skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That natural discourse for cyber bulling is to block those who continuously berate you online. If that's not an option, seek out an authority at your school or consider abandoning whichever mediums they're targeting. Bullying sucks though, sometimes the only solution is to wait it out and suffer through as little as possible of it.

> That being said, I think Louis CK's more important point is his latter one, that many people are becoming too dependent on their phones to fill the silence or quiet times in their day-to-day.

I respectfully disagree. If you ask your parents what they used to do when they had free time (silence, quiet time, whatever) they wouldn't tell you that they did some introspection. They'd say they went outside and climbed trees, they read a book or tried a puzzle, watched television and maybe even napped. The only reason children love to be on their phones more than those things previously mentioned, is because of how quickly stimulating a phone is. Complex and HD games, the sum of the worlds knowledge in a glowing rectangle, and instant communication with all of their friends.

The older crowd just doesn't think it's natural. I don't blame them because frankly it does look a bit disturbing when you see a crowd of people glaring straight down into their phone when life is occurring all around them.
Yes. So the distinction is more like abstract problem solving.
On the other hand, interview problems are often way easier.
The output is PPM, not AEK (that's Andrew Kensler's initials). Use PPM as the extension (similar to PGM, PNM and others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format). It's not very common in consumer products (too primitive) but you can open in Gimp, Preview.app, IrfanView, XV and lots of others.
Yes, same problem. Google suggests it is an Adobe After Effects file. Linux "file" reports it as

card.aek: Netpbm PPM "rawbits" image data, size = 512 x 512

Not sure how to view Netpbm (portable bit map).
The string capacity on a 64 bit machine is usually represented as an 8 byte integer. The average length of a unique english word is 8 and the average length of a word occurrance is 5.
I don't get why people hate on iTunes so much (on Mac - on Windows, sure, it sucks, because porting Cocoa to Windows is not only hard but dumb). I've used it since version 1, and have moved the same library forward since - over a decade, and through 11 versions of iTunes. There were some dark times, but it still runs fine for me, and does what it needs to do; simply, manage my digital media and shuttling it between my iPhone, iPad or AppleTV.
if you read further, you'll see its supposed to be .ppm, but the article author made a typo :)
I have paperwork in PDF form. I need to fill it out. I am medically handicapped, limited to using my Android tablet for this task, basically. The PDF is not designed to be "fillable". I bought an app that lets me type stuff in anyway, but it is extremely tedious and I am having trouble getting things to line up neatly so that this important paperwork is both legible and professional looking. I can't seem to find a copy/paste function or similar. It is just tough to use for several reasons. I just want to type my freaking answers in and Done! but I am tearing my hair out.

Anything else you want to know?
But if you embrace that you like to build things... you can sell and market - they are different aspects of what you want to build... to say you're a builder therefore you can't sell is incorrect... perhaps you're a programmer who only likes to program or mechanic that only likes to work on engines... but if you like to build... then it doesn't matter what it is you're building... websites, databases, markets, or sales... it's all building.
It's interesting because my information source on this is mostly reddit.com comments across a wide variety of sections -- nyc, economics, conspiracy, libertarian, communism.
So they can get Facebook pages, duh.
What is this puzzling behavior?
Need a site? I'll build it out for free within reason.

Need someone to physically pitch your product to investors? I can't do that.
Psychiatrist here. The mentally ill and the homeless (often not coincidentally related) are often treated poorly by our Emergency Room system. Before Californians get too mad at Nevada, know that California doesn't have a sterling track record here either (though not as specific to mental illness):

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-2823079.html

Sadly, hospitals get little reimbursement for treating mental illness, therefore many inpatient psychiatric wards are closed. I don't know the details, but places I have worked claim these units lose money. In many states and in many hospitals, patients may wait for days and days in the ER before a bed opens there or somewhere else. Supply and demand are grossly mismatched, and reimbursement has not responded to demand. Therefore, units continue to close.

Now much of the care of the mentally ill happens through the correctional system or related venues. See prior HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182507

It's possible some parts of the Affordable Care Act may help with this:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/21/law-pus...

I don't know why so many stories about mistreatment of the mentally ill have been on HN recently, but it makes me happy that smart people are taking an interest.
This isn't incredibly uncommon, and isn't limited to psychiatric patients. Southern states for decades encouraged poor blacks to enjoy the better benefits available in the north, for example. Cops in many places shipped off "frequent fliers" to bigger cities.

Even today, it's a common practice to make sure that troublesome social services clients are aware of better benefits available in other jurisdictions.
What are some examples of companies that have succeeded without taking this approach?

Also: examples of great products that people are struggling to market effectively?
If you're using Linux or OSX, run it like this:

./aek > aek.ppm

That will produce an image in .ppm format. ('The world's second-dumbest picture format.') You'll probably have to convert it to a more widely supported format. Make sure you have the netpbm package installed, and then run, say:

pbmtopng aek.ppm > aek.bmp
I'm on board with this, but my background in learning to code was a little different. My Java instructor (first formal programming class, but not first language) took the approach that teaching to code should imitate real things. So, our first few programs were around modeling real things in the world. We wrote a program to figure out why 7 was the most common number in gambling by rolling two virtual dice several thousand times and plotting the results. We explored the Birthday Paradox by randomly generating numbers between 1 and 365 until we hit a duplicate, and repeated that several times to prove the range. It was a great approach, and one that stuck with me.
We're talking about Warren Buffet so "20$ bill" turned into "20 Billion $" in my mind.
The original ended on line 35, column 28. By #defining return as u, it ends at line 35, column 19. Although I had to split the number 231184 across two lines (2311\84) to avoid a gap at the end of the line.

http://pastebin.com/6rM895SC
It's like that was because it wouldn't be good to have customers see "expired" food on your shelves. As a customer, I wouldn't buy food which has gone past the expiration date. Sure, it could be fine to consume but I'd rather purchase food on that's well ahead of the expiration date. Especially since I may not cook/eat the food until a day or so later.
Heh. I've been using the same asteroid example for years.
Two such whimsical books are Learn You A Haskell For Great Good and Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good.

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

For example, one of my favorite chapters in there is about distributed programming. It is told with an example of 2 camps of survivors of zombie apocalypse trying communicate with each other.

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon#alone-in-the-d...

You can tell Fred's (author) passion and enthusiasm from his style of writing.
FWIW I was not able to open it with Preview on OS X 10.8
The resin is buoyant in salt water; is the cured resin?

So long as the liquid resin floats on salt water, I don't see why salt water should provide less support than liquid resin.
That's why all successful business have 2 founders: the builder and the seller. Look at Apple, Woz built it, Jobs sold it. Microsoft: Gates built it, Ballmer sold it. etc.
I don't think anyone was suggesting it wasn't. The problem was spelling it wrong in an ambiguous context.
Has your friend signed up to LinkedIn and let them have his or her contacts? What about all your friend's friends who have the cats in their contact lists?
Half of the battle is picking up the phone. I think the main problem is coming up with a problem you're both passionate about and that provides value to customers. You can learn sales as you go.

The best salesman are the ones who don't know how to say no. I think the self defeatist mentality of "I'm not a salesman" is the core problem. You're a salesman if you call yourself one. The main reason being: You're the first person who said yes. Your next job is to do what every other sales person has to do: stomach a no answer, learn from your mistakes, and iterate on your idea within reason of making sales.
Validation is apart of the sales process as well.
Honestly, I don't want to be too critical, it feels mean, but why all the childish stuff? W3Schools is not hurting you. Just because you saw a video with a basketball player saying he's learning to code, is not a call to action to destroy some site that probably, if we're being honest, has helped more than hurt, though yes it has "so badly hurt us."

Boycott Google if you're so angry that they come up so much.

I'm not sure how videos are the answer ... that is a different problem, videos, despite their popularity, are pretty inefficient for a reference.

Let's face it, beginners will make mistakes no matter what. Create an alternative that is good, with quality info, and easier to use than W3Schools but let's be adults about and just do it first, then get on the soapbox. Google will award you if you succeed.

Jeff Atwood belittled EE to no end ... but he actually created Stackoverflow, so he won the game. Just hating on W3Schools will get nowhere.
For those in San Francisco the city/county government has setup "Bank on San Francisco" to help people use regular banks instead of check cashing places. They have partnerships with banks that allow people to get bank accounts even if they have had trouble in the past. http://www.bankonsf.org/

Bank on SF also has a small dollar loan program called Payday Plus SF. Their partners offer payday loans at reasonable rates (max 18% APR). http://paydayplussf.org/

I know they don't address a lot of the issues the article brought up, but they could be useful for people in certain situations.
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I've worked through some of it! That's exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about.

My Erlang learning has been a little spotty so far but I'm going to Erlang Camp in Nashville next month to fill in some holes. I've been playing a lot with Elixir and that's been helping too.
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That's awesome. If I had had a similar experience I probably would have been all in much earlier in my life.
What a weird comment. All Adam Langley seems to have to say about your system is that you didn't use a weak cipher composition but did use a weak MAC composition, and all I have to say in that thread is that I didn't think the Joux multicollision attack he was referring to applied. And yet somehow, presumably by ignoring the other cryptographers criticizing this design at the same time, you synthesized a narrative about how "my criticisms" were "debunked".

Here's the problem I have with your design: it doesn't make any sense to me. So worried are you about the NSA's ability to break AES or Salsa20 --- a worry not apparently shared by cryptographers, so far as I can tell --- that you resurrect Bruce Schneier's 1990s-era block cipher cascade, chaining Twofish(?!), a modified(?!) Salsa20, and AES. But so confident are you in the safety of Javascript crypto that... you deliver that code over an AES-encrypted TLS channel. I don't get it. What was the point of this again? How is anything you're doing making it harder for the NSA to subvert your comms? They're a single AES key away from rewriting your entire cryptosystem.
Apple Orders Insomnia Cookies for MHACKS
Misleading title; makes it sound like the Canadians were doing the holding.
I miss the good old days when monetary cranks would always come right out and talk about the Rothschilds and 'international bankers' so the average reader knew they were bonkers.

Fiat money won everywhere because it outcompeted the alternatives. Fractional reserve banking too.
She says no. And the cats don't email anyone.
Every Tuesday morning! It was awesome.

Kelly's sessions in particular always had a theme. For example: we might practice Turkish Getups for 10 minutes, focusing on shoulder stability. Then the "WOD" might be alternating dumbbell push press and 400m sprints. The idea was to pay attention to shoulder position and stability even as the sprints exhausted us.

All of the coaches were (are) great teachers. It was about so much more than simply getting a workout in. It felt like we did everything for a reason. Combine that with awesome, supportive people (everyone shakes hands with anyone they don't already know before every session) and a killer location (a parking lot under the Golden Gate Bridge)---it was magical.

This is why it's silly to make judgements about "CrossFit". CrossFit is a fine system/philosophy/whatever. Find a box with a good atmosphere where you can learn things from people who know more than you do. It's like anything else.
Hmm, are you from the US?

I am, and I assumed this article was referring to the U.S. doing the holding not Canada. I feel like the title is appropriate actually, saying "journalist detained at U.S. border" would be less informative imo.

That's just my opinion though, perhaps I am not properly conceptualizing the matter from yours/others viewpoints.
There's also people who can extrapolate value by themselves. The most common examples being patio11, bdunn, nathanbarry, and crew. It's no secret they're going to delegate or outsource parts of their work that might not be immediately relevant, but that's just part of knowing how to delegate. That doesn't require a permanent cofounder.

I think there's something to be said about building something simple of value and selling the crap out of one idea.(Assuming you know the idea brings in some kind of value for customers)

This kind of thing is easier to do than people give themselves credit for. Half of the problem is just getting yourself to practice it. You'll fail a few times, it comes with the territory. You might be more comfortable doing freelancing and transitioning to product, but both can be done.

That being said: business is of course significantly easier with help. It can be hard to bring someone on board without at least putting in the initial effort if you were going to do it by yourself anyway though. So it's a really good thing to attempt regardless.
> What if HQ has good goals and it's not about "milking," but exposing people to a more effective fitness methodology?

Their behaviour can too easily be constructed into a very negative picture.

I can see Crossfit going one of two ways:

Either it will reach a high water mark and settle down to a steady-state condition. More people are coming into Crossfit, but in many markets there's a saturation of affiliates. Gyms with overheads like full-time, well-trained coaches will be partly driven out by cheaper operations with a CF1 certificate.

Alternatively, someone will construct a successful legal argument that Crossfit is a franchise operation. A subsequent class action lawsuit will turn them into a smoking hole in the ground.

On the upside, millions of people will have learnt that exercising is fun. That is definitely a positive outcome.
To some people, having multiple skillsets means you're unfocused, because you haven't focused on a single skillset.
That PhD-Industry Gap is more about the hiring managers' disconnects between Science and technical techniques such as ability to code etc. It's just as ridiculous to request a linguistic scientist to be fluent in multiple foreign languages. I guess even Jeff Dean might have problem dealing with today's coding interview questions of regular software engineering jobs (or not, according to Jeff Dean facts). Those kind of hiring managers just do not have visions and would just miss the potentials of solving pioneering questions such as BigTable and MapReduce.
Does anyone have any alternatives to LinkedIn? I think it plays a function that's useful, particularly the floating, easily discoverable resumes you can point people at plus recommendations. But the cons just drastically reduce its overall value well below zero.

The resume aspect is easy enough to host yourself, and the searchability is not clearly an overall pro anyways: I really don't want to be harassed by random recruiters who found me using a keyword search.

But would it be weird to host your recommendations of others on your own site? I.e. include a link to some canonical representation of their identity and vouch for them? That may be getting into the weird territory. And what about hosting their recommendations of you? That seems well into the weird territory.

Maybe the best thing that LinkedIn offers is a willingly creepy networking site that gives you an excuse to ignore social norms.
You realize there used to be these very useful, very accurate things written by either one or very few persons ... they were called "books" ...

They were kind of a crazy idea, I admit ...
In my last round of job-searching, none of my interviewers had looked at my linkedin profile. Most of them hadn't even seen my resume before the interview.
I hear these detention stories at the border continuously and each time there's a lot of discontent among people about such practices. However, nothing changes.

I wonder, is it that largely this topic does not concern the American public or are there no democratic means to influence the agency?
For example, the frequently remarked (here on HN and elsewhere), persistent outranking of high-quality, ad-free sites by spam sites, or other lower-quality URLs, that invariably contain Adsense units.
What you're describing reminds me of the never-launched social network Diaspora, but for business. Would someone be interested in trying to launch a Diaspora-nee-Linkedin?
lol, no. That's so hideous.
Eep, my mistake. You're right: it doesn't work. I thought I used to open PPMs with Preview back in Mac OS 10.3 or something else ancient. I could be mistaken on that.

Oh well. Everyone has Gimp and LibreOffice installed though, right? They both open the file without problems.
My favorite story for this type of stuff was in college when the bank double cashed a check I had written. I went below 0 (it was my rent) and 5 other checks (for less than $50) bounced. Cue $175 in overdraft fees.

I went in to fix it and they realized they double cashed my rent (still not sure wtf that was about), and they added back on the amount of the rent. It took another 2 weeks to get the fees removed. I had to call and visit 8 times. Being $175 down in 1988 was not fun.

I switched banks, but as a student I am pretty sure these days I would have used something from Walmart or another group. I bank with a credit union now and they are amazing.
The spread of link rot
"1/ Any intelligent person that starts a crossfit "box" could start a big gym that appeals more widely and make significantly more money. True, they would need more initial capital for the equipment. True, they would have to operate on far lower margins. But at the end of the day they would make more money signing up 1,000 people for $25 a month than signing up 100 people for $200 a month. Gym memberships are nothing more than a subscription service which is subject to the decaying population problem. It is about scale here."

I completely disagree with the notion that these folks would make more money with a standard gym, and are therefore doing CrossFit purely out of passion. I'm sure they are passionate, but the standard gym market is saturated and overrun by large companies.
I guess it's also one thing to know them, and one thing to be comfortable typing them in a nonstop flow of text. My keystroke speed rarely changes from insert mode to control mode; vim commands have become an integral part of my typing process. I feel severely gimped whenever I can't use my vim controls.

As for knowing the number of lines you need to jump, either do :set number and be quick at math, or you can modify the numbers to be relative to your current line.

I took me probably a week to be able to actually get anything done in vim, and a month to prefer vim to anything else.

That being said, I know far more commands than the ones I listed. Those commands got me to my first month, though.
How else would you synergize the vertical?
How is it weird to get recommendations from other people? That's pretty normal. Posting them on a website might seem unusual for individuals but companies do it all the time.