skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One suggestion is to try and flip your day. Don't expect to have energy after your solid day at the office to focus on smaller things at home.

Get up earlier and spend some time right away working on your smaller things requiring focus. I don't think your core work day would be robbed of anything either, a significant portion of the energy loss is the context switch from work to commute to home.

If you get up two hours earlier and go to work at the same time, the end of the day will feel a bit latter but i'd wager you'll be just as productive as the end of a day right now.

Note: Speaking from speculation, not experience.
[paper] Securing Bitcoin Wallets via Threshold Signatures
I'm optimistic that your team is making real progress behind the scenes, but please remember that when you say 'do some math' some of us think 'discontinuous galerkin' instead of 'add one'. Not that everyone needs to, but one reason the early pioneers made such great progress is that they were building tools to solve truly challenging problems. The fact that we can build TODO lists in 40 seconds today is incidental.
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I'm not the OP, but do you mind sharing the components list?
Leibniz wrote in 1666:
"We have spoken of the art of complication of the sciences, i.e., of inventive logic... But when the tables of categories of our art of complication have been formed, something greater will emerge. For let the first terms, of the combination of which all others consist, be designated by signs; these signs will be a kind of alphabet. It will be convenient for the signs to be as natural as possible—e.g., for one, a point; for numbers, points; for the relations of one entity with another, lines; for the variation of angles and of extremities in lines, kinds of relations. If these are correctly and ingeniously established, this universal writing will be as easy as it is common,and will be capable of being read without any dictionary; at the same time, a fundamental knowledge of all things will be obtained. The whole of such a writing will be made of geometrical figures, as it were, and of a kind of pictures — just as the ancient Egyptians did, and the Chinese do today. Their pictures, however, are not reduced to a fixed alphabet... with the result that a tremendous strain on the memory is necessary, which is the contrary of what we propose"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis
Thanks for the data point! (Also don't forget -frelease.)
As far as I can tell, a carbon-copy of AWS' Route53, except ever-so-slightly cheaper. Should be fun to see what comes next from either of them.
I think that it's the display that's flexible, not the device. I suppose that you could potentially do a Chromecast style computer in a kind of bump enclosure at the bottom of the back of the display to retain flexibility (though I don't think that there's enough detail to determine if there are other issues with such an approach). They however seem to be using a traditional rigid enclosure for the prototype.
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I feel stupid. This is very difficult to follow.
Nobody jumped on your "time-waster" comment. I think that's an interesting concept. Is your startup a "time-waster" or a "time-saver"?

2 things about Yahoo:

1) I'm still paying for their email service, and have been for 10 years. Their UI redesigns have been horrendous at times, but email lockin is powerful.

2) I really don't think dominance on the internet should be expected or desired, just because its possible. There's an example below about Yahoo Japan "owning" auctions in Japan. Sure, eBay has cornered peer-to-peer non-local vending in the US (let's not kid oursevelves what "auctions-buy-now" really are), but why should they be the preferred platform in Japan? Yes the internet allows it, but in the end, for a variety of historic and social reasons, different companies will fill different niches in different places, even if the internet looks like one gigantic niche and place. In other words, there is very little benefit seen from dominating auctions in US and Japan. Sure a few people would be able to order items more easily across the Pacific, but that effect pales in comparison to other internal factors. Maybe some local website had a marketing deal with a popular franchise in a certain country and got more popular initially, and then dominated that local market by network effect.

To summarize: I think it's normal to have local companies cornering local markets at the country/cultural level, even though the internet and e-commerce could theoretically be dominated globally. Google and search is a unique case, and expecting all companies to be like them in every market is misguided. I think that leaves a lot of space for Yahoo and many other similar companies to survive.
This is definitely an observed phenomenon, such illnesses are known as culture-bound syndromes. There is the sub-field of transcultural psychiatry which examines these and other cultural differences with respect to mental disorders.

Out of interest, what were the mental illnesses you refer to?
I strongly agree that diagnosis is problematic. This is especially weird when people can be forced to take a medication against their will based on that diagnosis. This is really fantastically intrusive and oppressive and etc.

Another problem with diagnosis: some illnesses haw a list of (say) 9 things, and the patient must match 5 of them for 6 months. So the patient is a good match of 3 and a weak match for 2 and a poor match for the other 4. But anyone seeing that patient will read the diagnosis and will apply all the criteria to everything the patient does. "You would say that. People with your diagnosis are {manipulative}" (even if the patient was a poor match for manipulative).
"I failed to explain the benefits Ramen can provide."

No, I think those came across quite clearly. He wants to know how it works, i.e. what is required of him, and what will the process of getting funded look like. That's a difference.
Toward a better computer UI

The Aurora demo did not look like a big improvement until maybe http://youtu.be/L6iUm_Cqx2s?t=7m54s where the TodoMVC demo beats even Polymer in LOC count and readability.

I've been thinking of similar new "programming" as the main computer UI, to ensure it's easy to use and the main UI people know. Forget Steve Jobs and XEROX, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

Using a computer is really calling some functions, typing some text input in between, calling some more.

Doing a few common tasks today is

opening a web browser
clicking Email
reading some
replying
getting a reply back, possibly a notification

clicking HN
commenting on an article in a totally different UI than email
going to threads tab manually to see any response

And the same yet annoyingly different UI deal on another forum, on youtube, facebook, etc. Just imagine what the least skilled computer users could do if you gave them a computing interface that didn't reflect the world of fiefdoms that creates it.

FaceTwitterEtsyRedditHN fiefdoms proliferate because of the separation between the XEROX GUI and calling a bunch of functions in Command Line. Siri and similar AI agents are the next step in simple UIs. What people really want to do is

tell Dustin you don't agree with his assessment of Facebook's UI changes
type/voice your disagreement
share with public

And when you send Dustin and his circle of acquaintances a more private message, you

type it
share message with Dustin and his circle of designers/hackers

To figure out if more people agreed with you or Dustin

sentiment analysis of comments about Dustin's article compared to mine

That should be the UI more or less. Implement it however, natural language, Siri AI, a neat collection of functions.

Today's UI would involve going to a cute blog service because it has a proper visual template. This requires being one of the cool kids and knowing of this service. Then going to Goolge+ or email for the more private message. Then opening up an IDE or some text sentiment API and going through their whole other world of incantations.

Our glue/CRUD programming is a mess because using computers in general is a mess.
You're welcome. =) I just double checked, I did have -frelease and I updated my parent comment to reflect that.
Seems like the perfect engine for a remake of Ultima Online... the best MMORPG ever nostalgia
You can upload your own books into Google Books and syncs across devices (mobile/web).

https://play.google.com/books/uploads
I think it's amazing how any vehicle maker can idiot-proof any vehicle, the general population seems to be suicidal and then blames the manufacturer for not protecting them during their 110mph missile ride.

reddit's /r/Justrolledintotheshop and /r/TalesFromRetail/ makes me wonder how people manage to use any product without killing themselves.
To turn it off: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications&section=p...

I see there the sites they have partnered with are mostly "social game" sites... and Bing. I don't use any of those but mine was turned off when I got there. I figured this would be a setting they would enable by default. Maybe it had already been turned off when they had t before.
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I think a lot could be won by reducing complexity of the systems. In modern operating systems we stack too many abstraction layers ontop of each other. Emacs is a great example of a development environment which prevents a lot of complexity because everything is written in one language (Emacs Lisp), functions are available throughout the system, one can rewrite functions at runtime and one can easily pinpoint the source code of any function with the find-function command. It would actually be great to have an operating system as simple, extensible and flexible.
Indeed, this is smart, effective and non-disruptive.
Anyway to use the cool interface without replacing my default tab? HN isn't the only website I visit.
I actually want/need a digital sketchpad, and while I do read/annotate PDFs, this is not what I would do the majority of the time.

If this device would be hackable (run linux on it), I would find so many use cases for it that I could justify the price in a heartbeat.

Somehow, being a device from Sony, I expect this reader to be a piece of junk software-wise, to the point that I wouldn't be surprised that you need to convert the PDF into something else and use custom clients just to exchange files.

I hope I will be wrong.
The most obvious objection would be that Federal Government does not, in fact, print everything in Times New Roman to begin with. I just reached into my filing cabinet and grabbed some random documents from my 'Taxes' folder; turns out the IRS communicates mostly in Helvetica or some similar Sans Serif font.

this whole story is based on the implicit assumption that nobody in the government has ever thought about this issue before. As so often, that assumption seems quite inaccurate.
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That's not a record at all. Your math overestimated ownership. And even 10x isn't a record at all (though good obviously)
Would you include PLC programming? It's safe to say that's been pretty successful in industrial settings.
The Intuition Trap
> "It quotes the bible excessively"

Absolutely false. I can't locate a single instance. Care to provide some page numbers?
This is showing a^2 + b^2 + 2ab (left image) = c^2 + 2ab (right image), since they both have area (a + b)^2. This implies that a^2 + b^2 = c^2, since 2ab is constant across sides.
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Managed VMs are basically app engine apps that run on a compute engine instance. It gives you the ease of deployment and scaling of App Engine without the limitations of the App Engine sandbox.
No-one's pretending it's a coincidence, I think. Oculus had already said that one benefit of the FB acquisition was that it would allow them to hire people they hadn't been able to get before, while in the OP Abrash implies that he hadn't been willing to join Oculus because he wasn't convinced that it could survive without more capital.
You use "mental illness" as a monolithic term.

So if there's some "thing" that creates a mental health problem you'd call it an illness, but otherwise you'd call it, well, what?

That space of what to call it is problematic. Some people fill that gap with judgemental terms - sloth, laziness, weakness, etc.

And I'm not sure why you think treating MH problems as an illness is a bad thing - what are the negative consequences of doing so?
It's pretty common on a lot of recent startup landing pages. Great looking design, nice little touches like animation - but very little detail on how the product actually works. The assumption is that someone curious is going to sign up to find out. Lots of people won't do this and will just bounce. I think every landing page should try to answer these questions:

What is your product?
Why would I use your product?
How does your product work?
What does your product cost?
("Still working on it" is fine, but say so)
What countries are you available in?
Reflected XSS Vulnerability in Twitter-Bootstrap-Rails
Are you dumb dude? He wants a button on the top that says "How It Works" like you have outlined here https://ramen.is/projects/ramen

Because as of now all he can do is submit his project, he just wants to know what the process is like before doing it. This is so painfully obvious how don't you see that?
This looks awesome. I love the ability to write on e-ink. But is flexibility a feature or a bug of paper? What is the benefit of a non-rigid e-ink display for these types of use cases?
Adopting Eddie
Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting – 2014 March
According to NHTSA, there was not a technical problem:

In February 2011 the findings of a 10-month-long study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aimed to identify the main cause of sudden acceleration in Toyota and Lexus models. The study was requested by the US Congress and "enlisted NASA engineers with expertise in areas such as computer controlled electronic systems, electromagnetic interference and software integrity".[229] The most common problem was drivers hitting the gas when they thought they were hitting the brake, which the NHTSA called "pedal misapplication.”[229] Of the 58 cases reported, 18 were dismissed out of hand. Of the remaining 40, 39 of them were found to have no cause; the remainder being an instance of “pedal entrapment.”
It will be interesting to see how this approach changes when the money is a bit tighter ie the model c. You can't just go and add titanium reinforcing to a 30k$ car whenever something bad happens.

I think something to moderate Musk's thin skin wouldn't be a bad thing but I certainly agree that the absolute power to do what ever he wants coupled to his technical depth has and will continue to see him changing the transport industry.
see also:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sony-unveils-matteblack-box...
What's the point of lumping a reversible state with an irreversible one under the same term?
It was a crock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_...
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Yes, this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_...
Does it manage its own cache like InnoDB? Otherwise you're gonna have a bad time.

Redis tried this (see http://redis.io/topics/virtual-memory) but it died a quick and well-deserved death (the code isn't even in it anymore as of 2.6).
VC's do more than just "invest." You have to pitch them on the idea and new companies need capital with which to work, so, no, I don't agree with your view. It takes a lot of time and energy to launch a new venture. Like the military, that tends to be a game for the young, who have that kind of energy. But having some feedback from someone with experience helps improve the odds of success so new people aren't flying quite so blind. It is not a bug or defect. It's a feature.
Nostalgia wins, for the Simpsons at least.

I sometimes feel this way about TV in general (early stuff is better).

Example (circa 1967-1968):

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12sekq_the-prisoner-arriva...

BTW, I was born in '84 and not 1884. ;-)
> Its section on non-believers is completely offensive (to me). It basically says "accept god or die."

There is no section to non-believers. There is a chapter to agnostics.
+1 exactly right

This is like saying that Dart can be run server side on an EC2 instance. I would like to see Dart (server side) added to the AppEngine supported language list (Go, Python, Java, PHP).
I LOVE this post. I actually did not read it since it contained something which I miss in every other blog: a TL;DR section. +1!!!
This looks awesome. I'm really excited about this. Just wondering though, how many sessions a year will there be?
In case you never considered it before there is a heavy PROFIT INCENTIVE for your psychiatrist to diagnose you with some form of mental illness that he is familiar with. You need to become a domain expert yourself in order to figure out if you're being manipulated for profit or if the diagnosis is legitimate.
I haven't needed to maintain a production service using the JVM, but I've seen coworkers debug one where the service was producing too much garbage for the GC to keep up with, and then falling over with an OOM error.

No, using another language wouldn't have solved the issue. Modifying the code to reduce the amount of garbage produced was one of the solutions. Deleting the code not too long after was the ultimate solution.
The problem with code as text is not the visual representation but the manipulation. From the point of view of tooling for live-coding, it's incredibly painful to deal with an unstructured pile of text that at any given point may be in an invalid state (ie partially edited). Structured editing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor) allows the tooling to deal with consistent, structured data whilst still taking advantage of the expressive power of language.
You might like The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing http://www.amazon.com/The-Universal-Computer-Leibniz-Turing/...
The Prisoner – Arrival (s1e1) (philosophical TV show from 1967-1968)
Another "coming out" story is from Michael Landsberg, a Canadian hockey analyst on TSN. His hashtag #sicknotweak inspires me when I'm feeling like crap.
http://www.thelavinagency.com/blog-mental-health-speaker-mic...
A similar equation is fine, but 'average settlement' is probably too low. Add 10 million to C before multiplying and you have a better balance, with a margin of error on the side of safety.
Play local any video, audio and image files on Chromecast
I absolutely love React. It's small and does what it aims to do just great. You can probably learn React in an hour or two. I don't really mind the React.createClass semantics because I'm aware of how many ways there are to build objects in JavaScript. This roadmap seems useful, but please don't add too many features and ruin a wonderful thing.
>The main source of the pain is, to me, is that we're still working strictly with textual representations of non-textual concepts and logic, no matter how those concepts might better be rendered.

I can't see any issue with representing logic abstractly with symbols. It's the same for calculus. Of course the ideas we're representing aren't actually the things we use to represent them, the same as written communication.

Non-textual programming has been explored to some degree, such as Scratch, but it's not seen as much of a useful thing.

>Instead of solving the problem, we're stuck down describing actions and formulas to the machinery. No IDE does anything to actually address that problem.

Describing actions and formulas to a machine in order to make it do something useful is pretty much the definition of programming. IDEs make it a more convenient process.

Unless you want to directly transplant the ideas out of your neural paths into the computer, maybe some AI computer in the future based on a human brain, this is how it's going to be.
According to the article, they spend over $400 million a year on ink. It doesn't matter whether that's inkjet, or laser, or what. If they use 25% less of it, they'll save 25%.
It's pretty clear that Simpsons fans hate Lady Gaga and Musicals.
I own a geek desk actually (it raises to standing or sitting) , but I still spend too much time in my chair. :)
From what you write, I can only assume you have had very little conscious experience with mental health disorders.

Some (most?), like OCD and BPD have extremely specific symptomatologies that are often counter intuitive and quite surprising similarities between people. The generalized, lay-person, conceptions of these illness miss these specific symptoms.

As such it doesn't make sense to call them anything but diseases.
...like Google.
Realistically, what do you think is the percentage of doctors manipulate diagnosis for profit because it sounds like a boogey man.
As I've been reading the coverage of this product throughout the day, the price seems to be the biggest drawback everyone focuses on, and I agree that $1100 is overpriced for what this product is offering. I got the sense from several articles that $1100 would be way overpriced for any e-reader.

Because of the huge number of PDF files in larger paper sizes that I have, I'd happily pay $1500 for this if in addition to it's features it: 1. wasn't made by Sony, 2. was color (to about early 1990s Newspaper quality), 3. was unlocked (different OS could be installed, etc)
You're working 37.5 hours per week (7.5 × 5), which is less than the "standard" 40

I don't know where OP lives, but several countries have work weeks that are less than 40 hours. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-time