skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are testing a discourse instance: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/

Since Discourse is fully open source under GPL v2 anyone can validate its security (or lack thereof) at will on GitHub. And it is not written in PHP.
If a mod sees this, they should change the URL to this:

http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10269.aspx

The link I posted was a re-blog on a website with a nicer reading experience.
A well written piece. The excessive use of "gifted" works against its intentions though. By referring exclusively to "gifted" children the author is throwing up a wall. Everyone has different levels of care and thought when it comes to the world around us.
From the linked paper [0], from the description of figure 2 on page 2, it appears as if the "enclosure, flexible nozzle and gimbal structures" are all 3D printed.

The description of how they empirically found a good nozzle shape also implies that they 3D printed the various designs before settling on the final version.

[0] http://www.disneyresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/Aireal_FNL.... (22 MB)
I raised 80k in a couple weeks for a little startup in van. Which ain't huge, but was (almost) enough. Just gotta meet some rich folk!
Which is really a shame. They're typically great fun, and potentially inspirational.
"The average person believes themselves to be above average"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
Microsoft restores root certificates that users distrust and remove (2007)
Let's all get in a circle and talk about our experience as gifted children.
Freedom at the point of delivery.
Not sure why the emphasis is on children especially. This seems to affect thoughtful people of all ages.

Or maybe, in that thoughtful, existentially-depressed way, the author is just understatedly asserting that adults are just big children. That would probably be overthinking it.
Errr.. out of curiosity I did a simple/quick query of my alma mater (UIUC) and got a count of 35.

Perhaps it was missed because Unversity of Illinois refers to University of Illinois : Urbana-Champaign if it lacks a city qualifier. (Also a few founders misspelled Champaign so I just included Urbana.)
Didn't work for me until I enabled Flash.
Gifted children are intense? Has the author ever actually been around children? They're all intense. That's the nature of children!

Of course, they may simply all be gifted until they're hammered into their little social boxes; I've often thought that. Some of us weirdos just can't be hammered as efficiently, or break before bending or something.
Xenforo overall takes security more seriously than phpBB, vBulletin, and IPB, possibly because they don't have as much legacy cruft to worry about.

For instance, vBulletin knows about (and doesn't plan to fix) a vulnerability that allows any moderator to privilege escalate to take over a server (and steal passwords) under default settings. They don't consider it a big deal because moderators should be considered trusted users.

Unfortunately, it's significantly harder to ensure that every moderator won't get their password stolen than it is to ensure that every admin won't get their password stolen. Recently, @rootinabox exploited that (and possibly other vulnerabilities) to hack a bunch of Pokemon sites that were running vBulletin.
I think he author chose children to simplify the somewhat complicated theory of positive disintegration.

He's also probably assuming the reader has some background on PD and knows what it is a psychological theory not at all correlated with age.
The book that taught me to spiritually make sense of a world that is a constant let down was "The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov. The author wrote it in secret while living with totalitarianism and meaninglessness in Stalinist Russia.

If you're not in the mood for a book, there's a great mini-series adaptation that was produced in Russia in the 2000s that takes about a week to watch. It does an almost perfect job of reproducing the book. I don't think it's available online.
- There is a lot going on there that should make it more open to tech companies, but it has always been more of media than a tech town.

It's slowly changing now. Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Microsoft all have their offices here.
Read the article before spouting off.
I faced some of these issues during my early teens. It went away after that. Now I am 29 and facing the mid life crisis that the author has mentioned. It's a confused state of big dreams and crushing reality.
Not relevant here. I am not sure if you read the article.
Nothing related to religion in the article though. I'd love to find out if there's any correlation/causation between the decrease in crime rates and the increase or decrease of active church goers
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lol ;-)
Well put; thank you for not jumping on the "hurr durr look at the special snowflake language" bandwagon.
The issues described are dramatically worse for children since they don't have any agency over their own lives or the ability to actually grapple with these issues the way an adult can (emotional maturity really helps!)
I'd encourage statistics check.

It is common that many of the "containment regimes" that are supposed to motivate children are more ruthlessly enforced on gifted children to "help them reach potential". And it is known that overly harsh rules induce depression too.
He's a graphic designer? Than where's some original graphics? The entire thing looks like he made a tweak to an iPhone model, but didn't produce anything nearing original, and slightly modified the iPhone website.

None of the assets look original, and there doesn't actually seem to be any graphic design involved. The entire thing looks to be a showcase of non-existent industrial design skills.

Hows that for judging it based on graphic design?
The idea that I'm objecting to is that the culturally prescribed behaviour is somehow the root cause of so many plane crashes.

The argument I've presented is that Korean and Japanese (and indeed, most Asian cultures -- and just to be clear, Asia includes India too.) are very similar when it comes to deference towards elders, teachers and other people considered socially superior. And yet there's a large gap between the airline safety record of these two cultures. The japanese airlines I mentioned are not just safer than their Korean counterparts, but actually two of the safest airlines in the world. Any theory pinning Korean airlines' safety record on the Korean (really, Asian) culture must also include an explanation of the exactly contrary observation seen in japanese airlines.
Sorry to hear it. Want to tell me about it over Skype? I'm a good listener and it's good to talk.
(Also, the guy in the picture is probably not depressed due to nihilism, but because he forgot to put a dropcloth down before painting - I know I've cursed myself for that one before.)
Great point. When I was in IT, I said these things. Yet when I left there, I heard people complaining about getting these responses. I believe the chasm is great, and most non-IT folks feel 100% of the fault lies with IT.
I recommend How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character and Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings for people who have kids.
When I was in the third or fourth grade, I had an extreme form of this type of depression that lasted for maybe a year or longer. Instead of just reflecting on the meaning of life, I worried reality might not be real and understood even then at my young age there's no way to prove the people around me weren't constructs of my imagination. I came to these conclusions independently without ever hearing of Brain in a Vat, Evil Genius, or watching The Matrix, and it was very terrifying back then.

As I've grown up, I still realize there's no way to prove the world around me is real, but I'm glad I encountered this theory so young because I've had a good while to be motivated by the fact that it doesn't matter if it isn't real. What matters is what I do with this experience and how much joy I get out of it.
Selfless Mentors
Do you know what the legal basis for this is in the UK? I'm curious and google doesn't seem to be giving me anything useful.

I also don't see how this could practically apply to all intellectual property you create whilst employed otherwise you would be open to being sued for posting on a blog since you are distributing the companies IP (i.e the words you wrote) without the companies permission.
While I generally agree, the devil is always in the details, and having no specific knowledge I do not reject the reported drop in crime, but I certainly do not accept it as gospel.

Tangentially related anecdote: 15 years ago, a friend of mine bought a house on the (wrong side of an) edge of a crime reporting district in Philadelphia for $80k. Across the road (which wasn't a highway or anything, just another inner neighborhood road), an exact copy of the same house (same developer, same year, same project, same layout, same everything) went for $200k at the time.

Three years later, the crime reporting districts changed, and his house (and a few others) were reported in te better district. His house value changed, practically overnight, from $100k to $240k.

Ergo, report methodology can effectively affect related value significantly. Quantum measurement effects on a macroeconomic scale.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
bigiain% ls -R ~/ | wc -l
422365

So much for even storing my homedir in Dropbox... And they want to "replace the hard drive"? They've got a bit of work to do yet...
> This seems to affect thoughtful people of all ages.

This affects everyone sooner or later, thoughtful or not. I think this is basically just a case of the fact that everyone goes through more or less the same set of internal experiences, just in different orders and to different extents. Obviously though if you hit the dark night of the soul at age 7 then that's going to be somewhat problematic, not that it's easy at any age.
Great work! I work for a publisher and we get referrals for our amazon ebooks. The varying items people purchase from bras to rifle scopes and of course many books is quite interesting. I'm new to programming, so would you be willing to share how to make a script to put a website together from local university bookstores? It would be a great beginner project, I think.
The only two real issues I've got with this article are that it limits itself in scope to the "gifted" and that it limits itself to children.

As for the latter issue, I suspect that this may fit into a broader work or area that the author presumes readers are familiar with--these issues are certainly seen in teenagers and afterwards.

As for the first point, a bit of a cliche but still accurate is the saying "The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike"; at some level, everyone I've met sharp or dull, gifted or not has run up against some version of the four issues (death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness). It may take until middle age and a house and a picket fence and seventy grand in debt, but it hits eventually.

One of the best realizations I've come to is that everyone, at some level or another, faces these problems in their own way and that I should try and respect their experience--because for them, their existential conflict is at least as severe as my own, their circumstances and stakes at least as dire.

What struck me as interesting was the author's specifically calling out touch as a mechanism for grounding and comfort--this struck a chord with me when I read it. It's part of the reason I have dogs: there is a very real touchable physical presence of pet, something to hold and hug and pet when you're mulling over some of the day's shittiness.

tl,dr; life's a bitch, get a dog.
Perhaps a very subtle hint at the existential crises we all have of living with the corners we've painted ourselves into?
See <http://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.htm..., the most comprehensive overview I've encountered to date.
Shoot me an email if you need to vent--we all need can use someone to chat with now and again.
I really enjoyed reading that--especially the poem at the end (I remember mentally rolling my eyes the first time I read it, thinking the message was self-evident. But in this context it's just wonderful).

I do wish this sort of message could be part of an effective, formulaic prescription that could be doled out to web surfers who are suffering. "Depressed about things? Just keep scrolling down...watch this TED talk, heed this advice, read this article..." My friend who surfs the web all day and who tells me he has his suicide all planned out--I wish he could stumble on these things more often. Maybe instead of a "CSS Site of the Day Award" badge there could be a "Contemplating Suicide?" badge...

Another example, I wish I had learned before I became a film major that imagery is powerful, and that our brains can confuse on-screen trauma with real trauma. I suffered needlessly--and that sounds ridiculous and maybe funny, thinking about a film major with wide eyes wondering just what he signed up for--but I watched things that I will never forget, and that have become part of a mental burden I work to release now that I'm a bit more experienced in discerning what I can and can't handle.

I guess it pains me to think that while there are things we can do to ease others' pain, there are many extremely simple, almost thoughtless ways by which that existential depression worsens. Watch the wrong film. Read the wrong book. Make the wrong song lyric your mantra. (Wrong...well, maybe inappropriate is a better term; something that takes into account one's personal state) Traditions, cultures, microcultures...transcending that sort of thing is harder than most people realize, and certainly doesn't happen on autopilot.
This login page auto-redirects to the main page called landing or something, where I can't login. So it's useless.

I still have to disable LastPass, login, then re-enable Lastpass for my other sites to keep working.

It's strange, because when the password field loads from the main page, at first it shows it has all the characters of the password filled in, but then something happens and then it only has half of the characters filled in anymore, with tiny dots instead of the bigger dots that were there at first. And I can't click into it and type anything either, unless I disable Lastpass entirely. So I can't just type my password into it, it keeps having the tiny dots there with half the characters of the password in there.

When I have Lastpass disabled it looks like by default you have tiny dots in the password field, & that's what I'm seeing, so maybe Lastpass isn't able to populate the field at all, rather than what it looks like to me where it seems to be populating halfway with those little dots.

I'd like to see something simple for login that works rock-solidly with Lastpass so I can set it to autologin & I don't have to click to get in ever.
So you're acknowledging that their problem space is fundamentally "one of the two hard problems in computer science", but claim that it's not "that big a deal"?

I assume you've also got a novel new approach for naming things? (Which, presumably is too long to fit in this margin…)

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton
While I've read a fair bit of existentialist works I've never seen this term, but I think I know what it means. I also think the article would be improved by just titling itself "Existential Depression". The narrow focus is odd, even if true, and might serve better as a footnote.

There's the strangest feeling I come across from time to time, and I think "come across" is the only good way to describe it. Everyone has bouts of doubt and melancholy, I think or would like to think, but there's something much larger that creeps up that becomes harder to relate. In spite of the difficulty to describe, I could imagine anyone might feel this way, not just gifted children.

I always called it "The Cosmic Sadness", which is a name that I came up with after experiencing the feelings while I was reading about heat death of the universe (and associated articles) on Wikipedia[1]. This feeling ends up upsetting (not quite right, maybe disquieting) me much more than things like the death of a pet or a family member.

It doesn't only have to do with cosmological things, but I think it addresses the scope of the feeling, where you get this sensation of being so zoomed out, so encompassed by (perhaps) all that might be, that you have a hard time coming back down to being you.

It's like when you ponder the plight of some character in a novel you're reading, and you empathize enough to get a little upset, then you remember that none of that is real and its OK you've gone one level up now back to real life, no one is suffering like the character in the novel. You "snap out of it" - There's de-escalation, and some relief. But with the cosmic sadness there is no going up one level, it's all there to ponder and still real. No snapping out of it.

I was shocked by how this article ended because the only way of coping I have (other than mere time), to de-escalate this feeling, is literature and poetry. I tend to read several poems a day[2] as a kind of cathartic ritual, and poetry brings a comfortable way to remember (or re-realize) the very meaningful and concrete parts of experience, so I end up surrounding myself with it, finding the most comfort in it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

[2] For example Where to Live, by Du Fu: https://gist.github.com/simonsarris/5472121

Du Fu is a favorite of mine because he lived during a time that experienced one of the largest losses of human life on the planet (an lushan rebellion), so a lot of his poetry dithers between bleakness and hope. Somehow this makes it easy for me to reflect (perspective) and draw some inner sympathy for everything.
I hate all these sites that discriminate against muh lynx!

shakes fist
Ok, maybe. But I can only think of examples where if the schematic was normalized properly then it would be a non-issue.
This appears to say that incidence of cancer is worse in the US, but that outcomes are better.
If you mean to say that being Italian makes them more ready to look down on others, then of course YES. Euro-style nationalism and its other part known as Christianity are based upon the very idea of us-vs-them where 'we' are superior and have moral obligation to 'help' others.
If it was one set of figures from one country then you might have a point, but you are effectively describing noise and for such a wide range of crimes across such a wide range of countries you would expect the noise from reporting changes between different jurisdictions to more or less cancel out.
Cassandra – working with counters using the Datastax Java API
In this article, we will see how we can use counters, using the brand new Datastax Java API and Cassandra.

We will only use java methods provided by the Datastax API, without writing any CQL3 statements (except to create the keyspace and the column family at the very beginning of the article).
This might be relevant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis
^ broken link.
Fantastic quote - I'm going to use that.
Automate decisions to improve focus
http://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.htm...

Edit: Not that I recommend the resource, just fixed the link for you.
Turns out, Dropbox is _most_ useful to me on my devices with insufficient local storage - having access to all my (Dropboxed) files on my phone and iPad is _spectacularly_ useful. I have no doubt there's some very smart people at Dropbox (and Google and Microsoft amd JottaCloud and BTLabs and any number of established companies and startups I've never heard of) are working out how to cater to a new category of "cloud storage user" - people who _don't_ store cannonical versions of all their files/data on their own laptop/desktop, people with a smartphone and a tablet - but with no "main machine" as such. People who want to access all their files from any random shared, borrowed, or rented machine whenever they need a full sized screen and keyboard, but don't need that often enough to own such a machine.
Having worked 15+ years in both countries (SF, NY, Toronto, Calgary), you're not wrong. But this is a bit misleading.

In the SF Bay Area or NYC, yeah, double to triple. But a lot of that is cost-of-living related. Housing is half (or even less) the price in most cases, with Vancouver being an exception. I paid $2700/month for my 800 sq. ft place in Pac Heights with parking, we pay maybe $2200/month with property taxes in Calgary for a 1600 sq. foot house w/ 2 car garage just slightly north of the Bow River. Whereas a small 2br in NY in the West village was $4k a month 10 years ago.

That said, most living-in-Canada techs making good coin are either (a) working at Vancouver startups, who pay reasonably (b) working as contractors doing boring/annoying work that pays well, (c) working for international tech companies who pay the same rate in Canada as they do in the USA (usually in field sales or consulting - this is what I currently do).

The main reason I don't think this holds Canadian tech back is that many people meet their significant other here and don't want to deal with the hassle of leaving - they like the rockies, for example, or have family, or love snow. Or they're stuck for one reason or another (child custody, etc.). There's also a rather poisonous political environment in the USA that adds a cost to one's stay there.

I also think it's a great opportunity for companies to thrive in Canada and retain talent by paying them well and giving them access to lifestyle incentives. Not quite a startup, but an example: Cenovus energy has a startup-like culture in some ways after being spun out in 2002. They give employees every 2nd Friday off, they have major perks for working families, discount family passes to Banff/Lake Louise for skiing, and pay extremely well (usually bridging your pension, RSUs as part of a signing bonus).
I've been amused more than anything at the number of script kiddies that take to twitter to brag about their activities. They're painting a big fat target on the backs of their heads, convinced that they will never slip up and leak packets. Granted, if they truly are careful they won't get caught --at least not because of their twitter bragging. It just seems like an absolutely pointless risk to be taking.
There is always an XKCD, isn't it? :-)
It's only within the last few Presidential election cycles that the Republicans have become "red" and the Democrats "blue," which is the opposite of what you might expect.

What has "always" been true usually has very definite origins, sometimes quite recent.
Ah okay. Well, Asia is a really big place so let's just say East Asia.

I don't know anything about the culture at Japanese airlines vs. the culture at Korean airlines. Obviously they are different? Maybe the deference becomes more of a problem in Korea due to other cultural issues. I agree that blaming it on deference alone doesn't make sense. Wild guess is that Japanese people are more perfectionist? But I don't have any evidence for this, not even anecdotal.
It has to do with the fact that the GP put the URL in < > and HN assumed the trailing > was part of the URL. Just remove the trailing > in the URL and it'll work.

Alternatively reproduced here without the '>':
http://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.htm...
What's the reason for all the files, and why do I care whether my shell is a login or non-login? To me, no matter where I get my shell from (whether VT, SSH, gnome-terminal), I want all my aliases, settings and nice terminal colors to be there.