skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good:

* Mass transit good enough that you don't need an internal combustion engine

* One of the best pools of internet companies on the east coast

* Extraordinarily diverse: I have friends from all walks of life, from blue collar (UPS delivery) to white collar (finance) to video production, photography, painters, sculptors and trying-to-make-it-actors-but-working-in-service.

* Any kind of cuisine, delivered at any time.

* Live comedy or music any night you want it

* Superb dine-in experiences

* Some of the best museums in the nation

The bad:

* Extraordinarily expensive. But if you live in an outer borough it almost balances out with living in a suburb somewhere: $1500 in rent, $120/mo in transit costs. Compare to Raleigh, NC: $795 for similar apartment in-city-limits, ($100/mo auto insurance, $3.50/gallon @ 27mpg @ 20 mi/day = $78/mo in gas, $300/mo in payments on a $15k car) $478/mo in transit costs. Chose Raleigh because I'm familiar with it, and there are actually some tech companies there (but you'll probably have to commute to RTP unless you're at Red Hat or Citrix or Wells Fargo). So a ~$350/mo (I'd extend this to a generalized 27% - this includes eating out, though not necessarily groceries) premium for living in Brooklyn compared to Raleigh.

* Summers are brutal, and you usually have to rely on in-window units; central HVAC is unheard of except in brand new luxury residential buildings

* Accidentally getting on that one empty car on the subway that just pulled in during rush hour

* Constant temptation to get completely shitfaced every night because there are 5 bars within stumbling distance of home

* It drains your energy until you get used to it.

* It won't be like Sex in the City or Friends (more like Seinfeld with a shittier apartment), and people who expect it to be leave quickly -- thank goodness.

* City income tax on top of state and federal.

* Really, really crappy landlords.

* Really, really crappy sidewalks [translation: too many people don't pick up their dog's (you hope it's a dog's) poo.]
As others have said: for the time being at least, we have an NHS in this country. See your GP. Tell them you've been having those kind of thoughts. You will be referred to somebody who can help.

Reflections on associated issues:

There's a big problem with stigma attached to mental health issues, as is well observed by many. This is true 'in general'. But it can be easier to punish yourself when something like a breakup triggers a serious depressive episode - it feels 'stupid' to be so miserable about something that happens to everybody everywhere. It's just not true. A bad breakup is pretty traumatising. The human brain has innumerable virtues. A built in sense of perspective is not one of them. A qualified professional is not going to judge you for it; sometimes even just an hour with a therapist - just the act of going into the office, even - can puncture the worst of it.

More importantly, sometimes that can't - because some obvious proximate cause for a depressive episode can mask longer-term underlying mental health issues.

Alpha, omega: drag yourself into a doctor's office. All the best.

EDIT: clarification
This really is an unfortunate naming collision.
In this case Bob would pay IRS 20% tax for the price appreciation happened when he lived in CA. The 4% tax applies only to the price gain during his stay in Puerto rico.
I know, I know. This subject is just one that gives me such a deep visceral reaction I couldn't help myself. sigh
That's about what I have in mind, picking the bits and pieces you need to create your custom audio workstations in a modular and hackable manner.
Open sourcing it is a good suggestion and one that some have made previously. Open sourcing it requires a fair amount of work to remove company-specific, internal stuff and making it easy for others to install, upgrade and maintain it on their own. That fair amount of work hasn't yet made it high on a priority list, but let us hope it will :-)
I've not been to tons of meetups, but. Ime, half-way through there's five or so minutes for a few people to pitch their company. They keep it short, and stick around after to talk to anyone who is actually interested. To me, it feels more like supporting programmers rather than hunting them. I may be naive ;). But especially for me as a relatively new programmer, without a huge professional network, I appreciate it.
There is no simple or easy answer. And no one can tell you "I know how you feel" because we all feel different. So...

1. Get medical help. There is a lot to be said and done with the right doctor and therapist

2. Believe or not: WALK 20 minutes a day

3. GOTO 1

You need to feel better, but that will only happens if you take action towards it. And it begins with medical help.
You realize that beef, being a large mammal and all, already has hormones in it regardless of whether they're artificial or not?
Elaborate :)
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Happens when you're passionate about what you're building and few others have spent as many man hours
"God damnit guys, start putting \r's on your newlines!"
Agree. Unfortunately it seems to me that people on this site would rather create yet another jsframework.js or Flappy Bird As A Service as opposed to something like NewCrypt.

Pretty standard for the Hacker News crowd in my experience.
If there is a way to be penalized via blackhat SEO there will always be the possibility of negative / competitive SEO.
The organized groups that have been involved in protest against disparaging use of Native American slurs or images by sports teams are often also (and often far more) concerned about other failures of government related to treatment of Native Americans (of course, government granted monopolies like registered trademarks are as much actions of government as prosecutorial decisions, so its inconsistent to label only the latter as a failure of government.)

I mean, one of the organized groups that started protesting and lobbying against these sports uses the earliest was AIM [1], who, whatever else one might say, certainly cannot fairly be described as not interested in addressing "failures of government" affecting Native Americans.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement
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I am in London, work in tech, and have some volunteer experience helping in this area. happy to meet up if you want to chat.
US Patent Office cancels Washington Redskins trademark
Based on what law, exactly?
Do you have an example of this in mind?

Thinking of colonizers...

South Africa had much more land for the conquered, even during apartheid.

Israel has set aside massive amounts of land to its previous inhabitants.

Canada certainly has much more land set aside, though I expect it's equally marginal.

More generally...

Japan-SK

Japan-Taiwan

UK-India

Overall it seems rare for conquerers to commit a genocide and set aside marginal lands for the previous inhabitants. Usually it makes more economic sense to take the existing population and use political violence to extract labor and resources out of them.
Sunsetting a few features – end of life philosophy
G.A.O. Tech Chief Says Washington Should Start Small on Big Projects
Could be, wavelengths thing I mean. :)

I'm not aware of how ruby does it other then hearing about 2 most popular solutions that are used with rails.

As for Postgres's PUB/SUB I've replied to the reply that mentioned that and you can't really use that. Would be great if we cold update the broker driver and see if we could get support though.
I also recommend therapy. However, this thought also helped me: we will die anyway, why hasten it? Compared to the aeons of being dead, what are couple of years in emotional pain? It's just a blink of an eye, really - not point in spending energy on making that time even shorter.

I also wonder whether the only honest method for suicide (because of depression) would be to starve to death - prove to yourself that you really don't care about anything anymore. Yes I know some people actually starve to death (although I am not sure it's because of depression), and it might sound callous, but those thoughts helped me.

Also, if you really don't have anything to lose, thing about all the things you could do. However, I'd recommend against base jumping (it's just statistical suicide), but I mean, do something wild or crazy (not life threatening).
Fifa, doing a crappy job? I refuse to believe it!
Why does it matter so much? That's a blog, and a non-commercial one at that. Why do you care so much what your 'link profile' is?

If someone copies your content, go after them, sue them if you have to and out them. Make sure that they realize that if they copy your content that it will hurt.

I have absolutely no idea what if any backlinks I have to my blog, nor could I care less about it. People will read it, or maybe they won't, like yours it id non-commercial, a way for me to practice my writing and to sometimes tell stories and share those with others. It does not make me money and it costs me time. What google makes of it is not my problem.

I would not think of paying someone to increase the visibility and it took many years to get to any kind of exposure at all.
All I want is a simple cross platform encryption program.

Maybe something that is LUKS compatible so it works straight away on Linux and with a simple GUI for Windows that makes it as seamless as possible? (Sits in tray, autodetects when a container containing device is inserted and offers to mount it?)

It's not hard (as such), yet no such program exists.
Just curious... instead of 6 month work, 3 months personal projects, have you tried 6 hours work, 2 hours personal projects, 2 hours gym and/or people interactions?
Worked on a product for a while with basically the same value prop. User acquisition is tough when you're essentially competing with a vast array of topic-specific forums scattered across the Web. Many of these have very large existing user bases.

In the end, things didn't work out out. I think part of the reason is that people only care deeply about a small number of topics and they're willing to go where the community is.
Simplest way to take wall measurements
What's a good way to do this? I have a Synology NAS at home but it's behind a NAT except for specific ports for security cameras. I'll confess I have no earthly idea how to tell if it's been hax0red.
Poor people have to buy cheap food. So that is not a real option.
The Chargebee guys in particular are lovely, but for a recent project I went with plain old Stripe for a few reasons.

Firstly, I wanted to bill in multiple currencies according to where customers come from, and Chargebee required multiple API accounts, so that there could be no unified reporting of activity. Stripe, on the other hand, is perfectly happy with USD plans/subscriptions living alongside those in EUR or GBP.

Secondly, if you start with just Stripe, you can add other added-value providers like Chargebee on top later, but once you're committed to managing everything through those providers, it's hard to go back.

And finally, it would be easy to assume that you will need all that fancy Dunning process and workflow magic, but setting it up is an additional up-front time & complexity cost which might never pay for itself. Better IMO to start off simple, write a little code to track failed payments and expiring cards, and email the customers directly the old-fashioned way. This way, you're also connecting personally with your customers.
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This phrasing unfairly conflates VM/hypervisor technology and containers. Containers being a pure software technology do require near superhuman ability to secure but VM/hypervisors can lean on chip-level separation.

People forget that in-chip memory protection didn't come about for security reasons, memory errors were a particularly dangerous and particularly common kind of bug and the hardware was extended to help with memory isolation. OS session ending memory errors are almost unheard of since operating systems have started fully utilizing the on-chip protection. Programmers didn't become "superhuman" at preventing these errors.

For similar reasons it's much easier for hardware-backed virtualization programmers to protect you from malicious business inside a VM than it is for OS or container programmers.
> No, you are not storing the job itself, just a flag that indicates that the job was not done/or even stored

You must be storing enough representation of the job to re-send it though, no? You couldn't do this with a simple flag for all job types I imagine.

> in most cases it's just the absence of the desired effect that can be a giveaway

Sure, but not all jobs create side effects you can easily look for (e.g. sending an email). And secondly, you'd have to create a "sweeper" process for every type of job you create then.
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Ignorance is not a valid defence. Yes, it's harsh, but that's what entrepreneurs sign up for when they start their own business.

Directors of companies are held responsible for the decisions they made. Delegating that decision to others does not abrogate their responsibilities.

If you are in the SEO industry, please stop hiding behind this. The SEO industry have had ample time and patience to clean itself up (naming and shaming these unethical SEO consultant for starters, offering up material small businesses and mom-and-pop operators, checklists in hiring an ethical SEO practitioner, checklists of methods/practices that should be avoided. How to write up clear statements of work).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desig... : masks are not considered creative works and therefore have their own special, short rules on protection.

The copyright of a photograph of the chip belongs with the person who took the photograph, as normal.
Awful Plan? Noisy Office Plan? Distract-o-matic?
I do reputation management at http://www.blackwaterops.com a large portion of that is "negative" SEO.

It doesn't all have to be "bad neighbor" linking. Negative SEO can be contacting the people who are lending authority to a link and getting them to "nofollow" or remove the link.

Negative SEO can also be convincing Google to AutoSuggest things that don't paint your competition in a good light. "Cheezy Poofs Calories" seems like things people might ask, but people will reconsider if they want Cheezy poofs if the top suggestions in Google's autocomplete is "Cheezy Poofs Explosive Diarrhea" or "Cheezy Poofs Rectum Rash" Or better yet both.

That all Said. Bad Neighbor penalties and the ability to get a site delisted by link bombing has been well known for a long time. Anything that you could do to try and get your self upranked but that is sketchy could also be used to get your competitor delisted.

One thing to note however, is that along the way typically that competitor gets insane rankings just before getting delisted. That isn't always worth it.

-Brandon Wirtz
(I Google Bombed my Way to being Greatest Living American)
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2007/05/11/the-greatest-goo...
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Some of you have asked how to change your avatar (aka Profile Pic) in Mailbird for your different email accounts....here it is: http://www.getmailbird.com/tips/#2469

The best email for Windows with productivity hacks to make your email experience more enjoyable and effective.
Adobe announces stylus and digital ruler for $100
That is very much un-called for, as much as the OP is distasteful to me your action is far worse.
YOU NEED TO GO AND SEE YOUR GP ... RIGHT NOW.

Please, go and see them, tell them what you just told us and they will help you.
Interesting that you characterize basic human decency as an overreaction.
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AIM isn't behind this and I'm not sure AIM is even a going concern these days after everything that the FBI did to them. It would be hard to actually live on a reservation and not know about AIM or its history.
Certainly if it is canceled, they'll be able to sell gear with the logo, but only that.

Other styles and imagery will continue to be trademarked, will it not? For instance, you won't be able to sell a jersey with someone's number on it.
Games are all I've worked on for over a decade. See my other comments.
Here the list I was thinking about:

1. trash can that goes out front to be emptied.
2. loads dishwasher and puts away dishes.
3. laundry
4. person drives truck that drops off lawn mowing robots in a neighborhood.
5. I think you could automate subway and it would be neat to watch it.
6. drone that carries a women's purse or a backpack.
7. set of drones that delivers tapes flyers to people's doors.
8. something involving paintball/laser tag and drones.
9. a robot that finds toys on the ground and puts them in a toy box.
A significant milestone for digital due process
I think its the difference between assigning a spammy link 0 and a spammy link -1 when calculating rank. With the former, I can use a thousand spammy links, knowing that even if only 1% get through, I still benefit.
The Ketogenic "Advantage"
The longest a patent in the US can last is 20 years. According to Wikipedia the 386 was released in 1985, and '89 for the 486. Therefore any patents should have expired by now unless they applied for the patents years after release of the related product.
They should change their image to one of a peanut. Problem solved.
How can I do an AJAX request to your site? Or should I create my own server?
Why does it matter so much? That's a blog, and a non-commercial one at that. Why do you care so much what your 'link profile' is?

Well, besides the fact that it's his prerogative to care about his blog's search ranking, I think the implications are pretty obvious; he's suggesting that if it could happen to him, it could happen to anyone, including someone who does have a commercial interest.
There's an Open Source implementation for Linux at https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play ; perhaps that would serve as a better starting point.
Ah. I thought your "3 feet" reference might be a reference to Ben Franklin's request for a 3-penny loaf upon his arrival in Philadelphia from Boston...

"Then I walked up the street, gazing about till near the market-house I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker’s he directed me to, in Secondstreet, and ask’d for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I made him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surpriz’d at the quantity, but took it, and, having no room in my pockets, walk’d off with a roll under each arm, and eating the other.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5823

Almost 250 years later, sounds like this is still happening.
Google doodle winds up with one foot, kicks with other
I think a lot of developers would break at the point of native cross platform support. I like writing stuff people use, that's cool, but it's a huge pain to write for and test on platforms I'm not going to use like Windows and Linux. I'll do that if you pay me, sure, but not for fun. Maybe not even for the fame of having a more popular fun project.
Mini-drones that hunt agricultural pests, thus eliminating the need for pesticides.
There are many possible causes for what you're going through, a lot of them already listed and needing immediate psychiatric and psychological treatment. This is good advice, especially to help with the mental aspect of things so that you don't end your life prematurely.

But one thing no one mentioned, that i'm a bit surprised about because you mention falling asleep during work, waking up not feeling refreshed, etc. is a sleep study.
It's very very possible you might have a sleep disorder. You sound very much like i did in the early stages of my own sleep disorder, before my life completely fell apart, before multiple suicide attempts, before becoming homeless, before moving back home with my parents, before 9 years after symptoms first started, with health insurance again due to ACA in the US i finally saw a competent doctor and got properly evaluated, and found out i had developed narcolepsy.

Any number of other sleep disorders could cause your symptoms too, of depression and anxiety, as well as the other issues, with conditions like sleep apnea being the most common.

Please please speak to your GP and get a sleep study done, if you haven't had one done already. It's definitely worth doing before you make any final decisions, and it just might save your life.
The same analysts claim having broken it every time, yet the publication of their results is coincidentally always a few weeks before elections.

It is common knowledge in Estonia that this is the work of one political party whose electorate is less computer savvy and therefore they are afraid that more people who would not vote for them would have the chance to vote.

Not to mention that in case of offline voting the actual risks of fraud are much worse.

You can read the official statement about these accusations here: http://www.vvk.ee/valimiste-korraldamine/vvk-uudised/vabarii...
So the license is non-free because it duplicates trademark law within itself? It's annoying how things with no real impact can ruin compatibility.
> Who are you to determine what a low quality website is?

Who is Google to? Google is no more neutral or accountable than SEO folk, and is just as much a profit-oriented business as they are.

Google makes the rules and the rest of us play by them. And surprisingly enough, Google encourages the behaviour it rewards. If Google's policies are pro-evil I'd rather that evil be done by competent, organized professionals (who will be able to turn it off when Google changes its policies to something better, and who create a somewhat level playing field, even if it's everyone paying rent to an SEO expert) than haphazardly by a bunch of amateurs.
I'm surprised they do not reference GraphLab from Carnegie Mellon, http://graphlab.org/projects/index.html
It's built for the same purpose and has been around for a number of years. The core is in C++ with python bindings.
It has quite a few ready made applications built on top of it as well.
Monitor your Linux Box with the saidar Utility
Instead of using Pingdom's SMS, you could always hook up another system that more reliably delivers alerts (e.g., PagerDuty).

Full disclosure: I work for PagerDuty.
I think most of us think a complete rewrite would take a lot longer than picking up the current source code and continuing it.
Why Rand Fishkin Won’t Ever See A Negative SEO Example
For someone to be a VP of Engineering and to not even have heard of the debate around office layout and developer productivity is a bit alarming.

Presumably you didn't take up their offer?
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I agree, worst acronym name ever for a graphing system.
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