skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a doctor, and he gave me beta blockers, which helped a lot.

Another thing that helped is reading forums like this where many people admit how nervous they are. In speech class, everyone seemed to do relatively well, so I was under the impression that I was the only person in the world that gets nervous during a speech. Just knowing that other people get nervous has helped me handle it better.

You can also take your contacts out or glasses off so you cannot see people clearly, which also helps a little.

I've also noticed that my anxiety attacks usually happen before the speech, not usually during it, and they only last a few minutes. Knowing that they will not last forever has also helped me.
If I'm paying $58,000 to attend an institution (rather, if my family is sacrificing $58,000 for me to attend an institution...or,worse yet, if I am taking out $58,000 worth of student loans per year), I should be able to use a course listing service so that I can tailor my academic experience however I chose. THAT is how we open this debate, not with comments about who the proper copyright holder is or whether or not this constitutes as deep packet inspection.
I'd argue that this can actually be a huge liability. Sometimes (a lot of the time, a majority of the time?) a ship's just gonna sink, and being overinvested in its not sinking can obscure the escape route, so to speak. Hard to imagine a scenario in which being able to shift gears/directions on 'go' isn't preferable to needing a specific thing to work out.
Google and Facebook still do very well in Japan. Yahoo does also, obviously. Russia is no where as near as closed as China is, and many international companies do well there. China is quite unique.

Supposedly, Chinese internet companies should do well in HK/Taiwan, these markets are definitely open to them, but since they don't have to compete with international brands in the mainland, they are not competitive enough to operate very well on the outside. Besides, any service run inside China is taboo outside of China (and Americans think the NSA is bad...).
Apple & Google attacked for game urging operating on girl to make more beautiful
We've been dealing with Linode for well over 3 years now without any issues. Their support is great and their pricing is imho just about right.

We also tried Webbynode in their very early days, I just checked their website now and things seem to have greatly changed for them so that's another option.

I'm not so sure about your pricing requirements though, quite frankly I was a bit surprised when I first checked out DO, having such a low pricing point. So I don't believe you'd find another vps of the same quality with such pricing but you could always check at http://lowendbox.com/

Good luck.
N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
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I laughed out loud when I read "Did you take your pills? Mother knows everything." +1 for zeitgeist, embedded systems seem to be very popular these days, but this is a real product
A bit snarky, but I get your point, absolutely. These problems are solvable today, and I'm working on them. I was mostly pointing out that the price is completely out of my range, as I see this as "something to help".

We both agree that this is unnecessary; but it's at a price point which makes it seem that the creators think it's a necessity. There's a great many more useful things I could buy with £166.
Points for honesty, but unless other HN readers share your own particular political preferences, saying "I want it!" isn't exactly a compelling policy argument. I mean, I want ponies.

If you're right that the 11th Circuit is overworked, then that point actually cuts against your argument: let's put more judges there where they need more help, and not the DC Circuit.
Malaysian wins removal from US 'no fly' list
Not quite - Awesomebox works with your real production code, whereas DesignDrop is only for design files like PNGs, JPEGS and PSDs.
The difficulty possibly stems from starting at 0 and trying to get a growth function to suit over 1-5 years (ideally it's exponential in the early days, but likely logarithmic over a longer period of time). Problem is if you're going to investors, you don't want a chart that shows growth slowing down over time (certainly not in the first 24 months anyway).

Early on you have an idea of what sort of traffic you're able to generate and a likely conversion rate, and therefore estimate a sign up rate using real(ish) numbers. It's only the growth beyond that that you're really guessing at.

You may just want a text box with a gross # of new customers/month based on what you think you can bring in, and then have the slider work on top of that, in effect creating an adjustable polynomial function for growth? Just spitballing here...
From following Mongo on JIRA, I have noticed that Elliott spends time coding, and could venture to say that he is led/allocated work by Dan Pasette (who is the SERVER team leader). A lot of recent Mongo releases have been delayed by over a month, with some features and fixes being delayed to 2.8.

If Elliott wasn't involved in the coding I doubt he would understand the pressure the team deals with, and how realistically would his explanations to say $150 million investors be (not disregarding that Dan and other team leaders would provide details status reports)? Of course this is a grand assumption, but when I read his article last week, I came to agree with it. In my field of work, I see it all the time, over time a lot of managers lose respect from us subordinates. They no longer make accurate project estimates, their staff planning is unrealistic, they lose some of the peronism solving skills that got them there, etc. I don't expect them to go down and do the dirty work, but I acknowledge that sometimes if such was possible in our line of work, they would benefit a lot in keeping in up with us subordinates
Do you have a citation for this? I've had some stretches in my career where I went a long time without doing any significant coding, and have always been able to ramp back up to speed quickly when needed.
Wolf of Wall Street VFX (video)
Possible reasons for paranoia are having multiple avenues to gather similar data? If one avenue is rendered useless (laws, tech, &c), the other avenue will still gather data.

Just a thought.
for those who can't use excel...
The teeth brushing thing is aimed at parents. Children can be very difficult when it comes to encouraging them to brush their teeth, either forgetting or lying, etc.
I think the moral is "practice makes perfect". Nice work!
Different article, but same court opinion!
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Right! I even entered /canada manually but it seems like they just don't measure it. Though humiliation means nothing to the Big Three but it is still fun to watch how horrible our internet providers are.
Thank you for this! It always frustrated me that I couldn't open multiple videos at once in VLC.
I read it as a jovial way of describing a real product.
OK I didn't know Apple had made that a standard -- so I agree with the GP that it's dumb. If I can't easily type a shortcut with one hand, it shouldn't be a standard shortcut.

I'm suggesting the standard paste should behave as expected, not adhere to some literal definition the user doesn't care about. If I copy a passage of text from one document and paste it into another, I generally want it to look like it belongs in the destination document but I don't want to lose obvious intentional styling such as italicization.

The common case should be the easy case. Instead we have the common case and the four-fingered shortcut both doing the wrong thing. Awesome.
After using http://bugherd.com for a while, I find this uncomfortably close. The icon-based side nav, the drag selection, the overall colours and theming. I'm not making any accusations, but I think it needs to be said that it's the first thing I thought of.
Have You Fallen For This Scuzzy Design Trend In Pop-ups?
Chicago Sun-Times to test bitcoin paywall for articles
The gov't should be involved, when those negotiations could potentially form cartels to the detriment of the majority of the population.
I assumed that in most cases when you deal with a hash table you want some data returned. That's perhaps not true in the case of adding to the hash table, but if you don't need the result you can just add it to a queue, and do it in any old thread, since it's clearly not performance sensitive.
Yeah agree. Death-by-a-thousand-change-requests is a more common norm. Every change costs money, they need a price attached, otherwise it's just free candy.
Why Google Invested $3.2 Billion in the Internet of Things
I wholeheartedly agree. I've seen some really good questions buried/closed prematurely because of this overzealous policing.

I'm not really sure what the other options are, though. Quora? Other web communities that are specific to whatever topic you have questions about? It's a shame, because I otherwise really like Stack Exchange's layout and mechanics as a whole (as someone mostly Googling around for existing questions/answers).
That makes sense. The bias which affects the measurements of MEMS based gyroscopes and accelerometers, has a temperature dependent component. Because of this the two sensor is commonly packaged together with temperature sensing elements. Since it's already there on the IMU chip, why not use it?
You can hide the debugging info by redirecting the output streams.

$ qlmanage -p <file> &>/dev/null
I'm not however sure that applies to Rust. And frankly I care a lot less about the pointer operators for smart pointers. Any old accessor is decent, and I find the overloaded pointer operators sometimes confusing. At the very least it's not quite as obvious as it is for math operators.
Ubuntu Touch Images Likely Violate Android Binary Licenses
I can't argue with that. I just checked actual scp speed to and from ec2 and I'm getting slower downloads then uploads right now. At 7PM my time. 6.3mbps up, 4.5mbps down.

speedtest.net shows those exact speeds now as well. That's nice, 80% of bandwidth going away in a few hours :-)
Cute! However, if you really want complete equivalence between locals and struct* parameters, you might prefer something like "struct { int n; } _z, * const z = &_z;". There's a slight difference of types when using your array version, so things like sizeof(z) and &z don't mean the same thing as when used on struct* parameter.
For what it's worth, at my university, UNC Chapel Hill, there are two networks, one of which requires you to install a custom root certificate, and is the network that the university prefers you connect to. For devices on which this is not possible, there is another network which only requires that you register your device's MAC address to your university id for access.

Regardless of which option you choose, you are required to install another program (unless the OUI of your MAC indicates that it is a device other than a computer) which scans your computer for malware and any software which the university does not allow you to have, such as torrenting applications, and will not allow you to connect to the network until after your machine is cleared. This program must be running the entire time you are connected to the network or you will be disconnected.

As a student who works as tech support in the dorms, it certainly is a nightmare!
It's easy to be a product builder as a freelancer. It's hard to be a technology builder as a freelancer.

The chances are good that you won't be handling millions of requests a day on a freelance contract. You won't hit the limits of the standard Rails stack. You generally won't have to do much to scale the product.

That's why I stay put.
As some previous commenters have noted, there is a spectrum here between full-bore rewrite and don't-touch-a-thing. Parts of the code could be factored out, modularized, rewritten in another language, and all that without huge impacts on the existing functionality. Joel Spolsky wrote an article a long time ago about the value of software that has already been written and put through its paces (though I don't agree with /never/ rewriting, it should be done only as last resort):

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

The most important part:

"The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they've been fixed. "

There's value baked into that old code: lessons learned, bugs fixed, workaround put into place. These things can be lost during a rewrite (and sure, there are other times you don't need them in the new version because the original problem has a better solution/doesn't happen in the new language/whatever), and potentially losing/missing should be considered carefully.
Good story from today on founder salaries: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/14/salary-founder-favo...

I made $7k in 2012 while running simplehoney. (me and my cofounder paid ourselves minimum wage so we could keep 3 people on payroll and get a group rate for health insurance)
But having to install the entire mingw toolchain is also clearly not the best for Rust to depend on and use.
I have something like 55GB of free space on Dropbox. I would love to pay for Dropbox but I simply don't use even 50% of that free space so I have no real need to upgrade.
What kind of pricing structure are you looking at?

Also Windows/FF gets an invalid font character for the "v" arrow on the grey tab. Works ok in Chrome/IE

More once inside the app: http://i.imgur.com/WFaLbjw.jpg
Yeah, come on people Dropbox and Square are far from "startups". With hundreds of employees and billion dollar valuations...
It has code on it...
Actually most SSL based browsers will transmit the domain cleartext as part of SSL handshaking. This was added so virtual hosting webservers can all have independent certs on the same IP

See the following link for the specifics ... but needless to say its easy to block SSL access with a transparent proxy or layer 7 firewall. (which based on the error page looks like a Palo Alto device which definitely can do this...)

https://idea.popcount.org/2012-06-16-dissecting-ssl-handshak...
He may wish it was dead, but I can assure you there is probably more PSD to HTML work going on now than ever before.

First of all, it seems the author is not even opposed to the idea of mocking up a design in PSD. He just thinks that responsive design and advances in CSS have altered the process somewhat. OK, point taken, but this doesn't make the overall concept of PSD to HTML obsolete by any stretch of the imagination. The majority of designers will always favor mocking up their intended design in a program like Photoshop, and using that as a starting point for the development process. Responsive design just adds an additional layer of complexity, which may call for additional mockups.

I've heard people advocate prototyping concepts directly with HTML/CSS, but this is ultimately a rather inefficient way to work if you are a detail-oriented designer.

As far as the actual workflow changing and becoming more iterative, it completely depends on the context. Not everyone works at a company like Treehouse that has a team of in house developers and designers. Many website projects - the majority even - are the result of small businesses subcontracting the process out to various companies. It's not always possible for the designer and the developer to be in the same room. So as an ideal - sure, the designer should be involved throughout the process, but this doesn't always match the reality.
Many developers, especially here on HN, think that managers don't understand what developers do.

Perhaps so, but it's even more true that many developers don't understand (or respect) what managers do.
I had almost the same exact result as you. It did take me a little over 30 minutes. I finished with 125 lines.

Duly chastened, I take it back. But if the numbers were changed to 8 problems, and 1 hour, I still don't think that's unreasonable.
I disagree that the same train of logic could be applied to other big tech advances. The pieces of tech you stated are better than the alternative by leaps and bounds. They all reduce the time (and money) it takes to communicate by huge margins.

For medication, I can only speak from personal experience and I could be completely off base. As far as motivation, my active friends don't use/care about fitness apps and my inactive friends can't be bothered to use the bloody things anyway. Obviously this all comes back to personal experience and I would love to be proved wrong (always interesting seeing a product/service you think is crap get huge) but until it takes off I am skeptical of its actual value
> I'm not really sure what the other options are, though. Quora?

There are various AskReddit clones, and various subreddits dedicated to culling the "best of". However, this is pretty hit or miss, and just searching for content is pretty hard.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I do think it's quite a bit different to what we at BugHerd do. BugHerd is designed to run ON your site, rather than your site running IN BugHerd.

We originally went down the awesomebox path, but as soon as we started dealing with server side code it caused issues. We run on your production/staging environment meaning you get your app running in the wild.
Net Neutrality Quashing Will Mean New Pricing, Throttling, and Business Models
Rocking, thanks!
Is it just me or is the top voted answer not an answer?

Q: "Why should cows be colored in blue?"

A: Because document ZOIU-123497 says cows should be colored in blue.
I'd add teaching. Nostromo is right that you calm down quickly after you start speaking, but the problem is most people only have experience of talking for a brief time. 2-5 min talks in front of the class at school is a common experience.

However if you teach a class for an hour or more, that period of nervousness is comparatively short and you quickly learn to be comfortable in front of others.
>Is Google more scary than Nest? You signed up for that data to live on someone's server when you bought a Nest, the only difference now is that it's Google's servers instead of a small startup's.

Uh, yes. A lot scarier. Google is already collecting data on many other aspects of our lives and linking it together. Nest was just collecting data from our thermostats.
Here are couple ideas I've written on the topic: http://baus.net/i-don%27t-like-public-speaking/

I did quite a bit of public speaking in the past couple years and it gets easier over time. I think the best advice is prepare, prepare, prepare.
Standards statistics are erroneous. Bayesian statistics are correct. End of story.

(I know of the debates. For all I care Bayesians have won by an overwhelming margin. The only advantage of Frequentist statistics is their relative ease of use. But in the search for truth, you just can't escape Probability Theory. Period. My method wouldn't be accepted in a paper? Then fuck the papers. I'm not trying to get published, I'm trying to get to the truth.)

I don't have the proof nailed down, but based on the examples I can come up with, I'm extremely confident that as long as you use probability theory correctly, small sample sizes do increase the chance of false positives. On the other hand, those false positives will be weaker than the exceptional false positive you might get from larger sample sizes. (Imagine I throw the dice 30 times, and I get zero 6 and 10 ones? It's very rare, but it would make me all the more confident the die is loaded.) If you use that crappy outdated Frequentist junk, however, all bets are off.

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Note however that in a sense, you are correct: by conservation of expected evidence, the weighted average of evidence you expect is exactly zero: if it were not, you would already have changed your belief at the point of equilibrium. Which means that if you expect lots of weak evidence in one direction, you also expect a little, and very strong, evidence on the other side.

I'm not sure this is what you where getting at, though.

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When we do null-hypothesis testing, we do assume a prior: using smaller p-values means we're more skeptics towards the competing hypothesis —we have a stronger prior belief for their fallacy. But we don't speak the word "prior", so we can pat ourselves on the back for our "objectivity", and scold the Bayesian for his "subjectivity". Priors, what arrogance. Who is he to believe so and so in the first place? We do science, not faith.

Only we're blind to our own priors.
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Tried to install, got an error, looked at the stack trace and saw this:

at module.exports (C:\[snip]\npm\node_modules\awesomebox\node_modules\awesomebox-core\__trojan__\horse.js:15:10)

What. The. Fuck.

Could not possibly uninstall fast enough. Running antivirus ASAP
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"Closed as not a constructive question." 32,000 views and 293 upvotes

I see it time and time again in SE sites.
There's a very interesting TED talk related to this, by Amy Cuddy (title: Your body language shapes who you are) - http://on.ted.com/Cuddy

Basically you can manipulate yourself into being calm by taking on a relaxed and confident body language. Sitting up, stretching out, taking in a lot of space, ..

I tried this several times and it does help, of course it doesn't make your stress vanish entirely.
Ask HN: Technical support / customer relationships in startups
Hi fellow HNers

I've been doing technical support for a big player in the industry and while the name on the resume is really neat, the mood doesn't fit me much.

I've been lurking the European market for this kind of position, it seems like it pops up really rarely, whereas the superstar growth hacker / software engineers positions are overwhelming the market.

I totally get the reason behind but it left me wondering whether this kind of job do exist for small structures.

I've got an associate degree in Webdev/Communication and I've played played a bit on both backend and frontend - understand I'm no rockstar and I'm kinda concerned about how the future is shaping for my career.

I'm still young (>25), bilingual and I learn fast so I'm hopefully able to get back in the game before I'm deemed too old by the market, but I've got to admit that while I did not really choose this path, I've grown to like it.

Whether it's being in-between devs, PM and sales, solving these (usually) short issues, providing consulting and being the feedback point of contact, managing the knowledge and sharing it.

Is there hope for my kind of profile in the startup env (I'm definitively done with huge corps) or should I try and go back at pure webdev (aiming mostly Europe but any feedback is appreciated) ?

Longer than expected but hey it's not twitter, might as well use the real estate.
Oh and I'm talking _technical_ support, there's no joy in pure customer support (lack any kind of intellectual challenge).

Thanks.
Oh wow I didn't know Mississippi was a city in Montana.
This sounds like a non-issue to me. Any person on this site could create little USB devices for stealing data. It's nothing special or new. I thought I was going to hear that they're light years beyond Tempest[1] or something. Feels good to finally hear an NSA story that doesn't depress me.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
Semi-unrelated but, plenty of corporations see these fallacies as the best (and sometimes only) tools. In large markets money, political connections, and entrenched position are king.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism for details on political abuses, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry for examples of these fallacies.

There's no such thing as open market as long as there is also government and regulation (not that government or regulation are bad or anything).

But you're right, they're not the only tools. They're just (unfortunately) the strongest ones for those than can wield them.