skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agreement on cleaning my apartment. I find this is the single most useful thing I can do in terms of my day-to-day emotional health.
unresolved anger issues.

Is there any way to distinguish those from "Not being as psychologically damaged as I'd like."?
It's really neither

The military makes no secret about "breaking down their recruits" and then "rebuilding them as soldiers" (to use their language). What that entails is using whatever means necessary to form a habit of discipline. Because when you're disclpined you do the simple things on auto pilot. Things like pay bills and clean your living space.

If people in the military seem more emotionally controlled it's because they can marshal all their mental resources to deal with whatever emotional challenge comes their way. They don't have the added distractions of "did I pay the electric bill this month?" or "I have to do that thing at work that I've been procrastinating on"

In other words, they have the same capacity as everyone else but they are trained to live a life that eliminates as many distractions as possible.

Finally, for those who have already commented about military vets bottling stuff up and exploding I'd offer this insight. All the military's methods can do for a person is elminiate distractions so big problems can be dealt with. If a person still decides to ignore those problems the results will be disasterous just like they would be in any other person.
are there competitions / groups who try and do this with statically linked bins? A 4k all-in app sounds more fun
Business development for startups
Password complexity requirements don't really help. Most people just wind up picking password001 or password #001. In fact, we almost ensure that people will write passwords down when we make them remember weird, long strings and make them change it every few months as part of an arbitrary password change policy. I remember reading a paper (can't find the reference now) on how password change policies originated in the 60s and there's no data to support that they actually help with security.
Getting Over It
I have used this technique in the past and call it Diversionary Therapy.
Thank you for asking this question, especially at this time. Responses of other people are a lot helpful for me as well.

Sharing how I deal with similar situations:

I go out and try to stay out as much as possible. Working in a coffee shop gives the illusion that you are not alone. I also cook elaborate dinner involving pasta, sit down with a glass of wine and watch a movie as a picker-upper. But of late I've been using this trick a lot and it has fast hit diminishing returns. Perhaps I should use exercise as a pick-me-up.

The problem with being down is, you will be even less inclined to do the things that are most likely to help you get better.

Sometimes I reread Jerome K. Jerome. Brings back childhood to some extent and some giggles. Douglas Adams too. Or I re-purpose librivox.org as my bed time story teller. Mostly I hang out here [HN]. Then I refresh my log... people using your app can cheer you up. Learning something new helps too.
It is all true. I am constantly hoping that the world, whether it be the public or the private sectors or a partnership, will return to the stars properly. It is long past time to begin the true exploration of mars.
I am not chasing a million dollar dream, but rather looking to the acquire skills that are marketable and satisfy the curiosity itch.
Not sure why such a poorly written opinion piece got submitted to HN. The author compares health care systems with the frivolous example of an old shoulder injury. A common form of cancer would have provided a much better illustration of the pros and cons of various health care models around the world, as socialized medicine often involves waiting many months for treatment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-125860/Britain-tra...

The author concludes by advocating that employer health care plans be eliminated so that people can shop for health insurance as individuals. In my experience, when dealing with health insurance companies, there is strength in numbers. The lone individual has little clout when dealing with a large insurance company.
http://www.devhub.com

Last 30 days

1. Firefox 54.62%

2. Internet Explorer 30.14%

3. Chrome 6.85%

4. Safari 6.26%

5. Opera 1.17%

6. Mozilla 0.42%

7. Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.23%

8. Opera Mini 0.11%

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I would guess that it's not just the training. The idea of "trauma" causing someone problems later in life is a fairly modern one -- and whether it's a discovery or invention is an open question.

the high rates of depression, divorce, alcoholism, and mental illness represented in the veteran community.

Source? I'm thinking Korea and WWII; Vietnam is an outlier, because of the amount of cheap heroin.
>> Truth isn't truth if it isn't falsifiable

A truth that isn't falsifiable isn't useful.
I just stuck a carriage return in after each line...
Robert Zubrin: how to go to Mars right now
> How the hell do I new line?

You need to put a blank line in between the lines you want to separate
You can start by moving things into Dropbox and symlinking them back to their original locations. Can't help you if you're on Windows.
SugarSync, though I also use it to keep files in sync between PCs.
Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links
Did you miss the part of the story where I was $30k in debt? I think you must have skipped over most of my post.

And for, "3. Raise money before you need it", I'd amend that to say, "Be very careful about raising money. You are no longer your own boss."

Your reading comprehension is sorely lacking, it seems. The rest of the sentence was "or figure out revenue as early as possible". I'm not sure how you could possibly assume from what I wrote that I'm encouraging people to raise money rather than run on revenue.
"... Men may perceive women to be inferior when it comes to emotion. But like the second law of thermodynamics, all that built up emotion is going to leak out some time in the future. So in the long run, I think women have an edge over men dealing with emotion. But in the short term it is men who edge women out with self control. There is a downside here. Apply too much control and you might emotionally overheat and become brittle when you cool down leaving yourself open to cracking. Hard objects become brittle and crack under stress. ..." ~ http://seldomlogical.com/2009/04/21/getting-stuff-done-with-... [4] on Fear.

Highly 'emotionally controlled people' crack, but not straight away. Maybe years down the track. So spending time with old mil-vets might be a different story.
Friendly tip: when picking someone up, don't lead with your left (or right) testicle. If things go well, those can be introduced at a later time.
This topic was never something that was discussed at any school I attended. But it is something that I have thought about independently and come to the same conclusion. My life up to the age of 5 seems subjectively longer to me in memory than my life from age 17 to now (I'm 30). I have always felt that at ages 0-5, I had a much shorter total life experience to compare the passage of time to, so it feels longer.

I suspect that certain experiences occurring at certain periods also have a bearing. I find that some experiences tend to signal the beginning or end of different stages of my life and in some way I'm not fully able to describe, this seems to have some effect on my perception of time as I look back.

But for me, there's definitely something in this comparing any time period to how long you have lived so far.
The definitive work on this subject was done by T.L. Freeman in 1983:

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=932040&displayty...

Originally published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. :-)
Sometimes I arrange to have an outlet. During my last break up I called my mom a lot when I absolutely couldn't focus. I talked to her for 5 or so minutes on my break to vent a bit. I found that after a little bit of releasing the mental pressure I was able to focus again.

That said, when you go home, you need to get your shit together. Make lists of "need to do"s and "want to do"s, and tackle them. Keeping busy is the key. Before you know, you'll be back to your awesome self.
T-Mobile will sell you prepaid service at $100 per 1000 minutes/SMS messages, or pay-as-you-go for $30-40 per month without a contract. I have service for my G1 via the latter option, which costs me about $75/mo. with unlimited data and more calling minutes than I can conceivably use.

My experience has been that most carriers will happily let you sign up for some sort of prepaid service without a contract, as long as you don't expect hardware discounts.
http://ifdefined.com. This is a Microsoft oriented site, the home of "BugTracker.NET", so you'd expect it to skew a little towards IE. For the last 30 days, about 22,000 visits:

IE 45%
Firefox 41%
Chrome 8%
Safari 3%
Opera 2%
I disagree. If you know that something is true, but can't really prove that it is true, you can still use the assumed truth to guide you. For example, I believe that Barak Obama is an honorable man. I can't prove it, but I believe it strongly enough to use that 'truth' to guide my voting decision.

I'm playing with the definition of 'useful' here, using a much less rigorous meaning than you probably intended. But even scientific frameworks start with axioms that are unprovable but accepted as true. Those are useful truths which the rest of the framework is built upon.
Time Machine on mac, Back in Time on Linux. Both are great. I backup to a network drive. If you are using a mac, and you want to use time machine, don't waste your money on their time capsule product. To find out how to use time machine with a non-apple backup resource, look into sparse bundles.
Nokia E72 Themes : Night Beach
Impressive. Certainly puts CPU-based solutions using "off-the-shelf" crypto libraries into their place.

I hope whoever ends up winning (and/or doing well) posts details and code of their solution, this has been an interesting contest to follow and learn from.
Oldie but goodie. If you liked that, you might like this too: [Higher Order Programming in Javascript](http://w3future.com/html/stories/hop.xml)
Well its my first blackberry and I've only had a week or so to get used to the platform so YMMV of course.

tl;dr: It's great at its core competencies: voice and email are great. Everything else is a bit unfinished.

The bottom line is that so far it's good enough for what I use it for. I'm still crap at the keyboard but getting better, the EVDO is fast enough but not spectacular, the roller ball works well almost all of the time but the horizontal sensitivity seems a bit wonky sometimes, I haven't figured out why yet. (There's no way I'm that bad at brickbreaker so I choose to blame RIM)

Email integration is about 8/10, I push email from my gmail account and Exchange at work to it and that workflow is very well executed. However, reading mail on Gmail or Outlook doesn't mark the messages read on the blackberry. It's possible I'm doing something wrong here and I'm not on a BES but it hasn't annoyed me enough yet to really dig for a solution. Also Gmail IMAP sync doesn't respect your filters/tags so if you get new mail it all hits your blackberry. I ended up unsubscribing to a few mailing lists that I never really read anyway because they were just too high traffic to be buzzing me all the time.

There seems to be a bit of a compatibility issue with the Tour and the Storm, most apps that require unrestricted TCP access don't seem to work [1]. I can't get jmirc, midpssh etc to connect, they just die with "Invalid URL parameter." It'll be fixed at some point I'm sure but for now there's nothing app-wise that's useful to me. Viigo is acceptable as a podcast client but not much else. Google Voice client is alright, doesn't integrate as well as I'd like but it's workable. AIM works well, Flickr works well. The apps in the app store are great if you're obsessed about a) the weather b) financial news c) sports scores or d) playing card games, outside of that there's not much there. Then again every "must have app" my iPhone friends show me has me rolling my eyes so I suppose I'm just not the target market.

The voice quality is top notch. I was on a four hour conference call last night and I set the speakerphone up and forgot about it, no issues either hearing or being heard. That took my battery life down from full to about half. The camera is frankly barely adequate. Plenty of pixels but too much grain. [2]

All that said I'm buying my wife one to replace her free-and-worth-every-penny phone in a few weeks so it's safe to say I'm pleased with it. The warts just aren't in places I care about.

[1] http://forums.crackberry.com/f35/tour-9630-irc-266165/
[2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/skorgu/3737195762/
I just started an act.ly twitter petition to put some more pressure on them: http://act.ly/9u

Tweet: petition @digg to stop hijacking twitter links. no bait and switch! http://act.ly/9u Retweet to sign #digg
Mainstream video site. Around 52 million unique visitors per month.

IE: 66.17%
7: 56.03%
6: 35.73%
8: 8.19%
Firefox: 25.45%
Chrome: 3.19%
Safari: 3.04%
Opera: 1.54%
I make bootable clones of my laptop hdd with SuperDuper. I use 2 drives and an external SCSI drive enclosure for this. This way, I have a weekly copy and a daily copy. And when my laptop hdd fails I can switch over to a good copy with no downtime.

I also use Dropbox for a certain subset of my documents, so that adds another layer of backups w/ partial rollback as well.

Online backups are good, but an external SCSI enclosure costs at most $40 + the cost of an internal drive, which is cheaper, and allows faster recovery.
If you already know all about higher-order programming and just want a javascript library with all the haskell/ML-style goodness, I highly recommend O. Steele's Functional library: http://osteele.com/sources/javascript/functional/

If nothing else, then his lambda() implementation with strings should be enough to convince you to use it.
Incredibly short-sighted decision by Digg. Maybe they should hire a Chief Common Sense Officer.
http://www.vivapixel.com - Photo and video hosting site.

For June 2009.

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The Vietnam War killed our spirit for a generation. We had been defeated and were thrown into inner turmoil. Kennedy died and we got a succession of presidents with no vision, no spirit of wonder. NASA went from leadership to mediocrity. Wolfe gives us the metaphor of single combat, but we thought then that the space race was way better than the arms race. Then Johnson and Nixon dragged us through the Vietnam mud.
Sort of what I thought, until I read more. If you read more, he explains that this article was a broad summary/introduction and that it is explained in more detail on his other blog posts that he links to from that one. I found it very interesting, especially that he is using C# and LINQ. Read some more of his posts, very cool stuff...worth the read for sure.
My explanation is a bit different:

I propose that what happens is that as people age they get better at avoiding boredom. Also, youth is boring compared with adulthood.

Consider grades K-6 where most students have little choice of what subjects to learn about, are often in the care of a single teacher for most of the day, and whose assignments involve lots of repetition (math drills, handwriting drills, spelling drills). This is just plain boring, and so the mind works hard to avoid boredom by daydreaming, planning, etc... but still struggles to stave off boredom.

As we age we get more choice about what we want to do, and life gets a bit more dramatic and less boring. I recall being bored during recess in grade school b/c I really didn't like tag or four square. Put a mixed gender group of adults together and who knows what might happen.

So the increasing speed of the passage of time is a result both of life becoming less boring and also of the learned ability to minimize boredom. I read articles on my phone when waiting in line or when riding the muni. In general most of my work and leisure time is highly focused to avoid boredom and thus just flies by.

Occasionally I have a reminder of how slowly time can pass -- such as when sitting in a waiting room with no reading material or poor quality reading material, etc.
This is a really bad decision from digg. I suspect that people will start moving away from Digg as a url shortening service now. The diggbar was bad enough encapsulating the content in a frame.
I keep work and my personal life very much separate. Not just when I'm having a hard time in my personal life but also when it's going good. This lets work almost be a sanctuary. When I'm there nothing matter but getting the job done.

It's not easy, but if you are able to develop that separation you can almost shut off your personal problems at will.
There's several other articles in this series, which can be reached through the blog archive on the right or the link at the bottom of the article.
So the question has to be asked, what does twitter get from a "vibrant" marketplace of url shorteners? Digg is only the first to try and use the links to their advantage. These other services are going to need to pay the bills, and we'll start seeing more and more of these stories.

They've got the capital, twitter either needs to buy a url shortener, or at least play kingmaker and push one service.
Can Awareness of Our Biases Clear Our Vision?
Frankly, I don't care if it is hard. Nothing worth doing is easy.
Yeah, the only problem with that is that Bootsy Collins has been way higher than the moon. He's completely out of this galaxy.
Only Bing failed completely (in my subjective opinion) in any case where any othe search engine succeeded. Google had a higher median score, Yahoo was the very best most often.
excellent graphic linked in the article: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/image/79352
Damn pretty exciting stuff, I've wanted to do some CUDA but I've never seen some good starting code.
For me, I would run to friends and family. I am a Catholic (like most Filipinos are) so if all hell breaks loose, I pray. ;-)

My dad died a few years ago, right about the time I was starting to hack things myself. Personally, what got me through was friends, family and religion. Just sayin'...
Honor is falsifiable, to the degree is can be defined. An honorable person acts differently that a dishonorable one. Just because I say something is falsifiable doesn't mean I'm asserting I can prove it. It just means that it is meaningful to prove it.

For example, I cannot prove that everyone in china is right handed, but that is certainly a falsifiable idea. One could go to china and ask each person: impossible, but meaningful.

An example of an idea that is not falsifiable is that my garage is inhabited by undetectable dragons. What use is this idea? What use is it to speak of things which cannot in any way be detected?
This is a prime example of the pitfalls of shortened URLs. Short URLs are pointers -- don't rely on them to point to the same thing (or a valid thing) forever.
They should just fold the functionality into their API. Add an optional URL field to each tweet, and then within the message the URL can be referenced using Markdown like syntax: [link body][1]. Only the link body text would count against your character count, so you get a free URL.

They could even sell the click-through analytics to their large customers.

URL shorteners are a hack, there's no reason to encourage them any further.
wwiaircombat.com (WWI flight sims) (June 18-July 18, 2009)
Firefox: 45.89%
IE (overall): 41.99%
IE 8: 45.64%
IE 7: 37.78%
IE 6: 16.54%
Opera: 5.38%
Chrome: 3.51%
Safari: 2.81%

The large percentage dedicated to Opera is likely due to the fact that my site's been covering a WWI Flight sim developed in Russia, and Russia has a huge Opera user base: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/07/02/gbs-update-20090702/
Yes it's not that simple. Even today some anger management therapists will suggest that you hit a pillow or something to let your anger out. This is actually really bad because it links those feelings to getting physically angry - you're conditioning yourself to respond to anger with physical outbursts.

It's not at all clear that 'don't bottle them up' is generally good advice.
I think it's just hard to avoid doing things by thinking about them. Good luck avoiding touching your face for an hour by saying "don't touch your face." Luckily you can normally focus on doing something else like keeping your hands in your pockets.
I've been working with CUDA now for about a year now. Last summer I went out and bought a relatively cheap 8800 GT card, which even as an older card is capable of something like 500 GFlops if fully utilized. My Core 2 Duo can do about 20, and that's assuming you can code your programs with SIMD instructions.
Twitter should just obviate the need for URL shorteners, and make URLs take up only a certain number of characters for the tweet. Then, display them through HTML with ellipsis or something, but keep the HREF pointing to the real thing.
I run a small web development blog. Most are using Firefox.
And here I thought just showing the toolbar and hijacking the URL was a scammy move... This has now become a textbook case of what is wrong with URL shorteners. Your links are at someone else's mercy. Even "reputable" firms like Digg can abuse your trust (I guess the investor's are leaning on them big time these days).

Luckily this is easy to fix going forward: before sharing a link make sure it isn't using Digg's domain. If it is, resolve it and send the original. Rinse, repeat.
A good way to learn CUDA is to stop by the forums every once in a while and see what other people are doing with it. Lots of people post their code for little projects like this, which can be quite helpful for beginners.
But it is important to note the magnitude of difficulty so you can understand where a particular goal fits in among the rest.

Getting into Earth's orbit is difficult. I imagine landing on Mars would be something like 3 or 4 orders of magnitude more difficult.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

-- Hunter S. Thompson
Yep, that's it. I think that'd be a really cool way to speed up the web.
Why would they have to buy one? It's an incredibly simple thing to create. It would take more work to buy one and integrate it into their system/API than just create it from scratch.
An expert believes it's not that hard: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713585

It's interesting to read both articles because of the contrasting perceptions of the challenges a manned mission to Mars would pose.
On Data Reconciliation Strategies and Their Impact on the Web of Data
It's 2009, and that article is actually arguing for DRM on all web-delivered fonts (those delivered via @font-face). Amazing.

The comments there link to Mark Pilgrim's article expressing the alternative, and much more likely, future:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundri...
(The same article on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=572730)
Let me guess... it would only take about a weekend, right?

All snark aside, putting together something as rich as bit.ly is NOT an incredibly simple thing to create. And twitter will need to incorporate such functionality in there, or people WILL find ways to use their favourites to get the functionality they're used to.
Am I the only one sick of kossovsky submitting his own links through two separate accounts?
Jungledisk for my laptop, Duplicity -> Amazon S3 for servers.
Nerd Theology (1999)
haha..good guess though—I am female.