skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What gets me about this description is how it's all about having indirect feelings for things in your mind. The imagination is a pretty late-stage evolved trait. I often think it's amazing that we have emotional responses to ideas in the first place. Seriously: they are ideas! Why should people have feelings for ideas? It's kind of bizarre.

People should have emotional responses to real things. And I've often wondered why we don't treat depression with more realness. Trying to treat it with "positivism" is just more of the same thing that aggravates the depression: disconnection from real things. Positive attitudes are invariably supposed to be evoked for, once again, ideas.

Sunlight and exercise are two things that were mentioned as real things that can help re-connect people to physical reality (instead of ideas). Another important one is fundamental to human emotional and social health: affection. Simple physical touch from someone you trust and who will suspend judgement. Hugs. Hand holding. Sitting on the couch together. No expectations. No demands. Just freedom to be.

It seemed from the article/comics that some (maybe a lot) of the person's unhappiness was coming from the discomfort and pain of not living up to expectations imposed on them by others about their attitudes. Just being detached is not itself that horrible (and maybe it's less weird than being emotionally attached to imaginary things). But being made to feel/believe that you are a bad person, a defective person, a source of pain to others, that leads to a real kind of pain. Other peoples' facial expressions and tone of voice affects us on a much deeper level than conceptual imagination.

Like many mammals, some birds and other kinds of animals, humans are deeply wired to respond to the sounds and images of other humans expressing positive and negative responses to us. Those are the first place to go to work on immediate sensory treatment for depression. Because these social signals are so ancient, we can even get treatment from non-humans. Cats and dogs make people feel better. It's even been shown in studies that seniors in retirement homes feel better when they are given time with pets.

I'm not saying this is a guaranteed solution, but it hasn't been mentioned in this discussion, and it's very important. The way we socialize is inadequate to our biological needs.
I actively do this. Typically when someone is just trying dozens of permutations of my email addresses they aren't someone I want to talk to or are trying to sell me something.
Show HN: My first Rails app helps you motivate yourself to get things done
This is the line of reasoning Taleb criticizes. I haven't digested his criticism fully enough to fairly summarize it, but I think it's worth a look.
If you are in the UK and you are billing monthly then I've had nothing but a good experience with these guys so far http://gocardless.com and of course DD's don't expire like a card does.
Why don't we build smarter websites?
Yes, and they can use better material than the ABS used by Defense Distributed.

I'm not certain why he hasn't tried making them out of Nylon (of which there is filament widely available now), which has all-around better mechanical properties than ABS.
Hey Zikes - I've fooled around with extensions a bit, but I didn't want to get deep into the "supported browsers" game at this point. There's enough under the hood work left to be done in the core application to keep me busy for a bit.

Extensions are definitely in scope for the future though - not just to bookmark things, but sync your browser bookmarks/folders with your LinkThing content etc. Any thoughts or suggestions you have would be appreciated!
The Plight of the Honeybee (EU Bans Neonicotinoids for 2 years)
Badly written ("the machinations of coding"?) and not well thought out.

"... a system that has eight times as many high-school football teams as high schools that teach advanced placement computer-science classes."

Yes, but high school football is taken seriously. A coach who taught football the way some teachers teach AP computer science would be heading for an 0-10 season and a firing. This sounds flippant, but the underlying point is dead serious: you cannot judge a school by its published curriculum, without either observing the work done or talking to the persons who have gone through the school.
US Tries to Erradicate 3D Gun Plans
Pretty cool, who knew Tattoine was so close :-)
"Healthy" is a subjective descriptor, it cannot be quantified. There's a reason it differs from person to person, nation to nation, health organization to health organization.
I'd never considered that there would be journalistic ethics issues around making money during the course of a story.

The solution of effectively destroying the earned money is pretty funny, given that that's an occasionally expressed concern.
Change your scope
Good article. One issue that often isn't highlighted enough is the role that funding bodies play. They are complicit in maintaining publishers pricing power & market share.

Many funding bodies aim to fund the "best" research. How they define "best" is through scientometrics (essentially bibliometrics or page rank for scientific articles) - scientists & the sciences are funded in part on how cited the researcher or the research is. Scientists therefore have a real economic incentive to ensure their work is published in the most popular or prestigious journals as these are the most widely cited. The funding bodies could dismantle the scientific publishing market by awarding grants based on the accessibility of the research rather than the prestige of the journal.
I think the potential here is immense.

Boxfish, twitter, YouTube, Siri, and now with Ray Kurzweil @ Google... thinkers are converging on doing to every other form of content what Google did for structured documents.

The NLP trend is going to be amusing to watch at least (Siri, Summly), and whether its time has come in the next 5 years or not I'm not certain. But I know Ray Kurzweil knows this technology is inevitable.

--

As for BoxFish, I think this is a good example of a neatly executed, well funded startup with experienced founders and a solid space. No drama, no demo day, no immediate fires to put out, cool $3m in the bank, Deutsche Telekom AG subsidiary negotiating their deals for them, and "Yahoo just bought a kids startup for 17m" - the topic is hotter than others.
This is the type of startup I for one daydream of having stock of or working at. Has high potential to be worth $mmms or $bn in the future - you know, that all depends and what not. But the makings are clearly there. Excellent work guys! Congratulations.
Yeah. The same things happened to me with an iPhone picture.
My thoughts exactly. I wish we would go back to the original meaning of the word hack, as in "cut with rough or heavy blows." At least it would make it funny.

"Cut your life with rough or heavy blows!"

"Cut off your extra weight with rough or heavy blows!"

"Cut off that chicken you're cooking with rough or heavy blows!"
If anyone wants a quick way to play Arcade and Playstation games on their Raspberry Pi, I'm maintaining a distro that does just that: http://pimame.org
> As long as they are promised a timely customer service from Google

I very nearly sprayed coffee on my screen when I read that.
Well played.
I've run quite a few m/r queries against 2.4.2. The performance is still poor enough that'd I'd say it's only usable for occasional ad hoc work.

More seriously though running queries against a master node will regularly (maybe one in two queries) cause it to failover and elect a new primary. You'd think you should be able to run the queries against a slave, which you sort of can. Unless the result set is bigger than the maximum document size (16megs), in which case you're limited to the master as you can't write to a collection on a slave.

We're using Mongo fairly successfully but it has a lot of issues, particularly around administration tasks. Map reduce work gets done in Hadoop.
I would love to be able to buy individual channels, however, I don't think that this is something the government should get involved in.

I would suggest working on a bill that would try to increase the prevalence of affordable high speed internet throughout the country. This would give access to all parts of the country but it would also give citizens more options when it comes to TV because Netflix, Hulu, etc would be accesible to everybody and could cause the cable companies to re-evaluate their strategy.
Hi jonny_eh,

We're currently winding down on release 1.5 which will include Secondary Indexes. After that the next release will be all about being production ready and having better performance. We're hoping to have that out 3-4 months from now. We'll be posting updates about the process via github twitter and our blog.
"is not suitable" is no more a concrete answer than "meh".

Please try and give reasons rather than restating the assertion.
We're providing API access to some select partners for data experiments. The API is centered around trending, topics, search and metrics but does include some restricted transcript access. Ping kevin at boxfish (me) if you've got some ideas.
Yes, we could both compensate people for their work, and have it totally open. It's certainly imaginable; it doesn't violate a law of physics. But that would require collective action, like public subsidy. While people refuse to work towards that, for whatever ideological reasons, then we won't have it both ways.
How to Shoot in Unfavorable Conditions
When Mother nature takes control of the weather, these tips can help you shoot better no matter what the conditions are.
PHP is accounts for the majority of lower end web dev and even some % of the high end.

Having a LAMP stack that works up and running in one command is great for people who just want to FTP up a bunch of folders and be done with it.

People developing on Rails etc are probably developing against some specific version rather than "whatever happens to be in the repo" and are more likely to be either using a specialist environment like heroku or bring their own puppet setup to the party.
Uh, the bitcoin minor that they linked to costs $2,400. So, at the same rate it will take more than 20 weeks for ROI.

[EDIT] They linked to the wrong one. The one they are using does cost $274. Not bad ROI.
> So you acknowledge that the government can not rule over non-consenting armed population

Unarmed non-consenting populations can and have brought down governments. e.g. in Egypt and in the Czech republic. But if the government is determined not to let go at any cost at all, side-arms won't help you against a decent army. Protesters with guns is nothing more than a good excuse to send in the tanks/drone strikes/etc.

So the presence or absence of civilian guns are not the issue that you make them out to be.
Filming or taking pictures in itself is not a problem and perfectly legal. Go film all you want. You're just not allowed to publish those pictures. So if you see a suspicious act, take your pic, hand it to the police and let them deal with it.

You can film the police and film public figures all you want, as long as they're acting in their public capacity. You're allowed to film Angela Merkel doing her state visit, going to the beach with Barack Obama and later publish that clip. You're not allowed to film her naked in her private backyard.

The border between the two is sometimes hard to determine, so there are some lawsuits about that, but all in all it's pretty clear.
That makes sense. Would be legal to capture the data and present it similar to a search engine? I'm guessing there is some sort of precedent for that sort of thing?
This is such a beautifully and elegantly done analysis. The economics (and particularly in this article, the history) of science is such an untouched gem as a fascinating topic. I am so freaking excited to see this post as #1 on HN.

One thing folks don't usually mention when talking about science proliferation is that academic and scientific papers served for 100's of years as the only source of science communication. Over time, journals really fit their format as the best way for scientists to communicate - with eachother. However, if you were a layman outside the field, academic papers were not the best way consume science because they were ultimately meant for the colleague in the next city or town over.

The implications I'd like to think are pretty big. Now that science can be freed from this old paper format intended for other scientists, here's hoping that the science content shared in the digital age changes as well. The best possible outcome is actual science content for the masses. The worst, photo filters for gel images (I kid).
Something like this?
http://www.templeos.org/
How much would you pay for an article?
Yes this is a crucial point. For most end users, the version on PyPI, CPAN, RubyGems, whatever, is the canonical version. Only the original author has the right to push a new release there. So whatever solution Github and/or its community comes up with for the overall issue, it needs to take account of this.
Let me Google that for you...
I have a question about "Application servers are an inherently bad idea." This is the first time I see such statement, but it's stated as a fact. Could you point me to some online resources I can read up on, didn't find anything in google yet.
> So we’re destroying the private key used by our Bitcon wallet.

I wonder if the typo was intentional.
If they're dumb enough to make that request, I bet they're dumb enough to be swindled themselves. I think you could have a lot of fun with that conversation, if you're quick with your wit. It might even be profitable, if they'll stupidly agree to something silly in a legally binding manner.

Like: "Hmmm... I dunno... Well, okay. I'll charge you $5,000 to for my consultation on assembling the list. But I have to charge you a fee for each subsequent amendment to list. Once you've paid for my consultation on the list, then we can talk about the actual cost of the work itself, and whether you want to pay me to actually do anything."
This is all absurd for an important reason:

One can not create a riffled barrel out of plastic. This is a $20k zip gun.

"Within production quality firearms, pistol and rifle barrels have tiny grooves cut inside of them. The grooves do not run straight, however are curved slowly throughout the length of the barrel. This technique is called rifling. Rifling causes the bullet to spin as it passes through the barrel. The spinning assists in stabilizing the bullet and making the gun more accurate. "

http://www.gunslot.com/blog/how-make-gun-common-materials-se...
Do they still ask for your business idea when you register for their beta?
Looking at the github repo, there are a ton of icon requests.
You explicitly stated that you did not have anything like a parasite or missing organs, remember? Pretending you are suffering and "being made out to be a freak" because someone pointed out that your estimate was wrong is incredibly childish and absurd. You are normal, you are just acting like a baby because you want to claim you have some one in a trillion undiagnosed (and mysteriously un-noticed by doctors while in hospital for weeks) condition.
I fully agree with you that that's perfectly acceptable behaviour (if you didn't know in advance that they knew [person], or else it gets a little unethical...)

But from the phrasing of the OP ("great hustling"), I took it to mean that she was actively "hustling" OKCupid by using her dating profile (i.e. people's desire to sleep with her) to get business contacts (i.e. money).
You're sold to on a daily basis by people who you've never had the faintest communication with...

Therefore, if an app owner genuinely felt that his app was going to fix your problem, and you have displayed an interest in having your problem fixed by signing up to his app, why wouldn't you want the app owner to understand more about why his app didn't work for you? Hypothetically let's say that the 5 minute conversation he had with you then led to a change to the app that actually solved your headache - would that make the phone call acceptable?

I completely understand that we all hate cold calls, me included, I'm just trying to understand why you would be so upset.
As of 2007 Switzerland has the 3rd highest gun ownership rate in the world, but is number 51 on the gun homicide rate list, with a gun homicide rate of .52 per 100k. Meanwhile, Mexico's gun ownership rate is one third that of Switzerland, yet their gun homicide rate is 20 times as high (10 per 100k). Mexico's gun homicide rate is actually twice that of the United States. Note that Mexico's gun laws are considerably more strict than those in the US.

Another example is Russia. Their overal murder rate is twice that of the United States even though they have strict gun laws and a gun ownership rate that is 10% that of the US (8.9 per 100k vs 88.9 per 100).

One could look at a country like the UK where there are strict gun laws and far less gun crime in the US. However, gun crime was never as high in the UK as it was in the US, even when the UK had gun laws as loose as those in the US.

Long story short, crime is driven largely by socioeconomic factors, the criminal justice system, and culture. The availability of guns plays a part, but not a large part. Otherwise Wyoming would have the highest murder rate in the US, as it has the highest gun ownership rate.
> Also, i find it quite surprising that the proof for problems in domains as elementary as number theory, should have to be so complex, sort of baffles me.

One reason for this is that primes are defined by their multiplicative properties. There aren't many easy connections between primes and the additive properties of numbers, and so proofs that try to relate additive things to primes tend to involve deep and complicated things.
I haven't thought of charging for it, because honestly if you want to spend money on it, I think there's better solutions out there (at this point!) - like Pinboard. The other side of the coin is that it costs me very little to run, so there isn't really a fire lit under monetization.

My roadmap, if you will, is to keep building out core functionality, particularly around unique ways to create value in the bookmarking space - like the embryonic "Subscriptions" feature you'll notice in the black menu bar. I'd also like to build out "table-stake" options like full-content archiving. Once I've got some unique value to market, and a baseline level of functionality to match the competition, I would consider charging for it.

Open sourcing it: honestly, I don't think I know enough about the process to do so successfully - i.e.: I don't want to just create another dead github project, but I don't know enough about the community side of it to create something "living," so to speak. Would welcome your thoughts on it though.

In regards to getting your data out- you can dump it at any time to a CSV file under your username menu in the upper right-hand corner. Its not a rich export, but its simple and parseable, so your data is never trapped, per se.
You bring up some good points, I think it's a great idea to make it tougher to get a driver's license and driverless cars will allow those that can't pass, or aren't interested in driving themselves the ability to get around. Older people need to get places too, but it becomes clear that many, past a certain age, cannot do so safely.
God's Thoughts
What do you mean by “tmux is sudo safe”?
Sure, but I do that every day. For a usual total of an hour or two, when you put errands and lunch together with walking to and from work!

Haaaaaa "no life in Technion". Oh well, getting and being here is an adventure in itself, and we do get to go on trips for the holidays.

May Day last week was a lot of fun.
Athletic departments also provide a marketing opportunity. Students are often willing to go to a particular school because they like the football team. For better or worse, sports add an additional experience to college.
I doubt if change can come from the existing system and institutions.

Wikipedia did not grow from Britannica.

OpenSource did not grow from commercial software.

YouTube did not grow from Hollywood or commercial TV.
In American, guns are toys to make men feel strong. They are worse than useless in the hands of the untrained and unpracticed.

example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjZY3WiO9s
Ive contacted Elsevier multiple times for setting up something reasonable like 50-100 bucks a month to give access to people who are not academics. Sadly if youre not in a university youre stuck paying per paper.
[Boxfish:] We have lots of set top boxes :)
The app is on Android/iOS and you can check out the boxfish.com to check out what we have.

We expose trending data via serach for the past 7 days in the app/website. Our API allows for longer term and more granular searches.
Facebook Home for iOS
> In April 2012, the Harvard Library published a letter stating that their subscriptions to academic journals were “financially untenable.” Due to price increases as high as 145% over the past 6 years, the library said that it would soon be forced to cut back on subscriptions.

Now think what happens in countries not that rich as USA. Worse, this is a self-sustaining process. A friend of mine is doing PhD and the university rules are "collect points of vanish". One collects points for publishing in journals: ~10 for minor/local journal, ~20 for known one and ~30-40 for major worldwide-famous journal. If you don't have enough points, i.e. not enough publications or not enough prestigious, they throw you off (the fact that this additionally gives incentives to publish-often instead publish-well is yet another story).
And don't forget that the simple act of having to communicate with a difficult prospect/client alone can be endlessly frustrating.

Sometimes it's better to just save yourself the headache of having to deal with a person any further than you already have.
Ah I think you misunderstood me... I was correcting the OP's analogy. He said "Selling humor on hn is like selling ice to Greenlanders", I said "No, Greenlanders have lots of ice already. HN users have no humour already".
There's two sides of the medal: In general, I do agree with you. However, large store chains (think walmart) have a larger lever in the power game between employer and employee, so they can force long working hours. The idea was to prevent that. The laws have been relaxed very much though - in Berlin there's 24h supermarkets and stores that open on sundays. However, in the smaller towns stores still close at 6 or 8, but it's more of a habit than a law.
Hi Mike

thanks for taking a look at that. Linear algebra/eigenvector/eigenvalue stuff is useful and usually fairly (re-)approachable.

I am a student of interesting things :)
I'm glad the author used the amazing Article-In-A-PNG technology for his explanation on Ember.js.
You could use http://deepdyve.com/ or http://readcube.com/access but it is still very expensive to read a healthy amount. Still, they have talked with the arms dealers and made prior arrangements, and apparently got better results than your emails did. I read >100 papers/month, and paying $45.95/paper or $4.95/paper or whatever really starts to cut into my mad science budget..
'Delightful is the new trend in Silicon Valley
"growing up" is a subjective thing and has no unified definition.

That being said, conflating lack of intellectual/emotional stability and maturity with depression is terribly short sighted and shows a lack of understanding of what depression is.

I'd encourage you to educate yourself beyond the mainstream view of depression (= "oh but only goth teenagers or losers get depressed") before making such claims publicly.
Try a precomposed touch icon

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ipad/#documentation/A...