skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take an amphetamine pro-drug (Vyvanse) and I'm incredibly reluctant to recommend it any time someone expresses trouble with motivation/focus.

But it did change my life at that critical I-don't-know-how-I'll-make-it-through-university moment. Especially when everyone around me offered stellar advice like "try harder" and "don't buy in to the Big Pharma ADD/ADHD-conspiracy".

It turns out that I'm also reluctant to just offer "exercise more!" or "work on yourself -- it's your behavior!". It's frustrating and anxiety-inducing enough to struggle with motivation. If the only solution is to put pressure on such people by suggesting it's all in their head, then what do we do if that pressure doesn't actually fix anything? Do we count down to the catastrophe so that we can chime in one last time with "See? Look what you did."?

Exercising and taking a sabbatical are good advice, but sabbaticals are out of the question for most people (especially a kid in highschool), and exercise is only that -- good advice.

At some point we have to admit that the results of no-improvement will out-trouble our concerns/stigma over last resorts like medication.
I've seen http://audiobox.fm if you meed more than just Google Music as a storage.
WhatsApp With That?
I'm testing it right now and it looks pretty nice.
Disagree. They can't even keep the lock screen secure. Any major or point release there's been a bypass exploit.
There is a patch available for iOS 6 as well.
If you don't come up with those five names, seems like it might be time to focus on an idea that solves a problem you or someone you are close with is passionate about. Such a huge advantage to be working on something that inspires you, and makes coming up with other people sharing the same pain an easy task.
A 3-step process for naming a project/product. (And some resources)
It's not often that I come to laugh out loud while reading (the usually somewhat stuffy) comments on HN.

+1 coffee sputter.
Presumably because the vulnerability is already known outside of Apple, and it's better not to hold back the iOS patch while they get the OSX patch done.
I wonder if they already allow binding commands and window manager functions to super key? They didn't and that kind of put me off Unity right from the start.

Good keyboard controls are a must for any desktop environment and the super key is perfect for activating those while leaving all three of control, alt, and shift for applications (such as Emacs).
Are we talking seasoned engineers or interns? Heh.
Thank you so much for this! It's just a Safari wrapper, but it's the first native solution I've seen. Google is really horsing around with Google Music, it's sad that I pay them the same amount I would (and did) Rdio and Spotify and get treated with shitty Flash web players and no native apps.

edit: 15 minutes in – it's not extremely polished but I really love it! Finally, no more annoying music.google.com Chrome tab.
Yes, I did it this morning. Look for the update from your phone, so it's a smaller download anyway. It takes more room than they ask for, maybe 750 meg. I just temporarily deleted some podcasts to make room.
In the United States, most scientific research is funded through government grants from agencies like the Department of Energy, Defense Department, or the National Science Foundation. Comparatively little research is actually funded from the endowments/operating budget of the universities themselves.
Go and visit your local big council estate. Poor futureless unfortunates should give you some mojo. Or even just watch Benefits Street
> Are there any ways by which I could motivate myself to study more?

Probably not, if you're asking the question. But I don't think you should study more. I think you should program more, since it's already something you enjoy enough to do for fun. It's a question of playing to your strengths.

Put in the 10,000 hours of sustained effort that it takes to truly become great at it. Prove your abilities through open source.

You will have no problem finding an interesting and well-paying career, if you push yourself hard to always keep learning both about programming and about the business of software.

If that sounds like a lot of hard work, well yeah, it is. There's no shortcut. Either suck it up and do your homework and color inside the lines, or summon the guts to blaze your own path. Or do neither and let the path of least resistance take you where it wants.

Which path are you more likely to regret 40 years from now?
Using the program Little Snitch on OS X 10.8 now to block everything except Firefox (recommended by u/ef4 here)- successfully helped Safari pass this browser test.

Can anyone else comment on if this is a decent solution?
For HTTPS clients that don't execute Javascript (e.g. curl), GET https://gotofail.com:1266/
One thing that stuck me about Google Music is its lack of built-in support for last.fm. Was kind of hoping this had it.
If any of them are looking for a fulltime gig writing AngularJS please send them my way. :)

Shameless plug:
http://careers.kickbacksystems.com/
Great work. It looks really slick, and from the comments so far it appears many people are excited to have a native app. That said, I'd be interested to here why exactly people want a native app. The web app already has notifications and has suited me just fine, so I'd be interested to hear what others find useful about a native app.
>"Legacy" admission to a top tier school is probably not doing anyone any good

Well it presumably helps the donor and his family.

Not problematic IMO: You're paying for services rendered. Don't see anything wrong with that...
make -k "[a 5432 character string containing only A]"

From make man page

-k, --keep-going
Continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the other dependencies of these targets can be processed all the same.
I could see a pump being included in each module. In a modular design such as this the flow rate through each waterblock would need to be guaranteed with many different possible restrictions.

Additionally, if the pumps were run serially, it could add some redundancy to the cooling loop (especially benefitial since each unit's pump might not have the same MTBF)
> no native apps.

To be fair, no native desktop apps. Their android App is great - by my experience much better than Spotify's. And while I do prefer a desktop app to a browser app, their browser app is more feature complete than Spotify's desktop App.
If I remember correctly from earlier discussions about this script, these numbers were written much later by some other owners to keep track of the ordering.
What do you seek? Minimizing pain, maximizing pleasure. That's what we all are programmed to seek. You find that and associate it with the studies.

E.g.s

Maximizing pleasure:

+ Do you want to work in another country/place. Your studies can get you there.

+ Want to have interesting conversation with people. Study.

+ Want to understand and have a say about a topic. Study.

Minimizing Pain:

- Don't set yourself for failure few years down the line or make it tough

- Avoid getting into a meaningless job

- (Works for Asians) Think of peers getting ahead of you.
People are still paying for great games without IAP, probably in greater numbers now than at any point in history.
Psg-based two player musical instrument for sega
Some things that help me:

Visualize goal: close your eyes, imagine your acceptance letters
When stuck, go for a little walk or physical exercise
Do goal-oriented studying (e.g. Pomodoro technique)

Understand the education system wants you to comply, this is wrong, but the faster you get over it the faster you'll forget about it. It's better to keep your mouth shut, don't complain or antagonize, they are not going to change for you or anybody (they haven't in centuries). Give them the little self importance they crave for and get from them what you want (grades, diploma). Of course, keep your mind critical but keep it to yourself until they give you what you want.

Also don't overwork yourself, perhaps this is not the best time to spend many hours doing unrelated programming or research. It can be a distraction to your education goal. We have limited willpower, try to avoid depletion. Only when you achieve your studying goals for the day you get to do your own thing. Study in the mornings, play in the afternoons.

Modifying your routine takes a while, do it in baby steps. Remove all temptations that might get in the way to your goals until you achieve them. But keep a good chunk of the day to clean up your head.

Of course, YMMV.
Safari on iOS dotes not support WebGL, so I guess none of the games would work for you.
Care to present any credible information to back your claim on Russia arming "Ukrainian Front"?
Media keys are actually really nice to have. I use Rdio's desktop app which has similar functionality and it is really handy not to have to sort through browser windows to find controls.
Microsoft is on an anti-Chromebook crusade at the moment but an MS-branded Chromebook clone wouldn't shock me. And that would not be the Surface. I'm thinking something with a proper Internet based OS. Some new variant of Windows that plays well with their online services like Outlook.com and Office 360. And something that can sit comfortably on your lap without becoming a balancing act.
Microsoft seems to be shooting in all directions so, why not?
I am surprised nobody has mentioned multi-monitor setups. This is where you really experience how bad the concept of a single unified menu bar for EVERYTHING that is running on the machine can be. Connect four 1920 x 1200 (or larger) monitors to your machine and you'll be cursing in no time at all. Even a simpler dual screen setup suffers from this concept. I don't care if it is under osx Or Ubuntu/Unity, this UI is inferior to one where the application and the relevant menu exist in a self contained window.

Now, that does not mean that an application cannot spawn multiple windows at all. For example, Altium Designer --a high-end electronics circuit design package-- can make use of one or more monitors quite effectively. You can, for example, have the schematic editor running in a window on one monitor while you design the PCB on the second and the documentation is open on the third. Each window houses the relevant menus and toolbars. This would be an absolute nightmare on OSX or Ubuntu style single menu systems.

It doesn't end there. If I am working on a web project i might have my IDE open front and center while supporting tools are open on the other monitors. I usually run several virtual machines on the monitor immediately to the left. Each machine runs a different browser for testing purposes. I found this to be far easier than other options and I can keep those virtual machines and browsers clean of extraneous stuff that might otherwise modify behavior. I then keep a terminal window or two logged into whatever remote server I might be working on. This can also be on a separate monitor if needed. I usually keep the terminal on the left with the VM's. On my right monitor I usually run Chrome and Firefox for reference (PDF's, manuals, SO, etc.) and technical debugging purposes. If needed other tools such as email and the too-important music player go on the right as well. If I need photoshop, excel or some other tool it usually goes in the center monitor. I tend to keep several open file browsers on the fourth monitor (although Only one of my systems has four large monitors).

Again, dedicated and context-appropriate menus make it easy to deal with such a setup without having to mouse all over the universe of available pixels. If I had to do this on OSX or Ubuntu I'd probably throw the computer out the window. In fact our Mac systems all have dual monitors but I still use the Windows systems for almost anything other than iOS development because OSX continues to evolve into a royal pain in the ass. I can run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server in a virtual machine on the PC with a shared drive and have the best of all worlds. BTW, running Vista and 7.
Which OS? Does WebGL work fine for you?
The code in question is open source.
MIT doesn't do legacy admissions: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-don...
What's up with the submission title?

There's no information in this post, the website doesn't refer to itself as an 'online game console', the website doesn't have much info either.

It just looks like a regular flash game website like newgrounds, miniclip, kongregate, except that it's using webgl instead of flash. What exactly makes it an 'online game console'? Why is this notable?
At least that was public and fixed. I think the point is that keys could be completely deterministic on closed source systems and there is no way to know. It's very easy to have deterministic "random" sources that pass statistical tests for randomness.
ChromeOS is by far the safest thing out of the box, IMO.
#thegridcometh
Duke University freshman-porn-star
Ah, I see -- I haven't heard of E2 before
The kind of abusive comments you've been leaving on this thread are not really welcome on HN. Please stop.
The assumption is that heating with gas/wood/coal whatever is cheaper than heating with electricity - is the profit made from mining including that - your point stands though.
> "slow down and pay attention"

Why do people assume these are always the same thing?

If you read a book at 1/10 your normal speed, I imagine your reading comprehension would drop significantly. It's harder to focus on something when you're constantly distracted by its inappropriate speed, and it's harder to get value out of it when you can't process it in a normal way because you're constantly waiting for the next step.
Ugh, is this going to look like Big Tobacco in 50 years?

Vice taxes and revenue streams to be kept alive for the district?

That's going to be such a kick-in-the-backside for everyone who just wanted to decriminalize it & stop putting people away for years.
Viewing that required moving my browser window to my 2560x1600 monitor and maximizing it. How utterly stupid. I'm coming to hate HTML5. Apparently rescaling is beyond it's capabilities or beyond those of the designer.
The iOS one is, too, a poor web wrapper yucks. For instance, you can't listen to your offline albums without Internet, because each time the app starts it "loads the library", which is utterly frustrating and redundant.
It was 30% off, I saved a fortune!
Endeavor to make these things a habit. Every day or 5 days a week etc.

Write down some realistic things you want to do today that you might avoid. Do this as early in the day as possible.

Before you make a decision which will avoid doing one of those things you wrote down, stop, think about it for 60+ seconds. Usually these decisions are done just like instincts without thinking: "hit next episode on netflix", "read this HN link", etc.

In that 60+ seconds, suggestions:

1. Decide to start on the thing you'd rather avoid for just 5 minutes, then you can quit if you want.

2. Imagine your future self looking back on your decisions.

3. Remember how this thing ties into long term goals.

4. Plan a reward for yourself if you do the thing.

5. When negative thoughts or feelings happen, accept them, don't believe them or give them any more power, see them from the outside.
The weakness of the advice isn't that it might not be helpful and mind-expanding. It falls short in that most sixteen-year-olds probably don't really have the option to do it:

1) The plan takes more than a trivial amount of money. Most sixteen-year-olds cannot afford this sort of plan.

2) Many parents, if not most parents, are unlikely to support this idea. There's of course a spectrum of what parents might do to stop it if they're not supportive, but it's easier to just save up money and wait until you're done with school.

3) It can only be done in the summer without causing a lot of problems, and perhaps not even then.

It's a potentially helpful suggestion for someone who's over eighteen, but for many sixteen-year-olds it's probably a pipe dream or something that may bring more problems than benefits. The suggestion assumes a certain type of parents and a certain level of privilege that I would estimate are the exception and not the norm. I would have been extremely frustrated if someone gave me advice that presented this as a serious option when I was sixteen.

Advice that makes these sort of assumptions may end up decreasing motivation. I think more universal advice that addresses the actual question is a lot more helpful.
You can't close all the annoying popup messages in the top left corner (like the finish making account). That's really annoying, especially while trying to play a game. The ones I could close didn't seem to expire on their own.
Usability depends on who is using it. I refuse to use LibreOffice because it is so bad, but I would sooner recommend LibreOffice to my father than LaTeX or Markdown.
Mediation fails to bridge Apple and Samsung's patent divide
"S.V. Lavrov expressed the most serious concern over the inability of those who signed the agreement in Kyiv on 21 February to agree. Not only did the opposition fail to honor any of its commitments, it is also putting forward new demands, taking its cue from the armed extremists and rioters whose actions pose a direct threat to Ukraine’s sovereignty and constitutional order."

I can't add more than that. The opposition signed an agreement only to break it the next morning. How could anyone trust the new leaders of the country if this is how they ascend to power?
I'm going to say something that's a little tough but it's meant as advice coming from years of mistakes before I finally got my head on the right way: Part of growing up is learning to prioritize what you need to do, even if it isn't fun, over what you like to do. This is how the real world works, and it's what you'll spend the rest of your life doing. Learning to do it when you're young, when mistakes are smaller, will make the rest of your life so much better.

When you get your needs out of the way, the fun stuff you can do is all the better, and you'll know more about the fun stuff that you're doing enabling you to open more worlds of enjoyment later that you'll never be able to conceive of without putting in the hard work to start. Doors will be open to you that you'll never even imagine if you put in the work to build the foundation of your life right now. Digging the metaphorical ditches and laying the metaphorical concrete for your foundation sucks, but that's how life is. Lots of sucky boring shitty work, for a few profound moments of bliss.

I know this sounds just like words right now, but I wish this was a concept that I had truly grokked much earlier in my life before I had to spend years fixing all the bits and pieces I needed to do that I had deferred.

Nobody gets to do the fun stuff for long, without working out all the dreadfully boring bits a head of time.

Want to be an explorer? Spend months raising money and building schedules and looking at maps and buying equipment.

Want to be a rock star? Spend years learning to play an instrument, playing in dive bars and making demo tapes. Get a break then play the same 4 hit songs for 20 years.

Want to write awesome code and run an awesome business? Spend years learning computational theory, business management and leadership, raising funds, and last but not least, writing thousands of lines of boring boiler plate, edge case handling and plumbing code.

Want to be an author? Spend a few years writing a couple hundred pages on your topic then get rejected by 99 out of 100 publishers. Then do an endless book tour where you read the same passage from your book 300 times.

Learning to do the boring, dreadfully dull, uninteresting stuff...learning to just muscle through it...is the most important life skill any human being can learn. It's the marshmallow test magnified by a million.
" I just wanted Excel and Word - now I have Microsoft Messenger, Microsoft Remote Desktop, Microsoft Connection Manager(?!), Microsoft Communicator, Microsoft Office Setup Manager, Microsoft Document Connection, and the complementary launch agent "com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper"."

Yet when you were in that "Customize Installation" menu choosing Excel and Word, you for some reason didn't de-select Messenger, RDC, or the Dock Icons. And that's Microsoft's fault... hmm.
I think part of the problem is that the steering is not responsive enough, and that might be preventing it from realizing it can control direction.
Does it sync music from Mac to an android phone over a local wireless network?
What games did you try? Do you get any errors on the JavaScript console?
Why is there a menu bar at all? Just use the menu button anywhere in the window to open the menu, ultimate Fitts law.
I've never used aniracetam and can't advocate one way or the other, but it looks like aniracetam is OTC in the UK (where it sounds like OP lives) and freely available from amazon.co.uk.
Klaus from American dad needs this so much! Not sure about regular fish though
Hang out with Buddhists. Seriously.
"The Google Play music player is currently available in select territories." - Damn, its not working in Canada.
Why isn't this released by Goolge already? A Google version of iTunes which can synch with an Android device would be a great addition to OSX/Windows.
I have to wonder if your average publisher would even know what to do with a book written in LaTeX.
Listening to your userbase is a good idea if you want to keep that userbase happy.

Ubuntu's goal has always been to vastly expand its userbase to, shall we say, non-traditional Linux users. Now Ubuntu wants to expand into entirely new devices. These new users are, by definition, not in Ubuntu's userbase, so if Ubuntu wants to get them, listening to existing users is likely a detriment.

If you've been using Linux with various DE for years, and Ubuntu frustrates you, then Ubuntu is not the product for you. Ubuntu is going for people who don't even know what a "DE" is.

The instant Ubuntu becomes beholden to listening to its userbase is the instant it stops doing anything interesting and it loses whatever slim chance it ever had of being anything beyond a top ranker on DistroWatch.

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Not sure he ever said it, but the point stands.
why not make everyone happy, and give a choice

They've already given users several choices. They're called Kubuntu, Xubuntun and Lubuntu.
If you just want to control Google Music via native keyboard shortcuts (and you're using Chrome), I made this a while ago:

https://github.com/cespare/playctrl

I use it on Linux and OS X.
Is there a radar number for that?
Obviously growth hacking. My own experience in endless self-promotion. twitter. Guru. And perhaps... Venture Capital.

love,
"Hacker"news.
One reason is that community college is already really well priced, and low-wealth students are currently eligible for financial aid at most institutions (community college and other colleges)
Yeah, that'd trigger a warning in most compilers - "Empty statement found. Was it an intent?" or something similar.
$19 raspberry pi dev kit for autism
Looking for some developers to help with this autism project. Kit includes wi-fi, power and pre-programmed raspberry pi (b)
In a similar vein, you might say that to the vast majority of people there is no difference between a screwdriver and a pry bar because most people are content with abusing screwdrivers.
5 lines of a unit test also verify this:

https://github.com/landonf/Testability-CVE-2014-1266/blob/ma...
I haven't upgraded to Mavericks, and I haven't been able to replicate the bug. I've been applying other updates, everything except Mavericks, all along.
Today seems like a good day to rage quit IF statements, right?
I don't think 10.8 has the vulnerability. At least my MBP with 10.8 doesn't appear to have it. Both of the test URLs from HN had the desired behavior in Safari on that machine (ie they blocked content / didn't establish a connection).

EDIT: I'm not using Little Snitch or anything other than the builtin OSX firewall.