skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Forgive my ignorance and bluntness, but reading the above, it sounds more like an anxiety disorder than like depression. Both are serious, but I'm not sure if it helps to confuse the two?

I disagree.

It could easily be case of chronic significant stress/anxiety that lead to depression. It happens a lot. Tons of reputable articles on it:

http://www.webmd.com/depression/features/stress-depression

The reason why I say that it probably isn't just anxiety was this statement in particular from the story (and there are others):

> Depressed Rand is weird. Don’t get me wrong, regular Rand is weird, too. But depressed Rand magnifies the bad 10X and minimizes the good. He refuses to even acknowledge good news and, because he’s a pretty smart guy, he can usually argue for why that good news is actually just temporary and will turn to shit any minute. The weird part is, I think depressed Rand is actually a very authentic version of myself. When I felt depressed, I upheld TAGFEE – particularly the values of transparency and authenticity – as the reasons why I could and should be such a raging, all-consuming, negative naysayer.
"Given the fact that Aspies have a hard time socializing"

As a father of a daughter with Autism, I think that you're overgeneralizing quite a bit. People with Autism and Asperger's vary greatly in their personalities. While a lack of social skills may be a prevalent trait, it doesn't mean anyone on the spectrum has a hard time socializing.
Well, that was my thought process as a teen. As I got older, I just never saw a need to start drinking. I guess I grew out of it without ever experiencing it. At this stage in my life, why bother?
Hey Marcus, Not yet, but we're adding FB pages (and other platforms, now). Send me an email (lindsay@socialight.io) and I'll let you know when we add them. Should be in the next few days. -- Lindsay
See also my reply to rbinv below, for more details on what it feels like for me, if you're curious.
Very nice! It looks like this might solve memory usage issues in low-memory environments such as cloud services like heroku?

Stock Ruby 2.1 was unusable on heroku because of this issue.

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9607
Ever think of getting a degree? College graduates write better and have depth that takes a long time to absorb in an unstructured environment.
It's called take classes at night. And over lunch.
Self taught that sacrificed time and got the degree is impressive.
I've been doing this all of September, thus far, but I've been trying to do it completely sober. And although I have had a couple of beers (for instance I had one on NFL opening weekend) they have only been one for the night, and usually with some friends in a celebration. I have been feeling great after days that I would normally go drink. On a Saturday morning I'll wake up full of energy and ready for a bike ride or a run. However on a typical weeknight, when I don't usually drink anyway, I haven't noticed much of a difference. One thing I have noticed is that, that one beer has more of an effect the next day than I thought it did though!
I am tee total. There is no alcoholic drink that doesn't taste like vomit to me. I also really dislike the type of intoxication alcohol causes. That said, I see some people enjoy it and I understand why, and I will happily join them up until the point where they become incomprehensible...
I really recommend you do whatever it takes to find close friends who you can talk to about this stuff if you don't have that already. Whether that means joining some kind of help group, church, whatever. Other people are a great normalising influence - they correct our negative thinking, but also help normalise shame and other stuff because it normally doesn't feel so bad once it's shared (and because we realise other people are just as screwed up as us, or at least, have problems of their own). Plus friends help us focus on others rather than ourselves.
Yeah, that paragraph sounds like anxiety to me - why does it sound like depression to you?
I am not a physicist, therefore this may be complete nonsense. Anyway, as far as I understand it, supersymmetry (all models or only some, I have no idea) adds a new dimension (with non-commutative coordinates?) and when a particle moves along this dimension it turns from a fermion into a boson or vice versa. You take a electron and move it a bit along this dimension and it turns into a photon, you move it back and it becomes an electron again. (Electron and photon are not superpartners, the electron would actually become a selectron, the photon a photino with the photino being one of the candidates for dark matter.)
Netbeans is great, it has changed a lot since the old days around 2002, where it was quite slow and one even had to mount filesystems into the workspace.

The Netbeans rewrite that followed, the use of Ant and Maven as project files and the overall plugin quality beats Eclipse any day.

The HTML5 support is great, specially the integration with JavaScript frameworks and static analyzers.

I also enjoy the C++ and Assembly support is also quite good, given it is the official Solaris IDE.

Best of all, no nonsense workspace or perspective modes in sight.

And the plugins API is quite good.
Thanks for the explanation of misdirected writes. I've heard the term before, but didn't know exactly what caused it. Reading this post was like watching one of those How Things are Made shows on the Discovery Channel. Very interesting to see how some things I take for granted actually work.
Teetotaler. Not very uncommon here(India) for my generation. It is a not a cultural thing and drinkers usually tried to hide the habit from their family (Though it is changing fast. It is considered cool now and movies and TV serials have at least one scene in a bar). Initially I didn't do it because it is generally considered as a bad habit and
none of my close friends or relatives drank. Later I decided not to do that because I didn't want to lose my senses. I still remember a company outing where a colleague got naked in front of everybody after drinking. I don't to end up like that :-)
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> The big problem isn't oppression. It's a problem, but it hasn't been the main one for a long time. The big problem is the poverty cycle.

The poverty cycle IS a part of the continuum of oppression for black people. Economic advancement has been denying and outright destroyed for these folks ever since being forcefully brought to the US as slaves.

> White flight is another problem. Peer effects (black kids bullying black kids who "act white") is a problem. These are not racial oppression.

White flight is entirely about anti-blackness and racial oppression. Peer effects are also entirely about anti-blackness and racial oppression. These have been studied in such great detail.

> Prejudice and oppression (from teachers, employers, police) is still a problem, but it's not the big one. And pretending it is will encourage people to fight black poverty in ways that probably won't actually work very well.

This is total nonsense and is entirely divorced from the reality of racial oppression in the United States, both in the past and today.
> Though [Hikaru Nakamura] is ranked seventh in the world, he seems to consider himself Magnus Carlsen’s chief rival, as evidenced by this November 2013 tweet in which he equates Carlsen with a mythological necromancer.

>> Starting to realize that I am the only person who is going to be able to stop Sauron in the context of chess history. - @GMHikaru

Mythological necromancer my ass.
It's not necessarily self control. Responses to alcohol are significantly influenced by genetics.

Even if everyone had the same level of self control, some people would still tend towards teetotal behaviour, others would develop alcohol addiction.

There was a study proving a link to one specific gene in mice a while back:

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/a-gene-...

Human responses are more complex, but there's enough research to suggest a strong genetic component in problem drinking.
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Truth is, it is not their money. They are borrowing it at low rates. The most important point is that the private capital is fuelled by cheap public money. When that money dries up, so will the funding for the startup scene.
It amazes me how resistant we are to learning from experience

Its been going on for a long time now, it doesn't phase me anymore.Its not just in technology, but in every other sector in the economy. A fine example is Wall Street.
Sure - it was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I was on a Tango dancing holiday in Buenos Aires and, well, dancing is more fun when you've had a glass of wine :-)

There's a time for everything. The key insight, to me, is to realise that I am way sharper on zero-alcohol, and that every time I make an exception it takes two and a half days to get back to normal.
> You name it, Emacs can handle it.

- Graphics tooling.

- GUI designer

- Semantic refactoring

- Graphic visualization of CSS modes

- Integration of JavaScript frameworks with code-completion support and two way editing between CSS, HTML and JavaScript code

- Graphical visualization of data structures in debugger

- Graphical support of heap data and threads in debugger

- ...
>Can somebody explain to me why every startup company(or at least every one that articles are written about) feels the need to raise as much VC as possible ASAP?

>The only reason I would postulate for this trend is an increasing amount of non-technical founders who need to pay for developers to make and maintain their product, but don't want to give these developers significant equity in the company.

I think this is the best explanation. It's not just tougher to find engineers period, but you have to incentivize them away from the big co's who are paying like 120k/engineer. Equity helps, vision helps, but more than anything so does cash. However it is telling if companies need to rely primarily on cash to incentivize rather than the first two.

Maybe this could be a good litmus test for you as a founder: can you get your early engineers to work at half, or less, their market rate? If so, it implies you're putting something together worth working on (or you're really damn good at recruiting). But if not, if you have to pay close to their big co salary, then I think there's a problem.
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Excellent article. The quick summary ([1]) is particulary good.

Note that quoting variable names is a good idea for other reasons, e.g., when a variable unexpectedly ends up empty: Not quoting such a variable can lead to termination in calls to test ([ ]), e.g., because the empty variable is replace with nothing (so that test sees the next non-whitespace token instead of the expected variable value, empty or otherwise), while quoting will at least cause the shell to correctly replace the variable with an empty string.

[1] http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html#summa...
I have a friend who does a similar thing with smoking - every year or so he'll stop for three to six months to prove to himself he still can.

The problem with both these is obviously what happens if you find you're not in control. Would you really admit it?
I love the idea of this, however I hate the idea of sending all my documents to someone on the interweb.
Add more levels so I can play it longer :)
Sometimes 2 tubes are one over the other, or 1 tube and a rat.
You could check if there is a collision of objects when you put the tubes and the rats.
It's a bit frustrating to time the drop.. :)
Care to explain how Ukrainian army can sold vehicles and weapons which were present only in Russian army?
José Mujica: is this the world’s most radical president?
Extensions rules for iOS 8 developers
Functional alcoholic here ...hic
Just keeps locking up on me when I start the game. (IE11)
This is classic depression:

> But depressed Rand magnifies the bad 10X and minimizes the good.

You find that in descriptions of depression:

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_signs_types_diagn...

(e.g. "you feel hopeless and helpless." "you can’t control your negative thoughts, no matter how much you try.")

You do not find that in descriptions of anxiety:

http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/mental-health-anxie...

My concern is that you are mixing together the definitions of anxiety and depression so that there is no difference between them, but they are in fact different things. Anxiety is generally does not consist of a feeling of constant doom/dread, but rather a feeling of anxiety/nervousness (which is a type of excitability, shortness of breath, tightness, flight or flight response, etc.)

Anxiety is more in the moment (whether that trigger is drugs/caffiene, or a situation that provokes it), where as depression is a constant (you wake up with it and it stays with you all day.)

It is useful to think of anxiety as a form of excitability (which provokes action, or at least that is the psychology point of anxiety), whereas depression is sort of the opposite (it reduces motivation for action.)
I grew up around a lot of alcoholics - it actually runs in my family. My mother and father have been split up since I was a baby - on opposide sides of the country. My dad only drinks once or twice a year, socially. My mom and step-dad drank all the time and were very open about it - letting me try things, etc. When I was a teenager, I stopped trying drinks and abstained 100%, even after my mom offered to buy me whatever I wanted. Her goal/theory was to teach me how to be responsible/mature with alcohol by learning to drink just one, etc... Instead of learning with my friends and getting wasted.

Well, I hated drunks, hated drunk driving, hated so many things about it... So I found a group of kids who knew how to have fun without it, and even after most of them started drinking (later than average), I still abstained.

Anyway, to the point... In my early 20's, I opened up a little, learned my limits, learned my preferences (I really don't like beer, but hard cider and mixed drinks are great - I like sour drinks like Margaritas and Whiskey Sours), etc... And that's when I learned the benefits of light usage. I enjoyed myself a lot more and found my altered state of mind liberating to a degree (less social inhibition, but I also feel like I can think clearer/faster when I am just a little tipsy).

If you believe you could be an alcoholic, then don't start... But otherwise, I'd recommend you break down some of those barriers you have against it - keep to a goal of only drinking once a month, and only 2 beers/ciders or one mixed drink until you are comfortable/stable.

Last - To the person who said they've only tried Bud Light - no wonder you don't like to drink... lol... Not exactly the cream-of-the-crop.
Some politically connected investors are saying that the government is unhappy foreigners are given the rights to own and invest in China's e-commerce via this IPO and Jack Ma is scrambling to appease them.
Could you explain to me the funding chain a little better? From what I understand, VCs raise money from "Limited Partners", but I never understood who those guys were and how they got their money. Pension funds and such?
> Software devs in the US are apparently well paid and in high demand - are people that racist they they wouldn't hire black devs? Of all lines of work, I have the impression that IT is one of the most open and socially conscious fields there is.

The problem would be two fold: there are numerically few black developers due to problems with the pipeline for education, which disproportionately affects black people, and in general hiring practices have a bias against black people.

The impression that IT is more open and socially conscious is just that, an impression. There is nothing that demonstrates IT as a profession or as individuals are more socially conscious than any other group of people. In fact, many of the current problems with regards to IT culture mirror the same problems in other aspects of business in society.
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Formerly functioning heavy-drinker. 4.5 years dry. Much happier.
> "the funny thing is, Marijuana doesn’t have any pain-killing properties. It just lessens tension, anxiety, and stress for some people."

Marijuana is an analgesic. But in this case the effects are stemming from the fact that's its an anti inflammatory, so that the fluid in your disc is no longer compressing the spinal nerves. And the fact that it reduces anxiety also reduces inflammation even further, since anxiety is probably largely what was causing the inflammation.
There have been several patients who had had custom implants designed using CT scans of their skull, then 3D printed and surgically attached to replace part of their skull: one nice report is http://thescipub.com/PDF/ajeassp.2011.169.174.pdf
For those who, like me, had never heard of Ex-mode:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/Vim/Mod...
I'm Irish.
Israel is evolving from startup nation to 'scale-up' nation
I have, generally, 1-2 drinks per day, where a drink is 1.5oz of something like bourbon or whisky or scotch. I use it to unwind when I get home from work, usually whilst working on personal projects. That being said the definitions you've given above are interesting. A "light drinker" who drinks a fifth of Jack in one night drinks significantly more than I do, but if he/she only does it once a week are they truly light drinkers?

Volume/time is probably a more accurate benchmark.
I think there are a couple of reasons why cash is a major motivator for start ups:

1) People understand the true value of equity which is to say in most cases, really not that much. As someone who was a non-vested dollar millionaire back in 1999 (and if you were working then who wasn't...), this time round I'm just far cannier about what that might be worth.

2) Big companies are getting wise to the vision thing. Maybe not the "put a dent in the universe" stuff, but the vision of what a company should be like and how it should work which is the stuff that impacts you day to day. Casual dress, flexible working, social activities... These aren't the exception any more, you can get them at large multinationals, you don't need to go to a start up for a nice working environment.
> The desktop GUI is stuck in the 80s and as far as I know even that isn't an option for mobile.

It's a shame that REBOL was open sourced a decade and a half too late. Back when Perl was still king of scripting languages and Python/Ruby etc. hadn't taken over for Perl yet, REBOL could have had success. The community was fun and creative and the implementation seemed like it would be small and able to be improved through open source.

Just checked, and the repository hasn't had a checkin for 7 months:

https://github.com/rebol/rebol
One example is that some extensions such as Gnus have contain code written in the current Elisp interpreter's bytecode, which is incompatible with the Guile VM.
Aside from not being mythological or a necromancer, what problem do you have with this description?
Misdirected writes are not as well known as they should be. I am happy to increase awareness of them.
One of the most honest blog post I've ever read.
You and OP are not necessarily disagreeing.

A pressurized cooling system is a liability on a battlefield unless its REALLY worth it. (I don't remember if a 50s chevvy has a pressurized cooling system... I'm guessing not)
You can also buy it here:
http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp...
How to buy a tank on Amazon
aka "Oh, that's the key I have been hitting by accident"
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It is also illegal for a domestic company to price below cost, if that company is a monopoly. Under the anti-trust laws, this is known as abusive pricing.

However, it is legal for a non-monopoly to price below cost. The assumption is that this behavior is self-regulating, because the company will eventually go out of business if it can't make a profit.

If otherwise-viable competitors are driven out of business in the meantime, that's simply collateral damage. The current thinking about antitrust laws is that they should protect competition, not competitors. Eventually, new companies will spring from the nuclear wasteland. (Google Reader and RSS comes to mind.)
Datalog query engine for PouchDB
Well, there is something to say about a good whiskey. It smells like so many things, and tastes like many others.. I can just smell my glass all evening without ever drinking. It's usually expensive enough that I don't even have enough to feel it, and it lasts a long time (since I keep smelling.. ).

What you say sounds to me as if you've never tried chocolate (the good kind, not the sugary cheap one).
Scotland’s ‘No’ Vote: A Loss for Pollsters and a Win for Betting Markets
Yea, I finally got fed up one day and put

nnoremap Q <nop>

in my .vimrc. No more "how did I get HERE?"
Crazy part is how much illegal stuff they sell. (knockoffs and fakes)
Khal – a standards based CLI calendar program with CalDAV support
- Graphics tooling - to some extent, yes. You can even edit videos with Emacs.

- GUI designer - not really, but you're likely to be using a framework-specific GUI builder anyway. Then again, if you really wanted it, you could probably twist the artist-mode hard enough to draw mockups in it and save them as XML descriptions.

- Semantic refactoring - CEDET.

- Graphic visualization of CSS modes - Rainbow Mode, or just open a frikkin' browser.

- Integration of JavaScript frameworks with code-completion support and two way editing between CSS, HTML and JavaScript code - not sure what you mean by "two-way editing" here, but you have code completion, CSS/HTML/JS support, and - as I mentioned - a way to push all of this back and forth between Emacs and a browser.

- Graphical visualization of data structures in debugger - depending on how complex you want to be, but for most practical uses the answer is "yes, Emacs handles it"

- Graphical support of heap data and threads in debugger - again, if by "graphical support" you mean trees, not bubble-graphs and pretty pictures, then yes

- ... - type it up, M-x eval buffer, and carry on.
Thanks for the feedback, this to be honest is intentional, if they loop, they get better organized again, once tube and mouse are over, you can still hit the tube since its higher, if two tubes are over each other one of them can be hit, so better wait for the loop
> - Long term: Therapy which tries to work on the root cause and not just at symptoms.

This can lead people down the wrong path and can be harmful rather than helpful.
Same here. I voted twice, once for Regular and once for Heavy as I guess I could be classified as both
The simplest Hello World in Wolfram Language is just:

"Hello World"

or even:

Hello World

which are both quines. The only reason you need to know about Style and GeoGraphics is for making a prettier, but still small, Hello World example.
This is pretty reductive and ignores the fact that America is exceptionally racially, culturally, and economically different from region to region, state to state, city to city, et al.

Policy that works great in NYC isn't guaranteed to work great in LA. Laws that work well in Dallas or San Antonio might have negative effects in Detroit, Chicago, or St. Louis.
Its the same thing as the attempt to label main battle rifles and sniper rifles and deer hunting rifles as "assault weapons"

So if you don't like what he did, its a tank.
Likelihood of towers being approved by Bay Area city councils?