skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to break a bad habit?
I can't get up in the mornings. It's been like this for probably 10-15 years.

At some point along the way, I was definitely burned out and mildly depressed, but that's definitely over now. The impact is manageable, I have a job that honestly doesn't care when I'm working, which is great. But it kills my personal time. When I'm in bed for ~10 hours when I could get by fine on 7.5-8 hours, that's a lot of lost opportunity. I'd love to go for a run in the morning, but I can't justify it when I'm only out of bed at 9:45.

It used to be much more severe when I was unwell, but I still snooze for hours, almost no matter what time I set the alarm to. A therapist helped me realise that I was sleeping my problems away (fear of facing reality etc), and addressing those problem (low self esteem). My totally uneducated stab at self-diagnosis now is that after having settled in for a decade, the habit has entrenched itself.

I am fairly certain it's not about the amount of sleep I'm getting. I can get up (almost) like clockwork for weeks on end when external factors forces it, and not be tired. It's the same no matter where I sleep: at home, at my parents or in-laws' houses or in luxury hotels. I can get up at 5 to catch an early flight with no problems. I have no reason to believe I don't sleep well.

So, for remedies, I've tried a ton of things. Mostly they fail because I fail to convince myself at the time of the alarm that I need to get up. Applying logic doesn't work, because it feels like the reasoning part of my brain is still shut down. I can "shout" to my self that I should get up, but be unable to control my body from hitting snooze and going back to bed.

I've looked into stuff like the artificial sunrise-alarm and wakemate, but those seem to address the issue of making waking up more comfortable, the issue I need to address is waking up, period.

What can I do to kick this habit?
You would only get a real proof if it was open source.
Just about anyone could design a better power plant. Building one in this highly regulated politicized environment where no one wants such a plant nearby is a different story. Dealing with the mining of the fuel and storing the remnants after it is spent is even harder. Design is easy on paper; implementation is the only way to see how many things you actually got right or wrong.
Ask HN: Would you use a service that sent you customized spoken information?
I'm an American currently on a teaching fellowship at a university in the Philippines. I'm surrounded by people who are sharp and computer savvy with excellent English and pretty accents.

I want to make something for myself, and I'd like to know if it has broader appeal.

An MP3 is recorded in the daytime here, and if you're in the US you receive it at 5am. It runs like this:

"Hi Ken, this is Patti, It's Monday, May 19th. Bitcoin is up a dollar since yesterday, and your blog kind of had a minor spike yesterday when a lot of people shared the "Why God Hates German Words" post on twitter. Ray Kurzweil's Google News share went up because he announced a new book. The Syrian rebels took over an airport. Your mom's birthday is next week, and you have that stupid meeting tomorrow at six. Remember to bring the file for Deogracia. Ani Difranco's new album comes out on Friday. Another Emirati professorship posted on higheredjobs.com, but it doesn't say anything about family housing. It's supposed to be sunny today with a high of 85. Have a good one, dude."

I would kill for this, and it would be easy to configure some web scraping scripts that gave Patti crib notes for making these MP3s so she didn't have to do a lot of manual web browsing. I can imagine holding the phone to my head after my alarm went off an being totally energized and ready to get up after listening to something like this, and my friends over here, even professor friends, think it would be a laughably good deal to get a dollar per recording. I figure I could charge $2 and turn a profit.

Does this sound to the veteran entrepreneurs on HN like something that a wider audience might be interested in? Is there something I haven't thought of that would make it incredibly stupid to try? Any other thoughts or suggestions?
Call me maybe: MongoDB
Useless. It's not actually iphone sized. I also love to have your logo and useless markings on my whiteboards. Thanks but no thanks.

Also similar: http://www.thenoteboard.com/
I spend too much time on HN, I read this as "create mobile browsers for homeless" which clearly makes no sense.
The majority of nuclear waste, and pretty much all the long-lived waste, is essentially unburned fuel, with a lot of plutonium and other transuranics.

For various reasons, a liquid thorium reactor burns almost all its fuel. It's easy to remove fission products that poison the reaction by absorbing neutrons. Some of those products are gasses, which damage solid fuel and prevent you from fully using it; with liquid fuel they simply bubble out. Also it produces less transuranics in the first place since it's fissioning U233 instead of U235.

So you're able to fission most of your fuel, and your waste is just the fission products. There's a lot less of that, and in a couple centuries they're back the radioactivity of the original ore.

Regarding proliferation, the main advantage is that you're shipping non-fissile thorium to the reactor, and non-fissile fission products away from it. The reactor itself can't do much more than replace its own fissile inventory, so if a country without uranium enrichment were to start siphoning off fissiles, their reactor would shut down and they'd need to beg for help to get it restarted.
For those that have thought about running something similar in production, I have a few questions:

1. Shared kernel - in this model all of the containers have a shared kernel, so any activity or even tuning (ie io scheduler) would impact all of the containers right?

2. Patching - when you need to apply a kernel security patch, all containers would need to agree on a change window unless you were using something like KSplice?

3. User space / kernel space dependencies - if we imagine even 5 years down the road, will containers using for example Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 apps be containerized but broken? Ie the hosting provider will likely want to stay ahead of the curve and upgrade their kernel, but the app teams may not be as progressive, so when these upgrades occur the apps would break
That it's time to learn Rails?

:D
What are you doing here commenting on an HN thread if you're having such a productive day ;-)
If you're frustrated by the lack of discussion on /r/atheism check out http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAtheism/
I really would visit reddit more if the UX wasn't so horrible. I feel the same way about RapGenius. Great services, horrible user experience.
I thought winks were the standard way to take pictures with Glass now. At least that's how everyone at Google I/O is doing it and is the feature most people are praising.
It is referentially transparent. The lambda (or thunk) itself can be used freely as a value. For example

newtype PureIO a = PureIO (() -> a)
print :: String -> PureIO ()
print s = PureIO $ \_ -> unsafePrint s -- impure primitive

If the user only has access to the "print" variable, then they can only use it as a pure value. two applications of print "foo" would result in two thunks, either of which, when actually invoked, would cause the side-effect of printing "foo".

Invoking the pure IO values is something only the runtime can do, so referential transparency is not violated.
Don't get too excited about these sophomoric features. All modern IDEs have copied the best features from various editors. You can get the kill ring and set mark in IntelliJ, for example, and various other things besides.

These features are all simple hacks from twenty years ago. What's really difficult is putting in the elbow grease to polish the environment to a shine of high productivity, which is where buying a commercial IDE is a win. Code completion works better. Refactoring works better. Fuzzy completion works better. The keyboard shortcuts won't put you in the hospital. But mainly, code browsing in large, complex code bases works better.

It's really hard for people to look around and realize that times have changed, and change with them. People learn one thing and then their ways are set. It's up to the next generation to move things forward.
We have the equivalent of Haskells (lazy) ByteString in the types binary() and iolist(). We have had that for at least 6 years. Their space efficiency is also on par with Haskells. If you process big amounts of data as a string(), then you are probably doing something wrong in your architecture.
And HyperDex only supports them via a proprietary plug-in.
I don't think segways and sinclairs provide the utility to make them mainstream. Not 100% sure Google Glass does either but I think the chance is higher.
IBM updates COBOL to extend System/z into the cloud
Thorium is a troublesome waste product of rare earth mines. It would actually be pretty helpful to have something to do with it.

Reactors like this produce far less waste (for reasons I've detailed in another comment here), and you can also use them to burn up most of the waste we have right now.

No argument on political difficulties though.
There are people out there with real problems. They've lived the pain and have stories to share.

The difficulty there is that many of the people with stories to share can't express them in a way that is meaningful to the people who could solve the problem. It's a division between the haves and have-nots of logical expression.
I think the segway is a good comparison. It had similar hype ("it will change the way cities are designed") and who uses them today: nerds, and obese mall cops.

Unless Glass solves real problems in a way that is compelling to real people, they will remain nerd toys.
RapidShare Fires 75% of its Staff After “Rogue Site” Revamp Bites
Lean Startup Customer Development Level: Tomb Raider
How about making it a Hacker News for non-techies? I have a lot of friends reading HN who know nothing about programming are only interested in the other stuff (startups, marketing, science in general etc).
Most of the waste is essentially unburned fuel. Reactors like this can eat it. The rest is fission products, which go back to the radioactivity of the original ore in a couple centuries.
YouTube turns eight, surpasses 100+ hours of video uploaded per minute
In Seattle, they put in public restrooms but then had to take them out a few years later for similar reasons as why the ones in SF closed as they were being used for other things. For more info: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/High-tech-public-toil...
From Web to Native: A Journey in Interface Design
Technologists See Apps As The Answer To Asia's Problems
Google IO | Indoor Maps
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice". That Rush quote seemed relevant.

I do this often myself. I try to make educated decisions which means researching all my options. Eventually you end up with "analysis paralysis". Being overwhelmed with all the choices and variables and the "right choice" isn't always clear.

I blame this somewhat on tv and movies that always have the epiphanic moment where the right choice becomes clear and the protagonist knows what to do. We usually don't get those in real life.
I wasn't aware it was random – I thought some communication/negotiation was required. How advanced is this technology?
Free iPhone Mockup PSD
Yeah, I really wasn't sure what it was about, what I was being asked to do, etc.

Is it supposed to be GetSatisfaction meets Hacker News?
Real-time UK Bus Data Ruby Gem
Actually an algebraic variable is named that way because you can change it every time you do the exercise.

So you don't change it during one exercise, but you can and certainly will change it when you change the exercise to another one with the same principle.
I would not use something like this. I prefer written information. Easier to refer to again if I want to remind myself of one or two points out of the entire content.

I also don't like the trend of posting programming "how-tos" as videos.
People have a weird habit of treating Hacker News like a glorified CMS, when in fact it's a community with a distinct CMS. The CMS is actually quite awful for mobile or touch-based viewports, so Hacker News sometimes works in spite of its CMS.

That's why these things die, because there's some assumption that using the Hacker News CMS will somehow build an active community on its own.

We're seeing the same thing going on with all the forum/comment CMS being touted recently, but people are giving the CMS way too much credit for the - hypothetical - success of a community-based site.
Most students of pure mathematics get functional programming much faster than imperative programming if they have never programed before.

Source: all my classmates.
What defines an 'idea'? The topics are so broad that creating a forum would lead to information overload, as pointed above by lysol.

For example, I have an idea to harness solar energy and power my gadgets, how would I file it? What tags would I use? It would get very messy very fast.

Then again, ideas want to have sex, and a messy environment can lead to a breakthrough. But forums are too linear, perhaps brainstorms are a better approach. My startup, http://www.wikibrains.com (beta) is aiming to 'engineer serendipity' by having users share content or brief comments on a 'per topic' basis or string search. It is a difficult task.
You can use SSH + Tramp and not even open a shell on the server.

Edit everything from the comforts of your desktop!
I don't understand your question. Hundreds of companies around the world currently pay media and advertising firms to manage their social media and run campaigns. I know several people who do this (manage social media for companies) as a full time job. How are you different to anyone else?
Isn't even more publicity on a ground-breaking topic a good thing, whether he created it or not?
Never forget the milk again,
Todzo is the innovative new app that syncs your GPS with your family "to do" list so that you get an alert on your phone to remind you what you need right when you need it!

Near the store? Todzo will remind you that your wife needs milk.

www.ToDzO.us
Why we're moving our startup from Houston to Austin
Shameless Plug: There's a community for those interested in science, especially Math, Physics and Computer Science - http://functionspace.org
I feel like this is what Siri / Google Now will / should be doing in the next year or so...
HN Script To Easily View Karma From Comments Page
I just whipped up this tampermonkey script up after getting mildly annoyed with having to navigate to a user's profile page to view his or her karma.

This allows you to hover over a username to make an XHR request to the profile page. The karma will be parsed out and inserted as a new <span> element directly to the right of the username.

On Chrome, just install the tampermonkey extension and then this script. I'm sure it would work on FF with Greasemonkey too with little or no modification.
Clojure symbol to source utility
Functional Programming in 5 Minutes
The Rumor Mill as an Evaluative Apparatus
Sounds like all that was really needed was some sunlight. Shouldn't be too difficult to bring in to an underground world, even if it's simulated.
Price point?
there are plenty of services but none of them have a package designed for the minimal need and budget of SMEs and starups. I might be wrong in my understanding and thats the whole point of asking here. :)
Please tell me if I am missing some market intelligence.
I'd start witn some very simple examples. "Hello, world" stuff. Nothing that requires any up-front study. That may be enough to spark the fire,
How would this be different from the stuff they offer on Fiverr and other services like it?
Mod should change title to mention this is a TED interview.
Thanks. Yes, this is absolutely for sysadmins, etc.
The "fun quiz" on the welcome-page only had room for a few sample options.

On the registration page at http://fiveyearitch.com/register just start typing in the "wanted position" field and you'll see that "system administrator" is already an option.
Startup Success; the same odds of winning the Lotto
You'd charge $2/day? I think $60/month would seem quite expensive for an audio version of daily reminder text.

I also think this is a feature, not a product? Unless you perhaps make it a text-to-actual-speech API?
Both physical property and right to contract are arbitrary. A hyena cannot sue in civil court if a lion violates his right of owning chattel property by divesting him of a carcass!
I see this mistake in economic thinking over and over again when it comes to public vs private and it's getting to be rather dull. You need to do a much deeper dive into economics or step back from making these types of statements. Much of the most "efficient" government spending is spending that the private sector would not take on because it is "inefficient" in the narrower definition of a corporation. FedEX/UPS would be much smaller companies if they'd had to rely on private corporations to builds roads and highways. The Internet would never have reached the same critical mass as private telephone companies (dial up) would never have bothered wiring huge swaths of this country where houses or farms are miles apart. UPS and FedEx (sensibly) cherry pick the richest segments of delivery as the Postal Service has to cover the non profitable segments. SpaceX would not be able to launch if it wasn't for government funded space infrastructure initiatives.

IF a market is such that it can be serviced by the private sector efficently that's always the better choice. In many cases here the government, if it was in it already, will remove itself over time (USPS is going through this now on a massive scale) But there are multiple examples over the course of time where only something like a national government can rationalize the investment in infrastructure that results in dramatic improvements down the road (Eisenhower's Federal Highways, Massive Power projects, Telecommunications)
Or the submitter. Which I did. Thanks.
The fireside chat had an interesting moment where they showed Glass on prescriptions glasses, which made them slightly more inconspicuous I thought - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8OUSd8zqT4&feature=youtu...
Indie vs. Freelance
The State of Web Design
The minority nonetheless choose to participate in that group vote. Moreover, they often do so before they become rich, and only complain about the outcome after they reap the benefits of participating in that society.
I've always wanted one for musicians. Good sites are so hard to find...
No need to cut off the spine. Here's how Google Books did it:

http://hackaday.com/2012/11/16/google-books-team-open-source...

Hackaday's first image tells the whole story, but direct link here: https://code.google.com/p/linear-book-scanner/
I was just about to ask this question! I read that paper and found it quite interesting.
Depending on containers for security is absolute insanity. Kernel vulnerabilities are common. Own the kernel, break out of the docker containers, and the whole concept is rendered useless.

VMs are a much safer bet (though not perfect either).
Most business level copy machines will quickly scan hundreds or thousands of pages, both sides, and assemble into a PDF. If I was going to do this, yes, I would slice the spine off and either scan at work or rent a machine. I don't have any rare books. Just books I've collected over the years.

Unfortunately most of them are art/architecture books. I'd really like to have very high res original source ebooks. By very high-res I mean I'd like to have say 300dpi or higher at the size of the book or larger. I'm imagining having full color e-ink or some other awesome tech in the next 10 years that lets me view large coffee table art books at their original size or larger and unfortunately I think scanning them, even in high-res would not really do them justice.

Imagining full wall displays it would be awesome to be able to view architectural pictures wall size and not have them look lo-res and blurry.
This looks pretty neat, could see some good applications being built with this over the Google Maps API!

One thing to note, is that I can't see whether the Gem handles the source being 403/404'd for example, is that something that is handled by the source?

And it was great reading the code, I'm new to Ruby and currently writing my first Gem, it looks like a highly viable route for bus tracking (no pun intended!), very pretty code!
It might be a bit unconventional, but if you're doing it to teach him to provide for himself why not actually offer him some money?

Chances are he's already quite capable of programming, but has just never seen any real reason for picking it up.

I'd say find a sum of money that would sort of impress him, then find a nice task he probably would be able to do (perhaps with your guidance) that would be worth that much money (to someone in general,) and ask him to do that for you.

It might not work, but when trying to get someone to a final destination I usually try to give someone as realistic an taste of the first step along the way and see if they're interested in taking more afterwards.
Yes this is the main point. Car dealerships were understandably nervous that the major automakers could suddenly implement a direct model in their state/location. They could decimate them overnight due to advantageous economics of selling directly to the public. The problem here is that Tesla never had a dealership network that it asked to go all in on their product only to come in behind them later and sell direct. What car dealerships really worry about is that if Tesla proves this to be the better sales model for 2013+ the big guys will want/need to copy this approach. That would be disastrous for them.
According to some documents I found with Google, one of those machines costs something like 100,000-120,000€.
Ask HN: Searching for the answer to improve the online video streaming service
DeafTV’s mission is to help people find and enjoy the world's premium signed video content when, where and how they want it. As DeafTV pursue this mission, DeafTV aspire to create a service that users, advertisers, and content owners adore as their own.
DeafTV will be the primary broadcast network devoted to signed content, reaching viewership via broadband video systems, websites, mobile applications, videophones, and web TV applications.
Right now, www.deaftv.com use Wowza Streaming Server, Rackspace, and Amazon S3 and use custom made video player from Flowplayer. And, we combined our videos with embeddable videos. I gave you the url to see our video player, instead of searching for it.
I admit it doesn't work well. The loading time takes longer to start the video. We do have issue to be able to stream all browsers and certain video files, and we need to improve the ability of uploading the video to our database servers. Also, we are seeking a way to incorporate pre-, mid-, and post-roll video ads that use geo-targeting service. How can we improve this service? Do you have recommendations of certain services? Better video player? We are open to anything. We want to be just almost fast as YouTube/Vimeo. We would like to use video ads during the film. Your advice will be greatly appreciated.
What are you on? The internet revenue advertising model has fomented the greatest expansion of information and international communication that history has ever seen, and it's only been going on for a decade!
Currently not no. The data is scraped from a site and not read from a nicely formatted API. This is definitely a todo though. Add an issue or better yet, add a pull request :)