skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This talk of mental health issues seems to obscure (and glamorize) a far more basic fact: many "founders" are simply too immature and inexperienced to handle the level of responsibility they've signed on the dotted line for.

Kind of like back when they might have, you know, signed up for that machine learning course with all that tricky linear algebra and stuff (which they never really learned the first time around -- perhaps because they were figuring that, like Peter Thiel, they were probably just going to drop out anyway).

Except this time around the consequences aren't about having some professor get grumpy at them, or wasting their tuition fees. It's about people -- who once considered them as friends, and trusted them implicitly -- being laid off, missing mortgage payments, having romantic partners leave them... fun stuff like that.

So "anxiety", "depression" are nice ways of saying that they've bitten off more than they can chew, and are basically shitting their pants... and praying for some higher power (an investor, an advisor, or a customer) to bail them out. Except it's not gonna happen. There's nothing going to stop their car from hitting that brick wall at 50 miles an hour this time, without a seatbelt.

So what's happening isn't that they're succumbing to mental illness... it's that they're learning, through their bodies and their minds, the way the world really works, and what impact their actions (and naïveté) can sometimes have, in terms of real consequences.

In, you know, that big scary world out there.
Re: your idea at the end: You might find the first section of Charles Stross' Accelerando a fun read.
I like your example, but it is also why a lot of folks don't care so much about privacy. Ie. in the scenario there was an illegal hiding of revenue from the IRS. The privacy infringement simply corrected a wrong. So, for many folks they remain unconvinced because they aren't doing anything wrong, so they feel they have nothing to hide, and don't take issue.

Perhaps, a better scenario is that you are chatting with a fellow entrepreneur about bitcoin, a short while later they are charged by the IRS for tax evasion. Meanwhile, your conversation with them on the subject is discovered through the NSA machinery and is used to kick off an investigation against you.

I wish I had a better example, as that would serve us well to educate folks on the value of privacy. I'm writing in part that someone has a better example to share.
I would love to hear from the founder of the service about this. I'd seriously consider paying for a high-quality lead-generation service. But if, as the above post asks, the same smallish pool of leads is being pursued by a bunch of freelancers, it's hard to consider those leads high-quality anymore.

Here's an interesting idea: Is there some way for this service to prevent unprofessional and scammy developers from spamming my leads? That kind of behavior is very common in the freelance market, and it effectively poisons potential clients for the good freelancers.

To some extent, the paywall will cut down on the number of low-quality freelancers. But in my experience, they're a plague even on some paid sites.
If I had one wish to come true it would be to banish the terms "mental health" from the universal language. The mind is to the brain as the heartbeat is to the heart, or if you'd rather a more historical example, the humors to the body. Talking about the product is fairly useless if we don't work hard to understand and treat the underlying causes. Unfortunately, where cardiology came of age in the 1960s, neuroscience is about 30 years behind.

The brain is the organ here. We all have brains that get tired, damaged, and diseased. Substituting "brain" within "mental issues", "mental problems", or "mental disorders" would go a long way toward changing how we think and address the underlying concerns. In fact, just simply talking about your concerns is therapeutic. Good friends as in effect therapists. But who would want to if they think they have a "mental" illness?

The brain is a bodily organ like any other. Let's start treating it as such - get good sleep each night, exercise often, and maintain good friendships. If all three of those are being met, and you are still concerned, absolutely talk to your doctor. But keep in mind that depression and anxiety appear to now follow from sleep disorders.
> Do you also think that we should allow people to plan murders, robberies, etc. with no penalty as long as they do not follow through before they are caught?

Yes, there's nothing illegal or "wrong" with thinking. That's why every `conspiracy to X` charge necessarily requires a proof of intent. It isn't illegal to think about killing someone, if it was 99% of the world would be in jail.

Put it this way, should it be illegal for whitehat hackers to test a program, on their home computer, for bugs? There's no intent to do harm but what they;re doing could cause harm if they intended to.
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This is the 'collapsing' that he talks about. If one of the complex solutions had a magnitude of 1 and an angle of 395 degrees, e.g., it would be equal to a number with a magnitude of 1 and an angle of 35 degrees.
IMO, this is a great example of why show me don't tell me is vital in product creation. Here, the folks empowered to make the change saw the problem with their own eyes. They may indeed have heard or speculated about this issue previously. But there's a fundamental difference between someone saying something, filtered through language, organizational priorities, etc. and making that realization on your own.

Related, this is a part of why good data viz is so powerful: it allows others to quickly and independently reach the same associations and conclusions. A real-world example: a data viz of game beta test user data shows player deaths in an area with no enemies. Curious. Linking over to video from an affected player just before the death reveals a level design error: a tunnel wall wasn't made solid. This allowed players to "fall out" of the level, causing the game to kill them. The development team relayed that before they had these tools, there would often be a back-and-forth with the level designers ("no, that can't be right!"). But now they'd just call them over, show them, and the level designer would get a bit pale and run back to their desk ("brb, gotta fix that NOW!").
Bannerman (YC S14) Delivers Bouncers On Demand
Great: I wasn't sure if it was a feature of the framework or the language! Like many others here, I'm looking forward to playing with Rust in earnest once it's a little more mature.
If we just assumed that whatever could be done (with technology or otherwise) should be accepted, what would the point of laws be in the first place?

People have expectations that the FDA will ensure the safety and efficacy of their medicines. Consequently, there are medications that I can't have in the US because of the law.

People have expectations of a level of safety on the highways. The technology under the hood of my car allows me to reach speeds of at least 100, and the law effectively prevents me from using it.

There are many ways in which people have expectations that technology could subvert. Automatically changing our expectations to allow for any technologically possible breach of those expectations isn't currently the way we do things.
Rust’s documentation is about to drastically improve
> What will end these patent wars?

Make patents irrelevant by rejecting the current culture of consumerism that props up this system.

Some examples: Becoming active & thoughtful citizens, Free Software & Hardware, DIY culture, Decentralization, Buying Local, Black Markets, etc.

Edit: I expect to be downvoted by the sheep & those interested in keeping the status quo. Bring it on ;-)
That quote always bothers me, because most long-term savings like that aren't nearly so clear in numerical terms.
This reminds me of Workshop mailing list. Probably inspired by this service.

My experience with Workshop was that leads were good, just not for me. I really needed more solid and fatter clients.
You seem to think we're advocating arresting and prosecuting people based solely on their interactions with Sweetie. That's patently untrue, and (in my case, at least) easily refuted by my reply to you else-thread, where I said:

If you ask me, however, Bob's propositioning Sweetie creates sufficient Probable Cause to obtain a warrant to search his computer for evidence of other, similar, interactions, with actual children. Then he can be prosecuted for the cases where there was a victim.

That he interacts with a virtual child in an inappropriate way is strongly suggestive that has engaged in that behavior at other times, with other, real children. The issues that cause people to act on their pedophilia tend not to result in isolated incidents, and this has been repeatedly demonstrated by years and years of study of hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals.

If the police find no evidence that he's done this before — whether because he actually hasn't (vanishingly unlikely), or because he's too good at hiding his aberrance — then we may or may not be able to prosecute him, depending on the jurisdiction.

But, for my money, Sweetie isn't per se about prosecution. It's about helping surface individuals that warrant further scrutiny, subject to due process, and then quite possibly prosecution.
[Ask HN] i am platform marketer to developers, what do you want to see?
i do email marketing to developers and i was hoping to be super honest and see what kind of ads (don't smite me) or content you like to see in email marketing efforts. i am being vague here so please tell me your wins/horror stories
Would you have preferred they did not address the concerns of Krahulik?

SP2 is likely the best portable computer for digital illustrators. You can still have an SP2, but if you're like me, you're bummed out that SP3 means that the accessory ecosystem is stuck as-is for the SP2.
Does anyone know what the programming environment is like for these boards?
Downvoters -- explain, please.
I think that ignores the fact that the forms and such are there in the first place precisely to contain the tide of applicants.

What do you think happens when organizations are under budget constraints and have to find creative ways to cut [edit: typo] costs?
It doesn't work like that in enterprise...
"For those of us not working on cat photo sharing products for the ever shifting consumer market there is considerably less luck, throwing random stuff at the wall, and pivoting involved."

...but how do you know that? The principal disadvantage of B2B is that the long sales cycle greatly increases the time until you get feedback that your product sucks, so you either succeed (in which case, of course, you say "it wasn't luck"), or you fail (in which case, it's attributed to bad luck). Also, even then, it takes a fairly self-aware set of founders to admit that the reason that the product isn't selling is because it sucks, and not because (say) the sales team is bad, or because BigCo isn't buying this quarter, etc.

Say what you will about consumer startups, but the ability to pivot quickly in the face of consumer feedback is a feature, not a bug. You can sort-of get around this by doing a direct-sale B2B service (i.e. what you're doing with justworks), but in that case, you're still a consumer startup -- you're just selling a "professional" product with a niche market.
In 2010 Ross Anderson pointed out (stated rather emphatically actually) that security is driven by only two things - psychology and economics. Software is no different.

Security Engineering - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004BDOZI0/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qi...
One part of the site mentions:

"Each weekday by 10:30am PST, we send at least 3 of these leads to you."

Then further down:

"Each weekday by 9:30am (PST) you will receive at least 3 leads in your inbox ..."

9:30 am or 10:30 am, which is it?
Add Excel spreadsheets and Access databases to that list. Best thing, someone else has already proven their is a need for the system and a working solution!
The PSoC is an interesting animal. Really shouldn't be compared with the Arduino other than the fact they have 8-bit processor cores in the 20-40 MHz range.

The real beauty of the PSoC comes from the things you can do when you hook up the internal analog and digital blocks in interesting ways. Take a look at this example from Cypress:

http://edn.com/design/medical/4421721/Product-how-to--Heart-...

Look at figure 4. Everything not in dark blue is in the PSoC Creator IDE to hook up different blocks on the chip and wire them to do some of the processing that you would normally offload to some other chips in your design. This is how they do CapSense with a minimal amount of external parts. There's lots of tasty A-to-D and D-to-A stuff on here. You can also do all of this stuff at the register level if you think the IDE is not your cup of tea.

USB is also very very easy with this part. You can have a HID device running in a half hour when you use their wizard and then flesh out the stubbed routines it creates for you.
"My name is Sweetie. I am 10 years old. I live in the Phillipines."
Cryptiv: a multi-cryptocurrency tipping app for Twitch and Twitter.
http://cryptiv.com/
I agree that it is similar, but that's the nature of all businesses, right? Prior performance is used all over the business world to justify decisions. I'm sure you've heard "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" Investment = risk, everyone wants to minimize it while maximizing the upside.

From this blog post, it sounds like the ability to pivot smart and fast ( fast failing.. that rings a bell..) could enhance ones probability of success. And the ability to pivot away from your 'baby' into the scary unknown again takes a special kind of skill - Letting Go aka: know when to fold 'em.
This is an awesome project, congratulation on being promoted on TC!
My rebuttal would be that the oligopolies exist in heavily regulated areas (health, banking, telecom), and that isn't a coincidence. You don't need a big government to protect yourself from multinationals, you need a non corrupt government.
The discussion on Hackaday [1] has some more details, supposedly the toolchain is Windows only.

[1] http://hackaday.com/2014/06/16/cypress-launches-5-arm-dev-bo...
Same arguments can be used against rent control. In NYC, loft leases in newly trendy nabes can garner up to $5M in "key money". The rent regs are nearly impossible to phase out, because both landlords and some renters benefit by them, though arguably they hurt the market as a whole and are patently unfair to first-time residents.

Regulation of commerce always risks unintended (though often forseeable) consequences.
It's not ALL luck - some people do way better than rolling the dice alone would suggest. Of course, it's very hard to measure this and know if you're one of those people.
I like: "throw enough shit at the wall and you'll learn how to make some of it stick?"

because you must learn at every turn
Also true of WebKit. I don't think it makes sense to draw conclusions about a project which started as a closed in house affair, based on projects which were based on open source ones, as parent has.
The Miami Heat lost for not taking this advice
Very cool, but what is the difference between the 4100 and 4200? Do I have to unzip the schematics to find out?
What's the best (or the worst) API documentation you've used?
What was great about it? What sucked about it? What do you see in API docs that makes you think the people creating and writing it understand your needs?
The Cypress-supplied PSoC Creator IDE is all in C. C++ has been done to some degree with the GCC toolchain. Or you can cross-compile to Cortex-M0 with the language/toolchain of your choice but that's really out there.
While I assume you've probably done this, you can try going up the chain, telling the higher-level managers just what a shitty experience you've had, and that you're considering looking elsewhere to fill (some of) your needs as a result. You don't have to say you're considering moving everything, just that you're going to start experimenting with other providers where appropriate, and start breaking the MS stranglehold on your business.

Make someone important start genuinely worrying about your account. Get them to assign a permanent engineering contact point, since it's clear your account manager isn't doing it for you. If you're not a manager-level staffer, get managerial support in doing this, so you have their backing and they don't undermine you later (even accidentally). And while you don't have a blog of your own, if you get stonewalled again, you could reach out to a tech blog with a decent amount of penetration and have an interview with them - either about the shitty experience, or the thought of moving vendors and implying that MS is no longer the only game in town for your -foo-. It doesn't have to be perfectly true, it just has to generate visible bad press - it's an underhanded tactic, but if you're consistently being treated poorly, I think it's an option to consider.

Or, even better, move off MS where possible, and spend that money on staff to massage the changeover :)
This cute "ÐAO" acronym isn't actually defined anywhere on the page. I assume, based on the HN link headline, it refers to a "decentralized autonomous organization". I looked for that in the page but the word "autonomous" never appears (the words "decentralized", "decentralised", "organization" and "organisation" all do). I tried searching the page to find out whether they actually defined "ÐAO", but was initially thwarted when I typed in "DAO" and found that doesn't appear on the page either because of the insistence on using ÐAO.

Is this some deliberate attempt at anti-SEO?
Soyuz 1: Falling to Earth
OP has both problems and while the former seems like the big one, it's really just the first one. Introverts don't need a lot of friends, just a few really good ones. Making those strong connections by staying engaged really is important.
PG is one of those who strongly advocates for "throw it up and see what happens". He is probably more influential to the movement than any young engineers, and he is decisively neither young nor inexperienced.
Keep in mind that Adblock Edge is (at least from my point of view) better than ABP
Don't kid yourself. There's a wide gulf between a worldview based on a few anecdotal successes and the more realistic picture emerging from a flood of statistics, which not only show the rarity of mobility, but indicate that it's declining - esp. for those unfortunate enough to be born at the bottom.

Yes, people can win Olympic Gold (we're not competing against robots yet), but very few will and those who do will have to make extraordinary sacrifices. So yes, give them credit. But don't - whatever you do - look at people who haven't managed to keep their heads about water, and think "well, this one guy made it against all odds and you didn't, so you must be a lazy, stupid human."

That may be fair (if harsh) in a supportive world where it takes rare talent to fail. But it's a monstrous attitude in a world where the opposite is so clearly the case.
Which type of fight has greater implications for the evolution of human facial bone structure?
I wouldn't consider pos a very good usecase for bitcoin in general.

Credit cards are specifically designed for a consumer environment, and even if bitcoin continues towards the moon, I don't predict physical paper currency is going anywhere anytime soon.

Being able to buy a burrito with internet money is pretty cool, but I think of bitcoin as more of a useful network of human trust/power, than a consumerism enabler.

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They did more than collect information. They went to great lengths to create information to be collected. A vigilante is someone who takes the law into their own hands. Violence is often a part of that but not required. While they may not be taking on the judgement part of law they are taking on the policing part by organizing a sting operation which is why I labeled them a vigilante organization. You're painting it as if they're simply some sort of community watch program that collects information and turns it over to the police. In truth they're somewhere in between.

You're right. I don't know much about child sexual abuse. I don't doubt that sexual perpetrators are extremely likely to continue being sexual perpetrators. But I worry that the alleged perpetrators caught in this sting operation might not all be pedophiles, that the completely unsupervised, unregulated sting operators may have been so overzealous in their pursuit of pedophiles that they may not have made absolutely certain that everyone knew they were talking to a '10 year kid'. I read in another article that the age was in the fake user's profile. Is that the only place the age was listed? Are we sure every perpetrator knew the fake user's age?

And what about the quality of graphical rendering of Sweetie? Are we positive that all of the alleged perpetrators thought it was a real person and not a computer generated avatar they were talking to? Maybe some of them realized that it was an avatar. Should it still be a crime then?

As for how much trust you have in the operators behind Sweetie, I just don't get it. Intelligent people do extremely stupid things all the time. Perhaps they initiated the sexual advances because that's what they experienced with the 8 year old boy. Perhaps they initiated the advances because in some countries entrapment isn't a concern. The article stated that the alleged offenders were from 71 different countries. I find it hard to believe the Sweetie operators would be well versed in that many different countries' laws. Or perhaps they carefully worded everything exactly as you believe. I have no idea because the article didn't go into it. I've looked for articles that provide more detail but haven't found any. If you have any links, I'd appreciate it.
Ruby metaprogramming with s-expressions
There is already a ki lisp (a smaller subset of Qi lisp) that is the foundation of shen lisp.

http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/shendoc.htm#KI
I guess you are right most people have curtains, but in USA most people have blinds, I understand closing might not be a problem, but I was approaching more towards the blinds opening in the morning automatically so you would woke up with the light of the sun.
I don't really understand why Microsoft is expected or obligated to produce that list for the public. Calling it 'secret' seems a bit ridiculous in this scenario. The patents aren't 'secret'; the information was already out in the open. The 'secret' is a 'trade secret', that is, which patents they personally believe to be most important. It's quite possible that they have other patents in their arsenal that ALSO apply to Android, and any vendor that intentionally works around these ~300 patents will still get a patent suit.

If you really wanted to be safe from Microsoft and not pay them licensing fees, you could have paid some professionals to review their patent holdings for you, and identify any patents that could potentially be asserted against your smartphones. This list is essentially the result of Microsoft doing that.