in the same league of completely unreasonable requests.)
it seems a nice place to start.
Hi Torn,

I have not used Mimosa before but it looks quite nice! I have not spent much time with it beyond going through the steps of setting up a new project.

Grunt won't be very interesting if Mimosa is meeting your immediate needs well. The only thing I can say like about it (at this stage) over Mimosa is that you start with nothing under Grunt and build your workflow from scratch. It doesn't pre-install coffeescript/livescript/typescript compilers and so on as its own dependencies - you install their corresponding grunt tasks (e.g. grunt-contrib-coffee) when you decide you need them.

Bower is great to have in a project to manage your front-end package dependencies if you don't already have something similar in your dev environment.
Why Authenticity is the Key to Growing Your Business
Nobody is forcing anybody to own a car. And stop worrying about the decisions other people make about how to spend their money.
Try another color scheme?

But see an optician.
I agree with almost everything you said, except for this:

> People who manage to struggle through it and create art are doing it despite their disease and not because of it.

While depression can hurt creativity––bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia can actually help it[1].

The discussion has mainly been around depression, but I think the "suffering artist" label can apply to a range of disorders.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_and_mental_illness
I am glad to see KISSMETRICS posting something like this, because I very much agree with the idea that authenticity is key to business success, but not enough companies recognize it, including startups.
Amazon was down
I get why that makes sense for recruiters, but why event planners?
This is old news. paste.pocoo.org was shut down around a year ago.

FWIW, https://github.com/bufferio/spacepaste is built on top of Lodgeit (which powered paste.pocoo.org) and is what we use in `#python` now as a pastebin, along with http://paste.pound-python.org which is just a regular Lodgeit instance.
Why CS teachers should stop teaching Java applets
There's some evidence to suggest that eating fructose in combination with fiber (as found naturally in fruits) is far less harmful than just sugar alone, and way less harmful than refined sugar.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Dice Scraping LinkedIn for Post-Mortem Recruiter Spam
>>>And the "everything is hopeless bullshit" attitude i've had many times

That is the entire Book of Ecclesiastes in a nutshell. All is vanity.
The permutations will continue until the PEP improves.
Don’t blindly follow the MVP gospel, adapt it to your personality and projects. People won’t take your half finished app seriously if you are outside of the early adopters market… which happens most of the time.
Why I'm finally learning to code as a 30 year old
Tesla hit the market with very fortuitous timing. "Green" is very trendy right now, and electric cars are seen as being "green" (though if you consider complete manufacturing impact from sourcing the raw materials, I'm not sure I'm convinced). And in most parts of the USA, a Tesla is a coal-powered car.
Well i'll share a little bit of what might have helped me. Maybe it'll give you some ideas.

First was my acceptance of a lack of a point to life. At first, for a long time, it made me sad that there was no point. Then I kind of stopped caring... I got to that point where she's just walking through the desert, in denial that nothing matters, just trying to ignore that life is meaningless and keep going for no reason.

Over a long period of time, I would occasionally discover something which was mildly interesting, and it kind of inched the curtain of nothingness up a bit and I could see some light. (In retrospect, I wish someone had carried me around and exposed me to the endless array of amazing curious weird pretty fun things in the world)

Relationships were impossible. Most of the time I would be wandering through life and waiting for something to happen. I probably should have talked to some experts who could have explained that my behavior was tailored to prevent me from changing my attitude, but that's hindsight for ya.

The second thing happened recently. Through an amazingly intelligent, unyieldingly positive, buddhist-like fun person, I discovered that the brain is actually as stupid as the dog Ms. Hyperbole has. But it is possible to train your stupid dog brain to be happier, to be more confident, to believe in things.

It seems impossible, but it's a real thing. I'm still not sure what books or people to refer to help you with this, but google around for PMA, mindfulness, and benevolence. The general idea is that if you tell yourself you are good happy things, and that there are good happy things in the world that can make you more good and happy, it just sort of... happens.

Oh, and find a community of people that like the same things you do who are really positive and fun to hang around. Good role models can help. When you feel things again you can begin to stand on your own and engage the things in life you have discovered that are worth while. Then, keep discovering new things.

Even if you're faking it, be positive. Fake it until you become it, as that lady in that TED talk said. And seek out experts. Even if you consider yourself broken, remember that all broken things can be fixed and made to work again. You're not born a brain mechanic, so you need to find some of them and learn how to do basic maintenance until you get it running again.
and most atms are 1990s technology
> I don't see how 3D printers will be able to make undetectable bullets

They can't, and I didn't think that was implied. I think it was assumed that bullets would come from the usual sources.

Still, a CNC mill could probably fashion bullets (not undetectable ones) and their casings from metal. Explosives required are still a problem, so you'd probably be better off not doing this.
I don't think that enums should have values (i.e. numbers).

Nearly every language does it that way but isn't that just because C originally implemented enums with numbers? Modern languages are much higher level.

Java enums don't have any numeric equivalent value, they are just objects, with textual names if you must convert them into something more primative.
Just blew the minds of everyone I work with.
Whenever something like this happens I always think it was my fault because I just ordered a tube of toothpaste.
You are correct that fructose with fiber is pretty harmless, but that video is bullshit. See here:

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/02/19/a-retrospective-of-...
Slide 13: "always be link building" -- something you don't see much on HN, but very true.
At least AWS is still up!
Dr. Carmella's Guide to Understanding the Introvert
http://img.pr0gramm.com/2012/06/introverts.jpg

That.
Have you read Bertrand Russell's 'Philosophy of Mathematics'? I had tried to read it awhile back. It discusses things in a similar tone.
On Citizenship in open-source software development
Bring your Pomodoros to Blimp
The statement's a little hyperbolic, but I think you're misunderstanding the author's point. The point is that math is aimed at trying to build understanding in contrast to producing logically airtight proofs. The proofs are important to make sure that our understanding is right, but there's more to it than that.

I agree that's not the literal sentence you quoted, but it's definitely the theme of the article: according to many of the people cited, Mochizuki's shirking his responsibility by not explaining how to understand the result, regardless of whether the proof is correct or incorrect.

Caveat: I Am Not A Mathematician (IANAM)
I believe it is only because the phrase sounds better that way, and it has become the canonical form.

But I partially agree, especially with the advice you sometimes see about a service of fruit juice being the same as a serving of fruit.

But many whole fruits have their sugar bound up in fiber. You don't take quite the same insulin hit eating an apple as you do drinking apple juice.
It's usually the reverse... AWS goes down but Amazon carries on quite happily
Thanks! I grabbed 9NNKANNR4MPL
Who knew there were these things called democracies that allowed their people to create their own laws!!! I understand that America usually "encourages" other countries to follow their laws, but it looks like some freedom still exists, as tiny as it is...
"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

Proxy down?
>You submissions aren't being censored. Ordinary, everyday members of HN are flagging them as not adding value. If you spent some time here learning about these things you'd understand the dynamics better, but after our discussion on the other item you submitted complaining about how things work, I doubt you'll do that.

I reasoned about every point we talked about.

As you said, I didn't answer the question, so you don't know how long I've been reading HN.

>I doubt you'll do that

Please! The premise that I don't know how things work seem to be a construction of your desire to argue against me, even if it's not on merit of the argument alone.
its not down. They are just experiencing api slowness... chill!
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value
Well, it's more that NC counts car dealers among it's citizens but not Tesla Motors employees, and nobody else particularly cares about the issue.
Hah. It's a common trait among mathematicians. I had a stab at an answer myself[0], and gave a ballpark answer (once every 1.62 years).

[0] http://math.stackexchange.com/a/387581/4873
I wonder how many millions are lost per minute of downtime.
Disney puts your face on a 3D-printed Stormtrooper for $99.95
If the ATM is verifying that the face belongs to an account holder, there's little worry of someone unauthorized accessing it. Use two cameras to get a real 3D biometric, they'd need a lifelike model of your head to access your account.
A (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) question to ponder: If Hardy were alive today, would he turn his back on Number Theory as too useful, and study something more theoretical like the existence of long-time solutions to Navier-Stokes?
It's unfair to blame this on management drones - this propensity for mindless overwork is a key component of geek culture. We brought this upon ourselves, in many ways, though unscrupulous companies certainly have taken advantage of it.

How many other fields and subcultures glorify and celebrate caffeine-fueled binges and lack of sleep? How many subcultures form competitions around how horribly you can abuse your body for nerd points? Hell, as a nerdy kid growing up, how many of your fellow nerds shunned you for daring to branch out and do non-nerdy things on the side? For a bunch of ostracized people we sure as hell do a lot of it on our own.

This translates not just to big companies but to founders too. There is a pernicious perception that if you're not mindlessly devoted at all hours of the day (waking or otherwise) to your startup/work that you are unworthy.

The geek subculture has never really known moderation. It's sad that this article needs to exist, but bad management is really only the surface. This goes pretty deep.
This is more suited to someone with regular working hours that needs a fast lunch, is someone who can eat meat, and has basic cooking skills and equipment. Hourly workers, those working multiple jobs, and those that do not have the money to purchase kitchen equipment would be hard pressed to follow this advice.
The syntax strikes me as somewhat strange. It requires writing out enum values (and thus avoiding duplicates or, for a cleaner look, just keeping them sorted), necessitating unnecessary effort when new values are added in the middle, and misleadingly implies that the enum values are merely class-level integer constants. I would have preferred a more explicit API that used a list of strings for the enumerators.
All other Amazon sites (.co.uk, .fr, .de, etc.) are up.
Please help PyPy by providing an example benchmark. The project is test and data driven, and the more data it has the better it can be
Revenue lost?
Revenue briefly deferred?
Profit lost?
Profit briefly deferred?

Those are four very different numbers.
What does that even mean, in a (hopefully) non-spammy context?
Do you have a link for 3? It would probably affect my answer[0] as I was assuming that the probability of dying between ages x and x+1 increases as a power law after age 60 (which fits well for 60 <= x <= 100, but I don't have data for beyond 100).

[0] http://math.stackexchange.com/a/387581/4873
It's definitely down
It's a shame that you've disregarded all of the replies to your original comment. tl;dr there are degrees of bugs and many are easily fixed.

edit: more constructively, Imagine that you're working on the NYT crossword and I come along and point out that 45 across is wrong and tell you what the answer should be. Do you then throw away the rest of your work? No, you fix the part that's wrong and then check the rest of the puzzle to figure out the scope of the error.
Very strange to me as an American. So would you actually get in legal trouble if you took a picture at a public event?
2.0 may have been a long time in the making, but I just bought the Scratch Adventure book for my kids last week, which uses 1.4, unaware of the pending update. When I went to the site to download Scratch, it was down while preparing for the 2.0 release. I thought it was a pretty ironic introduction to programming, always new shiny objects.
Whoops, forgot to check nginx.conf didn't have any syntax errors before restarting!
Thanks. It works so well that I turned it into a system and I sell it to other freelancers. Most of them have no clue on how to market and this solves their biggest problem: getting a steady flow of clients. Plus I only charge $99 for it. Cheap.

Edit: The system is designed for USA based freelancers/consultants.
Sunlight and exercise definitely help when I get the "blahs" (what I call the week-long negatively introspective period you describe). That feeling that depression is beautiful or somehow correct is very dangerous, however.

During my senior year of high school and the first two years of college I was definitely suffering from the gray/black depression mentioned above. Life was feeling pretty meaningless, and I was in a constant state of demotivation. Anything which registered positively on the emotional scale was severely blunted.

If nothing matters, does anything even exist? I'd often just sit around and wonder about if I was real, if the space between my fingers was real, or if the person sitting next to me was real. Somehow the lucidity of that thought process was exhilarating but paradoxically it also served to deepen my depression. Now when I meet people who seem preoccupied with existential thoughts I wonder how depressed they are.

During this time I was in the best shape of my life, and I frequented the beach so I got plenty of sunlight. I wouldn't describe myself as having been suicidal, but I didn't see much point to living either. That is, I had no desire to cease living, and if faced with the choice I would have definitely chosen life over not life, but I often thought deeply about what the point of living really was.

I lost close to three years to this. It's a permanent scar in the form of my undergrad GPA. I understand the feelings very, very well. However the one thing I don't understand is what brought me out of it. I didn't have anything like the experience Allie (author of the OP) had with the weird giggling fit. I just slowly became distracted from anhedonism by the meaning that life gradually seemed to have.

Around that time I sought treatment for ADHD, as I was flunking out of school. Maybe treating my ADHD caused me to find meaning in my newfound ability to direct all of my intellect toward a common goal? Maybe it was just the drugs? Maybe anhedonism was my childhood toy that slowly became less enthralling?

Conversations about depression and what depression is like are absolutely beneficial. It's powerful to be able to empathize with a person in this situation. I just wish we understood the mechanisms behind this super "stable" form of deep depression well enough to reliably pull people out of it.
It's spontaneously up for me, sometimes I get a homepage, most of the time I get Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.
Ideas for Good User Interfaces (conversion & ease of use).
It is also difficult and requires time and knowledge to be able to reliably do this, and even then some plantings will fail due to unforeseen reasons. Someone with time or budget pressure would have a hard time doing this on their own.
Get the most out of it? In-n-out Burger.
you apparently have never been to the aws status page.
I know who Paul Graham is.

>Flags are not used as downvotes

I'm not as certain about that.
Is it still slower than LuaJIT?
You can't trust the actual data on this one, because the "oldest person alive" is often a deceased Japanese person whose death has not been reported, for the purpose of pension fraud.
Ubuntu working on new Linux application installer
> it should go without saying, but there is no dressing added, no butters, oils etc. once you start adding that stuff you might as well ...

Fear of butter and grease is an anomaly from the 1980s.
Still up for me at 3PM, Northwest UK.
I was thinking revenue lost.
I wonder what would happen if, say, I allocated $10 per month to compensating articles and journalists I enjoyed.

And then it was distributed evenly by time I spent on the page, every single day. So if I spent 30 minutes reading this article, 10 minutes reading another, 2 minutes on 10 others, this author would get $0.16 ($0.33 per day, times (30 mins, out of 60 total mins of time = 0.5)).

That's really not that much. With 10,000 people all following this same path, the author would "only" get $1600. Readership is likely to drop off exponentially after the initial publicity. Publishing two articles of similar quality per month would get the author a nice living wage; not too bad, but only if they can reach an audience of 10,000 interested readers who are in on this compensation system. Slim chance.

Perhaps it works as a supplementary reward system. Another question: does this incentivize the right things? Will such metrics lead to longer articles which aren't necessarily interesting to read, but just take a long time? Does it disincentivize quality in any way?

More questions: how much would people be willing to contribute—$10 per month? $30 per month? How is it distributed—manually or automatically, by time or by rating? Is the small bit better than nothing? Does this incentivize people to a) produce good content, or b) pay for its consumption? Would people voluntarily buy into this system, or does it need to be a restrictive thing where only contributors can read articles?

Just thinking.
I, honestly, doubt very much. I'm sure you'll have a percentage of potential customers not make a purchase at all because the site is down, but everyone that is committed to buying whatever it was they were going to look for will just wait until the site is back up.
Efficiency/speed?

The user doesn't necessarily need to have access to the raw numbers I guess, but when it comes down to comparisons/branching etc, numbers are pretty much always going to be fastest and simplest.

And if they are going to be based on numbers underneath, why not let the user/coder/whatever have access to them?
I have a similar problem. It's really hard to work 8 - 10 hours then come home and try to have the steam to dive into a mathematics or algorithms textbook and go through it in a way that really lets me internalize the material.

Could be that I just haven't found the right books or rhythm for this kind of learning, though. Doesn't help that I'm a pretty disorganized person with my time outside of work, heh.

I've read a few posts on this blog before, and remember enjoying them. I'll have to read a few more. I think it's partly because of how much I hated formal education, and partly because a blog doesn't have the same physical presence as a textbook, but blog posts are less psychologically draining to think about than a book, for me.
How they dare to have laws and expectations different to the ones in my country?

Outrageous!
Bill Gates pays $30.8 million for a da Vinci manuscript
Interesting. It looks like if you want to use enum in 2.7 you have to use a package called flufl[1].

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~barry/flufl.enum/trunk/view/hea...
Its also useful to have the business of government open and machine readable. In Ireland we have recently had a change in how debate information from our Parliament was published forcing a complete overhaul of the website most people use to keep track of their public representatives.
http://www.thejournal.ie/kildarestreet-com-back-from-the-dea...
There's an excellent quotation attributed to Alexandre Grothendieck, one of the greatest mathematicians alive. At a seminar he was giving on analytic number theory, someone suggested that they should consider a particular prime number. "You mean an actual number?" Grothendieck asked. The other person replied, yes, an actual prime number. Grothendieck replied "All right, take 57."
The counterpoint is that the guy has a serious track record before now (according the the article). If he didn't, no one would pay any attention to these claims. Since he does, you have to think that he might have proven it.
I don't recall the source, but I've seen that the loss due to downtime is negligible, and that customers return at a later time to complete their purchase.
I repurposed the content in the course to produce a simple HTML version of the course here:

http://rubymaverick.com/try-objectivec-book/

The content is up on my Github and any pull requests would be welcome!

https://github.com/rubymaverick/try-objectivec-book
What happening to Amazon? #wtf
You're right - if you define 'funded by corporations' sufficiently loosely (to include everything from governmental bodies to universities to charitable foundations) that the statement 'science is entirely funded by corporations' becomes a tautology, it becomes clear that science is entirely funded by corporations! I for one am shocked and appalled.
Eating cheaply is really difficult to do for the folks with the least amount of money to spend on food, as working is counter to the things that make eating cheaper: cooking your own meals, shopping or growing cheaper foodstuffs, having appliances to store items for longer periods or cook dried items, being able to plan meals out in advance, etc. That is the reason why convenience foods are popular. A lot of advice stories about eating cheaply often fail to achieve that goal because it is hard to do and requires a lot of effort.
Love the alliteration in the title.
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