skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to sound a little crazy, but you need to take a break. Give yourself a one week vacation, and go do something fulfilling that doesn't involve working on this app.

What do you like to do? It doesn't have to cost money, per se. Go visit some friends for a week, or go on a hike, or just go do something around town you've been wanting to do but haven't. However, try to have it involve other people, and not just be by yourself.

Right now, you're working" every day, but getting nothing done. There is probably a lot of fear that your app won't work, that no one will use it, that you are wasting your time and will have nothing to show for it at the end. Of course, there is the possibility that I am just projecting on you, as I have had all of these feelings and displayed some of the same behaviors, but I guess that is for you to decide.

The purpose of the break is to get some perspective. Life is not all about this app. Even if it goes down in flames, it's really not a big deal. You're smart and you'll find something else you want to do and do that. The self doubt and fear of failure is what keeps you going to the office every day, but getting nothing done.

By taking a break and clearing your mind, you can reassess where you're at with fresh eyes, tackle the big problems keeping you from moving forward, and create a solid plan of action to move forward.

That's just my two cents, having had similar issues...
The essence of the story is that liberals cannot wait for the progressive change in culture. Modern liberals do not believe progressivism, they believe extremism, revolutionarism. They want to destroy bad tradition as soon as possible. They just cannot wait. They hate people who are different from them (read: stupid).

BTW. I am a science person. I think creationism is trash, but I am OK with other people to believe creationism or whatever. I know there are billions year ahead of human evolution and cultural evolution. I don't expect to see all these changes in one night. I don't believe use government to impose cultural change to its citizens is a right thing to do!

As for the "public" school thing. That's simply because people do not have a choice. The dominance of public school in pre-college education destroyed the education market and made private schools hard to exist. That's why many religious people want to change the so called "public" schools, which is the only place they can send their children to. I do not blame them. This is just a minor collateral damage of the centralized education system. There are many much worth things in public education.

Public money? Come on, that's also their money. Where do you think those money come from?
Curious to see what new companies have come through the summer batch and how the current ones are doing. Thoughts?
Create an engaging blog for your product
Creating peer-to-peer mesh networks with browsers using WebRTC
that's at least some relief, sad that it still has to be litigated to show it's enforceable
Hi! I work on the documentation for Balanced. I'd love to hear your feedback. What do you not like? What would you like to see us improve? What do you like about Stripe's docs? I'm currently working on updated documentation and welcome any feedback you have. https://docs.balancedpayments.com/1.1/overview/
i used to have commit but was kicked out (along with a bunch of other people over the years). i even wrote a book on openbsd. what i see from afar is that obsd alienated a lot of people with theo's behavior, theo's gone and surrounded himself with sycophants, and the rest of the world caught up to them (largely) in features. as a result the userbase has shrunk - why put up with tirades if you have a secure platform elsewhere - and the features have remained stale.

theo was a visionary, and together with some other really brilliant folks (not counting myself as one of them) accomplished what people said no one could. since then he's been fine tuning that vision but has more or less kept it at around 2003. the world has changed, theo - and as a result the project - hasn't. so, the world caught up and users moved on.
I daresay any of their developers would quickly turn into dicks having to deal with that kind of public exposure.
Don't feel bad for not coding. The truth is, this industry can make people feel really bad for not coding constantly. The mantras of "Get Sh*t Done", "Great Artists Ship", "Always Be Coding", "Hack your life", "If you're not coding your competition is" and many other lousy, empty and ultimately meaningless statements just serve to make anyone who's not constantly coding feel like something is wrong with them.

Chances are you're like most people and have a wide variety of interests and hobbies, and so trying to keep up the pretense that you just care about your startup or current project can be emotionally exhausting. It's basically lying to yourself.

I don't really have a concrete answer for you in how to break this funk. Funks can happen. The advice all people here have given you is spot on, I will just add that all that advice should be tried and discarded if not useful, it's what worked for them, might not work for you. I personally also suggest include avoiding online content and getting outside. I also suggest you figure out some way to learn to make peace with tedious work, it happens in almost all client work.

Good luck friend!
What would this do for you that a current CGM wouldn't?
I think you really should really reexamine the situation that occurred if you think the person "went of of his way to stop an open source contribution that he personally didn't agree with." That is not what happened.

Either you don't understand what happened or you are intentionally spreading FUD.

Ben rejected the pull request because there was no CLA from the contributor. It was a one line change, but it didn't adhere to the process established by the node core. (He's also English as a second language and didn't see how this could be offensive). Another contributor, Isaac, entered the fray and accepted the pull request (it's not clear if there was a signed CLA at this point), subverting the authority of the other core contributor. At this point it becomes a question of authority between two core contributors one working for Joyent and one for Strongloop. It seems there was already something negative between the developers and the companies before this occurred. Out of anger of his authority being subverted Ben reverted the pull request again. Isaac didn't communicate with Ben, and Ben was angry. Both handled it poorly, but Ben comes out looking poorly because the internet hate mob doesn't think before acting.
I believe Ernest Hemingway invented this technique (or the writing equivalent, on which this is based).
One of the big values is currying. Instance methods don't always interact well with partial application and design patterns that rely on it, because with instance methods one of the function's (logical) operands is a special snowflake that isn't curried.
Not so. Here, a quote from the beggining of the wikipedia article:

> the value of a commodity is only related to the labor

The problem is that "only" word. Saying that labor is essential to create value is different from saying that labor is the only component of value.

And to take it further, the article claims neither of those, it only says that if you want to turn labor into value, you must apply the labor in some activity that creates value. Yep, quite tautological once you remove all the interesting parts.
I made an operating system. There is nothing I can do more to it.

I can't even get my own machine to boot.

If the CIA is clusterfucking, well obviously you don't continue... unless you get God to kill the CIA.

I got inspiration to do a couple things since DEC15.

God says...
it mentioned toys lesser chain world preference blade footsteps
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> The "we/you can just fork it" argument really doesn't work out.

Worked pretty well for MySQL.
> I had to check the article

I hope you used ad block. Otherwise you're basically paying them.

> "Software Americans"

That's just silly. We're Wetware Americans. Software Americans would be AI!
"Was UTF-8 even around when Microsoft decided on 16-bit widechar?"

No, Thompson's placemat is from September 1992 and NT 3.1 from July 1993, but development on NT started in November 1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Development)
As a fellow type 1 diabetic, I'm thrilled with any new projects - especially a project like this which would benefit not only type 1, and is not only targeted for type 2.

> how soon this could possibly be available?

I've been following various type 1 research for as long as I can remember (runs in the family, myself etc.), and I remember a similar enthusiasm back when glucose watches were first in production. I recall it taking years before they had an actual product (this was before the Panic Room featured watch, which wasn't a glucose measurement, but anyway.. to give you a time reference), and sadly, even when they were available from more than one manufacturer, they were still not widely available to patients (i.e. wanting to get one).

None the less, I will be following this eagerly.

On a personal note, awolf: how do you like your current monitoring system (apart from the mentioned downsides)? I've considered needle monitoring many times, but never gone for it (for idle office work I wouldn't mind, but I see it as a hinder in my personal life re: flexibility)

PS: Accuracy is not even a factor until the technology is further along, and that was one of the main issues with the watches back in the day: measuring glucose levels through human skin was not accurate or reliable enough. So I'd add years of testing at least, and maybe tweaking aswel (as the watch project did).
(Balanced employee)

Hi there! Yes, have you looked @ MangoPay? We have a great relationship with them.
Plastic spoon as a condiment? Prison food must be even worse than I thought.
Actually, i had this some times. I always got far into creating an application and then i just stopped. It didn't interest me no more.. Nadda..

Now, some guy of a sport club wanted a member application and i created one (it's still in beta though and in dutch (membershipmanagement.azurewebsites.net Demo:12345678). I have never gotten this far in 2 month (added payments, user management, rough frontend and positive feedback (= it's finished for him))...

The advice is simple, take a vacation for 3-4 days. And as suggested in other comments, just do your tasks. It's really that simple. According to what you've said, you're only going to get more in trouble if you put everything on halt.. You could find a fellow dev for some clients if you have a writers block and don't add more tasks at the moment. You're going to get some anxiety for not being able to finish...

PS. I have a full time job, so i'm not rushing stuff.
Do you have a close friend you can talk to during the day or maybe just sit next to while you try to work? Does not have to be technical at all. That might help.

Are you in the bay area? Feel free to reach out if you have nobody else to turn to.
Agreed. I've been using Rdio for maybe two years now, and there's just something about the experience that's hard to explain, but feels a lot better than Spotify to me. Initially, their big selling point for me was just the fact that they had a web app at a time when Spotify didn't, but now that they both work in the browser, I still think Rdio is a way better experience.

That said, the way that search works on their iOS app does tend to frustrate me. Search for an artist, play one of their songs, go back to search, and your query plus all the results are gone. I kinda just wish that they'd keep them there for me, since I usually wanna find another song by the same artist after that. Maybe that's not actually a common use case though.
William Gibson's zaibatsu come to mind. When they stop people getting off the bus rather than on it will be complete.
I love textsecure. My problems is twofold: I don't know in advance who is using it from my contacts, and I know for sure none of my non geek relations is using it, not even for business stuff, which could make sense. And so as much as I like it (thanks!!!) I am not convinced this is the solution. Am I wrong ?
Google[x] Unveils Smart Contact Lens to Measure Glucose Levels
Javascript functions in 140 bytes or less
Possibly http://www.mangopay.com/ although I haven't used them.
Bring ebooks to these and it will be revolutionary. Prison libraries range from limited to non-existent.

The cost of ebooks is beyond ridiculous but one would hope that the content providers might be able to see digital contribution to the incarcerated as an investment in future readers (especially since we incarcerate such a mind boggling proportion of our population.)
Good for Google for doing this. I like this a lot better than making concessions to the thugs that threaten Google employees or Google's property.
I can relate a bit too much.

You probably won't meet anyone more ambitious than me. Yet, I'm paralyzed. I can't do anything. I have the skills, I have the passion, but I just can't do anything. I'm not sure why.

I've been at it for 1.5 year. I overcomed all my excuses (you need a new computer, you need a better chair, you need a better framework, you need a cofounder), and yet, nothing worked out.

I finally decided to get a job, which I hope will help me gain good working habits and hopefully give me back some of the confidence I lost in that 1.5 year of being useless.

I'm not sure how I can help you (maybe we share the same "niche"/interest, I too can't find many people excited by it), but I wish you luck.
But the harms of non-neutrality are not imagined, so how many years should people tolerate Comcast until asymmetric competition arrives?
Wow, that is actually disgusting. How far up their own asses are Joyent?
Not to mention that there are multiple, significantly different labor theory of values...
Great seeing others thinking of these opportunities. I put up what I'm working on today as well: https://gist.github.com/kordless/8461482
Can you expand on some context for this?
Another Look at the Target Malware - KrebsOnSecurity
For those interested in more of these programming related koans: http://thecodelesscode.com/
I assume you mean natural numbers, for which the symbol is ℕ.
At least in Marx's formulation of the labor theory of value, the TED talk doesn't poke any holes. Exchange value is obviously influenced by a wide variety of things, especially marketing.
We're already half way there: http://kripken.github.io/clangor/demo.html (Clang compiled by Emscripten).
Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF
I'm sure Google would be able to figure out how to monetize OpenSSH.
KillYourPhone – A DIY phone signal blocking pouch
Pixi.js has already been doing WebGL with Canvas2D fallback for the last year. A performance comparison would be telling.

Having just converted a normal canvas/dom app to Pixi, I agree that mobile web UI is definitely headed in this direction. The Pixi/WebGL "just worked" on practically every platform and is extremely performant.
VOGL OpenGL Tracer/Debugger - Bonus Content
I'm just speculating, but the physical presence of the device itself has been a dealbreaker for me, and I've heard of similar issues from a couple of athletes (with diabetes).
"Tenants give their address and rent amount per month in exchange for access to everyone else's data"

This is a tricky game-theory scenario. It may work if all the tenants find the value in it. It may also implode for tenants or the land-owner.

"Why is there no data on what your neighbor just signed his lease for?"

If the info isn't public, most people that value privacy will not want to share this.

I'm not too sure about the other ideas, but maybe you need to think of something simpler, that helps address a problem that all people like you face.

Maybe the best idea in this case would be the simplest.
In this case, there was no one to fight on behalf of the Silk Road or its funds because Ross Ulbricht says he isn't Dread Pirate Roberts and doesn't represent the site (though he is fighting to keep the 144,000 BTC found on his computer -- those haven't been forfeited yet).

The real losers here are the Silk Road users who just forfeited whatever they had sitting in the site's coffers. Even if someone made the unwise decision to come forward and say, 'I used the site legally and that's my money,' the feds could still say it was a site devoted mainly to illegal activity and so that argument is moot.
I think there is a little bit of "black and white" fallacy happening here. There isn't an "either/or" when it comes to an idea and executing. An idea without execution is nothing, but executing without an idea is also nothing. Successful people have an idea, and they execute.
THANK YOU! Even the wikipedia page didn't have one.
Go easy on us for a bit; this is a fresh deploy in a new environment and it's bound to be janky. The odds of it not completely asploding tonight are pretty low.

Happy to answer questions.

One obvious question we haven't answered: how long will it be up for? Answer: a'unno. Until it gets boring? Or super expensive? We're in no rush to shut it down. I've never understood why awesome CTF events are so eager to shut down.

Here's what it looks like:

http://twitter.com/tqbf/status/423992147155509248/photo/1

We're on Freenode #uctf if you want to bug us live.

In case you're interested: this is a very small Rails app talking to an emulator we wrote in Golang that exports an HTTP/JSON interface.
I still don't understand something. If they are intercepting text messages globally, how do they do that if two people are texting each other in within the borders of their own country using their national carrier? Their texts never leave the country. Has the NSA somehow compromised or coerced various carriers around the world to provide them with this data?
> Sure enough, Microsoft arguably did become complacent, and that resulted in the well-documented shift in power from Microsoft to Apple and Google. Anyone seen an antitrust discussion centered on Microsoft recently?

Microsoft was under DOJ scrutiny[1] up until 2007, and that's the timeframe when their competitors grew surprisingly strong. Coincidence?

[1] http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f201200/201205a.htm
Hatchkies.
Apps Have to be iOS 7 Compatible by February 1st
There's an enormous difference. And it's a good thing F#'s designers chose the latter option; it's a huge win on the interoperability front. Libraries have a tendency to be write-once-use-often, so exporting object-oriented APIs from F# code is way better than consuming functional APIs from C# code.
Source 2 Engine to prioritize OpenGL and Linux. DirectX is out
The 'pyramid of doom' is one of my pain points with node right now. The article's solution is to push the anonymous functions out into separate named functions, but this just adds more code. Would have been awesome to use promises instead.
Google Research releases a visualization of artists and genres over the decades
One wonders if they'll close the loop on this particular piece of history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_Government_Services#O...
Regarding the next-generation MP3 player and sales kiosks mentioned: finally, a population where DRM works!

(The linked product page is actually quite interesting:

http://jpay.com/pmusic.aspx

It's a mini-tablet for $50, which also uploads emails when attached to the commissary kiosk.)
This has very little to do with MSFT research. Microsoft collaborated with Parviz's research at University of Washington. He wasn't a MSFT engineer. He was a Professor at UW before he left for Google. His affiliation with Microsoft, and Microsoft's contribution, seems minimal.
In my high school, the preferred term was faggot.

Homophobia is passe now, but I hope the word "nerd" will serve people who want to stir up hate against us just as well.
This is incredible. Instead of condemning the perpetrators who attacked and vandalism the bus and disrupted the commuters the spin in that article is that it's Google's fault for being successful?! also since when is protecting your employees form street thugs is a "perk"?

Why no one is asking whether the perpetrators were caught by the police?
Credibles: crowdfunding for local food businesses
Wikimedia considers supporting H.264 to boost accessibility, content
You've sparked my curiosity: what's wrong with C++11's regex?

I've used them over the summer but nothing felt broken beyond the general C++ verbosity. Granted most of my prior regex work was in Perl.
Only Free in the US. I find it super annoying when companies don't realize that the internet IS global.
Type I diabetic here. Assuming current tech stays where it is (not saying it will), this could easily tack 10 years on to my lifespan. For many who watch their diabetes less closely (something I cannot fault anyone for), this could add 20-30 years.

For anyone who does not know, type I diabetes is not something you can just follow a doctor's direction on and be ok. Even if you follow your doctor perfectly, there can still be serious complications, and type I diabetics with the best control are actually more likely to die from severe low blood sugars.

The reason for this is that the optimum blood glucose level is around 100. <70 and you start to be severely mentally impaired, making it difficult at times to seek treatment (finding and eating sugar, in a nutshell). On the flip side, if you are lax on insulin, your blood sugar might hover around 250 for months, and you will feel close to normal. Having a blood glucose this high on a long term basis will have long term effects that are what kill most diabetics in the long run. A low blood sugar, however, can be fatal within minutes to hours.

Either way, a continuous feedback mechanism would help tight control diabetics, and diabetics who do the minimum. Tight controllers could get faster feedback about when they are going into the serious danger zone without having to initiate any action (checking blood sugar), and lax diabetics would get a constant reminder of how they are letting there life slip away (which they normally would rarely see, since they hardly ever check their blood sugar anyway).

I have to say though, I am still a bit skeptical for a few reasons:

- One, I have been told about this sort of miracle technology ever since I was diagnosed 15 years ago.

- Two, the medical complex locks down their tech and extracts the maximum value out. There is not a single glucose device on the market that lets you extract the data out of your glucose monitor and crunch the data how you want. I have worked on hacking these devices to extract data and the legal verbiage around these activities has strongly discouraged me from releasing anything. Previous continuous glucose monitoring systems. These companies would prefer you rot in the dark, than to lose one bit of profit.

- Three, if one of these devices is not 100% perfect, it gets shot down and banned from the market. This is probably a combination of profit-motivated industry and caution-motivated government. A great example of this is a continuous glucose monitoring, non-invasive watch that came out ~ a decade ago. It was on the market for several years, before being banned. I, like just about every person in the thread I linked, would pay $10k+ for one of these, despite the reduced accuracy over traditional devices. Entrepreneurs in the health industry take note.

[1] [http://www.diabetesdaily.com/forum/testing-blood-sugar/61908...]