skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a very quick skim, it looks like http://opensource.org/licenses/AAL is "OSI approved", so "official open source"-ish.

But yes, people will be happier with a more usual open-source license.
Um, when a general says "we've been fighting for 5,000 years," he's referring to organized conflict, i.e. WAR. It's pretty hard for war to exist without civilization, so, yeah, around 5000 years, give or take, is the accepted number. Part of that is because writing was invented at about that time.

Now you could argue this number, but before you do, ask yourself: do you actually have any experience in this area, or are you just being a pedantic douche? The answer to that question will determine if you should reply.

I also think the guy who asked about books written 5,000 years ago is pretty funny. Well, actually, there is writing dating back to 3,200 BC. If you're going to be a pedant, at least get it right.
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
PyPy is a straightforward interpreter. It's just written in a language with good JIT compiler (RPython).
How a few screws cost $2000 and a 240GB multinodes cluster cost $50
Isn't it psychopathy/sociopathy?
> Both sides can't both be right

This isn't mathematics, this is the real world. Here issues aren't two-sided, they are dodecahedrons and all sides are right.
Did you somehow miss the fact that the author didn't make a single blog post for 18 months?
The appeal of Snapchat—and a growing number of companies specializing in ephemeral media—is that once the expiration date has passed, you no longer have to worry about whatever it is you just shared. It’s gone forever. Nobody can dredge it back into public view.

It's not necessary to root your phone to circumvent snapchat or run special software after the fact.

Since you can always use a camera (say on another phone) to take a photograph of the screen and record the image that way, why would anyone consider snapchat or similar services secure or reliable? If you can see it, you can reproduce it, and share it as much as you want via other channels.
From github:

"Robogram: say it with robots

enter a phone number and a message, and we'll have our robots call the number and read it over the phone."
This sounds like you might be a psychopath. You very clearly described some of the diagnostic requirements.

Do note that there are degrees of psychopathy. Take a look at the PCL-R by Robert Hare, for example. It scores people from 0 - 40, with many people scoring at 1 - 2. Anything over 30 is considered a psychopath.

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I feel the same way as you, except /every so often/ I will be depressed, my depression lasts maybe a day or two, at its worst it lasted a week. Not sure what gets me back out of it...

During that time I just go through the motions of being alive. I've thought about death a lot, I can honestly say I don't fear it. BUT don't mistake that (like so many of the doctors I've talked to when I was a kid) for actually wanting to be dead or being suicidal.

Just wanted to let you know that there are people that have the same experiences as you, and you are definitely not alone. Not that it matters much in the long scheme of things.
>This process is called 'growing up'.

How condescending and uncalled for. Many great men and women committed suicide; it has nothing to do with "growing up" (or variations thereof)
Yep I really think that the printed gun is lame, but now that it is forbidden I want that file! Just for the sake of being able to get it. I don't own a 3d printer yet, and I would never fire from a plastic barrel, ever (unless plastic technology changes quite a lot, which is probable)
The FCC wants to make in-flight wi-fi less awful
I've been using Vim for close to 10 years. Can't live without it. My only gripe is the session file created with mksession is quite huge in size.
Heh, I raised an issue on my GitHub page https://github.com/jbrooksuk/node-summary/issues/2 and found natural shortly after.
Please stop worrying about the author! No, really. She's doing fine. She got up in the morning determined to complete her blog. She has found purpose and meaning in her life! Finally!
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0ad7b4f1833e01a3f2fa5613d8fc46de622339ac&dn=DefDist+Defcad+Liberator+Printable+Gun for download.

To view it, download Blender (free and opensource 3d software)- http://download.blender.org/ (it allows you to import stl files if you want to view them; or export them from your designs when you want to 3d-print something).

Also, Github has in-browser STL rendering capability (e.g.: https://github.com/lorennorman/octocat-3d/blob/master/stl/oc... ). It's only a matter of time I guess before we'll all be seeing direct links to individual components.
That letter is surprisingly polite.
Sociopaths or psychopaths, (the two can be used interchangeable according to Hare) can identify emotions, but they don't register as something to feel as well or to mirror. That is where the "game" comes from. You can use peoples emotions and the little clues they drop in body language against them to efficiently and effectively manipulate them into doing what you want them to do.
The author of the blog went silent for the past two years because of the depression, and now she got back to drawing because she feels (at least temporarily) better.
Nice, lots of cool stuff in there. I also made a tool that searches for all available 2 letter .io domains at any given time. http://framespersushi.com/lab/two-letter-io/
Would be interested to know how many people leave work at 5:30 but do extra work after hours.
I want the "resentful bike ride to the video store" one on a cycling jersey because that's what I look like when I cycle.
I downloaded the file. I was curious to look at it and I am not all that impressed. It isn't amazing mechanical engineering. And I have a shotgun I bought a block from my house for 99 bucks and there was one page of paperwork and I used a expired ID card to buy it. It isn't hard to get a gun.

I'm actually pretty excited about the plastic gun thing. It is way less fingers that can pull the trigger on guns that are already really easy to get.

Edit: I should that I am for really strict gun laws. My father was killed by a gun that was bought in a pawn shop so if you even save a few people a year it is worth it.
Just a quick note, "Psychopath" and "Sociopath" means the same. The difference is the term "Psychopath" has been abused by journalists, usually in the context of "psychopathic killer". The rise of the word "sociopath" is an attempt to start with a clean slate.
I'm not sure "competitive" captures it, exactly. Sort of? I mean, obviously some people like being better than other people, sure. But I think some people just like being _good_, full stop. But of course you don't know what "good" means without comparing yourself to other people, which means it's sort of epistemically connected to competition. But I think it's still not the same thing.

ALSO, I can think of several thought experiments that appear to contradict CN, and I'll add yours to the list, because I totally agree. I've met kids like that, including an ex-friend who rebounded from his parents' forced piano lessons so hard that he ended up confined to the psych ward. He mastered piano AND violin, but he didn't develop passion for either.

Here's another example that is contrastive with CN. I personally am fascinated by dissecting P&P RPG rules, and assessing which are "good" according to an ill-defined metric that interests no one but me. Does it even make sense to talk about mastery at this activity? I can remember being interested in this when I was a little kid; it's an enduring passion. I don't think it's explicable by "mastery".

These situations illustrate what I meant by "this summary only captures one side of passion".

ON THE OTHER HAND...

I do believe that many-or-all people derive enjoyment from mastery, and at some point this is related to passion. I think the reason I like video games SO MUCH is partly because they let me experience the sensation of mastery, cheaply. When you combine that with a goal of being economically relevant (a goal that I think has both ethical and selfish motivations), it makes sense to cultivate mastery at something useful-and-not-antifun, and hope that the mastery becomes a passion.

And to reply to your cousin-comment, I think some people are masterful and passionate about getting the details right, and they can be tax auditors, and their passion overlaps with their work. And some people can be masterful and passionate about intricate systems, and about securing victories, and they can be patent lawyers and their passion overlaps with their work. I am 100% sure there are passionate patent lawyers. And some people can be masterful and passionate about... bullying people? I dunno if anyone can be passionate about debt collection, actually, but two outta three ain't bad.
Yes, you're an absurdist! Lovely.
What happens when we expect Silicon Valley to do the jobs of politicians
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I can‘t decide whether I would be any happier if we lived in a less corrupt would, in a society that has meaningful jobs for everyone and if our governments would care more about our future, education and less about religion. But I believe that most of my depression arises from there.
You gave 2 examples of people who made the conscious decision of being in the spotlight. Star Wars kids did not want to be in the spotlight.

There's a spectacular crash on the highway. A barrage of thousands of onlookers makes it hard for the ambulance to reach the site. Because of that, the crashed guy dies. Are these onlookers bad people?

Not a single one is guilty for his death. They're certainly bad as a group. But of course you can't put 1000 people on trial for each being 0.1 percent guilty.

The only thing you can do is hope each single one decides for himself, whether he thinks he's bad... whether he will prioritize his interest as a curious onlooker over a victims wishes and future life path the next time a crash happens.
Prior to accepting the role I'm currently in I had a prerequisite that I get to finish at 4.30PM on the button every day without fear of reprisal as it enables me to spend at least an hour with my son every evening before he goes to sleep. Once he's down I usually get one or two more hours of work in before I spend quality time with my wife.

I have a lot of respect for people who work 60/70/80 hours a week however to some (myself included), quality time with my family is infinitely more valuable than anything any employer could ever offer.
> state-of-the-art-circa-1998, text-centric user interface

Said like it's a bad thing... reddit works great on less powerful devices, and doesn't crash my browser, unlike mainstream websites usually do (actually, almost always).

Dear "Mainstream" "Print" media: 1. if it only runs on later devices, it's not mainstream, it's niche; 2. print can be done with text, it doesn't need to be pictorial, video, audio, interactive, nor assembling 20 webservices and APIs from across the universe.
You seem earnest, so I am going to try not to be frustrated, but depression is not a gift that results in creative genius. People who manage to struggle through it and create art are doing it despite their disease and not because of it. The romanticism that is attached to the suffering artist is incredibly frustrating and, I think, dangerous. It leads people to believe that it is okay or worthwhile or noble to let this illness rule over you. We don't celebrate cancer or dementia or schizophrenia as "gifts". Sometimes people suffering from those illnesses are able to create beautiful works, but we don't romanticize their diseases because of it. Why would/should we do that with depression?
Working more than 40 hours a week doesn't mean you are more productive. See "Bring back the 40-hour work week" http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...
Is this a reference to something? Google returns naught.
I'm guessing that a lot of people just installed it out of curiosity.
Yes, the comic.
Actually, you were first :)
A lot,

In my case its because traffic here in Bangalore gets too chaotic after 6. If you are leaving after 6, till 8 its foolishness. There are times when people who leave at 7 and 9 reach home at the same time. Given this, if your company has a set up where you can log in to VPN and get the work done. Rather leave at 5:30 reach home early and get the job done, than leave at 7 and spend next 2 hours just traveling.

Having said this- 'working' from home, requires a lot of discipline and being brutally honest with your own self about you productivity and impact of your work. Most importantly you need to get stuff done.

From an execs perspective, Big part of their work is designating work and sending emails. You don't need to be at office just to push Blackberry buttons.
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I'm interested in this as well. Quite a few people I know that have flexible hours tend to split their work day one way or another: 9-5 at the office + a few hours in the evening at home, 6-9 at home in the morning + 9-3 at the office, etc. There are so many permutations, I wonder if a poll would yield anything interesting.
This is a very interesting, and yet disappointing situation.

Advent of web, twitter-verse and numerous other feeds and mailers carry news faster than traditional media (i.e. the ones which Wikipedia deems reliable third party sources.) and plenty of that news is reliable too.

Notable? Perhaps not, until 48 hours later when someone from the snail-media pushes it out with a few link-baits on it.

Justified? Perhaps not because news is news, and if it has reached millions of people, notable it is already. Apparently, world of news is in some sort of transition. We're all hung between a hard rock and a cliff!
> A lot of people are vested in NOT understanding depression, it clashes with their fundamental atomic level beliefs of how the world operates.

Definitely. I once had a discussion on HN with a guy who insisted on seeing depression as an expression of individuality and any attempts of treatment as Brave New Word-ish, evil oppressive society enforcing conformism via happy pills.
You are right about the sequester cuts. I was looking at the annual numbers of the NIH front page which didn't include 2013. I wonder why 5.5% overall cuts translate to 20% cuts. The SciMag article makes it seems like they were only cutting the number of grants not the size which kinda makes sense. Perhaps they are treating funded grants worse which seems crazy. Wouldn't this potentially waste the money already spent if the project can't be finished on 20% less?

Good luck with omnisci.org this is the sort of thing that would help: open sharing of data, techniques and negative results. If this was the norm things could be very different. But one thing I have learned is it is very hard to change and organizations culture.
I found it on a certain .nz domain[1], the owner of which (who, oddly enough, renamed himself after the TLD you mention) is currently thumbing his nose at the USG[2].

[1] https://mega.co.nz/#!JplQVDDQ!Qi8kflIn8kMZl0hK96YW1h7RIc9vz2...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom
right...
so you're not allowed to download the plans for a gun, but you are allowed to buy a rifle for a 5 year old. For me, it seems this is just someone trying to protect their income.
What does "special forensics software" even mean? What is stopping some smart hackers from making a software that does the same thing, open sourcing it, and allowing 'regular' people to do the same thing for free?
So, are there any left?
Assuming your size is XXL and can read the fine print

http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
Surprisingly good quality? Maybe compared to 1980s QuickieMart VCR cams.
Why Laptop Plugged-In But not Charging
Have you ever encounter that when the battery has very low power and is still not charing when plugded in? Or some other situations like this.
I wrote this simple python script w/ dictionary file to check free .io domains based on ~18,000 basic words: https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/4982393 It uses the fact that nic.io's whois response is fast and simple.
This is some of the most intelligent advice I have ever seen here on HN. Let the businesses come to you instead of hunting down each job/gig.
almost agree, except for the 'experiment' part. i don't want it to be an experiment, i want it to be a production-ready interpreter that i can use instead of cpython with minimal effort when i know i can trade memory for speed.
Okay, I'm not really sure what to ask, maybe this will make sense?

I completely agree that life doesn't carry any _inherent_ meaning and I frequently finding myself faking emotions and mostly just reacting in the way others react in social situations. It's like existential-introversion-apathy. I have so many ideas, and things I want to learn and do, yet I'm too content in apathy to act on many of them. I'm in a good job, but when it comes to my personal life I mostly have a blank stare to respond with.

Really, I haven't felt like I've been living for myself for a long time. If it weren't for my girlfriend and my family and knowing that they would be completely broken if I wasn't here, I'm not sure I would still be here.

I guess this sounds worrisome, but I've felt like this for the past 6 years and have managed so far. It got worse after college, but now I feel like I'm at a lower equilibrium.

I've thought about doing something about this, but I really have no idea. I mostly feel _guilty_ that I even have this "problem". Are these feelings and thinking patterns really a problem? What can be done about them, if anything? I'm a young 20s working male in America. That's a hell of a good dice roll in the global humanity game which is why I feel guilty even writing and talking about this.

I don't know, is this a broken way of thinking?
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"[H]e goes home, has dinner with his wife and kids, and then works in the late evening."

So basically he gets a small break to have dinner and then goes back to work. That's not really what the title is suggesting. Not sure what the article is trying to suggest. Eat your veggies?
The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is, yes, but no two letter domains remain. Can you register something like d3.io? Yes. Can you register something like dx.io? No.
I found a company to precisely fix this problem. Every dataset, every analysis, every computation fully transparent, reproducible, accessible. You can even embed it in your blog. For instance check out https://igor.sbgenomics.com/lab/public/pipelines/ if someone uses one of those, and share their task, there is full transparency + instant replication.
You should really check out her back catalog. The following is one of my favorites:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
The so-called "Internet of things" adds another wrinkle. Barrett talked about
development of refrigerators that can sense what food is inside them and
automatically order replacement groceries. Perhaps such technology will be
commonplace in a few years—and your refrigerator will need a way to pay for food.

"It begs the question, do you really want your refrigerator to know your PayPal
password?" Barrett said. "Unless we can solve that problem, life is not going to
be good."

This is a problem that has already been solved. You create an authentication system that supports different privilege levels. You create a secret key for your fridge on a secure device (after authentication with your password). You then transfer this custom-made secret key to your fridge which gives it the privilege to spend no more than X amount on groceries to a small list of trusted vendors.

The biometric solution discussed in the article doesn't even solve this problem. Do you really want your fridge to store your fingerprint or retina data?

The part I have a hard time understanding: even if you register your phone as a trusted device and scan your fingerprint on your phone to log in to paypal, all your phone is doing is sending a secret key to paypal's servers (where's it's presumably hashed and stored).

How does that solve the problems the article identifies?

"Left to their devices users will pick horrible passwords and then they'll
reuse them all over the place," Barrett said.

Various data breaches have exposed millions of user IDs and passwords.
While passwords are typically exposed in an obscured or "hashed" form,
increasingly powerful processors and password cracking programs allow
even novice hackers to convert them into plain text

Biometrics forces you to use the same secrets to authenticate yourself with every service, and if weak security allows an attacker to reveal the "plaintext" equivalent of your fingerprint or retina scan, you're fucked.

Any system that's used to increase the security, entropy or uniqueness of your biometrics for each site you register with could equally be used to protect a single, strong master password instead. At least you could change that if it somehow got hacked.
Associated slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GTs1k50h1IrQ9_GAZ0Fk...
Sidenote: I am enjoying all of the current interest in the .io domain (speaking as someone who owns a few .io domains). As a recent addition to google's gccTLD list, it still has a ton of great names available. Part of this is no doubt due to the higher registration costs. Part, however, is likely due to the fact that .io was only recently upgraded to gccTLD status.

Also, the most reasonable .io registrar I've found is gandi at $40. Out of curiosity, has anybody found anything less expensive from a reliable registrar?
To be very honest with you, if you are claiming you did some thing spectacular working 9 hours/day in software. You are either really a super developer or you are cheating some way.
Such a great post, sent to quite a few people and thanks for posting it here!
Last time I checked, there were some left without numbers. However they all had the letter Q in them, which people seem to hate.
this basic fact is understood by scientists and children alike. it is still either incompetence (lack of middle school statistics) or fraud (ignoring the above fact).
Here is the output as of 05/10/13 1:07 AM (Pacific).

https://gist.github.com/nodesocket/5553079

How hard would it be to make your python script spawn multiple whois lookups? Waiting on a single takes forever.
>some chemical missing in the brain

Meh, we have been walking down this path for the last 20 years with SSRI's and except for the worst forms of depressions have no real proof that chemical imbalances are a root cause and/or that antidepressants are an effective cure.

http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/18/new-research-on-the-an...

"some day it will be curable" is the kind of helpless positivism the blog post portraits.
Unfortunately there are tons of examples which say otherwise. Nearly every start up is an example of this.

Working a lot, gets a lot of work done. Ofcourse you need rest and recovery time to time.

But on an average a guy who does 16 hours/day will inevitable achieve more than somebody who does 8 hours/day.

Don't look too surprised if that happens.
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I’d say many great people never grew up either – but that definitely depends on your definition of ‘growing up’. If you define it as reaching intellectual and more importantly emotional stability and maturity, then I can see how you could think of overcoming depressions or other psychological disorders as ‘growing up’.
Amazed how many good names are still available. Looking to do a real-estate startup? How about:

crib.io (available)