skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you need to do a month vacation (or two weeks, whatever you can). The first half of your vacation, go off-grid completely. No cell phone, no computer, no internet - just you, your tent, and nature. Be it camping/fishing/hunting/surfing/skiing - spend at least a week explicitly not staring at a screen - just de-stressing and listening. Get an hour massage, go swimming and soak in a hot tub, take a legit vacation that would make both your younger self and will make your older self jealous.

When you're back from vacation, you can plot a new course for success, with reasonable milestones.

edit: to answer the question in the title: When you find people that are better than yourself, write to them with two simple points: 1: let them know what exactly it is that you admire in their work 2. politely ask for specific resources/advice with regard to that thing.

When you find someone that is better than yourself, it should be reassuring rather than stressful because 1) it proves that it is possible to be that good and 2) it provides you an example to learn from. You can build upon the work they've done. You don't have to start from scratch/reinvent the wheel - you are actually at the advantage.
There are schools who disagree with this and say Savings = Investment because 99,9% of the money saved is put on the bank where it gets reinvested.
Most of my hate is not directed at PHP but rather the code of the projects I run across written in PHP. It's not uncommon for there to be random whitespace and code thrown everywhere with no heed to a sensible MVC or other software architectural pattern.

I do occasionally run into well written and maintained software written in PHP and, while it's not my prefered language, it's quite readable and I can work with it.

PHP does have it's issues but they are exacerbated by the general community that uses it.
Vivisect / Vdb / Vtrace
then maybe the list of accomplishments at the end of my life will be longer.

There isn't a high score table.

The balm for this kind of ambition is to visit a suitable big-city graveyard or cathederal and have a look for the largest, most elaborate tomb with the longest list of achievements on. Unless this is a former world leader there's a good chance it's someone you've never heard of. On the way back, look at every house you pass. The person who lives there is almost certainly less remarkable. Ponder the size of the world for a bit.

The ambition/procrastination loop is an anxiety disorder common to people identified as "bright" from an early age. You can retrain yourself out of that in a number of ways, but the simplest one is scheduling. Put half an hour of work in every day. Possibly if you have time bracket it with daily light exercise. This is how the marathon runners do it: one step at a time, with years of repetition behind them.
>However, I think this can be rejected under the "don't be a dick" rule.

I think this makes the title ("I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted") akin to, "I can resist anything except temptation."
If you called anyone overseas from 1992-2013, the DEA probably knew about it
Plain STL and some trivial multiplatform wrappers for threads, spinlocks, mutex, events, and time.
please go kill yourself.
>The "social contract" is an abstraction to quantify certain elements in human interactions through society.

Yes, and we have a concrete implementation of that abstraction in the law.

>What is real, is the necessity of a human population to procreate. This need has two aspects: does culture in general support procreation and who's procreation does it support?

I don't see any barriers to procreation here. All I see is people who want to have their cake and get other people to pay for it. Go ahead and have children, just like people have always done. But realize you're going to have to make some sacrifices, and that it's not reasonable to expect other people to make sacrifices on your behalf because you want to have children.
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I think you're absolutely on the money and I think your suggestions would really help.

I'd like to add something: replace the down-vote button with a "report spam" link.

The one thing that makes me rage on HN is seeing people getting down-voted for having a disagreeable opinion. It's supposed to be to suppress trolling or spam, but people just can't help but use it to oppress others' opinion. Just on principle, it makes me angry, but for practical reasons it's irritating as well because it becomes harder to read often more interesting comments.
He asked not being a dick, no?
If so, what's his point?
When to Rob a Bank (from the Authors of Freakonomics)
I'm interested to know why it breaks all the emulators. Certainly I wouldn't expect emulators to reproduce all the graphical glitches that this takes advantage, but what is it doing that actually crashes them?
I was using rpms until they broke multi-monitor support, then I switched to using cabal, which worked when I first installed it, but now it broke on it's own. And when trying to fix it several packages where broken again. For no reason. Cabal also doesn't do dependency management. So you have to try to install something, it'll complain it doesn't have X, then you have to install X, then it complains it doesn't have Y and so on.
I'm tempted to replace developers who can't be bothered to help the rest of the team out by putting in the tiny amount of effort required to keep everyone up to date with what's happening with the current tasks. Really, it's five minutes out of your day which makes everyone happy because they know that tasks aren't stuck or forgotten about and doesn't require you to interrupt your flow.
Those were also pretty different times. Nowadays we read almost everyday about teenagers who start and sell startups and I think this aggravates the sense of urgency in most of us who are still under 30 and are not yet on the front page of TechCrunch.
And those schools are nothing but quantity theory of money cargo cultists or worse, gold bugs.
Apple wants you to avoid product launch lines
> We let them choose the time of the day for the daily stand-up.

Small anecdote about choosing stand-up time: We previously had stand-up at 9:15am, but management wasn't happy that we would all immediately after go for coffee (taking around 10-20 minutes). So standups were moved to 9:45 on the condition that we would get coffee 'before work'. Instead what happened was that people wouldn't get into work until 9:43am and everyone still went for coffee after standup.
In my opinion, I wouldn't call what you describe "ambition", but rather "need for self-validation". Ambition is desire and determination of achieving something, whereas challenge, pressure and responsibility just seem masochistic. Where's the end goal?

The problem here, in my opinion, is that the "default" goals one sees in the "start-up culture" (or the banking culture, that I'm better familiar with) are bland, spoon-fed and vulgar: "Hey, this guy has shitloads of money, imitate this guy! What? You still aren't rich? Then you're not doing it HARD enough." All in all, it just seems like a self-help book gone way, way wrong.

I think the reason OP can't motivate himself to do these things, is because they are only superficial, exogenous goals to him.
> Most of my hate is not directed at PHP but rather the code of the projects I run across written in PHP.

This is pure selection bias. There's great PHP code and there's horrible $YOUR_FAVOURITE_LANGUAGE code.

If you hate PHP because of this, you must also hate Java (since Android, at least, which at least halved the average competency of the community) Ruby (since Rails became too popular), JavaScript (see the jquery thread on the HN front page right now), Haskell (big ball of 2000 unorganized functions with two-letter argument names, anyone?), C# (This Is How Microsoft Does It So We Must Too) and Python (at least since Codecademy/Treehouse started unloading thousands of well-meaning but inexperienced Python programmers on the world). Don't even get me started about Perl and C++.

I'm not sure what's left. Clojure, Elixir, Turbo Pascal?
Why not just normalise all timestamps to UTC?
Developers who work remotely earn 40 percent more than those who don't
I remember Debian asking these questions for years after PCI was mainstream ( PCI has device IDs that Red Hat would simply look up in the PCI map file to get the proper kernel module).
I'm 40. I had a nice open source project that went well (it's a bit dated now) ... but my regret is not having my kids younger. The work. projects, start ups and all those dreams still live on. But having kids is a lot of fun.
Report: Two waves of updates planned for Windows 10 in 2016
Aparently the current finance minister of Greece has his own idea on how to "recycle" German surplus? At least he has build a congruent worldview that lets him sleep well at night.

The fixed exchange rate 4,20 DM == 1$ in the 1950s is usually cited as helping German exports during the 1950s. During later decades the Deutsche Mark was exceptionally strong, in theory harming German exports.

It's a fallacy to pick and choose events in the ultracomplex global economy and form a story from that. Consider all the fiscal and monetary policies that were enacted by all countries - ultimately success of an economy depends on the intrinsic strength, regardless if it's export oriented, or if it lives happily with a trade deficit like the US.
If the team needs to be reminded to move tasks to "in progresss" or to "closed", there is a serious problem with the team -not the Scrum Master...
Try a combination of Curl/wget/httrack with Pup (https://github.com/ericchiang/pup/)
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Anyone interest Big or Small ?
FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details
What part of “No, Totally” don't you understand?
Interesting. IMHO it seems useful for playing around with different languages, but not for using it more seriously.
Anyway, it looks fun, good job :)
It might have been the VC behind it, rather than him directly. We won't know until an insider writes a history.
High performance Aluminium-ion batteries, much quicker charging than Lithium Ion
I am just a novice in the tech field, just out of college barely 2 years ago. Right out of college, i joined one of the so-called 'Big' company, earning decent amount by my own standards. But the similar feelings pushed me out of that place to where i am working as well as feeling happy.

The greatest irony of our lives is that we spend a lot of time and energy looking for that utopian place where people appear happy, thinking that if we reach there, we'll be happy. Instead we should look for the place that makes us happy and then strive to make that the best place to work for.
When it comes to cycling, a network is only as good as its weakest link. Seville had an eleven fold increase in cycling by 'simply' installing protected cycle lanes. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/28/seville-cyclin...

The golden rule is to segregate. Give cars, bicycles, and feet their own space. DO NOT mix. If somebody can make a choice to put their 6 year old child on a bike and cycle around a city, you've got it right.
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This is called Loanable Funds and is the same thing. The identity in my comment is the open economy version where you also have the current account.
Google purges bad extensions from Chrome – BBC News
Initial a bit slow, could be just Squarespace.

As said below I don't want to give you my email or a fake just to preview it. But it is in alpha.

Is the logo realated? In my opinion a leaf represents ease I guess, which would make sense.

Screenshots etc?

A scroll down with info would be great.
You probably mean something else (RTT?) but definitely not TTL, which is a completely different thing :)
Vivendi to acquire 80% of Paris-based Dailymotion for a reported €237M
3x more of what?

* Stuff you deemed important?

* Stuff the team deemed important?

* Stuff the customer deemed important?
Do this[1] to get you to love learning again and deal with procrastination/time management/life-juggling. You'll know some of this stuff already. Finish it anyway. Best value for time of anything educational that I have done - bar none, hands down, etc.

Take one of these[2] when comparing youself to other people. If you had spent time to brand yourself, you'd probably look at least twice as good as "hot-shot young dev with handful of fancy projects". Public image and developer prowess aren't necessarily related.[3]

If, like many devs, your procrastination issues were related to.. hm.. illicit substances-well, you know the answer to that: "Pan metron ariston"[4] ~= "moderation is everything".

> Mentally, I've resigned to the fact that I've procrastinated away a decade of valuable time, and it just endlessly haunts me.

It hardly sounds like you've done that. So you didn't reach your max. potential in this "procrastination decade". Guess what: nobody does.

Don't let shit haunt you. The past is immutable. Change your present and future.

[1] https://class.coursera.org/learning-003/

[2] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chill+Pill I sure as f- need them.

[3] If you gave yourself the mini-project: "Let's make this X bad dev look good", you'd probably succeed for most X. If you care about your public perception, make that your mini project and you'll find that when you're done, your image will be A+++ - as you're not a bad dev.

[4] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/642841-pan-metron-ariston-ev...
For beginners, this video serious by Jekor is highly recommended : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxj9UAX4Em-IiOfvF2Qs7...
I don't think that will get you anywhere, because you can't realistically solve any of these problems.

What helped me was to use open source software a lot, by switching to Linux and using FOSS Android apps (have a look at f-droid.org).

Another cool option (like another comment said) would be decentralied versions of existing services, eg Youtube, Facebook, Github etc. Some projects like that already exist.
Yeah, I was also thinking about taking something from my country. I guess it empowers the goal of couch surfing :)
I'm sympathetic with your feelings. My advice is to focus on yourself instead of comparing yourself with others.
I've often found solace in Max Erhmann's "Desiderata" --- http://mwkworks.com/desiderata.html --- which says:

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

I recommend reading the whole thing; it's beautiful and very inspirational.
Also, Richard Feynman has a great quote about disregarding what others are doing, which I guess is from "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman", but can't find his exact words (can anyone help me out?).

From https://imagineer7.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/the-most-importa...

Feynman wrote one word, in capitals: DISREGARD on his
notepad when he read that. This word became his motto.
That, he said, was the whole point. That was what he had
forgotten, and why he had been making so little progress.
The way for thinkers like himself to make a breakthrough
was to be ignorant of what everybody else was doing and
make their own interpretations and guesses.

You can't stop time, so you better learn how to deal with getting older. I'm sure you're a great person, just find out what you want to spend your time on and focus on that, and disregard what others are doing. As Max Ehrmann said: "Strive to be happy".
You might agree with the author if you are working with self-managing team where everyone is capable to deliver something daily.

But more often that's not the case:

1. "Members of the team already know what I did yesterday, because they can see the completed items in the "DONE" column on the Scrum Board." - this is not true, because in case someone is a slacker in a team and does nothing you won't be able to track that, you can't see progress of "doing nothing" unless two days in a row you hear the same person still "working on the same problem". Everyone who participates in a stand-ups knows that bad feeling when you are on a standup and you don't have to say anything about what you have done, you force yourself to fix that because that embarrasses you.

2. "This question is a little maddening, isn't it? I can tell you what I'm planning on doing today, like maybe finishing the task that I just told you I was halfway through, and then grabbing the next..." - this is to prevent multiple persons on jumping the same task, that's your daily planning.

3. "Waiting for the daily stand-up is a terrible way to deal with impediments." - again, nobody forces you to wait for a standup to deal with problems that arise, this is used to explain why were you spending so much time on fixing some small bug. For example - you spent whole day trying to fix a bug, but the fix itself was a "one-liner". After looking to your commit I could make a false assumption that you were slacking the whole day and only made a single "change" where on a standup you have time to explain what problems forced you to spent whole day on tracking down that bug...
Another example - someone spends whole day on a feature but still doesn't finish that even though it's trivial to implement, he might either explain that he faced a problems that prevented him from implementing that feature faster or he won't have anything to say because he was slacking
If these were 2 people, then who is the 'problem':

* US with heavy debts?

* Germany with savings?

Germany is in a position to fix its infrastructure, but then again, this can wait until there's a need for job creation.

Also, outstanding tax 'reforms' are more a symptom of weak political influence by corporations, which is a good thing.

Germany isn't the US, and for this reason, it is rich.

Edit: punctuation
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. - Bjarne Stroustrup
Mad Men: Don Drapers approach to solving startup problems
Amazing. 80×100 resolution 1024-color mode doing CRT controller (6545) tricks, on plain IBM CGA adapter. Also fullscreen bitmap rotation and 3D rendering on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 CPU. Wow.
<meta>Threads like these make me with I could save comments.</meta>
Hating PHP for ugly code, written by bad programmers is like hating the english language for talking slang.
Yeah, but taking up loans is the wrong way to go about it. If the German government wants to spend more money then it should raise taxes. That's not politically impossible, but maybe there are some obstacles to private consumption of foreign goods and services that can be tackled simultaneously?
I "started in earnest" at the age of 11. Now I'm 36 and have CTO in my job title (but I'm very hands on - still a small firm, headcount < 20), and I still feel behind sometimes.

When I talk to younger people about what it is to be a professional programmer, I ask them "Do you like learning? Are you prepared to learn something new every day? Are you prepared to do a job where your task is to quickly learn and apply that learning constantly?"

That is what a programmer is. We all learn from each other. From the stackoverflow copy/paste crowd to the most senior computer scientists you have ever heard of. Some of them have original thoughts, original applications, but mostly we're just this big crowd learning off each other to get things we enjoy doing or are paid to do (and ideally both), done.

Procrastination is your subconscious saying "I really don't want to do this". You either listen to it, or you start telling your subconscious why you do. It's OK to move onto another project. Maybe no projects appeal to you right now. Maybe you need to talk to somebody about anxiety and depression, as you have some of the symptoms.
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No, they are. In large part because taking uber means no 'oh, my card reader isn't working' bullshit.
Good point. I was referring to the 1999 date of the demo, but you are 100% spot on here.
Also, think of I=S as the point of where two curves intersect (saving and investment). The point is that the savings curve is way to the right and the investment is way to the left. The curves still intersect though, but so what? That doesn't provide you with any judgement to which way the curves might shift.
Damn statisticians. They do know their job quite well.
It's always nice when our American masters tell us what to do with our money and laws.
One better solution would be to use something similar to the UK concept of the EBT (employe benefit trust) and gift your shares to the employees collectively.

This is used by Coops to handle the owners shares in a tax efficient way (cooperators in the jargon).

You might want to look how coops are structured in the USA before trying to invent your own scheme
vmstat [1] is also a very useful command. It shows various essential statistics in a very compact one line display and optionally repeats this every [interval]. I often start something running while vmstat is giving me stats in another window every few seconds.

[1] https://www.linode.com/docs/uptime/monitoring/use-vmstat-to-...
> I don't understand why the scientific community is so reluctant to embrace change.

Let's assume the opposite were true, and it was fast to embrace change. How much time would be spent on this change -- relearning, rewriting, refighting old bugs -- vs. actual work done?

Change is overhead. You do as little of it as necessary, and only when not changing starts costing a lot. Which means you change, but slowly.

As to Fortran, it will go away when something better comes along, and then it will do so slowly, for the aforementioned reasons.
Wikipedia is for humans. A page with a spelling error is almost as useful as one without. If a page has been changed to "LOL JAKE SUCKS COCK", a user can immediately see what's gone wrong and revert it to the correct version.

With a program, a single syntax error breaks the whole thing, and if the program isn't working then it's often not obvious how to fix it.
I recall one where the cleaning crew would unplug a rack because the socket was right inside the door (and yes, they had keys).
More big hair and legwarmers for you!

Actually, I was thinking about it a bit more this morning, and found another interesting 30 year stretch: from the declaration of war in WWI to the close of WWII in Europe (VE Day) was about a month short of 31 years. Taking it to VP Day is about 1 month into 31 years.

So both world wars and everything that happened in-between took 'only' 30-ish years. :)
> It's been getting better.

It's not, it's getting worse.

You are in a cycle of slave-driving yourself. You remind me of Jiddu Krishnamurthi's assertion that "Influence acts strongest when you don't realize that it is acting". I would venture that most of your accomplishments are a result of being told what you should do, what you should be.

You will NEVER have the energy that the people whom you compare with have. Because they are being themselves, and are connected to the natural wellspring of motivation that comes from genuine interest, while you are the salmon swimming upstream, aping societal ideals and trying to be someone you are not.

Choose the opposite for a while : stop doing things that don't motivate you. Find out what motivates you. Be spontaneous. If you find a small plant at the roadside that you want to water, do it. Observe that absolutely no effort was required in this action. This is the mark of genuine flow : you will not feel the effort. If you chance upon some project which you execute in this natural state of interest, you will not feel tired.

Almost no one takes my advice because it's so threatening to be natural. What if you are not naturally ambitious? That's a horrific thought to have while being in the company of achievers, isn't it?
If the government raises taxes and spends the extra money, it would still have the same effect, but less of it than spending directly.